Monday, November 30, 2009
What could war possibly be like?
"When the Germans declared war on the Netherlands we were all very surprised. We had remained neutral during World War I, and had hoped to do the same this time. I was enlisted and stationed in the East of the country.My unit was instructed to place land mines in a field, which took us all day. Shortly after we were done, out of nowhere a herd of cows started walking onto the field. A farmer had apparently accidentally let them leave the neighbouring field. We couldn't allow the cows to walk any further: not only would they suffer painful deaths if they walked on the mines, but all our work would have been for nothing. So we were instructed to shoot the cows. We shot and killed many of them. Looking back it seems very pointless. But of course we didn't know that no German would be stopped by that field, or that we would never come face to face with German soldiers in combat.The next day the Germans bombed the city center of Rotterdam, completely destroying it and taking many lives. The Netherlands capitulated, so my days as a soldier were over. Shooting those cows was the only time I ever used my gun."
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
What I learnd in class
Slave Resistance
· Turner Net evaded for two months before he was captured and slathered.
· Some families were sold separately.
· After Turner’s attack against whites, blacks could not get
o Education
o Private meetings
o Etc (something private without having a white person around)
· Harriet Dublin helped slaves escape to Canada for their freedom, passing from the Underground Railroad.
· Herriot Dublin was also a slave herself.
· There were bounty hunters that would capture slaves and bring them back to their owners. (this was a law)
· About 1,000 slaves were freed per year.
· Herriot Dublin went to Canada and back 19 times.
· Herriot Dublin, 1849, “If I can’t have liberty, then I shall have death. I will get one or the other”
· Herriot Dublin also served as a spy for the union of the northwestern troops.
· Herriot Dublin fought for the rights of women.
The Compromise of 1880
· The senate was going to till to the north because of California.
· Some people were speaking about susetion.
· The south said that they had no compromise to offer because the north had already banned slavery in some places.
· William Henry Stewart said that there should be a law above the constitution.
· The donamis bill was not accepted at the start, but then when it was broken down it became accepted.
· California was going to enter the union as a free state while Texas was going to enter the Union as a slave state.
· Runaways were not allowed a trial, but they were listened to. However the judgeless were being paid $10 if they found them guilty and only $5 if they found then not guilty.
Uncle tom’s Cabin
· 1852, There was a novel published by Harriet Bemor Stove called Uncle Tom’s cabin.
· In the North, people did not riley pay attention to slavery except in the government.
· The novel showed that slavery was cruel. It did not only do this by words, but it was also graphic.
· The novel became popular sky-high in the first week it was published. Exerts of it were also published on the newspaper.
· The southern journalist said that the novel represented a bunch of lies and the slaves were not treated well.
· The southerners also wrote many books to try and bring people back about slavery, but they were not very successful.
· In the first week there were 10,000 copies sold, in a year there were 300,000 sold, and after the civil war there were several million.
Kansas and Nebraska Act
· The rail road was an issue again between the north and the south. Because of different economic reasons the north wanted it to go one way while the south wanted it to go another.
· Nebraska was a place was in the past the whites and the Indians had agreed that it would be Indian Territory, but as usual the whites did what they desired and threw them out.
· The New bill repelled the Missouri compromise because with the new law there was going to be a slave state about the 36 degree latitude line, so the northern people were infuriated.
· Settler from the north and from the south went to these states to vote for weather or not it would be a free state.
· Bleeding Kansas refers to when people started destroying anything in their was because they were so mad about the issue of slavery.
· The nation was once again a little closer to was which I would personally even throw in inescapable.
Kim Burns
· He has an option on Mac.
· He began picture movie making and then he inputted in sound.
The Civil War
· It started in a farmer’s field. A shell landed into the owner’s kitchen, so he ran away.
· 2% of the population of the U.S. died in those four years of war.
· More American fell in that war then in all the previous wars combined.
· This was American killing Americans.
· 7,000 Americans fell in less than 20 minutes.
· There were machineguns and repeat shotguns that were never seen before.
· Abraham Lincoln would rise to become the greatest president America has seen.
· The war was about the birth of freedom.
· 1959 was the death of the oldest veteran, and his name was Walter Washington.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Why Did Europeans Import Slaves From Africa, Instead Of Enslaving Native Americans?
The Europeans tried to enslave the Native Americans, and they did. A disadvantage to this was that Native Americans would tend to easily die because of the European brought desires. So when they had to choose an alternative to this, they decide to turn to West Africa which had already booming slaves markets. The slaves were not expensive, and they were located on the coast which made it easier to transport because west was The Americas and north was Europe.
Arab/Muslim countries because they were not open to slavery. Columbus wrote himself
about the troubles about enslaving the Native Americans. The Natives knew the lands
and had
relatives which were ready to help them anytime.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
SO I was thinking while coming home...
When I finaly arrived at Casablanca, the city where my home is, I had to go to my aunt's hose to get my medical report for the school, so we went slowly and causly on the road. As we were getting neer to a turn, a motorcycle passed us even though we wern't gonna turn and turned. This rilly worried us because if my dirver was not aware that the guy had passed us and was intending to turn left we were going to crash into him, and the mistake would be our because we bumped into him.
As we approched the house I noticed that there were exesive amounts of speed bumps. In the past when I was in more civilized countries as Canda I never saw a single speed bump. I notice now that there are speed bumps everyware, and I think that the governemt thinks that this will reduce the speed which is wrong. The fact that a "crazy person" will go fast if there is a speed bump or not is true because he does not care about the car, he cared about the speed. And people who have a tendancy to move slowly will still move slowly.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sins of Islam, one might be making mistakes witout knowledge
Before you go on exploring this great site, I would like you to see the other sites that can help you understand more such as native deen. Just go on google or facebook and serch Native Deen.
Friday, November 13, 2009
The compromise of 1850 and the new presidency
When president Abraham Lincoln was elected, he ran a big danger because people were after his blood. Abraham's new nickname became "the rail splitter". He won the election in the democratic party in the election of 1860. There were now issues about braking away from the country, that existed even before then. It now became more urgent that war was neede, the civial war which started the next month after that.
