blog reviews

Sara's blog about coffee addiction is pretty cool because for one part I was the inspiration for it. She saw how I had been having coffee a lot recently and then we had a big conversation about it. I liked how she included examples like stuff like Starbucks and how most of California has coffee daily.
Angelina's blog on cheerwiz was very interesting to read because us both being on the CAP cheer squad it was something I could relate to. Now i know another website where you can learn new and important tips for stunting safety, and tumbling.
Rebecca's blog on swimming was cool. It was random, so that made it way more fun to read. I liked how she talked about swimming in PE, mainly because people complain so much about it.
Kelly's blog about the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight was pretty interesting. I learned more about the outcome of the fight, even though sadly Oscar De La Hoya lost. I think that he should of won, but the judges ended up deciding on Mayweather. I liked how she added her own personal opinion and she didn't leave it all just fact.
http://alonzopn7.blogspot.com/2007/04/last-day.html"> Alonzo's blog about the day before the project was due was cool. He talked about how he reviewed his project before he turned it in and all that. It's good that he looked through it before he made the final copy. All the blogs weren't boring to read so that's a plus.

Caffeine Addiction

Many people talk about how people get addicted to cigarrettes or drugs...well many people don't realize that you can get just as addicted to caffeine. Many people depend on caffeine to give them energy and wake them up, it keeps them going through the day. This can get to be an addiction once the person has a necessity for the caffeine. While many adults might say that coffee isn't that necessary for them, you can tell they're not being completely honest when they go psycho without it. My mom loves coffee, but she admits that if she doesn't have her coffee she is going to be in a bad mood. Have you ever wondered why the majority of people who drink coffee are usually always hurrying or busy? Caffeine is what I'd say to be like a steroid, it makes your body feel energized and awake. This can help the people that are always doing something get their work done. Caffeine is a common ingredient in sodas as well, along with the sugar you can bet that people will be hyper. Just like drugs give that high that the user enjoys and cigarrettes get people addicted to the nicotine in them, caffeine addicts their drinkers to want and need it.

End of the Year

Well, so far we only have a little bit of time left in the schol year. I'm really excited for the summer. I'm going to Florida and I'm going to be able to hang out with my friends more than during the school year. I have to go to summer school, that's not fun, but I'll deal with it. At the end of this school year there's the rally, spring fling, year book signing and of course tears as you see some friends leave the school. Next year is gong to be different without many of my friends here, I'll miss them a lot. I just think that my first year at Capuchino was really interesting and hopefully next year is better, even though I doubt that. I really don't like some of the incoming freshman, but they'll learn not to act like they're all that and more once they get to CAP and see that that's not cool. I can't wait for the summer vacation, but what scares me is the fact that the year went by so fast.

Business Project

For my economics class we had to do a business project. I chose "La Tapatia", a mexican food and grocery store in South San Francisco. "La Tapatia" is owned by Humberto Campos and his partner Eloy. They opened "La Tapatia" 30 years ago from just having a bit of experience working at "Las Palmas" in the mission district of San Francisco. With very little physical capital available and only work experience as their human capital they opened up La Tapatia where there used to be an empty and abandoned lot on Grand Ave. (a commercial center in South San Francisco). From the day they opened they experienced shortages due to the popularity of the business. Now after 30 years in business they have loyal customers that even though they have had competitors open they always come back. When "La Hernandez" opened up their new location recently,"La Tapatia" lost some business for a short amount of time. Mr. Campos says that after they checked out the other place they came back to the familiarity , quality products, and excellent customer service level of "La Tapatia." They say that having to deal with the rules and regulations the governement puts on their business is routine, all you have to do is follow the rules and keep making your product, even if sometimes the rules make you change how you handle the product a bit. A Business License and the site permits are things necessary for the business to open, these were a simple process for the owners. The name has a story of it's own. Humberto and Eloy came up with the name for their business by looking back at their cultural background, where they grew up, and where the people who would be their future customers can relate to. La Tapatia came up because being from Jalisco, Mexico and seeing the culture brought up there it was just a normal and comfortable thing for their business to be called.

Stealing the President's Body

Stealing Lincoln's body has been a topic on many people's minds since 1865 (year of his death). President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 by a gunshot to the head. Since then he has been a topic of interest for many people. What is little known is the scheme to steal the president's dead body in 1876. The plan was to steal the body from its tomb and take it to the Indiana dunes so that the state of Illinois would pay a $200,000.00 ransom for the body. The plan didn't work due to several reasons. One reason was that the tomb robbers were already suspects of other crimes such as counterfeiting, and they had been bragging to be the "boss body snatchers of Chicago." After they had tipped off the police and some burglars the trip to Springfield was made. Since there was no security other than a lock at the site they thought it'd be easy, but they were caught. They all ran to the worst place they could've gone to, The Hub, where they were arrested for the crime some days later. Now this plan didn't work, but there is a book by Thomas J. Craughwell to be released giving the details to this national robbery.

Cinco de Mayo

While many people might think that cinco de mayo is celebrated in honor of Mexico's independence, this is actually not true. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated because of the victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Cinco de Mayo is actually celebrated more in the United States than it is in Mexico. In Mexico the true holiday celebrated is September 16th, which is Mexican Independence Day. While over here people enjoy traditional food, music, dancing, and beverages belonging to Mexico, many people don't know the true story of the holiday. On May 5th 1862, General Zaragoza lead a small militia of 4,500 men that were not well equipped against the French army of 6,500 soldiers. The militia with a stroke of luck was able to stop the French invasion of Puebla that could've lead to French rule of Mexico by Napoleon III. I'm not sure if my great great grandparents were born yet at that time but I'm sure that their parents were. That was only 145 years ago, meaning that Mexico is a relatively new independent country that has so much diverse culture and such a great history it's hard to believe. Cinco de Mayo is a true holiday, but get the facts straight.

del.icio.us tags

I tagged irs.gov, sba.gov, and economist.com. I think these pages can help someone that's doing a business project. I'm doing a business project and I know that these websites will help me out with my research. Two of these pages are government websites so I doubt that there are many like them, but as for economist.com there are other websites out there that are like it. I doubt that this is a new idea because economics have been in society for a really long time. I doubt that this is the first time someone put something about them on the internet, but they probably are the primary websites for it. These websites can help me with the research I have to do for my business project.I tagged it by just searching for it on del.icio.us and then i clicked the tag button that's it. I tagged them because I thought that it'd help me when I need another reference for my project.