Updates

Hello!,

I haven't updated lately but that's because......I'm sick. I have been for a week. I am planing to do a book review soon, but it may take a bit. 


Bye,
Tovah     

Some stuff I wrote about the Government

Why the electoral collage should be abolished

America’s political system is a democracy. That means that everyone’s vote should be equal. You probably knew that. But the votes aren’t equal. Why? Because of a terrible, terrible system called    the Electoral College.

Most Americans cast their ballot on Election Day thinking that that vote is going to go to the candidate of their choice. The truth is they go to the states electors. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes determined by population (574,000 people a vote).  When you vote you’re actually asking the electors to vote for the candidate that you chose. Most of the time they do but there they can actually use the votes for whoever they want.  This means there is a chance that your vote doesn’t even count. That’s not democracy.

But it’s not just the Electors which are the problem.  There are 538 Electoral votes (the number of representatives and senators in the House of Representatives and the Senate). I said before that the electoral votes ­­­­­ are divided evenly among the states. However there’s a law which says that all states must have three votes regardless of population. This seems fair but the problem is that there is a limited amount of votes. This means that states don’t have all the votes they should. Ohio is missing 2 electoral votes, Texas 6 and California 10. I said earlier that each vote represents 574,000 people. That means 5,740,000 people who live California actually live in smaller other states according to the Electoral College.  Plus the Electoral College doesn’t protect the smaller states from the bigger ones by taking so many votes away from them. People running for President don’t visit the smaller states and they don’t visit the larger states where most of the people live, they visit the swing states. Swing states are basically states that have a good amount of electoral votes but don’t have a fixed political party (as opposed to states like Texas who always vote republican or states like California who always vote democrat).

And of course there are the territories, that aren’t states but 4.4 million people live in. And these people aren’t allowed to vote even though they are citizens of the U.S.  This is even less fair when you consider citizens that are abroad can vote over the mail.  Even U.S. citizens in space can vote. Do 4.4 million people just not exist?

The Electoral College pretends people don’t live where they do, makes our votes worthless and makes U.S. citizen not be able to vote. This is wrong. This is not democracy. This should be abolished.

 

Works sited:

How the Electoral College works CGPgrey youtube.com YouTube Nov. 7  2011

The trouble with the Electoral College   CGPgrey youtube.com YouTube Nov. 7  201E

Electoral College (United States) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_%28United_States%29



I did this a bit ago. Like it?

Tovah

Phylo

Hello!

Introducing.....PHYLO!!  So Phylo is a game kind of like Magic or Pokemon but instead of having made up creatures they use real animals. The goal of the game is to get the most diverse food web. The best part is you can print out all the cards FREE!!! Here is the link to the website and here is where you can print the deck.

Bye,
Tovah

Book reiew

This is April's guest review:

book title: uncollected

author: Paul Jennings

illustrator: Keith McEwan

my rating out of ten: 9.5/10

ages 9 to 12

this edition first published in 2002

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This book has many stories in it and it is one of my favourite books I have ever read.

That is something to say, because I have read hundreds of books!

Anyway, uncollected has so many great endings and fantastic stories that I can't tell you anything!

It's all too extraordinary to reveal.

But what I must say is:

Paul Jennings is the best writer in Australia in my opinion and this book is certainly one to read!

 

Some stuff I wrote about tigers

English: Distribution of tigers over the world. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Panthera tigris sumatran subspecies. Français : Un tigre de Sumatra (Panthera tigris sumatrae). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tiger (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

Tigers

(Panthhera Tigres)

 Tigers are one of the most distinctive wild cats for their large size and identifiable stripes. There also very solitary. They weigh as much as 670 pounds and can be up to 9 feet long.Its large jaw and huge teeth allow it to bite down incredibly hard which helps it hunt. They are the third biggest carnivore on land.   Tiger are mostly nocturnal creatures and eat Birds, Deer and Elk, and even sometimes water buffalo . Tigers are an endangered spices do to hunting and habitat loss.Tigers are quite good swimmers and and do it often. Though there are very few white tigers naturally they are often bred in zoos.

GBBC Birds

Hello!,

Now since you're reading this I assume You A.Like science B. Like me C. Like the stuff I post or D. Stumbled upon this blog via Google search. If any of these true keep reading! The purpose of this post is to introduce you to one of the biggest citizen science projects for birding run by are trusty friends at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology   and the audubon society. Today is the 4th day of Great backyard bird count! All you have to do to participate is go outside and record all the birds you see for fifteen minutes. Then send in you're list and well that's it! So what what are you waiting for? Get out and bird!

P.S. This isn't just for Americans either now you can submit you're findings from anywhere in the world!

Some photos