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The 8 Old Town Academy Core Learning Strands.

America

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The melting pot of the world                                                                                         Land of hot dogs and cheese burgers.                                                                                 The guards of liberty and justice for all

They tell me you are idiots and I know because I have seen the Youtube videos that you made, and one who was a sock monkey who was half drunk walking down the street   And they say that you are selfish. I know that this is also true because we use manipulation  and trickery to get what we want.                                                                                     And I would like to say at least you let everybody have the chance to be who they want to be. You give them the right to have a voice. We man not be a perfect country but we always try to learn from our mistakes                                                                                   We are strong and proud. United we stand to stand up to evil.                                           Stronger than the river on a step slope.                                                                              Free                                                                                                                        Independent                                                                                                               Mighty                                                                                                                             Proud                                                                                                                                 We speak up not just for ourselves but those who live under a shadow of tyranny, a banner of unjust, or the flags of evil. Even if we once had inequality we plan to fix that by helping those in need. Living life loud and proud forever

Standing up proudly to the storm criticism. Proudly fighting for what we believe is equality. We will give voice to the voiceless. We the people want justice for all. We dream that one day we shall tear down the wall of hate and prejudice.

You are a the melting pot of the world                                                                               You are the land of fast food and hot dogs                                                                      You are the guards of liberty and justice

Without Fear

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Without fear, danger would consume us all
Without loss, nothing would have any value
Without disagreement, nobody would be an individual
Without sadness, we wouldn’t enjoy happiness
Without stupidity, we would not recognize brilliance
Without evil, our moral compass would have no north
Without mistakes, we would learn nothing at all
Without any of these we would have no cause to live
Although we hate these they give value to life
These give us the reason to enjoy everything else

Book Review

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1916 was a book about the Irish revolution. It starts out with this guy named Ned. He is taking a voyage on the ocean liner the Titanic.The ship sinks and he survives but his parents and his new best friend go down with the ship.He returns home to Ireland and he attends a new school. There he joins a group of Irish revolutionaries. Later that day he gets caught in a riot that was known as bloody sunday. Then he starts dating a girl who was his best friend’s sister Sheila Duffy.While this is going on Ned’s cousin Mary is having an affair with her husband.She is unhappy with him and she falls for a priest. The priest told that he should leave for a bit a Mary ditches her husband because he raped he.Back at Ireland Ned and the rest of the revolutionaries marches to the city of Dublin as a way to revolt. Then the British opened fire on them hurting civilians. Ned saw one child loses her mother so he takes the child and gives her to an orphanage.The child insists of being called precious. Eventually the revolutionaries stage a bigger revolt. They take over parts of Dublin. The British fight back and they use heavy duty cannons. They destroy the city of Dublin and eventually execute all of the prisoners. Ned however was never caught and reunited with Sheila and Precious.

I think that this book told us how much the Irish wanted to break free. The book captured the pain and the excitement that the Irish went through at the time. I would give it a 4/5 stars because this was a very emotional but sometimes it was too emotional. The details about their individual lives made me feel their pain and anguish. The book made me feel all excited when I read about the revolution starting. I felt so sad hearing about the loss of life in the sinking of the Titanic.

Head of Secret Service Resigns

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Julia Pierson has resigned after two security breaches in the white house. The first was when an Atlanta security guard rode in an elevator with the president and he had a gun. This violated the rule that you can’t have a weapon near the president without special permission. The second one was when Omar Gonzalez jumped the fence and came into the white house and he had a knife. Now the agency has picked a new leader by the name of Joseph Clancy.

I think that it was a good thing of her to resign because she said “we were at a point where it was going to be hard for the department and president to have confidence in the Secret Service leadership if I didn’t step down.” I’m glad that the president is getting better security and he can focus on other things… Like not getting killed and the crisis with ISIS. My friend Toby Tobias thought that it was a good thing that she resigned because people would just keep heckling her and she would eventually get fired because of the media. The author was unbiased.

Integrity as Thin as a String

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It’s market day and the poor crooked farmers are on their way
“Some of these fellows dragged a cow or a calf at the end of a rope”                                       To get the best price and make a little is all that they hoped for
One poor man entered the square and saw a piece of string passing by
Although not of any real value that little string caught his eye
The man reflected that everything was worth picking up could be of any use                            So even though as embarrassed as his enemy looked he couldn’t let this little treasure fly lose
He pretended to study the ground
To make his enemy think there was noting to be found
Onto the market they all went
Made their deals and at the inn they spent
Suddenly the drum began to beat in the courtyard before the house
The crier bought their attention and quieted their rouse
The message said that a wallet was lost
It was their honesty that was the cost
Return the wallet with a reward to be had
But if you know the their then name the bad
The countryman with the string was named as the taker
But when he protested they thought he was a faker
He thought that telling the truth would innocence bring
“And fumbling at the bottom of his pocket, he pulled out of it the little end of string”
The accusers only laughed and jeered
Even when another returned the wallet they only sneered
The more he protested the more they hated
And the anger only made him more graded
“Nothing does you so much harm as being in disgrace for lying”
And so the man tried to clear his name
But only got sick and ended up dying.

World War One Firsts

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2014-01-29 11.05.08WWI was a battlefield that brought with it a loss of life, but it also brought about the use of many great inventions. The aircraft carrier, guide dogs, and blood banks were all made during this time. But one of the most important inventions, towering over all, was the tank. Tanks were created to stop trench warfare and the tens of thousands of deaths that it resulted in during this time. The British were first to build a tank as a solution to get past the trench warfare battle strategy. When the tank was developed, they also needed to develop  strategies to use them.The creation of tanks during WWI changed the battlefield forever, ending trench warfare and bringing on greater mobility with new strategies for battle.

The bloody battles of WWI created trench warfare, and it was this terrible fighting that caused the need to create the tank as a solution. The trench-warfare battle-strategy was where troops dug out trenches and hid inside the trenches with guns. The troops would line the trenches with barbed wire and put this wire in front of the trenches to slow the enemy down. Trench warefare would make the enemy an easier target to shoot at. Trench warfare allowed the dug-in troops to keep their position and the enemy could not expand their territory.

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