John F Kennedy tweets

Big J

Cuban revolution is over! Cuban's new leader seems a bit shifty.

January 1st 1959.

Big J

I knew this guy didn't sit right with me, he's a communist dictator, we have dismissed him of US relations and pledge not to use military action

January 3 1961

Big J

The Cuban citizens rebelled against Castro today, they couldn't manage to overthrow his government, thousands of troops captured. Not a good day.

April 17, 1961

Big J

Castro says if we try to take action the USSR have armed him with weapons to cause a third world war. i might call that bluff.

July 27, 1962

Big J

the CIA have informed me that Castro has medium range ballistic missiles from the Soviets deployed in Cuba, but don't be afraid i will handle it.

August 10, 1962

Big J

Called for a recon flight over Cuba, delayed right now due to the harsh weather. Don't worries we'll get it done as soon as it's safe.

October 9, 1962

Big J

The flight has discovered that Cuba is constructing the medium range missiles and we have pictures. We are setting up a conference with the Soviets to eradicate any misunderstandings with Soviet intentions.

October 10, 1962

Big J

I have a big speech to give today. Tune in for the scoop on the crisis.

October 20,1962

Big J

I wrote a letter to Khrushchev, i told him we wouldn't get involved with Cuba if he removes the missiles. Pray he comes to terms with these crazy ideas.

October 27, 1962

Big J

Judgement day is here. Sit back and pray the Soviets come to, or we will be in for a lot of trouble.

October 28, 1962

Media differences

The difference between the media's portrayal of the Vietnam war compared to the war on terror is the words they use to describe the events and our troops. In the war on terror the media makes our country feel sorry for the soldiers and to give them support in their war on the evil terrorist that want to kill us all. In the Vietnam war they showed the bombing of innocent people by our troops and gave the country a negative connotation about the US military, which lead to the rise of anti war hippies. The media is how we receive information whether it be lies or truth, it is all we have. So how the media chooses to portray an event or people persuades US citizens to think the same.

Current issue song

"I smoke two joints in the morning, i smoke two joints at night, i smoke two joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright" Smoke two joints by Sublime. Really i couldn't choose a single verse of this song to explain the issue. The entire song is an example of how drugs are very popular in society even though they are unhealthy. The issue with drugs is similar to the issue of unhealthy food. These problems have been prevalent in society for quite a few decades and i think even though it'd be nearly impossible to halt these problems i feel we should avoid the popularity and praising they obtain.

Vietnam interview

Q : What was your reaction to the negative responses you got when returning from the war?

A : I feel cheated out of my glory. Other war veterans were praised when they came home and i feel i deserve the same.

Q : Was it emotionally challenging to have to split up families during the war?

A : Yes, but you learn to do what you need to to follow orders.

Q : Was the events in the war sometimes too hard to absorb, and did this sometimes put you on the verge of insanity?

A : When you go to war, you lose a lot of your emotion, and have to avoid getting attached to things, cause war is hell.

Q : How much did you have to carry around everywhere you went?

A : Tons of gear, and we moved carefully because the forests were so dense the enemy could ambush us from anywhere.

Q : How did you feel knowing you were dropping napalm on what could be innocent villages and people?

A : We try to neglect the fact that we were killing anyone. It caused us less trauma because we could never see what we were doing, just pretending it was empty forests that we needed to get rid of.

Timeglider

Carl Heumann

1: How did it feel to be betrayed by the Germans, having known you earned a German Iron Cross in World War 1?

2: How was your perception of religion affected by being moved to and forced to work in Auschwitz.

3: Did you make any friends in your camp, or were you out to keep you yourself alive?

4: Did your wife and daughter Lore manage to live in Auschwitz, or were they executed immediately? Also, how did you manage to cope with your family being gone in the camp?

5: While in the camp, did you think more about getting out, or just living day by day?

6: How has your appeal towards life changed throughout the experience?

World War 2 artifacts.

This is the medal for the European air offensive in World War 2. My grandfather's close friend was awarded this medal for piloting an aircraft into battle to deploy troops. The medal has a cool design of the aircrafts used to bring in paratroopers in world war 2. This medal may not be highly regarded as of achievements required to earn it, but is important to me as a memory of the man who might as well be my grandfathers brother Will.

James Braddock Google Map

View James J Braddock, The Cinderella Man in a larger map

Who's at risk?

I believe as the strongest country in the world military wise, it is a duty of ours to assist allies in need of our help. To allow countries like these to go through poverty, rape, genocides, famine etc. when we have the ability to help them is a horrible thing to do. Not only would this be a horrible thing to do morally, but think of it like Europe when Hitler began to invade countries without opposition, a large enough buildup of takeovers could result in mass takeovers and another world war.

However, I do also believe countries that do not choose to ally us and agree to help us if a similar occasion occurs do not deserve help, as risking our troops for people that don't appreciate us is not worth it to us. That would be like the Jews training Hitler's men to fight. Why would we help you if you openly hate us?

Nanking

While the rape of Nanking, where the Japanese decapitated and horribly massacred millions of chinese people, and other atrocities such as the Bosnia-Herzegovina, where over 8,000 civilians were killed by Bosnian Serb forces are horrible events, they must be taught in school for a variety of reasons. First off, ask the question why is history taught? I'm sure the answer you'll receive most often is the age old saying "If we do not learn from history it's bound to repeat itself." To learn the things these people did not only gives us an idea on signs of the ways these things happen, but also to teach how awful these things in order to steer people clear of this ideal or mindset.

Also, for schools to deny this history to students is simply an attempt to erase history, an act that is impossible. To simply say something did not happen is not the way to avoid shame, but the way to make yourself look worse to others. If the U.S. decided to remove slavery from the textbooks, and assume it never happened, it would not last a minute. Once history happens, it is carried through stories, books, and writing, of which many countries uphold the actual happenings at a specific event. So if the U.S. had denied slavery in the South in books, not only would tales be told of the events, other countries with historical records, such as the home countries that were put through slavery would speak up about it. Attempts to remove history are nothing more than trying to get a child to think Santa Claus is real his entire life. One day he'll learn the accepted truth.

Outline

• The film begins with Braddock making good money as a boxer with 0 KO's on record.
• Loses his right to box from the boxing commission.
• Works on the docks to get by during the great depression.
• Requires welfare money to get by
• Gets a fight with the number 2 contender in the heavy weight division Corn Griffon.
• Gets a chance to get back into boxing if he beats one of his previous bosses boxers.
• Defeats him and goes on to fight in the league and is set to fight Max bear, the man who has killed 2 men with his strong right hand punches.
• James almost does not fight out of fright and his wife's concerns of his health.
• Defeats Max bear in 15 rounds and wins the heavyweight title.

Topic 07 Concepts

The Scopes Trial - A trial against a teacher who attempted to teach evolution rather than creationism. The irony is the fact that we now teach evolution rather than creationism.

Prohibition - The 18th amendment that banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the US.

Flappers - Women in the 1920's that followed the new American traditions and lifestyles.

Economic problems in the 1920's - Mechanization and overproduction with new inventions in the 1920's screwed the economy.

Dust bowl - a time of dust storms caused by the overproduction of farming due to new machines in the midwest US.

Immigration - Most Americans were both scared of immigrants and believed in Nativism, so the US people were against immigration, which eventually caused strict quotas.

Nativism - To be against all immigrants.

Literary works - The book The Jungle showed dark truths in the American production facilities.

The Great Migration - A movement of African Americans to the north in order to attain jobs and avoid racism

Harlem Renaissance - The movement of art and literature in the african american community.

Sacco and Vanzetti - Due to the red scare, these two Italian men were denied trials many times for murders they may have not commit, and served the death penalty.

The red scare - a time after WW1 where Americans were scared of most immigrants simply because they were from a country we just fought a war with. This time included many suspicious cases against innocent people.

schneck vs US - A supreme court case which regarded the Espionage act of 1917.

Acrostic Poem

Prohibition laws should be in place to control

rowdy teenagers and

obtain American abstinence.

Heavy drinkers and

insane teenagers leave this country

battered and push us away from our true intentions.

To leave drinking rights is to disrupt

our expansions and lead our country to worse things like

narcotics.

Rally together, brothers and sisters! We are under the

oppression of the man! The old

Americans want to prohibit drinking

in order to spite us

new Americans.

Give us our freedom, don't

take our say away just because

we're different! This is the

end of the old American traditions, we are

now on our last stand

to withhold our new lifestyle.

if we lose this battle, we could just as

easily lose our new traditions and

styles.

The Mastermind's behind the crime

In groups of four, the class read up and created powerpoints on important gangster figureheads from the 1920s. My group studied and presented our project on John Dillinger, where we learned life about organized crime artists from the 1900s.

John Dillinger was an insanely intelligent gangster, who in his lifetime robbed 24 banks, broke out of jail twice, and got shot 3 times in the face. He was a gangster since high school, after he dropped out to pursue his lifestyle.

These projects were important because it gave good insight into how gangsters lived back in the 1920's compared to how gangsters live now. It also gave information on why prohibition was a flawed law, and why it was revoked in amendment 21.