The Longest Word in English

Do you know what the longest word in English is? Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in Oxford English Dictionary. It means "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'" The whole word itself is 45 letters. It actually just looks like Pneumonia-ultra-microscopic-silicosis-volcano-coniosis? Why do people make these long words that nobody uses? It looks pretty stupid to me how "volcano" and "microscopic" is in it.

The second longest word in the English language is pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism which is an inherited disorder. (I don't know what it does.) You know what? Long words usually are a combination of many words. Psuedo-psuedo-hypoparathyroidism. Hypoparathyroidism is a combination of many things that harm your thyroid. I don't get why science words are sometimes really long or really short. I.e. boron and psuedopsuedohypoparathyroidism.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Woahhh...that's a place? It's a hill in New Zealand. Ugh, who names hills? Wikipedia says this long word means The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one. Haha, nose flute? That's interesting...they blow air out of their nose into an instrument. It has 85 letters in it, and it is ONE of longest names in the world. Some other weird names are Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill which means "where the devil urinates" and Muckanaghederdauhaulia which means "pig-marsh between two saltwaters".
(I guess the picture was too long and can't post the picture all the way.)
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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is about a man who has Jews working for him making pots and pans. He saved about 1200 people. In the movie, he gets Jews to work for him by telling them they can get out of the ghetto area and get better rations of food. Money is worthless during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Nazis made concentration camps where they basically worked people until they died. In Schindler's List, they show them having to shovel snow, cleaning, and sometimes in a factory making nails. If they didn't work as hard as they could, the Nazis would push them to the ground and shoot them in the head.

How did Oskar Schindler save his workers? He had his workers live in the ghetto, but left to work in the morning so they didn't have to go to concentration camp. Oskar Schindler was a very generous man. He used all his money to save Jews from concentration camp to his factory, and to feed all of his workers. Today, he is seen as a hero during War World 2. After a while, Schindler had to bribe Nazis for food. Schindler's List is called "Schindler's List" because Oskar made a list of people he wanted to save from concentration camp. He paid for each individual, and it costed him a lot of money. He mainly chose people who have suffered and decided to buy them from the Nazis. Although, Oskar Schindler was a Nazi himself.

When the Red Army was advancing towards his facility in 1945, Schindler had to flee with only a gold ring. He was apart of the Nazis and was seen as a murderer. They did not no of his good deeds. After the war, Schindler went to Argentina, where he went bankrupt. He left his wife and daughter in Argentina and went to Germany to start a new buisness. After a series of failing buisnesses, he moved in with his friends. He died of a heart attack on October 9th, 1974. He was 66 when he died, and was surrounded by family and friends when he did.

Disneyworld

Disneyworld is a very fun place where people go to ride roller coasters, eat food, and have fun. Disneyworld is currently located in Florida, and it's very hot there. Usually all theme parks are located in a hot or dry area. Disneyworld has 4 theme parks inside itself...Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom. Magic Kingdom has roller coasters such as "It's a Small World", and "Thunder Mountain". Epcot stands for experimental prototype community of tomorrow. They have "Mission: Space" where they spin people around and one would press different buttons to do different tasks. Epcot also features different "places" of the world like Japan, Italy, and Canada. They all sell different food and have different shows to show off their culture. Disney's Hollywood Studios was previously named MGM Studios, has the roller coaster "The Twilight Zone: The Tower of Terror", which is actually a roller coaster ride that puts you in an elevator and drops you for about 12 seconds. Disney's Animal Kingdom shows off different animals to people like black swans and white rhinos. They don't have many rides in Animal Kingdom.

Downtown Disney is a shopping and eating area. There are many good restaurants that have great food. It's like Kincaid's but in Disneyland. They have some interesting things in their stores. They have a variety of Disney plush toys, pens and pencils, and sell lanyard pins to collect and trade with other staff members. I bought a stuffed Nemo toy because it was the form of a pillow. It looked sort of weird because his eyes and fins were huge.

During my trip to Disneyworld, I stayed at the Sheraton Resort. They had decent rooms and nice views of the parking lot. The pool was very cold and filled with leaves. No wait, that was Best Western. Sheraton Resort had a very nice pool and wasn't that crowded.

This Past Weekend

This past weekend, I've had the flu. It started on Saturday with a runny nose, cough and fever on Sunday. I hate getting sick. My constant cough makes my stomach hurt, and I have started wheezing too. I went to school on Monday and died. Pacers in 0 period PE were very hard. Whenever I get sick, I feel weak. My mom says I got sick because I didn't take my vitamins. But I know that's bs. I only started to take vitamins last year. Last year, I got sick like 5 times. I had a runny nose a lot, and coughing twice.

My mom would never let me stay home because I would miss instruction from my classes. This year, I have skipped Tuesday and stayed home. I slept for an hour and a half, and just watched tv the rest of the time. I bearly have enough time to do homework now. Grr, I'm so hungry right now because I only ate half a bread because I'm slow at eating, and being sick makes me slower. I usually walk slow now...I actually have no idea why.

You know what I hate when I go to school when I'm sick? People start ******** to me about getting them sick. I hate it. It's not my fault I HAVE to go to school. I usually keep count of how many people I get sick, and I got two people sick in my 1st period, and so far nobody else. My dad says the more you get sick now, the less you will later. This actually makes sense because I'll be immune to these viruses/colds later on. My parents force me to go to school unless I have a fever or throw up. Well, except today because I want to take a chemistry test, which was yesterday. I think I might go home again today because my stomach really hurts and I'm getting tired of coughing. My stomach is dyinggg. Hmm, I will go to the nurse's office to go home during lunch. I hate coughing and I want to make a doctor appointment. I should've asked my mom yesterday.

Tantum Article

(8.) Missing information can have similar effects. For example, another young woman, preparing to be a high school English teacher, expressed her dismay that she had never learned about any Black authors in any of her English courses. How was she to teach about them to her future students when she hadn’t learned about them herself? A White male student in the class responded to this discussion with frustration in his journal, writing, “It’s not my fault that Blacks don’t write books.” Had one of his elementary, high school, or college teachers ever told him that there were no Black writers? Probably not. Yet because he had never been exposed to Black authors, he had drawn his own conclusion that there were none.

I think this is a significant part of the article because the English teacher, has never read a book written by a Black author. If you're an English teacher, you should read any book that seems interesting right? English teachers should know that anybody can write books. I wrote some questions like "Why hasn't she ever read books by people with different backgrounds?" and "Why can't she?" The White male student doesn't seem so bright either. He says "It's not my fault that Blacks don't write books." He actually doesn't know the author's ethnicity that writes the books. There's usually a picture in the back, but sometimes there isn't.

My Every Other Year Trip to Maui

Every other year, I go to Maui. Why do I go there? My parents bought a timeshare from the Westin Resort. There's lots to do in Maui; I go snorkeling, swimming, jet skiing, etc. We always go with relatives, because it's more fun. We go to the airport, then...I wait there for an hour. My parents like to go to the airport early for some reason. Then, the plane takes 5 HOURS to get to Honolulu. From there, we take a plane to Maui. We rent a car from AVIS, and drive to Costco for food. Afterwards, we take a 45 min drive to the hotel.

Inside the hotel, we have every utility we need. They have forks, silverware, dishwasher, etc. The first day, we go swimming, eat dinner, go to sleep. The second day, we go to Whaler's Village and rent snorkel gear. Did you ever notice there's at least ONE ABC Store in every shopping area? One day, there'll be too many and may cease to exist. Well, funny story...my mom bought a calendar for my cousin in Ohio and there were tons of guys in them. We go snorkeling at Sheraton's Black Rock, and outside of the Westin Resort. We like looking at the different types of fish. So, to sum up, we go snorkeling everyday, went kayaking, and once out of the week we go jet skiing.

When I go home, I get cold because it's cold in Alameda. I like it humid in Maui. There's nothing really fun to do in Alameda. I sometimes actually enjoy going home though. I like playing games on the computer. Anyways, it's almost time to go to lunch so I'll blog next week. Now Elaine and Michelle are laughing. Dina is now staring at my computer screen looking at my blog. She missed the first paragraph though.