Wondrous ideas. Smart inventions. Creativity at its work has gotten society to where they are now, with all the technology and other necessities to help us in life.

The invention of the insulin was noticed from sugar in a dog urine and which had made the doctors notice the relationship between diabetes and the pancreas. This insulin has helped and will continue to support people dealing with diabetes.

The iPhone has come very far in the making from the first version to the iPhone 5, they've made thinner, longer, better magnification, better processors and even more stuff has been added. Plus it has been more entertaining for users. NO more BOREDOM!

The invention of the light bulb which has seriously developed a lot in the years. without this we would have light in our house or rooms or schools. Our lives would be dreadful because daylight doesn't last long in the winter,  so thank you Thomas Edison.

The telephone, allowing people to gossip without being in person. uhh YES! But its also allowing people to talk to people in far away countries and also gossiping there to. From the first telephone to now is a huge difference. Now we have cellphones and cordless home phones which lets us multi task.

Cars! Transporting people to where they need to be without walking. All the lazy people you should be thanking Mr. Karl Benz. But not only for lazy people, for travelers too.  Now this is one invention I've seen change a lot since the first car to the 1980s cars to now 2013 cars.

And lastly the invention of...........wait for it.......THE INTERNET! WOOO HOO! The tool that's either a touch of smartphone or clicks of a mouse.  The one thing with about anything you need to know just search it up. So much information who needs to spend the trip down to the library. Plus it keeps up with the latest news and has access to TV shows as well. Plus we can get it just about anywhere where wi-fi is . That's why we all look stupid trying to get reach signals and get bars on our phones/iPods etc.

There are so many other inventions that make  our everyday life better, these are just the ones off the top of my head. Inventions DEFINITELY FOR OUR BETTER.

Politics. As soon as that word is said people start to get competitive and complicated.
I, for one hate politics because one it's really complicated and stressful. My opinion no matter what the leader does, some people are always unhappy, there's no way to make everyone happy at once.

Like for our simulated country call Zugzwang in Civic mirror and we elections, debate, and campaigns. We basically have to a country within our class. Its hard work, because their are hard questions to answer for our debate especially when Kemp asks his questions. Then we have an election.

Honestly, if politics is this confusing in a simulated country, than I don't want to get involved in Canada's. We all can't be happy at once. From my experience we all get competitive when we talk about it.

We can all say that we can do a better job, but its actually not an easy job. You have to run a whole country, so I understand how that's a hard job really is. Trying to help everyone at once, when they all have different goals in life. At least its better than no one help the country at all.

Wow, everyone did an amazing job, and went above the expectations! Coming up with creative topics to talk about amazing. Very descriptive, and nice uses of personification. The stories that were developed and told in such ways which we could all find some relation maybe in ourselves or in others. Three poems that really stuck out to me were was Kim's: She, Nathans, and Nasir and Tyler's.
Kim's poem title she was very descriptive and told a story of a girl whose broken, lost all of what she had. Super interesting. The way it was presented with so much power in her voice, to emphasis the poem making it have a strong effect.
Nathan's poem is also very good because it gives a scenario  about a girl who gets blamed for her parents split up and his general idea was basically watch what you say because when you do, it effects that person more than it may seem. He added some personal feeling to it which made it more deep.
Finally the last poem I that really stuck out to me was Nasir and Tyler's their poem was very interesting with an action story. Well told, well written and great use of vocabulary all made it seem to somehow drag me in and want to listen for more.
All in all, everyone's poems were well done, passing the expectations I had. So lets just say they showed how it's done. GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!

In Zugzwang, we had elected our new PM and a new house of commons. And this year went by fast. But I had gotten food for my family, power for my house and had no deaths. YES!

Boy, did we have a lot of court cases, and I'm starting to realize how hard it is to actually run a country you have to actually focus on everyone's needs and providing for everyone which as I had seen very hard and confusing. Also I had witness what courts like. I'm guessing making connections is a huge part of this simulated country for students to get a feel of what the country does for its citizens.

At town hall because we had the new house of commons we had to discuss how it was going so far and its going pretty bad consider the PM's party had not voted for the dictatorship. Plus I don't think our current PM is doing a good job because it seems as if one of his party members are taking over and making all the laws more than the PM himself.

Looking forward for a better year and getting