Dan Brown

Hello Readers,

I am pleased that you are enjoying my blog enteries. This is a blog entery just to recommend to you great videos done by a guy called Dan Brown, AKA Pogobat. He talks about a lot of stuff such as: ( Just to let you know, these are the titles of each video )
- Barack Obama
- George W. Bush
- 2012 ( The End of the World )
- His Belief in God.
- Why McCaine Chose Palin
And many other things.

*He is really cool and since youtube is blocked here in school watch the stuff on your own computer.
*So be sure to check out his channel on youtube.


Later....


*** UPDATE: I should have said that when you go to youtube, search pogobat and it should show his channel***

Assignment # 6: William Hall

*William Hall was a free African Canadian. He was born at Hurton's Bluff, Nova Scotia. His parents were extremely poor so he decided to ship out and serve in the Marines. He served in the Marines for six years. Later, he volunteered for the Royal Navy at Liverpool England, 1852.

*On 16 November 1857, at a town of Lucknow, British naval guns were brought up to the Shah Nujeff mosque. The gun crews kept a steady fire so they could try to break through the walls of the mosque. The mutineers threw a lot of grenades and musket balls which caused a lot of casualties for the gunners. William Hall and the lieutenant who was in charge were the only survivors so they decided to fire all the guns they had and that won the battle. For this act, William Hall, became the first Black Canadian to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

* William Hall remained with the Navy until he retired in 1876. He was buried in Nova Scotia and his Victoria Cross is preserved in the Nova Scotia Museum.

Here are links to the websites i visited that helped me with this blog:

Wikipedia: William Hall

Corporal William Hall

Assignment #5: It's Really Cold (Part 2)

*In my last blog, I wrote about how it was like for the Europeans to come here to Canada and how they handled the extremely cold weather. In this Blog, I will write about my first Canadian winter and why I moved here.
*In the summer of 2006, a war started back home in Lebanon. It was very dangerous there so the Canadian government decided to bring in all the Canadians. My family was lucky enough to have Canadian passports, so we left to Canada.
*I think that my first Canadian winter felt like it was the coldest winter of my life. Even though the following winters were even colder, it still felt as if the first winter was the coldest because I wasn't used to cold winters, since Lebanese winters aren't that cold. The least temperature it ever went to in Lebanon in my life was probably -10, which is nothing compared to the temperature here. Lucky for us, my mom's cousin and aunt lived here for a long time and had a lot of experience in Canada's extremely cold weather. They taught us how to deal with the cold weather and also what to wear.
*That is it for assignment #5. I hope you enjoyed it.

*Almost forgot, here are the links to the websites I visited that helped me on this assignment.
- The Kid's Site On Canadian Settlement.
- The Canada Page
- Immigrating to Canada
- The Canadian Encyclopedia-Pioneer life
- The Pioneer Homestead
I also got some ideas from Helena's Blog. Here is a link to it.
Helena's Blog on Assignment #5

Assignment #5: It's Really Cold! (Part:1)

*It has been really cold these days that it feels like as if it is even under the -20s, but I am sure that the early Canadian settlers had a harder time living in the extremely cold Canadian winters.
A long time ago, when the Europeans found North America, a lot of people have immigrated here to Canada. Some of the reasons why they immigrated were:

- They were not allowed freedom of warship.
- The Government had control over their way of life.
- There were no jobs or their jobs were low paying jobs.
- Farmers wanted their own land.
- Men were forced to serve in the army.

The Europeans thought that they would have a better life there because they would be free in Canada.

*Now living in the cold winters of Canada was pretty hard but the trip to Canada was also hard. For the Europeans to come here to Canada, they had to take a trip on a ship first to North America. Some of the poorer families couldn't afford a cabin so they had to sleep below in the steerage with hundreds of different families. It was cold, damp, crowded and noisy. There was also no fresh air to breathe. People fell ill because of the cold and the dampness in the steerage. Diseases spread among the passengers. Some did not survive the voyage. Crossing the ocean took anywhere from ten days to a month depending on the weather and the type of ship.

*After the ships finally arrived in Canada, they were given medicals and their travel papers were checked over. During this time, the immigrants stayed in large buildings called immigration halls. Their next journey was by train to the prairies. The journey to the prairies by train took from four to six days. When they finally arrived at a town close enough to their homestead, they unloaded their belongings and got a wagon or Red River cart. They also bought food, clothing, seed, tools, a plow, lumber and farm animals.

*Now there were many main problems for the the early settlers on how to handle the cold. As Helena said "first, their houses weren't very strong and were usually made of wood and field stone or sod". Glass windows were for the rich, so most windows then were holes in the walls. Also, back then, there wasn't very heavy and warm clothes so they had to wear extra clothes.

*The early Canadian settlers probably had some help from the Aboriginals because they knew the Canadian winters and how to handle them. The Aboriginals probably supplied the Europeans with animal fur to use as clothing. Now this only happened when the Europeans became friends with the Aboriginals.

*End of Part 1

Christopher Moore's Blog

Hey guys. I think you should see Christopher Moore's blog. It talks about how the world changed every 100 years and more. It is really cool. To see it, click this.

Welcome to my Blog

-Welcome to my blog. I am a student in grade 7 learning Canadian history with my teacher Ms. Pollock. She has a blog too. If you want to check it out, click this. She is the person that gives me the assignments that I will write about in my blogs. I am a little nervous because this is the first time i use the internet to put my assignments on but it might be fun also. I hope you enjoy my blog.

Assignment # 4

This is a blog entry from assignment #4, Linking Back To Your Peers. What I'm supposed to do is read 3 of my friend's blogs and write about them in a positive way in a blog entry, then put a link to there blogs.

-Hello. I have read Hasan's blog on what the world will look like in 100 years. I think it was pretty good. I liked his ideas a lot. My favorite was this one "maybe they'll find a cure for cancer", which I hope they do as they have been trying that for so many years without getting into a solution. He also did put in more ideas on what might happen in a hundred years which are " students will stop using textbook and use blogs instead. Maybe scientists will find a solution for global warming, or maybe we will be able to live on other planets like mars. " Over all he did a good job. Here is a link to his blog

- The second blog entry I check was Andrew's. I think he did a good job. He had some really great ideas such as " we will use garbage for fuel like in Back to the Future 2." This will solve the problem of using less fuel. As we know, fuel is going to get scarce very soon. He also did say that a lot of diseases would be cured and a lot of inventions would be invented but I think he could have been more specific on which ones he meant. He also did say that Batman will beet Spiderman in the annual superhero contest, which in my opinion is correct. To see his blog, click this.

-Finally, I checked out Emily's blog on what she think the world will look like in 100 years and it is great. She had a very good list of logical things that could happen. Here is my favorite from her list: " Live on Mars, since rumors indicate that apparently there has been a form of life on Mars". A really interesting point she came up with is " Someday, a person will invent water-powered car that doesn't cause pollution." which is really cool. This as I mentioned before will solve the issue of running short of fuel shortly. To check out her blog, click this.

This is my assignment # 4. Hope you like it ( especially you Ms. Pollock )

Assignment #3: Canada 100 years later.

*For this assignment, I was supposed to read Christopher Moore's blog and answer his question which is: what do you think Canada will look like in a hundred years?

*I have just finished reading Christopher's blog on To the Nines: reviewing the centuries. I think that his blog was good. He used a lot of information to tell us about the centuries from before. To answer your question Christopher, here are some ideas on what I think might happen in a hundred years.

* First of all, I think that the technology in the world will be very advanced. For example, robots would be made for things like doing house work to doing very difficult surgeries. Many people wouldn't have to go to work because they would be using the computer to work and at the same time they would be saving the environment because they wouldn't be using a lot of fuel to get to work. I also think that men and women would be able to visit Mars in very advanced and fast space shuttles. Also, people might not use cars to travel but instead flying machines. Travel would be much more faster, easier, and relaxing due to the invention of very advanced air crafts.
Genetic science would be much more advanced all around the world in a hundred years. Fuel is probably going to run out so people will go into finding other energy sources for all uses such as solar energy and nuclear energy.

* Other than advanced technology, I think that Canada will have a higher population for the following reason. Canada's temperature has been increasing in the past years which mean that in a hundred years, the temperature would be very good for people from around the world to enjoy due to increasing spread of deserts to many regions of the world. That would make some places in Canada that has no people in it populate. Therefore population might grow from 25 million to 500 million people.

* Since Barack Obama is now the first African-American president in history, I think that racism would decrease in the world. Minorities will have better chances in possessing important posts in Canada and around the world. Less wars would start and the wars will end sooner. Hunger will decrease in poor countries due to increase intervention of richer countries.


Hope you enjoyed it.