Waiting on the plane

So very happy, I jumped right off of it

Bummed as we have to take a car

It has been almost a two hour wait

I look at the sign reading Cape Cod

I know we are almost there

As I think what they look like

We finally get there

I jumped out of the car

Feeling the gravel under my feet

The porch light was on

I run so fast, feeling like the speed of light

They are on the porch, rocking in their chairs

I give them a big hug as we walk in the home

Army badges are hung right above the fireplace

I walk up to the steps in my room

As they kiss me good night, I look at the moon

As the sun shines bright

I come down to smell of sweet bacon

After we are done

My grandparents take me to the secret river

As we pass through, we end up at the beach

After a day of water and fun they take me for some ice-cream

We watch the sun set with its glow

When we get back home they tuck me and say goodnight

In the 1920’s they  made the eighteenth Amendment. It was called Prohibition. The reason they did this was because when men came home they would beat there wives and kids. Also, people would come to work drunk and  would sometimes get hurt. Religious groups were against it because they said that drinking was a sin.

Some of the effects of Prohibition were speakeasies and bootleggers. Speakeasies people spoke quietly or easily to avoid detection. Speakeasies were everywhere you could find them, in office in parks in penthouses, and tons of other plases where they could sell liquor   hidden. But to get in they would have to have a card or a password that someone gave you. It was usually middle class to upper-class people going. Before long people got smarter to get around the law and get liquor.The only people at the time that could have liquor was medicinal and religious purposes. People also got liqour from bootleggers. They would get wine, beer, ect. Bootleggers  would put it in their boots. They would get this stuff from Cuba, Canada, and the West Indies.

In the 1920’s there was organized crime  in nearly ever major city. A guy named Al Capone was the best gangster. He owned all the bootleggers and got $60 million a year. He killed all of his competition, 522 of them to be exact. He had over 10,000 speakeasies. In 1931 the gangster chief  was arrested for tax evasion and was sent to jail, that was the only thing they could find on him.

By the mid 1930’s only 19 percent of Americans supported Prohibition. The rest wanted the rule changed or repealed. They believed that Prohibition had awful effects. The eighteenth Amendment remained until 1933 when it was repealed by the 21st Amendment.

The Sad Man

Made by Sean Driscoll

As he looks up

In the sky and sees the stars die

He wonders about why they die

He moves on and walks

Until he hears a man

With  his drum tum tum tum tum tum

Then it stops, he wonders why

But he keeps on walking

Into the night longer and longer

He starts running, yelling

No one seems to care

It is like he is invisible

The man is scared

He has nowhere to go as he thinks

Is this all a dream?

Then he realizes he’s acquainted wit the night

I was in a tree

When i saw a bee

Go right on my eye

And then on my thigh

And stung me all the way to the sea

The water closing

 It’s mouth shutting, it’s going to

Swallow us alive

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Leave’s snow white falling

Onto the ground slowly, it’s

Sinking in the ground

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Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams lose you
Life is like a black hole
And you will be lost forever

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams burst
Life is like a star
Way up in the sky

OTA Math & Science Olympics! Programming • Applied Mathematics • Problem-Solving

In the ROBOTICS CATEGORY you can post your:

Successful Roamer or Racer Robot programs:

Photos & videos of your Group working with the Racer Robots:

And samples of your robot-created art:

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Music posts go here...

GarageBand recordings, Performance Videos, Music History Timelines;
Song Lyrics, music, or arrangements;
Combined Science-Math-Music Projects (Coke Bottle/Wine Glass orchestra; Build your own guitar, etc.)

Science posts go here…

Lab Projects (photos, diagrams, slideshows, & videos of your completed Projects or Project Exams);
Theory Slideshows and Animated Simulations (Use Keynote to make animations!): Explanations of: How Human’s Hear, How Speaker’s Work, etc;
Science Posters (scan or create digitally);
Combined Science-History Projects (e.g., Inventions Timeline; e.g. History of The: Automobile, Cell Phone, etc.); Combined Science-Math Projects (SONAR math challenges, etc.).

Math posts go here…

Book of Real Problem Problems (Create your own illustrated math tutorial in Pages or Keynote or with Show Me);
Completed Math Progress Trackers (Saxon, Computer TargetScores, TAPS);
Combined Math-Language Arts Projects (Math Poems or Songs, etc.); Combined Math-Science Projects (SONAR Math Challenges, etc.)