Question 4:

The difference between Herodotus and Thucydides is that Herodotus writes everything down and didn't make a direct opinion on it. Thucydides on the other hand gather all available evidence on what he thought was true, and he shapes his presentation to emphasize what he thought was true.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/nyregion/antiterrorism-registry-ends-but-its-effects-remain.html?ref=sept112001 This link is more like Thucydides's way of writing because the writer is taking more of a side and standpoint, rather than explaining both sides without an opinion. In this article, the writer is being more opinionated about the Muslim and Arab immigrants coming into the United States, and even though they are the same race as a lot of the terrorist, they are not all terrorists. The writer was taking his stance on his story and he used people that terrorism deportation and other things along those lines as his backup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/nyregion/conde-nast-publications.html?ref=sept112001
This link is a more Herodotus way of writing because even though there is not a lot of information on this particular link, there is no opinion being spoken here. There is also no writing trying to persuade people to think a certain way about a situation. Herodotus style writing is strictly black and white kind of writing, nothing about how you feel about this and that.

Question 3:

The Greeks believed that when you died, your soul was taken away from your body like a puff of wind. They then prepared the body for burial. They were very strict about the time taken for this, and thought that if you didn't take your time on it it was an insult to human dignity. There were three parts of the burial ceremony used done by a woman of the deceased family. These parts were heprothesis(laying out of the body), theekphora (funeral procession), and the interment of the body or cremated remains of the deceased. The body was then dressed and put on a high bed in his or her house.

The Egyptian used the art of Ka when people died. The deceased have a soul and the soul stays with you even during death. They take out the insides of the deceased body, mummify it , and then put it in a tomb and put symbols of what they like to do to define themselves. Soul eventually goes up and gets judged and would weigh your heart to a feather. Lighter than a feather-can go to afterlife.

Egyptian and Greek ways of dealing with afterlife are not very similar, but they have some aspects that relate to each other. For example, they both dress the deceased body and place them into a box where they are preserved. The Greek people bathed the deceased in oils and was more classy about the ways of the ritual; where the Egyptian people just ripped out their intestines and mummified the body.

Question 2:

Part 1:
The Agricultural Revoultion was very important to the development of cities because before this time, people were moving a lot with the animals that they wanted to hunt, and they didn't have one place to stay. This revolution brought the first real settlement in one area, where the people in this area could trade with each other for food, plants, clothes, and anything else they needed in order to live. The idea of settling down and trading within a group led to the development of towns and eventually cities, which were built in the same idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution

Part 2:

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Part 3:
BREAKING NEWS! Agricultural system in the United States falling apart!
There has been a lot of talk recently saying that the ways of agriculture in the US are beginning to fall apart, and we are going back to the ways of ancient Neolithic times where we were all fending for ourselves. Farmers are outraged with the loss of respect citizens around our country, and are beginning to not sell their crops and food to grocery stores and people at farmers markets. It is beginning to trend nationwide as well!

If the agricultural system collapses in America, we would all have to grow our own plants in order to have grains, fruits, and vegetables. Also, we would all have to hunt for meat in order to get enough protein in our bodies to function with our day to day lives. If this is to happen, the government would lose a lot of money from grocery stores and we could fall into a deeper depression than we already are! Terrible things could occur from the fall of the agricultural system, let's hope this trend doesn't occur. If it does, we could all suffer from this across the globe!

Question 1:

Link to Chat on History

Worst Job in the Middle Age

Watching the video on the worst jobs in history, my idea of the worst job would definitely be the fuller. A fuller is the person who takes the wool from sheep and go from household to household receiving their urine. The urine makes the cloth soft and brings the wool together. You would have to stop on the wool covered in urine for 7 to 8 hours at a time. When you are done stomping on the urine filled wool, the cloth is all brought together and then it is distributed to make clothes for knights and other fighters. I consider this the worse job because it involves you stepping in someone else's pee for 7-8 hours  every day. Pee smells so bad too! I could probably throw up if I ever had to do this job, just thinking about it makes me sick.  I am so glad that I was not alive during the Middle Ages so I don't have to stomp on pee as my job.

History of My Freshman Year

This year, Meredith became a freshman at the John Carroll School. Meredith started school at the end of August, playing junior varsity soccer. For the first quarter, Meredith got average grades; she didn’t expect some of her classes to be as hard as they actually were. She decided that she was going to work harder in school and sports. Closer to the end of the soccer season, Meredith got moved up to Varsity soccer, and received a varsity letter for it. She also picked up her grades receiving Second Honors for the second quarter and the Improvement Award.  Meredith enjoyed a really successful soccer season as a freshman, with her team making the semi-finals against Archbishop Spalding in the last minute.

As winter came around, Meredith played Varsity Indoor Soccer with a lot of her friends from the regular soccer season. Indoor soccer was much more challenging for her, but she was able to become a better player with her foot skills because of it. Her soccer team ended up making it to the championship game against Maryvale at the DuBurn’s stadium in Baltimore. The game was tough, and her team was not able to push through. They unfortunately lost in the championship game. As for academics in the winter, Meredith really picked up her grades. She again received Second Honors in the third quarter. Meredith put equal time into sports and athletics; therefore she was successful at both in this season.

As the spring comes around, Meredith was very excited to start the lacrosse season, since it is her favorite sport. She was lucky enough to be one of the three freshmen that made varsity lacrosse at John Carroll, which is known for their outstanding lacrosse team. After a lot of team drama and bad things happening towards her team, they were still able to come together and play great lacrosse. They ranked fourth place in their conference before playoffs, which landed them a first round bye. In the quarter finals, they played against Notre Dame Prep, a very prestigious school for their lacrosse team. They had beaten them earlier in the regular season, but this was where it really mattered. After an hour of tough lacrosse, every girl on the field giving it there all, they came out unsuccessful and lost the game by one in the last minutes. The team was devastated, but they managed to play so well even in the worst circumstances. As for academics in the fourth quarter, Meredith is working hard for First Honors, which she is very close to receiving.

Meredith has met so many new people on the fields and just in school that she will serve long lasting friendships with. She had the ability to play varsity sports, which gave her the ability to meet upperclassmen and have amazing coaches to make her better along the way. She will never forget her freshman year, but she hopes for even more success to come her way she gets older.

Don't Tell The Aliens We're Here, Stephen Hawking Says; They Might Not Be Friendly Response

I don't think that we should go out into space searching for aliens, just like what Stephen Hawking says. It is far too dangerous to try to come in contact with aliens. We don't know what they are like, they could be very powerful and be able to kill our astronauts, and then possibly take over the Earth. I am not saying this will definitely be the outcome of coming in contact with aliens, but it could be. We have to be cautious of how powerful they could actually be. This is why I don't think we should go around searching for aliens, we don't know who they are and what they have the ability to do.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/aliens_stephen_hawking.html