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     Today I am going to talk about whether the Columbian exchange was positive or negative.  Which do you think it was?  I think that there were many positive AND negative things about the Columbian exchange.  What were they?  Well, the Columbian exchange was an exchange that happened during the time of the explorers.  It was basically trade between the old world and the new world.
     In my opinion, there were both positive and negative things about this exchange, not just one.  One positive thing was that they got to try stuff that they did not have access to grow/make in their parts of the world.  However, this exchange also brought over diseases to both worlds.  This means that not only was one part of the world suffering from it, but now other parts were too because they had caught it during the exchange.  All in all, both good and bad came from the Columbian exchange.

 
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     On our trip to the zoo, we had to do various stations with several different animals.  We each took turns with the stations, but I almost every time, was stuck with the math parts of the stations since I am good at math.  
     My favorite station was probably the reptile scavenger hunt.  Why?  Well, most of the stations we just sat there and had to match different objects to different animals.  However, in the reptile house, we got to use various info about several animals and had to guess which animal was which.  
     We didn't just read the info on the paper though, instead, we used what we all already knew about several types of reptiles.  Also, we didn't have to stand there looking at the animal and reading their info.  We could, instead, move around the reptile house and find the animals we needed to for the scavenger hunt.  Of all the stations at the zoo, this was by far my favorite.

 
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     How was the collapse of the Inca empire similar to the fall of the Aztec empire?  Well, the Aztec fell because they were put under attack by the Spaniards (Hernan Cortes and his men).  It took them years to defeat the Aztecs, but they eventually did with the help of the Aztecs rivals, the Texcocans.  
     The Texcocans had became the Spanish's allies after the Spanish attacked them.  They offered an ally system against the Aztecs, if only they would stop their attack.  Many people died, but not as many as there would have been without their ally system.  Cortes had tried to conquer the Aztec empire, but did not accomplish his goal--to take over the empire.  

 
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     I have made so many amazing memories this year!  I don't know which is my favorite, meeting all my really close friends or basketball season.  They are both my favorite.  Well, I guess I will write about both of them.  So, here we go.
     One of my most amazing memories this year is basketball season.  We had such an amazing team, and I cannot wait til next years team!  I can't wait to play for Sykes again!  Coach Sykes is such an awesome coach.  She is truly amazing.  I don't know what I would do if I didn't play for her again.  I also met a lot of my friends during basketball season.   They are all amazing!
     Another one of my favorite memories is meeting all my friends.  They are so amazing; I don't know what I would do without some of them!  My closest friends and I have gone through thick and thin, and we still managed to work things out even when people were trying to tear us apart.  I love my friends so much!  They are unbelievably awesome!  I would even die for some of them.  All in all, these are my two most amazing memories of my 2012-2013 year here at

 
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     There are many reasons thought to be for the decline of the Mayan Civilization.  Some reasons such as: warfare, over-population, over-demanding rulers, and climate change.  Now, I strongly believe that all of the reasons contributed to the  decline because not just one specific reason can cause something to fall.  There is most likely other reasons too.  
     One example of more than 1 reason for decline is the Roman Empire's decline. The Romans had internal and external issues which eventually led to the decline of the empire.  This is the reason why I think that every single one of those reasons is true.  All in all, I think  there was more than one reason as to why the Mayans declined.