Assignment #6 Black history month

Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was born in January 21, 1922 and immigrated to Canada. I chose to write about him because of all the things he accomplished in the past that were outstanding although he is still alive today. He began his career when he graduated from Oswood Hall Law School in Toronto and then distinguished himself by serving in World War II as a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force. After the war was over, Alexander became nominated as the first member of parliament when he was elected as member of the Progressive Conservative of Canada, which was a pretty big deal. He also served as a observer under the United Nations Between 1976-1978. Alexander also was a minister of labour, when Joe Clark was prime minister in 1979-1980. He resigned his seat in 1980 to serve as chairman of the Worker's Compensation Board. Lincoln the became the 24th Lieutenant Governer of Ontario. When he left office in 1991, he was awarded the "Order of Ontario," and the "Order of Canada." MacCauley was then named chairman of Canadian Race Relations Foundation in 2000. He is still a spokesman for them, as well as the Honorary Patron of Hamilton and also the Honorary Chief of the Hamilton police. In just 1 life, this man accomplished so many things that some people would take them at least probably 2 lives to do and yes, I am talking about myself.

Assignment #5 It's really cold

The first settlers arrived here in 1500's to seek a better life. The situation in Europe wasn't the best, as jobs were sinking away after the increasing population. Some people were dieing on the streets because they couldn't find any work and produce enough money to buy food for themselves. So, many people decided to move to North America to seek a better life for themselves and their siblings dispite the harsh cold they knew they would have to endure.Not even the boat ride that took them to America was pleasant. It would take them over three months to get there, and it was usually very dangerous due to storms and diseases such as scurvy; a deadly sickness caused by lack of vitamin C. Most of the fortunate settlers were able to arrive to Canada and quickly build houses in the summer. But still, the winter was still very harsh for them. At first, many settlers decided just to give up and head back to their country but the ones that stayed were usually prepared. They survived on the food they had stored during the summer harvest, and had made homemade candles to last them the entire winter. They had cut plenty of firewood to keep them warm, but eventually though, they would have to go outside. And they were ready for it. By befriending their Aboriginal allies, they were taught how hunt and trap, and make fur coats out of beaver skins or skin of some other animal. They were taught how to survive basically and eventually got used to the winter.

I didn't really visit any web-sites because during term 1 at school, we had already learned everything in history class to answer assignment #5. So ya, I didn't really learn facts or points.

My family first came here about 16 years ago, when my mom had my brother before I was even born. At first my family was completely caught off guard by the cold weather, and they didn't even go outside in the winter unless they had to and when they did, they would dress up in 2 layers of huge winter jackets. Wow. As you know, China is a pretty warm country, and it doesn't even snow in the northern part of the country. So basically, some people who live there have never it before. Moving to canada was a big change, because my mom and dad were used to warm weather. Eventually, we got used to the cold climate but nowadays, it's beggining to feel colder than ever.

Assignment #4 : Linking back to your peers

In this assignment, I went to James' blog to see his entry on what it would be like in 2109. He basically wrote the same thing as I did, but his talked about "space travel and astronomy". He also mentioned that human beings would all have all ready advanced so far in technology, that the human race would have already found another "habitable planet" such as mars, for example. Constructively, I found this quite naive at because Canada and the United States have entered recession, and it would take a few years to recover. Also, Earth's fossil fuels and oil are running out, so even if we would be able to advance in technology, what substance would we use to power our spaceships or cars? Even with solar powered engines we would be stranded when it would become dark outside. Overall, I did like his entry because he used strong vocabulary and paragraphs in the right places and good details to support his facts and topic sentences.

Assignment #3 : What will it be like in 2109?

In 2109, I think that the world will be at a near end. Governments will have collapsed and poverty would be outstanding. I think this because the United States and Canada have both entered recession, and estimates claim that it could last for a couple more years. By then, the jobs losses would reduce the majority of the country's population to beggary, and the municipal governments would be bankrupt. Global warming would have melted the northern and southern icecaps, therefore causing an extreme amount of flooding as well as intense heat, resulting in a huge number of deaths and casualties. Earth would be like a stove, and there would be no more winter or cold climate whatsoever. All of my observations are based on the current situation in Canada, like the economic crisis and Global warming and the little effort put in to stop these factors. Although, Barrack Obama, the new president of the United States says that he has a ready economic plan to move his country out of recession, trillions of dollars will be needed to put the plan into action. Let's just hope it works.

Welcome

Hello, my name is Dillon. I am in grade 7, live in Ottawa, Canada and will be learning and writing about Canadian History. Feel free to comment and I hope you enjoy yourself. I think having a blog is pretty cool and now that I have one, I don't have to read from a random textbook :) and it is pretty exciting doing assignments on a computer for a change. Another thing is that my teacher also has her own blogspot, and it's way better than mine so you should check it out while your at it.