Thursday, March 8, 2007

Napoleon Bonaparte used his amazing leader ship skills to become one of the greatest military leaders in history. He revolutionized military strategies and tactics. He was able to use his talent to conquer almost all of the European countries. He also became Frances grates leader.
Napoleon’s military tactics we so affective that there were used in the American civil war and many wars before that. He was able to take conventional military thought that only worked on paper, and was able to convert it into a working model on the battle field. Another one of his achievements was to make his artillery a movable force. This enabled him to easily move it to where it was most needed. Napoleon was a master of intelligence and deception, and also attacked forces that were not expecting him. Napoleon became of the greatest military leaders of all time with the use of these tactics.
Napoleon was able to use his military tactics to conquer most of Europe. He had conquered Egypt, India, and many of the Middle Eastern countries. With napoleon leading Frances army through out Europe, and getting more and more support he went back to Paris. When he got to Paris he saw the opportunity to become emperor. Napoleon was able to over throw the directory (Frances current government) and become the emperor. Napoleon then set up a new government called the consulate.
What made Napoleon a great leader was his ability to run an empire. He first made all the money into one type of currency. He had reformed the taxes of France. He had made peace with the Catholic Church with the Concordat of 1801. He also set up the Napoleonic code which was the first clear laws to be in France. Another thing that Napoleon did was rebuilt the infrastructure of France. Napoleon also rebuilt the University of France, and established the bank of France. By this time Napoleon had complete military and governmental power of France. He had control of about 42 million people.
As you can see napoleon was a great leader in many ways. His military strengths and renovations help him accomplish this. His ability to conquer most of Europe and control it also helped him do this. His ability to make France great empire made him a great leader in history.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

It has been about three weeks sense i got surgery on my shoulder. That was an interesting experience. when I first got to the sergical center they put me into a paperish robe. they then hooked me up to a machine that monitered my vital signs. My heart rate suprised my dad because it was so low. It was on an average of 53 bpm. the lowest i was able to get it was 48 that was a fun game to play while I was waiting. The nurse came in and told me they had to do a nerve block on my arm. she told me I was about to enjoy being there as she put something into my IV. about 15 seconds later I became really high. The murse started pokeing my nerves and injected a solution into them to block the signals to my arm. I dont remember how long this was hapening but I remember looking at the celeing and there were things on it that were moveing. I looked out side and it was really colorful and wavy. the next thing I remember is being put into a wheel chair to go home. For about 15 hours i could not feel anything or move my arm. It was weird because i could stick a needle into my finger untill it would not go anyfurther. I just had major DEJA VU.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hey Bryan I know I have not posted in a while thats becase I have been stuck in Utah. I wrote this for history and was wondering when you read it if you could critique me on it. not on the information stuff but the writeing part. thanks.

There were many innovations during the Renaissance. In my opinion The Printing Press, Microscope, And the Telescope were the three greatest innovations of the Renaissance. There are many reasons why I think that these three items are at the top of the list. Each item affected life in its own different way.
The printing press, in my mind, was the greatest innovation during the Renaissance. The printing press made it easier to mass produce books. It also helped books to get distributed through out Europe so ideas and news spread more quickly. With books becoming cheaper more people could become educated easier. The printing press also helped with the spread of Christianity with the mass productions of the bible. These are just a few reasons why the printing press was such a great invention.
The Microscope was another one of the great innovations of the renaissance time period. The Microscope helped out with the medical advances. It let people look at bacteria that could be causing disease and sickness. With the understanding of what caused certain diseases they could start treating them and saving lives. This invention started to let people know what our body is made up off.
The telescope was a great innovation for the science community for many reasons. The telescope was able to show people that the earth, in reality, did revolve around the sun and not the other way around. It also showed people that there are different planets in our solar system and the earth is not the only planet. The telescope showed us the vastness of space and how small we really are.
Each of these innovations helped out with life during the Renaissance for every one.

Anyone else can critique this if they would like.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

we have had this rabbit around our house for about 6 months now. It first Showed up around the end of summer and was eating my mom's flowers and makeing spots in our lawn. My mom finally got fed up with the thing so she told me i could shoot it with our bb gun. I went and got the gun and shot it. The rabbit jumped extremelly high and flailed. It was one of the more funny things i have ever seen but it landed and ran off. a few days later i saw it again and shot it again and it did the same thing but instead of running away it stayed put. i shot it again. Now it ran away. i ended up shooting the rabbit about five or 6 more times the next two weeks. the thing finally disapeard and did not show its self again untill mid december when we got that huge snow storm. we were hopeing it would starve not haveing anyfood around for it to eat. Two days ago we noticed that it had burried into a snow pile in our back yard. my dad decided to make a trap for it and it work but he could not get the rabbit to stay in it. So I modified the trap so it would lock shut and it worked. My mom and dad are now taking it down by the red rocks to let it loose. It will most likely become coyote food.
have fun watching your movie bryan