So What About You?

You say I am the problem to everything that is going on. That it is me and my personal problems what is stoping us from moving foward with this. But stop and think, could it be you and your atitude whats hurting me? Yes, my problems do affect ME, but they have affected ME for a long time and I have been able to move on and keep going with my life, so why do you have to make ME feel bad about it if maybe it's you the one with a problem. My problems have afected ME but not ever those around ME. Last night you said very hurtful words, you might say as an excuse that youj were intoxicated, but I believe that "drunken words are sobber thoughts" as the refrain goes. I keep my head up high and I will move on, but don't expect me to always be there for you, if when I tried to be a friend to you, I was rejected. You see me as a business, and I see you as a little more then that. You say don't mix business with the personal, and then you say we have nothing personal but just business, make up your mind and let me know what we are. I care about you a lot, and I don't know why. What you do, think and say affects me a lot and I don't know why. I hope everything goes okay, and I hope you find someone else out there but if you do not, don't turn around and expect to see me there. I will see you go as much as that hurts but I just can't keep up with this painful event. I went against my family, believes and values and you didn't apreciate it what's so ever. BUt tha's okay. I will watch you go,and I hope when you realize you are wrong is not too late because if is, I won't be there. I care about you but I also care about myself. Because I love you I am setting you free and if you come back then you belong to me, but if you don't we were never meant to be! <3

Class of 2012

Senior year comes around. After, all that time I have spent thinking on how it would be, on who I would be, what it would be like, and where I would be, it's finally here! Unbelievable how my life has changed from those days when I wished to be a senior at Eagle Rock high. I always thought I would graduate being an eagle, but I have transformed into a storm and even though I did not agree with it at first I know thank God and my mother for making the decision for me. I now thank the destiny for bringing the people in my life who care about me and who have been there when I needed them. I do miss my "LA life" but at the end of the day it is not today what matters most, is all about what we are doing to make tomorrow a better day! We fight to be better then our past and sometimes what we want is not what will stop the cycle from repeating itself. I work hard to make my mother proud and ever though I have to be respoinsible I also want to be a little crazy before my life really gets serious. I want to enjoy the last minutes of childhood even though I am not a child anymore! I hope for a good senior year, fun, happy, exciting, life changing, ad WILD!!! But its not just good things what makes a good year perfect, its the ups and downs, the happiness and sadness, the goodand bad news, it needs to be human and real because it is the last year of experience that we will have to prepare ourself for the real life. In my friends I trust, and I believe we can make this a good year, not a perfect one, but a real one!

Topic 12 Study Guide.

Truman Doctrine
-U.S will help any country in danger of being communist like Iraq, North Korea, Nam
Containment Policy
- United States policy using military, economic and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism. Bay of Pigs Invasion & Similarities with Panama
Bay of Pigs Invasion
-tried to get Castro out of power
-surprise attack, but somehow Castro and his army were waiting
-CIA trained anti-Castro forces in Florida
-U.S defeated in 3 days
Intervention
-In Vietnam we sent troops to help fight; we didn't really want to get our military involved in Korea so we sent financial aid and support to fight communism without getting physical.
Cold War Development
-post WWII, Germany and Berlin split between allies
-Soviets were communist, made us uneasy and caused tension
-Formed NATO to isolate Soviets, they countered with the Warsaw Pact
-Berlin Blockade/Airlift
-Soviets required atomic bomb
War Powers Act
-President cannot use military force without congress approval*
*except for a national emergency like an attack on the U.S (9/11)
-48 hours to notify congress and can only use military for 30 days
-However, congress can extend time
WWII Policy vs. Post WWII Policy
Before WWII, the U.S policy was isolation; we tried to stay our of foreign affairs and focus on building up our economy. After the war our policy began to intervene and get more involved with countries in need of help
Limited War
-using the most limited amount of resources and manpower to fight a war
Examples of Containment in Europe
The Berlin wall which separated West Germany from Communist East Germany. The US wanted to stop the spread of communism to other countries in Europe.
Division of Germany
-East and West Germany
-split between U.S, Britain, France, and Russia, the Allied Powers
-divided Berlin the capital in the same way
-this divide was a major cause of the conflict and tension in the Cold War that ensued
-Berlin Airlift
Douglas MacArthur Dismissal
-fought in WWI, WWII, and Korea
-was a general for the president
-instead of trying to establish a border and make peace between North and South Korea, he launched an invasion of the North and bombed China
-Truman believed that he was after power, and was dismissed
Nuclear Test Ban
-In August 1963, nuclear powers agreed to stop testing nuclear weapons. Many, including the U.S. do not follow this ban, regardless of signing it.
End of Cold War
-the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Cold War
Domino Theory
-once one country becomes communist, it spreads rapidly like dominoes
Nixon's Detente
-tried to ease tensions between the U.S and the Soviets

I Am...

I am an African-American student
I wonder why white people hate me so much
I hear them yelling at me
I see one hundred army soldiers
I want society to be just like me
I am an African-American student and that is it.

I pretend to be strong and neveer concerned, but
I feel my heart pounding inside of my chest.
I need to feel that I am accepted by them.
I worry that I will never be safe while I am in this place.
I cry only when I am at home, so I always seem to be very strong but still
I am a member of the Little Rock

I understand they might have opposing views about what they call my kind,
I believe that it can all change if they give us a chance
I dream of this all going away and the world being just one
I try to never show my weaknesses
I hope that one day, people will see that we are all of the same kind, not against each other
I am an unaccepted member of the Little Rock Nine

Survey

1 H
2. Yes
3. Yes

1. W
2. Both my parents.
3. My mom.

1.W Aw yeah white power!
2.Both of my parents.
3.Both of my parents.

1. A
2. Y
3. MOM

1) A
2) Y
3) N

1.H
2.BOTH
3.MOM

1) W
2) Both of my parents
3) Both of my parents

1. W 2. Y 3. Y: dad

1) A
2) Both of my parents
3) my dad

I can infer that mom's are the mosrt likely parent to go to college and finish school. In my case it is not like that, my dad finish college but he has no influece in my dad so it is just as if only my mom history would count and she was only able to start college b ut ever finished it. Many parents are like that, they get to start but never finish.

Martin Luther King

In my opinion MLK ways were a lot more effective the Malcom X's ideas of getting his point across. Martin Luther King was a me who believed in peace war, he knew that by not fighting back with violence but with love he would get what he was asking for. Malcom X in the other hand believes in violence if you were being violated, he mind was set on hittikng whoever hit yuou and humiliating whoever humiliagted you. I think the MLK had the better strategy because if someone hits you and you respond with a hug then they will be shocked and won't know what to do, but if you hit them back you will justbe giving them what they were e0ecting from you.

Meritocracy

The ideology of this term i belive is right when it comes to the people who work for money. When it comes to school it is ot always the same situation because not everyone has the same chances. Maybe at some point yeah it is the same oportuneties but not everone can take advantage of them as other students. For example, everyone can go to a private college when they graduate high school as long as they meet the requiremets the school has, which everyone can meet if they can focus on their school work and make it their main priority but not everyone can do that. Many people have to be the parent of the parent, may others worry about money, and other just get the attention from their parents to focus in school. So yes, working hard will give you the American dream, if and only if we really all had the same opportunity and lived under the same circumstaces.

Television.

In my opinion, television is one of the biggest influences in a teeagers life. The t.v is used for many different purposes, people use it to inform themselves about what happends all over the world, or for entertaintment, or simply just as a hobby. In my house everyone owns a television in the room plus the common one we have in the family room, unlike in the old times no we have flat screes, three dimension, and HD t.v's. All the shows that a teen can watch there can influence them to a bad behaavior, sexual exposion, or even their sxual orientation. Sometimes t.v. makes situations okay, that to what people believe in is not okay. In the other side it is really up to each individual to what they watch and how they take what they see on t.v.

http://bunow.bloomu.edu/3047-the-effects-of-reality-television-on-our-society

Concept Guide 10

McCarthyism:
-House Committee of Un-merican Activities
-many are convicted and it was hard for them to get away with it in court
-propaganda in films on communism
-McCarthy accused Department of State of harboring Communists
-Hollywood most famous writer , producers

Communist "witch hunt":
-For no reason, invaded the lives of many Americans
-supported by anti-Communist groups
-checked the Coast Guards as well as homosexuals.
-People in entertainment feild we imprisoned thousands lost their jobs.

Space Race impact on government policies
-Scared americans after the launch of Sputnik1.
-This caused the government increased the funding for education.

Cold War mind set for the United States Government and public
-The people were afraid of communist infiltration and un-american activities.
-It is normal to be scared, but people took it to a different level.

Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads:
-Suburbs away from cities, quieter less hectic.
-More reliance on cars to go places faster.
-1956 Interstate Highway Act
-Able to live out of the busy cities but still work in the city.

Baby Boom:
-Men came home from war to their wives, had children
-1946-1960
-caused by ending the 20 year Depression and Wartime
-removal of social and economic restraints that kept people from having families
-We wat Everything.!
-The norm = more than 1 family vehicle, 2 kids, dad works, mom stays at home
-causing current social security issues

Urban-Suburban Pattern
-the city is where low income classes live, although the business district within the city also has high class residents
-the suburbs are separated into two groups
-the houses closer to the city are for middle income families and the houses further away are relatively larger and also house higher income families

GI Bill
-if you sign up to join the military and complete your training, your college tuition will all be paid by the government
-basically is you give the military four years, they give you four years

Expansion of Middle Class:
-low prices on goods
-the invention of the credit card, which skyrocketed the amount of spending done around the U.S.

Topic 9 concept Guide.

1. The women began to fill in the jobs that the men could not do because they were in war. They also were required to supply the needs for the men in the war.

2. Dropped on Japan twice because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It killed 90,000 Japanese in Hiroshima, and 70,000 in Nagasaki.

3. Before WWII: the US was neutral
During: US helped the Allies
After: US helps countries in need, supports allies, has a defensive approach toward enemies.

4.Structural damage to European countries, population declines, tension, debt, and high number of deaths in countries where Holocaust happened.

5.After the attack the US military used the new Atomic bomb to drop on Japan. It wiped out the population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

6. Korematsu Vs. United States
Japanese Were Considered A Threat To Americans

7. There was no sale of weapons allowed, U.S. battleships could not be armed, and Americans could not travel on ships that were at war.

8. Propagandas were to make men join the join and fight, and for others to support it

9.Saving everyday items to help the men at war for further reasons.

10. A lot of inventment happened during this time, many lives were lost, the atomic bomb was used. New laws were established.

Casa Blanca

I.Setting
A.Casablanca, Morocco
B.1940, World War II

II.Introduction
A. Rick Blaine the main character is introduced
1.Cafe Owner
B. Ilsa Lund
1. Married to Victor Laszlo who escaped from a concentration camp.
C. Ugarte had letters of transit, which he planed to sell.
1. He got arrested
2. Rick got the letters

III.Rising Action
A. Ilsa and her husband arrived at Rick's Cafe.
1.Ilsa recognized and says hi to Sam and later asks him to play "As Time Goes By"
2.German police watch over them
B.Rick found out that Ilsa was married to Laszlo
1.Rick refused to give them the letters of transit

IV.Climax
A. Rick got everyone to sing the French National Anthem
1. The Germans shut down the cafe, because of this.
B. Ilsa threatened Rick with a gun, because he refused to give her the letters.
1.Tells Rick she was in love with him, and explained why she left him.

V.Falling Action
A.Rick agreed on helping Ilsa but he said that he would only help her after Laszlo left.
1.Laszlo then comes to talk to Rick at the cafe
B.Laszlo tells Rick he knew about him and Ilsa and tried to persuade him for the letters to keep her safe.
1.Police arrested Laszlo

VI.Conclusion
A.Rick made Louis fill in the letters of transit for Mr. and Mrs. Victor Laszlo
1. Rick believed it was important for Laszlo to have Isla by his side
B. Major Strasser arrived
2.Rick shot him
3. When the other officers arrived, Renault does not acused Rick.
C. The movie ends with Renault and Rick being friends.

What? How? When? Why?

To: Blimcia Lische
Kolbuszowa, Poland
late 1938

What do you think your parents could have done different to save you from Hitler?

Would you have done if you would have been the parent?

Do you have ager towards your parents or towards the gocting you as a child of the country or the angel or their hearts?

How do you think your life would be right not if you would have survived the Holocaust?

Do you feel a shame or proud to be a jew? Would you have change your religion if you survived the Holcaust?

Just WOW.!!

The survivors of the Holocaust suffer a lot not onlyback then but until this day. They will always remember that horrible time of their lives. People like George Gottlieb go though a lot of pain when they rememeber the horrible memories of the last time they saw their family members, the concentration camps, the ghettos, and their life after the genocide. When I saw the video of Mr. Gottlieb, my heard crumbled and my eyes got teary, just thinking of how much he went though and all the pain it causes him even today. It is drives me insae, just imagining what I would do if I was taken away from my family they way they were. It makes me appreciate my family a lot more and realize that that the end of the day family is all you think about in rough times, when you eed help or confort, it is them whom you want to see and talk to.

Can We Just Stop It!!

Sould we? Shouldn't we? In a way.

I think that the United States should not get invloved in any kind of genocides going on aywhere in the world. As the most powerful country in the world at the moment we should try to make peace, yeah not everything will be perfect at all times, there will always be problems but if we have the powere then I think we should try to keep everything as calm as possible. As long as something does not affect us then we should stay away from. In the other side if the situation come to the point where it is a brutal disaster then the US should come in between to try to stop it. NOT TO MAKE IS A BIGGER PROBLEM.

Cinderella Man All Over the USA

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Cinderella's Outline.

I. Before Great Depression.

      a. James Braddock and his family lived happily in a good economical state.
     
      b. They owned their home and did not have to worry about no having enough to feed their kids.

      c. They had enough money live confortably, NOT rich, but enough to not worry about money, ut it all chages when Great depression comes around ad the economy gets really had for the whole country.

II. During the Great Depression.

       a. They were still happy, but worried, about not making the bills, not having enough money to feed the kids, about no being able to keep their kids with them ecause it was just too much for the kids to handle.

       b. All they had was a small apartment which was more like a studio with a kitchen, and very little money to live day by day. Nothing was easy for anyone, but at this point they have to do whatever they need to for their kids.

       c. He gets his boxing license taken away and it is not able to fight, therefor there is no a stable income coming in for them. The situation just gets harder, and they were not alone.

       d. He has to work in hard labor,he did not always get picked but he always came back hoping the next time around he would be the one to be called on, the economy is not good for them just like it was't for everyone else in the counttry.

        e. He gets his license back and it is now able to fight, he proves to them the true boxer he was and demontrates them that yeah, he had a rough fight the last time but he is now here ready to do what he knows how to do best, fight.

        f. He is not fighting not just to win, but to demosntrate the second chances are are appreciated, and people can still have hope because times will get better now.

III. The End of the Movie

         a. Cidirealla Man comes back around ighting like he had never doe before, not just to defend a title but to defend his family.

         b. After all we learn i the movie that always having faith and keeping the family together will get you through tough times in life, it won't be easier, but you will have the support system you need.

        c. His wife does not want him fighting but she know it is his passion and she willsupport him through everythig.

       d. They gain back their economical pocision where they are are not poor anymore, not right either but they are at a conforable phase and they can get though it with no worries.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links:

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

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352248/videogallery

http://www.jamesjbraddock.com/

 

Evolution Or Religion

I believe the both evolution and religion should be thought at school because it will prepare us for life. Teachers would not be teaching religion but the different perspectives they have. For exampe, when we get a job, go to college, or generally in life we will run into people whom probably do not have our same believes and we have to know how to deal with them. Also, it is important to be aware of the different kinds of religion there are out there, so then when we meet soomeone of another religion we do not appear to be ignorants for not knowing what their religion really was. In the other side it is also important to learn evolution because it is science and it is what we have to learn in school.

Poem.

-Protection for women and children was offered by
-Restricting  Alcohol, which was supported by
-Organizations led by women who fought for
-Happiness in their lives.
-Independence from their husbands is what women needed at this hard times.
-Banning the alcohol now was the best ting the Government could've done at this point.
-Indifference about relgion is what this men were when they were getting drunk instead of working for their families.
-Taxes were affected by the banned of alcohol in the country.
-Immigration ristriction came after
-Over covering the problemof the alcohol.
-Never really letting it go.
-Religion was very important.
-Old america was what it wa all about.
-Against prohibition the new americans were
-Red scared came before when they were all scared of unamerican behavior.
-Immigration ristriction was also around at the time.
-Now organized crime came then, after the prohibition.
-Great migration was in this too, when the African Americans went to the North.
-Times to reflect on their life was since there was so much going on all at once
-Women were not even able to talk about what was going on
-End of the war was so demobilization was around for a while
-Now more unemployment, homeless, and broken families were around.
-Time of prohibition was so that alchol could no affect them in any way
-I now understand what was going on
-Evolution we weren't able to teach so John Scopes in trial was
-Speakeasy common were now that alcohol no longer we could hold.

Study Guide.

        I. The Scopes Trial- An American legal case in 1925 where John Scopes wass judged for teaching evolution, and it is when it became against the law to teach it.people were very religious at this point in history.
      II. Prohibition-It was pushed by women's organizations due to:
                       A. Domestic Violance
                       B. Child Abuse
           Henry Ford was for Prohibition since his workers were not as productive as they could be when they were hungover. 18th amendment is for prohibition but it did not banned the possesion, consumption or tranportantion of. The IRS was the one in charge of enforcion it but did not work out very well.   
     III. Flappers- Were the exotic women who had short hair, drank, smoked, were v-necks, and constantly showerd her legs. This women were viewed as sinner in society's eyes because at this point in history people were very religious in the United States.

      IV.Economic Issues- We had a lot of economic issuas as a country when we brought the soldiers back because they had no jobs, they were in dept, and many of them had physical and psycological damages.

      V.Dust Bowls- drout, over farming, and mechanization were all factors of the dust bowls.

     VI.Agriculture Issues- Farmers over farmed their land without letting it heal because they were getting a lot of money. Eventually the land became unfarmable anymore.

       VII.Immigration Policies- Asians were banned intirely due to the invasion of the japanese and china, the ethnic groups were limited to 2%.

       VIII.Nativism- People who considered only native born americans good enough to be in this country and work for the country.

        IX.Significan literary work- How the other half lives, Jungle, and Unsafe and only Spread.

         X.The Great Migration- It was the first time African Americans moved collectively to the North.

         XI.Sacco and Venzetti- Were two italian boys who were anarchist in the 1920's.

        XII.Labor Issues- With the nativist around and the soldiers just coming back there were not a lot of jobs available. Also a lot of men were coming to the alcohol and could not do their jobs correctly.

       XIII. The red Scare-Bolshevic Revolution, Lennin fakes over power in Russia, The USSR is formed, Americans were scared of unamerican behavior, especially if you were foreign.

        XIV.Scheneck v. US- it is declared that the government can violate our rights if they are trying to protect you.

What I Learned...

 When we did the presentation I learned a lot from my group. We searched Bonnie and Clyde. Personally I think it is really astonoshing that she was clyde's partner. After she had already gone through what it was to have a loved one in jail she still made the decesion of being with him. She met him through he husband who was in jail. You would think that once she knew what it was like to be convicted by the law she would stop but that did not stop her. She was an Original Gangster even though she was a girl. At this time inlife this was a big deal, not as common as it is today. At the end they died together when they got cought by the police. They lived a very complicated life together.

Is Violence The Right Answer?

I think these people have to be treated like the criminals they are. They should be given a reward for revealing where the they other site is.Maybe if they were told that theeir punishment would be less they would confess. People like them do not look out for anyone else but themselves it is what it is. I believe that violence would probably not be the answer to anything unless they are really talking. However they should be given a certain amount of time before officer got to the violence or messing with their head.

Declaration Of War..

I think that the United States was taking Germany as a joke. it sounds like they were just saying yeah  we are dclaring war but we are not scared. We know we are the best and to us you nothing but a joke. It was such a joke to the US that they did not even bother to write a formal writting paper  declaring war to Germany. It looks like a flying or an icon you would see on facebook or photobucket. I also notice that their ink was colored yet they did not use the United States colors. In the other hand i am not really sure on how germany took it. They sent the same type of writting back to the US as their respond to the declaration of war. I think Germany was alomost at the same place as the US when it came to thinking they were the best.