8th Grade Typing Tracker year

During this eight grade, I have, for the first time, used Typing Master. On computer class, we were assigned to record the test results for the whole test result. I have come a long way since scoring a 6 on the test to a 33, it was quite a bumpy road. I have definitely improved on my scored throughout the year. This is mainly for starting to use good coordination between eyes and fingers, not looking at the keyboard that much. Practicing this tecnique gave me a huge advantage and helped me improve my grades. I do feel as typing should be still practiced during the next school year, the ninth grade. I also feel as I can improve my typing speed, typing fast and accurately could be quite useful on the future; specially on this ever changing times. So, I would definitely like including typing tests on the next year. In the end, I got a good speed, but I still think I can do much better.

This graph has proven to be a relatively good tool to show my grade growth. It is good to the basic level. This graph indicates the growth for MAP reading test taken over this eight grade.

This graph is not so useful to show the grade growth of this schoolyear. I think it should be used to indicate the increase in sales of a company with regards to several product. This graph shows the grade growth of the MAP language tests taken oer the this eight grade.

This graph is useful to indicate my grade growth in the MAP tests of this school year. It is quite useful because it indicated grade by test specifically. This graph indicates the grade growth of MAP math tests taken over this eight grade.

The best possible graph that could be used to display the grade growth would be the third, because it is specific on every test, this allowing you to see the growth with much more ease than the other two graphs.

BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Since April the twentieth up to this day, there has been a constant oil leak on the Gulf of Mexico. It was caused by a wellhead blowout and it also took a ship by putting it on fire, there were fifteen+ deaths caused by the fire and enormous environmental damage. The oil leak is now damaging unmeasurable amounts of wildlife. It is foreseen that the leak will damage the fishing industries and tourism on the Gulf as well as the environmental damage. The responsible for this disaster is BP, or british petroleum, and will pay the relatively little amount of 7.5 billion dollars. The company won't really suffer from this loss since they make a lot more than that in revenue. Also, BP will remain having its huge income level, know why?, we as the greatly advanced human race haven't figured out what other fuel to use besides petroleum.

The fact that injustices like this happen are extremely unfair for the affected, all the wildlife, birds and fish. The fact of the matter is that to add insult to the injury, BP had planned to cap the leak, however are already foreseeing failure, even before doing it. Many ideas have arose and yet BP has made an excuse to avoid those ideas. Some good ideas that aren't being used in all the affected areas are the use of hay, dishwasher, hair and a brilliant idea of an all naturally made absorbent of oil that repels water, invented by a colombian inventor. I personally think that the idea of the all natural absorbent and dishwasher are going to work, and even better, they're cheap. This disaster has been one of the worst in history and the bad thing is that it is still leaking. Maybe now, that we're seeing how much harm can be done with the use of petroleum, we will concentrate at figuring out alternatives to petroleum. Many advances in the search of an alternative have been made, the use of solar energy, gas created from cane, etc. In conclusion, this disaster is forcing us to find a environmental-friendly fuel to prevent atrocities like this to ever happen again.

Edit 06/06/10: Cap has been places and it is reportedly picking up 6,000 gallons a day, it is expected for the cap to start picking up 10,000 + gallons on the next week.

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MAP TEST...again

Last Week the entire high school had to do MAP testing, it was quite annoying. On the fall we also had a MAP testing week, it was quite the same deal. Computer class was replaced with sports or something, also some classes were replace by health and it was overall an annoying experience. I wouldn't change anything about the testing process because it had its benefits, take missing computer class, it was fun. I was happy with my scores since they were almost the same as last times, but still I could analyze the questions to get a better grade. The free spirit day thing was clearly not a motivation for doing good at the tests, I did it because I want to enhance my knowledge. In conclusing this MAP testing thing was boring, but neccesary.

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