Friday, April 29, 2011
Jena and Little Rock
They both are similar because in both towns people protests kids seperated at schools. In both stories both sets of supporters took on racial slurs and harsh punishment. They are both similar because they both got the presidents involved. It suprised me because the Jena incodent was recent. I thought our country could come together after seeing everything that has happend in yeasrs past. I thought our country wanted to have everyone treated equal.
Meritocracy
Meritocracy does exist in our society today. People are intellegent based on how they take on a situation using their skills and abilities rather than wealth. You could be the poorest person in you neighborhood, but if you try hard enough you can accomplish so much. The video relates to this because in it, the children who were concidered superior performed the tasks better then those concidered inferior. I think the lower class children view them selves as low class, so they don't want to try harder because they assume it's always going to be the same; trying harder won't help.
I Am Poem
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine
I wonder how it would feel to be a white student
I hear them talking about my skin color
I see the other eight trembling in fear along with me
I want tobe accepted
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
I rpetend that they say doesn't effect me
I feel the segragation between our races
I need support from my fellow race
I worry the school will never be safe
I cry only when I am in the protection of my own home
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
I understand the past
I believe it should change
I dream we will one day be harmonious
I try to ignore the hatred
I hope they will soon accept me
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
I wonder how it would feel to be a white student
I hear them talking about my skin color
I see the other eight trembling in fear along with me
I want tobe accepted
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
I rpetend that they say doesn't effect me
I feel the segragation between our races
I need support from my fellow race
I worry the school will never be safe
I cry only when I am in the protection of my own home
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
I understand the past
I believe it should change
I dream we will one day be harmonious
I try to ignore the hatred
I hope they will soon accept me
I am proudly one of the Little Rock Nine.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Concepts for Topic 11
MLK & Civil Disobedience: Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader throughout the Civil Rights Movement. He would organize events where people would not fight, they would just sit there and take it. Kindof like a dead weight. Some included the Montomery Bus Boycott.
Power of the "Mob": A mob is a large mass of people trying to over come a difference they don't agree with. They come together and form ideas to try and "take over" the topic.
Plessy v. Ferguson VS. Brown v. Board of Ed. : Plessy v. Ferguson is a law that states "seprate but equal". Brown v. Board overturned Plessy v. Ferguson becuase it was conicdered unequal and unconstitutional
Civil Rights Goals: Freedom rides> buses were often bombed, white college students joined for support, Malcolm X
Brown v Board: Color ignites the civil rights movement, Olive brown sued school board on behalf of his 8 year old because she shouldn't be going to a school only for African Americans
Chavez and the United Farm Workers: Cesar Chavez, became a cultural icon for Cicanos. Founded the (UFW) United Farm Workers. Anti-Immagration while at UFW.
FHA and ADA: Fair housing act- Part of 1964 CRA, Outlawed refusal to cell or rent a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, handicap, or national origin.
Filibusters: Used to stop the other side from speaking, pushing a legislation or to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sit-Ins and other protests:
Lunch sit-ins where the african americans would sit in a place that served only white people and asked for a menu. As they were denied taunted the arrested, the next flow of supports sat down.
Eisenhower's Role in Little Rock: 101st Airborne to uphold the supreme court decision on integrated schools
Rights of the Accused: Gideon v Wainwright- 6th amendment, accused criminal has no right to a lawyer; Escobedo v Illinois- Criminal suspects have the right to counsel during police interrogations; Miranda v Arizona- Criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with counsel to to interrogation.
Power of the "Mob": A mob is a large mass of people trying to over come a difference they don't agree with. They come together and form ideas to try and "take over" the topic.
Plessy v. Ferguson VS. Brown v. Board of Ed. : Plessy v. Ferguson is a law that states "seprate but equal". Brown v. Board overturned Plessy v. Ferguson becuase it was conicdered unequal and unconstitutional
Civil Rights Goals: Freedom rides> buses were often bombed, white college students joined for support, Malcolm X
Brown v Board: Color ignites the civil rights movement, Olive brown sued school board on behalf of his 8 year old because she shouldn't be going to a school only for African Americans
Chavez and the United Farm Workers: Cesar Chavez, became a cultural icon for Cicanos. Founded the (UFW) United Farm Workers. Anti-Immagration while at UFW.
FHA and ADA: Fair housing act- Part of 1964 CRA, Outlawed refusal to cell or rent a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, handicap, or national origin.
Filibusters: Used to stop the other side from speaking, pushing a legislation or to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sit-Ins and other protests:
Lunch sit-ins where the african americans would sit in a place that served only white people and asked for a menu. As they were denied taunted the arrested, the next flow of supports sat down.
Eisenhower's Role in Little Rock: 101st Airborne to uphold the supreme court decision on integrated schools
Rights of the Accused: Gideon v Wainwright- 6th amendment, accused criminal has no right to a lawyer; Escobedo v Illinois- Criminal suspects have the right to counsel during police interrogations; Miranda v Arizona- Criminal suspects must be informed of their right to consult with counsel to to interrogation.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Picture story
With the american dream in hand (a husband, wife, 3 children, a dog, and a beautifully furnished home) the children wake up to a beautiful white christmas morning. As the freshly fallen snow engulfs the roof top, the kids begin screaming for joy. Pushing through the beautiful drappery, their mother walks in to capture the moment. Their dog is even excited. The kids cannot wait to bundle up for the cold and go outside to play in the snow.
Topic 10 Concept Guide
McCarthy's impact on society - accused directors, producers, and writers of producing communist propaganda Communist witch hunt -Going after Hollywood 10 Space Race - Soviets VS. United States in a race to see which will go to space first - Sputnick Launch from S.U made US raise education funds for "smarter people" - 1969- US man walks on moon Cold War mindset - people were afraid of communism, so they did things to prevent it Relationships- Suburbs, automobiles, roads- roads were made from city to suburbs and was made fast by using automobiles BabyBoom - When men returned from the war and women were so exicted that the US won, men and women elloped and had children (1946-1960) Urban/Suburban 1. Top Business distrect 2. Innercity- Low income 3. Suburbs-Mid income 4. Suburbs- High income GI Bill -Bill the provided college or vocational education for returning WWII verterans
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Topic 9 Concet Guide
Role of women in WWll - The women took on the manly job when they were off to war. When the men returned, they began to work again while the women worked at home. Cause and Effect of A-bomb - Cause = Japan attacking Pearl Harbor - Effect = Dropping of Atomic Bomb in japan killing millions Effects of war in Europe - Put the economy of europe into depression Effects of Pearl Harbor attack - Japanese people died from explosion and radiation in hirshima and nogasaki Japanese Internment - Japanese were slowly segragated to camps Neutrality act - 1. Stop selling weapons 2. US battleships could not be armed 3. Americans could not travel on ships of countries at war Purpose of propaganda posters - To spread the idea presented on the poster Rationing - Using and saving every day items for further use in the war. Results of WWII - United nations formed in 1945, Germany desires to be like US because of their use of the Atomic Bomb
Friday, March 11, 2011
Arlette Waldmann
Although you were so young at the time, could you understand what was going on? Could you understand why it was happening? What was it like playing with the soldiers outside your new ajoined house?
You said in your interview "I loved being Catholic, I felt safe knowing that Jesus loved little children and took care of them." How much different do you think your life would have been if you actually were Catholic? Even during the war.
Was it hard to make so many transistions in the begining years of your life "being catholic" and then showing that you were actually jewish?
Explain how your mother and father changed there thoughts of first knowing they were Jewish, to changing to Cathlic and having to go back to Judism.
Reaction to videos
Im actually not suprised that some people took the aniciative to actually learn. Im also not suprised that these women wanted to dream and get away from reality. I think it's wonderful to have people near you during a hard time, take an interest in the same things you do.
In another vidoe I viewed, an elderly man who was a liberator in the war, James Hayes, discusses the last 10 days of the German's fighting until they surrendered. He describes what he saw; The multiple casualties he knew were going to lead to a much larger spread of disease. He knew that the bodies had to be taken out of the area.
All videos from: http://college.usc.edu/vhi/
In another vidoe I viewed, an elderly man who was a liberator in the war, James Hayes, discusses the last 10 days of the German's fighting until they surrendered. He describes what he saw; The multiple casualties he knew were going to lead to a much larger spread of disease. He knew that the bodies had to be taken out of the area.
All videos from: http://college.usc.edu/vhi/
Friday, February 11, 2011
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Ferdinado Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were both anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men in the 1920's armed robbery in South Braintree. In the end, the two Italian immagrants were put up for execution on August 23, 1927.
South Braintree, Robbery: Four men attempt to rob a payroll company. In the end, two men were shot dead, and two others got away with handguns and a lot of cash. After hopping into another car, those guys got away with other men.
On april 9, 1927 the two men were sentenced to death by electracution.
I believe that Sacco could have been guilty due to his past "relationships" with murder trails.
Gangstaa Small Group Presentations
I learned a lot about different gangsters in the 1920's in our small group assignments. I learned (in my own project) about Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd. He used to be a family man, til he got tired of it and ran off to get a gun; leading to him holding up a grocery store at age 18. I learned that most of the gangsters each group studied were "bad enough" to land #1 on America's Public Enemy list. That's impressive! In my own group I learned to let everyone do their part. As long as I get mine done and contributed to the groups project portion. I enjoyed doing group work as at the same time, it was completely nerve wracking for such a small project. All and all, I did enjoy learning about the 1920's gangsters.
Acrostic Poem
People were mad,
Riots were startedf because of the ban of alcohol,
Organized crime caused police to get strict,
Help stealing alcohol also leaded to jail time,
Immagrants were not excepted any longer,
Beer was illegal,
It happend after WW1,
Times changed fast and drastically,
It was as if you were in a movie,
Older women thought Flappers were trashy,
No one was allowed to drink.
Rural based,
Organized crimecreated violence,
Alcohol was still banned,
Real gangsters were forming,
Installment plan was what the government wanted,
New look on life,
Gun violence grew,
Technology changed,
Women wore dresses that were shorter then before,
Everyone had different thoughts about the changes in the 1920's,
New fashion trends were formed,
Things changed drastically,
Indifferent, is what people wanted,
Electric cars were the future,
Short skirts showed off the "flappers gams".
Riots were startedf because of the ban of alcohol,
Organized crime caused police to get strict,
Help stealing alcohol also leaded to jail time,
Immagrants were not excepted any longer,
Beer was illegal,
It happend after WW1,
Times changed fast and drastically,
It was as if you were in a movie,
Older women thought Flappers were trashy,
No one was allowed to drink.
Rural based,
Organized crimecreated violence,
Alcohol was still banned,
Real gangsters were forming,
Installment plan was what the government wanted,
New look on life,
Gun violence grew,
Technology changed,
Women wore dresses that were shorter then before,
Everyone had different thoughts about the changes in the 1920's,
New fashion trends were formed,
Things changed drastically,
Indifferent, is what people wanted,
Electric cars were the future,
Short skirts showed off the "flappers gams".
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Evolutionism vs. Religion
During the 1930's, it was illegal to teach evolutionism. I believe that religion should not be taught in schools. I think Scopes had the right idea to teach Evolutionism instead of it. To me, with the way some kids minds "take over" schools today, talking about religion would be a 'touchy-subject' for a few people. I believe talking about evolutionism is a good way to learn about it. It is science! We learn about science everyday in school. I think handling information based on religion could make classmates think the wrong way. On the other hand, I do think it would benefit in the long run because every religion, race, ethnicity, whatever you want to call it, are learning the same facts and gaining information about something new from different religions.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Concepts for Topic 7
"The following concepts will be on the Topic.07 Formative Assessment. It is the student’s responsibility to prepare for this assessment. Information could come from in class activities, discussion and readings."
The Scopes Trial-Biology teacher named John Scope was put on trial for suspision of violating the states butler acts. These acts made teaching evolutionism unlawful.
Prohibition- The Banning of Alcohol leading to stricter police force and riots.
Flappers- Flappers in the roaring twenties was considered a "new type of women". If you were a flapper, your image changed drasitcally in clothes and hair.
Economic Issues (1920s)-Overproduction and false credit were the biggest problems americans dealt with in the 1920's.
Dust Bowl - Dust blew on the southern planes which made it hard to breath, eat meals, and take walks. Children had to wear masks outside.
Agriculture Issues- The farm income began to lag behind increases in the cost of production; The European demand for U.S farm products suddenly declined and pricec began to spiral downward.
Immigration Policies (1920s)
- Immagration Restrictions- 1. US could thrive without immagrants
2. Oppositions to quotas dissappear
-1924 Immagrations Acts- Ethnic groups are limited to 2% of count
from the 1890 census * Asians were band
Nativism - The rebirth of the KKK in a different form, not only anti-black, but anti- jewish, anti- catholic, and anti-immagrant
Significant Literary Works (1920s) - brought a highly vocal rebellion agains established social and sexual conventions, and a vigorous attempt to establish new values; protest and intent on making new art; intent on "glittering" the 1920's and years that followed.
The Great Migration- movement of 2 million blacks from the southern. They migrated to escape racism and to try and find jobs in industrial cities.
Harlem Renaissance- Cultural movement; "New Negro Movement" named after Alian Locke
Sacco and Vanzetti- Both convicted of murder during an armed robbery of the 1920's in South Braintree, Mass. After the trial, the men were executed in April of 1927.
Labor Issues (1920s)- Nation's desire for less government, Laborers lost many protections they had previously gained because of labor laws
The Red Scare - Red= Communism
- Bolshevik Revolution- Lenin takes power in Russia, leading Russia away from the U.S.S.R. People were afraid of those who displayed unamerican behaviors.
- Palmer Raids- Raids of "communist" organizations
Schneck v. the United States- Espionage and sedation acts were declared constitutional by the supreme court
The Scopes Trial-Biology teacher named John Scope was put on trial for suspision of violating the states butler acts. These acts made teaching evolutionism unlawful.
Prohibition- The Banning of Alcohol leading to stricter police force and riots.
Flappers- Flappers in the roaring twenties was considered a "new type of women". If you were a flapper, your image changed drasitcally in clothes and hair.
Economic Issues (1920s)-Overproduction and false credit were the biggest problems americans dealt with in the 1920's.
Dust Bowl - Dust blew on the southern planes which made it hard to breath, eat meals, and take walks. Children had to wear masks outside.
Agriculture Issues- The farm income began to lag behind increases in the cost of production; The European demand for U.S farm products suddenly declined and pricec began to spiral downward.
Immigration Policies (1920s)
- Immagration Restrictions- 1. US could thrive without immagrants
2. Oppositions to quotas dissappear
-1924 Immagrations Acts- Ethnic groups are limited to 2% of count
from the 1890 census * Asians were band
Nativism - The rebirth of the KKK in a different form, not only anti-black, but anti- jewish, anti- catholic, and anti-immagrant
Significant Literary Works (1920s) - brought a highly vocal rebellion agains established social and sexual conventions, and a vigorous attempt to establish new values; protest and intent on making new art; intent on "glittering" the 1920's and years that followed.
The Great Migration- movement of 2 million blacks from the southern. They migrated to escape racism and to try and find jobs in industrial cities.
Harlem Renaissance- Cultural movement; "New Negro Movement" named after Alian Locke
Sacco and Vanzetti- Both convicted of murder during an armed robbery of the 1920's in South Braintree, Mass. After the trial, the men were executed in April of 1927.
Labor Issues (1920s)- Nation's desire for less government, Laborers lost many protections they had previously gained because of labor laws
The Red Scare - Red= Communism
- Bolshevik Revolution- Lenin takes power in Russia, leading Russia away from the U.S.S.R. People were afraid of those who displayed unamerican behaviors.
- Palmer Raids- Raids of "communist" organizations
Schneck v. the United States- Espionage and sedation acts were declared constitutional by the supreme court
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Call of Duty
A lot of contraversy has sprung up with the violence and war like events Call of Duty portrays. I myself have a brother who plays this game and I think that it shouldn't be portraying the violence that soldiers actually go through in the war. Younger children like my brother, play this game and walk around like it's happening to them. My brother for instance, walks around the corner in my house and pertends to get blown up. I don't think he realizes that actual men and women could have this happen to them, he thinks it's "just a game". I don't think video games should be allowed to show war like events. I think that video games do not show the whole truth of what is happening in the war, although in some cases they are portrayed well (from what I know). I don't think it's fair to let something that is happening in real life have a reset button for the children and teens playing it. I think it gives them the idea that if they are in war, they are invinsable. In some cases however, games like Call of Duty are a "catch 22". Besides the violence and strong interpritations of war, games in general give you better hand/eye coordination. Games like Call of Duty, if played by a soldier were to play this game allow the soldier to "warm up" to what they are about to go through. At the same time however, it also reminds the soldiers that have left combat what they went through. In general I think Call of Duty has pros and cons. All and All, I feel like this game is innapropriate and unfair to those who serve our country.
Movie Imperialism
Inglourious Basterds is a movie that portrays imperialism. This movie is based on WWII and shows the control of a Nazi group in france. Imperialism means the policy or practice of extending a state's rule over other territories and or an instance or policy of aggressive behaviour by one state against another.In the movie, the Nazi soldiers plan on taking down the entire Jewish community. One by one they go through each house, finding some hiding and some straight out in the open and demolish every single one. Some run, most are found and killed harsher then before.
Young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus just watched a Nazi group murder her entire family, she was the only one who got away without being killed. A few years later she plans her revenge. Knowing that every "high-end" nazi is going to the theater to watch the premier of a movie, she plans the perfect attack. The event catches the attention of the "Basterds" (a group of Jewish-American soldiers). With the plan in action, they persue to defeat the Nazi nation by burning down the building.
Shosanna Dreyfus "gets close" to a few soldiers just to catch a sneak peak of what they are actually doing. After all is done, her plan pulls through as she demolishes an entire theater or Nazis.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mr. WikiLeaksToMuch?
Wiki leaks insists they provide an inovative and secure way for anonymous sources to spread information to their writers to be published to the world. WikiLeaks priority is to spread information they think the world should know about; to publish the original source of material and news stories to the families and friends of the person to blame for doing something they view as wrong. They want the world to see evidence of the truth."Could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act." - Time Magazine
Wiki Leaks, to me, is showing too much yet just enough. The information is valid and should, in some cases, be known about in the commen world... not just the army or person involved. In this case, seeing a video about how the people who are supposed to be HELPING out country, make a game out of a shooting is heart renching. I think however, we as americans should know how our country is being defended. It is one thing to think that someone you're looking at could be carrying a gun to harm someone and or himself, but it's another story if you shoot them and bash them for what you thought they are. I wonder if the information we are seeing shows the government that they should probably change the way things are being taken care of? In this situation, I believe, we could have swarmed the area and taken the men down in a different way. We could have searched them for weapons or bombs before shooting them ourselves. They also took it to another level by shooting a civilians just trying to her. Could this situation harm our "friendship" with outher countries if they got a hold of the video? Or would they support our attacks on innocent people?
To me, WikiLeaks is a good source for information if they show information that is nessasary to show. Regardless of being hurtful for some people it is showing them the truth behind our actions. I don't think they should show personal individual information about each and every soul, but I think it is good to see what out government is doing and how they handle business if we American's "keep our cool" when we find out. I believe this site is one of the only ones showing what really is going on. I believe if this site continued on, our country would better it's self in some ways.
Image source: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/12/237px-Wikileaks_logo.svg_.png
Treatment of a prisoner
Friday, January 7, 2011
Roaring Twenties
The roaring twenties were the "cat's meow". Lots of things gangsters thought were "apple sause". All this gave me the "Heebie Geebies". I didn't know a single "darb" then. You ask who's the"big cheese" of all this? It was the women. Nothing was "berries" at first. All the "molls" were mad that the recreated women were taking there thunder. This one girl told me a story about how a "Hotsy Totsy" had a nasty set of "gams". She walked into the joint like a "bearcat". They said it wasn't "copasetic" to have a women of such quality dress like that. Apperently her boyfriend "upchucked" his "giggle water" as he started at her chassy.
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