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Google Timer Tech Tip

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Stopwatch source:  123RF The google timer is a great thing you can use at any time while on your computer. All you have to do is simply going to google and search timer and it will appear right under the search box. This timer can be used for many things but I think the best two things to use it for are for study breaks. Whenever you doing homework a really long time you can often get very distracted and the amount of work you do slows down. So this timer can be used to take a study break for a certain amount of time so you can go back to doing homework feeling refreshed.

week 4 story: The Favorite Child

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Michael Jordan in the air about to dunk Source:  Deviantart This is a story about a family with a dad name John and fours kids named Jack, Cody, Tanner, and Ryan. All the kids were around the same age with the ages ranging from 12 to 15 years old with Ryan being the oldest and jack being the youngest. In this group of brother the clear favorite to the father was Ryan. Ryan always did everything right, didn't cause any trouble, and always helped out around the house if he could. The other three brothers all were jealous of Ryan and wanted their father to make them his favorite. So in order to make this happen the three kids formed together and tried to set traps for Ryan to make him get in trouble making him not eh favorite anymore to his father. The first trap that the three kids set was by throwing away Ryan's paper to get him in trouble with school thus making their father very disappointed with Ryan. So the three kids went into Ryan's room, stole his essay that he j...

reading notes: Saints and Animals, Part A

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Robin Source:  Wikipedia For this week's reading I am reading The book of Saints and Friendly Beast by Abbie Farwell Brown. This book is actually filled with separate stories of different saints and animal experiences and for this first reading I am reading 4 of them. The first story, Saint Kentigern and the Robin, is about some young children being jealous of Saint Kentigern at school because he is perfect in every way and is the the shool leader , Saint Servan, favorite pupil. So to try to get Saint Servan to not admire Saint Kentigern so much the other kids set traps for Kentigern to make him look bad or get in trouble. Many of the kids traps failed so they went to the extreme to get Kentigern in trouble by killing Servans pet robin and blaming Kentigern. Servan was furious and believed the kids saying Kentigern did it but Servan proved himself innocent when he prayed to heal the bird if he was innocent and the bird came back to life. What I question in this story is why ...