Asian gunpowder

China invented one of the most powerful things in the world. Gunpowder. Gunpowder is highly explosive, and it has many uses. Some of these are: fireworks, bullets, firecrackers, tank shells, grenades and many more things. Most of these uses are military uses because it has explosive properties which can be used to launch something, such as a tank shell or a bullet, or can be used as an explosive such as a grenade. Gunpowder has helped the rise and fall of many countries and minorities. Among these are native americans and the early Mexican residents, such as incas, and many other tribes. Gunpowder has been used to wage wars, and to win them. No printing press has ever won a war. I do not think that when the printing press was made, Genghis Khan loading up printing presses and shooting them out of catapults. And for some reason, I don't think that Napolean rode down a mountain on a printing press waiving his sword in the air. Gun powder has influenced us whether we like it or not. We have created more efficient ways of killing people with gunpowder, and we use that against our enemies. If, in the future, zombies rise out of their graves, then i guess that we could make little printing guns that shoot out bibles at them to kill them, but i kind of doubt that this will happen.

The Crusades

The crusades were one of the most important things that has ever happened. This was one of the largest, if not the largest, wars during the dark ages. The king gave a rallying speech to the Franks, and said that anyone who fought would go to heaven. Guess how many people fought. A lot of christian soldiers went to the holy land to reclaim "their" land from the muslims. this single act was HUGE in the developing of the world.

Grendal

I thought that grendal was a cross between Clover from Cloverfield, and the cave troll from Lord of the Rings. These are pictures of each monster, you can imagine what I think that Grendal looks like. the thing is the description in the book cannot be correct, because it said that Grendal could carry thirty men, yet only big enough that Beowulf could wrestle with him. either he could balance all thirty on top of him, or he must be alot bigger than described.

Politics

Politics today are out of control. I think that both candidates are poor choices for presidents, and i think that McCain is the lesser of the two evils. I took a very long (50 question) quiz, and I had 96.63 percent the same views with John McCain. I also thought that the rejection of the bailout plan was one of the worst decisions that this country has ever made. The reason being that we could have mended almost all of the damage that was caused. The problem of the falling economy hit home this past week with the fall of the Lehman Brothers, because the three other investment banking buisinesses were converted into different things, and now investment banking doesn't exist, which was what my brother was going to do as a career, and now his entire future just crumbled. The problem is that we are not educated enough to make the right choices to be able to avoid this recession, and to get our country debt free. We need smarter people in the oval office, and in the cabinet, and the legislature, and in all the branches of government. We need smarter people!!