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

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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

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

The movie Avatar is the top grossing movie of all time . but also it has a theme of imperialism! the theme of the movie is like the theme of pocohantas but in a cooler way- that technology and humans want to take over the native peoples land. they think they can do this becuase they think they are stonger then the other people. in avatar the humans go to a planet named pandora and they want to take the land where the native alien guys live because they live on rich land. the movie portrays it in a way where it makes the humans look like they have no right to do this but this is the same thing America has done when it invades countries for reasons like sugar. some people might think its awesome but the country that it invades has an 100 percent different view of it and says we are the bad guys. its the same thing as avatar. if in the movie the alien guys attacked the humans for there space ships and hellicopters it would have been a tottaly different movie in the way of the movies perspective would have been the humans are the good guys and the aliens are crazy. and becuase the aliens had a less advantage over the humans so it would be the weaker attacking the stronger wich would never happen in real world like what if south africa tried to take over america, it would be impossible then we would have a big war with south africa and we would win, so it would just be a big mess for south Africa. so in order to be imperialist you have to have enough power already to get more power. only the big countries have the power to expand.

invasion of kuwait

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Kuwait

in 1990 iraq invaded its neighboring country of Kuwait. They did it for two reasons: economic and political. First, economic: Iraq was almost bankrupt and needed money. Kuwait is very rich and has a lot of oil. Iraq was mad at Kuwait for charging less for oil and was then making a lot more money selling oil than Iraq which was hurting Iraq's economy. Second, the political reason was Iraq said Kuwait wasn't really a country--that Great Britian had wrongly created it after World War II. Iraq said Kuwait was part of their kingdom in ancient and modern times and belonged to them. So Sadaam Hussein, the leader of Iraq then tried to enlarge the political boundaries of Iraq to make his country stronger and the leader in the middle east.

So in August 1990, Iraq bombed Kuwait and moved more than 30,000 troops into the country to try to take them over. Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq then and it was part of his plan to be imperialistic--to use military power to take over another country. Iraq was stronger in their military and would have been able to win if the US hadn't blocked the invasion later.

twitter

therealhawaiianqueen
Alohaaa. good morning! we have so much sugar i just got out of a sugar bath. i dont even know what to do with all this sugar!!! #messingwithAmericatweet
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im bored..nooooot. im the queen i have a lot of work to do, but i have time to tweet this
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therealhawaiianqueen
just want to inform all of my citizens your the best. and i work hard for you guys. like i am right now. also see a big ship outside my huge window on my beach house!
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therealhawaiianqueen
follow up tweet the "big ship" is getting closer looks a little intimating and war esque and not responding on radar. hate to say this is looking pretty sketchy hawahii
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therealhawaiinqueen
ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! what is happening!!!
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thereallhawaiianqueen
we are under attack by the usa!!! we are on it we will not allow them to defeat us.
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thereallhawaiianqueen
hawaiians i know the last 3 days have been brutal. im sorry for any loses and sorry for not tweeting any details the last 2 days as the government didnt allow me too.
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thereallhawaiianqueen
i trust that the usa government would right the wrong that had been done to my hawaiian people
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therealhawaiianqueen
BREAKING NEWS!the usa is trying to take away our monarchy and independence and making us a part of the usa. i am doing everything i can to not let this happen!!!!
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therealhawaiinaqueen
UPDATE- the way things are going we will be a part of the USA
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soa

According to that one sided argument on what is the soa? it talked about how trained latin-american soldiers have raped, assasinated, dissapeared, massacred, and forced into refugee, hundreds of thousand latins amercans. so obviously after reading that, it seams like the worst organization ever. so if that is all it really does then no way should america be able to run organizations lieke this. but i cant even believe this being true, i would guess it does some good thing aswell that the article doesnt talk about like maybe helps prevent us from getting bombed, that would definetly be a plus! this article smells a little bit like yellow journalism to me. making this organzation sound worse then it really is to get it banned

yellow journalism

PANIC TIME FOR HEAT

this was the headline for a miami newspaper 3 days ago after the miami heat got off to a 5-4 start in the NBA. this is a form of yellow journalism because yellow journalism basically means making an issue bigger than it really is. this relates to the miami heat story because in the offseason lebron james the worlds best basketball player left clevland to

take his talents to south beach

and so did another allstar chris bosh. so the media went crazy around this story and were giving this team so much hype and everyone saying there going to win the championship. but in reality this team has only been together for a few months before the opening game and the supporting cast around wade,bosh,james are really nobody. so the media named this work in progress team a championship team before they played one game. then 9 games into the season theyre 5-4 wich is not a bad record at all they have one of the best records in the eastern conference and the media is saying its already panic time!?
yellow journalism happens all the time in sports though to name a couple other instances-- the tiger woods incedent, barry bonds steroids,- most instances where yellow journalism is used its based around a controvery-something bad over something really good because people think thats a little more interesting like in the news they say

if it bleads it leads

as in a guy kills another guy is alot bigger of a story than a women wins $50436587357895 in the lottery

blogging 2

i agree with the blogging assesment system in this class to an extent(sorry to take the middle position) i believe that the blogs were a good way to review the things we have learned over that week and you probbly gained knowledge by doing them but i dont think they should count so much to your grade i just went on the school website to check the grade and i counted 17/22 grades for this class were blog post so only 5 things that were graded we did in class and 2 of those were test so it seems like in this class you are either going to do really well or bad if you dont do blog post your going to have a very bad grade but even if you did all your blogs and did bad on the 2 test they kind of cancel each other out. this grading system will most likely be the reason for me getting 6 A's and a B on this marking periods report card and that B being in history. im not saying its all the grading systems fault because thats not true at all i still could have done better on the other assignments but thats besides the point. overall what im trying to say is that the blogs were a good idea and different but it should be balanced with the work we do in class to make it fully effective. i do think the blogs were a good way to learn things though instead of just hearing a teacher tell you all the answers