meritocracy

i do believe that if you work hard enough you can do anything you want.

in the class divided when the kids were in the superior eye color for the day they did better on the test than the day when they were in the inferior eye color. but i think this is different because they just found out they are not as good as the other kids so they were stunned and distaracted on the test. its like if your girlfriend just broke up with you than you had a math test you probably wont do as good on that test than what you would've.

so i dont think someones skin color can impact there performance these days. but it may have back in the sixties when they were distracted by all the stuff going on

king vs x

martin luther king and Malcom X were near complete oppisates in their methodology.

martin luther king believed in non violence and civil disobidience which started movements like the lunch counter sit ins

malcom x believed in "by any means neccessary" just doing anything to end racisim including violence

i believe Kings methods were more effective because his actions were extremely effective but he wasnt really doing anything wrong like the lunch counter sit ins. black people were just sitting at counters , they werent phyically hurting people like Malcom X's followers. when your using violence it makes you look really bad as race so malcom x could have also been hurting themselfs in some ways. plus Malcom x pretty much admitted that kings ways were better when he got back from Mecca and converted to MLK-esque methodology of non violence

Jena six

that is a crazy story in many ways!

1. 10,000 people got together at one time for one cause


2. it was all for 6 kids!

this does have some similarities to the little rock 9 in that a whole city was upset on the treatment of a few kids at a school. but now the story is flipped.

in little rock 9 the city was furious that black kids were now going to the school

and now in the jena 6 the city was mad that the black kids arent getting treated better- theyre on the black kids side now.

the people in the civil rights movement would be proud of what the protesters are doing in Louisianna right now

I AM

I am the lunch counter sit in


I wonder if ill ever be equal


I hear hatered from the mountain top


I see no change


I want equallity


I am the lunch counter sit in





I pretend im allowed to sit here


I feel hostillity


I need love and good will at all times


I worry this will never end


I cry internally to show no weakness


I am the lunch counter sit in





I understand they dont wont me here


I believe we are equal


I dream we will live together in one race


I try to ignore it


I hope this will come to an end


I am the lunch counter sit in

all the gin joints in the WHITEHOUSE

I- movie history
A- 2nd best movie of all time(AFI)
B- 6 quotes in the top 100 quotes of all time(AFI)
C- Humphrey bogart best actor of all time (everyone)
D- Ingrid bergman one of the best actresses of all time.
E- best last quoate in a movie of all time
F- interesting fact- the last scene in the movie. the airplane in the back is made from cardboard and they got midgets to play in that scene to scale the airplane to real size


II- where?
A- Casablanca, morocco
B- early ww11

III- characters
A- Rick
B- Ilsa
C- victor
D- captain Renault

IV- what happens in this movie?
A- rick is an American who owns a cafe in Casablanca
B- the cafe is the bees knees
C- Casablanca consist mostly of people trying to get out of the Nazi ruled Europe
D- Ilsa goes to ricks cafe with her husband victor
E - it turns out Ilsa and Rick used to be lovers
F- but Ilsa ran away from him
G- now Ilsa and Victor are trying to go to America in order to do that they need a transit letter
H- rick has the transit letter
I - eventually rick says he will help them
J- he makes victor go to America with Ilsa
K- Rick shoots an officer
L- Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship

V - my thoughts
i saw this movie last year in film history class and it was one of my favorite movies we watched(favorite was rebel without a cause). and then this year i saw this with a history teacher. so it is very interesting to know all the film history and the actual history on the movie. when i saw it in history i could understand it a lot better, which obviously made it better. this is an awesome movie, even though i think they stole the story line to the great Gatsby(the book) the movie is also very good with Robert Redford

heres looking at you kid

9.0

role of women- they were nurses in wwii

abomb effects- japan wouldn't surrender so we dropped an atomic bomb. we killed millions of civilians. this still has an-effect today

foreign policy- we tried to isolationist before war then when war started we were neutral till pearl harbor came . after the war we became involved with other countries

effects on Europe- they were devastated because most of the war was fought in Europe so it was a big mess

pearl harbor effects- japan attacked us killing bunch of innocent Americans but that was a mistake as it eventually led to them being abombed and us killing bunch of innocent japs

japaneese internment- this is when we put the Japanese people living in America in camps cause all Japanese people living in America are bad

neutrality acts- laws that tried to make us a neutral team during the war

propaganda- cool advertisement to get people to believe something. like trying to persuade America that we need to be in the war

rationing- people at home would have to save food and rubber and other useful things to help America in the war

results- americas side won. germanys side lost. all Europe is a mess. soviet union and america are very powerful. united nations is formed

hiding history

dear principal,

your students should be learning all about everything that has happened in history so they can fully understand things for example we wouldnt have understood how much the japaneese people didnt like chinease. if you just heard that you would think they just stopped trade with them or something around that. but their dislike was on a much higher level than that to the point where they tried to get rid of all the people in nanking by killing and raping everyone. see thats a much better reason to start a war over than being annexed. i have no idea how i never heard of this before, why is this huge deal not taught, what makes the haulocuast ok to teach about but not nanking. i hope you put this into consideration

thanks for your time,
max