Declaration/Response

       It seems as though The United States were calmer than the German goverment. Based on these wordles, to me, it seems as though U.S was more focused on the people and restoring order as the Germans were focused on alliances, blockades, and  submarienes. Based on the words it seemed that Germany was mad and assumed the United States was arrogent for having sided with England.

10/4 Good Buddy

Dying within the first two seconds of playing this game shows me it's not so easy. Dogfighting as air to air combat seems rediculous. Not only because it seemed as if you had to be mad to shoot someone in another plane because you knew the outcome, but also because of yourself. You'd have to be crazy to think I would get into a plane, fly a few miles, and begin to let someone shoot at me while I was shooting at them. Although "that's the war for ya" I still find it hard to believe this actually happened. I know it did, it's just hard to believe. Could you imagine risking your life in such a way? Knowing the plane will blow up! Knowing you will die! I have respect for everyone who risked and some who lost their lives taking on such a risky task.

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Quick and Easy? Ehh, not so much.

As of 2010 people communicate through multiple sites and sources; Facebook, Twitter, email, Myspace, text, phone calls, Skype, etc. We've got it easy! In today's world we can set up our accounts on our phones, get notifications texts, and see each other on webcam. Back in the time of WWl, they waited and they prayed for a single letter from someone who cared. There was no technology back in the day, nothing for people to set up or create, no one heard a ding in their pocket telling them "You've got mail". Waiting week to week was agony for some soldiers. Depending on where they are located changed the amount of time it took them to recieve the letter. I would not want to wait to hear from someone who meant something to me. I am greatful for the technology that is established today.

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Slaves ain't gettin' no edumacation

African Americans were not allowed to be educated while being a slave. Im sure that they would have like to have been, but rules say they are not allowed to. If they found a way to learn something, it was kept in secret. Slaves were not allowed to learn to reaad or write, so they took interest in learning from previous taught slaves. Although slavery ended at one point theywere still facing road blocks. Schools soon became open to African Americans, but there was a catch. Segragation; This allowed whites to be seperated from blacks. The black population that wanted to attend schools and get an education. The white americans attended a higher class school to get their education, while the blacks schools were dirty and unkept. It took a very extensive amount of time for the white and black population to intertwine in more ways then just education.

Can anyone say Amnesty?

During reconstruction there was a debate over whether the South should be granted amnesty for their rude actions towards African Americans. African Americans were treated not like any human. They were sold to slavery, beaten, and even killed. Do you think the South deserves Amnesty?  Amnesty is forgiveness to ones actions. The government made people believe that not one of those actions actually happend. It was all forgotten. I do not aggree that this should have happend. I think people should pay for there actions, just like we do today. I think if someone treats others poorly, they should be effected. Especially if they sold for slavery, beat, and abused the person/poeple.

The importance of ...

... History!
History is important because it shows us what we have missed before being born and even while we were alive but can't remember. History is created everyday. Yesterday is todays history.  History is important because it shows us how we came to be the way we are today. The Civil War, Segragation, and Reconstruction are all historical events that, without having known about, we might not be acting the same way wer are today, and treating people the same. History is important for our future.

Video Games only rott your brain ....

... So your mother says!
This game Oregon Trail is a great educational game. You pick who you what kind of person from that time you wish to portray, who is in your "circle", in the farmers case.. when you leave and how you spend your money. Games can be educational because as your playing you have to read to go through the game. You have to decide how you are going to succeed and survive as a person in your game. Games are not just helping you learn histroy and current events, they help in math, reading, wars, and other day to day events.

"Shh! They don't have to know."

We leave a bit of truth out here and there just to make ourselves look high and mighty. Most leaders leave out information about wars or events that happend where they compete with another country or leader. They "misplace" the truth about what happend to no embarrass themselves. I think, although im sure it might not ever happen, that countries should not leave out information of true events. This may hurt there reputation, but it also portrays the complete truth to the people hearing and reading about events. You may think that for the time being that everyone will believe your false shortened version of the story, but in the long run, everyone finds out the truth at one point.

Stereotypes

My favorite blog topic I have written about is stereotypes. Im so used to getting the common stereotypes about the most simple things in my daily life. Regardless of them being true, people like to start rumors, make new stereotypes, and even continue the tradition of the old. I felt that I could express the meaning and realness of stereotypes in my previous blog.

Work, work, work, till the brain begins to swim

Tired workers and women constantly sewing, this song portrays the life of a textile worker. The song describes the job being a very stressful and tiring one. Author Thomas Hood exaplains the consistant sewing in the textile warehouse; wearing out the workers instead of the clothes. No matter what you constantly sew. Sew through hunger, tiredness, and dirtiness. That is the song the women sung, "The song of the shirt".

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So much distance so little strength

Reconstruction, for the win !

Reconstruction allowed former slaves to be "freed", or so they thought. In my opinion, sharecropping during reconstruction still had a small meaning of slavery. This means the freed slaves were still basically thought of as slaves, they still did work for owners as they were told to do so. Sharecropping is when a free slave lived on their masters plantation. They were told to give there masters 50% of the crops and pay cash for the tools they used. The masters came out to direct the new landowners, as well. They were told to move stakes of hay, clean the animals, pick the crops, etc. In my opinion, although they were still treated as slaves, they were way better off after reconstruction than during the Civil War. During the Civil War, slaves were treated terrible. Starting with the trade, then when they were actually brought into their masters home they were treated poorly and had to do mass amounts of work. Reconstruction was a 'step forward' for the slaves.

SALVES FOR SALE !

This picture is a great representation of what took place on the ship. This image was based upon the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slave trade was a cruel way to have colored people sold for personal use. Slaves were basically stacked on top of each other on a ship and fed only a spoon full of left overs, twice a day. As days went on, some would get sick, some would starve, and some would die.  An image was focused upon when the slave filled ship got to land. If the slaves looked sick and weak, no money would be made and no slaves would be sold. No owner wants a weak or sick slave. The ones that were sick or weak, were linked together and tossed over board to die while the others were sold to a life of slavery.

Governs more < Governs least

According to Thoreau, a government is best when it governs least. To me, this means that he thought if a government takes less control over their country then the people could voice opinion more, obey more, and prosper more, because they let the people be on there own and have there own ways to make money. Without the hustle of the government trying to mold them a way they don't believe in, the people would enjoy that more. We disobey, when someone forces us to do something that we don't want to do; perfect example- school uniforms. As a school, there are always a group of people who do all they can to partially step over the line of dress code. They go as far as they can to disobey the rule, without getting into trouble. Clearly, if the government governs less, there could be a posetive outcome.

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Stereotypes ...

Based on peoples' perspective of the world, we all believe majority rules, right? If a group of people "vote" on the same idea being correct, we all kindof jump into the same idea and believe in it aswell.Well, I think stereotypes are so widely known because of the "broadcast" they get worldwide. TV News reports, school gossip, Website postings, blogs, news papers, text messages, phone calls, etc; all these sorces allow people to retain the information other people are portraying. In my opinion our generation  believes too much, too easily. Now a days, you can send a message saying something completely inaccurate to someone, and that same message will be relayed to someone within the hour. Some stereotypes are true, yes ... but then it leads to people thinking EVERYONE in the category is the same way. Womens sports like softball, men sports like wrestling, the type of clothing you wear, and things you say can be blamed on you being a "rasist". Everything you can possibly do or say or act has a stereotype, that people believe, attached to it.