Category Archives: History
Peacemaker Game Review
The Peacemaker game is interesting. You play as the Palestinians or the Israeli. Choosing one will give a different experience than the other. I played as the Palestinians, so I had to please two categories, the World and the Palestinians. In those two categories, there were different groups of people. Every action caused a reaction of these groups positive, negative, or sometimes both. You had to deal with those reactions with a variety of options; political, military, or construction. Through a combination of these actions you win by making everyone satisfied which took a while. This game took me about an hour so its pretty long. I would rate this game a 3/5 not because it’s bad, but because it’s not my type of game. I would recommend Peacemaker because it’s interesting and worth a shot.
Invictus Movie Review
Invictus; a movie by Clint Eastwood, starring, Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The movie Invictus is about Rugby in South Africa when Nelson Mandela becomes president. It focuses on the team representing South Africa an unhappy reminder of the previous apartheid. The team struggles to work successfully and represent their country. But then Mandela comes in and gives them the encouragement they need and the team steps up their game to compete in the Rugby world cup conveniently hosted in South Africa. This movie is based off a story by John Carlin. I would rate this movie a 4/5 and recommend it to anyone with the spare time to watch.
The Help Book Review
The Help was a very good story. I give it a 4/5. It showed the perspective of two African American women and white woman. That is what made the story so diverse and interesting. It was about the challenges the three women encounter when they come together to make a book about the life of black maids in the south. The trio take risks because they believe that they are doing the right thing even if their lives are at stake. This story opened my eyes to what life must have been for black women in the civil rights movement because life was so different back then. I would recommend this story to someone who is studying the civil rights movement.
Motivational Speakers Compare and Contrast
Martin Luther King Jr, a very, very, very good motivational speaker. He fought peacefully for freedom and equal rights influencing others to do the same. President Dwight. D. Eisenhower, a very popular president of the U.S. He inspired the citizens with his knowledge and experience. While MLK Jr and Ike are two famous speakers, their Tones and purposes in their speeches of the “I have a Dream” speech and the Farewell address have quite a few differences.
One of the many contrasts in the two speeches is the purpose. Eisenhower says in his address, “This evening, I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.”. This shows the purpose of the speech, to say a final goodbye. In MLK Jr’s “I have a dream”, he says, “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”. His purpose is clear, to focus on the great act of freedom towards blacks or other races. He believed it was time for desegregation and racial equality.
Another of the differences about the two speeches and their speakers was the tone. The tone varies based on the purpose. As an example, Martin Luther King Jr had an inspiring and determined tone because it goes well with the subject he talked about. He described things with lots of imagery like “Cash this check….that will give us….the riches of freedom.”. Ike’s tone was different. He was addressing America to say goodbye and warn the U.S of the Military Industrial Complex. This subject merited the somber and serious tone from the president.
Although Eisenhower and MLK Jr wrote very famous speeches, like the Farewell address and the I have a dream speech, the two are very different in style like the tone and purpose. These differences draw the people apart in terms in writing and speaking. Without their writings, the world would be a different place. We wouldn’t know about the Military Industrial Complex and equal rights wouldn’t be the same. That is what makes the speeches so important to history.
Unit 4 Summary
After WWII, colonies got their freedom others had to fight for it. Vietnam was one of those colonies that had to fight. France wanted Vietnam back as their colony. They were defeated by the Vietnamese so the U.S took charge of the war, using the Tonkin Gulf Resolution as an excuse to officially enter a war against Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. As the war raged on, the U.S started to loose more and more battles upsetting the public, starting anti war protests. Then came Richard Nixon, the 37th president and the last to be part of the Vietnam war. America signed a peace treaty in 1973.
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Vietnam Veteran Interview
We had a Vietnam veteran come in the class to answer some questions about the war and his involvement. The person we interviewed was Dee Christensen, a military engineer who took part in the Vietnam War. The questions and answers I had are as follows.
Q: Where were you when you were drafted? How old were you? What were you doing? How did you feel about it? Did you try to avoid it?
A: “I was in San Jose when I was drafted to Oakland and I went to Fort Poke Louisiana in 1976, before I was 22. When drafted I was shocked, bewildered, and couldn’t avoid it.”
Q:How old were when you entered the war? What did you feel about going into it? Were you scared? What were some challenges when training for the military?
A: “I was 23 when I went to Vietnam and I wasn’t scared, concerned, but not scared. After a while as an engineer, it just felt like normal work.”
Q: What was your position in the army and what did you do? What types of projects did you work on?
A: “I was a Lieutenant engineer and I short circuited the supply system.”
Q: What was the most effective vehicle in the war? Why? What piece of technology impressed you?
A: “The Huey Helicopter was used everywhere and I thought the APC (Armored Personnel Carrier)was a cool thing to use.”
Q: What were the living/housing arrangements like? What was it like wherever you stayed or slept? What was the weather like?
A: ” It was either hot and wet or hot and dry and the things we lived in were called hooches.”
Virtual Labs…. Good or Bad?
Colleges like Cal State Los Angeles are using an online lab to conduct their science experiments. With these computer simulations, people are able to lots of things and are able to save money for equipment. There are good and bad things to this new way of science. The good thing is that one, its cheaper, it gives instant results, and help people get through the necessary science courses to graduate. On the other hand, these online experiments are unrealistic. They give instant results unlike a real experiment where you would have to wait. The program gives a simulation and doesn’t prepare students for the real world of science.
The author had no bias and stated the pros, cons, and opinions of the colleges and people. I think that these online labs are cool but not good because people need to really conduct the research and do the experiment. It doesn’t prepare people for the real world. My parent thinks its practical but it can’t replace hand-on science. It lets kids work on concepts without the struggles of materials, safety, time, and money. In addition it can help kids focus on key understandings without introducing too many variables.
JFK’s Civil Rights Involvement Bio
John F. Kennedy, the famous and awesome 35th president, led the United States of America from 1961-1963. Being president wasn’t easy especially during all the hard times of segregation and the Cold War. The president had to do something. Unfortunately, JFK was occupied with a potential WWIII but did what he could with the Civil Rights Movement.
Going into JFK’s childhood, he was born on May 29th, 1917, in Massachusetts. He was the second oldest of nine siblings. Through his childhood to teenage years, JFK struggled with sicknesses and further on in his life, was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. With all the health issues, the president-to-be still led a privileged, well educated life going to private schools. Going to Harvard, JFK traveled with his father as his secretary.
In John F. Kennedy’s run for president he had to get the support of the black community who won him the election. The African Americans voted for the young president in the hope of desegregation. The potential WWIII occupied a lot of his time but he did do somethings. He put African Americans in higher job positions, he encouraged desegregation in public areas, and he used the National Guard to enforce desegregation and protect blacks.
When the President died on November 22nd, 1963 the U.S was in shock. He died in Dallas Texas, at 1:00 PM, shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor of the book depository. Many people remembered where they were when the news went out. In honor of the fallen president, Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president used the emotion of the states to pass the Civil Rights Act. John F. Kennedy will be remembered for his involvement in many things and his part in the beginning Civil Rights Act.