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almost everything in their paths. Harvey dumped an estimated 27 trillion gallons of rain over Texas and Louisiana in a six-day period in August. Irma, a Category 4 hurricane, wiped out parts of Cuba and Florida with 130 mph winds only a few days later.
The support that was raised after these hurricanes was amazing. NFL star J. J. Watts’ fundraiser,“ Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund,” raised $ 37 million to help the families of Texas.
Donald Trump became our President in January, and the world is going crazy. You are either for him or against him. Campaigns have been started to get this man impeached, but the people that support believe everything he says.
In October at a Country Music festival, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 in Las Vegas, firing more than 1,100 rounds, killing 58 people and leaving 546 injured. The
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shocking incident was the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, re-igniting the debate on gun control.
Pop Culture
Salt Bae took over the internet with his outlandish cooking videos. Nusret Gökçe is the real name of the man drizzling the salt on the steak. He is a Turkish chef who owns and runs a number of Turkish steak houses. His video was viewed 10 million times on Instagram.
Many new artists broke onto the music charts in 2017.“ Despacito” by Luis Fonsi was one of the best songs of the year. The Spanish song, which Justin Bieber remixed, racked up almost a billion plays on Spotify.
The song“ rockstar” by Post Malone( ft. 21 Savage) has almost 500 million plays on Spotify. Ed Sheeran had a comeback year after releasing his album,“ Divide.” Every song became a hit and“ Shape of You” reaching a whopping 1 billion plays.
Sports In one of the most-hyped fights ever, watching a good Christmas film. To complete this godly tradition, you need a real Christmas tree to grace the household and make the family feel like it’ s being protected by Ricky Bobby’ s version of Baby Jesus.
Don’ t even get me started on Christmas decorations. Putting ornaments on a real tree is like dressing up a beautiful lady and taking her out for a night on the town. It makes sense to have a nicesmelling tree all dolled up, glowing and knowing it’ s not some artificial garbage made by bums like Tommy, who are too lazy to go out and get a real tree.
Decorating a fake tree is like dressing up a rock because, much like a rock, a fake Christmas tree has no personality. It’ s never fun to walk into your living room and see some lifeless figure with no personality. A tree has got to have pizazz.
But Tommy, you and your gang of fake-tree, Grinch-looking, Satan-worshipping Christmas haters can enjoy putting your fake tree together branch by branch. Meanwhile, my gang of real-tree-loving Christmas enthusiasts will gather hands around our real Christmas tree, singing“ Kumbaya.”
Floyd Mayweather, the best boxer in this century, took on the best UFC fight er, Conor McGregor, in August in Las Vegas. Mayweather, who won the fight by technical knockout in the 10th round, made a reported $ 300 million, while McGregor earned $ 100 million. The Houston Astros beat the L. A. Dodgers in a World Series Game 7. Jose Altuve of the Astros won MVP with 24 home runs and a. 346 batting average.
The Ball family-- Lavar, Tina, Lonzo, LiAngelo, and Lamelo-- have been blowing up all over the media the past couple of months. From the father’ s outlandish comments about Michael Jordan to LiAngelo’ s arrest for stealing in China, there’ s always something going on with this family.
Even though he first came on the scene in 2016, Colin Kaepernick made headlines all year for his kneel to stand up for African American lives. He started a movement that still hasn’ t stopped, and you can expect it to continue for the next couple of years. It will have a tremendous impact on history as we know it.
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beliefs of many, I prefer a fake tree in my living room. I get the arguments for real trees, but I don’ t like walking into the living room, looking at my tree, and knowing that it’ s looking back at me.
Putting ornaments on a real tree is almost like dressing it, which is just wrong. There are also trails of pine needles with real trees, which hurt the holiday mood. You’ ll have none of these problems with fake tree. Keep nature where it belongs, and that is outdoors.
Every year, my family and I get out the annual tree box and set up our tree, piece by piece. We’ ve been doing it for about a decade now, so we know our routine. We can get that bad boy up in less than 30 minutes.
Not once do we to worry about venturing out to a tree farm and spending time deciding which tree is best. What my family has with Christmas decorating is consistency. It’ s nothing to write home about, but it’ s also extremely reliable and repetitive. We have it down like a science.
Whatever kind of tree you prefer, the bottom line is that Luttmann’ s a lunatic. Siding with him makes you one, too.
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