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DODDS Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2012


hello my name is donna mcmillan lowly
and
Department of Defense dependent schools
or dogs in the 2012 National Geographic
Bee I am 14 years old and I’m an 8th
grader at the v spotted middle school in
Wiesbaden Germany these planets the
capital city of the German state of
hesse and has a population of about
280,000 but it doesn’t seem that small
because the metropolitan area that also
includes frankfurt mines and dom stuff
as a population of about 5.8 million
people these thought is one of the
oldest towns in Europe its name means
meadow Beth in German and this refers to
its hot springs which may be early
attractive dating back to the Neolithic
era as those evidence of settlement of
the area back as far as 8,000 years
throughout the Middle Ages story
formation and into the modern era be
spelling experience the effects of many
warrants and changes of realism suffered
low points like 1648 when the
devastation of the 30 years was said to
have left only 40 residents remaining
but it also experienced times of
prosperity like Africa Napoleonic Wars
when it was a capital the Duchy of miss
Allen was the famous and stylish spa
town most of the architectural
highlights of these bonus historic
center date from this period the turn of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
it was such an impressive spa town that
it was visited regular
by the german kaiser wilhelm the second
i was known as the unofficial some
residents of the kaiser and many mobiles
artists writers composers and wealthy
persons visited and settled here for
example a narrow street is Dostoevsky
straße which is named after work the
Russian Arthur Fyodor Dostoevsky is
spent much time in wiesbaden reportedly
much of it unsuccessfully gambling in
the casino other fitness writers and
composers who spend time here are your
hard work phone from Gertie Bishop
Ragnar and Johannes Brahms we said that
in those years there were more
millionaires will be slender than any
other city in germany during world war
two the spine was not as heavily damaged
as many other german cities and that may
be one reason why became the capital of
the state of hesse since although nearby
frankfurters larger it was much more
damage during the war if you were to
travel to be spotted a good place to
look at is the hot springs in downtown
and the deeply castle by the Rhine River
just north of town is the Thomas
mountain range which is ideal for hiking
if I could trade places with anything’s
explore a world leader I might want
the current leader of Japan because the
country is still trying to rebuild after
the tsunami of 2011 the first thing I do
would be to improve safety features in
nuclear power plants across the
archipelago to make sure that nothing so
disastrous could happen again i also
want to work to find alternatives to
nuclear fusion plants about that energy
sources like solar wind geothermal and
nuclear fusion can replace fossil fuels
and nuclear fission in my lifetime if
someone gave me a free ticket to travel
anywhere in the world I would like to go
to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
because I am a fan of skyscrapers and
there plenty of futuristic ones in Dubai
like the British Khalifa the tallest
building in the world I also would like
to see what country left the UAE is
doing to change its economy from being
dependent just an exporting oil I’ve
been interested in geography and then
since I was a little kid and I’ve
learned most of what I know about world
geography by looking at many maps and
atlases to smush all that information
and knowledge them to my brain generally
i scrutinize maps of different places
whenever I can and try to remember the
major cities rivers mountains and other
geographic features I often like to play
games with my sister remember in capital
cities after I learned most of them I
decided to move more into physical
geography one of my study strategies is
being quizzed by my dad if I’m in charge
of the earth for an entire day the first
thing that I oh typo would be that
people in power and other developed
countries do not have the same
opportunities in
life as those that are born in rich
developed countries I don’t want that
all children have the same challenges to
get a good education and don’t suffer
from disease famine war or enslavement
hey that geo do you know what group of
violence many people think I’m named
after one kind of rental but are
actually named after a different kind of
animal and what is that other animal the
answer the Canary Islands are a natural
birds but for dogs their name in Latin
is angel Akon alia which means island of
the dogs my favorite geography fact is
that the pacific ocean is so huge that
all of the continents could fit inside
the aryan store space left over when I
grow up I’d like to be either a
meteorologist on an astronomer after
geography meteorology and astronomy are
my two other favorite subjects these two
subjects are very important for our
future with your ology because the earth
needs to solve the problem of climate
change and that’s tirana me because of
all the scientific knowledge that it
will give us
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