By: Casey and Erika
Global Warming is a serious problem because it’s affecting everyone around the world, but not just humans but also the earth itself. All the gasses from big corporations are making the situation worse and worse everyday. Icebergs are melting because earth’s temperature keeps getting higher and higher. Aerosol cans contribute to the cause of the ozone layer going away. Ones the ozone layer disappears the rays of the sun will penetrate trough all layers of the atmosphere and you don’t want that to happen because you will be fried alive. So help do your part and try to keep our earth healthy by not using aerosol cans and not polluting the earth. If you care you would help make the world better for you and for everybody.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Band Of The Week by Martina
System Of A Down
System of a Down (sometimes simply referred to as SOAD or SoaD) is an Armenian-American rock band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. System of a Down consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals and keyboards and rhythm guitar), Daron Malakian (vocals and lead guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass), John Dolmayan (drums).
The band has released five studio albums and have sold over 20 million records worldwide [1]. They have been nominated for four Grammy Awards, of which they have won one in 2006 for Best Hard Rock Performance. The group went on indefinite hiatus August 13, 2006.
Two of my favorite song from them are "Sugar" and "Chop Suey".
Sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOA8QT-sk4M (Skip to 53 seconds to get straight to the song)
Chop Suey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRd3k4CIAg
Sugar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOA8QT-sk4M (Skip to 53 seconds to get straight to the song)
Chop Suey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRd3k4CIAg
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monster Of the Week: MINOTAUR
Monster of the week: MINOTAUR
By: Edgar and Oscar
The Minotaur half man, half bull, all evil.
Birth of the Beast:
The Minotaur was born after king Minos angered the sea god, Poseidon, after Poseidon sent a white bull for Minos to sacrifice. Minos wouldn't sacrifice it so Poseidon was very angry and punished him by making his wife fall in love with the bull. Parsiphae, Mino's wife, fell in love with the bull and they did the "naughty naughty". After that, she produced the first Minotaur which had a taste for human flesh.
The maze:
King Minos ordered the great technician, Daedalus, to construct a Labyrinth, a vask underground maze full of dark passages, to house the beast. Sometimes human victims were forced into the labyrinth to be sacrificed. But, one day, the Minotaur was defeated by Theseus. He was one of greatest greek heroes.
Death of the monster:
King Minos of Crete had waged war with the Athenians and was successful. He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.
On the third occasion, Theseus volunteered to slay the monster. He took the place of one of the youths and set off with a black sail, promising to his father, Aegeus, that if successful he would return with a white sail.[10] Like the others, Theseus was stripped of his weapons when they sailed. On his arrival in Crete, King Minos' daughter Ariadne, out of love for Theseus, gave him a ball of string so he could find his way out.[11] That night, Ariadne escorted Theseus to the Labyrinth, and Theseus promised that if he returned from the Labyrinth he would take Ariadne with him. As soon as Theseus entered the Labyrinth, he tied one end of the ball of string to the door post and brandished his sword which he had kept hidden from the guards inside his tunic. Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne; go forwards, always down and never left or right. Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur. A tremendous fight then occurred. Theseus overpowered the Minotaur with his strength and then slit the beast's throat with his sword.
Theseus decapitated the corpse of the Minotaur as a trophy and used the string to escape the Labyrinth and managed to escape with all of the young Athenians and Ariadne, bringing the head with him. On the return journey Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos. The next day Ariadne cursed him to forget to change the black sail to white. In other versions of the story, the god Dionysus appeared to Theseus and told him that he had already chosen Ariadne for his bride, and to abandon her on Naxos, a favorite island. In another version, Ariadne died from illness on the journey home. In Theseus' grief, he forgot to change the sails, and seeing the black sail, Aegeus committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea (hence named Aegean). Theseus and the other Athenian youths returned safely.
By: Edgar and Oscar
The Minotaur half man, half bull, all evil.
Birth of the Beast:
The Minotaur was born after king Minos angered the sea god, Poseidon, after Poseidon sent a white bull for Minos to sacrifice. Minos wouldn't sacrifice it so Poseidon was very angry and punished him by making his wife fall in love with the bull. Parsiphae, Mino's wife, fell in love with the bull and they did the "naughty naughty". After that, she produced the first Minotaur which had a taste for human flesh.
The maze:
King Minos ordered the great technician, Daedalus, to construct a Labyrinth, a vask underground maze full of dark passages, to house the beast. Sometimes human victims were forced into the labyrinth to be sacrificed. But, one day, the Minotaur was defeated by Theseus. He was one of greatest greek heroes.
Death of the monster:
King Minos of Crete had waged war with the Athenians and was successful. He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.
On the third occasion, Theseus volunteered to slay the monster. He took the place of one of the youths and set off with a black sail, promising to his father, Aegeus, that if successful he would return with a white sail.[10] Like the others, Theseus was stripped of his weapons when they sailed. On his arrival in Crete, King Minos' daughter Ariadne, out of love for Theseus, gave him a ball of string so he could find his way out.[11] That night, Ariadne escorted Theseus to the Labyrinth, and Theseus promised that if he returned from the Labyrinth he would take Ariadne with him. As soon as Theseus entered the Labyrinth, he tied one end of the ball of string to the door post and brandished his sword which he had kept hidden from the guards inside his tunic. Theseus followed Daedalus' instructions given to Ariadne; go forwards, always down and never left or right. Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur. A tremendous fight then occurred. Theseus overpowered the Minotaur with his strength and then slit the beast's throat with his sword.
Theseus decapitated the corpse of the Minotaur as a trophy and used the string to escape the Labyrinth and managed to escape with all of the young Athenians and Ariadne, bringing the head with him. On the return journey Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos. The next day Ariadne cursed him to forget to change the black sail to white. In other versions of the story, the god Dionysus appeared to Theseus and told him that he had already chosen Ariadne for his bride, and to abandon her on Naxos, a favorite island. In another version, Ariadne died from illness on the journey home. In Theseus' grief, he forgot to change the sails, and seeing the black sail, Aegeus committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea (hence named Aegean). Theseus and the other Athenian youths returned safely.
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