Mystery Topic!

Fun Center Putt  Putt is well basically a miniature golf course; it was started over fifty years ago. It also has go carts arcade games and boat bumpers!

Boat bumpers are basically you know exactly like car bumpers but on water. We actually got to see people riding on them and a cool thing is that these bumpers have a water sprayer in them. The first time we saw the course though we thought it was a swimming pool or at least I thought it was a ocean themed hole.

The arcade games are really interesting to, some of their games are fast and furious drift, and deal or no deal. You can even win prizes with tickets. It says it has a huge state of the arts game room, (I think that is good not sure). They even have a cafeteria near it so you will not go hungry(with pizza and hotdogs) .

They even have a go cat track that looks really fun. But the problem if you have to be over fifty inches tall (this means my sister cannot try to drive one) but I can. Over all this go cart track sounds really fun.

This place sounds really fun I would like to go there for my birthday. And a plus is that a bowl American and a Hardees is right next to it. My dad and I just want to put a house right next to the place it would be like the perfect house that you would never want to move away from.

Gone in Sixty Seconds Report

“Gone in Sixty Seconds” was a good move with lots of really nice cars, It starts off when Memphis (main character) is stealing a Porsche but the cops follow him to his ware house and he escapes with his team. Then it takes you six years that have passed Memphis is running a go cart place, and his brother kip has gotten in some serious trouble kip has gotten a job at a boost and upset his boss and is forced into a car that is getting crushed in a junk yard. Memphis is informed by one of his old team mates that his brother is in trouble and he goes to were his brother works to save him. He reaches his brother just in time and before he does his brothers boss has made him a deal to get fifty cars in four days, Memphis is forced to take the deal to save his brother. After he saves his brother they go to his brother’s place, after that he goes to his old friend’s car garage and asks him if he will help get the fifty cars in four days. He accepts and then they start calling other people that used to steal cars with them. They manage to get about three people, then his brother comes in with other guys to help with the deal one is a gadget guy, the other is a hacker, and the third guy is really good at ordering pizzas. After the team is assembled they make a list of what cars they need to steal, there is one car the Memphis has tried to steal in the past but have never managed to. After they make the list thy find all the cars. They manage to get forty-nine cars and there one hour left, the car that they have to get is the 67 ford cutlass. Memphis is going to get it when cops are surrounding him when there is like ten minutes left he jumps a crash on a bridge and escapes them then he gets to the docks. But he is too late and his brother’s boss is waiting for kip, one of the car stealer's that also works with kip says kip left him now the boss wants Memphis. Memphis is in trouble to be shot in the head when his brother hits the henchmen with a crane and knocks them down. After that Memphis is chased by the boss who has a gun suddenly the main cop enters the place and the boss is pointing a gun at his head then Memphis knocks him off the railing and stands there with his arms up. The cops decides to not arrest him (mostly because he just saved his life) and Memphis is reunited with his team.

This was a really good movie. And I know ii forgot to mention the snake that was thrown out of the hummer. (sorry daddy I know you were looking forward to me writing it in this report)

Report on the book "The Giver"

The Giver was a really good book, the main character is named Jonas the other characters are Lily, Gabe (Gabriel), mom dad, and the giver. It starts off when Jonas is looking out at a window, he sees a strange plane the people turning the community say for the people to go inside the nearest building and leave their bikes were they are. It turned out that the flyer of the plane had gotten lost and stumbled into their community. I should probably mention that in this book Jonas isn’t eleven years old they say that he is an eleven his sister lily is a seven becoming an eight next year. Anyways in the book Jonas is happy but worried about becoming a twelve that is the year you practically become an adult and get your career chosen for you (if you ask me ii don’t want my career picked for me). Anyways Jonas starts to notice stuff changing for like a second like an apple, books, and his friends Fiona’s hair. His father is a nurturer he works at the nurturing center (which is basically a hospital so he’s technically a doctor) He is assigned to take care of a child that isn’t devolving fast enough, so he decides to ask his boss if he can take the little child home instead of keeping it with the night crew. The night crew is not that good with children there mostly trainees and are not very experienced. He snoops around and finds out that the child’s name is Gabriel so he decides to call him “Gabe” for short. When he wakes up they always tell each other their dreams when it usually gets to Jonas’s turn he usually has had no dreams but this time he said in his dream he had stirrings. His mother called a person to get him special pills to stop these “stirrings”. Finally the ceremony for sevens eights and nines comes this is the part of the story where Lilly becomes an eight and nothing really changes. When the ceremony is over they will all out outside and have their evening meal (which is probably lunch in a different form of saying it). Lily is happy she is now a number higher. The next day it is the ceremony for tens elevens and twelve’s. They had the children sit in order with what number they were Jonas’s number was in the teens. Time passed as he was eager and a little afraid for the chief elder to get to him. When the chief elder finally got the person before Jonas he was ready to be given his career job. But something had happened the chief elder had skipped Jonas the crowd was suspicious and worried. After the twelve’s were done she announced the Jonas should be the new “Receiver of Memory” Jonas was shocked then he noticed the old receiver of memory watching him from the audience. Days passed and he had gotten his rules one of the rules was that he could lie and he could not talk about his training to anyone. When he firsts meets the Giver he is very surprised that he looks old but is probably about 50 or 60. They start there training with the giver giving him memories of war, sunburns, snow, love sunlight, and color. The first color he recognizes is red. Soon a year passes and Jonas and the giver have become very good friends the ceremony for the new twelve’s are coming up. And Jonas dads says he will release Gabriel in the morning (release means to kill them with a needle put in a vain that is big enough). The giver and Jonas make a pan for him to escape, its days away before their plan and he sneaks out with Gabriel very sad that he had done this without saying goodbye to the giver. Then he runs out of food and starts catching fish with a homemade net. After a while they get snow he gives almost all of his memories away to Gabriel to keep him alive. At the end of the book they finally find a new town where they will live.

I really liked this book it was interesting how a twelve year old can keep a baby alive in the snow with his memories.

Gorilla

Gorillas comprise the eponymous genus Gorilla, the largest extant genus of primates by size. They are ground dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. The genus is divided into two species and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of a human, from 95 99% depending on what is counted, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the bonobo and common chimpanzee. Gorillas' natural habitats cover tropical or subtropical forests in Africa. Although their range covers a small percentage of Africa, gorillas cover a wide range of elevations. The mountain gorilla inhabits the Albertine Rift montane cloud forests of the Virunga Volcanoes, ranging in altitude from 2,200 4,300 metres (7,200 14,100 ft). Lowland gorillas live in dense forests and lowland swamps and marshes as low as sea level, with western lowland gorillas living in Central West African countries and eastern lowland gorillas living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near its border with Rwanda. The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla (they called it Troglodytes gorilla) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia. The name was derived from Greek Gorillai, meaning "tribe of hairy women", described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor (circa 480 BC) to the area that later became Sierra Leone. Gorillas move around by knuckle walking, although they sometimes walk bipedally for short distances while carrying food or in defensive situations. Wild male gorillas weigh 135 to 180 kg (300 to 400 lb) while adult females usually weigh half as much as adult males at 68–113 kg (150–250 lb). Adult males are 1.7 to 1.8 m (5.6 to 5.9 ft) tall, with an arm span that stretches from 2.3 to 2.6 m (7.5 to 8.5 ft). Female gorillas are shorter with smaller arm spans. Occasionally, a silverback of over 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) and 230 kg (510 lb) has been recorded in the wild. Obese gorillas in captivity can weigh as much as 270 kg (600 lb). Gorilla facial structure is described as mandibular prognathism, that is, the mandible protrudes farther out than the maxilla. Adult males also have a prominent sagittal crest. The eastern gorilla is more darkly colored than the western gorilla, with the mountain gorilla being the darkest of all. The mountain gorilla also has the thickest hair. The western lowland gorilla can be brown or grayish with a reddish forehead. In addition, gorillas that live in lowland forests are more slender and agile than the more bulky mountain gorillas. The eastern gorilla also has a longer face and broader chest than the western gorilla.  Studies have shown gorilla blood is not reactive to anti-A and anti-B monoclonal antibodies, which would, in humans, indicate type O blood. Due to novel sequences, though, it is different enough to not conform with the human ABO blood group system, into which the other great apes fit. Like humans, gorillas have individual finger prints. Their eye color is dark brown, framed by a black ring around the iris. Similar to humans, the leading cause of death in gorillas is cardiovascular disease. 

 

Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of Robinson's character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly, to the Civil Rights Movement. In addition to his cultural impact, Robinson had an exceptional baseball career. Over ten seasons, all but the first of which he played at second base, Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games, from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 the first black player so honored. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1997, Major League Baseball "universally" retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams; he was the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored. Initiated for the first time on April 15, 2004, Major League Baseball has adopted a new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day," on which every player on every team wears #42. Robinson was also known for his pursuits outside the baseball diamond. He was the first black television analyst in MLB, and the first black vice-president of a major American corporation. In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York. In recognition of his achievements on and off the field, Robinson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, into a family of sharecroppers in Cairo, Georgia, during a Spanish flu and smallpox epidemic. He was the youngest of five children born to Jerry and Mallie Robinson, after siblings Edgar, Frank, Matthew (nicknamed "Mack"), and Willa Mae. His middle name was in honor of former President Theodore Roosevelt, who died twenty-five days before Robinson was born. After Robinson's father left the family in 1920, they moved to Pasadena, California. The extended Robinson family established itself on a residential plot containing two small houses at 121 Pepper Street in Pasadena. Robinson's mother worked various odd jobs to support the family. Growing up in relative poverty in an otherwise affluent community, Robinson and his minority friends were excluded from many recreational opportunities. As a result, Robinson joined a neighborhood gang, but his friend Carl Anderson persuaded him to abandon it. In 1935, Robinson graduated from Washington Junior High School and enrolled at John Muir High School (Muir Tech). Recognizing his athletic talents, Robinson's older brothers Mack (himself an accomplished athlete and silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics) and Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports. At Muir Tech, Robinson played several sports at the varsity level and lettered in four of them: football, basketball, track, and baseball. He played shortstop and catcher on the baseball team, quarterback on the football team, and guard on the basketball team. With the track and field squad, he won awards in the broad jump. He was also a member of the tennis team.  In 1936, Robinson won the junior boys singles championship in the annual Pacific Coast Negro Tennis Tournament and earned a place on the Pomona annual baseball tournament all-star team, which included future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. In late January 1937, the Pasadena Star-News newspaper reported that Robinson "for two years has been the outstanding athlete at Muir, starring in football, basketball, track, baseball and tennis."