Monday, May 23, 2011

JFK Tweets !

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jan 1st, 1959) - ALRIGHT America ! Castros In Power ! :D

TheBOSS-JFK: (Dec 19th, 1960) - 0_o Cuba & USSR ? Not Good

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jan 3rd, 1961) - No More Cuban Goods ! >:l

TheBOSS-JFK: (Apr 12th, 1961) - The Hit On Castro Is Off -.-

TheBOSS-JFK: (Apr 17th, 1961) - Anti-Castro Rebels.... DENIED :/

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jun 3rd, 1961) - At The Boring Summit, Hmu Guys

TheBOSS-JFK: (Jul 27th, 1962) - Castro has some guts, War ?

TheBOSS-JFK: (Aug 10th, 1962) - Cuba & USSR, you got missiles ? We got missiles too !


TheBOSS-JFK: (Sept 11th, 1962) - Blah Blah Blah, Fine I get it, Wars bad :/

TheBOSS-JFK: (Oct 9th, 1962) - Plan "Spy On Cuba" Is Delayed, Stupid Mother Nature

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Topic 12; End

Trueman Doctrine - NATO & Marshall Plan, helping other nations stand a chance & fight Communism


Containment Policy - Containing the spread of Communism


Bay of Pigs Invasion - trained Americans to invade Cuba to discover the missile locations, failed horribly after three days


US Foreign Policy regarding Korea & Vietnam - Our foreign policy was the Containment Policy, and we promised aide to any country that may be taken over by a Communist leader


Intervention - No war going on, but high tensions


Cold War development - USSR ability to build nuclear weapons, Communism vs. Democracy


War Powers Act - President cannot dispatch the military without Congress's consent unless attacked or national emergency


WWII Foreign Policy vs. Post WWII Foreign Policy - USSR = allies, then after war, USSR = Communists = ENEMY !


Limited War - Limited men, resources, supplies; not going all out


Examples of Containment in Europe - Turkey, Poland, keeping missiles in Turkey 


Main Points of Division of Germany - Republic West, Communist West


Douglass MacArther Dismissal - Invaded Korea against direct orders, fired !


Nuclear Test Ban - No new nuclear weapons


Long Term Effect of Vietnam - Troops gone for an extended period, coming back hated


Peace Corps - Humanitarians traveling around the world


End of War - Lifted Berlin Wall, Germany returned to own economy, USSR borders set


Domino Theory - When one falls in, all the others follow


Nixon's Détente - Eased tensions between USSR & United States







Wednesday, April 27, 2011

I Am !

   I Am another minority student
   I Wonder where my identity has gone
   I Hear the country calling out to me
   I See my ancestors hard work and struggle to make it to America
   I Want to be recognized as an individual
   I Am another minority student




   I Pretend to not be bothered
   I Feel that I will be successful
   I Need to not listen to the negatives
   I Worry I will not reach my goal
   I Cry tears of joy when I see the finish line
   I Am another minority student




   I Understand it will not be easy
   I Believe in my intentions being pure
   I Dream of a happier life
   I Try not to get violent with my enemies
   I Hope one day people will look up to me, as I do them
   I Am just another minority student

Topic Eleven, Civil Rights Frenzy !

     MLK and Civil Disobedience- Martin Luther King Jr, had pacifist ideals and to fight back with action, but non violent action, civil disobedience not one black would step foot on a bus or use black restricted areas so that the law of  segregation would be changed
     
     Power of the "Mob"- People were scared to speak out and go against the mob because there were so many of them, and one voice would or would not be able to change that. Others were abused and hurt for going against the mob


     Plessy V Ferguson vs. Brown V Board of Education- Segregation laws comply with black and whites as too many incidents happen


     Civil Rights Goals- Goals for non segregation and equal rights


     Eisenhower's Role In Little Rock- As Arkansas would not let the 9 go to school, Eisenhower ordered the Army against the National Guard to protect the 9 to go to the school


     Rights of the Accused- Sixth Amendment, Can Have Attorney, Right To Counsel, Miranda rights


    Brown V Board of Education- Oliver Brown sues school board because his 8 year old daughter wasn't allowed in school, started the Civil Rights Movement, ruled unconstitutional to have segregated schools


     Chavez and the United Farm Workers- Giving the farmers a voice to get paid and work decent hours, anti immigration


     FHA and ADA- Outlaws prejudice to sell or rent housing, and areas must have handicapped access


     Purpose Of Filibusters- Allows the groups and associates' voices be heard and given a chance to state their position


     Sit-ins and other Protests- Fighting without violence, boycotting what they didn't want to be a part of, and proving that segregation was a mind set thing

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

MLK vs. X

     Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two tremendously important leaders to the Civil Rights movement. MLK was a passive aggressive leader, meaning he did not believe in violence. X on the other hand was the total opposite, not necessarily violence, but by any means necessary to get what and where they want. Similar, they both impacted the whites and blacks of America during the Civil Rights Movement. Some listened to MLK and when someone was rude or physical, they were kind and forgiving. Those that followed X's beliefs were rude back and took the opposer down. In common though, they stood strong in what they believed in, not stepping down no matter how threatened or spoken to. In the end they both get assassinated for their teachings. In all I believe Martin Luther King Jr's ideals were more effective, because with not fighting back with fist or attacks, they just lived their own lives AROUND the trouble of the white law. Which affected the economic balance because buses and restaurants needed their business. One could learn to fight, without actually fighting.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Meritocracy In The House !

     Do you think that people perform by the way they're perceived ? Well the definition of meritocracy states; "an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth." In the experiment of "The Class Divided" the teacher had put blue collars on the students who were said to be "less important" than the said eye color of the others (Blue or Brown). The students that we said to be "better" completed an alphabet flash card assignment in less than 3 minutes, but in the previous day when they were the lesser group, it took them about five minutes. This occurs almost every day in a typical life. People who are EXPECTED to do better, tend to have somewhat of a drive to do so, because they know their better when compared to another person or group of people. There's no way of changing this though, people will forever assume one is better than the other, and one will continue to excel as the other is left behind, it is the way of the world, and I'm not sure if it will ever come to a point where we're all equal to a point where we all excel.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Rockwell's Work

      In one of Rockwell's paintings, there is a scene of many males huddled around the counter of a diner. Doc's Diner and they're discussing their wives and how all of them are continuously nagging them. Everyone goes in to Doc's from time to time and loves his scrambled eggs. But today there was a strange man, who just came in and ate the eggs, then walked away. This man wore a dark brown trench coat and a hat that covered his eyes. Doc had left his plate out and his knife. What a peculiar man, not conversing with anyone in the diner, new to the town. Doc suspected him to be a Communist, so he is asking the rest of the guys what should he do. Report him in ? But Doc doesn't even know the man's name !