V0CAB. WEEk SiX

This image shows embezzle because a collar shirt is appropriate at school.

This image shows a guy obviating the weed away

This dietary supplement bottle makes people emaciate a lot of weight.

This image shows an obsolete ipod from the 1950's that is not used anymore.

This image shows tenuous because the mac book air is really thin and skinny.

1. Embezzle (verb) - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use 2. Emaciate (verb) - to cause extreme weight loss and weakness
3. Obsolete (adjective) - old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable
4. Obviate (verb) - to anticipate and prevent or eliminate
5. Penchant (noun) - a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something
6. Paucity (noun) - smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
7. Sycophant (noun) - a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
8. Taut (adjective) - tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
9. Tenuous (adjective) - thin or slender in form, as a thread.
10. Tenacity (noun)- the quality or property of being tenacious.

WW 2 D0CUMENTARY PR0P0SAL

In the video I noticed that they never showed the narrator speaking or the person talking. They would show intead amazing war pictures or videos that would get your attention. I thought it wasnt that boring but it was. The video was really long but there was like 5 videoes in total. I saw how they dug holes in the ground to make trenches and to be secure from the war.

Vocab. Week 5

This image shows emancipation because lincoln is freeing a slave.

This image shows a soldier doing a strict duty.

This image shows like 4 bolsters on the couch.

1. lucidity - easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
2. fidelity - strict observance of promises, duties, etc.
3. countermand - to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.).
4. emancipation - freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

5. bolster - a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.

Amtrak to Beef up security

In Washington, Amtrak passengers will be subjected to random screening of their carry-on bags as part of a new security initiative that will include armed officers and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains, an Amtrak spokeswoman said Monday. In 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, killed 191 people. A series of bombings in London in 2005, most of them on subway trains, killed 52 people. And security experts have long pointed out the vulnerabilities associated with rail travel and the difficulty in securing trains. Amtrak plans to roll out the new "mobile security teams" on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, Massachusetts, its most heavily used route, before expanding them throughout the country.

My opinion for this article is that I think its a good idea that their being more strict with the security. Now that Amtrak will be safer and more secure for the people on the train.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/18/amtrak.security/index.html

Natoin's "Icebox" hits record 40 below 0

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind -- it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

I can already imagine all the people suffering of coldness. I wouldn't want to live in that kind of area that is really cold and I think I would've even survived. Many people could get sick and even not breath the cold air.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/02/11/minnesota.cold.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Vocab. Week 3

This cute little kid is showing sanguine because he is optimistic and happy.











This image shows renovate because the guy is repairing his house.

This image shows eloquence because the stick guy with the striped shirt is persuading the other stick guy to raise his hand.

This image shows austere because the teacher is being strict to the students so they can stop bullying.

The San Diego Fire is dessiminating through the forest very quickly.

1.Disseminate (v) - to scatter or spread widely
2.Eloquence (n) - the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness; persuasivness
3.Austere (adj) - severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
4.Sanguine – consisting of or relating to blood; optimistic, confident
5.Renovate - restore to good condition; to repair

3 killed after Super Bowl argument

In Largo, Maryland three men were killed by a gun man after after an argument broke out in an resturant while the super bowl was being shown on television. The shooting happened SUnday night at the UNO Chicago Grill resturant. Two of the men were shot in the restaurant and the third guy was shot at the parking lot.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/04/super.bowl.shooting.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview