Should the United States Get Involved in Other Countries Affairs?

I don't think that the United States should get involved with other countries. We're a free country. We own ourselves. We have enough going on, plus the war, to worry about any other countries.

Boom, Bust, and Recovery Display

Below are my pictures and descriptions. To get a closer look at the pictures, click on them.

Boom
1. There was a lot of bootlegging going on in this period. This was a bootlegging car chase and crash that happened in 1924.

2. The automobile was used to illegally transport alcohol during the Boom period. These are high school girls working on an automobile.

3. I chose the 18th Amendment because the prohibition of alcohol was one of the main things going on during this period. There were many mobs formed, and bootlegging because of this. This is a picture of men pouring alcohol into the sewage.

4. The NAACP was an organization that put colored people out there for the good things that they achieved. This started in the early 1900’s. These are some of the NAACP members.

5. The Harlem Renaissance was written and artistic creativity by African-Americans that occurred after World War I and lasted until the middle of the 1930s Depression during this period. These are members of the Harlem Renaissance.

6. Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. This is one of his books.

7. Organized Crime was groups or operations run by criminals. Many of these operations occurred during the prohibition of alcohol. These are gangsters involved in the Organized Crime.

8. Babe Ruth was a very famous baseball player during this period. He is known for his home run hitting.

9. Calvin Coolidge was the thirteenth president of the United States. He was president during this period. This is his inauguration.

10. Louis Armstrong was a very famous jazz player during this period. He wanted everyone to know the history of jazz. This is a picture of him playing his trumpet.

Bust
1. The Stock Market is a private or public market where you trade company stock. The Stock Market has crashed numerous of times throughout American history. One of the worst crashes of this time was, the stock market crash of 1929.

2. Black Tuesday was also known as The Wall Street Crash of 1929. This was one of the most devastating stock market crashes in American History. This is a crowd gathering on Wall Street after the crash.

3. A Bread Line is when needy people stood out in the cold to receive free food. There was a lot of this going on during this period because people became poor after the crash. This is a picture of a bread line.
4. Life in rural areas during the Depression was hard. Because prices for crops were very low, farmers received little for their crops. They could not repay the loans that they had taken out on their farms in hard times, and many lost their houses and farms. This is a picture of dust bowl farmers.
5. Shantytowns are little towns that many poor people lived in during the depression. This is a picture of one of the Shantytowns.
6. Hooverville is a shantytown built by homeless men during the Bust period. Hooverville was named after Herbert Hoover. This is a picture of Hooverville.

7. Herbert Hoover was the President during the beginning of the Bust period. He witnessed the stock market crash.

8. A soup kitchen was a place where soup was distributed to people who needed food. This was a major thing going on during this period. This is a picture of a soup kitchen during the depression.

9. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting with the stock market crash of 1929. This was the most economic depression during the Bust period. This is a picture of a woman and her kids during the depression.

10. The Dust Bowl was a period of dust storms started by bad soil, and farming without crop rotation. The storms started near Kansas and reached as far as New York. This was also called the dirty thirties. This is a picture of a farmer and his two sons during a storm.





Recovery
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second president of the United States. He was the president during the recovery period.

2. The FDIC short for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created to make sure your money was safe in banks. This was made to recover Americans’ trust in the banking system.

3. This was a work relief program for young men from homeless families. This was designed to help young men get money during the recovery period. This is a picture of CCC workers constructing a road.

4. New Deal was a series of economic programs President Roosevelt initiated between 1933 and 1936 to help the United States recover from the Great Depression.

5. The WPA was the Biggest New Deal agency. It employed millions of people, especially rural and western mountain populations. It gave them jobs during The Great Depression.

6. The NYA was a program made with the New Deal Agency. It served 327,000 high school and college youth, who were paid from $6 to $40 a month for "work study" projects at their schools.

7. The Tennessee Valley Authority provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer, manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. This was also apart of the New Deal Authority.

8. The Social Security Act an attempt to limit as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, and unemployment. This is President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act.

9. Eleanor Roosevelt was the thirty-second president (Franklin D. Roosevelt)’s wife. She was the first lady during this period.

10. Throughout the recovery period, the motion picture industry grew by leaps and bounds. War films were replaced with westerns, comedies, adventures-escapist entertainment for a nation faced with ever-growing economic depression. This is a movie poster from “Gone with the Wind”

People only change after something bad happens.

I think that this statement is true. We do feel unhappy when something bad happens to people, don't we? We wish we could have kept it from happening, but we couldn't. When you are very sad, you may not feel like doing anything that you used to do, like riding your bike or doing your chores. You may even have trouble going to sleep, because you can't stop thinking about the things that make you sad. An example of something bad that can happen to people is when someone you are close to dies. When they die you want to change something bad you are doing in your life. Because what people don't realize is that life is short. You have to do the best you can in life because you never know when something else bad is going to happen.

Is it okay to get involved in other people's business?

I think that getting into people's business is not a good thing. Unless there is a good reason
for it. Like if someone is in danger. If you know about something that may be harmful to
someone, or risking their life you should tell someone with authority as soon as you can.
But as far as personal business, people should be able to tell their business to whoever they want to. You don't have to know everyone's business. that is how trouble gets started, especially in school. There is always some drama going on in school, just because someone got into someone else's business, and told it to the wrong person. I've never really got into anyone's business. I really just mind my own business. In don't get into anyone's business, because I wouldn't want anyone to get into mine.

Is it all about the money?

In my opinion people's actions are driven by money. An example of that is alot of robbing and stealing. People will do anything to get money. Many of our clothes and shoes are made in sweatshops. People who work in sweatshops have very harsh working conditions. Most sweatshops have children working. They want to get as many workers as they can to get all of their products out. Sweatshop workers aren't paid very much. It's barely enough to survive on. That's how many companies save money.

To me money doesn't lead to happiness. But if you have enough money there isn't anything that you could want for. Many people say that "money can't buy happiness". But to me if I had all the money needed i'd be good.

I don't think people who have money are any better than those who don't. Everyone is the same no matter what their bank accounts look like. Many people who aren't as wealthy say that the wealthy are taking from the poor, but to me most people who are wealthy worked very hard for it. And even if poeple are born into a wealthy family, most likely their family worked hard for it.

"Dead Soldiers"

Dead Soldiers












What a battle this was
Dead soldiers all around
Some of the soldiers went missing
Will they ever be found?

Maybe they’re in me somewhere
In a ditch or a path
Waiting to be found
By all creation, all nature, and all wrath.

So many soldiers
Dropped dead
Defending their country
Chest full of lead.

What about their families
At home cheering them on
How would they feel
If they knew a loved one was gone.

God bless,
All the soldiers that fought,
And I know this was a lesson
That the Confederate was taught

"The Tent"

The Tent









I see blood
All day everyday
Some soldiers die
But most are okay

I am witnessing an amputation
But it’s nothing to me
I see stuff like this everyday
Can you imagine what I see?

This soldier got shot in the leg
It has to get cut off
He’s lying there quiet
Not a sneeze or a cough

But Sawbones isn’t paying that attention
He’s trying to form an operation
They need to get it done
No sense in waiting

They’re almost done,
But his eyes roll to the back of his head
This is a very sad thing
The soldier is dead

"Fight" Blog Post

One time when I was in the seventh grade, I started a new school at Clarke Middle. My third day in the lunchroom there was a girl who kept running her mouth. So I threw some ice cream on her. She didn't say anything. But when I seen her and her friends in the gym she wanted to say something then. So I told her to meet me in the lockeroom after gym class. But when I got done changing my clothes she was nowhere to be found. So I forgot about it and walked to class. I seen her on the way to class and I asked her what happened. She said she had to do something. There was alot of people standing around, and you know when your young you wouldn't want people to think you were scared, so I just ran up and hit her. We got into a fight , but Security broke it up. I got suspended for 5 days, and I was only at that schools for about three days.

How can growing up be both exciting and painful?

Growing up can be exciting because, when you are young you want to be able to do what you want to do when you want to do it. You see grown ups driving, partying, and alot of other stuff and don't have to ask their parents. Growing up can be painful because when you are grown you have to deal with bills, car notes, and a bunch of other difficult stuff. Plus you have to pay taxes!

When is breaking the law justified?

Have you ever had to break the law just to see if your natural rights were being upheld? Well these people made very hard sacrifices to fight for their rights. And they didn't do this just for them. They did it for the rights of American citizens and the rights of their people.

In the revolutionary times colonist didn't have all of their natural rights. They had to pay taxes without any say-so. Soldiers were living in their homes without their consent. One of the actions they took was the writing the Declaration of Independence. They were justified as breaking the law. The people who signed it had critical consequences, but it made the United States a better place. We didn't belong to the British anymore.

I think Rosa Parks is a good example of when breaking the law is justified. When she sat at the front of the front of the bus and refused to move, that started a political movement. Her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa parks broke the law to prove a point to the government that whites were no different than blacks. After the boycott, it allowed blacks to sit anywhere they wanted.

Both of these incidents will be remembered in American history. In both of them one side was being controlled by the other. But they fought as much as they could for the rights they deserved. In the revolutionary times they signed the D.O.C. And the British didn't controll us anymore. And in the 1900s they started the Montgomery Bus Boycott and blacks were able to sit where they wanted. So both sides got what they wnated. Freedom and Natural Rights.

Sometimes breaking the law isn't always bad. Sometimes people have to break the law to prove a point, or fight for the rights of their people. Rosa fought for the rights of her people. And the Americans fought for their country. Both sides came out victorious.

George Washington and the Battle of Trenton

There was a lot of fighting, and killing going on at this time. There were taxes and all kinds of other stuff the British were trying to impose on Americans. I don't think I would be able to live during this era. Something that suprised me was The Battle of Trenton, and the followup victory at Princeton on the 3 January 1777, made the British to leave their forward posts in New Jersey.

When is breaking the law justified?

5 puposes of the government:

-make laws
-form a more perfect union
-establish justice
-provide for the common defense
-promote general welfare
-secure liberty

Would you join a revolution if our government wasn't fulfilling the purposes of a government?

I would because America is a free country, and we should live free and not have to worry about not having the freedom and laws we fought for.

The Boston Massacre

Back in the Rvolutionary Era it was very dangerous. People were fighting over pity stuff(Stamp Act). It wasn't safe for anyone back then. I don't think I would wan't to live in that era.

Something suprising I read was that when the first shot was fired it hit the Captain's hat. And, they started the fight throwing snowballs.

The life of a slave girl

The Life of a Slave GirlMy Comments:- What did you learn about life in the colonies from reading this document? There was a lot of slavery going on at the time. It was really hard for people. They would have to watch their family get auctioned of as slaves. - What surprised you the most about what you read? The little girl liked her mistress. She was sad when she died. Most slaves are happy when their owners are gone.- Compare and contrast the differences between American life today and life for Americans during the colonial era.Today people in America have freedom. They don’t have to worry about losing their family, or being auctioned off. It’s a free country. Back then slaves were known as property.

What motivates immigrants to come to the United States (today)? Consider what they lose and what they can gain in your argument.

United States has alot of freedom. The have to leave their culture behind, but they still get more freedom in the U.S

Thousands of Europeans chose to move to the British colonies. Some for economic reasons and some for freedoms. If you decided to immigrate somewhere, would you move for economic reasons or for freedom?

I would move to an island. Maybe the Bahamas.