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Hillary Clinton: ..........

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton, wife of former US president Bill Clinton, is currently the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party. She is up against the ever cheeky and thick skinned republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Both of them are running for president and on the 8th of   the fate of America will be decided. Is Hillary Clinton worthy of being the next president of America?

Here are some reasons why she should be president.

1.

       Hillary Clinton would get the best of advice and guidance from her husband who is a former president of America. She would get a lot of support.

2.     

        She knows what she is talking about and does not make many false promises.

3.     

         She will do very sane and believable things in her term unlike her rival who is doing some crazy things.

4.       

S  She is fighting for very common problems such as education for all and women empowerment. Donald, come man, you can’t be serious about that wall.

5.      

S   She knows how to conduct herself in a debate and not interrupt a person while he/she is speaking, therefore peace relations with other countries can be maintained.

However her scandals with her emails are a very bad example. She was getting both her work emails and personal emails to one account when he was secretary of state from 2008-12. She was also working on her personal server in her home in New York which had been setup for her husband. She received 62,000 emails which she concluded were half business. This can show how careless she can be and for her personal benefit be lazy. When she took office she was given a blackberry phone which couldn’t manage two accounts therefore merging both of them. She didn’t wish to carry two blackberries and for pure ‘convenience’ she did this. So she was now allowed to choose which emails she could pass onto the government and which she could not. This could have proven a fatal attack on some secret plans of the government.  Also as she was using a personal network and not the governments it would be much easier to hack and steal these confidential emails. This tells us that she can’t be fully trusted with such a big responsibility.

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In conclusion I can say that I don’t like both of these candidates. They both have no idea what they are doing and are not fir to run such a big country. This world truly does need more sensible people who are willing to take on this post. But since it has to be one of them I would choose Hillary Clinton as she is still much saner then M. Donald Duck.

Look at that face 

Donald Trump: the man America doesn't deserve

Donald Trump: the man America doesn't deserve

Donald Trump is currently the republican presidential candidate and is up against Hillary Clinton, wife of former president Bill Clinton and democratic presidential candidate.  Trump's supporters (hopefully none by November) say he is the man America needs but is he? (Really? Are you kidding me. But since this is a formal letter lets use big words.) This statement is questionable. (there you go)

Donald Trump is a millionaire and the founder of many un-successful business which you will later read about. But in all seriousness here is a list of reasons why Donald Trump should not be president-

1.     His supporters says he will be able to handle the country's wealth properly because he is a successful businessman. I sorry what? Have they looked at his 'successful' business which more than 3/4 have crashed?

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Trump Universities ( he needs to attend this place as he has no good words to use in a debate. No kidding. Just see one.)

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Trump  Airlines ( their shares crash landed)

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    Trump Ice ( I'm like whaaaaat? Something like that exists!)

2.    His supporters say he is a man of his word. Yeah? Then explain this. He wants to build a wall around Mexico. He also says that he is going to make Mexico pay for it. A bit too much isn't it? But that is not the point he initially said it would cost around 4 billion dollars and would be made of cement and by 9 metres high. Through his debates he increased that same number to 26 billion dollars.

3.    He doesn't respect different religions and wills to remove all Muslims from America. He doesn't understand diversities. This will be a problem if he becomes president as he must communicate with other world leaders who will all be from different religions.

4.    He doesn't know how to conduct himself in a debate and doesn't respect the other candidates. His debate issue will again be bad for the world leaders situation. He had no etiquette to debate against candidates. An example of this is when he called Hillary Clinton names and a 'puppet of her people'.

5.    He never has any clear points in his debates. He gives his ideas in vague descriptions and never gives the full picture or what he is going to do.    

There. I have stated the facts after full research and put it in the right words (which Donald Trump doesn't have) and gave full description of my points (which he doesn't seem to do)

I think America knows that this man is not capable of anything. So why are they silent? India wants to know! (#Arnav Goswami). In a recent poll conducted, people were asked who would they prefer as president? Donald Trump or Barack Obama? 51% chose Obama and 44% chose Trump, 7% undecided. Obama won but only 7% away from Trump! What the hell is going on!(#terminator #Arnold Schwarzenegger)

So I have one request to America. This November make the right choice when going to the polls.

Donald Trump's failure is as much a secret as his plan to abolish the ISIS. He is a source of cheap comedy. Instead of listening to his speeches, go to a club with a good comedian. He doesn't care about globalism and only Americanism.

I am not sure about people but animals surely do. The bald eagle, the national bird of America attacked him! This is a sign that says America truly hates him!

Not sure if this is real but he actually did get attacked

In the words of America's First Lady Michelle Obama,

"America doesn't need to be made great again. It already is." 

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Denver, Colorado

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Denver, Colorado

Sailing

After our visit to Alaska, we headed back to Denver where my uncle and aunt stay. We arrived over the weekend and the next week was going to be epic.

That week I was going sailing. Yeah that is right. Sailing. You must be imagining me, Raghav Agrawal Of class 7B, trying to sail a boat. Please. I know you are going to fall off your chair and start rolling on the floor in laughter but please for the sake of your electronic device, please remove that 

and then start laughing.

So yeah. Monday morning and I had to wake up early. I have heard this line before. I wonder where?

So we ate breakfast and headed out of the door towards the car but we never made it. Why, you may ask. Well because it was locked. Obviously.

We first had to drop off the little kids to some Minions survival camp. After dropping them in we started our journey to the Vaughan Way Dam road. Hey, I remember the name.

We were having the class with the people at  Community Sailing of Colorado. We had to get registered and then all the kids in our Beginner batch had to sit down and introduce themselves. Everybody had to say their name, the name of the school they go to and their least favourite vegetable. I didn't know what to say. I crossed my fingers hoping I wouldn't have to go first and then our instructor, Gary, pointed his finger and said the word I dreaded. "You". And in my mind I am like "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo <funny hand movements>.

He didn't point at me.

While we went through all the other 16 kids names, I was thinking on what I should call myself. But my thinking cut short because it was my turn. I said the first thing that came to my mind.

Bob.

I said it. And then I changed back to Raghav and then India. But I realised that nobody would be able to get my name so I just told them to call me Bob. And they did.

So for the next four days I was sailing in a no swimming lake. We learnt how to capsize and that was the highlight of the class. We turtled a few times and we had to pull the boat from the centre board with all our strength. A turtle was when the sail went down completely, a 180' turn. Then you had to stand on the hull and pull. We learned points of sail and we played 500 and Quidditch. 500 was when they dropped tennis balls and water noodles into the water and you had to sail around and grab those things. The items would worth different points and you had to earn them for your team. Sometimes you would get a mystery box or a would be allowed to capsize!

Qudditch was like the original Harry Potter one. We had to collect the noodles and balls for points and there was even a snitch.

On the last day of our class, we had something called the Sailing Olympics. We were divided into teams where we decided our own team name and chant. There were series of events like silent ninja docking game where you had to silently dock and grab a noodle from the table in the middle of the deck before a blindfolded instructor hears and catches you. There was even a rigging and de rigging race and a sandcastle building contest. Our team came last but that was okay because we actually won the sailing contests and not the other ones. I had a lot of fun and encourage people to try this sport. 

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 9 Victoria, Canada

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 9 Victoria, Canada

Today we were heading back to Seattle but on the way we were going to stop at Victoria in Canada. So exciting. Visiting 2 countries in the course of one month. Never done that before.

We had the day from 7 to 2 because we were going to dock in Victoria in the afternoon. We had an exciting section of BINGO and lucky draw from the raffle tickets accumulated throughout the cruise. The winner takes home two fully paid tickets for a cruise in the Mediterranean. We didn't win but we were close to winning the BINGO. Like this we spent our day doing the things they had to offer. And then finally in the afternoon we disembarked for our last shore excursion in the beautiful Victoria, Canada.

We saw some mountains in the distance and our driver guide told us that those belonged to Washington State. Holy Cow! We were that close to USA, it was a swim away. Actually Seattle was 4 hours away by car but still. So close.

We first were going to the Butchart Gardens. They were pretty far away and took us 2 hours to get there. The Butchart Gardens were absolutely beautiful and had many different gardens with different types of flowers. It was started by Jeannie Butchart  in 1904 and it has been in bloom since then. Her husband was Robert Butchart and was the owner of a cement factory. They had a huge land where they quarried their limestone. But soon Jeannie felt like they needed more and then took an interest in flowers. She wanted to have a garden but Robert didn't approve of that idea. But she said she would do it herself and actually did it. She dug her holes and started making her garden. But soon this garden started to expand. She converted limestone quarries to flower beds and soon she had a huge garden with flowers imported from all around the world. Many people came to visit and the always tea and left, as a sign of hospitality. Once the Queen of England was going to visit this garden but the road that led here wasn't quite good. So Jeannie had Robert pave the road!

When we got to the garden we were given a strict time limit. We visited the many garden with their different atmospheres and themes. They were really beautiful and their effort was  commendable. The flowers were well kept and there were even figures made of moss!

After visiting the gardens we climbed back on the bus and we were taken to Victoria downtown. We passed many buildings like The Empress Hotel and the Parliament Building. In Chinatown there was a small road which was only 3 feet wide!

Narrow  Street

After exploring Victoria and taking a lot of pictures we were taken to our ship. We had dinner and dad took me out for tiramisu. Get it? Out for? No. Okay.

And that was it. Our cruise was over. The next morning we disembarked for the last time and caught the plane home to Denver.    

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 8 Cruise to Alaska

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 8 Cruise to Alaska

Zoom into the picture and look for seals on the ice

Today we were returning to Seattle and our tour of Alaska was complete. However we were going to have one more day of visiting another place before returning to Seattle. We had the day free and we relaxed. In the afternoon our captain took us to see a brilliant glacier called the Endicott Glacier. Since everyone was crowding up in the front, the captain decided he would take this huge cruise ship in the narrow pass in a 360 so everyone could see. So I camped out at the back and when he positioned it correctly, I was ready with my camera, snapping pictures frantically. I even saw some seals on a piece of ice.

In the evening I had some time and I explored the ship more and got some pictures of the different places. That night we watched the comedy magic (aka momedy) of Jean Pierre. He was really funny and his magic tricks were pretty cool. After the show you could stay and he would teach you some magic tricks that were very simple. I really like that guy. I got a chance to take a picture of our awesome bedroom it had two beds and then those two opened up to be four. There was a train compartment type of bed on which I slept. We then had to sleep early because we had another day of sightseeing tomorrow.

The Stardust Theatre aboard the ship

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 7 Skagway, Alaska

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 7 Skagway, Alaska

Our final port of call in Alaska was Skagway and today was a long day from 7 to 5. We were driven by our driver to the train station where we were dropped off, train tickets in hand. We took our seats on the train and after some time you heard the toot-toot and we chugged down the winding road up the mountain. We started at elevation 0ft and we in the course of three hours climbed up to 2,865 ft. The train followed this rail which was called the White Pass and Yukon Route and was called Railway of the world.

This railroad was built because of the Klondike gold rush. This was the gold rush that started when gold was first found in Alaska. Captain William Moore was one of the first to find gold over here and was hired by a Canadian survey party headed by William Ogilvie who was commissioned to map the 141 st prime meridian because the known route, Chilkoot Pass, was rough and rugged so they decided to take a different path. Their path was called the White Pass after the Canadian Minister of Interior, Sir Thomas White.  And when the gold rush started people used this white pass more than the Chilkoot Pass because it was simpler to carry all their belongings on this pass. And we were now on a train on this pass which has been in use since the early 1900's.

On our journey to Fraser, Canada we saw a lot of trees and waterfalls and passed different points. Once the train stopped  to let some passengers of who wished to hike up the mountain. After two and a half hours we crossed the US and Canada border. When we entered Canada and  the landscape changed. The same mountains had now snow peaks. We then finally stopped and disembarked the train. Our bus driver had driven from Skagway here to pick us up. He then took us to the suspension bridge in Yukon.

The suspension bridge was built over a river and you might have guessed- it was suspended and attached only on the two sides. On the other side there were some informative places where we spent some time. We had some time so we visited the gift shop where we saw a toy train on a track on the wall going around. Since we had to get back to our ship, we climbed onto the     bus which would take us back to Skagway.

We were one of the first buses out so on the way we stopped at different places for a photo stop. We stopped at the border of the US and Canada and I literally jumped between the two countries. It was fun.

We got back to our ship by three and we had 2 hours before the ship left. After it left we started back towards Seattle.