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I chose to write about the Red State blog, and the post that I chose talked about the differences between Democrats and Republicans during the 1992 elections, when Clinton went against George H.W. Bush, Clinton mentioned the problems of getting a fair revenue from people making over $200k a year, and also how the capitalist system needed to become more balanced and equal. While Bush Sr. talked more about how America is the best country in the world and how we can “toot” our horn over just that simple fact. It doesn’t seem right to me to ignore stating the problems of the country, sometimes we have to admit our faults, because once we stop being so arrogant, we can see our problems better and fix them.

Clyde Tombaugh was born on Feb. 4, 1906 on a farm near Streator, Illinois. Clyde Tombaugh was the man who discovered the elusive former planet Pluto, when he was just 24 years old using a photographic telescope from the 1930’s. He compared the feat of finding Pluto to “finding a needle in a haystack.” Now just recently the International Astronomical Union voted on a new definition of a planet, and Pluto did not make the cut, and is now considered a dwarf planet along with Ceres and the newly discovered 2003 UB313.

I looked up a blog about Japanese culture, that focused on Shinto-Buddhism, the url is http://www.nihonbunka.com/shinto/blog, It shows a lot of differences from our western culture, the concept of post-death judgement is not as strong in Japan as it is over here in the western world.

I learned that after death, according to Shinto Buddhism, people are judged not at the gates of heaven, but at the gates of hell. “Enma-sama,” (translated as Mister Enma), is the one who judges the people. As soon as a person dies they go to be judged, and have there tongue taken away, to prevent them from trying to justify the wrongs that they have done. After being judged, Enma-sama will choose which of the six paths a dead person will take, some people go straight to hell, some are born again starving, some are born again as an animal, some are born into war, some are born again as a human, and lastly, some are born again in heaven. It differs from Christian ways of thinking a lot, I was taught that there was either heaven or hell, and that you dont get a second chance at things.

For assignment 4 I looked up the word nick name at answers.com, and it is written as nick name, and is a descriptive name added to or replacing the proper name of a person, place, or thing.
http://www.answers.com/nicknames is the url for the site where I found out the definition

I have a nick name, but it is only used at my martial arts school, it is Mr. President, that name was given to me at a very young age when I first started to take martial arts, because of my intellect and my ability to learn in any way, they said that I was smarter than the President of the time and it also goes well with my real name.

A blog is a frequent reverse chronological posting of personal thoughts ideas or interest usually involving links to the web a blog is not for social gathering or to meet friends, even though some people may end up finding friends due to the sharing of deep personal thoughts and feelings, a blog is also posted in reverse chronological order, for all of us “English” speaking people, that means to find an older post you have to scroll down farther, while the newer post are more easily accessible. The blog that I choose to visit frequently is located at this url http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/
I chose this blog because astronomy is a subject that I cannot become bored of no matter what part of astronomy is being discussed, also because astronomy is so mysterious, and we know so little, so there is still much to learn in that particular field, as Carl Sagan said in his book Cosmos, we are standing on a beach in front of the vast ocean which is the universe, and we have barely got our toes wet.

Of the blogs that I looked up for this particular assignment, the one that interested me the most is located at this url
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/category/extra-points/.

I like this blog the most because I am a big fan of football having been a football player myself, and also I like how deep the look at all 32 NFL teams with an unbiased point of view,(fancy word isn’t it oooo la la)

I also like the fact that the blog isn’t done by just one person I, there are about five different bloggers who have done post at the site,(there goes that word again “bloggers”), which lets you know that it isn’t just one pinhead rattling is keyboard about his/her point of view the entire time unlike this blog where you guys are stuck with reading the post that I put there. Hahahahahahaha

Now about the other part of the assignment, I didn’t really find a blog on the subject that I disliked so I looked for a blog on a subject that isn’t so exciting to me, psychology.
The url for this blog is http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/category/general/
Now dont get me wrong, I do like psychology, in fact I like just about anything besides wet socks, but I just didn’t get excited about reading on a subject such as that one, Its just that the blog wasn’t really fun to look at so I didn’t like it

• WEEK 1: ASSIGNMENT #1:

1) Take some time to read this brief article (click on the purple words and it will open the article in a new window) about blogging for beginners. What you’re looking at is a blog about blogging by Darren Rowse. Click on some of the links. Read some of the responses by readers. (Just as you are able to comment on my posts here at MaxLighthouse.)

 

2) Write three things about blogging you learned at this site that you did not know.

The first of three things that i didn’t know is what a blog actually was I had only heard the word a couple of times and thought it was just some stupid geek thing on the net.

And when I actually found out what it was I thought it was just a journal of personal experiences I didn’t know that it could be about anything at all

Then after I found out that information I learned just how communicative,(if that is a word at all), a blog can be in getting  point across to another person and also how connected bloggers are with each other, ( see I used another word that I thought didn’t exist,”blogger”).