One think I do to rest my mind is write in my book. I find writing very relaxing and it puts my mind at rest. When I write, I'm not only relaxing and calming myself down; I'm also accomplishing my life goal. My goal in life is to have a book of mine published. I have many books that are nearly done because of all the time that I have spent relaxing.
I know that most people say that it takes effort to write and that it isn't relaxing, but I don't understand how so. When I can't write in my book for relaxation, I occassionally write a blog. Sometimes blogs can be very calming, well to m anyway.
The Maya was a great empire that prospered for many years. They had everything that a great empire needs: trade, fertile soil, and a strong army. But, for a reason still unknown, the Maya empire collapsed. Some say it was because of taxes; others say it was because of warfare. Many believe that internal rebellion was a part of it.
But, personally, I think that the reason for the decline of the Maya empire was all of these reasons combined. I don't think that any of these reasons could bring down the Maya empire alone, but together no empire could last against that. I think that as well as the main three reasons, a climate change could also have affected it. Well, in conclusion, it would have taken a lot to bring down an empire as strong as the Maya, but with many different reasons put together, the Maya empire collapsed just like any other would have in its place.
I think a personal stregnth of mine is academics. Most subjects come quite easy to me and I comprehend nearly everything. I tend to get good grades on most things. The only academic subject that I don't think I'm very good at is Computers.
I'm not that great at many sports, so that is deffinately not a stregnth of mine. I can play one sport and that's all. So, throughout my life, I have mainly focused on school work. And, though I seldom study, I am pretty good at most school subjects.
If I were the PE teacher, I would make sure that PE was an elective, not a required class. I think that PE just takes up 42 minutes per day of time that I could be learning something useful. I would also not make the students run very much.
I understand that the students will have to run some, but the amount we run now is excessive. I would also have students vote on what the next unit would be. That way, I would know what sports kids enjoy and which ones they don't.
I chose Nicolaus Copernicus for my Scientific Revolution award. I believe he deserves this award because his book began the Scientific Revolution. His ideas contradicted those of Aristotle and Ptolemy. Copernicus' book inspired great scientists, such as Galileo, to pursue science.
He was the first scientist brave enough to publish the idea that it is possible that greatly respected Greek philosophers could make mistakes just like any other human. Although he was thought to be heretic, he didn't give in and his ideas are accepted today. Congradulations Copernicus!
A few nights ago, I had a dream that I was in the Hunger Games. I had been chosen when I was only twelve from district two. But, the weird thing about it was that I recognized a lot of the tributes of whom I wasn't supposed to know. A lot of them were famous people or friends. All of them looked really intimidating and I was sure I wasn't going to get out alive. Especially because I wasn't planning on killing anyone. For some reason, we then completely skipped all of the ceremonies and rituals; we were sent straight to the arena where all 24 of our lives were put into the hands of a few creul gamemakers.
The arena wasn't beautiful, it was just a forest that, by the looks of it, didn't have much water. I was still trying to decide wheter I should get a crossbow or a knife when the gong sounded: the Games had begun. That's when things got really scary. I was a career, of course, but I didn't know that that mean't that everyone would come after me. Then, I died and I woke up.
If I was able to give advice to one person in history, I would give it to Galileo. I warn him about everything bad that he would face in his life and assure him that his ideas were accepted today. My piece of advice to him would be to wait until he was very old to have his works publishes so that he wouldn't have time left in his life for a trial.
I don't know how much that would alter the future, or if it would at all. But I think that his life would be happier if he wasn't on house arrest for the last few years of his life. He could still be a respected scientist and do what he loved, but he wouldn't be considered heretic.
I think that if I were the computer teacher, I wouldn't do anything much different than Mr. Armstrong does now. But, if I had the choice, I wouldn't make my students learn Excel. It's very difficult for a lot of middle schoolers to comprehend. I think I would feature Word more than Excel or Google Earth because Word is the one of those three that would be of most use to seventh graders.
I would also let my students blog about whatever they want, but still give them Daily Topics as an example. I think many student's blogs would be better if they could choose their own topic.
I'm sure that in my lifetime, many new inventions will come to be. But I think that if I had to choose just one invention to be created, I would choose a time traveler. It doesn't have to be one that can take people back hundreds of years, but just one that lets you redo a few minutes of your life. Most of the mistakes I make are on impulse, and I always wish I could take it back just a few seconds later. I don't think that I'm the only one who thinks that.
Many of the world's problems could be solved by redoing a minute of two and fixing whatever did wrong. We all learn from our mistakes, but imagine if we could learn from them, but still fix them completely. This invention could potentially eliminate not only careless mistakes, but also any embarassing mistakes. This invention would be life changing.
I know that many famous people are not people of character and are arrogant, but I'm sure that there are some that are kind and try to help people. I personally do not know about many modern famous people, but I have heard that a few of them have gone to Africa to help poor villages and donate money to them, which I think is deffinately showing character. As well as that, I know that a lot of them donate money to a variety of charities. So, I can't decide which one famous person has the most character because there are so many different ways to show charachter.
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