Randomness

Hello everyone who reads or follows my blog(Sarah)...I am simply uploading this because i felt the sudden urge to do so. It is the weekend after thanksgiving and i wish the holiday could go on forever. I love turkey and stuffing and food in general. It is the one time of year where you can eat your wait in whatever you can get your hands on and nobody will think poorly of you. I just recently got a haircut, so that means that my blog profile picture is no longer accurate. Looking forward to Christmas and hopefully there will be lots of snow. I want so much snow that you cant even walk down the street without drowning...have a nice day.

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Calvin Coolidge

            Calvin Coolidge was our 30^th president of the US. Calvin was born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. Plymouth was a community of farmers who were very self-sufficient. Plymouth was small and simple, Calvin thought of it as a clean place to live. He was the son of a village storekeeper/farmer. Being the son of a farmer, Calvin quickly learned how to do outdoor chores to help keep the farm up and running. Coolidge valued what school time he received. He graduated Amherst College with full honors. He entered politics and law in Northampton, Massachusetts, and as many other politicians he began to move up the official ladder, starting as a councilman then moved up to governor of Massachusetts. Calvin was known as a man of his word, an honest man with good morals. When he attended the Black River Academy at the age of 13, he had to walk miles home every day after class was over. He was most popular in 1924; his campaign was known as “Coolidge prosperity”.

 He went from the Black River Academy to Amherst College, then to move to Massachusetts to become the governor. Calvin had a lot of coaching by his father on how to become successful in life. Calvin was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Republican club. In 1905 Calvin met and married a woman by the name of Grace Anna Goodhue who was a teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf. They were married on October 4, 1905, in Grace’s parents’ house in Burlington, Vermont. They had two sons together, John who was born in 1906 and Calvin Jr. in 1908. As Coolidge wrote in one of his Autobiographies “I thought we were made for each other”. While Calvin was the governor of Massachusetts, he faced a strike by the police of the city of Boston. He stood firm and said that you would never have the right to strike against public safety for any reason. Around 1897 he then opened a law office and began participating in local republican politics in Northampton.

Calvin soon became the governor of Massachusetts; it was a narrow victory over democrat Richard H. Long. He quickly won the attention of the nation when he called upon the National Guard to break a strike by Boston city police. He supported a cost-of-living pay increase for public employees, Limited the workweek for women and children to 48 hours, and placed outdoor advertisement limits. Many think that his most important feat was reconstructing and consolidating the state government. On his way to the white house, he went to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois but he only got 34 votes on the first ballot. When Coolidge’s name was entered into nomination, a flood of delegates put him right on the ticket.

Although many people liked Calvin, the great depression that started in 1929 damaged his reputation and how he appeared in the public spotlight. Most of the public linked the economic downfall of the U.S. to policies made by Calvin. Coolidge’s foreign policy was also up for questioning, because it became clear that his signature achievements were the Dawes plan and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.         

Thanksgiving

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Math & Other School Subjects

               I have a difficult time paying attention in math class because i just don't know how i will apply the skills that i learn in that class to real life situations. I can understand learning simple math like addition, subtraction, division, and finding the perimeter of things. That stuff could be useful in many situations. As for other things like Pythagorean theorem are just a complete waste of time.
               As a very wise man once said "that stuff is only useful if you are going to be a math teacher". You have to see where i am coming from, i mean would you want to sit through an hour and a half of a subject that you knew that you would never use again? Pythagorean theorem is not the only thing that i can think of as being unimportant, it was just the first thing that came to mind. I think it is just sad that everyone in today's education system has to learn the same things.

Christmas Ski Trip?

I am so excited. Hopefully i will be able to stay on my feet.

Track 2011

So...the new track season is coming up, and i just got back from my sports physical and it went very well. I hope i have improved as an athlete, (last year i wasn't the fastest) i still do my best. I cant wait for the up coming season. Anyone who views this article has either been on a track team before and knows what its like or just likes reading random posts by me. Either way i thank you, any followers and views are helpful. I am going to start to upload COD videos on my YouTube channel, and also some air rifle scope reviews and maybe some air soft. I will leave the link to my channel below...

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Snowshoe 2011

I can't wait to go to snowshoe. Hopefully i will be able to make it down the slope without falling, should be fun. I will take lots of pictures and maybe some vids.