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.