Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Rationalist

The Rationalist believes that anything on earth can be solved by science, and the puritans believed strongly in god. They believed he was the creator of all and that he was the reason we had most of the things that we do. The rationalist believed that god created the universe and left it up to people to figure out how to work it or to figure out the natural laws. The puritans believed that god created the world and man did everything else to build the earth.

Benjamin Franklin made chart of the days of the week and the goals he wanted to accomplish to become a better man. Ben may want to become a better man doing a chart so that he would forget nothing. The Puritans would pray to get them help unlike the Rationalist that believe science solve the problems.

Ben Franklin is a good example of rationalists because rationalist believes that Men and Women also believed that human society was run by natural law. They also believed they could take a scientific approach to self-improvement. And the reason Ben Franklin is a good example because he was a scientist and he believed that you can solve anything with science.

Role model- Be a good example for the kids and others

Kind hearted- treat people nice like you would want to be treated

Thankful- be thankful for all the things you already have

Grateful- be grateful for all the things that you have in your life

Honesty- don’t tell lies, tell the truth about all things

Respect- respect other like you wants to be respect

Open minded-willing to learn more or got more ideas

Cleanliness- keeps your body clean

Obedient-respect your elders and do what they say

Thoughtful-always thinking of other then your self

Neat- keep your body and house clean

Prideful-don’t let nobody tell you, you can can’t do

Self motivated- motivate your self and don’t listen when people try to put you down


I think that as long as you go by the things that you will be good in life. And as long as you go by the things people will respect like you want to be respect. When you wake up ever morning you should think about at least five of the things that I named to get your day started.

The rationalist believes that god put them to find out how things go. They thought that god put them on earth smart, so they started doing science and solving everything they need to know. The rationalist wanted to get rid of there king because he was there for so long and he did want anyone else to get elected.
The rationalist believed that the power of the state was different the laws of the nation.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Wilt Chamberlain


Wilt Chamberlin, 7 foot 1, center from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Chamberlain still holds records in the NBA, like when he scored 100 points in a single game, and he also hold records for rebounding. He was also the Most Valuable Player (MVP) two times while he was in the NBA. He has been in thirteen all star games and ten all NBA first and second teams. Chamberlain was named by the NBA as one of the 50 greatest players in 1996.

When Chamberlain was young, he didn’t like basketball that much. He was into track and fields events like the high jump and things like that. When he was younger he uses to say that basketball was a sport for sissies because he wasn’t interested in basketball as a child. When Chamberlain came to high school, he started liking the sport because he was taller than everybody and it was hard for them to stop him. When he first came to high school Chamberlain was already 6 feet 11 inches.

In 1953 when Chamberlain first stared playing basketball for Overbrook High School, he averaged 31 points a game. In his second season he scored 71 points in a high school game. They also won the public league title that year and they went undefeated that year 19-0. During that summer Chamberlain got a job at the Jewish hotel name Kutsher’s. One day Chamberlain met Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics who told Chamberlain to play B.H. Born, the MVP of the 1954 NCAA Final. Chamberlain beat him 25-10. Born then said that he didn’t want to go the NBA because he couldn’t beat a high school student.

In 1955 Chamberlain joined the Kansas Jayhawks. He went to racist places and sat down and ate. The people got so use to him that they just didn’t mess with him no more; they just let him sit in the restaurants and didn’t say anything to him. One day at practice, the freshmen had to play the rest of the team and Chamberlain scored 52 points. At the time Chamberlain was playing under Allen, the starter for Kansas at the time. After that game Chamberlain started over Allen, and later Allen retired because he saw that he wasn’t going to play that much.

After the three years at Kansas he left early trying to go to NBA, but the NBA wouldn’t accept him until he finished his last year in college. Chamberlain instead decided to join the Harlem Globetrotters. On October 24, 1959 he was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors, becoming the best paid player in the league earning $30,000 in his rookie season. In his first game Chamberlain scored 43 points and brought down 28 rebounds. In his first season he averaged 37.6 points a game and 27 rebounds; that year he won both the rookie of the year and MVP, as well as he won the MVP of the all-star game. Later on in Chamberlain’s career he was traded to the 76ers and to the Lakers. And then later retired and became a player coach and was getting paid $600,000 dollars for that.

Wilt Chamberlain will always be one of the greatest players to play the game of basketball. He still holds records right now that is almost impossible to beat. Even if someone breaks his records, I think that he will still be one of the greatest players who ever played the game. There hasn’t been I single player who held records as long as he has, and there has not been another big man who has accomplishes more on the basketball court.