http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/01/dakar_rally_2012.html

These photos are very interesting.They seem to show the timeline of day during sandbiking. I like these pictures because they show something that most people dont do. My favorite photo in this photo essay is,where there are mountains in the background and the ground is covered by snow, and there is only one car driving across the unbroken plate of snow.

Life in a day July 4th 2010

The film was made in one day by people who sent in clips of part of their life and the creators edited all the clips together to make one day from all over the world. The most memorable scene was by far when I saw the bicker. He seemed like a super interesting person. I would love to ride a bike through nearly every single country. A couple of positive scenes from the movie were, when when i saw the man with lamborgini.A negative scene that i saw was when the little boy had a too shine shoes, it made me realize that not everybody has it as good as i do.The patterns of humility that i saw was that all the 3rd world countries were really poor and they all struglled for food. A couple juxaposition things were when they put some guy backing out of his drivway in a really nice car , and the next clip was an African family sitting underneath a homemade house in the forest. The film made me realize how good my life is compared to the 3rd world countries. I get to choose what i want to eat and while im doing that people in aftica are picking berries off of trees and eating walnuts off the ground. I would not reccomend this to a friend because it is a very upsetting video and it just makes you feel bad because of all the things that you have compared to what some other not as lucky people have.

3 people

Major General Margaret Woodward
she is a commander in the air force . She has beenin the air force for over 20 years and she never likes to take credit and always gives it to her people that che commands. She is now 51 years old, and has almost 4000 hours of flight. She is impotant to me because she proved that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

Mark Zuckerberg
He is the creator of facebook and is 26 years old. He is importyant to me because he proved that you can do anything like create a hit website .

Justin Beiber
He is a hit hip hop singer . He is important to me because he wanted to be someone and he kept trying and triying and never gave up and in the end everything worked out for him.

Favorite SCOTUS case

MY favorite SCOTUS case is Kent V. United states. This case is probably the most important because talked about how this 16 year old commited rape and house break and the court wanted to try them as an adult. This case was very important to America because without this case you wouldnt be able to be tried as an adult. the ruling of this case was that the court found him guilty and they did not!! Charge as an adult. This case took place in 1966. this case is important to me because i believe it has solved a great problem in the justice system that kids could not be tried as an adult.

being truly gifted

The downs of being gifted are that  being gifted means that you get extra expactations and that as soon as you reach that you have to get even  better and people are always expecting you to be the best when in truth sometimes you are not the best. Also you get teased for being gifted and that you may excel in intelligence but you still have yet to develop in other areas such as physical appearance like me. "Parents have to help their children cope with being gifted" - WINK News - News, Sports and Weather - Southwest Florida, Being "Gifted" is a Blessing and a Curse for Students

The ups of being gifted are that you get extra chances to improve your itelligance that others dont normally have and also you get people to look up to you and that you have the opportunity to help others and you dont really have to worry about getting bad grades.

my six word memoir's

work, lots of work, to much work
friendship is fun yet very sad.
sisters are annoying , parents love me.
sperts,platgrounds,never let it end.
Broken, crazy, weird, not undercontrol.
Rich bright cant wait for it.
I skate alot of hard work
my mom is a loving person
baseball always getting better with work
school:boring,fun,friends,work, teachers.

first blog!!!

My name is Michael Cottrell and I am in 8th grade. My favorite school classes are rogate and algebra. My favorite activites to learn about are skateboarding because the more i learn about it the better i will get at it.I also like to learn about nature because it is very interesting and it increases my knowledge in many other subjects. I also like to learn about nature because my family is a farming family and it helps me learn about what my grandparents do. In my free time i like to play baseball and sskateboard beacuse they are both very fun and i always can get better in them. wheni get older  am going to go to college and get a good degrre and eventually im going to try to become a good lawyer and make a lot of money. My friends make me happy and just relaxing and getting good grades.