Friday, February 25, 2011
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.
Friday, February 11, 2011
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.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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.
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