Malaria Bites!

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by protozan parasites, the disease is transmitted through, Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria is most often found in third world countries in Africa, South America and South Asia. Malaria is so common in these parts of the world due to lack of protection from the disease. Malaria is one of the easiest diseases to prevent if done right. The only requirments for preventing malaria are thin nets over beds and food supply. Although there is no vaccine, bug spray is also a way to keep the mosquitoes off and not get the disease. Malaria infects about 515 million people each year, although only 1 to 3 million of these people die each year. I think that malaria is something everyone can help, just last month, American Idol, had a 2 hour special in which people all around the world watched and donated money, about 76 million dollars were raised and this was given to protect all sorts of disease and etc. An exmaple of what the money went to was nets for preventing malaria. A link for more information about malaria is: http://www.malaria.org/

Work Cited: 1) "About Malaria." Malaria Foundation. 2005. Emory Student Nations. 6 June 2008 http://www.malaria.org/.
2) Davis, Charles, and William C. Shiel. "Malaria." MedicineNet. 14 Jan. 2008. 6 June 2008 .

Great and Evil Leader in History
Hitler
Castro
Spitzer
Washington
Fink
Cringle
Nixon
Cilton
Obama

These are some of the best and worst leaders of time. There is Hitler, Castro, Nixon, and Spitzer. Most of these ruelrs were unruly and did something to effect the world in a terrible way. Then there was Wastington, Obama and Cilton who helped our world. This is how good and bad our world is today. Such as Spitzer was doing illegal things

Cell Phone Novels

Now in Japan many new authors are writing their novels on there cell phone. 5 of the last 10 best selling novels were read on the cell phone. So it seems as if the pencial is obsoleat and the tumbs are taking a stand in the world of writing and books. A quote from this New York Times artcile is, "cellphone novelists are racking up the kind of sales that most more experienced, traditional novelists can only dream of." This can example how usually authors are losses the battle agaist cell phone novelist. A link for this is, Thumbs Race. Now books are being sold so you can read them on your cell phone which will cause a decrease in sales for actual books.

This can be a loss for authors and publisors. :(

Yahoo

Yahoo is a major search engine for music, information, pictures, and many other items. What made Yahoo popular was its e-mail software. A business plan which I think could help make yahoo a major website like google or facebook is having peopple able to interact with each other and able to have a profile and other personal information. Yahoo's business plan is going down the tubes now, since almost every major search engine has email now Yahoo is losing its edge. The New York Times arcticle stated that Yahoo's main reason for people using it was e-mail software. Now everyone has there own email and each is a different site supporting it, weather it is google, yahoo, aim, facebook, a school or anything else. But besides e-mail yahoo is a search engine for music and pictures. In November Yahoo got 96 million vistors which was more than any other website. So even with old e-mailing, Yahoo is still on top.

Now Facebook has people that can talk to others in a matter of minutes and have pictures of friends and other family members. Google has interviews, books, and papers which can help others with contacting certian things.

The creator of Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg is only in his 20's and is a billionaire. He created a website that allows people to interact with each other which is really helpful for information and just talking.

Yahoo is still good but it has its competition, so it will have to work for its glory.

Sources of Creativity

I like to be creativity when I am required to, such as homework assissments or writing a report. I like to write in a book with a pencil or on the computer with a keyboard. It doesn't come easily, you can't just turn creativity on and off you have to have ideas with lead to creavtivity. A website for this could be: Art Museum

2007

Since the past year has gone by quick and was a lot of fun. It was tough to create tables and charts in this uber fun class. So making links and putting pictures of your favorite muskrat on your petshop website is no easy tast, it requires much thinking, pondering and conteplaning of the sort to figure this odd situation out. Making sure that the color of the text and background was perfect and how many different codes there were. This uber fun class is no easy task, because it is not easy, hense a hard class.

Christmas is here!

Christmas is so close to being here. It is only 5 days away and I just can't wait. I hope to get all my presents and give some to my family and friends.