Typing

This year I actually believe that Typing Master Improve my skills in the keyboard. I felt more comfortable and easy to type than last year. I believe this occur because we didn't had as much pressure as last school year to obtain good scores. At the end of the year, I really felt the need of typing faster, just because I wanted to be exempted and not do the test for the rest of the year. I do believe that my class, overall and average don't have a good typing score, so taking in this in consideration...I believe that the next year course should include some typing master, maybe not as much as we did this year, a little less. We need typing master, but not that much. Most of the people in the class have a net speed of at least 15 wpm, so that is way we should do less next year,

Map Testing Graphs (Reading)

This is the graph that I choose to express the data of my Reading Map Test. This time, the scores are express in rows. This is as accurate as columns, but just to "spice it up". Each test as it own row, longer the row is higher the score of the test was.

All the graphs had to be like this kind, each test for it self. I I had chosen a line graph, it will be very inaccurate and ugly because the 2 test we skip would had mess it up.

Map Testing Graphs (Math)

This is the graph I selected to show my math scores. As the Language graph, each of my test has their own column. Higher the column is, the score is as well. This is a better graph in my opinion, just because of the 3D effect.

Map Testing Graphs (Language)

This is the Language Graph for my results. It is a good graph to show my results over time, as every test has a different column. The hight of the column represents my score, while more higher more the score is too.

BP Oil Disaster.

Currently as I write, around 200,000-400,000 gallons of oil are being released to the Gulf of Mexico per day. Since the sank of "The Deepwater Horizon", one of the biggest oil carrying and extracting boats on the oil industry, which occur on April 22th, the expulsion of oil has left over 5 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The boat sank due to an explosion, which killed 11 crewmembers and left the carrying boat 5,000 feat under sea level. This ship is know by the world for drilling the deepest oil well in history in September 2009.

Since the accident and spill started, there have been a lot of speculations about what can happen and what will happen once everything is over. As a lot of people had said, including United States President Barack Obama the oil will harm marine species in the Gulf of Mexico. A lot of people has stated that the first thing is to stop all the oil from coming out of the container and preventing that goes out into the Gulf of Mexico. The company that own the ship, Transocean in cooperation with British Petroleum, which ran the operation had tried various times to stop the oil from coming out, but they have fail all the times. The companies first tried to stop the leaking by placing a lot of weight in the release point, hopping to close it by pressure. As mention before, this fail. Another method that was tried was to cut the pipe by where the oil was traveling; however once their machine was deep down in the ocean they notice that a chain was stuck, so nothing occur. All of this happens in International Waters, so the government of Mexico neither the American Government had an obligation to help. Now that the oil spill is leaving reaching New Orleans, Florida and other states with waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Government has started to cooperate with the companies to stop the oil spill. The US Government has started the cleaning and design of a plan to stop the spill. No official statement or bereaving have been giving only that the Government pass a 62 million dollars invoice to British Petroleum’s, which they expect the company to pay. I believe that the most important thing to do right now is to stop the leaking of the oil to the ocean. That is the number one priority, then once the oil spill stops the cleaning process should start.

Sources:

1. Nasa Satellite

2. Discovery News

3. Company Names

Map Testing

In the past week, and the first two days of this week, due to the technical difficulties of the school, we had Map Testing in our school. This test are to mesure our academical levels in three courses which are: Language, Reading and Mathematics. Also it helps our teacher by showing them how we are in our levels of education and were they need to focus to teach. Map Testing for me is a waste of time, I prefer the SATs. I just think that they are more specific and give you better results. Anyhow, Map Testing was a good think to loose class. My scores were ok, not good nor bad in the areas of Language and Reading, which all my past and present English teacher can support;however, in the Math section I rocked. I got 257! I really didn't think I reached my goals, so no Spirit Days.
Suggestion: Lets do old SATs...
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