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Did alot of my presentation today, I need another two or three slides then i should be done. I'm kind of scared to present because I dont want to fail. But my confidence will grow and I will do fine I hope

Teehee

Done with just about everything, for my website all i need is rollover buttons...then i start my presentation

Web Page

Finished page 3 of my 5 page website, everything is done except the teacher edit and my website. I'll start putting together me presentation soon.

On TRACK!

Back on track, finished my interview. Doing my website. Organizing information so the powerpoint will be easy.

Interview

I emailed my interview questions to the German Embassy. I also made an index page to my website and all my buttons.

well well...

Been a few days since ive posted. But since then ive done my action plan, my paper, and I'm trying to go farther with my action plan and do a virtual tour with it. Maybe try and get google to publish it on their page =D

ohh yeah

Well i got in touch with the U.S. consulate for Germany in NYC yesterday and he forwarded me to two first class Lt.'s since it regards the military. I've since then emailed them and asked them if it was ok if I could send them questions for my grad project. I am now writing my paper and working on my action plan.

Attention!

Writing my paper, trying to set up an interview, working on my action plan, hoping everything will work out.

Bleh

I got the 2009 Baseline PDF file today, I read it and am pretty much done with my outline and have almost 2 paragraphs for my paper. I have an action plan and am planning some interview =D

THE LAST TIME!!!

I switched my question for the last time, im doing U.S. bases in Germany, then and now. Basically, im saying alot of the bases from Post WWII and Cold War were used for U.S. military. They did give alot of civilians jobs though, but since then nearly 150 have closed and been turned into something to benefit the civilians or local government.

Today...

today I met with Mr. Hamilton and found a government document I could read at the Oakland library. I also found a book that might be helpful but I'm not exactly sure yet. Over the weekend I am going to try to go to the north hills recruiting office for the army and see if he can direct me to someone I can interview.

FOCUS!

I am changing the focus of my project. The main question was US foreign military bases, are the necessary. This is a very broad subject that could go on forever. So I am switching to US Army bases in Europe, are they necessary. This isn't a drastic change seeing as a lot of my notes were about the US Army.

Ugh....

Well over the break I tried to keep in contact with the military and see if I can get information from them. I got stonewalled and got nothing from them, not even a reply. So I am going to take a different approach to get the information I need by trying to contact some of our government leaders. Right now I am feeling good about people I can interview because I have a Sargent and I want to get either a Cornell or a general as well.

Final Day

Today is the last day of the Trimester, I have done a lot over the past few weeks and I sent a letter and called the Department of Defense to try and get an interview with someone. Over break I'll update my blog with major things over break and until i have it again.

MILITARY!!!!!!!!

Well I haven't posted in a while. I've been reading some of the articles I found and have had no luck finding a book on this subject. I am still looking though.

Its been a while...

Its been a few days since I've posted...since then ive organized my foundation question with some notes, working on my thesis statement, and reading the DoD pdf file i found on the internet. I found out that ths U.S. currently has over 1000 bases overseas. And random bases keep popping up out of nowhere, they were kept secretive until some of them had problems or messed up.

Foundation Questions

After i switched topics i forgot to post these..
1. How many bases are around the world?
2. What are the bases used for?
3. How many other countries does the U.S. have bases in?
4. How much money is spent a year funding the military?
5. How much money is spent on foreign bases?
6. Where the most bases are stationed, overall?
7. Where are the most Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force bases?
8. What makes the bases in jeopardy?
9. How can we solve this?
10. How much money is spent on one base?
11. How much land does the U.S. have for bases?

Notes

I took some notes today to answer my foundation questions. Found a document from 2005 that was issued by DoD so I can compare/contrast the one i found friday as well.

BLAH BLAH

Today I organize most of my stuff, and I got a .pdf file off the internet. It was issued by the DoD (Department of Defense) that shows the different bases and the amount of land they take up. This will be very very useful.

Proposal

I finished my proposal yesterday, turned it in today. May have found an action plan but not 100% sure yet

Show n Tell

I finished a little show and tell project for Thursday and Friday. It's basic information about my topic and what I have learned/done so far. I put key statistics and my collage on this little PowerPoint.

Pre-Write

Today we worked on pre-writing and I started to finish annotations on my webliography.

Did you know...?

Did you know that when bush was in office, 50.5% of the U.S. budget was towards the U.S. Military

Did you know the U.S. has 761 bases in other countries around the world.

Did you know the U.S. has bases in 63 different countries around the world.

Did you know more than 2.5 million U.S. troops are serving in other countries

Did you know that since 9/11/01 brand new bases have been built in 7 different countries

Did you know the bases take up about 30 million acres of land. Both foreign and national.

Did you know there are 97,000 in Asia (excluding the Middle East and Central Asia)

Did you know there are 116,000 U.S. troops in Europe

Did you know the U.S. could save 12 Billion dollars by closing only 200 bases

Terms

Today I basically read over some of my sites and added more terms to my list.

Collage For project

We had to make a collage for our topic. I uploaded mine to photobucket and you can view it here.
Collage For Grad Project

New Question

So I asked my teacher to see her 10,000 project ideas book. I was looking through it and a project caught my eye. Why United States military bases around the world a re in jeopardy, do we still need them?

I've looked at some sites about it and this is my new question. That's if i can find a way to become involved in it.

Dont want this question

Not to sure if I still want to do that question. I don't believe there's a way I could research and test them accurately and neither of them have enough websites/resources that I can study.

Question

I believe today I found out which question I want to pursue my graduation project on. I'm currently an intern at Viz, a company that makes programs. A part of their program is about emergency response. My question is Which program would be better, CoMotion or the Pittsburgh current program.

I emailed a few executives to find out exactly which program they used and how to get it.

Grad Project Intro

• The grad project is one of the most important projects at City Charter High School. It shows what you have learned over the years and how you apply it. People who have done and presented their grad project told me that it wasn't as bad as everyone makes it seem. All you have to do is complete your work and finish the project.

• I want to do my project around Firefighting, or the Firefighter Union

• Presenting, I can get nervous and I turn red fast.