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Theodore Roosevelt River of Doubt

When Theodore Roosevelt was defeated in an election in 1913, he got invited to make a speech in South America. He decided that he would stay there with his son Kermit. Once he reached Brazil, the country’s Foreign Minister offered him a chance to explore an unmapped river in the heart of the rain forest. Theodore, Kermit, and their crew took off on an adventure down the River of Doubt. They teamed forces with Brazil’s most famous explorer, Canidido Rondon.
Roosevelt had taken his morphine with him on the journey. It came in handy because along the way, he began to suffer from malaria and he had developed a potentially deadly bacterial infection in his leg after he sliced it on a boulder. This caused his body temperature to rise up to 105 degrees. He had to tell Kermit and Cherrie to go on without him.
Kermit’s paddler had drowned in one of the many deadly rapids in the river. This same thing almost happened to Kermit. This put Roosevelt in constant fear of losing his son. Roosevelt had already had to deal with himself getting sick, and now he has to watch out and make sure that nothing happens to his son.
Once the expedition started to appear impassable, Roosevelt was very sick. The rest of the men in the group were becoming sick too because they were so exhausted and hungry. The only man among them who believed that they could get their dugouts through the rapids was Kermit. Having spent much of the past year building bridges, he was extremely skilled with ropes. Everyone but Rondon supported Kermit. Roosevelt understood that the best way to ensure Kermit's survival was not to spare him the burden of carrying his father but to give him the chance to do just that. To save his son, Roosevelt realized, he would have to let his son save him.
When the expedition was over, all but 3 men survived and was able to place the river on the map of South America. Roosevelt never fully recovered from his sicknesses, but he didn’t regret anything about the expedition. "I am always willing to pay the piper," he once wrote, "when I have had a good dance." After the expedition took place, the river was renamed Rio Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt Timeline

Timeline
1904 - Roosevelt, one of the most popular presidents in his nation's history, had vowed never to run again after winning his second term in the White House in 1904.
1909 - As a freshman, he and his father (recently out of office as President) - both of whom loved nature and outdoor sports - went on a safari in Africa
1912 - The line outside Madison Square Garden started to form at 5:30 p.m., just as an orange autumn sun was setting in New York City on Halloween Eve, 1912.election day
1913 - In December 1913, Roosevelt, then 55, and a small group of men embarked on a journey to explore and map Brazil's River of Doubt. Almost from the start, the expedition went disastrously wrong. He went on a losing streak.
1914 - through the Brazilian Wilderness, recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913–14
(1916–2000) , Jr. was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,
1917 - As he was about to be transferred to a Russian branch, the U.S. entered the World War.
1919 - "Many of his critics could account for his leaving the Republican Party and heading another, only on the theory that he was moved by a desire for revenge," William Roscoe Thayer, Roosevelt's friend and one of his earliest biographers, wrote in 1919
1940 - At the end of 1940, he returned to England and was discharged from the army on health grounds on 2 May 1941, by which time he had once again reached the rank of captain
1953 - The Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies.

Sources:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt
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Test Review Questions

1. What is the drive that saves to you computer only?
2. What are the 2 drives that you use at BHS?
3. Can you move more than one file at a time?
4. What is a good component of a good password?
5. What is an advantage of using Delicious?
6. How do you add dates to your iGoogle Calendar?
7. How do you get a to-do list on you iGoogle home page?
8. How do you post an HTML code on your blog?
9. How do you do an email signature?
10. How do you follow other blogs on your Blogger account?
11. How do you attach files to an email?
12. What is the purpose of a podcast?
13. How do you search for podcasts on the Internet?
14. How do you grad the embedded code to post a podcast on your blog?
15. How do you make a picture black and white in Picnik?
16. What is an example of being safe online?
17. How do you get gadgets on your blog?
18. What is one feature on iGoogle?
19. How do you export Audacity files as MP3 files?
20. How do you create folders on your P Drive?

Test Review

Words that I know...
copyright, public domain, freeware, shareware, open source, attribution, commercial use, derivative, share-alike, firewall, virus, hacking, piracy, malware, phishing, identity theft, data back-ups, cloud, cookies (as pertaining to computers and Internet search), and filesharing.

Words that I don't know...
Creative Commons- a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

Intellectual property-is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law.

Malware-short for malicious software, consists of programming (code, scripts, active content, and other software) designed to disrupt or deny operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or exploitation, gain unauthorized access to system resources, and other abusive behavior.


Phishing- When you go outside by a body of water and catch phish. OR a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Duties of FTC:
The duties of the FTC are, in general, to promote fair competition through the enforcement of certain antitrust laws; to prevent the dissemination of false and deceptive advertising of goods, drugs, curative devices, and cosmetics; and to investigate the workings of business and keep Congress and the public informed of the efficiency of such antitrust legislation as exists, as well as of practices and situations that may call for further legislation.
Copyright and CC fall into this category because it protects the rights and law of the things people created.

Music Copyright Laws

If you want to publish your music, you need to get it copyrighted. Copyrights usually last about 50 years, and you get them when you first publish your music. Having copyrights to your music makes it so people can only copy it for school uses and they can only copy a small amount of it. The current year for Public Domain music in the U.S. is 1922. The difference between public domain and proof of public domain is having a copyright.
-you CANNOT reproduce the music or lyrics
-you CANNOT distribute the music or lyrics either for free, for no profit, or for profit
-you CANNOT perform the music or lyrics in public
-you CANNOT play a recording of the music or lyrics in public--even if you own the CD
-you CANNOT make a derivative work or arrangement for public use in any form

Johnny Cash vs Gordon Jenkins

This particular case hit the courts, but was settled out of court. The original song in question was recorded on a concept album called Seven Dreams, the song in question was part of the ‘Second Dream: The Conductor”. When the lyrics to the two songs are compared side by side, there is no question that they are kissing cousins. Though Johnny Cash’s version is more fine tuned and shows more experienced talent, some of the lines are word for word and some of them have a word or two difference. It took fifteen years, from the release date of Johnny Cash’s version, for Gordon Jenkins, the original song. owner to sue. The 1968 out of court settlement approached the hundred thousand mark.

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Identity Theft

1. This women made the mistake of buying everything with a debit card.
2. I think that identity theft is becoming a more common problem because people have less money these days so they are relying on steeling people's identities for money.
3. They would need a copy machine, and also a duplicate car, and they would need to somewhat look like the person.
4. Always keep your security code secret, and dont give away your credit card information.
5. I think that it is the criminal's fault because they are steeling and that is illegal.

Emerging Technology

Technology has changed our lives a lot throughout our lives. One example would be the telephone. In the past, phones were used to only make a phone call from a very old fashioned phone with the piece that you hold to listen and talk into. Phones that have recently been created have digital games, texting, and even GPS's. They can also take pictures, go on the internet, play music, and you can use email. Also, doctos are now able to cure diseases that were once fatal because of all the new medicines that have been founded. Another way that technology has advanced brings us to the concept of the Internet. People are now able to acces chatrooms, use email, create personal or public blogs, and the biggest new invention is to shop online. You can now go online to your favorite stores, or websites such as Ebay, Craigslist, etc. to purchace items using a credit card.
Theses are only a few of the thousands of ways technology has changed our lives. Not all technology is good, but it is not all bad. Technology will continue to change and grow imenesley as the generations pass. This is only the beginning.

Sources:
http://www.infoworld.com/
http://answers.reference.com/

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