What was it like in 7th grade?
Answer: Mind-boggling
Did you enjoy it? Why?
Answer: Yes, I had good friends throughout 7th grade.
What was your favorite subject in school? Why?
Answer: Math I thought was a challenge for me in 7th grade.
What did you study in 7th grade?
Answer: All subjects
Were you in WWII?
Answer: No
Were any of your friends in WWII?
Answer: None of my friends that I knew were in WWII.
Was 7th grade tough?
Answer: Yeah, it was a challenge for me and a couple other students.
What type of sports did you enjoy?
Answer: I enjoyed football and basketball and eventually became really good at them.
Do you remember anything about WWII?
Answer: No, not really
Did you get good grades throughout school?
Answer: B-,C.
Did your job involve helping the community? Why did you choose the job you have now?
Answer: No, none of the jobs I had involved helping the community, the jobs chose me.

Ulrich and Georg were trapped when the wolves came. Ulrich says, “I’ll throw this bottle at the wolves so it will give us time for our men to arrive.”

Georg responds, “Are they gone?”

But the wolves ignore the bottle that had been thrown by Ulrich. Ulrich unexpectedly then remembers his pocket knife. The reason he couldn’t grab it to kill Georg before was because Ulrich’s body had been shoved way too far under the tree. At this time he could barely reach it. He thought he would try because he knew that if his men didn’t arrive soon they would be eaten by the wolves.

By the time Ulrich got his pocket knife George had been bitten several times. George was screaming in pain, saying “help” several times. When Ulrich was about to stab a wolf, it was like he had supernatural powers,  the wolf bit him so fast and so hard that Ulrich’s hand started to feel numb. It hurt so bad that he dropped the knife. All hope was lost they thought. But then a wolf suddenly fled in worry. Then another one did the same. They all started to flee but Georg had already fainted. Ulrich knew that if he did survive he would be cut up extremely bad. By the time they all fled it was a relief to Ulrich. However, the wolves had a good reason for fleeing because when the wolves fled the lions came. When Ulrich saw the lions come, he said, “It’s all over.”

Summary: During 1883, an amazing invention shaped our history; it was electric lights. Albert’s father, Hermann Einstein and the rest of his family were going to a party in Munich, Germany, celebrating electric lights. They were so excited to see what it would be like, that they went early so they could get the best spot to view the event. The importance of going to see the lights was because it could be used in buildings and homes. This was a mind-blowing experience for people who knew that if this test succeeded, this could be extremely useful and change the way people live. Albert’s whole family, including Hermann Einstein, understood the importance this new invention. As soon as the excitement was about to begin, the whole crowd grew silent and, with a flip of a switch, the entire party building had lights shining everywhere. People were clapping loudly and cheering so loud that, in an instant, it was as if a bomb had exploded. The cheering grew louder and louder as more of the lights went on. Albert was fascinated with the power of electricity. Electricity had already been invented  for use in devices and accessories but electric lighting was not yet invented. Although electricity was being used in their everyday lives, most people did not know what electricity was, or how it works. When Albert returned home with his family from the celebration, he was tired and exhausted.

Albert was born on March 14,1879. When he was young, his mother noticed that he seemed different, and feared he might be “retarded”. Albert wasn’t a big talker; he would only talk to his sister who was two, so there was not much of a conversation going on obviously. On Albert’s first day of school, he only played with the girls and refused to play with the boys. Albert, for some reason, didn’t like “roughhousing” as it states in the text. The schools in Germany were strict. If Albert did something wrong he would be smacked with a ruler on the wrist. When told to stand, sit, or write the students would have to immediately obey or they would pay the consequences of being either smacked or sent to the principal’s office for defiance. Albert loved to day dream about the stars during class but in doing so he was smacked many times. When Albert was older he studied electricity and explained electrons by saying they are,”rays made up of beam particles”. He also mentions electrons and states  that, “trillions of them could fit on the tip of a pin”[49].

OPINION: I think that Albert’s day dreaming in class will eventually result in bad grades. I think Albert enjoys science but simply does not like school.

I can relate to Albert struggling to pay attention and daydreaming in class. Seeing light for the first time must have been an amazing experience for Albert. I can’t imagine not having electric lighting. This must have been fascinating because the only light they had ever seen before electric lights was the sun and lamps, which used fire.

How it relates to WWII: Albert Einstein’s work led to the invention of the Atomic Bomb which played a big part in WWII. The two Atomic Bombs that were dropped, ended the war.

Literary Device: On page four, Albert and his uncle are at a party to see the electric lights. The text states that “It almost seemed as if a new and more exciting world had been born in a flash of light”[12]. This is an example of personification because the lights literally changed and lit up the world. This is a sign of personification because it gives a human quality of being born to a more exciting world.

During the weekends we play baseball
But the time will end
When there will be no more
As nothing ever happened; it will be in the past
This is the chance to do what we can
Until the day comes
We have nothing to fear
Time goes by fast
As they say when your having fun
Time goes by too fast
The only thing we want is to have a good time
But for when he leaves
The ball will fall
When the day comes and the time we had ends
Like a tree that has lost its leaves
These weekends will be special until the end

Prohibition  started in January 1920 and lasted until 1933. Prohibition was the law where you could not sell alcohol. This law was the 18th Amendment. The reason they got rid of alcohol was because they wanted crime rates to go down and because it made people lose their money. The effect of this was it made crime rates go up instead of down. It also caused the economy to go down.

A lot of people would waste their money on alcohol before they showed up to their jobs and they would be out of sorts. People were then starting to spend more money on alcohol than on food and things they needed to survive. It was not used correctly at the time and many people abused this privilege. Before they made Prohibition a law they were hoping the crime rate would go down. Alcohol was causing fifty percent of crimes. Alcohol caused husbands or any family member to hurt loved ones because of the ingredients inside the alcohol. Many women did not like alcohol because of what it did to you. This law eventually became legal because many people didn’t like alcohol in the first place.

The things Prohibition created involved gangs, speakeasies, and bootleggers. Gangs usually involved violence and theft. An example of a gangster would be Al Capone. He bootlegged and was the host of over 10,000 speakeasies. Speakeasies were when you would sell alcohol illegally. They called it that because in order to get in you would have to whisper and speak “easy” because when you entered these places it was illegal to sell alcohol at the time and if the police found this speak easy they would arrest everybody. Bootleggers were people who would secretly put beer or alcohol in their boot and carry it around with them wherever they went because they didn’t like the law. But when they made this law it didn’t stop crime to go down it went up. Average people were commiting crimes to get this alcohol.

The only reason Prohibition became an amendment was because the government hoped for the crime rate to go down. Prohibition ended in 1933. They repealed it because crime rate went so high. People became grateful  the crime rate went down after alcohol became legal. This amendment was unlike any other because it had been a great mistake to the people who decided to make this a law and made history change.

One of the most famous imperialists was President William McKinley. Imperialists spread their power and influence over “weaker” nations. One of the most famous anti-imperialists was Mark Twain. Anti-imperialists thought that other races could not govern themselves, unlike imperialists, anti-imperialists left colonies alone. Anti-imperialists and imperialists are different in many ways but they have one thing in common.

Imperialists spread Chisianity because they thought it was their job. They wanted to take other religions and replace it with their own. Imperialists believed they were civilizing the colonies they took over. Asia and Africa is where most imperialists competed for colonies. They had a thirst for new markets and wanted new raw materials for factories, which would create new jobs. Imperialists thought they were doing a good thing by raising employment options. Imperialists wanted to improve the strength of the military and navy. They increased their strength by building more ports all over the world.

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