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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therealhawaiianqueen
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

blogging

blogging was no dought a lot different then just pen and paper but it was deffinetly a lot more work. its almost like we had history twice , one during the school day and one at home while writing the blogs because with some blogs i had to do some research in order to give correct information. but also with the blogs i think it helped understand the topics better because i really had to think hard sometimes and i was thinking of things that i forgot i even knew sounds kind of crazy but its true. and while reading these blogs i was reviewing everything i had learned in class that weak and to things i have learned in previous social studies classes. so overall the blogs were more work but i got more knowledge by doing them