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Controller-free video gaming
CNN NEWS
October 21, 2010
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2010/10/21/nr.gaming.with.your.body.cnn

This is an article about the evolution of gaming. It shows that technolagy has gone so far that now we can just use our bodies and our voices to control things. The name of the product on display is Kinect for the XBOX 360. While in to days world people try to put more gadgets into your hand Kinect removes evrything and puts you in the center of things. There are many sensors on the Kinect, there are also many microphones in the peice its self and prossesors in it to recognize your voice so it can tell who you are. I decided to write about theis article because i myself have an xbox and  have been anticipating this for so long. I also will be getting the device. In class we are learning about the greeks and that they invented so many thing, well we just invented a new peice of technalogy that will go down in history.

H.W. #1

    In the video that I saw it was about The Persian Wars. Greece had a mountainous terrain. This caused the people in Greece to be isolated from each other and form city states. They argued and sometimes fought each other. This put them at a disadvantage. Athens beat Persia in the first war but one of their cities was captured and burned to the ground. The Persians retreated but the Greeks realized that they would return with more soldiers and more power. During this time the Greek city states came together with a army 100,000 strong to defend greece. Athens manufactured the war ships that Greece used. The Greeks won by leading the Persian vessels down a small water path where the large ships had trouble moving around in the water compared to the smaller Greek vessels. So because of this the greek vessels got around easier and used their ram on the front of the ship to sink the Persians ships.

H.W #8

1) The first civilization to have written legal code was Babalon.
2) The ordeal is a painful test of guilt and is preformed if someone has commited a crime. The Ordeal is where a man has to put a hot pan on his tongue then someone checks the toungue to see if the man is guilty.
3) Hammurabi helped create the Bible, the most famous book in the world.
4) Hammurabi did not invent his laws he only wrote them down.