Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Dr. Jack Kevorkian is an American pathologist and a right-to-die activist. He helped in assisting over 130 people who killed themselves, because he believes dying is not a crime. After these people died, he was sentenced to jail time for second degree murder. I think he is a murderer because only God should be able to decide when you are meant to die. He should not be playing God.

Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project was a research project with the plan to find the sequence of chemical base pairs that make up dna that is in a human's body. Another goal of this project was to map the genes of the human genome. The project was completed in 2000 by the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group. But the project originally began in 1990, and was started by James D. Watson at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

1980's map

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You Gotta See This!

My Mom's Top 5 Movies of the 1980's

1. Big
2. ET
3. Fatal Attraction
4. The Breakfast Club
5. Back to the Future

I couldn't get this video to download onto my blog, but here is the youtube link to the scene in The Breakfast Club, when they are dancing in the library.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgAaqmqemJQ&feature=related

A picture is worth 1,000 words

In this picture, Neil Armstrong is the first man to ever set foot on the moon. He was apart of the Apollo 11 launch, which took place on July 16, 1969. He went to the moon along with two other men, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. The president of the Unites States at the time of this landing was Richard Nixon. But this overall mission completed John F. Kennedey's goal of going to the moon by the end of the 1960's.

Rushmore

These are the people that I would choose for my Mount Rushmore.


~John F. Kennedy
-Although Mr. Kennedy didn't get to be president for a full term, he was a very good president. He started the Peace Corps, which helped assist developing countries. Also, he was successful in removing the missiles from Cuba. Another key aspect was that he was a very well-liked president, and the majority of America supported the decisions that he made.

~Martin Luther King Jr.
-He was a brave leader who supported the use of nonviolence. He lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and was the main leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. But most important, he helped many African Americans all over the United States, gain the rights that they deserve.

~Jackie Robinson
-I would choose Jackie Robinson as an unsung hero. He was the first professional African American baseball player. The team that he played for was the Dodgers. Although I've heard his name before, I've never realized what an accomplishment that he made by being in the major leagues of baseball.

~Bob Dylan
-He was a famous song writer, whose songs reflected events from the 1960s. An example of his music would be "Times they are a Changin," which became a theme song for the civil rights movements. Some of his music was used to for anti-war purposes. Overall, his music helped summarize many famous events in our countries history.

A single bullet?

Dale Meyers explains in the video that he believes the second shot hit Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson. First, the bullet hit the president and travels through his back and out his throat. Then it continues to travel through the governor's chest. Mr. Meyers supports this theory by using the Zapruder film, and turned it into an exact computer simulation. He also says that after pausing the frames of the film, both of the men react at the same time. After watching the video i do not agree with Mr. Meyers. I think that both men were hit by more than one bullet. I also think that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only shooter and that he probably planned it with a group of people, and did not act alone.