Thursday, June 3, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Reggaeton
Reggaeton is a form of urban music that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton's predecessor originated in Panama as reggae en español. After the music's gradual exposure in Puerto Rico, it eventually evolved into a new musical style known as reggaeton. Reggaeton lyrical structure resembles hip hop lyrics. Like hip hop, most reggaeton artists recite their lyrics rap-fashion rather than sing it melodically, although earlier reggaeton songs were toasted in which some are today. Unlike hip hop music, however, a significant percent of reggaeton artists are also singers, may blend rapping and singing, and may also have a "street" image, similar to Akon. Like hip hop music, reggaeton songs have hooks that are repeated throughout the song.
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
The war ended with the victory of the Allies in 1945, leaving the political alignment and social structure of the world significantly changed. While the United Nations was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next forty-six years. Meanwhile, the acceptance of the principle of self-determination accelerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe began moving toward economic recovery and increased political integration.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
First letter is My Letters
For each letter in my first name I found a city that starts with that letter.
R O N A L D
CommunityWalk Map - COMM
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Saturday, May 8, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Indian Customs
Indian Customs
While to many people raised in the west, this might sound odd. It is important to remember that in Indian society an arranged marriage is seen as an act of love. Since marriage is one of the most important decisions a person will ever make and because divorce is not accepted among most Indians, it is imperative that the marriage choice is carefully thought out and planned. How can a young person make such an important decision on his/her own? Instead, the family (usually the parents) look for certain traits in a marriage partner. Some desirable traits looked for in both male and female are: matching levels of education, matching cultures, close parental cities, matching religions, and matching vegetarians/non-vegetarians just to name a few.
Places to visit : All over India
Duration : One-Two Days, Varies Regionally
Holi is probably the second most celebrated Indian Hindu holiday. It is a time of great joy and color. It is known as the most lively Indian holidays, in short, it is the Mardi Gras of India, minus the nudity of course! It is observed all over India, especially in the North. It marks the harvesting of winter crop (Rabi) when wheat corns get ripened and turn golden brown. It heralds the end of winter and the beginning of spring. For many westerners and/or Christians, Holi even shares some characteristics of Easter. Not only does it come close together (usually a day apart) but Easter is considered a time of colorful spring celebrations as well. However, that is where the similarities end. In fact, while it is celebrated in a similar fashion all over India, there are so many different legends and stories associated with it regionally that you are bound to get different stories about Holi in just about every region.
CELEBRATIONS
People celebrate this festival of colors joyously with friends and relatives. People come out wearing pure white clothes and gather together in a common place where they "play Holi". People throw colored water with pichkaari (a traditional device to spray colored water from a distance keeping oneself safe), gubbare (balloons filled with water to throw on others from a distance) and gulal (colored powder) at each other and make merry. Singing and dancing add to the gaiety of the occasion. Playing Holi begins early in the morning and continues through the day.
Rituals
Usually the night before Holi, a huge bonfire is built. It is said to cleanse the air.Traditional delicacies are prepared in advance and served while playing Holi. Families, friends, and neighbors get together to enjoy this festival of colors.
Farmers celebrate Holi by offering their first crop to the Fire God Agni.
The drinking of bhang is also a common practice, though if there is any religious reasons behind it, they are now obscure. Bhang is an interesting concoction of grass of the opium plant mashed and mixed with milk or sweets. Some families also give their children these drinks but most reserve these for the adults and exercise caution.
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Festival
Easter is a time of religious festivals and gatherings
The United Methodist Church, Woodland Presbyterian Church, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, St. Paul's Luthern Church, Woodland Christian Center, and Bayside Church of Woodland as well as St. John's American Lutheran Church and Calvary Chapel in Zamora and the Christian Church (Disciple of Christ) are all offering activities for their parishoners to mark the resurrection of Jesus. Woodland churches will be holding numerous Good Friday and Easter Day services as part of a weeklong Easter Week celebration. Some churches, such as American Lutheran, will also hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. Activities will start at 10:30 a.m. and include egg hunts, crafts and games. A hot dog luncheon will be served at 11:30 a.m. Easter is a time of springtime festivals and gatherings in Woodland and worldwide. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol ofPosted by MO at Sunday, April 04, 2010 0 comments
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Poerty
Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
P.K. Page, who died earlier this year at age 93, is on this year's shortlist of Canadian works for Coal and Roses, alongside Kate Hall for The Certainty Dream and Karen Solie for Pigeon.
The international shortlisted works are: Grain by John Glenday, A Village Life by Louise Gluck, The Sun-fish by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau.
Last year's winners were A.F. Moritz of Toronto and Wright, who hails from Providence, R.I.
The judges for the Griffin, poets Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie and Carl Phillips, read some 400 books of poetry to come up with the shortlist.
The 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist readings will take place June 2 in Toronto. The winners will be announced June 3.
The novel is the first book of what will become the WWW trilogy.
California-born Robert Charles Wilson, who recently became a Canadian citizen, was nominated in the same category for Julian Comstock, A Novel of 22nd Century America, premised on a future United States ruled by a Christian fundamentalist oligarchy.
Copyright © John Glenday 2009
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Myths
Gaelic Myths/Legends
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Social Network
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Pop culture music
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Google news: Nicotine Replacement
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Popular Culture: Art Work
In 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, when everyone was interested in art. Even though Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous because of all the other things he could do. He was a sculptor, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, and a mathematician. When he was twenty, he helped his teacher finish a painting called The Baptism of Christ. When he was thirty, he moved to Milan. That is where he painted most of his pictures. DaVinci's paintings were done in the Realist style. |
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Health
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Shocking Brawl
Police Taser Student at Basketball Game
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Thursday, December 24, 2009
This Christmas
In two days christmas is coming up. At my age I dont expect to get much for christmas as I did the previous years. In the previous years I got video systems such as the playstation 3 the x-box 360 clothes and games for the system. Just last year I recieved the psp silver.
Add on 12-25-09
This christmas unlike the others, I didn't get any technology such as handheld games a game console or games for the systems I already had. This christmas I got Rocawear boots, the air max lebron 7s in white black red and the all black air max lebron 7s, Asolo boots, Perfect Pushup.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
News and Media: Weather
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Mathematical concept: Rationalising the denominator
Multiply top and bottom by the square root of 2, because: √2 × √2 = 2
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tours
On my walk through Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill I saw churches, houses, apartment buildings, and gardens. Some of these things existed for over a hundred years. These things are historical because of its importance to the community and the change it caused the community.
An example of these churches are the Manhattan’s trinity church and a Episcopal church, and a Dutch reformed Church which was the home to Brooklyn’s oldest Jewish congregation. The garden is the Hoyt street garden which has existed since 1975. The apartment buildings was modeled after old tenements which went up in the 1870s. The Brooklyn inn was part of the prohibition but they was a speakeasy which means that they sold illegal alcohol. Today there are churches that has been there for many years and are still being used for religious activities. Houses such as brownstones are still up and being used.
On my walk through this neighborhood and reading the section in the book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies I learned how neighborhoods are different and how they are alike. I also learned how neighborhoods have stayed the same over the years and how they have changed over the years.
Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies Page 51-55
Carroll Gardens & Gowanus
On my walk through Carol Gardens & Gowanus which is my neighborhood I saw a canal, parks, and bars. Some of these things existed for over a hundred years. These things are historical because of its importance to the community and the change it caused the community.
An example of the canal is the Gowanus canal. The Gowanus canal is a part of history because it created a man made water way to transport goods into the city and the borough of Brooklyn in 1889. The issue project room is used for music performances, poetry readings, and other art events in the 20th century. The park that is in this neighborhood is Carroll park that was designed as a city park in 1867 by Richard Butts. Two bars are the Canal Bar and P.J. Hanley bar. The Canal Bar was made in 2005 but may seem of a similar vintage. The P.J Hanley bar was sold in 2005 but owned by the Hanley family since 1958 and under their name since 1874.
On my walk through this neighborhood and reading the section in the book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies I learned how neighborhoods are different and how they are alike. I also learned how neighborhoods have stayed the same over the years and how they have changed over the years.
Bibliography
Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies
- I used this link to get information on the tour and what route to take. I also used this link to get the route I was going to take for both neighborhoods and the directions.
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BLABBERIZE BASKETBALL
THIS BLABBERIZE IS ABOUT A BASKETBALLS LIFE AS OF IT GOING DEAD AND IT BEING PUMPED UP AGAIN. THE LIFE OF A BASKETBALL. I MADE THIS MY SELECTED A PICTURE THAT I LIKE WHICH WAS A BASKETBALL WITH A MOUTH AND I MADE THE SHAPED OF THE MOUTH WITH THE CIRCLE GIVEN AND I RECORD MYSELF USING THE MICROPHONE ON THE COMPUTER
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Blabberize basketball again
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Tracy Mcgrady Blabberize
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animoto benjamin banneker basketball
This is a little clip of the Benjamin Banneker Warriors Junior Varsity basketball game playing against Erasmus Hall Campus Junior Varsity basketball team on December tenth Two thousand-nine. Benjamin Banneker came out with the win with the score being 53-41.
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
School Basketball Practice
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
ESPN
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Blogger
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Myspace
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Google maps
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Reflect me: The memoir of Ronald Lashley
Preface
This is a clutch basketball story. This summer I have been playing more basketball than before. I have hit many clutch three pointers in my age group and older age groups. In my age group, fourteen and under I hit a clutch three pointer to put us done by one point late in the fourth quarter even though it resulted into a lost by three points. In a higher age group sixteen and under I hit a clutch three to take a one point lead late in the fourth quarter. The game resulted into the game going into over time and later on into a win. During these two moments the emotions in the gym and outside on the court was palpable due to the tension of the game.
I am Me
I am Ronald Maurice Lashley, a child of Ronald Lashley and Gwendolyn Lawrence. I grew up mostly in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in that area because of my elementary school P.S.305 which was a block away from my grandmother Janie Lawrence house. Even though I didn’t actually live there it was basically my home. The emotions in my grandmothers house was palpable no matter if people was talking or not. I am a person who may not be the toughest which makes it so I now how far I go with certain people. I am a person who listens to hip hop and R&B and who ever is making clairvoyant music.
May 20th
On May 20th it was my birthday. I had to go to school because it was a weekday and school is every important. On that day, being a kid I did not want to go to school to just do work all day and later go home and have to do homework. On that day my apartment was getting painted which really caused me to become upset. Every step me or my parents and sister took through the house you heard plastic with no walls to lean on. The one thing that was actually was a good thing was that I got a strawberry cheesecake which was my favorite. On this day I was able to realize that my birthday is more about becoming older and maturing through life and the anniversary of your birth.
Say Good Bye
I lost my innocence when I began to fight and talk back. As a child I felt much stronger being able to stand up for my self even if it was the wrong person or time. When talking back it was the wrong person when I did it to people such as teachers, my parents or any other adult figure. In school I began to lose my innocence when I reached about 3rd and 4th Grade. In school I began to lose my innocence when I became talkative and began to miss work such as homework. I began not doing homework because my parents weren’t sitting there with me when I did my homework to make sure that I did it. With homework since I became able to go outside by myself, I would sit there doing only some of my homework and say I was done so that I can go outside to make they rest of the day blithe. As a younger child my parents used to sit there with me as I did my homework and helped me with it. In class since I began to become talkative I became more conspicuous in class and I had incomplete class work because I would do more talking than working.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
SCHEDULE OF THE SCHOOL DAY
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
basketball games
The nba live 10 graphics are pretty good. NBA LIVE has been competing with nba 2k trying to become the number one selling professional basketball game. As the years go on these two games have been
making changes such as game features including dunk contest three point contest and more. They have created dystany modes which are basketball seasons that involve salary caps signing players
releasing players and signing a coaching staff to help your team to become the champions of the national basketball association. In these games the players become more reallistic than the previous
years. These games also have online features in which you can play other people from all over the world. You can also create your own player so that you feel like you are in the game and be able to
take your favorite players to the hole. When connected on line the players can play as they do in real life because of a new feature called Dynamic DNA. You can also get the rosters updated making all
trades.
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