Kyle’s Blog

In North India the people are everywhere, the heat is booming, and the cow is more sacred then anything. The first place I will start is in Varanasi where the most sacred river in Hinduism (the Ganges) is. To the people of Hindu, the Ganges is so sacred that when people die they are thrown into it. People come from everywhere to bathe and pray in the Ganges so that the god Shiva is pleased. Next, we come to the Taj Mahal, a giant monument that was built for the Shah’s wife when she died. The 20,000 people that built it began in 1631 to 1648 on the beautiful example of Mughal architecture. Now to look at the Hinduism ceremonies. There is the celebrations of Krishna’s birth 3,500 years ago. Also there is the holy book of Hindu, called the Gita. Now we come to the last stop at Dehli, new and old. The New Dehli is a big place ( 3rd biggest in India) with lots of people and hotels. But, Old Dehli was under Muslim control.

Without oil we would be nowhere, because tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, toothpaste, crayons, parachutes, telephones, and even shoes are products of oil not to mention gasoline. But now the oil in the ground (crude oil) is running low and the prices are getting high.

According to U.S. scientists there is about 2.6 trillion barrels(which is 109,200,000,000,000 gallons) left in the ground. 1.7 of it is discovered oil or oil that has been found. Although, there are 900 billion barrels that has not been found. Furthermore, when half of the oil is found in one place the oil is harder to pump out, so the 2.6 trillion barrels is almost cut in half. After doing that math, Paul Roberts(the author of the book The End of Oil) says that in 2030 the world oil supply will peak and start to go way down.

Some Ideas to fix this problem are to drive gas/electric cars, installing the most efficient heating and cooling systems in buildings, and switch from oil to solar or wind to power things. We will never know when the world will run out of oil, but it is coming so we need to research ideas quickly.

Here are some amazing facts I found at  http://www.indianchild.com/amazing_facts2.htmLightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8550611586798933498&q=turkey+during+Kemal+Ataturk%27s+presidency[/googlevideo]Dear Mr. Smithers,

Life here in Turkey had changed a lot when Mustafa Kemal was president. He had changed rules, and the people that live in Turkey.

Mustafa Kemal (otherwise known as Kemal Atatürk) had gotten rid of some rules and made new ones during his presidency. I remember when we were praying and Kemal banned the fez, so we had to pray without our fezzes. After that we all had to wear brimmed hats everywhere we went. Something else the ”father of the turks” changed was that no women can wear veils (a cloth that hides their face). Although he did give women the right to vote and girls were allowed to go to school. Next, he moved the capital of our country from Istanbul to Ankara. And the last thing he changed was our language to something similar to the Roman alphabet, he made the newspaper, books and street signs to this language.

Sincerely,

Oktar

I got my information from http://www.ataturk.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/  which is the website in the Musafa Kemel link.

Nathan Sawaya built a city kinda like this one (above) but he modeled his off of the city of New Orleans. Except his city had 120,000 legos! Some quotes from him are “My sculpture celebrates the rebirth of the city” “When people look at it, I want them to smile.” Also each school in New Orleans is to recive 1,000,000+ lego bricks donated by U.S.kids.

                                        Mesopotamia

Did you know that Mesopotamia was the first civilization ever on the face of the Earth? There was three main things about Mesopotamia religion, inventions, and the people.

In Mesopotamia religion was a very big thing. First of all, they believed in an afterlife (life after death). Also the Sumerians believed that the Kings court should sacrifice themselves when their King dies. Furthermore the Sumerians had more than 3,000 gods, one of them the Sun God. Plus, the Sumerians had a tower called a Ziggurat. Last the Assyrians had giant stone guardians to protect their cities.

It’s also true that the Mesopotamians made many inventions, being the first civilization. An example of this is that the Sumerians created the pottery wheel, metal plow, arches in cities, and a form of writing called cuneiform. Besides that, there was a number system based on the number sixty. In addition to this they had a clock that was run by water. Also, they made many necklaces of gold.

The people of Mesopotamia were very brilliant. For instance they were the first to form a government, write history, start schools, to make irrigation canals, and to keep records. Some jobs they had were priests and farmers. Although most of them don’t know how to read. Not only that, but their favorite sport in Assyria was lion hunting.Now you see why the Mesopotamians were so important with their religion, inventions, and…….. them. I wonder if we will ever find out everything about the Mesopotamians, but there is hope.

I have 2 cats but my favorite one is Willy. He is actually older than me by one year. He is really a stray cat but now he lives with us. My brother named him Willy after Free Willy ( the whale) and now he spends his time laying on my bed all day. He is very fat and likes to kick me out of the chair i’m sitting in. But I still like willy and he still likes me back.

If I were to go anywhere in the world I would go to sweden. I want to go here because it is were my family is from. Also it is a good place for hicking a sightseeing. There are mountains and forests. My grandpa always tells me that he is from sweden so I want to know what it is like.

This is super cool! Blogs are awesome! I can’t wait to start a story.

                                                                       Good Bye