Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Apr. 6th Article Summary for 8th Grade.

If you get this week's article and last week's article time-stamped by Monday April 6th at 8:30, I will give full credit. If they are not in by 8:30, they will not count. Each article is worth 5 points.

Mr. Mills

4 comments:

Othmane Guilich said...

Palaeontologists working in Peru have found the fossil of the head of a bird from the Pelagormithidae family that lived 10 million years ago in what is now Peru, a scientist said after returning from the dig site on the country's coastal desert. The species had a wing span of six meters and fed mostly on fish from the Pacific Ocean. It first appeared 50 million years ago and went extinct about 2.5 million years ago because of climate change.

I feel that this fantastic new discovery returns us back from 10 million years and opens new horizons with our imagination to know how the world was million years ago.

Nadeem said...

Typewriters
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. For much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools for many professional writers and in business offices. By the end of the 1980s, word processor applications on personal computers had largely replaced the tasks previously accomplished with typewriters. Typewriters, however, remain popular in the developing world and among some niche markets, and for some office tasks.
I think that typewriters were very important in the old times because that was the only way people could type papers for school. Typewriters were very helpful back then for typing up papers and not just handwriting them. If you handwrite papers they can sometimes be pretty messy. Why not save the time and energy by just simply clicking a button and the letter comes out nice and neat.
I agree with this article because it talks about what typewriters are, what the do, and when they were popular. I agree that typewriters must have been very helpful and popular at the time when they didn't have computers.

melik Helmy said...

Using french fry oil as a fuel for your car engine!

Did you know you don't have to waste thousands of dollars on car fuel for your car to keep running?...Well, it's true!..You can go to mc Donalds perhaps and ask for their left over french fry oil and put it into your fuel tank, and there you go! Enough fuel to fill up your tank, and it smells good too!

I think this article is very important because it's great way to put fuel into your cars engine without having to pay hardly anything! And you don't have that horrible gasoline smell but instead a lovely greasy french fry smell! Although it gets a little messy when it comes to putting it into your tank.

I agree with this article for sure, i know this is a magnificent way to fuel your car without haveing to hardly pay at all! I think everyone should do this so i definitely agree with this article.

LINK:://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11809771/

Unknown said...

my article is about convection currents.

when the sun beats down on the eqautuor,warm,moist air begins to rise.when it rises the air cools and loses its moisture as rain that sustains rain forests near the eqautor. convention currents carry the now dry air farther north and south. some of this dry air decends at the tropics, where it creates a zone of deserts



the rain forestzone forms a belt that encircles the globe on the either side of the eqator. the photograph below shows a rain forest near the congo river in central africa.

like many of the great deserts regions of the world, the sahara,in northern africa next to morroco, is largerly a result of atmoshperic convetion currents.