by Hannah
I want to tell you more about Marian Anderson and how her singing career got started. Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial and the press asked, "How did your career get started?"
"Well," Marian answered, "I'll tell you."
When Marian Anderson was young, she sang with her family. Also, she sang at her church in the junior and senior choir. Her dad bought her a used piano, that she taught herself to play. Her church wanted to help her get farther and paid for her to be taught by vocal coaches.
Marian Anderson traveled to different countries to sing to other people who enjoyed the music no matter what the color of the artist. When Marian returned to American she got an invitation to perform at Constitution Hall. When she got to the Hall, the DAR, who owned the Hall, took back the offer because Marian Anderson's color. Mrs. Roosevelt suggested that she sing at the Lincoln Memorial.
"that's how my singing career got started, now any more questions?" Marian said. Marian Anderson got married and had a happy life.
This year girls have to write using a computer, but also publishing what they write. This is their learning tool. Please be kind in what you write.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Bullying
By Hannah Hofacre
At some
point in your life, you may have been bullied, been the bully or witnessed
bullying. I was bullied for 5 years, and I know a few things about bullying. Most
importantly, bullying hurts everyone and it needs to be stopped.
Bullying
is unwanted aggressive behavior found among kids, teens or adults. Bullying can
happen anywhere: school, playground, bus, work or the computer.
There are
three types of bullying: verbal bullying, physical bullying, and social
bullying. Verbal bullying involves name calling and insults. The physical
bullying involves hitting, kicking, and spitting. The social bullying is cyber
bullying, but social bullying involves leaving someone out on purpose and
spreading rumors about someone.
There
are many accounts of bullying every day. I heard on the news that a 17 year old
set fire to a 14 year old. The news reported that it was bullying. My sister,
Esther, came home covered in spit. I always came home and I never talked to my
mom, because I was bullied on the bus. I also heard that a friend of mine has
been bullied, worse now in Jr. High School, than before.
Bullying
can hurt people so bad, that they can be depressed and sometimes the victims
can kill themselves. Bullies are found to be dependent on drugs or alcohol when
they are older. People who witness bullying are often found to need stimulants
to get through a day, such as cigarettes.
We can
stop bullying if we stand together and show we are not afraid.
Sources:
Channel 12 News
Conservation, Then and Now
By Hannah
The U.S. Census Bureau stated
that there were no more frontiers, in the 1890’s. People had felt that the land
would go on forever. In their quest for land, they cut down trees without
planting more to replace those they cut down, and they hunted and killed the
buffalos almost to the point of extinction. The passenger pigeon has become
extinct. This attitude is still in evidence today as people use energy that
many feel cannot be replaced. We need to stop destroying and start reusing
wherever possible.
In the 1890’s, people would move
into a new land, cut down the trees to use for building homes, fuel to heat
their homes, or to cook their food. They would kill animals that came onto the
land that they had planted, to keep the animals from destroying their crops. The
people who lived on the frontier would kill a buffalo, but leave the skin, the
bones and the meat. This killing would cause the buffalos to almost disappear
from the frontier and the native peoples who depended upon it from having skins
for homes, meat to eat and bones for tools.
As the land became scarce, more
people were willing to fight to get land. They were willing to destroy more
trees and more animals to create a homestead. John Muir, who was a
preservationist, wanted people to stop chopping down the trees and destroying
the land and killing the animals. He wanted land put aside for people to see,
to experience it as God had intended it to be enjoyed. President Lincoln signed
a bill to protect Yosemite Valley in California. In 1870’s, President Grant signed
a bill to save Yellowstone in Montana and Wyoming for the people. In 1889,
President Harrison signed a bill to protect undeveloped lands that needed
protection. In 1916, President Wilson created the National Park Service to
protect all these lands from greedy individuals who wanted to take more land to
get more money.
Joy Hakim said that there are
three kinds of people, Conservationists who want to use the land wisely and
responsibly. Replacing trees as they cut trees down, protecting animals so that
there will be more for when the future generations come along.
Preservationists, who want to keep people from doing anything to the land. Not
cutting down the trees, not allowing hunting of certain animals. They want
things to be left just as they are. Others, who just want to take the land and
use it to make more money for themselves.
Today, we still have groups who
have differing views of the land and how it should be used. We have people who
don’t want the land used at all. Leave it just as it is, for the future
generations. They don’t want people to hunt deer or elk or moose, for fear that
they could be hunted to extinction, again. There are people who say, that if
you are replacing as you go, you can cut down trees and use it for the things
you need, a home or a fire. They feel that you can hunt, if you have a license
and only take what you need, not hunt just for the pleasure of saying you are
hunting. There are others who feel that this is their land and that they should
be able to drill for oil on their land, or they should be able to cut all the
trees down, without replanting or anything else. There are so many ways that we
can help preserve and conserve. We can use bottles for water over and over
again, without throwing out the plastic bottles. We can use solar energy and
wind energy to heat our homes. We can recycle things that we use so that we don’t
need to use more resources. It just takes us working together to make things
better for future people.
Sources:
Hakim,
Joy, A History of US, copyright 2011, K12, Inc.
Friday, December 5, 2014
African Painted Dogs
By Nicole
African
Painted Dogs were introduced at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden over
the summer and I have become more interested in them. They are on the
endangered species list and there are only about 6,600 left in the world.
The
African Painted Dog is also called the Cape Hunting Dog or its scientific name
is Lycaon Pictus. They are a canid of Central to South Africa.
The
African Painted Dog can live about ten years. They grow to about 2.5 to 4 feet
tall. They weigh about 44 to 71 pounds. Thane Maynard, of the Cincinnati Zoo
and Botanical Garden, said that “They are the most colorful of all wild dogs.”
They
are endangered because of a loss of habitat, human persecution and diseases,
some that come from domesticated animals. They are a social animal and hunt in
packs. They are a fierce predator. They primarily hunt antelope, warthogs,
hares and other small animals. They are diurnal hunters, hunting primarily
during the day time. They have few natural predators, like the lion. Hyenas, a
kleptoparasite, depend on the African Painted Dogs for their meals.
They hunt in packs of about six animals and
they chase their prey to exhaustion. When they bring a carcass back to the pack
(about ten animals) they let the young eat first.
I feel
that it is through understanding the African Painted Dog that we can help save
it from extinction. It is a very interesting animal to watch at the Cincinnati
Zoo and Botanical Garden.
Sources:
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati, OH
Gardner, Jane P., African Wild Dogs, copyright 2014,
Bearport Publishing Company, Inc., New York
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