Both wagons and cars are a form of transportation. They each have wheels. A car’s wheels are made of rubber. A wagon's wheels are made of wood. They both move. A wagon is powered by horses. A car is powered by an engine which runs on gas. A car is made of metal and a wagon is made of wood. Wagons and cars both carry things. As you can tell, wagons and cars are very different vehicles.
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The Little House on the Prairie book and the movie are very much alike and also very different. Both the movie and book have almost the same characters. Ma and Pa are the same, as are Laura, Mary, the Indians, Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Mr. Edwards. In the book there is a baby named Baby Carrie. However, she is not in the movie.
The dog is a point of difference because the one in the book is a small Bulldog and the one in the movie is a big Shepard. Also, in the book, Pa hits Jack the dog but he doesn’t hit him in the movie. Lastly, the movie looks like it takes place in a different time than the book takes place. Cars and wagons are a little bit different and the same. They both move. They both have wheels. A wagon’s wheels are metal and wood, and a car’s wheels are metal and rubber. A car uses gas and a motor to move. A wagon uses hoses to help move. The wagon is wood. A car is metal. They both have a roof. However, a wagon’s roof is canvas and a car’s is metal. They both have a trunk to store things. Would you want to sit in a covered wagon?
Cars and covered wagons are both vehicles. Both of them can move. They are each covered. A wagon is made of wood and covered with a canvas cloth. A car is covered with a metal roof and glass windows. They both have wheels. However, a covered wagon’s wheels are made from wood and a car’s wheels are made of rubber. These both have front seats. Cars have engines and lights. Wagons have horses instead of engines and no lights. Which of the vehicles would you want to drive?
A one room school house and Friends Academy are both types of schools. FA and Hornbine School each have a flag pole. FA has bathrooms inside and Hornbine School has a privy and the privy is outside. Hornbine School has one room and FA has 23 rooms but at least they both have rooms. At FA, we each have our own desks that can move around. At Hornbine, some desks were together and some were apart. All desks and chairs were built into the floor. There are 30 kid in the one room school and FA a has about 274 kids. Would you want to go to Hornbine School for school?
Have you ever wondered who said, “I think the way become the best is to just have fun.” It is Shaun White!!!! Shaun White was born September 3, 1986, in San Diego, California. When Shaun was very little he had heart surgery and his mom couldn’t even hold him. Shaun’s goal wasn’t always Shaun’s goal. At first Shaun just wanted to snowboard. Did you know when he started he was too young to take lessons so his dad taught him? When he was seven he won his first snowboarding contest. Shaun ended up in the Olympics by practicing and entering more and more snowboarding contests. He won his first Olympic medal in Vancouver, Canada 2010. Ten years earlier he got in the Winter X games and he won 6th place for snowboarding. He also won several medals in the Summer X games for skateboarding. Did you ever wonder what Shakira’s last name is? It is Ripoll. Shakira was born on February 2, 1977. She is from Barranquilla, Colombia. When Shakira was three she was belly dancing. She got this talent from her dad because he was from Lebanon where belly dancing is popular. Shakira was teased because she was short. Her original dream was to be a model. When she was thirteen she went to Bogotá (the capital of Colombia) to see if she could become a model. When she was there, a family friend brought her to Sony record studio and they signed her as a singer. Shakira wanted to make an album in English just like Enrique Iglesias. MTV had Shakira do a show but it was all in Spanish. So when it was on the air, MTV did not show it. They did put in on a CD so people could listen to it, and a lot of people bought it. Shakira won a Grammy. But, she still wanted to write, speak, and sing in English. Shakira did not want people to write songs for her because she wanted to write her own songs. She achieved her dream and eventually became a coach on the hit TV show “The Voice”. You may know that Walt Disney in vented Mickey Mouse and Pluto the dog. But did you know that his wife created Minnie Mouse? Walt Disney's birthday is December 5, 1901. He was born in Illinois. When Walt was a kid he used tar to pant pictures on his house. His dad was very angry. His teacher also got mad because when he was asked to draw some flowers, he drew faces on them. When he was done with school he worked at a jelly factory that his dad owned. He did not want to go work there because he wanted to draw characters. Walt also was Dyslexic, too. This might be why he was so good at drawing. Walt’s new job after the jelly factory was drawing catalogs ads for farm tools. He met a guy named Ubbe Iwerks. They made animated films and they started a company called Laugh O Gram. Walt sold films, but people could not pay him back. Walt had no money and slept in his office. He had to take baths at a railroad station once a week. Walt went to Hollywood and met his brother there. Together they made a company called Disney Brothers Studio and Walt’s dream was finally happening. Who is a person that wears a lot of wigs and has a lot of famous songs? It’s Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. You know her as Katy Perry. She was born on October 25,1984. She was born in Santa Barbara, California. Katy’s parents were very strict. They wouldn’t let her watch TV or movies. She could only read the Bible. When she was in ninth grade she went to a public school. Her friends interested her in pop music. She snuck pop music in her room under a blanket so her parents didn’t know. Her dream was to be a big star. Katy started singing at her parents’ church. The album she first released was religious rock. She learned to dance, play guitar and sing at an early age. She was signed when she was 15. Her mom helped her by taking her to Nashville, Tennessee. There, she got signed by Red Hill, a Christian music label. When she was seventeen she changed her name because she didn’t want to be confused with the actress Kate Hudson. She picked Perry for her last name because that had been her mom’s last name. Sadly, Katy’s parents are not happy with her song choices. Ever wonder why some one would be such a daredevil? Edmund Hillary was. He was born on July 20, 1919. He was from Auckland New Zealand. He died on January 11, 2008 Hillary’s dream was to be the first to climb Mount Everest. Mount Everest is in Asia in the country of Nepal. Whatever oxygen is on the ground there is a third of it on Mount Everest. It is 29,028 feet. It is 40 degrees below zero in the summer. There are avalanches where pieces of snow rock or ice slide fast and kill people when they don’t expect it. Recently, an avalanche killed 13 people. Hillary was originally a beekeeper and his hobby was climbing. Hillary practiced climbing Mount Ruapehu and the Himalayas. The first time he tried to climb Mount Everest he got 19,000 feet. In 1953 he reached the top of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay. Norgay was a Sherpa, which means he knows the mountains really well. Due to this success, Hillary was declared night by the queen of England. |
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