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

genocidal countries

yeah we should get involved with the countries at risk of a genocide. Genocide is a Huge deal! in order to get rid of an entire type of person you have to kill quite a few people to do so. soooo if a country is thinking about this act ,powerful countries should try to stop it. cause if they dont then theres absoultely nothing stopping them from killing tons of innocent people. i feel like this is an obvious question but hard to explain

genocidal countries

Cinderella man

Synopsis- the movie is about James Broddick a boxer during the great depression, turned underdog story hence the name cinderella man

Charachters-
james braddock-boxer http://www.jamesjbraddock.com/theman/
mae braddock-wife
joe gould-manager
MAX baer-rival boxer

summary-

the movie starts off with james braddock as a champion boxer, verry successfull. buuuuut its the great depression so he loses a lot of money and its tough and then he eventually just hits rock bottom when he has no money, hes not a great boxer anymore, he has to work on the docs, mae leaves kids(http://www.jamesjbraddock.com/gallery/family/7/ )at her parents house, and he has to get money from a bank-like place.

later on james' manager, Joe comes to him and says something like hey man i got you a fight against this really good boxer because no one else could fight him or whatever. then james is like yeah i need some money and stuff. soo in the fight theres no chance he wins because he's old and hasnt trained... but then he does win!

he continues to win a couple more fights but not getting too much money for it and mae is being all annoying saying she doesnt like boxing and wants him to work on the docs nd stuff.

ok soo this whole movie leads up to the championship fight with James braddock vs Max Baer(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINFZ_8BhIw). Max baer is the champion boxer at this time he was the bees knees, he is very intiminating he killed 2 people in the ring. and James Braddock is this crazy story(thats why thier is a movie about him and not baer) he is a super underdog, all the poor people are rooting for him they all say he represents them and stuff it crazy.. and i dont wanna spoil the ending for the people who havent seen the move sooo there you go.



Connections-

eminem made a song called cinderella man and one lyric in the song was a quote by THE cinderella man- james braddock
Guess I'm lucky, Some of us don't get a second chance... But I aint blowing this one... I feel like I can do anything now

alcatraz

alcatraz is the only jail i ever heard of sooo you can probbly classify it as notorious. i went to alcatraz island a couple years ago i dont remember to much except we had to go on a boat to get there(obviously) and inside the jail there was a lot of animations like people inside the cells doing various things and one guy was trying to dig a hole with a spoon i dont know if that really happened or not but still interesting. buuuut alcatraz is a jail in sanfransico out on an island in the bay called alcatraz island but too the locals its refered to as "the rock" . they thought it was impossible to escape because it was on an island surrounded by cold water. so if you wanted to escape you would have to first sneak by all the security gaurds like everyother prison. but even if you did that near impossible mission successfully you would then have to swim across the whole bay in freezing water and then if you did those 2 steps successfully you would most likely have to walk on the pier where tons of people are and they arent goingto notice some sketchy looking guy wearing a soaking wet jump suit and not do anything about it atleast one of those people are going to call the cops or the jail.. so if your a prisoner of alcatraz and you find out a way to escape and be free i think you deserve it

concept7

the scopes trial- teacher was teaching evolution in school and was put on trial about it

Prohibition- during the 1920s alchol was restricted

flappers- women in 1920s who started to wear short dresses and possibly had ciggarette

economic issues- over producing with new technology

dustbowl- bad wheater-droughts decreased farm production

agriculture issues- rotate crops, drought made it hard to grow plants, tractors was a new technlolgy

immigration policies- started to not really like immigrants, put up laws started quotus

nativism- you dont like any ethnic group but your own

significant literacy- started to question/rebel against government and new technology

the great migration- blacks started to move toward the north

harlem renaissance- blacks in harlem started to do well for themselfs, got hope . exceeded in literature, art , music

sacco and venetti- accused of being spies, didnt like them because they were italian anarchist

labor issues- mass production wasnt working out to well for the workers, a lot of workers were unskilled

the red scare- america hates communism and russians after bolshevik revolution

schnek vs america-The Supreme Court decision defended the Espionage Act (1917) which concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to freedom of speech against the draft used in WWI

organized crime

first of all ,organized crime is awesome. i always thought it was very interesting. i have seen a couple of movies about it like bonnie and clyde and public enemies , its just cool how smart they are and how they figure out how to get away with everything. we started off talking about al copone and how he killed some people and stole some stuff but the most practical thing i learned about him is that a man named Elliot Ness was the guy the caught capone. so now i know what the lyric from Tupacs "California Love" is talking about "now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west a state thats untouchble like elliot ness" . then we learned about a couple other depression gangsters like bonnie and clyde, jon dillinger, machine gun kelly and babyface nelson. they're all cool guys who like money and were living in a bad time for getting money so they had to do what they had to do and were very successfull at it. they did stuff from robbing chickens to robbing banks to killing people. my favorite ganster in john dillinger becuase he escaped from prison a few times and robbed over 10 banks and both of those thing are really close to impossible

POEM

People were conservative
Religious
Organizations raided by Palmer
Hurt economy
Installment plan
Bolshevik Revolution
In the small towns
There was a lot of demobilization
If done, done on the down low (drinking)
Old America
Nineteen twenties

Religion wasn't big deal
Obvious division in society
Against prohibition
Resided in the urban areas
Interest rates were low
New apparel
Giggle water was the bees knees

There were mad wives
Wowen showed off gams
Economy was decreasing
New america
There were many bearcats
Italians are no good
Early depression stages
Soooooo much money loaned