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The Stock Market

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Recently, in Language Arts class we did a stock market project. The project involved each student getting an imaginary $20,000 and choosing to invest it how we liked. I invested in McDonald’s first because it seemed funny and weird since I never go to McDonald’s. Next, I invested in Nike, because I felt inspired by an article I had read. I also invested in Ford 6%, New York Times, and Walt Disney Cooperation. 

At first, my stocks looked good. McDonald’s turned out to be going up quite a bit. Nike and New York Times also went up. Ford 6% stayed the same, and the only stock that went down was Disney. I was up $300, then $400, then $450, and eventually I peeked at around $600. In real life, I probably would have sold right then and focused my money on the companies that were doing better. Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to sell early. This would turn out to be a big problem.

The next week I was at -$500. Yes, that is a negative number. Nike, Disney, and New York Times had all crashed, and Ford 6% and McDonald’s went down. Two days later, McDonald’s crashed. I had $1000 less than what I started with. The next week, not much had changed, so I ended the project down to -$1041.47.

This project really showed me how unpredictable the stock market is. I learned that even though some stocks looked good, they actually ended up falling 10 points in a few weeks. This project was very interesting and fun.

TED Like Talk

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In my language arts class, for sort of a final project, we did a TED Like Talk. A TED Like Talk is similar to a TED Talk, but it is not turned into an actual video. We used TED’s guidelines to make the project and presented it in front of the class. It was suggested that one should make a script, so I started doing that. I then realized that I had already essentially planned out the whole thing, so I didn’t end up using a script.

My TED Like Talk was on the three blades in fencing. Fencing is a sport where one attempts to hit the opponent with a sword before the other person does. There are different types of fencing (different blades) that I talked about during my TED Like Talk. I enjoyed this project because it made me think about presentation in a different way.

The Recipe For A Strong Persian Empire

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Recently in Social Studies (History) class, we learned about what makes a strong empire. Our example was the Persian Empire. As a class we learned about King Cyrus and agricultural trade. The Persians created a successful empire, and we were tasked with figuring out what made them so successful. 

First, we made a list of the top ten things that made the Persian Empire powerful. I included “Creating a Powerful Army” and “Taxing Invaded People.” The most important thing was “Become Wealthy Through Agricultural Trade.” I then took these topics and turned them into “ingredients.” For example, instead of “Become Wealthy Through Agricultural Trade,” there was Agriculture Trade Flour. I created a series of steps to follow while creating the “recipe.” I called the recipe Persian Hand-Made Brownies. The image of it is above, and the recipe is right here: 

Persian Hand-Made Brownies

Ingredients:

  • 2 heaping cups of agricultural trade flour
  • 2 cups of invaded land chocolate
  • 1 cup of tax sugar
  • 4 eggs from a social hierarchy
  • 3 ounces of free religion butter
  • 1 tablespoons of benefits like land for the wealthy (substitute for salt)
  • A pinch of human rights baking powder
  • ½ a teaspoon of vanilla coinage extract.

Procedure:

  1. Preset the oven temperature to 550 degrees fahrenheit. 
  2. Beat other invaded land chocolate with a powerful army rolling pin until broken up. Collect all the invaded land and make sure to continue collaborating with the smaller governments inside the chocolate.
  3. Mix agricultural trade flour and tax sugar together to make lots of money. Add the benefits for the wealthy to keep the recipe from rebelling.
  4. Put the social hierarchy eggs into a bowl with the invaded land chocolate. Make sure the chocolate is in a lower spot in the hierarchy than the Persians. To keep the invaded land chocolate sweet, add free religion butter. Put these into the microwave for 3 minutes.
  5. Whisk together the wet and dry ingredients while adding human rights baking powder so it will all work out well. A vanilla coinage extract to make the agricultural trade flour and tax sugar work better.
  6. Cook for 220 years so the empire can last long.
  7. Serve and enjoy your empire!

Tips:

  • Never cook for an Alexander, as he will probably destroy your dish.
  • Try to use ingredients from lots of middle eastern countries, especially Iran.
  • Make sure to only put the food in the microwave for 3 minutes, because there were only 3 leaders in

Do not make this recipe, because I’m pretty sure it will be a disaster. Please, do not try this at home. It will not turn out well. Anyway, this was a really fun project, and I look forward to more history projects in the future.

The Red and Blue Coat in Scratch

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https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/754418545

Recently, I had a school project. Our grade read lots of stories from the book Wisdom Tales Around the World. We picked one of the stories and made a project about it. My project came in the form of a Scratch game and animation. It starts out with some narration and then goes into a little boss fight game. After that the story finishes. I hope you enjoy it.

   PS. In the game instructions it says WASD to move. This mean you press the W key to go up, and the S key to go down.