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>:D =Texas Government Voki= media type="custom" key="6254377" Hello, my name is Frances Nguyen. I want to be county judge for Tarrant County, as B. Glen Whitley is now. A county judge's term lasts 4 years, but it was not always that way. It has been changed many times due to the number of constitutions. The main duties of the county judge are to serve as presiding officer of the county commissioner's court, judge of the county court, and budgeting officer of the county; he also has numerous duties pertaining to elections. A county judge may do many varied things, such as hearing hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally retarded, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianships for special purposes, and even perform marriges. =How To Cite Sources= Author. Title of Website. Web address or URL. Copyright date. Date you found the information. =People of Sparks=

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=Article of The Week= 3.9.10 a. This article is about how many extra sweets Americans have been eating lately, and how it has been affecting our health. b. I think that this article was aimed towards people in America, because Americans lately have not been watching their health and getting obese & diabetes. There are a lot of facts about how bad our health has been getting. c. The author's main purpose is to inform. There is no persuasion in the article, nor is there entertainment, or motivation, and there are a lot of facts. 3.4.10 a. This article is about a young boy who is being charged as an adult for a double murder. People do not know what to do about him because he is still a child, but there are no other prime suspects. b. I think that this article is aimed towards a more general audience. The paragraph is easy for the reader to read and talks about what's happening in the real world. c. The author's main purpose in this article is to inform. There is really no signs of persuasion, entertainment, or motivation. There is nothing in this article that "persuades," a story about a boy getting charged for murder isn't really entertainment, and there are no motives. 2.24.10 a. Basically, this article is about a man who learned how to read using comic books and how learning was not approved by the Indian and American community. b. This article was written for people who need motivation. You can tell because the author talks about not giving up, even under the pressure of what others thought. c. The author's primary purpose in my opinion was to motivate, as I stated above that he talks about not giving up. =Utopian Societies= Activity 2 According to Wikipedia, an utopia is a name for an ideal community or society. I would not like to live in an utopia. Sure, it would be nice to live in one, but if suffering, pain, and competition never existed, then this world would be completely boring. Also, there will always be a time when you will feel pain, and you want to be prepared. Activity 3 I'd like to live in the farm in Tennessee.

=Symbolic Story Representation= __Runaway__ by Wendelin Van Draanen

The motif of survival is shown for Holly is running away and is desperate enough to dig through garbage! If you don't understand, you will get lost and not understand the point of the story.

I think that the author drew my attention to these ideas because she wanted the reader (me) to fully appreciate and understand the story. I think the author's generalizations about these issues are that the reader needs to know how lucky they are to have a home, family, and food.

I agree with the author's generalizations. We are lucky to have all this wonderfulness. I would show this in a cut out of a yellow house, because yellow shows radiance and the house stands for the basic needs we have. =Explorer Voki= 10.22.09 Mrs. David Period 5 Mrs. Morgan Periods 3,6 media type="custom" key="4631764" Cabeza de Vaca was a survivor of Naravez's journey. He was mostly known for bringing back the tale of Cibola to Spain. I choose a picture of an old spanish map because he was of Spanish orgin. His journey back to New Spain lasted from 1528-1536.

__Works Cited__ 1. Kerman, Gertrude Lerner. __Cabeza De Vaca, Defender of the Indians__. New York: Harvey House, 1975. 2. "Map of United States in 1600's." __The Civil War__. 22 Oct. 2009 . 3. __Celebrating Texas: Honoring the Past Building the Future__. United States of America: Mcdougal Littell, 2003.