question: When it is the end of school and the weather is warmer, that is a beautiful time called summer. Summer is wonderful because there are so many amazing things to do! You can wear fun dresses and get dirty playing outside, or you can stay inside all day and watch television. You can also ride your bike, meet up with friends during any time of the day, or maybe even eat ice-cream for breakfast! I have a birthday during the warmer summer weather and sometimes it is hard to get all my friends together at my home for cake and presents because they are on vacation! When I see my friends at school later they wish me happy birthday. My friends like me, but sometimes it is not so easy to get together. That's a stinker when that happens. It's a good thing that I have a pig named Joseph to be my friend during those times! I also have other friends, like a cat and a dog, but Joseph is the best. He's a stinker sometimes, but he's got cute little oinks to help me to know what he needs. He's also very sweet, caring, and he's always ready to listen. He's a wonderful friend.
1. Is the weather warmer at the end of school?
2. What is that time called?
3. Why is summer wonderful?
4. Can you wear fun dresses or get diry playing outside?
5. What are some other things you can do?
6. Does the main charcater of the story have a birthday in summer?
7. what makes it tough to have a birthday in the summer for him?
8. When di they wish him Happy birthday?
9. What's his pigs name?
10. Does he keep him company when his friends can't be there?
11. What kind of other animal friends does he have?
12. What does joesph do to help let him know what he needs?
13. Does Joseph listen good?
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answer: 1. yes
2. summer
3. because there are so many amazing things to do
4. yes
5. stay inside all day and watch television, ride your bike, meet up with friends during any time of the day
6. yes
7. it is hard to get all thier friends together because they are on vacation
8. When they see him later in school
9. Joseph
10. yes
11. a cat and a dog
12. oinks
13. yes

question: The Nintendo DS or simply, DS, is a 32-bit dual-screen handheld game console developed and released by Nintendo. The device went on sale in North America on November 21, 2004. The DS, short for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen", introduced distinctive new features to handheld gaming: two LCD screens working in tandem (the bottom one featuring a touchscreen), a built-in microphone, and support for wireless connectivity. Both screens are encompassed within a clamshell design similar to the Game Boy Advance SP. The Nintendo DS also features the ability for multiple DS consoles to directly interact with each other over Wi-Fi within a short range without the need to connect to an existing wireless network. Alternatively, they could interact online using the now-closed Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. Its main competitor was Sony's PlayStation Portable as part of the seventh generation era. It was likened to the Nintendo 64 from the 1990s, which led to several N64 ports such as "Super Mario 64 DS", "Diddy Kong Racing DS", among others.

Prior to its release, the Nintendo DS was marketed as an experimental, "third pillar" in Nintendo's console lineup, meant to complement the Game Boy Advance and GameCube. However, backward compatibility with Game Boy Advance titles and strong sales ultimately established it as the successor to the Game Boy series. On March 2, 2006, Nintendo launched the Nintendo DS Lite, a slimmer and lighter redesign of the original Nintendo DS with brighter screens. On November 1, 2008, Nintendo released the Nintendo DSi, another redesign with several hardware improvements and new features. All Nintendo DS models combined have sold 154.02 million units, making it the best selling handheld game console to date, and the second best selling video game console of all time behind Sony's PlayStation 2. The Nintendo DS line was succeeded by the Nintendo 3DS family in 2011.
1. Before it's release what was the Nintendo DS Marketed as?
2. What series of of game systems did it replace?
3. What is the Nintendo DS?
4. For the Combined Nintendo DS models how many units has it sold?
5. When was it's North American release?
6. What is the only game console to outsell it?
7. How did the DS connect to other DS consules to interact?
8. What were some of the new features of the Nintendo DS Lite?
9. How many LED screens did the Nintendo DS have?
10. What was it succeeded by?
11. Which redesign was released in November 2008?
12. What are some games from the Nintendo 64 that were ported to it?
13. What previous consule did the DS offer backwards compatability with?
14. Who was the DS's main competitor?
15. What is DS short for?
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answer: 1. as an experimental, "third pillar" in Nintendo's console lineup,
2. the Game Boy series
3. a 32-bit dual-screen handheld game console
4. 154.02 million units,
5. November 21, 2004
6. Sony's PlayStation 2.
7. r over Wi-Fi within a short range
8. slimmer and lighter
9. Two
10. \ Nintendo 3DS family
11. Nintendo DSi,
12. "Super Mario 64 DS", "Diddy Kong Racing DS",
13. Game Boy Advance
14. Sony's PlayStation Portable
15. Developers' System"

question: Yokohama's population of 3.7 million makes it Japan's largest city after the Special Wards of Tokyo. Yokohama developed rapidly as Japan's prominent port city following the end of Japan's relative isolation in the mid-19th century, and is today one of its major ports along with Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.

Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the feudal Edo period, when Japan held a policy of national seclusion, having little contact with foreigners. A major turning point in Japanese history happened in 185354, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships, demanding that Japan open several ports for commerce, and the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity.

It was initially agreed that one of the ports to be opened to foreign ships would be the bustling town of Kanagawa-juku (in what is now Kanagawa Ward) on the Tokaido, a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka. However, the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tokaido for comfort, and port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama. The Port of Yokohama was officially opened on June 2, 1859.
1. What is the largest city in Japan?
2. What's the second?
3. What's the population?
4. Is it landlocked?
5. Does it have any major ports?
6. Like what?
7. When was the Port of Yokohama opened?
8. What peroid signaled the end of the small fishing village status?
9. What did he do?
10. Was this met with resistance?
11. What happened?
12. Where was the port initially meant for?
13. Did it go by another name?
14. What water body would the port have been on?
15. What is that?
16. Why wasn't it built there?
17. When did Japan become less isolated?
18. What other major ports are there?
19. Which is the largest?
20. Tokyo is the largest port or city?
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answer:
1. the Special Wards of Tokyo
2. Yokohama
3. 3.7 million
4. no
5. yes
6. port facilities were instead built across the inlet in the sleepy fishing village of Yokohama
7. June 2, 1859
8. in 185354, when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived just south of Yokohama with a fleet of American warships
9. demanded that Japan open several ports for commerce
10. no
11. the Tokugawa shogunate agreed by signing the Treaty of Peace and Amity
12. Kanagawa-juku
13. Kanagawa Ward
14. the Tokaido
15. a strategic highway that linked Edo to Kyoto and Osaka
16. the Tokugawa shogunate decided that Kanagawa-juku was too close to the Tokaido for comfort
17. in the mid-19th century
18. Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya, Hakata, Tokyo, and Chiba.
19. Tokyo
20. both