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The Presidential Election of 2000
//by: Gino D// On November 7, 2000, the United States presidential election was held. The Republican candidate was George W. Bush, who was the governor of Texas, and the Democratic candidate was Al Gore, the Vice president of the United States. George W. Bush won the election with 271 electoral votes, and Al Gore received 266 electoral votes. It was an arguable election because there were a lot of voting problems in Florida.

George W. Bush promised a humble foreign policy with no nation building for other countries. He also promised tax breaks for everyone. He supported Earned Income Tax Credit which would benefit lower brackets of the Income-tax-affected citizens. Al Gore planned to pay off the national debt by 2012. He also offered a $500 billion package of targeted tax cut.

At 8pm on election night, Peter jennings of ABC news announced, “Al Gore wins the state of Florida and its 25 electoral votes.” After everybody heard this, they all thought that Al Gore was going to be the President, but it all turned around. Gov. Bush questioned the results on Florida, so the votes were recounted. Then at 2 in the morning it was declared that Bush had enough votes in Florida and was the new President of the United States. However, Bush’s lead shrinked and Florida was back in the undecided column. General Bob Butterworth, Florida Attorney said, “The recount would begin in a few hours and could be completed as early as 5pm on Thursday.

All of the post-election problems were to do with Florida. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court with a 4 to 3 vote ordered a manual recount. On December 9, the United States Supreme Court declared with a 5 to 4 vote that the recount was over in favor of Bush. Finally, on December 12, the United States Supreme Court declared in their ruling that Bush won Florida and was the new President of the United States.

Sources: [] [] [|www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/elections/electionnight.html]

//by: DeAndra J. // George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. However, the results created great controversy. Days leading up to the election, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore held their campaigns and told republican and democratic parties what they believed in and what they would do for America. Bush’s campaign promised the following:
 * a policy for education, called “No child left behind”
 * a humble foreign policy with no nation building
 * a tax break for all
 * a comprehensive energy reform bill which included initiatives for energy conservation technology as well as decreasing the foreign dependence on oil.

Gore’s campaign on the other hand promised the following:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to keep our economy strong by building on the careful fiscal policies of the last seven years.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a plan to pay off national debt by 2012
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">create a “Social Security lock-box” designed so that medicare payroll taxes could to strengthen medicare and pay down the national debt.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a plan for increased investments in biotechnology, information technology, and university research ideas.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the election, people were told that the votes were not accurate, the Democratic party called for a recount. After so many recounts, the U.S. Supreme court ruled in favor of Bush because he had 537 more votes out of 6 million cast. With the ruling, they stopped the recount and it was to be known that Republican George W. Bush had won the 2000 presidential election.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.270towin.com/2000_Election/__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PLQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1T4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6788,2409193&dq=2000+presidential+election&hl=en__] media type="youtube" key="nTKotJJ2q68" height="265" width="320"

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September 11 Attacks- New York
//by: Maggie B.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On September 11th, 2001 two airplanes were hijacked and then intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center Towers, in a suicide attack. That morning, the two flights were hijacked by members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda. American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked and then flown in the WTC’s North Tower at 8:46 am. United Airlines Flight 175 was crashed into the South Tower only 17 minutes later at 9:03 am. Then both towers collapsed at about 10:00.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The terrorist were able to take over the planes by using knives. The used them to slit the throats of the pilots, flight attendants, and some of the passengers They also lied to the passengers, and told them that if they cooperated the would be okay.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Osama bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda. He stated in a “Letter to America” in 2002 that some of their motives for the 9/11 attacks were: Western support for attacking Muslims in [|Somalia], supporting the [|Indian] oppression against Muslims in [|Kashmir], the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia,U.S. support of Israel, and sanctions against Iraq.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9/11 did a great amount of damage to America. Not only did approximately 3,000 people die, it cost America $3.3 Trillion.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Events] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

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September 11 Attacks- The Pentagon
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Drake D. and Rylee C. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">American flight 77 was hijacked on September 11, 2001, approximately 34 minutes into the flight, which was originally intended to fly to Los Angeles. Five members of the group Al Qaeda hijacked the plane and deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon, killing, a total of 189 people, including the five terrorists. The attack with flight 77 was included in the coordinated attack of 9/11.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The plane crashed into the western side of the building, firefighters spent days putting the fire out. The section of the building wasn't rebuilt until 2002, with workers returning August 15, 2002.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A man named Hani Hanjour who flew the plane into the Pentagon led the hijackers of the flight; other hijackers included, al-Mihdhar, Salem al-Hazmi, and Nawaf al-Hazmi. They managed to hijack the plane 34 minutes into the flight and successfully crashed it into the Pentagon killing a total of 189 people.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a park memorizing the 184 victims of the attack with a bench for each of the victims ordered from oldest to youngest. This park was opened to the public on September 11, 2008, it is southwest of the building and was designed by Julie Beckman and Keith Kaseman. media type="custom" key="24115788"

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">September 11 Attacks- Flight 93
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Priscilla R. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorist crashed planes in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas. One of the planes crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The plane was Flight 93. The hijackers on Flight 93 were Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Hazmawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At 8:42 A.M. United Airlines Flight 93 takes off from Newark International Airport. Flight 93 was scheduled to leave at 8:00 A.M. within minutes of the other hijacked flights. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then at 9:57 A.M. thirteen of flight 93’s 40 passengers and crew were able to alert authorities of their hijackings. At least six learned about the attacks on the other places. In response passengers are believed to have voted o mount a counterattack on the hijackers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Around 10:03 A.M. To stop passengers from taking the plane hijackers crashed Flight 93 in a field in Somerset Country, Pennsylvania, killing everyone.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://timeline.national911memorial.org/ - /Explore/2__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.history.com/topics/flight-93/speeches - united-airlines-flight-93-crashes-in-pennsylvania__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://school.nettrekker.com/goExternal?np=/sections/external/web/external.ftl&pp=/sections/external/web/external.ftl&evlCode=374149&productName=school&al=High__]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.history.com/topics/flight-93/photos - 9-11-pentago]

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September 11 Attacks- The Pentagon
//by: Rylee// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most of offical Washington D.C. has been evacuated after a series of what are being called terroist attacks and leveled the World Trade Center in New York and imploded part of the Pentagon. Parts of the plane are being found along the area where the Twin Towers were before.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The people that were hijacking Flight 77 were as follows; Newaf Alhazmi, Salem Alhazmi, Majed Moqed, Khalid Almihdar, and Hani Hanjor. But, the leader of the master plan was Osama Bin Laden, he wasn’t in the United States at the time of the crashes. Only the FBI knew a couple clues that were leading up the day of 9/11. The terriost tryed to blow up the twin towers in the underground parking lot, but failed. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">64 people were killed on the plane, all hijackers that were controlling the plane, and 125 people in the area where the plane hit the pentgon.

The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
//by: R.J. and Kathryn B.//

The Columbia Shuttle tragedy happened around a decade ago. It had killed 7 people (5 men, 2 women). The shuttle crashed on February 1st, 2003. The debris was scattered all around southeastern Texas and parts of Louisiana. It didn’t technically crash because it disintegrated during the descent into the Earth’s atmosphere.

What happened?: Columbia was planning to go up and repair the Hubble telescope. It had almost been a flawless 15-day mission until the inevitable happened. It was the 27th and last successful mission before it malfunctioned during its reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere where it disintegrated on February 1st, 2003. It killed 7 people in total; two women and five men.

When did it happen?:The Columbia Space Shuttle was on a 15-day mission to repair the Hubble telescope. It launched on January 16th, 2003 it ended __permanently__ on February 1st, 2003.

How?: The shuttle’s External Tank (ET) is encased in thick foam; during it’s launch sequence a suitcase-sized piece if the foam broke off from the ET and hit one of the left RCC (reinforced carbon-carbon) panels.

Who died?: There were 7 lost lives in this tragedy. There were 2 women and 5 men. Their names are:

Ilan Ramon was 48 years old and a colonel in Israel’s air force. He was a fighter pilot and the first Israeli in space. He was given a bachelor’s degree in science in electronics, and computer engineering both from the University of Tel Aviv, in Israel. He received these degrees in 1987. He had four children and was married.

Rick Husband was 45 years old and also a colonel in the U.S Air Force. He was a testing pilot and veteran of only one spaceflight. He served as the commander for the Columbia shuttle flight and was supposed to guide and land it. He was married and had two children.

William McCool was 41 years old and a former commander of the U.S Navy, and was also a former test pilot before the mission to repair the Hubble telescope. In 1996, Nasa selected him and several others to serve as a test pilot for Columbia which would be his first (and last) shuttle mission. He was married but had no children.

Michael Anderson was 43 years old and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S Air Force. Also he was a former instructor pilot and tactical officer; and he was a veteran of one space flight. Prior to the Columbia Shuttle flight, Michael had over 211 hours of flight experience. He was married with no children.

Kalpana Chowla was 41 years old and an aerospace engineer and an FAA certified flight instructor. She served as a flight engineer during the mission; she was also mission specialist 2 on the flight and had nearly 400 hours of prior experience in space. She was married.

David Brown was 46 years old and was a captain in the U.S Navy. He also was a naval aviator and a flight surgeon. He was also one of several people that was selected in 1996 by Nasa. He served as mission specialist number 1 for what would be his first shuttle flight. He was not married.

Laurel Clark was 41 years old and a captain select commander in the U.S Navy as well as a naval flight surgeon. She was mission specialist number 4 on the flight, this was her first mission. She was married w/ an 8 year old son.

Here are some videos on the Columbia Shuttle:

[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorhQum5WFs__]

[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clseDHnTx08__]

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The Election of 2004
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Aianna M. and Harlan S. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">George W. Bush and John Kerry were running for president in 2004’s election. Bush has been in office already, but is running again. He was republican party going against democratic party John Kerry.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In a series of debates, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry crossed swords on a variety of issues, seeking to convince voters why they should be the next White House occupant. Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards also sparred in a one-time meeting.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the days following the video's release, Bush's lead over Kerry increased by several points.In the days following the video's release, Bush's lead over Kerry increased by several points.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The election was held on November 2, 2004. In the end George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in the 2004 election by 35 Electoral votes. Here is an table of the election.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">During the campaign, the election was focused on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida. They were known as the the three swing states, because the could determine who won the election. Bush won Ohio and Florida. Kerry won Pennsylvania.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Candidate || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">George W. Bush || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Kerry ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Electoral Votes || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">286 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">251 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">States Carried || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">31 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19+DC ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Popular Vote || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">62,040,610 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">59,028,444 ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Percent || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">50.7 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">48.3 ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> After the election, some sources reported indications of possible data irregularities and systematic flaws during the voting process. At the official counting of the electoral votes on January 6, a motion was made contesting Ohio's electoral votes.

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Hurricane Katrina
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Alex L. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hurricane Katrina first formed over the Bahamas on August 23rd, 2005, and traveled across southern Florida, a mere category one hurricane, causing some minor flooding and very few deaths. It then proceeded to the Gulf of Mexico, where it rapidly strengthened, due to the warm waters. It then traveled many miles, along which it weakened from a category five to a category three hurricane, before hitting southeast Louisiana on Monday, August 29, 2005. There, it flooded the levee system, and flooded 80% or more of the southern Louisiana cities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: line-through;">What did George Bush do about it? Well, first he ignored the warning that the levees might be overrun. He also refused to leave his vacation, because he didn’t want to be disturbed, and the mayor of New Orleans also new about the possibility, but they didn’t order evacuation until less than a day before Hurricane Katrina met land. Between the two of them, they managed to cause hundreds of people to die, and hundreds more to starve to death or die of other causes, because they didn’t want to take a warning seriously. George Bush should have learned from 9/11 that taking warnings like a joke result in bad things, but he’s George Bush, so he didn’t care. media type="custom" key="24074540" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Gulf Oil Spill
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Tia and Joshua // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On April 2010, there was an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana creating one of the worst environmental disasters in United States history.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11 people died as a result to the gulf oil spill and many others were injured before the boat sank a fire burned for 36 hours. And hydrocarbons leaked into the Gulf of Mexico before the well was closed and sealed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The accident involved a well integrity failure, followed by a loss of hydrostatic control of the well. This was followed by a failure to control the flow from the well with the blowout preventer equipment, which allowed the release and subsequent ignition of hydrocarbons. Ultimately, the BOP emergency functions failed to seal the well after the initial explosions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar754522&st=deepwater+horizon+oil+spil]

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Newtown Massacre
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Ariana P. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On December 14,2012, 20 year old Adam Lanza was the Newtown Connecticut massacre shooter he shot twenty students and six educators at Sandy hook elementary school. The Newtown massacre was the second deadliest mass shooting by a single person in American history after the Virginia tech massacre in 2007. In the Newtown massacre there were twenty-six people dead. The lone gunman, 20 year old Adam Lanza killed his mother in their New town home before heading to the school.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adam Lanza shot twenty, first graders and six educators before killing himself.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Adam Lanza had an arsehall of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and even a samurai sword, knives and bayonet according to search warrants. Adam Lanza shot twenty-six victims to death with a bushmaster, 223 caliber rifle, but Lanza also had a loaded handgun and three 30 round magazines for the assault rifle. Lanza’s 12 gauge shotgun was found in the Handa Civic he drove to the elementary school media type="custom" key="24073804"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edward Snowden/NSA Spying
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Noah S. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edward Snowden is an old National Security Agency who was on the top page in 2013 when he gave away top-secret information about NSA surveillance activities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edward Snowden was born in North Carolina in 1983 and worked for the National Security Agency. After Snowden fled to Hong Kong, China, newspapers began printing that he gave up top-secret information.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edward had a $200,000 salary and a very comfortable life, but that was all about to change because in May of 2013, Snowden began copying top-secret NSA documents at work. On May 20th, 2013, Snowden took a flight to Hong Kong.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On June 5, 2013 is when the United Kingdom’s released secret documents that they received by Edward Snowden about the American government spying. The U.S. government saw a different side of the issue, and on June 14, 2013, federal prosecutors charged Snowden with theft of government property.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Snowden made the top page again when he was offered asylum in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. In late July, Snowden decided to stay in Russia and look for asylum and apply for citizenship later. In the end, Snowden said, “ in the end the law is winning.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/10/politics/edward-snowden-profile/index.html__]

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The Phoenix Mars Lander
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Charlotte M. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Phoenix Mars lander was sent out of Cape Canaveral on Delta 2, August 4th, 2007 to the Martian North Polar Region of Mars to look for traces of ice/water at the cap. The people responsible for this Mars mission are the University of Arizona on behalf of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This mission was so important because, it would be going to the Martian North Polar Region. None of the Mars rovers had been that north, so this was a first.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Phoenix Mars Lander made its first appearance on May 25th, 2008. Once landed, it made its move towards the north cap. The Phoenix Lander searched for water/ice particles up there and came back successful. While also up there the lander dug into the soil to find the ice/soil boundary, and evidence of any habitable zones. After about about 6 months the lander froze and had some malfunctions and we could no longer receive a signal from Phoenix. This marked the end of the mission. After about 2 years NASA tried to reestablish a connection with the lander and failed. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This lander may not have lasted very long, but for the time it still worked it collected a lot of data and got us one step closer to unraveling the secrets than lie on Mars. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timeline: [|The Phoenix Mars Lander] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24073842"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [], and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.NASA.gov]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cost of Living Changes
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//by Kellen S.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inflation Table 1970 - 2011
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average (Blank) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1970 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2011< ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average price of a house || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$25,325 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$231,550 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average price of gas || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">36 cents a gallon || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$3.60 a gallon ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average income || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$9,350 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$51,017 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average price of a television || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(color) $739.90 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(32 in.) $490.90 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average price of commercial car (new) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$3,542 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$28,000 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grocery Staples
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">milk (gallon)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">medium eggs
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">bread (loaf) || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Milk - $1.32
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bread - 24 cents
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medium Eggs - 25 cents || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Milk - $ 3.52
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bread - $2.03
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medium Eggs - 1.09 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Average Jobs || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jobs involving technology; vcr makers, laser print designers, email, and Atari grew in this pre-digital era.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jobs involving textiles and livestock we’re declining due to the rise of technology. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dentist, Nurses, and anything in the medical industry are popular. This goes along with jobs involving computers and designing. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Attack on the U.S.S. Cole
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Ethan P. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On October 12, 2000, the USS cole was attacked in Aden, Yemen by Al-Qaeda terrorist killing 17 US navy sailors and injuring 39.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While the ship was refueling offshore a small boat with two men on board - presumed to be suicide bombers - approached the ship and exploded. The small craft is believed have been packed with 400-700 pounds of explosives and the blast blew a 40 foot hole in the side of the USS cole. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24074214" <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">The Invasion Of Afghanistan In 2001
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Joey P. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On October 7th, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks, a U.S.- led coalition began attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with intense bombing, conducted by American and British forces. Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and other nations got in on the invasion, by providing logistical support. The anti-Taliban also provided troops, which helped the U.S. a ton. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Invasion Of Afghanistan was intended to target Osama bin-laden, a mastermind that planned the 9/11 attacks, and the members of his organization, which were part of a group called al-Qaeda. The U.S. gave Afghanistan a chance, in weeks prior to the invasion, by demanding that the Taliban turn over Osama bin-laden for prosecution. After deeming that the Taliban’s counter offers were unsatisfying, though, the invasion began. It began with aerial bombardment on the Taliban, and on al-Qaeda owned buildings in Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Konduz.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a tape released to the Arabic al-Jazeera television network, war against the entire non-Muslim world was called upon by Osama Bin-Laden, while the Taliban called U.S. actions “an attack on Islam.” After the air campaign weakened Taliban defenses, the coalition called for a ground invasion. The Northern Alliance forces supplied the U.S. with many troops, while the U.S itself and other nations gave air and ground support. On the day of the attack, airdrops of supplies were given to Afghan people, to show that the U.S. was not targeting innocent civilians, but the members of Al-Qaeda.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today, in 2013, we are just now nearing the end of this terrible, ongoing war. A peaceful ending to the war would require the U.S, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to all agree on rebalancing the government in Kabul. Pakistan’s former ambassador says that that won’t make many people there very happy, but we all have to agree that it is much better than ongoing war.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.thenation.com/blog/175039/end-afghanistans-war#] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">Osama Bin Laden Killed
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Quinton Conti // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was killed on may 2, 2011 by the United States Navy SEAL Team 6 shortly after 1:00.He was 54 when he was killed.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bin Laden was the leader and founder of the islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda which was responsible for the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC. Bin-Ladin had a grudge on the USA since 1990, when United States troops were on Saudi soil near muslim holy sites. Bin-Ladin was eventually expelled by the saudi regimine, and began leading terrorist attacks through the world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bin Laden had been hiding for 10 years after 9/11 due to being the number one most wanted by the FBI. he was almost captured at the battle of Tora Bora but slipped through the fingers of United States Troops.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pakistan helped him hide by giving him places to stay and giving him food and water to survive. To try to keep the USA on there feet Bin Laden kept switching locations but he stayed in one too long and thats how we got him.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/12/death-osama-bin-laden-us__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-was-an-american-hoax/535026] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/30/world/osama-bin-laden-fast-facts/index.html__] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24025982"

SARS Epidemic
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Josie S. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SARS, Severe Acute Syndrome, was a virus that first appeared in China in November 2002. A few months after it was first discovered the illness spread worldwide. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">was a contagious and sometimes fatal illness. The illness starts off with symmptoms similar to the flu, but after a week the sympyoms may include a fever of 100.4˚F or higher, a dry cough, and a shortness of breath.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SARS was spread by droplets that are released into the air when an individual with the illness coughs, sneezes, or talks. SARS is usually spread face-to-face, but it could have also been spread by things like doornobs, telephones, or television remotes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This illness first appeared in November of 2002 and as of 2004 nobody had SARS again. Over 8,000 people became sick during that outbreak, and 774 of those who became ill and died. SARS showed how quickly an illness can spread.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**SARS Epidemic 2003**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//By: Jesse R.// On November 16, 2002 an outbreak began in the Guangdong province of China. This outbreak was believed to be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS.) SARS is a viral respiratory disease caused by the SARS corona virus. The first case of infection was thought to be a farmer in Foshan County. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) contacted the World Health Organization (WHO) about the outbreak on February 10, and reported 305 cases and 5 deaths. Later on it was reported that the outbreak in Guangdong had ended sometime mid-February, but it was false because later 806 infections and 34 deaths were reported. WHO issued a worldwide alert about an unknown infectious disease in Vietnam and Hong Kong on March 12, 2003. One day earlier, a similar outbreak of a respiratory disease was reported from health care workers in Hong Kong.

After cases in Singapore and Canada were identified, WHO issued a worldwide health alert about the unusual pneumonia with a case definition of SARS on March 15. This alert had a rare emergency travel advisory to international travelers, health care professionals, and health authorities. The CDC announced a travel advisory to people wanting to travel to the affected areas. Two days later, 11 leading laboratories of an international network were established to figure out the cause of SARS and create potential treatments. The CDC also held its first briefing on SARS and stated that the first 14 suspected SARS cases were going to be investigated in the United States.

On March 20 WHO reported several hospitals in Hong Kong and Vietnam were working with only half of the usual staff because many of their workers stayed home with the fear of getting infected. Five days later, The Singapore Government enforced a required quarantine of any person who was infected. April 1, The U.S. government advised U.S. citizens not to travel the infected region in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The next day, Chinese medical officials started to report the status of the SARS outbreak. China’s Guangdong province had reported 361 new infections and 9 deaths. The virus had also been found in Beijing and Shanghai.

On April 10, the head of infectious disease at the CDC, Jim Hughes, believed that SARS couldn’t be put to an end in the Far East. He however, was hopeful that it could be prevented from spreading through North America. Two days later, the director of the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre announced that scientists at his center had broken the code of the virus that was suspected of causing SARS. Deaths in Beijing began to rise on April 26-27, so the Chinese authorities closed down theaters and other entertainment venues in Beijing. On the 28th, WHO declared the outbreak in Vietnam ended because no new cases were reported in the past 20 days.

Hong Kong was removed from the WHO’s list of “infected areas” on June 23rd. The only places left on the list are Toronto, Beijing, and Taiwan. Then, on the 27th the World Health Organization said that the population of the world should be cleared from SARS within the next two or three weeks, but the disease could emerge again in China next winter.

Finally, on May 19, 2004, no new infections were reported in three weeks. WHO declares China free of further cases of SARS.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//by: Cheyanne// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In February of 2009, a new virus of many influenza viruses was discovered.It goes by the name of H1N1 or as we call it Swine Flu. It spread all throughout the world from countries like Mexico and the U.S. This type of virus got the name of the disease of pigs because, mostly pigs contract the virus. The first case of Swine Flu was in the Gulf Coast State of Veracruz. The H1N1 virus is currently a seasonal flu virus found in humans.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">H1N1 symptoms are the same as flu symptoms which are, a cough or sore throat, headaches or body aches, runny or stuffy nose, chills, fatigue, nausea,vomiting, and diarrhea. People over the age of 65,children younger than 5, people with development conditions, pregnant women, or people with medical conditions like diabetes or asthma are at higher risk of complications having to do with the virus.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Swine flu spreads when a person who has the disease coughs, sneezes, or talks while spitting saliva as they are talking and it goes on your mouth or nose.You also can get the virus if a person with the virus touches an object when wiping saliva or mucus off of their mouth and nose. If another person touches that same object and touches their mouth or nose they are likely to receive the virus. When you receive the virus, it usually last one or two weeks. Most adults can spread the virus a day before the symptoms start to develop.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When H1N1 vaccine arrived they had to be very careful because there was a shortage of the vaccine. People like pregnant women, infants 6 months and under, then it went up by age like 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, and so on up to the age of 64. After the age of 65 they really were not interested in giving out the vaccine because 65 and older were less to catch the virus. They still are open to catch the virus there has been infections and deaths that occurred in all ages. CDC recommends that all ages get the vaccination. Children under 10 years of age get 2 doses of the vaccine, because, with only one dose infants and children don’t produce enough antibodies to fight off the virus. Adults only get one dose because, their immune system is stronger.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Since doctors have found a vaccine, we can now prevent swine flu and fight it off. There have not been any new cases of swine since 2009. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24075672"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tsunami of 2004
//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by: Juan O. // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On December 26, 2004 an 9.3 earthquake struck the Indian Ocean causing a tsunami. The tsunami hit the coasts of Africa, India and Indonesia. The tsunami caused thousands of deaths and billionths of dollars of damage.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At 7:58 a.m. a giant earthquake occurred under the Indian Ocean, 160 miles away from Sumatra. The earthquake reached an 9.3 magnitude and lasted 10 minutes. The earthquake moved a full 750 miles of under water fault line up to 40 feet creating a tsunami two times stronger than the energy used of the bombs of World War 2.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fifteen minutes after the earthquake the tsunami waves hit the coast of Sumatra. The waves reached 80 feet high and in some places the waves reached up to 100 feet high. Entire communities were swallowed by the giant waves and in minutes the communities disappeared.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 190,000 people were confirmed dead and another 40,000 to 45,000 missing and also certified dead. The cost of the damage was 17 billion dollars and after 18 months some places werer still suffering from the aftermath of the tsunami. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="custom" key="24073556"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Egyptian Revolution Of 2011
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by:Martin V // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On January 25 ,2011 many Egyptians grouped together for freedom in their land. It started when Hosni Mubarak started making changes to the nation. The major changes that he made to Egypt caused police becoming more brutal, a high unemployment rate, many home losses, high food prices, and worst of all low minimum wages. Due to all this many people started making riots, strikes, and burning stuff in the Arab Spring.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hosni was angry at the people so he called many military members to guard the area and make sure it doesn't get worst. The Soldiers killed 300+ people because they wanted to be free. Many people died because of this ,but they are still fighting till the end.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As the days go on many people started creating torches,and started sleeping in tents day by day. This entire event has been going on for two weeks and 3 days. All they were doing for that time was fight and yell, make posters, and spray paint words in Arabic. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On February 11, 2011 the riot ended and the people in Egypt went home, but it wasn't over yet. After Hosni Mubarak was overthrown due to many murders he did to people of Egypt then sent for trial.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On May 24, 2011 Hosni Mubarak was in trial and been waited for the judge to make the final answer. On June 2, 2012 Hosni Mubarak was guilty for abusing the military to kill civilians in Egypt. He was later replaced with Mohammed Morsi as the leader of Egypt. Mohammed was elected on July 3, 2013.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hosni Mubarak

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2011 Japan Tsunami
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Jordan S./Sam Perez // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake shook northeastern Japan, unleashing a savage tsunami. The 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude of 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred on Friday 11 March 2011, it had hit the Oshika Peninsula of Tokyo. It was the most powerful known earthquake to hit japan and the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres. The tsunami caused numerous deaths and also caused mass destruction. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At 2:46 P.M Tokyo time, the quake struck. First came the roar and rumble of the temblor, shaking skyscrapers, toppling furniture and buckling highways. Then humongous waves as high or maybe even higher then 30 feet rushed onto shore, thrusting away cars and carrying blazing buildings toward factories and all other sorts of things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">East of Japan, the Pacific plate dived beneath the overriding Eurasian plate. The Temblor completely released centuries of built up stress between the two tectonic plates. This caused the tsunami and the magnitude-9 earthquake to happen.

The chemicals and waste spreads to africa and than to europe and all the way back to asia Japan since the nuclear power plant blew up and leaked all of the water went bad in japan. Towns along the coast were left clogged for three months vast amounts of debris. In Ishinomaki 28,000 houses were flooded or swept away by the current of the tsunami.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The tsunami caused a cooling system failure at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, which resulted in a level 7 Nuclear Meltdown and the release of radioactive materials. About 300 hundred tons of radioactive water continues to leak from the plant everyday into the Pacific Ocean. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Japan is still recovering from the devastating disaster. Two years after the quake 300,000 people who lost their homes were still living in temporary housing. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[][|http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12japan.html?pagewanted=allhttp://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html_r=0] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em;">The Development of Social Networking
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By: Darby O. and Kiara H. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The whole idea of social networking was thought of in the late 1800’s. People were dreaming of being able to talk to each other and hang out without waiting a week before talking to each other.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Late in the 1800’s two people, Emile Durkheim and Ferdinand Tonnies, thought of an idea of social networks and social groups. Tonnies argued that social groups could exist as personal and direct social ties that can connect people to others. Durkheim was being contradicting and giving “non-individualistic” explanation of social facts, arguing that any social situation arise when interacting individuals can no longer be a reality.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the early 1970s the first email was ever created which,later in the future gives ideas to socially talk online. In the late 1970s a growing number of scholars worked to combine the different tracks and traditions of social networking. One group had a sociologist, Harrison White and his students at the Harvard University Department of Social Relations.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the 2000s many social networking websites were developed and used. One of the most popular one was “Myspace”. Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson were the people who invented it. The most used social website today, would now be “Facebook”. A man named Mark Zuckerberg invented the biggest social networking site in the United States. It is so big that if he sold 534 million shares that would go for about $20.3 billion.

Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] [|__http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SocialMedia/SocialMediaHistory.html__]

The Rise and Fall of Myspace
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Jarelis T. and Lily P. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MySpace was created by eUniverse employees Brad Greenspan, Chris De Wolf, Josh Berman and Tom Anderson in 2003. Myspace was used for quick networking to allow friends to keep in touch with each other by updating their page. Myspace was soon the largest online companies, it was all due to a dream of people who were members of friendster and already had everything they needed to get started and created a MySpace. In 2005 News Corp owned by Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace for $580 million <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2006 MySpace surpassed Google as the most visited website. MySpaces' reign on the internet wasn't long though, for just two years later in 2008, Facebook took the stage and took the spot as new most popular social network. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MySpace is now the 303rd most visited site on the internet and its Beverly Hills headquarters is now the workplace for a mere 300 staff members. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2013 Specific Media owned by Chris and Tim Vanderhook and actor, singer, and former NSYNC member Justin Timberlake bought MySpace for $35 million. They purchased the site from News Corp who just two years ago bought it for $580 million. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Myspace was created so people can easily interact with others easily and more realistically and also to promote uprising artist to their music and to make artists more accessible. In the month of December, 2008 Myspace had 75.9 million people on its website monthly. By May of this year the few visitors dropped from 75.9 million people a month to 34.8 million. Over the last two years Myspace has lost millions of U.S users. Myspace fell off the pace to Facebook was because facebook was kind of like twitter but you could decorate your page on facebook, add status’s ,chat with your friends and family, and play games on the website they say “facebook was way better than MySpace.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www,businessweek.com/magazine/content/11-27/b4235053917570.htm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

History of Napster
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//by: Nathan S.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1999 a college dropout named Shawn Fanning changed the music industry. He stayed up 60 hours just designing the program for it.. The program was released in 1999. This program is a media program. There were already programs like this one but this one was free. This changed the distribution of music until the program was breaking the law.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Napster was cofounded by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker. Napster was imagined as an independent web service operated between 1999 and 2001. Napster is a name given by two services music online services. It was originally founded as a pioneering Internet, until it was acquired by rhapsody from Best Buy.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later different companies successfully followed its p2p file sharing. Some services like Grogster, Madster. And the original Edonkey were alike. People enjoyed the website while it lasted. When Napster was at the top, 60 million users around the world were getting free music. There were already networks that facilitated the distribution. Napster was all about mp3 Files and it was mainly used for that. Napster made it easy to download music, but sadly the website was shut down.

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//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Maria G. and Chandi C. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Year 2000 Problem, also called the Y2K Bug, Millennium Bug, or just Y2K was a problem that affected mostly computer-related items. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">As the Year 2000 approached, many people feared that the programs of the computers were going to fail. Many programs that were written years ago were still being used and were in danger of not working because they were written using a two digit year for the date instead of a four-digit year.
 * The Global Y2K Problem**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the people, including the government, were worried that everything was going to come down to an end, like the economy. All of them thought that everything was going to fail just because the date of all the computers.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, January 1st of the year 2000 came and nothing happened. Nothing failed and nothing came apart. As a result, everybody was worried about nothing. Everything went just fine and normal as it always been. The problem was solved by programmers by entering fixes for the bug.

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**The Invention of the iPod**
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Richie R. and Iris M. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The destiny of Apple changed drastically 12 years ago with the release of a deceptively simple music player, the iPod.The world of music wouldn’t have been the same if not for the invention of the ipod. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Although it wasn't the first mp3 player to be released, the ipod took the best elements of it’s competitors and put them together into a product that defined portable technology and changed the way people listen to music.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While many of steve jobs and apple’s inventions have had a huge impact on the music industry, but none have had an impact as the now 8 year old Itunes. In 2003, apple launched iTunes and sold single MP3’s for 99 cents each. From then on the platform grew into what is now the number one music retailer in the united states.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An astounding 350 million ipods have been purchased since its release in 2003! There have been more ipods sold then there are people in the united states! Needless to say the ipod has had a huge effect on the way people experience music and will continue to enhance our music. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24074374"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: @http://techland.time.com/2011/10/21/the-ipod-turns-10-how-it-shaped-music-history/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

The Invention of the Apple iPad
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//by: Ryan S. And Christian Sayavong// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The invention of the iPad was very led up to by the seeing public. When Steve Jobs announced the iPad on January 27, 2010, more than 300,000 tablets were sold on opening day at about 550 dollars a piece. In fact, the Apple iPad was record breaking, beating all other electronics to this date for most items sold on opening day.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The original iPad is made of an Apple A4 chip along with up to 64 GB of flash memory with no option to add on extra memory. With up to 256 MB of built on RAM, and its latest iOS update, 4.2.1, this iPad was made for the ones who just want to surf the web. Although the original iPad had no option of a built on camera one can be found on all the later models.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The man behind this whole operation was a man called [|Steve Jobs.]He had the idea back in 1993 when he introduced the Newton Graphics tablet. He said, “I want to make a computer with no wires and be easy to use.” well, his dream came true. To this day, you can see the iPad second and fourth generation displayed across the hundreds of malls and stores across America, all long with the iPhone.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">On July 11, 2008, the app store was introduced. The app store was first available to the ipod and iphone. It allowed owners to buy virtual games. These additions would also be available to the future iPad, and more updates knows as IOS that would only be available to the iPad.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/ipad.http] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

Texting
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Texting was invented on December 3,1992. The message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone, and the text read,”Merry Christmas”. The first text messages from phone to phone were in 1993 and could only be through the same carrier provider. Friedhelm Hillebrand, along with his colleague Bernarnd Ghillebaert,invented the technology,protocol and rules that allowed text messaging. In some parts of the world text messaging is also called SMS. This is short for “short message services”.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to a survey commissioned by AT&T, 40 percent of texters who are in a relationship or dating belive that text messaging plays a significant or very significant role in their relationship. The average 13-17 years old send 2,900 texts a month,according to the market research film Nielsen. Here are some other fun facts:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According to AT&T’s teen drivers surveys, 97 percent of teens agree that texting while driving is dangerous, yet 43 percent do it anyway.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">40 percent of teens say that they have been in a car crash because the driver was texting.

The Culture of Cyberbullying in the 2000s
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//by: Kennedy W. And Bianca T.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rise of cyberbullying is among teens and shot up in frequency in recent years, from affecting just 6 percent of kids in 2000 to 85 percent today, polls show. Cyberbullying is the use of technology to bully a person, with a intimidating or threatening message.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyberbullying is done when a person is being hurt mentally or emotionally through technology. Most of the people who are bullying are anonymous. The bullies usually have a fake user name and picture which makes it almost impossible to know who is bullying you.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cyberbullying started in about the 2000 and has increase as years and technology advanced. There is this one site that makes it so easy to cyberbully. It’s called ask.fm I advise you to not make one because, they can do it anonymusously with a fake account and they can write when ever and what ever they want.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everybody thinks it’s the loud kids or the kids that would bully face to face. Which in most cases it is the quiet ones. The kids that would never say or do the things Cyberbullying allows them to do. Cyberbullying allows you to not have to face the person you hurting and not see how much it actually hurts them. Therefore leaving them without feeling bad or remorse about what they have done to the person. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The one reason most people cyberbully is they can do it anonymously without anyone knowing who they are. This makes them feel like there is no way they can get caught. It also leaves the person being cyberbullied feeling defenseless. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="24074332" @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/

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History of Youtube
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Mitchell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Youtube is massive website where you can post and watch videos. Today it is one of the best sites for just anything. They have videos on repairing cars or book reports and how to do certain math problems and of course entertainment. Youtube is great example of something starting small and blowing up into probably one of the biggest sites in the 21st century.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Youtube was founded in 2005 by 3 men Chad Hurley, Steve Chan, Jawad Karim. One year later google noticed the possibility of the site. Google later that year bought youtube for $1.6 billion on oct 9, 2006. In 2007 youtube was launched in 9 different countries including the u.k. By 2009 youtube had one billion daily viewers and full HD 1080p was launched, youtube was growing to be big.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2011 youtube had its first major update. Just last year youtube had 4 billion users and daily viewers. On july 15 2012 gangnam style was released on youtube by south korean pop star psy. Gangnam style was the first video to get 1 billion views. The song was all in a foreign language and was still a hit and was played everywhere across the U.S. (sources posted in timeline below)

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Evolution of Television during the 2000s
//by: Abbie R.// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Television technology changed considerably in the 2000s. DVD players took over the home theater experience. Much like the VCR, DVD players were introduced to the public a decade earlier, but took some time to gain momentum. Over the years, they created all different kinds of DVD players for all different cable companies. A DVD player is a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-video and DVD-audio technical standards.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Television systems were thicker back in the 1990s and early 2000s, but now people have created new systems such as the plasma, LCD, and LED television systems. A plasma television is very different from the old television systems. It has a higher quality and you can do much more on it. Some of the plasma televisions are smart televisions. That means you can go on the internet and other social networks including facebook, youtube, netflix, etc. This television, unlike the older ones, is flat and thin.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Televisions went all digital and they are better than ever! Televisions are one of the top networking systems that are used most often by people next to cell phones, Ipods, and computer systems.

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Fashion of the 2000’s
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By: Emele Hachemi
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Women and mens fashion has changed a lot from the past decade. From fancy to casual, to bootcut jeans, to skinny jeans. It seems like just yesterday everybody had on silly bands. If you pay real close attention to what everyone is wearing, you’ll notice that people dress similarly. If a new trend comes out and people like it, I guaranty you you’ll see it on most people by the next week or so. My point is that trends change quickly, especially from 2000 to 2013. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> From 2000 to 2003, for women the popular trends were low rise skinny jeans ,lycra yoga pants, knee high boots, and bright neon colors, like pink, green, orange, and yellow. Also ballet flats were a big hit too. For men from 2000 to 2002 the popular trends were light-colored polo shirts, rugby shirts, baseball caps, with usually a sports team or a logo on the top of it .Also puffer jackets really made an appearance that year. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> From 2003 to 2006 the popular trends that women found appealing were fishnet stockings, animal print headbands, denim print jegings, Tempo shorts, and slap on bracelets. Also Brown, grey, burgundy, rust, maroon, and forest green, turtleneck sweaters were loved by many! Blank sweatshirts, which was a big fall style. 2003 to 2005 the popular trends that men found appealing were Hawaiian shirts, ski jackets, slim and straight leg jeans .Nike arm strong bracelets were a huge success, they sold over 70,000,000 of those little yellow things! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> From 2006 to 2009 the popular trends for women were combat boots, that were all different colors, All stars, which are converse, denim skirts and denim jackets were huge during this time, especially during the spring. Jackets customized with metal studs, and Nike trainers. From 2006 to 2009, the popular trends for men were chain wallets, which gave people a classic punk look. Wing tips were mostly worn by men that attended country clubs, or somewhere fancy. Also Aviator sunglasses were all over this time as well. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From 2009 to 2013, the popular trends worn by women and men were trench coats, short one’s, expensive one’s, all different kinds. Drawstring bags, for a trip, or even for school. White ear buds were one of the most popular accessories of the decade. Also colored skinny jeans; like blue, black, grey, purple, or candy colored. V neck T-shirts, button up shirts, and nerd glasses, people wore them to get the geek chick look.

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Aryanna S. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Women’s fashion trends: Most women wore miniskirts this style came from indie pop from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1980s. Vintage clothing like Alto sax, Amaryllis, Cleopatra, Sleek shadow, Ace, and etc. were also popular, hip hop sweatpants were popular and more clothing like: Ugg boots, daisy dukes, ripped or distressed jeans, denim jackets, fake fur, high tops, hoodies, skinny jeans, colorful or neon floral dresses and trench coats. In Britain and Australia, Middle Eastern shemags were worn as scarves as a protest against the Iraq war people also wore large silver belt buckles with rhinestones, which were also called African bangles.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colors: The colors that were popular and worn by everyone were baby blue, yellow, hot pink, and all neon colors. Female supermodels like Kate moss, Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, etc. wore these colors, which inspired everyone else to wear these colors.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Men: Most men wore light-colored polo shirts (sometimes stripped), white Adidas or Nike trainers, and cargo pant with zip-off legs, rugby shirts, and baseball caps. On occasions men would wear argyle socks, khaki chinos, loafers in colors like brown, grey, burgundy etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hairstyles: Women usually wore long straight hair with dyed highlights, and lowlights, or a bob cut. The style was basic now day’s women are doing more complicated hairstyles.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Men usually wore shorter hairstyles such as curtained worn by (Tom cruise), or a spiky haircut. More men and teenage bots are trying there hardest to look like Justin bieber.

Sources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–09_in_fashion

Super Bowl XLV
//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: Joshua B. // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On February 6,2011 Super bowl XLV was held at the Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington,Texas. The super Bowl on average gets about 111 million viewers but 162.9 million total viewers watched Super Bowl XLV to become the most-watched program in t.v history. The Green Bay Packers the NFC champions versed the Pittsburgh Steelers the Afc Champions in Super Bowl XLV.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Packers were on their way to get their 5th Super Bowl championship.The Packers lead the NFL with the most Super Bowls/Championships with 13. The Pittsburgh Steelers were ready to get their 7th. The kickoff of Super Bowl XLV was at 5:29 Central time. The Green Bay Packers kicked it off to Pittsburgh.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Green Bay dominated most of the first half with the score of 21-3 lead before Pittsburgh cut it down to 21-10 just before half time. After the two teams switched end-zones, midway in the fourth quarter with Wide Receiver Mike Wallace’s 25-yard touchdown reception from Ben Roehlisberger the Steelers Quarterback. and a two-point conversion.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Packers kept the lead throughout Super Bowl XLV, the score was 28-25 with 2:07 remaining in the fourth quarter. But the Packers answered back with a 23-yard field goal from Mason Crosby the Packers Kicker. Time was still on the clock it was Pittsburgh’s ball but the Packers prevented them from scoring. The Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl XLV the final score was 31-25. Aaron Rodgers was named the MVP of Super Bowl XLV. He had 24 out of 39 complete passes for 304 yards and three touchdowns.

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