Book report

Ryan Schluter

Luke Smith

U.S. history

6/8/14

Apolos and the Journey to the Moon.

The Book I read was called Mission Control, This is Apollo. This Novel was about the struggles and and learning steps it took to get to the moon. There were a total of 17 missions from 1963 to 1972. Not all of them landed on the moon and to be even more precise only about six missions made it to the moon and back. The journey to the moon was a lot of struggles and heartbreak but the feeling of achieving the goal was all worth it for the United States.

The first apollo was a tragic start for the apollo program. Three astronauts lost their lives in a deadly fire in an Apollo Command Module during a preflight test. For this to happen was a huge disappointment for the apollo program and a wake up call for flights to come. This tragedy show just how dangerous it was going to be and how much farther we would have to go to be able to get to the moon. Getting to the moon was no walk in the park but was a race, a space race. The United States was in race to beat Russia to the moon and back and so far they were already in space.

Apollo 7 was the first Flight carrying American astronauts into earth's lower orbit. This gave americans hope and made NASA the top entertainment for the United States. After This flight NASA could breathing a bit more and now they could start tweaking the missions to land on the moon. Tweaking that was added to the rockets were Lunar Modules. Lunar Modules are a small craft used for traveling between the moon's surface and an orbiting spacecraft. They took the top scientist to understand how to fly a small aircraft in zero gravity. (Fun fact Lunar Modules walls are made from thin sheets of tin foil.)

Apollo 11 was the first United States landing on the moon, beating Russia in the space race. the first astronaut to walk on the moon was neil armstrong, his partner Buzz Aldrin soon followed. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin left a small gold olive branch on the Moon, along with an Apollo 1 patch and two Russian cosmonaut medallions to honour those that were killed during the space race. He almost forget to leave them until Armstrong reminded him and he unceremoniously dumped them on his way back into the command module. The pair also left their moon boots and urine bags on the lunar surface. The last thing they placed on the moon was the American Flag. The American flag they placed near the Command Module was blown over by the downdraft when they launched back into space. In future Apollo missions flags were placed a good distance away. After Apollo 11, 12 more astronauts walk on the moon surface.
The Space Race was one of the most important landmarks in history. Winning showed power and with power comes money and intimidation. Even though war would not have started if we lost it put the United States where we are today.

YAHTZEE

Yahtzee is a fun dice game made by Milton Bradley in 1956. when the game first came out it was spelled "Yatzie". it was first sold in a set of dice games called "LUCK - 15 Grand Dice Games". the name changed to Yahtzee when the game separated from the set of games to be sold as its own. The game is a development of earlier dice games such as Yacht, Generala and Yogi. Yahtzee is also very similar to the English game "poker dice" and the Cheerio dice game.

The object of the game is to score the most points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations to get the most points. Each player uses three rolls per turn to try and get the combination they desire. they are 13 turn per player per game. The game is called Yahtzee because it is the highest point value combination in the game. Yahtzee is when a player get all five dice to be the same number in three rolls or less.

look how much fun Yahtzee can be!

http://www.skooldays.com/categories/toys/ty1154.htm

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/who-invented-yahtzee

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee

13- 2

1). To stop the spread of communism

2). Greece was in a guerrilla war against the Greek government. Britain tried to help by sending troop over to fight but their economy was already low after ww2 that it was hard to last long.

3). European recovery plan. It would give Europe nations American aid to rebuild their economies.

4). Shipment of goods and supplies by plane.

5). NATO, North Atlantic treaty orginization. Enemy is USSR

6).

7). North korai split, north attacked,

13-1 questions

Ch 12, Sec 2

Farewell to Manzanar

1) How did the food served at the camp show lack of understanding of the Japanese culture?

 The food severed at the camp lacked the understanding of Japanese culture because the cooks put sweet fruit over the rice which the Japanese do not do because they only put salty or savory food over the rice.

2) Why do you think the families in the camps were assigned numbers?

 I think the families in the camps were assigned numbers because everything looked the same in the camps; the food, building and even the inside of the buildings.

A Fierce Green Fire summary

In the film "A Fierce Green Fire." it follows the stories of peoples lives who have dedicated parts of their life to restoring the earth or preserving the earths wonders. We are introduced to a woman who helped save the life's of many family's  by getting involved with the government and helping to clean up and move family's away from a diseased Love Canal. We also meet a nice man who was a co fonder of Green Peace, which worked to save whales. As of this day he is still fighting to save whales and other sea animals from being hunted.
SAVING THE AIR.
A company in California called "The Air Resources Board (ARB)" is California's air pollution control agency. In California air pollution was getting dangerously high and something had to be done, thanks to ARB there are now restriction put on cars and bushiness  about how much pollution is aloud to be released by the companies and cars. Since 1980 air pollution in California has gone down.
EPA
The EPA is a nation wide contributor to helping save the world. they do not specialize in one type of disaster but the y help clean up the air, water and land. if its not the EPA doing the cleaning then its help from other federal agencies, states, municipalities, or the company/party responsible for the contamination. The EPA is also a great way to get involved and learn more information about how you or they are helping the world you live on.