Christina!!

Why I think the Mayans collapsed

2008-11-06T17:38:00.000-08:00

I think the Mayans collapsed towards the end of the Classic Period because of a chain reaction between weather problems and crop disease. I would say it all started with the weather being really wet, which probably led to the spreading of the "diplodia ear rot" disease. The disease is caused by warm temperatures and lots of soil moisture, which was caused by the weather because it rained really often, so naturally the soil would be wet. This would also explain why, when archaeologists talked with modern farmers in the Copan Valley, they said that their crop was getting worse every year, and the Mayans would really have been hit hard because they didn't have the modern day materials that the farmers can use today.

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MY TRIP THROUGH PERUVIAN CULTURES!!!

2008-10-22T12:53:00.000-07:00

I JUST TOOK AN AWESOME VACATION!!! I traveled through time to the Ancient Peruvian Civilizations!!! Actually it was just the Moche, Sican, Chimu, and Inca cultures but that's ok.
First I visited the Moche, which live around here. They had a bunch of pottery which looked really cool particularly like in the shape of people. They gave me this one to take back so I was really happy.

Vice Presidential Debate

2008-10-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

I don't think that their plan is very effective because the republicans promise no taxes, but that's only for upper class people, which is why it won't benefit the rest of the people, only the super rich people. Democrats promise no taxes for only low income people which will really help them, but it really isn't fair for the middle and upper class people, because they don't benefit at all, because they still will have to pay the same amount of monthly/yearly taxes, plus then the government will have less money. The republicans have repeated over and over that they will cut the taxes, but they never mentioned for whom, and taken from Bush's last 8 years in office, they only reduce the payment for upper class families.

About Iraq, I think that America should not waste their time on a pointless war, because its a total waste of time, money, and people. I also disagree with Sarah Palin's opinion that we have to win in Iraq, which she thinks will benefit us in Afghanistan. That is like the most idiotic thing I have ever heard in my 12 years on this planet, because we're wasting so much and we really won't get anything out of it. I think this was a totally pointless war in the first place, and that Bush should have just ended it while he could, but instead, he waited until it was way too late, and even now he's still sending billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars to support it.

I disagree with McCain's health care opinions, because he wants to give millions of dollars in health care to the upper class people, but he's gonna get that money from taxing the middle class people, which is super de duper unfair to them. I agree with Obama because he wants the government to fund low income people who can't afford health care, which is better than McCain's plan but still, he's gonna get that money also from taxing people, but he's not relying only on the people.

Fix the Economy!!

2008-09-25T11:31:00.001-07:00

I think the biggest problem in the economy is that people are not investing in real estate so the value of houses is going down. The bank is also not giving out loans to people because most won't be able to return it. I think that the government should use the money in the US because for a better reason because you always hear things on the news or TV about how they gave a couple billion dollars to support the Iraq war which I think is a pointless waste of people, time, and money.
Although I agree with John McCain's view of the war. “At a time of crisis, when leadership is needed, Senator Obama has not provided it,” McCain said Sunday in a speech to the National Guard Association in Baltimore. “We saw the same lack of leadership on Iraq.” Because Obama is not very experienced although I would rather have him than McCain because McCain is a complete airhead.