Most people may not know who Shigeru Miyamato is but they do use his inventions. Shigeru Miyamoto, born November 16, 1952, is a Japanese video game designer. He created Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, F- Zero, Pikmin and Nintendogs. He has also supervised many titles published by Nintendo on behalf of other developers, including Metrod Poid and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Worlds. Miyamoto is a world-renowned game designer who has been called the “father of modern video games” and “the Walt Disney of electronic gaming”.
I think that this article is written for people who surf the internet and want to learn about the origin of popular video games. It takes a creative mind like Mr. Miyamoto to understand what games are exciting for kids like me. I’m sure he has put in a lot of hard work and time to bring challenging and entertaining games to video gamers around the world. He has also inspired other people to continue bringing new games that challenge the minds of today’s kids and adults, too.
Have you ever wondered how the soda we drink today called Coke was invented and its history? Well now you can find out how in this interesting post that is definitely worth- reading.
In May, 1886, Coca Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. John Pemberton made the Coca Cola formula in a three legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name was a suggestion given by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson.
Being a bookkeeper, Frank Robinson also had excellent penmanship. It was he who first scripted “Coca Cola” into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today.
The soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886.
About nine servings of the soft drink were sold each day. Sales for that first year added up to a total of about $50. The funny thing was that it cost John Pemberton over $70 in expenses, so the first year of sales were a loss.
In 1887, another Atlanta pharmacist and businessman, Asa Candler bought the formula for Coca Cola from inventor John Pemberton for $2,300. By the late 1890s, Coca Cola was one of America’s most popular fountain drinks, largely due to Candler’s aggressive marketing of the product. With Asa Candler, now at the helm, the Coca Cola Company increased syrup sales by over 4000% between 1890 and 1900.
And that’s how Coca Cola the yummy drink is where it is today.
In art, we have been learning how to make a sculpture. Let me talk about how I made my first sculpture. First, I shaped the head with model magic. This part took me about half a period to do because I tried my best to make the face look like a rock star. I started out shaping the head in a circle then pinch it to make a mow hawk and little hairs standing up. I also pinch the ears out but they look like hair pieces. For the eyes, nose and mouth I got a little quantity of model magic, shaped it and stuck it on the face. On the second half of that period, I started to paint my head. At first, I wanted to make the head all one color but then I thought to myself, it might look weird so I decided to make the body all one color instead. I proceeded to make the head very colorful. During the next art class I started to make my aluminum foil body. I made a very long neck as part of my head so that it would be easier to attach it to the body. In making my body, I started out with a huge clump of aluminum foil and crumpling it into a ball. After squeezing and crumpling the aluminum foil it turned into an oval. I taped it onto the neck and it stood. When I took a step back to look at it, it looked like a huge clump of garbage so I got more aluminum foil. With the additional foil I made small feet and wings and taped it on. That made it look so much better. After that step which probably took me the longest I finally started to plaster. Plaster is a dry sheet of paper like substance that if it touches water, it will get soggy and you use that to cover the foil. You have to move your fingers across and smoothen out the white squares. When its dry, the sculpture is solid hard. This part I find the most fun. I love how the plaster feels over my fingers as I smoothen it out, so I purposely took a long time on this part. When I finished that part I waited till the next art class when I could paint the plaster. It took me a while to think about what color I would paint my whole figure with. In the end I came up with a really cool color which was silver mixed with red. When I was done, I realized it looked like a turd so I painted over the wings with yellow and put a turquoise square on the chest. The turquoise square looked plain on the chest so I put a peace sign on it. The peace sign is in white because I find white as a peaceful color. When I looked at my sculpture it looked perfect. I know it looks kind of weird but I’m actually proud that it looks the way it looks. Compared to the other sculptures mine is definitely one of a kind!!!
I have two goals on my goals page that I have done and I’m really proud of. It’s not that I’m not pleased with my other accomplishments but these two in particular I thought were impossible. But guess what, I succeeded!
These two goals are both actually P.E. goals. One is to run a mile in less than nine minutes and the other one is to get more than a level five in the pacer test. I can remember how I felt the night before. I could barely sleep!!! When the day came on both the mile and pacer test I was so nervous and I felt pannick attacks. Finally when I was done, I was relieved and stunned at my scores. I was surprised to find out that I got eight minutes and 56 seconds on my mile run. On the pacer test, I was actually even more amazed when I got 7.2. This I think is incredible for me! On these two goals, I only got one chance to accomplish them in P.E. class. I think that next time, I am going to aim higher because the whole time I was running the mile and pacer test I was really inspired because I was thinking of completing and achieving my goals.
If you are interested in looking for my goals page just go to the sidebar widget that says pages and click the button under it that says my learning goals.
My last personal narrative was about me drowning in a pool. Now I’m writing about another special moment of my life. I’ve tried my best to make this the best narrative that I have written so please read it. Comment or make suggestions on what I wrote well, what I could do better, any mistakes and so on:
The Ride
There I was going up, up, and up. About 300 feet. I could feel my muscles stiffening. My throat became hoarse and I couldn’t talk. I felt like jumping out but then, jumping 300 feet, no way! I nudge my dad softly. I could see that he was also a little tense. I looked down and then I realized something - I was afraid of heights! I felt dizz y and it was like I was going to fall anytime. It’s like spinning yourself in a chair at a rapid speed. I hope this rusty old boat can hold me I thought. The boat crept along like a snail, slowly making its way higher. Hundred feet, 200 feet and then to it’s highest point 300 feet! Then it stopped. Was it broken? Or were they really just doing that to scare the pants off their passengers? I looked straight down and saw two dots, one red and one green that looked like my mom and brother. I tried to wave but my arms wouldn’t let me move. I tried to smile even though they couldn’t see me but my face muscles were like harder than a rock.
I took one deep breath hoping it wasn’t my last until,”AHH!!!” I shouted. I was falling. But not just plain falling, I was falling fast, faster than lightning. I could see my whole life flashing before me. I slightly opened my tightly closed eyes but everything seemed like a blur. “AHHH!!!” I continuously screamed. When I finally had the courage to open my eyes, “SPLASH!!!” I was soaking wet. My entire body was drenched with water. My pants, my shirt, my hair, and even my shoes. My eyes stung maybe because the water is dirty or maybe even polluted. I was urging for the ride to stop but it wouldn’t stop so I did the only thing I could - SCREAM like CRAZY!
What was surprising is that I was actually having fun. I was actually shouting for joy! What a JOYRIDE! That if I had a way not to end it I would have done so!
As I walked away from the humongous ride, I laughed to myself looking at the people in line to take the ride. They looked brave and ready for it but I am thrilled to see their faces after the ride. They probably don’t know what they’re getting themselves in to but I’m done with that experience, so who cares? Onto the next ride.
In my school, Shanghai American School, we have something called the SAS EAGLES. My definition of the EAGLES is that these are our school guidelines. Meaning that every SAS student, teacher, administrator, worker and everyone who is a part of our school community has to try their best to follow the guidelines. Let me tell you what each guideline means to me.
Empowered- means that you are given the authority and you have to use it properly. Like in art when my teacher gives me all the materials and information I need I could choose to just waste my time and do nothing or do the right thing and get the project done because my teacher is empowering me to do this task.
Adaptable- means that you are flexible to different situations. For example if you had a pop quiz in math and you think you’re not ready for it you could either whine or adapt to the situation and just live with it.
Global Minded- I would describe global minded as the easiest guideline to explain and is one of the most important. As most people know we have lots of environmental issues that affects people’s lives namely landslides, floods, pollution, food shortage and a lot more. Global minded means that we should care more about the environment and reuse, reduce and recycle.
Literate- is basically being good at math, reading, writing, science, social studies and all subject areas. Being equipped with knowledge will help in our future lives.
Ethical- is doing things the honorable way, being honest and doing the right thing even when no one is watching. For example, when you like someone’s work and want to copy it you have to give them credit otherwise it’s plagiarism.
Skilled Inquirers- is being curious about the world around you and asking appropriate and and meaningful questions. Its about being interested to ask and know more about different things, other countries, other religions, different kinds of food, etc.
The book The Sea of Monsters is the sequel to the book The Lightning Thief. As I have written in my last post when you read the first book you have to read the second. Now I’m on the search for the third. I suggest for you not to read this post if you haven’t read the first one yet because it might tell you the ending. I think the second one was even more exciting than the first. In this book Percy becomes friends with a cyclops. He also sees weird dreams with Grover in them. When he arrives at the camp, Thalia’s tree is dying and everything in camp halfblood hill is falling apart. Will Percy succeed on saving Thalia’s tree? Will Tyson betray Percy? Will Grover die? And much more questions will be answered. Please read the book to find out.
Yesterday, I just finished reading the book The Lightning Thief. Personally, I think it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read in my life. Once I started I really just couldn’t let go. It’s about a boy named Perseus Jackson who is a troublemaker at school. He has been expelled six times. One troubled day, his mom brings him to a summer camp for halfbloods like him. A halfblood is somebody who is half human and half god. Percy’s dad was Poseidon, the king of sea. Percy is sent to a quest to the underworld to retrieve the lightning bolt. If he doesn’t retrieve the lightning bolt in ten days and bring it to Mount Olympus the three gods Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon will create world war 3. Will Percy succeed on his quest to retrieve the lightning bolt or will they have war? Will Hades kill Percy when he gets to the Underworld? When he retrieves the lightning bolt will it be too late? Find out more when you read the book. I really suggest for you to read this book if you like adventure and suspense. Another reason I love the book The Lightning Thief is because it teaches you a little about Greek Gods which makes it a good fiction book and at the same time a nonfiction book. After reading this book I’m sure you will definitely want to read the second book right away. I hope reading this post has made you want to read The Lightning Thief.
A fraction is an example of a specific type of ratio , in which the two numbers are related in a part-to-whole relationship, rather than as a comparative relation between two separate quantities.
Each fraction consists of a denominator, numerator, and the fraction bar. The denominator is the number at the bottom which represents the whole and the top number, the numerator, is the part of the whole being shown. The line separating it is called the fraction line or the bar line. That represents the word divide.
For example, the fraction 3⁄4 could be used to represent three equal parts of a whole object, were it divided into four equal parts. Because it is impossible to divide something into zero equal parts, zero can never be the denominator of a fraction . A fraction with equal numerator and denominator is equal to one and the fraction form is rarely, if ever, given as a final result.
If you want to learn more about fractions you may go on these websites:
I like playing basketball a lot and I think I’m actually pretty good at it. In this post, I’m going to tell more about the history of basketball. I hope you like it!!!
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10 feet high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world.
Points are scored by shooting the ball through the basket above; the team with more points at the end of the game wins. The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it or passing it between teammates. Disruptive physical contact is not permitted and there are restrictions on how the ball can be handled.
Through time, basketball has developed to involve common techniques of shooting, passing and dribbling, as well as players’ positions, and offensive and defensive structures. Typically, the tallest members of a team will play center or one of two forward positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed, play the guard positions.
I hope you have learned a little more about basketball. For more information, you may go on these websites:
