Hello, my name is Amanda G., and I’m from Sal’s 9th period class. Now the Royal Wedding, what is it you ask? It is the wedding between Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, a commoner. This wedding has taken place in London, England on 29th of April in 2011; taking place just a few days ago with hundreds of thousands of people attending. Yes, this wedding is not taking place in the United States, nor are we directly associated with it, but the United States have obviously been extremely interested in it. The main reason for this is because of it’s importance to our ally, England; this is the first royal wedding since 1981. Now, you could say that the only reason that we’re interested is our nation’s reputation for being nosy; feel free to think that, although it is going to be considered into our history because we are allies with them. I’ve, personally, found many things quite different and interesting about this wedding. Two of the things that interested me most about this wedding is that there were guards (not surprising, but we just don’t see guards at the weddings we have here), and there was shrubbery in place of the normal flowers. Another really interesting thing is that the attending audience is still standing through the whole thing, which is something that we do not do here. To each country their own, I guess. I feel that although this wedding will be history and it’s obviously an important wedding for them, I don’t believe that it deserves as much press attention as it has gotten.

Hello, I’m Amanda G. from Sal’s period nine class and our alliance dominated over all the classes. Our alliance was France, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; I was part of the Ottoman Empire. I found the World War I simulation game to entertaining as well as needing to take a strategic approach to the game.

We spent our economic points, otherwise claimed as money, on mainly Navy. I feel that by spending the majority of our economic points on Navy, we upped our chances of winning because Navy was always doubled when total points were added up. What we had started doing was using all but one on Navy, and the extra would be used on Industry; in order to gain extra economic points.

We, as the Ottoman Empire, decided that treaties would be what made us the best. We created treaties with both Germany and France; neither of them broke their sides of the treaties, and in return we kept ours. By creating and maintaining this alliance, we ultimately won over all of the other classes.

I’m very pleased with my country’s outcome, as well as our whole group. I’m sure we’re all glad that we won in our class, let alone over all of Mr. Sal’s 20th Century classes. I, personally, doubt that we would’ve done anything differently had we the chance to go back and do it over again with the knowledge we gained during it. I don’t see a reason that we would change things we did, since we won.

I believe I have a better understanding of how diplomacy works in the world. I believe this because as we went through the game, we had to plan things, as well as take into consideration what other countries/teams were doing.

Hey, it’s Amanda from Sal’s period 9 20th Century class. For this blog, I chose the topic of urban growth. Urban growth is basically when jobs open in one place, and all the people congregate there in order to work and make money. This helped quite a lot of families, but it helped the population a bit too much. When all the jobs are in one spot, all the people desire to live as close as they can to that one spot; this ended up causing overpopulation. Urban growth was both a good thing and a bad thing.
During the time that urban growth was at its highest, a lot of the transportation methods were produced. The government did this in order to limit the population of the main cities so that people could still work there, but not have the need to live so close. This helped the issue of overpopulation greatly.

‘Ello, I’m Amanda from Sal’s 9th period 20th Century class.  This year, I’m not as interested as you might have thought, but I would like to learn a few things.  I would like to learn about how the Russian Empire collapsed and became the Soviet Union.  I would like to learn about this because Russia interests me and I’d like to visit there someday.  I’d also like to learn more about World War II.  I don’t have a specific reason for wanting to learn about this really, it just sounds like it’d be interesting.  I mean, I’d like to learn something about how the Oreos were “invented”, but I’m not sure it has much to do with the actual history part of the class; it’s on this timeline I looked through to see what looked interesting to learn about, so I thought I’d mention it.  As for the technology, I’m really not sure at all.  I know how to use the iPod Touch because I’ve had my own for awhile, so all there really is (that I’ve noticed so far) is the Smart Board (I think that’s what it is?).  I would like to just get use to the idea of having that instead of the traditional chalk or white board, and using solely the internet. I actually am looking forward to the class overall though, it seems like it will turn out to be more interesting than World Cultures was last year.