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Community and Friendship

At Charger trails today we were pretty successful. We didn’t do so well in the first activity the “Marble Challenge” but other than that we did great. I didn’t act specifically as a leader of follower. I helped other people when they were confused and did what others told me to do when they had an idea. With the Maze, when I was in it I was confused on exactly where to go so I followed a team member as they told me what to do. I also helped the others as they went through and didn’t know exactly what to do. The hog call was kind of a mess but we ended up getting it right and I also helped make a few pairs.

Our group was also pretty friendly. We talked about our ideas and we kindly either accepted or explained that they didn’t really work. Everyone was included as a friend and helped each other in some way. Some of the time we had the same ideas and it was nice to know that in some ways, we thought very similarly. I think I did well being a team member and a friend. In the end everyone was happy and working together.

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Time Capsule Career

Electrical Engineering is very important. In this career you would develop new electrical products. You would also test them and if they make it into the market, supervise the construction. Some of the kinds of things you could build are motors, radars, power generators and transportation equipment. They create things based on people’s needs and wants. They have invented things like the computer, television, and almost any electric device you own.

There are a few different things needed for this career. In high school it would be useful to study math and physics such as algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Studying drafting could also be helpful. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology is needed. The pay is pretty good to. The average salary per year is $87,920 while the lowest ten percent is about $58,470. The Expectations aren’t very high though. The vocation is expected to grow by only 4% from 2012 to 2022. This statistic could be change though, depending on the needs of businesses.

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A Snip of My Culture-Verse

By: Alex Dietrich

In 2016 the Presidential election will change my life. I will be 12.83 years old so I won’t be able to vote. The Different presidents could do many different things so I don’t know who will be elected or what they’ll do. It will greatly change the government as the new president well have different opinions than the last one. Many laws could be added or changed for good or for bad. Our rights could be taken away or they could be added. Hopefully the president won’t have terrible diplomacy so he won’t make all the other countries mad. But hey, you never know what could happen.

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Burial Practices

 

Alex Dietrich

Canopic jar                            Mummy

  1. Why did the Ancient Egyptians prepare they body in a certain way?
        • So their body did not decay
  • Created steps called embalming to stop decay
  • So their ka could enjoy the afterlife
  1. What were the steps the Ancient Egyptians used to preserve a dead body?
  • First organs except heart removed by priest then placed in Canopic jar

-The organs were removed from a cut in the left abdomen

-A Canopic jar is taller than wide, with a carved head as the lid

  • brain removed from nostrils
  • body put in wood box and covered in natron, (salt)
  • dried over 40 days
  • washed in oil
  • wrapped in cloth, sometimes covered in momia a black slimy substance

 

  1. What items did the Ancient Egyptians bury with the dead?
  • cloth type, poor-old clothes, middle-cloth, wealthy-good cloth
  • buried, poor, in ground,
  • middle, simple funeral in wood box in cave or sand,
  • rich, better celebration, coffin, in tombs,
  • Pharaohs, Grand Ceremony, coffin with sarcophagus around, in Mastabas or a little later pyramids  and much later in time secret places so tomb robbers couldn’t find them, special boats built for journey to burial grounds.

-A sarcophagus is an outer shell for the coffin that is painted with designs

  • Items buried with, food, water, adornment, (jewelry), treasure (pharaohs), clothes, games

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images Sources:

[Image] http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=139 . September 16 2015. Web.

[Image] http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=3460 . September 16 2015. Web.

 

 

 

 

 

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Character Favorites in Seedfolks

Sam is a great guy, he always wants to help everyone out. He tries to talk to people and get them smiling and talking to each other. He worked for 36 years trying to make the world a better place. Even after he retired he still worked on getting people together in his little part of Cleveland. I admire this and think he is very hardworking for doing his job for that long. He is a very nice man, he smiles and people and tries to make their day better. Some people don’t appreciate what he does so it may not end up so well for him. In any case though, Sam is very hardworking, nice and brave.