Sunday, May 22, 2011
Anti-War Song
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA fightin'
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK"
"Where Is The Love?" By: The Black Eyed Peas
This song was released in 2003, the same year that US troops went to Iraq, and deals with the current issues of terrorism, especially 9/11, hate, and intolerance. The song talks about the terrorism that affected the US during 9/11 and the Iraqi War that followed, but also the terrorists that are on our own soil, such as the KKK. Hate and intolerance cause wars and kill many. The song asks listeners to focus on the injustice at home as well. These lyrics are similar to those of songs from the Vietnam Era because they talk about current issues of the time and have a call to action to do something about the problems the US faces. This song came out at the perfect time when Americans were upset with the tragedy of 9/11, just as songs of protest and peace were released when there was a great divide over the Vietnam War.
Kennedy Tweets
8/10/62 8:15 A.M.
Mr. President: Ken told the Senate that there is proof that the Soviets have missiles in Cuba, and he wants me to do something about it. I'll have to get to brainstorming.
8/31/62 3:24 P.M.
Mr. President: The Soviets are trying to flex their muscles. At the U.N. meeting, they said a war with Cuba was a war with them. We can take 'em any day.
9/11/62 5:43 P.M.
Mr. President: I sent the U2 out today. We'll see if we find these rumored missile sites. Got to go have lunch with Jackie.
10/14/62 12:33 P.M.
Mr. President: I found out that the U2 took pictures of missiles on Cuba pointed at us! I'm having a meeting about this in a little bit.
10/17/62 2:57 P.M.
Mr. President: Gromyko told me that the Soviet Union gave Cuba missiles just for Cuba's own self-defense. Like I'd believe that.
10/18/62 10:45 A.M.
Mr. President: I just finished up a meeting with the congressional leaders about the missiles in Cuba. Everyone showed support to stop this. Tonight, I'm going to give a speech on TV to the country about what's happening 90 miles south of us.
10/22/62 11:13 A.M.
Mr. President: I'm sending my little brother Bobby to talk some sense into the Soviets. Hope it works.
10/23/62 9:17 A.M.
Mr. President: Khrushchev and I have been sending letters of negotiation back and forth and we haven't reached an agreement. This is getting really frustrating. He better make a decision soon. He's cutting it real close to the deadline we agreed on.
10/27/62 11:02 P.M.
Mr. President: What a relief! Khrushchev finally agreed to remove the missiles as long as the US didn't invade Cuba anymore. It would have been a nuclear war had he waited any longer.
10/28/62 9:05 A.M.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Iraq VS Vietnam
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Topic 12 Concept Guide
Containment Policy: keep communism from spreading, contain communism, expel communism out of foreign countries, part of the US' Post WWII foreign policy
Bay of Pigs Invasion (similarities to Invasion of Panama): US wanted to overthrow government in Panama and put in democracy, Cuba was invaded by exiles from Cuba to try to overthrow the government and US wanted to establish democracy
US Foreign Policy with Regard to Korea and Vietnam: contain communism so other countries don't fall to it (Containment Policy), give money to countries threatened by communism (Truman Doctrine), US and other top countries head the decisions of the U.N.
Intervention: US tries to overthrow communist governments, fight the wars of other countries that deal with communism, press democracy on other countries, help to push communist forces back when the communists invade a free country, influence other countries to get what the US wants
Cold War Development: mostly between Russia and the US, communism vs. democracy, the space race, development of nuclear weapons, and the Cuban Missile Crisis fueled the Cold War, when the USSR starts to become as advance as the US, the US becomes scared and feel threatened, the USSR's possession of nuclear weapons scares the US, the Us wants to stop the spread of communism
War Powers Act: the President can only go to war with Congress' permission, in Vietnam and Korea, the US was involved in these conflicts for years without declaring war
WWII Foreign Policy vs. Post WWII Foreign Policy: In WWII, the main goal for the US was to win the war at all costs and defeat the Nazis. In Post WWII, the main goal was to contain communism as stated in the Containment Policy, including, giving aid to countries threatened by communism (Truman Doctrine).
Limited War: when a country is involved in a conflict, but doesn't use all of its resources. Limited War Ex: Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan Total War: WWII
Examples of Containment In Europe: the US gave money to countries threatened by Soviet rule (Truman Doctrine), the US wanted to prevent the USSR's communist ways from spreading to other countries in Europe, East Germany was communist and West Germany was free, East Berlin was communist, West Berlin was free, France, Great Britain, and the US tried to keep communism from spreading from East Berlin and East Germany to West Berlin and West Germany
Main Points of the Division of Germany: Communist East Germany and East Berlin were ruled by the Soviet Union, Democratic West Berlin and West Germany were ruled by France, Great Britain, and the US, fencing, soldiers, and later on, the Berlin Wall separated the two sides, Berlin was in the middle of communist East Germany, Braidenburg Gate was the main passage way from East Germany to West Germany, was built by the Soviet Union
Douglass MacArthur Dismissal: MacArthur pushed the North Koreans back further than the original border, where he was supposed to push them back to, he didn't listen to the President, he made public statements against the president
Korean War Similarities with Persian Gulf War: both countries were invaded by other countries, North Korea invaded South Korea and Iraq invaded Kuwait, the US fought the wars of other countries, original borders between the Koreas and between Iraq and Kuwait needed to be reestablished
Nuclear Ban Test: countries containing known nuclear weapons agreed to sign a treaty not to test nuclear weapons, but some countries, like the US, still test nuclear weapons
Long Term Effect of Vietnam: the war divided America over which side people were on, this still influences how war is viewed today (Democrats and Republicans and hawks vs. doves), the war got rid of the draft, death, cancer and other illnesses from Agent Orange, Vietnamese migration to the US, brought down the Nixon administration
Peace Corps: a way to help third world countries, help build wells, schools, was a way for people to get out of the draft to Vietnam
End of Cold War (the event that marked it): the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Domino Theory: one nation falls to communism the next country will fall as well, caused a fear of communism and made this fear caused the US to get involved in wars against communism, other countries near communist countries were more at risk
Nixon's Detente: eased tensions between the US and the USSR, peaceful coexistence, Nixon and Brezhnev had multiple meetings and signed treaties to come to agreements and ease tensions
Friday, April 22, 2011
Race Total HS Grads Total College Grads
W: 17 15
AA: 2 0
A: 5 4
H: 15 9
NA: 0 0
PI: 0 0
O: 0 0
Among all races, most of the participants' parents graduated from high school. During college is where a shift is seen between races. The White category has the most amount of college graduates out of all the races, with the Hispanic group coming in next. Almost all of the Asian parents that graduated from high school went on to college. Though, no one in the African American group graduated from college. Whites were the racial group that makes the most money, so college might have been more financially reasonable for them. The parents of whites were more likely to go to college than parents belonging to other races, so their children were expected to go to college as well. Minorities are more likely to come from lower income families and in lower communities higher education may not be valued or thought to be financially practical. Some groups may have decided to get their college degrees once they came to the States and saw all the opportunity that higher education provided.
Martin Luther King JR vs Malcom X
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Insident in Jena
Monday, April 18, 2011
Meritocracy
Monday, April 11, 2011
TV's Impact on Society
Norman Rockwell
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Story Time
CHT 10 Concept Guide
Monday, March 21, 2011
Outline of Casablanca
- Casablanca,Morocco
- 1940s, WWII
2. Introduction
- Two German couriers were murdered in the Moroccan desert and Ugarte gets the letters of transit
- Rick (Humphrey Bogart) wants to go back to America
- German officials want Laszlo to stay in Casablanca since he is the leader of the rebellion against the Nazis.
- The Germans want the person that killed the German couriers to be killed
3.Trouble Beggins
- Ilsa and her husband, Victor Laszlo, arrive at Rick's restaurant
- Ilsa meets Rick again
- Ilsa and Rick were dating in Paris when the Germans took over France and while Victor was in a concentration camp
- Ilsa and Rick were about to leave Paris on a train together, but Ilsa backed out at the last minute. Victor was alive and escaped from the concentration camp.
4.Trouble With The Nazis
- Rick has the letters of transit at his restaurant, which he got from Ugarte.
- Victor asks Rick for the letters of transit; he is willing to pay large sums of money for them. Victor is running from the Nazis and want to stop his work with the rebellion.
- While Victor is at the cafe German officials sing the German National Anthem. Victor orders the restaurant band to play the French National Anthem, since Morocco was a French colony at that time. Everyone in the restaurant sings the French National Anthem and the German officials grow more wary of Victor because of his public demonstration
- The Nazis want to take Victor back to a concentration camp since he is spreading the word of the anti-Nazi rebellion
- Rick won't give Victor the letters of transit because of Ilsa. Ilsa didn't tell Victor that she was with Rick while she was still married to Victor. She thought Victor was dead.
5.Rick and Ilsa
- Ilsa attempts to get the letters of transit
- While Victor goes to the underground rebellion meeting, Ilsa goes to see Rick
- Ilsa threatens to kill Rick with a gun if he doesn't give her the letters of transit so she and Victor can be safe and Victor can continue his work in America. Ilsa doesn't kill Rick because she still loves him.
- Rick and Ilsa talk about the situation. Ilsa had to keep her marriage a secret to protect herself and Victor from the Nazis.
6.Conclusion
- Germans are looking for Laszlo
- Victor is under arrest and Rick and Ilsa agree to use the letters of transit to go together by plane to America
- Rick sets up a trap for Laszlo to get captured by the Germans. Rick calls the cops on Laszlo.
- Rick is about to shoot Captain Renault, but the Captain lets Laszlo go free
- Victor and Ilsa used the letters of transit to go to America with the help of Rick
- The German official comes to make an arrest, but he is shot by Rick. Lazlo and Ilsa get away.
Topic 9 Concept Guide
1.ROLE OF WOMEN DURING WWII:
Some worked while the war was going on, and when it was time for the soldiers to come back, they lost their job and went back to taking care of the house.
Other women either took care of the kids, or was nurses in the war.
2.C/E OF ATOMIC BOMB:
United States bombed Japan under any circumstances (twice).
This caused death to millions of people.
Also, the U.S. hoped to end the war, but it didn't worked out as planned.
3.US FOREIGN POLICY BEFORE/DURING/AFTER THE WAR:
Before the U.S. was isolationist.
During, US basically joined the war in the middle, we didn't want to get involved until the US got attacked.
After the war, the US got involved in foreign affairs, and joined the United Nations.
4.EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON EUROPE:
There was an Economic change (a bad change).
Many, many casualties.
Imperialism was put to an end.
it caused another dropping of the Atomic bomb.
Military started to believe in the radar systems.
Immediate U.S. declaration of war against Japan.
Any person that was Japanese or Japanese decent were sent to relocation camps, isolated.
6.JAPANESE INTERNMENT:
Japanese Americans were put in relocation camps because they were considered a threat after the attack of Pearl Harbor. Also, anyone who was Japanese decent had to be out in these camps too.
Korematsu v. United States, this was the order to put Japanese Americans into camps.
Many of them were released many years later & got money as an apology if they were still alive.
7.NEUTRALITY ACTS:
1935-1937
Cannot sell weapons to countries at war. - Embargo
US battle ships could not be armed.
Americans could on travel on ships to countries at war.
8.PURPOSE OF PROPAGANDA?:
Propaganda was deceitful. It would get people to believe in things that aren't true.
For example, it was used to make Hitler seem like he's running things smoothly, and what he is doing is for the sake of their lives.
People who saw propaganda around would believe it, and they would get all "pumped up" about it.
9.RATIONING:
American's were asked to conserve on everything for the sake of our soldiers in war.
Families would ration food, gas and even clothing to help out.
Sacrifices for all.
RESULTS OF WWII?:
United Nations.
Poverty.
Baby BOOM.
Birth of Atomic Bombs.
Start of the Cold War.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Reactions
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Interview Questions
- Judging from everything that was occurring to the Jewish people during the Holocaust, do you believe that there were more people willing to help Jews or more willing to turn them in to the SS officers?
- Predict what would have happened if you were not able to escape to Switzerland?
- Compare and Contrast life at Le Chambon and life in the farm
- Imagine that the American Troops and there alliedes were able to reach all the concentration camps a few years earlier, what do you believe the outcome would have been?
- Judging from all the horrers that the victimes and the survivors of the Holocaust had to live through, do you believe that they still have any faith or hope left in them? Or has there perspective on faith and hope changed?
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Is Intervention The Answer
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Cinderella Man's Outline
1.James Braddock was on top of the world. Had a great boxing carrer and plenty of money
2.When the Great Depression hit he lost everything (http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm)
3.James began working in the docks just so he could bring home some money(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html
4.After begging his old trainer to get him another fight against John Griffin, he was able to rise back up from retirement
5.After that it was fight after fight that James won until it was time for the chamionships
6.James fought Max Bear and to everyones surprise won the championshim becoming the Heavyweight Champion of the World (http://www.slate.com/id/2120151/)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Concept Guide
- The Scopes Trial- John Scopes was trialed for teaching about evolution
- Prohibition- The law that ban alcohole
- Flappers- Women that had short hair, smked and drank in public and showed clivege
- Economic Issues (1920s)- People started buying on credit instead of using money. Low interest rates drew peoples attencion
- Dust Bowl- Farmers over used the land and were not able to grow anything
- Agriculture Issues- Dust Bowl's affect on the US crop growth
- Immigration Policies (1920s)- The limitation the US put on the immigrants that entered in a year
- Nativism- When the US favored the natives instead of the immigrants
- Significant Literary Works (1920s)- Jacob A. Ris wrote "How the Other Half Lives" which was a photo-essay about the lifes of the different social class in NYC. Upton Sinclai wrote "The Jungle" which revealed the truth about the meat packinging bussness.Laston Hughes wrote "The ways of the White Folks" which ended up with whites being called out on there unfair treatmen to the blacks
- The Great Migration- African Americans moved from the South to the North
- Harlem Renaissance- First time African Americans celebrated there culture
- Sacco and Vanzetti- Accused of shooting and killing two men and robbing them
- Labor Issues (1920s)- Railway Act made it illgal for the emloyers to discriminate the employees that joined the union.Loray Mill Strick was when some men in masked destroyed the National Textile Worker Union bulding
- The Red Scare- US became afraid of anything non-American expecial foreighn people
- Schneck v. the United States-The Espionage and the Sedition Acts were decleaid constitutional by the Supream Court
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Sacco vs Vanzetti Trail
Suspects Information:
Nicola Sacco-
Borned in Torremaggiore,Italy 1891. Droped out of school at age 14. Worked as a waterboy then worked as a pick and shovel. In 1917 he met Vanzetti.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti-
Borned in Villafelletto, Italy in 1888 . Worked at his father's pastry shop. Mother died in his arms, never got over it.In 1917 Sacco and Vanzetti left to Mexico to avoid WWI
Acused of shotting and killing two men and robing there money.
Nicola Sacco:
- Seven Eyewitnesses placed Sacco in the scene of the crime the night it occurred. A few more testified that the man they had seen in the scene looked like Sacco.
- There was a fired bullet found in the scene of the crime. It matched up with Sacco's pistol. Two out of Three bullets matched up with Sacco's pistol.
- A cap with a hole was found in scene of the crime. Sacco was in the habit of hanging his cap on the wall. One of the witness testified that the cap looked liked the one Sacco owned. The cap found in the scene was the same color and style that the one Sacco owned.
- A car was found two days after the crime, in the woods near the house of a man named Boda's. The car was taken to a car repair shop owned by a man named Johnson who's wife called the police. Sacco and Vanzetti left the house in a hurry.
- The same day the crime was committed, Sacco missed work at the K-3 Shoe Factory
- Four witnesses saw Vanzetti get off a train at East Braintree at 10 o'clock
- One of the witness, a man named Dolbeare claims to have seen Vanzetti back up a car near South Braintree Square
- Lavangie said to have seen Vanzetti driving a car at South Brantree right after shots were heard
- A gate keeper said to have seen Vanzetti get out of the passenger side of a car crossing Bridgewater
- The gun found on Vanzetti at the time of his arrest was said to be similar to the one Berardelli,a paymaster guard, had on him when he got shot. Both pistols had a fixed hammer
- On April 15,1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, two men where shot and killed,Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. They were employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company. The thieves robed the men of the $15,776.51 payroll they were carrying.
- Sacco and Vanzetti are arrested on May 5, 1920 at around 10pm. Both man are armed. Vanzetti was carrying shotgun shells and the police belived that he was the shotgun bandit of Bridgewater.
- Sacco and Vanzetti state that they do not know Coacci and Buda
- On May 31,1921 a trial begins at Dedham, Massachusetts agaisnt Sacco and Venzetti
- When in trial the maximum sentence was of 12 to 15 years.The juge in judge was Judge Thayer
Presentations
-Robed a Police Station
-FBI was created because of him
-Banks became more secure
Baby Face Nelson:
-Shot the most Police
-Got pulled over for speeding when he was in the most wanted list and didn't get arrested
-Got arrested only one time
Bonnie and Clyde:
-First male and female duo
-Meet in prison
Kate Barker:
-Helped her kids with there crimes
-Her son, Fred Barker comited the most crimes
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Evolution vs Religion Teachings
Prohibition and Roaring 20's
Religion, that's what were throught
Over practice religion
Heard the sins commited out in the city
I can't belive they would so much
Betraide there Holly Loard
Indifferent
Tottally uncaring
Inresponsible
Out commiting sins and will never undestand that
Out
All day and night
Reveling more than what they should
Interacting and enjoing life
Nineteenth amendment not so
Great
Talking about alcohole being bad for you everything ends up
Worst
Everyone out and about
Not caring where the boos is coming from
Taking the risk either way
Ignoring all the laws many
End up in jail
Serving many years for a couple of bucks
