Samurai.

A Samurai was part of the Japanese warrior class. They wore protective armour ,a scary mask, and 2 curved swords. One of the swords was long and the other was short. The long one was called "Daito" or "Katanta". The shorter one was called "Shoto" or "Wakizash". A Samurai road on the back of a horses back. seeing a Samurai go to battle was an awesome sight.

A Samurai exsited in the 1100's and the 1800's. Usually a Samurai started training at the age 5. When a boy in the Samurai family turned 5, he was giving an imitation sword at a special ceramony. Poor kids in the Samurai family were trained by their fathers,uncles, or even their older brothers. The kids in the Samurai family who were wealthy got sent to special school's. At the school they would learn : Milatary skills,fighting technics, and also literature and arts.Students learned wrestling and striking technics during trainging. They also had sword pratice.

A Samurai's best hope was to die before his lord in a battle. His worst fait was if his lord died before he did. Samurai's followed rules. such as " Bushido" which means "Way of the Warrior". Honor was a huge thing to Samurai's. They would take they're own life in the face of a failure. They would do a thing that is called " Suppuku". That means "Stomache Cutting" . During a Suppuku, a Samurais would wear proper clothing , and carrie the Samurai knife. then they would cut open their own stomache, starting from left to right. at the end they would finish with a upward cut. The Suppuku wasn't performed alone. Another Samurai would stand behind the Samurai that was cutting their stomache open.

* I think these are some of the really COOL facts about Samurai's!

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Courtney Wilson.

Ninjas

I think nijas are cool for many differn't reason. And here they are : Well before i ony knew that ninjas faught and they wore black. They are many differn't styles of fighting. On is Judo and another is Jitsue. Ninjas also fight with many differ't types of weapons. Such as: a weapon called Shuiken that is razor sharpe and also dipped in poison. They also use a Shuko to clib walls and they could hit there enemies with it, and a Kyotetsu-Koge that has two sharp edges.Ninjas start training at the age 4 or 5. They make their shoes make fake footprints. They also make split toed shoes to walk side ways really quike. Most ninjas live in Mountains so they can train seceratly. Girl ninjas are known as " Deadly-Flowers". Ninjas get trained to dissapear. so they try dissapearing behind screen doors. What also is a really sweet fact is that they have to learn to dissjoint they're bones to fit in smalle,tight places. They light off smoke bombs when they are entering the area where they're enimie is. They Use a thing called " Mizu Como" to cross water. Ninjas are assassins. And what sn't in the book but Mr. Ferris told us is that they also keep some poison for their self so that if they get captured, then they can poision them selves so the other people don't get information out of them. Those are just some really cool facts about ninjas, that I thought were neat.

Video Game

I recommend the game: Battle Field 2 is a game that is played on a computer console or a video game console. Battled Field was released on September 10th 2002, but Battlefield 2 which is a more up-graded game was released on June 21st 2005. Battlefield is a game where you kill people and try and get threw each mission. In the game you can switch from person to person. I think you should play the game because it's pretty cool! and if you like war type games then you would love the game. You can drive in helacopters,tanks. You can switch to all types of guns. You can switch from person to person if you need a differn't weapon of view of area. It's not very educational...so you would probly love it. :)

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John A.Macdonald

Januay,11th,1815 I, sir John A. Macdonald was born. I live in Groksburg, which is a small town beside Theo. I live with my mother,my sister and my brother. It's hard to go threw life with out a father. My family has always struggled with money. We could never eat properly, or get things we needed. Since my family moved to many differn't places all the time, I didn't get very much schooling. So when we setled down, my mom insisted on my sister,brother and I on going to school.My first dayIi was really nervous. I was afraid of what all the kids would say about my clothes. Since they were all worn-up and dirty. After P.S my teachers said i should be a lawyer. So I decided to try out for a job as a lawyer. When i was 20 -years-old i became a lawyer. 1834 I had my first expierence with aPolitics. Then the next year I was elected to Parliament by a huge number of people. After all my great sucess i turned 30. I married Isabella Clark Macdonald.Then after 5 years of our not so great marriage, we deicded to get a divorce. Then i married again in 1890 to Susan Agnes Bernard. We had a child named Margaret Mary Theodora Macdonald. She was born in 1896 and suffered with Hydrocelphalus and mental disabilities. I kept hopeing she would get better, but I guess hopeing never works. After my daughter died I started to drink and couldn't stop. Once I became a alcholic I got kicked out of the political bussiness.
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Spiders....

I never relized how much a spider can do, or how it lives.Today i found out that spiders actually don't eat their prey. They make webs to catch food but they don't eat the whole thing. They suck the juice out of its prey. They do this by injecting a fluid to turn the insides to juice. Also a jumping spider can jump 5x its own body size. I thought that was really kool fact. What i couldn't believe was that in this world they're are actually more then 35,000 types of differn't spider. I couldn't believe that seening as i've only seen about 15-20 differn't types. Another kool fact was that not all spiders make webs. Some make traps under-ground.All spiders are preditors. Even the tini,tiny small ones.I always thought trantulas got food whenever they were hungrey. but they actually only hunt for food at night. I also only thought spiders only ate flys and little small insects. I found out they also eat frogs,lizzards, and even small birds.