Spanish

Bull Fighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain. The tradition, as it is practiced today, involves professional toreros who perform many traditional moves to take down the bull. I chose this subject for many reasons. The main reason is that I love animals. Also I love violence so I thought bullfighting would be the perfect subject for me. I even just wanted to learn more about it in full detail because my whole life I have always been skimming through my life and now I want to go into the subject in full detail.

The bullfighting performance includes many maneuvers. Such maneuvers are performed at close range, and have in some cases resulted in injury or even death of the performer. This appealed to me because the toreros have to have great pride and bravery to perform this daring part of there culture. The toreros take a great risk to perform in this sport .Bullfighting was originally a sport for the aristocracy and took place on horseback.
The two most famous toreros are the Ordenez brothers also known as the bloodbrothers

Final Post

8th grade earth science was a great class full of many memories both good and bad. Throughout this class I learned many great things in many subjects such as: Astronomy, Weather and Climate, Geology, Weathering and Erosion, and Earth's Waters. These leanings include great things.

Astronomy
Astronomy was one of my favorite subjects this year. Every time I learn about astronomy it just gets me so interested. Just think about it a human going up into space a place that everyone wishes they could go some day. My favorite part about astronomy is learning about space exploration. This includes rockets, planets, and many other things.


Weather and Climate
My favorite part of this subject was learning about the layers of the earths atmosphere. I never knew there where layers of the atmosphere I only thought it was one thing. So I was surprised but also interested when I found out. Also I learned that certain layers contain certain things.




Geology
Geology was one of the boring subjects in this class but one interesting thing about it is learning about fossils. Even though we only learned about this for a little I thought it was very interesting. If you have seen the movie Jurassic Park and how they created dinosaurs using fossils then it keeps you thinking what we could do with fossils.

Weathering and Erosion
Weathering and climate was a very interesting subject. It is weird thinking that the Earth and all the rocks on it where once all very different. For example mountain tops used to look very different than they do now and they will keep changing as long as the earth still exists.




Earth's Waters
This was are most recent subject so it is the freshest in my mind. My favorite part about this subject was learning about wells and aquifer and the relations between the two. I thought the artisan well was just so cool how it exploded without a pump because of all the pressure build up. I also love how then can be exploding all the time or just some times. Wells are very important to some people because they rely on wells as there main water source.



This year of 8th grade science was a great year until the end when I made a very stupid mistake. This mistake was me copy and pasting someone else work and calling it my own which I regret very much. When I made this mistake I lost every ones trust around me which I have been trying to build up for a long time. I'm Cole Jones and this is my last blog post to end such a great year.

Water cycle

The water cycle is the continuous process in which water moves through the environment. The sun is the source of energy that drives the water cycle. the water cycle has no beginning or end. In the water cycle water evaporates from a water source then the precipitation builds up in clouds and when it gets to heavy the clouds release the precipitation in the form of snow, rain, and hail. Then the precipitation falls on the ground and creates runoff and ground water. Now the cycle repeats

Solar Power Comic

Annotated Bibliography

Solar development
http://www.solardev.com/SEIA-sunshinehomes.php
- I found a lot out at this website but the main thing I found here was how solar energy can be used in homes. This site is very good for finding this out because it had a lot of detail in each way Solar energy could be used in homes. I used this website in my presentation to tell ways how solar energy could be used in homes. I found out the info at this site was very helpful to my presentation

Solar Power
http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_solar.html
-I found a lot at this website about how solar panels worked but i only used a little of the information i found. I found that solar panels have to be big to collect rays from the sun because the suns rays are not very concentrated. I put this information in my presentation some information that did not put on my presentation but that I found was that the solar panels have to be very black in color to collect the suns rays. With this info i explained a little about solar panels in my presentation.

How Stuff Works
http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell1.htm
-At this website I also found how solar energy can be used in homes. For example at the other site it did not tell solar energy could be used heating pools. Also at this site they told a lot on how solar energy heats water. I used the the info on solar power heating water in my presentation.

Sun power
http://www.sunpowercorp.com/
-At this website I found out about passive solar energy and and active solar energy and the difference between the two. I used this info on my third and final blog. This site was a great site to find this information. I recommend this site to everyone who wants to find this info.

Solar Power Group 13

Group 13 esential questions

1.What, specifically about your topic, are you going to research?.
How can solar energy be used in homes.

2.What conclusions did you come to? What do you recommend average citizens do to make a difference? Be specific. This is the main part of your assignment.
Solar energy is mostly used in homes right now. Some people install solar panels on there roof. The solar panels have to be large to collect energy from the sun because the sun does not shine a constant light on one place.You can live in city and have a solar home. Solar heat energy is often used for heating swimming pools, heating water used in homes, and space heating of buildings. Solar space heating systems can be classified as passive or active. Passive is when in buildings, the air is circulated past a solar heat surface and through the building by convection. No mechanical equipment is needed for passive solar heating. Active heating systems require a collector to absorb and collect solar radiation. Fans or pumps are used to circulate the heated air or heat absorbing fluid. Active systems often include some type of energy storage system.


3.What would happen if, worst-case scenario, nobody listened to your recommendations?
If we keep using coal and natural gas to heat and not solar power we will destroy are ozone.


4.What would happen if, best-case scenario, everybody listened to your recommendations?
We will not destroy the ozone and we will restore it and people will not will not have to pat a lot for energy.