Blog Assiment # 9

Warm Up-I wrote my featured story about Disney World. I wrote about and chose this place because it is a fun place to talk about. It is also a fun place to go to. I had fun when I went to Disney. We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. We had Breakfast with Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck and Goofey.


People
Milton Snavely Hershy
According to www.worldbook.com, Hershey was born on Sept. 13, 1857, in Derry Church, Pennsylvania. He became a confectioner's apprentice in nearby Lancaster at age 15. After several failures, he founded his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Company, in 1886. He created the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1894 to make chocolate coatings for his caramels. He soon perfected a formula for milk chocolate and, in 1900, the company began selling the "Hershey bar." Also in 1900, he sold his caramel company for $1 million.




Sports and Hobbies
karati
Accordig to www.worldbook.com, Karate is a form of combat in which a person kicks or strikes with the hands, elbows, knees, or feet. Karate is one of several Asian forms of unarmed combat called martial arts. The Japanese word karate means empty hand. Many men and women learn karate for self-defense.There are four major types of karate Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Okinawan. All use the same basic techniques, but each stresses certain skills and movement


Places
Amusement parks
According to www.worldbook.com, Amusement parks developed in the United States in the late 1800's. One of the earliest types was the trolley park. Railways built these at the end of their lines to encourage the weekend use of trolleys. The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, stimulated the development of the amusement park. The first important park opened in the late 1800's at Coney Island, a beach resort in Brooklyn, New York. They are also used for poples ammusement.


Arts
Drawings
 According to www.worldbook.com, Animation is a way of making motion pictures. In animated films, drawings or objects seem to move.The simplest kind of animation is a flipbook. For example, a flipbook may have pictures of a character jumping. Each picture shows the character in a slightly different position. The pictures are stacked up in order. When the pages are flipped, the character seems to jump.