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Explorers Blog Entry 7

I am visiting the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and parts of Namibia for my last location. The capital of the Botswana is Gaborone and the capital of Namibia is Windhoek. Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa border Botswana and Namibia. No body's of water border the Kalahari Desert and the GPS coordinates of the Kalahari Desert are 23˚00'00.00" S 23˚00'00.00" E. The Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water. Temperatures can range from 68˚ to 118˚. There are many game reserves in the Kalahari. Bushman have lived in the Kalahari fir over 20,00 years. The Kalahari Desert is 5377 miles from the Atacama Desert. I got to the Kalahari Desert from the Atacama by boat and then a truck. It cost around 3,000 dollars for everything. It was very fun to go for a trip around the world I have never experienced anything like it before. I learned that it is nice to go on a trip by yourself sometimes instead of with others. My mom and dad are so happy to see me but are also mad that I am back to annoy them.

Explorers Blog Entry 6

I am visiting the Atacama Desert in Chile. The capital of Chile is Santiago and the countries that border Chile are Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The Pacific Ocean borders Chile. 35˚40'30.50" S 71˚32'34.72" are the GPS coordinates of the Atacama Desert. It is very rocky, flat and 50 times drier than the California's Death Valley in the Atacama Desert. The desert is 20 million years old. It is the driest desert in the world. The Atacama Desert is 11088 miles from the Gobi Desert. I got to my fifth location by plane and then car. It cost around 6,000 for everything to get to the Atacama Desert from the Gobi Desert. I had some problems when going to the desert from the airport in Chile because we got the truck stuck a couple of times. The Atacama Desert is so much drier from the Gobi Desert it is not even funny!!

Explorers Blog Entry 5

I am going to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The capital of Mongolia is Ulaanbaatar and the countries that border Mongolia are China and Russia. The GPS coordinates of Mongolia are 46˚51'45.00 " N 103˚50'47.97. The climate of the Gobi Desert is hot and dry. It looks very sandy. The Gobi was part of the Mongol Empire back in the day. It is the biggest desert in Asia. The Gobi Desert is 5,149 miles from the Tabernas Desert. There were no layovers. I got to the Gobi Desert by airplanes and it cost around 4,500 for every thing. I think my travels are going well.

Explorers Blog Entry 4

I am visiting the Tabernas Desert in Spain. The capital of Spain is Madrid and the countries that borer Spain are Portugal and France. The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean border Spain. The GPS coordinates of the Tabernas Desert 44˚46'03.13" N 5˚24'20.69 E. The climate is hot and dry and it looks very pebbly and rocky. I got to the Tabernas by airplane from the Sahara Desert which is about 827 miles between each other. The cost for the trip is about 3,500 dollars.

Explorers Blog Entry 3

I am going to the Sahara desert in Africa. The countries that border the Sahara Desert are Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia. A lake that borders the desert is Lake Chad. The GPS coordinates of the Sahara Desert are 19˚13'23.66" N 3˚25'53.81" E. It is very dry and hot in the Sahara Desert. Most of the landscape is brown and sandy. There has been big fights at the desert and it supports lots of wildlife because it is the biggest desert in the world. The distance between Mojave Desert to the Sahara Desert is 7,033 miles. The trip costs around 5,000 dollars.

Explorers Blog Entry 2

I am first going to the Nevada Desert in the America. The capital of the America is Washington D.C in Maryland. Canada and Mexico border America, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean border America too. The GPS coordinates of the Nevada Desert 38˚37'03.33" N 115˚58'04.33". It is very dry and there are a lot of cacti in the desert. This location supports many species of wildlife and has been around for millions of year.

Explorers Blog Entry 1

My name is Donkey and I am 13 years old. I am going to visit the Nevada Desert, Tabernas Desert, Atacama Desert, Sahara Desert, Australian Desert and the Gobi Desert. I am going to these locations because I just had the feeling to and I am feeling great about going to all of these locations. My parents are happy that I am getting out of the house.

Malaria

Around the world about half a billion people get infected with malaria each year. Nearly a million people actually die from malaria each year. Most cases of malaria occur in countries in Africa. 90 percent of malaria deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is mosquito-bourne. Plasmodium is the infectious parasite (which is the most deadly parasite) of malaria that infects the red blood cells. In areas like the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs and other organs can have tissue die due to lack of oxygen from the infected red blood cells. The name meaning “mal'aria” (meaning “bad air” in Italian), was the term shortened to “malaria” in the 20th century.
A disease resembling malaria or malaria has been noted for about 4,000 years. DDT was synthesized in 1874 by Othmer Zeidler but not discovered until 1939 by Paul Muller in Switzerland. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveren was the first to discover parasites in the blood of patients suffering from malaria in 1880. In 1890 Giovanni Grassi and Raimondo Filetti first introduced the names Plasmodium vivax and P. malariae for the two of the malaria parasites infecting humans. In 1896 Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites can be transmitted from the infected patients to mosquitos. In the 1930s the U.S. recorded millions of malaria cases. Transmission of malaria had been halted in the 1950s.
Malaria should be considered a medical emergency and be treated accordingly. The leading cause of death from malaria in the
United States is delay in diagnosis and treatment. Patients can have definitive diagnosis in laboratory tests if the tests demonstrate the malaria parasites or their components. Sometimes malaria can be fought in the spot it is transmitted with bed nets, insecticides and anti-malarial drugs. Nets treated with insecticides and draped over beds can cut malaria infections by half and children deaths by a third. In Zambia sprayers apply a film of DDT inside some mud houses and the insecticides lingers around for few months, repelling and killing mosquitos, to treat malaria before it is transmitted.
The female mosquito is of the genus Anopheles, the only insect that is capable of carrying the human malaria parasite. In the night the mosquito alights on a patch of exposed skin, hunches over in a head-lowered posture. Then the female Anopheles mosquito plunges her stiletto mouth parts into the human flesh. The plasmodia swim through the blood stream until they get to the liver. When they get to the liver the plasmodia burrow into a single cell. Flooded cars are good places for mosquitos to lay their eggs when the waters recede into pools.
Symptoms of malaria include the chills, flu-like symptoms, fever, diarrhea, vomiting and jaundice. There can be four to six hours of shaking chills with malarial attacks.
In conclusion, malaria is a very terrible disease and hopefully will never flourish in the U.S. Africa on the other hand will probably have malaria lurking around for a couple more years though unfortunately. After researching malaria I think it would really stink to have malaria.

Medieval occupation Entry 5

Compared to my life, Zeus's life is hard because he has to clean more than me, work more and all around do more chores than me. Today not as many people have the name Zeus so that is something new. Our government doesn't have laws like the Canon law which I don't agree with. Back then they had jousts but in modern time we don't have anything like jousts.

Medieval occupation Entry 4

Today we had a jousting tournament with the visitor of King Edward III. The joust happened in the castle courtyard in the afternoon. People wanted to have something fun to happen so the town voted on a joust. There were two knights each had a long pole and they were on horses. They ran at each other and hit each other with the poles and one of the knights won I can't remember what his name was though. Everybody including me thought the event was pretty cool and everybody was sitting in bleachers. Unfortunately one of the knights died because the other knight hit him in the head with his jousting pole.

Medieval occupation Entry 3

In the castle my family and I have some really good friends by the name of Billy Parcher (my friend), Julius and Eve Parcher which are my parents friends. We usually do fun activities like ride horses around the field in the castle with the Parchers. Personally I could eat Lamb for every dinner of the year but we only have Lamb for a couple dinners a month unfortunately. All around the castle are hills and mountains so it will take days or weeks to get to the next big city or town.

Medieval occupation Entry 2

The government in England is an anarchy ruled by King Edward III and Queen Philippa. I do not believe in the canon law because I do not think that we should have to follow a guideline or rule. I agree with Sumptuary law because people should consume or waste food that they do not need. My family and I are Christians, once in a while we will go to church. The family's living in the castle grounds have conflicted with the king and queen because they want to get out of the castle and explore but only the knights and the people who bring the food can come in and out of the castle.

Medieval occupation Entry 1

I am going to be a blacksmith. My name is Zeus Smith I live in England and I am 13 years old. I go to Cambridge University My mothers name is Penelope Smith and my fathers name is Robert Smith, I am an only child. My father is a blacksmith of 20 years and my mother is a maid of the lady of the castle. My family lives in the castle because my mother is a maid. I like to form metal into weapons for fun. The chores I do are, I pick up the scrap metal for my father after he is done forming weapons and armors.

Memoir

The Evil Basketball Hoop

It
was after school one day when Matt, Derek and I decided to play
basketball. “ Come on guys lets go and play” Matt said.
That day it was cold for a summer day but I wasn't wearing a jacket,
and I had shorts on. After about ten minutes Matt dunked the ball
and said that I couldn't dunk the ball. I grabbed the basketball and
dribbled up to the hoop and dunked the ball. When I dunked held on
to the rim and the hoop started to fall. I knew that I was in
trouble. The reason why the hoop fell is because during the summer
Derek and I drained the water out of the bottom so we could it move
out of the grass and on to the tar and I forgot that there was no
water in the bottom.

I
fell to the ground and the rim smashed my finger. Matt stood there
with concern and Derek stood there laughing. All I could see was
blackness and all I could hear was Derek laughing and Matt awing with
concern. We could see the bone and muscle in my finger from the cut.
I hit the ground so hard and the rim smashed my finger so bad that
it cut it open and I could see my bone and muscle on the top of my
finger. When I tried to open my eyes all I could see was blackness
and I could not move even though I could hear Matt saying, “are
you okay?” and Derek laughing in the background.

After
a while I got up and looked at my finger, it was all bloody on the
top and there was also blood on the ground. Derek, Matt and I walked
over to my house and showed my Mom, Ronnie and Rachel. “Wow
thats pretty bad”,my mom said in concern. They all thought
that it looked bad and my Mom got a washcloth to put on my cut to
wipe the blood away. At the time I did not know that on the bottom
of my finger that there was a big gash so bad that I would need
stitches to seal it back up or so I thought. After I found the big
gash I showed everybody, my mom thought that I should go to the
hospital that night but we didn't because we were going to wait until
morning to see if it would get better. I took a short shower that
night and the hot water hurt really bad on my finger even though the
water didn't touch my cut that much.

That
night when I was going to bed I rested that arm with the cut on two
pillows stacked on top of each other with a washcloth on my swollen
finger so, I wouldn't lay on it.

The
next morning my finger hurt badly, and I didn't go to school. I
showed my Mom how bad my finger was swollen and my cousin Ada brought
me and my Mom to the Sebasticook Valley Hospital. We went in and my
Mom went to the front desk and told the lady what had happened.
Usually when I go to the hospital I have to wait a while but that
time I didn't have to wait probably because it was an open wound.
There was one doctor that checked my finger and asked me what had
happened, I told her what happened and then she sent me to another
doctor. This doctor was the one who put butterfly strips on the cut
to seal it instead of stitches because it was over twelve hours after
it had been cut open and if she stitched it the cut could get
infected. Then she started to put on this yellow stuff to hold the
butterfly strips on, it hurt really terribly when she pulled the two
pieces of skin together for the strips to hold. Then she put a
splint on my finger and wrapped it in medical tape, that also hurt
really bad. I left the hospital and played video games for the rest
of the day even though it kind of hurt. I didn't want to go to school
the next day but I did anyway.

The
next day at school Ricky
HIT!! my finger and made it
hurt worse than ever before. Then after about a week I took the
splint off my finger and then after about two weeks the wound was
fully healed and I felt a lot better.

BPW

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