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US HISTORY ACADEMIC Homework/Class announcements

Any questions about anything please feel to email Mr. Talbot at 
mtalbot@ebnet.org
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Political Cartoon due Wed.  Think of a modern topic that you want to focus on 
and write a paragraph on it.  

To see some sample poliitcal cartoons go to:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/

To see some current events you can go to
www.cnn.com
www.abcnews.com 
www.nj.com
www.thnt.com

Don't copy them!! However, you can get some ideas on them.

To buy stocks go to www.njsmc.stocktrak.com 
Log in with your name and password 
Go to "Make a Trade" Put your company's symbol in and the amount of shares 
you would like to purchase.  Preview Trade and then finalize it.

The following is a list of over 500 or the most frequently traded stocks in 
the SMS. Teams can trade stocks not listed below.
COMS 3Comm Corp
KDE 4 Kids Entertainment Inc.
SVNX 724 Solutions Inc.
ABT Abbott Laboratories
ANF Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
ABGX Abgenix Inc.
ADPT Adaptec Inc
ADBE Adobe Systems Inc.
ADIC Advanced Digital Information
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
ADVS Advent Software Inc.
ARXX Aeroflex Inc.
AES AES Corp
AET Aetna Inc.
AFFX Affymetrix Inc.
AFL AFLAC Inc
A Agilent Technologies Inc.
APD Air Products & Chem
AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc.
ACV Alberto-Culver Cl'B'
ABS Albertson's, Inc
AL Alcan Aluminium Ltd
AA Alcoa Inc.
ATI Allegheny Technologies
AGN Allergan, Inc
AW Allied Waste Ind
ALL Allstate Corp
AT Alltel Corp
ALTR Altera Corp
AMZN Amazon.com Inc.
AEP Amer Electric Pwr
AM Amer Greetings Cl'A'
AIG Amer Intl Group
APCC Amer Power Conversion
AHC Amerada Hess
AEE Ameren Corp
AEOS American Eagle Outfitters Inc.
AXP American Express Company
AMTD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
AMGN Amgen Inc
AMR AMR Corp
ASO AmSouth Bancorp
APC Anadarko Petroleum
ADI Analog Devices Inc.
ANDW Andrew Corp
ADRX Andrx Corporation
BUD Anheuser-Busch Cos
TWX AOL Time Warner
AOC Aon Corp
APA Apache Corp
AAPL Apple Computer Inc.
APPB Applebees International Inc.
AMAT Applied Materials Inc.
AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corp
ADM Archer-Daniels-Midland
ARIA Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.
ARBA Ariba Inc.
ARW Arrow Electronics Inc.
ASH Ashland Inc
ASKJ Ask Jeeves Inc.
T AT&T Corp
AWE AT&T Wireless Corp
ADSK Autodesk, Inc
ADP Automatic Data Proc
AZO AutoZone Inc
AVY Avery Dennison Corp
AVA Avista Corp
AVP Avon Products Inc.
BHI Baker Hughes Inc
BLL Ball Corp
BAC Bank of America
BK Bank of New York Inc.
ONE Bank One Corp
BCR Bard (C.R.)
BKS Barnes & Noble Inc.
ABX Barrick Gold
BOL Bausch & Lomb Inc.
BAX Baxter International
BBT BB&T Corp
BCE BCE Inc.
BEAS BEA Systems Inc.
BSC Bear Stearns Cos
BDX Becton, Dickinson
BBBY Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.
BLS BellSouth Corp
BMS Bemis Co
BBY Best Buy Co. Inc
BLI Big Lots Inc.
BMET Biomet, Inc
BBH Biotch Holders Trust
BDK Black & Decker Corp
HRB Block H & R Inc.
BBI Blockbuster Inc.
BMC BMC Software
BA Boeing Co.
BCC Boise Cascade
BSX Boston Scientific
BP BP Plc
BGG Briggs & Stratton
BMY Bristol-Myers Squibb
BSY British Sky Broadcasting
BTY British Telecommunications
BRCM Broadcom Corp'A'
BRCD Brocade Comm. Systems
BC Brunswick Corp
BNI Burlington Northn Santa Fe
BR Burlington Resources
CPN Calpine Corp
CPB Campbell Soup Co.
COF Capital One Financial
CAH Cardinal Health
CCL Carnival Corp
CAT Caterpillar Inc.
CRA Celera Genomics
CELG Celgene Corporation
CD Cendant Corp
CTX Centex Corp
CTL CenturyTel Inc
CEN Ceridian Corp
CF Charter One Finl
CHKP Checkpoint Software
CVX ChevronTexaco Corp
CHL China Telecommunications
CHINA China.com Corp
CHIR Chiron Corp
CB Chubb Corp
CI CIGNA Corp
CINF Cincinnati Financial
CIN CINergy Corp
CC Circuit City Strs-CrctCtyGrp
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc.
C Citigroup Inc.
CTXS Citrix Systems Inc.
CCU Clear Channel Comm.
CLX Clorox Co.
CMGI CMG Information Services Inc.
CMS CMS Energy
CNET CNET Inc.
COKE Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
KO Coca-Cola Co
CCE Coca-Cola Enterprises
CL Colgate-Palmolive Co.
CMCSK Comcast Cl'A'Spl(non-vtg)
CMA Comerica Inc
CMRC Commerce One Inc.
CA Computer Assoc Intl
CSC Computer Sciences
CPWR Compuware Corp
CMVT Comverse Technology
CAG ConAgra Inc
ED Consolidated Edison
CEG Constellation Energy Group
CAL Continental Airlines
CVG Convergys Corp
CBE Cooper Indus
CTB Cooper Tire & Rubber
RKY Coors (Adolph)Cl'B'
GLW Corning Inc.
COST Costco Wholesale
COX Cox Communications Inc.
CR Crane Co
CREE Cree Research Inc.
CCK Crown Cork & Seal
CSX CSX Corp
CRGN Curagen Corp
CVS CVS Corporation
CYTO Cytogen Corp
DCX Daimler Benz & Chrysler
DCN Dana Corp
DHR Danaher Corp
DRI Darden Restaurants
DE Deere & Co.
DELL Dell Computer Corp
DPH Delphi Automotive Systems
DAL Delta Air Lines Inc.
DEL Deltic Timber Corp.
DLX Deluxe Corp
DIA Diamonds Trust
DDS Dillard's Inc'A'
DIS Disney Walt Co.
DVSA Diversa Corp
DG Dollar General
DLTR Dollar Tree Stores Inc.
D Dominion Resources
DCLK Doubleclick Inc.
DOV Dover Corp
DOW Dow Chemical Co.
DJ Dow Jones Company Inc.
DRYR Dreyers Grand Ice Cream Inc.
DTE DTE Energy
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
DNB Dun & Bradstreet
DD DuPont de Nemours EI & Co.
DPMI DuPont Photomasks Inc.
ELNK Earthlink Network Inc.
EMN Eastman Chemical
EK Eastman Kodak Co.
ETN Eaton Corp
EBAY Ebay Inc.
ELON Echelon Corp.
DISH Echostar Communications
ECL Ecolab Inc
EIX Edison Intl
ERTS Electronic Arts Inc.
EDS Electronic Data Systems
EMC EMC Corporation
EMR Emerson Electric
EC Engelhard Corp
ETR Entergy Corp
ENZ Enzo Biochem Inc.
EFX Equifax Inc
ERICY Ericsson Telephone Company
ET E-Trade Group Inc.
XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation
FRE Federal Home Loan
FNM Federal Natl Mtge
FD Federated Dept Stores
FDX FedEx Corp
FITB Fifth Third Bancorp
FDC First Data
FE FirstEnergy Corp
FLEX Flextronics Intl. Ltd.
FLR Fluor Corp
FMC FMC Corp
F Ford Motor Co.
FO Fortune Brands
FOSL Fossil Inc.
FDRY Foundry Networks SE
FOX Fox Entertainment Group
FPL FPL Group Inc.
BEN Franklin Resources
FCX Freep't McMoRan Copper
FCEL FuelCell Energy Inc.
GCI Gannett Co
GPS Gap Inc.
GTW Gateway Inc
DNA Genentech
GM General Motors Corp
GD Genl Dynamics
GE Genl Electric
GIS Genl Mills
OSCI Genome Therapeutics Corp
GPC Genuine Parts
GP Georgia-Pacific (Ga-Pac Grp)
G Gillette Co.
GDW Golden West Finl
GR Goodrich (B.F.)
GT Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
GOOG Google, Inc.
GRA Grace (W.R.) & Co
GWW Grainger (W.W.)
GAP Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
GLK Great Lakes Chemical
GES Guess ?, Inc.
GDT Guidant Corp
HAL Halliburton Co
HDI Harley-Davidson
HET Harrah's Entertainment
HIG Hartford Finl Svcs Gp
HAS Hasbro Inc.
HCA HCA-The Healthcare Co.
HLTH Healtheon Corp
HNZ Heinz H.J. Co.
HELX Helix Technology Inc.
HP Helmerich & Payne Inc.
HPC Hercules, Inc
HSY Hershey Foods Corp
HLT Hilton Hotels Corp
HD Home Depot Inc.
HMC Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
HON Honeywell Intl
HOTT Hot Topic Inc.
HGSI Human Genome Sciences
HUM Humana Inc
HBAN Huntington Bancshares
ITW Illinois Tool Works
RX IMS Health
N Inco Ltd
INCY Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc.
INSP Infospace.com
INFY Infosys Tech Ltd.
IR Ingersoll-Rand
INTC Intel Corp
ICGE Internet Cap Group Inc.
IPG Interpublic Grp Cos
ISIL Intersil Holding Corp
INTL Inter-Tel Inc.
IBM Intl Bus. Machines
IFF Intl Flavors/Fragr
IP Intl Paper
INTU Intuit Inc.
ITT ITT Industries
JBL Jabil Circuit Inc.
JKHY Jack Henry & Associates Inc.
JBX Jack in the Box Inc.
JP Jefferson-Pilot
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JCI Johnson Controls
JNPR Juniper Networks Inc.
KBH Kaufman & Broad Home
KEI Keithley Instruments Inc.
K Kellogg Co.
KMG Kerr-McGee
KEY KeyCorp
KEYN Keynote Systems Inc.
KMB Kimberly-Clark
KLAC Kla-Tencor Corp.
KRI Knight-Ridder Inc
KSS Kohl's Corp
KKD Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
KR Kroger Co.
KSWS K-Swiss Inc.
KYO Kyocera Corp
LRCX Lam Research Corp
LEG Leggett & Platt
LEH Lehman Br Holdings
LXK Lexmark Intl'A'
LLY Lilly (Eli)
LNC Lincoln Natl Corp
LLTC Linear Technology Corp
LIZ Liz Claiborne Inc.
LMT Lockheed Martin Corp
LTR Loews Corp
LDG Longs Drug Stores
LPX Louisiana Pacific
LOW Lowe's Cos
HCR Manor Care
MAR Marriott Intl 'A'
MMC Marsh & McLennan
MSO Martha Stewart Living
MAS Masco Corp
MONE Matrixone Inc.
MAT Mattel, Inc
MXIM Maxim Integrated Products
MAY May Dept Stores
MYG Maytag Corporation
MBI MBIA Inc
KRB MBNA Corp
MDR McDermott Intl
MCD McDonalds Corp
MHP McGraw-Hill Companies
MCK McKesson HBOC
MEDX Medarex Inc.
MEDI Medimmune Inc.
MDT Medtronic, Inc
MEL Mellon Financial
MRK Merck & Co. Inc.
MERQ Mercury Interactive Corp
MDP Meredith Corp
MER Merrill, Lynch & Co. Inc.
MET MetLife Inc.
MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
MTG MGIC Investment
MGG MGM Grand Inc.
MU Micron Technology Inc.
MSFT Microsoft Corp
MSTR Microstrategy
MLNM Millenium Pharmaceuticals
MIL Millipore Corp
MMM Minnesota Min'g/Mfg
MOLX Molex Inc
JPM Morgan J.P. & Co. Inc.
MWD Morgan Stan Dean Witter
MOT Motorola, Inc
MYGN Myriad Genetics Inc.
QQQ Nasdaq-100 Trust
NCC Natl City Corp
NSM Natl Semiconductor
NAV Navistar Intl
NCR NCR Corp
NTAP Network Appliance Corp.
NYT New York Times Co.
NWL Newell Rubbermaid
NEM Newmont Mining
NEWP Newport Corp
NXTL NEXTEL Communic'ns'A'
NXTP Nextel Partners Inc.
GAS NICOR Inc
NKE NIKE, Inc Cl'B'
NIKU Niku Corp
NOK Nokia Crop
JWN Nordstrom, Inc
NSC Norfolk Southern
NTRS Northern Trust
NOC Northrop Grumman
NOVL Novell Inc.
NVLS Novellus Systems
NUE Nucor Corp
NVDA Nvidia Corp
OO Oakley Inc.
OXY Occidental Petrol'm
ODP Office Depot Inc.
OMC Omnicom Group
OKE ONEOK Inc
ONVI Onvia.com Inc.
ORCL Oracle Corporation
OSIS OSI Systems Inc.
OSI Outback Steakhouse Inc.
OI Owens-Illinois
PCAR PACCAR Inc
PSUN Pacific Sunwear of California Inc.
PTV Pactiv Corp
PLL Pall Corp
PZZA Papa Johns Intl. Inc.
PMTC Parametric Technology
PH Parker-Hannifin
PAYX Paychex Inc
PSS Payless Shoesource Inc.
CRA PE-Celera Genomics
JCP Penny J.C. Co. Inc.
PGL Peoples Energy
PSFT PeopleSoft Inc.
PBY Pep Boys Manny Moe & Jack
PBG Pepsi Bottling Group
PEP Pepsico Inc.
PKI PerkinElmer Inc
PFE Pfizer, Inc
PCG PG&E Corporation
PD Phelps Dodge Corp
MO Philip Morris Cos
PHG Philips Electronics Holding Co.
PNW Pinnacle West Capital
PBI Pitney Bowes
PIXR Pixar Inc.
PDG Placer Dome Inc
PLUG Plug Power Co.
PMCS PMC Sierra Inc.
PNC PNC Financial Services Group
RL Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation
PCH Potlatch Corp
PWAV Powerwave Technologies Inc.
PPG PPG Indus
PPL PPL Corp
PX Praxair Inc
PCLN Priceline.com Inc.
PG Procter & Gamble Co.
PGR Progressive Corp,Ohio
PDLI Protein Design Labs Inc.
PVN Providian Financial
PEG Public Svc Enterpr
PHM Pulte Corp
QGENF Qiagen
QLGC Qlogic Corp
QLTI QLT Phototherapeutics
QCOM Qualcomm Inc.
QSFT Quest Software Inc.
ZQK Quicksilver Inc.
RSH RadioShack Corp
RMBS Rambus Inc.
RTN Raytheon Co'B'
RHAT Red Hat Inc.
RBK Reebok Intl
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
RCOM Register.com Inc.
RIMM Research in Motion Ltd.
RMD Resmed Inc.
RFMD RF Micro Devices Inc.
ROK Rockwell Intl
ROH Rohm & Haas
RDC Rowan Cos
RD Royal Dutch Petrol ADR
RML Russell Corp
R Ryder System
TSG SABRE Holdings'A'
SAFC SAFECO Corp
SWY Safeway Inc.
SLAB Sage Laboratories Inc.
SNDK Sandisk Corp
SANM Sanmina Corp
SAPE Sapient Corp
SLE Sara Lee Corp
SBC SBC Communications Inc.
SGP Schering-Plough
SLB Schlumberger Ltd
SCH Schwab(Charles)Corp
SFA Scientific-Atlanta
SEE Sealed Air
S Sears-Roebuck
SRE Sempra Energy
SC Shell Trans. & Trading Ltd.
SHW Sherwin-Williams
SEBL Siebel Systems Inc.
SIAL Sigma-Aldrich
SILI Siliconix Inc.
SKX Skechers USA Inc.
SLM SLM Holding
SNA Snap-On Inc
SNE Sony Corp
SO Southern Co
SOTR SouthTrust Corp
LUV Southwest Airlines Co.
FON Sprint Corp(FON Group)
STJ St. Jude Medical
SWK Stanley Works
SPLS Staples Inc.
SBUX Starbucks Corporation
STT State Street Corp
SUN Sunoco Inc
STI Suntrust Banks Inc.
SVU Supervalu Inc
SBL Symbol Technologies Inc.
SNV Synovus Financial
SYY Sysco Corp
TROW T.Rowe Price Assoc
TGT Target Corp
TEK Tektronix Inc
TLAB Tellabs, Inc
TIN Temple-Inland
THC Tenet Healthcare
TER Teradyne Inc
TXN Texas Instruments
TXT Textron, Inc
LTD The Limited Inc.
TMO Thermo Electron
TNB Thomas & Betts
TIBX Tibco Software
TIF Tiffany & Co.
TBL Timberland Co.
TKR Timken Co
TTN Titan Corp
TJX TJX Companies
TOM Tommy Hilfiger Corp
TMK Torchmark Corp
TM Toyota Motor Corp
TOY Toys R Us Inc.
RIG Transocean Sedco Forex
TRB Tribune Co.
YUM Tricon Global Restaurants Inc.
TUP Tupperware Corp
TXU TXU Corp
TYC Tyco Labs Inc.
USB U.S. Bancorp
UN Unilever N.V.
UNP Union Pacific
UPC Union Planters
UIS Unisys Corp
UPS United Parcel Services Inc.
USM United States Cellular Corp
UTX United Technologies Corp
UNH UnitedHealth Group
UVV Universal Corp.
UVN Univision Communications
UCL Unocal Corp
UNM UnumProvident Corp
UST UST Inc
MRO USX-Marathon Grp
X USX-U.S. Steel Group
UTSI Utstarcom Inc.
VANS Vans Inc.
VRSN Verisign Inc.
VZ Verizon Communications
VRTS Vertas Software Corp
VFC VF Corp
VIA Viacom Inc.
VC Visteon Corp
VOD Vodafone Group
VMC Vulcan Materials
WB Wachovia Corp
WAG Walgreen Company
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
WM Washington Mutual Inc.
WMI Waste Management
WPI Watson Pharmaceuticals
WLP Wellpoint Hlth Networks
WFC Wells Fargo & Company
WEN Wendy's Intl
WY Weyerhaeuser Co
WHR Whirlpool Corp
WMB Williams Cos
WOR Worthington Indus
WWY Wrigley, (Wm) Jr
WWE Wrld Wrestling Fed. Ent.
XRX Xerox Corporation
XLNX Xilinx Inc.
YHOO Yahoo Inc.
ZIGO Zygo Corp
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Check this video out! This is the perfect example of why you need to know 
history.  This guy comes across as the biggest idiot in the world. 
Chamberlain was the guy from England who thought WWII would be prevented by 
appeasement which was basically letting Hitler get away with taking over 
countries. Chamberlain was afraid of war 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cyg8WlOqKGs

Check this story abouy Puppy Mills.I learned a lot about why not to get a 
puppy from a pet store.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1jXoNYtN3s 

This is a neat website that helps animals at shelters.  All you do is click 
on it each day and then click on Feed animals, the corporate sponsors will 
donate .6 bowls of food to shelters.  It is free.  The site is:  
www.theanimalrescuesite.com

If you would like to download Google Earth to your home computer(the program 
we learned about in class go to:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Check this website out.  It shows sample Presidential Campaign Commercials 
from 1952-Present.  See how they have changed over the last 50 years.   
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

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