History and My Story

A few weeks ago Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, made a visit to the United States.  While in NYC, the Pope addressed the United Nations General Assembly.  He spoke in French and English in a half hour speech about human rights, social justice and globilization.  Remember religious leaders are often political leaders as well.  In the upcoming [...]

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Here is another article from The Patriot Ledger about Weymouth Public Schools.  See the blog comments below the article….do you agree with any of the commenters?

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In the next few days we will discussing the state of Russia today.  For years (since 1993 to be exact) Russia has been working to join the World Trade Organization.  I would like you to read the following article: Russia WTO Deal This Year, “Inshallah”  I would also like you to visit the WTO website’s [...]

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Here is more background on the Zabuli School from their website.  Perhaps our Team could sponsor a student?  Thoughts?

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By Monday you are to have read pages 604-612 and 638-641.  After much trial and error–I figured out how to get you all access to the book on-line.  For now log into http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com  and use my info: username=mbuell ~ password=history.  From there you can access the book, but you need to know the chapters and section [...]

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At this point, after visiting and commenting here it should be more obvious to you what the difference is between blogging and social networking on the internet.  However, for those skeptics still among us here is a post from Support Blogging that explains the difference quite well.  Questions?  Comments? Observations? 

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Remember a few months ago when I told you the story of the Christmas party Jeff and I went to that was a Duxbury Rotary Club fundraiser to build a girls’ school in a small town outside of Kabul?  We talked about the culture of Afghanistan and how most don’t see the need to educate [...]

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Check out the Spring 2008 edition of The Home Observer.  Do not ask why I was looking at an interior design mag—4 kids and interior design are not an easy to maintain combo–but since a girl can dream I flipped through the pages to see what was fashionable these days in home decor.  Well, apparently [...]

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Here is a link to the Patriot Ledger article that all of your teachers have been buzzing about.  It’s not the subject of the article that is surprising to us, but rather the comments that Weymouth residents have posted about the situation.
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