The Zoo

        In the USA, there is a huge and fabulous zoo. It's located at San Diego City and also known as San Diego Zoo. Live there 2 lions. One of them is an old lion, and the other one is still young.The young lion was so boastful so that he challenge the old lion to be a 'real' lion.
        "Lion ought not to behave like that" the young lion said to himself, so he roared at all of the visitors and tried to break the bars of the den.
        At three o'clock a man brought a big piece of meat and put it in the old lion's den. Then put a bag of nuts and two bananas in the young lion's den.
         The young lion was very surprised. "I don't understand this." he said to the old lion. "I behave like a real lion, while you lie there and do nothing and look what happens!"
         The old lion answered relax, "This is the 21st century dude! People are no longer yelling like a cave man. Me either." 

The Symbol of Freedom

             On July 4, 1884 France presented the United States with an incredible birthday gift: the Statue of Liberty! Without its pedestal it’s as tall as a 15-story building. She represents the United States. But the world-famous Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor was built in France. The statue was presented to the U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the U.S. It was France’s gift to the American people.

             It all started at dinner one night near Paris in 1865. A group of Frenchmen were discussing their dictator-like emperor and the democratic government of the U.S. They decided to build a monument to American freedom—and perhaps even strengthen French demands for democracy in their own country. At that dinner was the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (bar-TOLE-dee). He imagined a statue of a woman holding a torch burning with the light of freedom.

             Turning Bartholdi’s idea into reality took 21 years. French supporters raised money to build the statue, and Americans paid for the pedestal it would stand on. Finally, in 1886, the statue was dedicated.

Page 153 "The Mouse Deer and the Crocodile"

ORIENTATION
Who/What?
The Mouse Deer and the Crocodile
Where?
 In the forest
When?
When the mouse deer came to the forrest

COMPLICATION
What happened one day?
The mouse deer came to forest. The weather was so hot and he was very thirsty and dirty. He need something to drink and clean his body. Suddenly the crocodile saw the mouse deer and targeting the mouse deer as his meal. Then he caught the mouse deer's leg. He was startled and terrified as well

RESOLUTION
What happened then?
The mouse deer found a twig nearby him. Then he gave it to the crocodile and said to him that it was his leg. The crocodile was very stupid and snapped upon the twig.

Re-ORIENTATION
What is the end of the story?
The mouse deer ran out of the water immediately and escape the crocodile's attack.
How is the ending?
It was a happy ending.

The Fallen Nation

        Well, Hello again beloved reader. It 's been good to post some interesting story again. Well, in this opportunity i'm going to take you back to 2001. It has been the most dreadful 102 minutes for people of the United States of America, peculiarly New Yorker. It was one of the biggest terrorist attack on American Soil. It was badly damaged the heart of American. The whole country was in emergency situation. 

        On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction, triggering major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defining the presidency of George W. Bush. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officers and firefighters.

        Since then, the crash site was known as Ground Zero. Every year victims' families join a ceremony to remember the people that they care about.  

Birds Down

 
Well, hello again, readers! In the early of 2013, I am interested to brings you back to 1990s. It was the first battle of Mogadhisu which was well known by people as “Black Hawk Down”.  

On October 3rd, 1993, 120 Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers were dropped into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was a fast daylight raid to kidnap lead terrorist Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who had been killing U.N. workers delivering food to starving Somalis. Aidid’s goal was to control the country by controlling all the food.

The U.S. raid went off with clockwork precision, until the unexpected happened. Two of the U.S. Black Hawk helicopters, the soldiers’ airlift out, were shot down. The mission abruptly changed to a rescue operation. Surrounded by Somalis militia, a fierce firefight ensued that left American troops trapped and fighting for their lives. The ordeal left 18 American men dead, 70 wounded, with 3,000 Somalis casualties. Two of American Ranger were mutilated by Somalis angry mob. They were KIA while trying to rescue Michael Durant, a Black Hawk pilot whose helicopter was shot down. The copper it was coded Super Six Four.

The people of United Stated was terribly pissed off after the figured out that their boys were murdered rudely. President Bill Clinton announced that the USA won’t send any troops to join the UN Peace Force.

           

When brother against brother...

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 Well, in this episode I'm going to tell you about one of the biggest war badever been fought in land of the new world. It is American Civil War. That's well know as the "American Darkness Era". 
It was begin in the spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65).
The election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America. Four more joined them after the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Four years of brutal conflict were marked by historic battles at Bull Run (Manassas), Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, etc.
The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, pitted neighbor against neighbor and in some cases, brother against brother. By the time it ended in Confederate surrender in 1865, the Civil War proved to be the costliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and the population and territory of the South devastated.

In The Begining...

So the story begins after a century and a half Britain, the mother country, and the North American colonies, her children, were as close as a parent and children could be. What happened to change that relationship. Perhaps the colonies outgrew childhood and wanted the independence and enjoy their "adult life".

The trouble began after the French and Indian War, which left Britain with tremendous debt. Why shouldn't the colonists pay some of that debt? To the colonists, the answer was easy: They shouldn't have to pay for it because they had no representation in the British Parliament that levied the taxes for the colonists to pay.

To be subject to laws in which they had no voice amounted to tyranny. Tyranny was exactly what many colonists, or their parents or grandparents, had risked all to escape. The colonists, even those who had not come from England, expected all the rights of Englishmen. They expected most of all the freedom to govern themselves.

Parliament tried to tax sugar and tea. It tried to place a stamp tax on all printed documents. The colonists resisted these taxes with increasing vehemence. Citizens of Boston emptied British tea into the harbor. Britain responded with more oppressive acts, which only served to unite the colonies. The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to draft a formal protest.

In 1775, Patrick Henry expressed the indignation of many who until this time considered themselves British subjects. He called for colonists to place their loyalties and their lives on the line for liberty.

That is exactly what the delegates to the Second Continental Congress did on July 4, 1776. By then, colonists had died for the Patriotic cause at Lexington and Concord. Fifty-five men, representing the thirteen colonies, placed their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's immortal document.

In signing, they risked their lives and fortunes. Never before had colonies thrown off the rule of a mother country. Thomas Paine expressed the spirit of the American Revolution: "We have it in our power to begin the world again." What a history, huh? :)