Essay #4: Boston Tea Party

What if? This question would raise a lot of conversation on America's earlier history. This would be because if you change one thing you could change where we are now and what we are able to have now, this would include freedom. Almost everything would change the fact of us having complete freedom, though thank god nothing did. Even the boston tea party. What if the boston tea party would not have happened? I dont think that people would see this as a big deal, though it could change everything.

The Boston Tea Party was a time in history where EVERYTHING was being taxed even stamps and these were called the townsend acts, the grenville acts. Well one of the things that the king George III wanted to tax was tea, well the common people of boston did not like that at all. So when a shipment of tea arrived on the port of Boston the drunk commoners arrived on the boat and dumped about 340 chests of tea (value of 10,000 franks). They had done it in a matter of hours and the king was not impressed. Now my question was, what if this wouldn't have happened? Well if the commeners were not drinking they probably wouldn't have had the guts to do anything about it and if they wouldn't have dumped the tea then the king wouldn't have gotten the message. If the king wouldn't have gotten the message then taxes would have kept going up and probably to a rate un-bareable.

This would be significant today because if that wouldn't have happened maybe we would be a monarchy and not have all the freedoms and rights that we have. Or maybe we would have alot higher taxes then we do now. See if only this would happen agian today but with oil, could you imagine what people would say have 450 barrles of oil dumped right into the harbor. I think that if someone would just stand up like the people back then, then maybe we wouldnt be in this position much longer. I think that it was a good idea for them to dump all of the tea.

Essay #3: George Washington

George Washington was a huge historical figure for America, he was well known as the first president of the United States. Though what most people dont know is the stuff that George Washinton had to go through to get to that point in history. He was involved in many different things for example, how he started his famous era would be when John Adams appointed him as commander of continental army. Then he Washington gets into a war called battle of Trenton and leads his army over the Delaware line in the winter time, this was a mistake because tons of people had started to get pneumonia and got very sick and started to die off.



One of Washingtons high points would have been when he retreated from the battle of Trenton to avoid General Cornwaillis' attack, he also made a good desicion by in Princeton when Washington ambushes the Brittish troops and has a long war with Brittain though the escaped and got out of Cornwallisis attack agian. Another thing thought that George Washington did wrong was when he sent the troops to Brooklynn, he had half the amount of troops then what the brittish had. The Brittish drove the troops out of Brooklynn and into New York. Though one more thing that Washington was succesfull at was the battle of Trenton, it was a clear victory for Washington and his troops. He had a rough and hard journey there by they made it and had a very nice battle agianst the Brittish.



Washington had a unique role in playing the founding of America because he went and became lieutenant colonel, then was appointed to commander in chief then had some more army experiances and then he lost New York City to the brittish and that was a down fall. Though after the war even though he had just as much bad experiances as good they appointed him president and he became a very large historical figure for that, though at this time they had also issued the declaration of independence. Though today if our running presidents were to do anything even close to as nad as what washington did we wouldn't have them be in office.

Common Sense: Revolution Exam

The common Sense was a copy that had spoken about how the suffering and trouble times that the colonies had been going through was because of Britain. Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense, and was describing the horrible things that King George III. This was also known to be the "immediate declaration of independence." Not long after this was written Thomas Paine started talking about the declaration of independence. This writing is what sparked the American Revolution.

Some reasons why the colonies have the right to rebel against Britain is because they keep taxing things that don't need to be taxed for example the Boston Tea Party, the commoners did rebel over that because they raised the price on tea when not necessary and they got what they deserved. Another reason would be because, they put the catholic religion into practice and made it mandatory for people to practice that religion which was not necessary either. George wanted what he wanted he didn't care about anyone else but himself and the colonies knew it and that's why they ended up rebelling over Britain. They started to abuse the power of being rulers of a new land. I think that the colonies should rebel because if they didn't then they would have been ruled and everything would have been taxed right through the roof, just like us today. Also we may not be where we are now if they didn't rebel, we still probably would have not been as free as we are today. So i am glad that the colonies did what they did.

If i was a historical writer at this time i would have thought that this world is heading for some major trouble and that we need to get ourselves out of the mess before it got any worse. I would also not see freedom, i would think that we were going to stay in monarchy forever and always have a ruler and not the freedom of religion. I would also see all of these large historical figures not so big in our world today, i would think that they wouldn't have gotten this far as to complete freedom to the united States. I would also not see us being the United States i would see us being ruled by Britain, though thank god that were not.

Quarter 4: Book Portfolio

(<------Book cover Fever 1793)Fever 1793, By: Laurie Halse Anderson 2001. It's about the yellow fever spreading through Philadelphia, people all of a sudden just start dieing in no time. Mattie a little girl goes through allot of troubles with losing friend and family to this horrible sickness, the question would be is she safe from this? The theme of this book would be never take anything for granted, because you never know what is coming. People fight allot and hold grudges towards people, but you never know if you will ever see them again, just cherish every moment of life.

Allot of people in this world need to just look around at what they truly have, you don't know how rich you are. I'm not even talking about money I'm talking also about family, people that care about you. Never abuse that at all, love is one of the most important things in this life. A part of the book that could described this is when Mattie was having problems with one of her best friends and then all of a sudden she got sick and died, Mattie never forgave herself after that. Another thing is when Mattie had been fight non-stop with her mother, and only a couple of days after her mother got very sick, and she then later passed. All these things that happened was horrible for Mattie. If she could have taken back, (all the fighting) she would've but it was to late. One more example would be when she had argued with her grandfather about how to treat her mom when she was sick, well guess what later her grandfather started to get sick. This theme in history is that this sickness actually happened in the later 17oo's, and people probably actually did feel this way when family got sick.

(<------ Guy with yellow fever, pain in his arm)

People actually had to go through this back then, the yellow fever was horrible i will share some background information on it. One reason that people almost always died from the yellow fever is because there was no cure for it, there was nothing you could do but rest. Some of the symptoms that you could get were head aches, chills, BAD pains in the arms, legs, and back. After about three days of your fever being done it would come back. You would then have had a high fever where your red blood cells are destroyed and then your skin and eyes turn yellow. You then start to throw up black and your nose bleeds non-stop. The significance of theme in history is that this is a true story, these things actually happened in history.

(<------Laurie Halse-------> Author of Fever 1793)Do not take anything for granted, you don't know what you've got until it's gone. The significance of the theme in the book is that it helps described what the characters are really like and what they really truly care about. The significance of the theme in history is that people actually had to go through this, this sickness was a HUGE deal and ended up killing many people. The book presented the theme very well and it was clearly understood, the author did a very good job and the theme. The importance of understanding the theme is that this happens all the time still in our everyday lives and this book could help with a loss, if it be a person or an animal it could still be useful. I would recommend this book to any age or anyone, it was a very well written novel.

Valley Forge Letter:

Febuary,10,1778

Dear Homestead,
Oh do i wish you were there, I have been out on vallley forge. It's just pure cold, our supplys are running low and the soldiers have started to get sick. I miss you all down there in boston massachusets. The snow has not let up, though im kinda used to it. How's my girl, probably just as pritty as her mama?
Washington has now started to clean up the place a little and have a little more authority. This is taken care of by Baron Von Stueben. We are also just started to get more supplies through General Nathanael Green, he took over the quartermasters post. Though General Thomas Mifflin does not like his job and really ignores it, he is in charge in transportation so the roads are horrible. Though what does he care, he already is wealthy.
So how is the weather up there in boston, i bet not much different then ours up here in Pennsylvania. I do so miss you guys, im hoping this will all be over soon though it's not looking so good. Well the best wishes for you all. Keep me and the soldiers in your prayers. I love you. Bye.


Sincerely,
Robert Clement

William Penn: Quarter 4 project..........

William Penn born in London October,14,1733. He spent the earlier years of his life in Essex and some of it in Ireland. He went to school and studied in Christ Church in Oxford. It was there when he converted to Quakerism. He was a good friend of the Quakers for example Nathanael Greene. He also spent most of his life in England, though is well known for the earlier history that he had in America, for this trip he served many different purposes.

One thing that Penn did that changed the colonies is that he tried to improve the indians, this is something most other Quakers would not think of. He also was for religous freedom, and was a protagonist of religious toleration. Penn was a person the would rule everything in his area (pennslyvannia) and Ben Franklin was a colonial representive and was trying to and wanted to fight his descendents which would be the Penn family. Him being like this would also help others with being what they want to be like and is also a step closer to being free in everything. Penn also tried to improve the rights of all English men. He went and was thinking that if Holland had a wealthy country and was for religious tolerance, then maybe his country should be. This could be a way to get money.

One time he went and started preaching to hundreds in front of a meeting house of the Quakers after it being padlocked by the authorities. After the meeting Penn and William Mead were arrested and put in prison for inciting a riot. At Penn's trial he calming told the illegality of the proceedings against him. He was like this with the whole religion thing because he did not like Roman Catholics for example a person would be like Daniel Carroll, he wanted everyone to be free from there religion. He also wanted wealth for his country by immigrants coming here. He also wanted to be just like Holland and they had the freedom of religion. Penn also went and helped the Americans become closer to the Indians and for the Indians to make negotiated peacefull purchases.

I think that Penn should be known as a greater hero in history, then what he stands in right now. He helped a large society have religious freedom, and allowed them to be in what they believe. Not what they are told to believe. Now where would this country be if we had to believe in things we didn't, it such a great disturbance that we cant even imagine. This whole country would go downhill and so much rage would be going on that we wouldn't be able to help ourselves. I could be even worse than the great depression.

Boston Massacre: Essay of Revolution Exam

Gentelmen of the jury i stand he berfore you because captian Preston is not guilty, to start this Rumpus seen on Royal Exchange Lane and King street in front of the custom house there was a big misunderstanding. How this all got started is by Captian Preston and the british soldiers fighting with the everyday, to start this out the mob of citizens through snowballs at the soldiers and struck them with sticks, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss and Robert Goddard. Therefore the soldiers were threatned by this, then people within the mob started yelling fire, for no apparent reason, this from the testimony of Theodore Bliss. The soldiers were confused as to whom was saying it under all of the yelling and screaming and then had shot, after the first shot all the other soldiers went into affect as if trained. Then at that point Captian Preston had said, "not to shoot you fools!" Through all of this there is a death of five civilians.

I think that the civilians are to blame, because the civilians are the ones that tempted the soldiers to a fight by throwing snowballs, they also started the fight by mouthing off to them. Another reason why they should be blamed for this fight and that would be because they went and struck them first, they ended up throwing snowballs and striking the soldiers with a stick. Which they could have acted in the sence of self defense. Also after this fact they have been yelling fire, and the soldiers fired like they were trained to do, what would have happened if it was in fact Captian Preston saying to fire and they didnt and one of the citizens ended up killing the captian, they wouldve been in alot more trouble.

The consquence should not be put on the captian or the soldiers at all, they are innocent and had done right and what they were trained to do from the beginning of there military training. So in fact the people that should go to jail or be hung are the citizens that had yelled fire, if any way possible to figure out who yelled it out. Also all the other citizens should be charged by starting the fight and endangering the soldiers. This would show the king of England that we know true justice and will give people what they deserve. Also that the justice will be served. If you to hang the soldiers these soldiers are soldiers of England brought up by the king now what kind of respect would that bring to our king? Let me tell you this, it's not the type of respect you would want to be treated with. These soldiers do nothing but what they are told and said to, so i beg of you to listin to my testimony and let the soldiers be free.

Book Portfolio Quarter 3: Nickel and Dimmed

Nickel and Dimmed was a good illustration about how every day people have to live and should be read by anyone that is thinking life is easy. Nickel and Dimmed By: Barbara Ehrenreich, published in 2001. Barbara went and played the role as a single girl, poor to see if they could survive of low wage jobs and welfare. She soon finds out that there is a lot of work if you are short on money; she struggles to make it by. I think that you should not judge people and treat everyone the same, because we all work the same amount weither one pays more than the other. The significance of this theme would be, you could help understand people who have to go through being poor and give them more respect.
The theme would be not to judge a book by its cover; we all are equal and work just as hard. For example there is a part in the book where Barbara has to apply for a lot of low wage job and sees the long process that you have to do. Another example would be, she starts to bond with the other low wage co-workers and actually likes them even though they have low wages to. The last example would be throughout the whole book she despises all of her managers, every single one. The significance of the book would be that everyone is the same and that managers and bosses inside of one job can be just as difficult as the other.
The historical context that I would choose out of this book would be that, people used to treat the slaves and others like them poorly. One example would be that they used to get beat for things that they did wrong though a days work for them would probably be a years work from what the person beating them does. Another example is that they got paid with food and with housing if that and the people beating them would actually get paid. Also the slaves had no rights and they did way more work then the settlers. The significance of theme for history would be that you can see how the slaves had felt compared to the others, poorly.
The theme would have a huge impact if only everyone would do what Barbara did and take the spot of someone else in this situation. It’s not a very well position to be in, treated like everyone else is better than you, it can’t be right. The significance of the theme in the book is that, she doesn’t know what people that are poor have to live through and how hard there life is. The significance of the theme in history is that people without money were treated horrible for example the slaves. The book could change people who judge others by what they make, it could change there life dramatically. With understanding this theme it would be important because why would you have the right to judge someone just by what they look like, make as a salary, or wear.

Notes 4/1/08

Revolution and War

1763-1789

Revolution Notes

1763—Proclamation Act

A line that went down the appalachian mountian, it determined what land the indians owned and what land the colonists owned.

1764—Grenville Acts (direct tax)
o Sugar (molasses, wine)
o Stamp
o Quartering
o Currency
Virtual/ Direct Representation
These were the things that people had taxed, there was a huge fight over what the people had been doing with taxing.

1765—Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
John Hancock
Propaganda
Boycotts
Lobsters (Lobster-backs, Thomas Lobster)

The nine colonies wanted to stop the tax, and this act lead up into a higher government later in history. You had to pay extra for certian paper.

1766—Declaratory Act

They took away the taxes that the people did not want, though they said that the parliament will be able to tax you in any way they want.

1767—Townsend Acts (indirect tax)
Charles Townsend
Writs of Assistance (search warrants)
Revenue used to pay Royal officials in the colonies
Tea Act (glass, paper, paint) support British East India Company

Laws named after Charles Townsend, this was just like the sugar act and the stamp acts. They also said that they could tax tea, glass, paper, and paint.

1770—Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Local reaction (primarily)
5 dead colonists
John Adams defends British soldiers/5 exonerated-2 convicted
Convicted men discharged and thumbs branded

When the military and normal citizens had been fighting, this because of the heavy tax burden. They citizens and the soldiers had fought and fired at each other for a reason unnecessary. They used it as propaganda to make the king look bad.

1773—Boston Tea Party

November 30, 1773--Dartmouth sails into Boston Harbor

December 16, 1773--Tea dumped into harbor
340 chests of tea dumped (value of 10,000 British pounds)

American's rebel agianst the british, they dumped 340 chests of tea in the ocean. This helped to spark the American Revolution.

1774—Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts in Britain)
Close the port of Boston
Shut down Provincial and Town Governments
All offices appointed
Named General Thomas Gage as Governor
Gave all western lands north of the Ohio R. to Quebec, allowed Catholic Church to practice
They ended up closing alot of athorities and ended up apointing Thomas Gage as government. He have away alot of land and also he put the catholic religion into practice.

1774—1st Continental Congress
September to October (7 weeks)
Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia

New England—John Adams, Paul Revere, Silas Deane

Virginia—Washington, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee

Pennsylvania—John Dickenson, Joseph Galloway (Plan for American council under Parliament, to avoid war)

New York—John Jay, James Duane

Maryland—Samuel Chase (future Supreme Court Justice), Charles Carroll (richest man in Maryland, Catholic)

Declaration of Rights—rejects Parliamentary authority over internal colonial affairs, colonies manage own defense, united aid to Boston if Intolerable Acts continue, absolute boycott of British goods to be enforced rigidly

First national governement of the united states,

1775— January
William Pitt urges Parliament to withdraw troops from America because the idea of managing the colonies through force was “too ridiculous to take up a moment of your lordships’ time”

1775—April 19 Lexington and Concord
Gen. Gage sends 700 men to Concord to seize the powder supplies
Paul Revere and William Dawes raise alarm the night before
Town of Lexington is on the way to Concord
Minutemen are assembled on the town common
“Shot heard round the world”
18 colonials killed and the rest run away
British march on to Concord and find the munitions were moved overnight
Minutemen ambush the British the whole way back to Boston
430 Redcoats make it back to Boston
30,000 Colonists surround Boston

1775—May
Gen. Howe, Gen. Clinton, Gen. Burgoyne
5,000 British troops
Ethan Allen, “Green Mountain Boys” seize Fort Ticonderoga
Henry Knox uses canon to lay siege on Boston
Benedict Arnold (Connecticut) takes Fort Crown Point to impede an invasion from Canada

1775—May 10, 2nd Continental Congress
Sam Adams pushes for Independence
John Dickenson (Penn.) urges restraint
Agree to form Colonial Army
Delegates unanimously agree to Washington as Commander of Continental Army (John Adams suggestion)

1775—June 17, “Battle of Bunker Hill”
Actually fought on Breed’s Hill
Gen. Howe leads assault without canon support (his canon had been matched with wrong-sized cannonballs [Amherst at Ticonderoga])
Militia waited to within 30 yards (some say 15 yards)
Militia target British officers
Militia ran extremely low on ammunition
On the third assault, led by Gen. Howe, British troops overtake the colonial position
Britain losses almost 1000 men (about half the attacking force)
Colonials lose about 500 men

1776—January, Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine
120,000 copies sold in three months

1776—March
Gen. William Howe evacuates Boston
July 2, lands in Staten Island, New York (Loyalist base)





1776—Declaration of Independence
June 7, Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) introduces legislation to declare independence from Britain
Before voting on Lee’s proposal Congress appoints five-man committee to draft a formal Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson, 33, does most of the writing)


June 28, Declaration presented to Congress

July 2, Congress approves Lee’s legislation to declare the United States of America independent of Great Britain

July 4, Congress officially adopts the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration intended to:
1. Undermine loyalty to King George III
2. Outline basic principles of representative government
3. Establish the “right” of rebellion

War

1776—August, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Largest Naval group Britain will launch until the 20th century
British victory, city falls to England
As winter came “sunshine patriots” left the American Army
Initial colonial enlistments due to expire

1776—December, Battle of Trenton
Howe believes war almost won
1,400 Hessians stationed at Trenton
Colonel Rall (Hessian) builds no fortifications
Washington “Crosses the Delaware” Christmas night
2,500 men; 18 artillery guns
Surprise attack at dawn
106 Hessians killed, 918 captured
No colonial casualties
Washington retreats in secret to avoid Gen. Cornwallis counter-attack

1777—January, Princeton
Washington ambushes British troops
Colonial victory establishes this will not be a quick war for Britain

1777—September-October, Saratoga
Gen. Burgoyne plans a three-prong attack on colonials at Albany
Plan does not consider the terrain, forcing British troops to march through swamps, lakes, hills and forests full of rebels
Two of the three “prongs” never arrive (Howe goes to Philadelphia instead, St. Leger retreats to New York afraid of Benedict Arnold)
Sept. Burgoyne crosses Hudson River
Oct. 17, Burgoyne surrenders
Establishes American Army as real threat
Helps secure open French Alliance
Turning Point of the War

1777-1778—Winter at Valley Forge
Under-funded troops
Low morale
10,000+ troops
4,000 troops listed as “unfit for duty” due to poor supplies (boots, blankets, coats, etc.)
2,500 troops die of disease (typhus, typhoid fever, dysentery, pneumonia)
George Washington mentioned a lack of shoes so severe that the men's "marches might be tracked by the blood from their feet”
Local farmers would sell produce to Brits who could pay cash

1779—February, Vincennes

1780—August, Camden

1780—October, Kings Mountain

1781—October, Yorktown
British Gen. Cornwallis
American Gen. Washington (also “Mad” Anthony Wayne, Baron von Steuben)
French Gen. Rochambeau (also Marquis de Lafayette)
Essentially a French Naval victory
Last significant battle of the war

1783—Sept. 3, Treaty of Paris
Britain recognizes American independence
America gets all land from Atlantic coast to Miss. River, Great Lakes to Florida
Fishing rights to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland
America must pay debts to Britain
American congress would “earnestly recommend” all Loyalist property returned (States ignore this request)

Exam #2: The founding of the english colonies.

I. Introduction
A. Thesis statement [sample: The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence.]
B. Preview first major point (without support) [Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence.]
C. Preview second major point (without support) [ Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.]
D. Preview third major point (without support) [Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.]
E. Significance of Thesis [It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.]
II. First Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
III. Second Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
IV. Third Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
V. Conclusion
A.
B. Restate significance of first position
C. Restate significance of second position
D. Restate significance of third position
E. Summary of paper (why is it important)


The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.

Miles Standish used violence in a way to protect the early colonies. Standish was a very tiny but hot tempered man. When he went to a feast with an indian Pecksuot Standish snatched Pecksuot’s knife from him and with it stabbed its him, only because pecksuot was after standish to begin with. He would carry a costume soward with him everywhere he went and which it would be hung around his neck. Miles Standish fought as a young man against the Spanish in the Netherlands, learning his military trade and developing his leadership. This helps the thesis statement because it shows how ruthless and mean Miles Standish actually was back then.

Benjamin Church, he provided nessecary leadership during king philips war to protect the colonies. Church was a skilled and respected surgeon he also was a man of God and loyal to his King. He has opionions on the war and it was that they were bad, he did not like fighting and thought that they should be done and/or ended quickly. Many Indians surrendered to Church during Philip's War under his promise that they would be treated kindly. Though that promise was not somthing that he could keep. The Government sold all of Church's Indian captives into slavery to help pay for the costs of the war, except the warriors who later they would hang. If he had not been the hero of Philip's War, they might have hung Church as a traitor or banished from Plymouth for questioning the Government policy. This also is important to the thesis because it shows that Benjamin Church had different leadership qualitys and abilitys that Miles Standish did not use, he had more sympathy for people.

Religous idealism, most people back in mass. were your typical christians and would be in church and a "person of god". People that believed in christianity were usually strong believers and it would be said crude if missed out in a church service, unlike today you have so many types of religons. In this time it would seem like Miles Standish was probably a christian but not as much so as Benjamin Church. Religon has alot to do with a way the colony may act not only to each other but to others coming in. This is important to the thesis because it shows where people stood when it came to religon in these points of life.

The history of our nation is appropriate for people to know, it is important that this is well taught today. This is the way that the place we live in now is brought up. There has been a huge dramatic change in the economy sence then, and it is amazing how we can look back and say wow, i cant believe this happened here, or that we behaved like that and it was ok.

They are gentle, loving, faithful, lacking in all guile and trickery. The words denoting lying, deceit, greed, envy, slander, and forgiveness have never been heard. They have no jealousy, no sense of possession.--John Smith (character)

We shall make a new start. A fresh beginning. Here the blessings of the earth are bestowed upon all. None need grow poor. Here there is good ground for all, and no cost but one's labor. We shall build a true common wealth, hard work and self reliance our virtues. We shall have no landlords to rack us with high rents or extort the fruit of our labor. --John Smith (character)

The Wounded Knee Essay

Wounded Knee Illistrates one of the final events in a long series of violent conflicts motivated by racism, disrespect and lack of understanding. The monument is now held in very poor condition and is not being watched with care this is a video from youtube about a trip to a monument. They had a dance called the rain dance, this was supposed to put the indians into peace and have the americans leave them alone, this is another video on youtube that explans the dance. The americans said that they were drunk when this battle of wounded knee happens and so they have a side to there story and this is what it is click on this link.
Wounded knee battle shows how the indians were brutaly taken over and disrespected by the americans. The Wounded Knee is a disgrace to the indian population everywhere. The battle of Wounded Knee is a battle of racism, disrespect, and lack of understanding between the indians and the amercians. The americans invaded the indians and took them over every one of them. The indians are put to shame and embarrssed by the acts of the amercians on the day of the wounded knee battle.
I think that the americans should've shown more respect and at least let the indians fight back, that is total disrespect to take them over completely like they did. The wounded knee battle shows how the Americans behaved back then, and it's not in a posotive way. We now as amercians, look back on this battle in discrace and no dignity. We should be ashamed and not feel proud of what we've done that day. We killed many inocent people and young kids.

Wounded Knee Outline:

I. The Wounded Knee Battle
a. Wounded Knee Illistrates one of the final events in a long series of violent conflicts motivated by racism, disrespect and lack of understanding.
b. Youtube video trip to monument (disrespect for the indians)
c. Youtube video Documentary (rain dance, Life for the indians)
d. Essay on nokomishistory.com (explains the americans side of the battle of wounded knee)
e. Wounded knee battle shows how the indians were brutaly taken over and disrespected by the americans.
II. Wounded Knee is a disgrace to the indian population everywhere.
a. Wounded Knee a battle of racism, disrespect, and lack of understanding between the indians and the amercians.
b. The americans invaded.
c. The indians are put to shame and embarrssed by the acts of the amercians.
III. Conclusion I think that.....
a. The wounded knee battle shows how the Americans behaved back then.
b. We now as amercians look back on this battle in discrace.
c. I think we should've been ashamed.

Final Essay Prompt #3

Mao and Stalin they are alike and different both at the same time, though not much people know about them. Mao and Stalin would be different for many different ways, for example, Stalin read forbided literature, while Mao was for it and actully supported schools and education camps though for certian books. Also they are alike because they both were for power and would kill anyone that would try to get in there way of it. Another way they were opposite is because of religon, they have completly 2 different types of religon.
Hilter and Mao were also the same and different, they both are very controlling though in many different ways. Hiltler had a certian perfect person blue hair and blonde eyes and he was totally agianst jews, though Mao as long as they followed what he wanted he was fine about there background. Though they were the same because if anyone disobayed them they had a major problem and would kill them.
There are many different signs that you could see when your community is going into a dictatorship. One way would be people or a certian person and group would put down strict religon groups. Also another way would be that you would have to follow strict rules by those people including what you wore and what you do during the day.

Of mice and Men (Book Portfollio)

Of mice and Men By: John Stienbeck

Of Mice And Men By: John Steinbeck. This book’s plot would be two people George and Lennie who are migrant workers (people who move all over the place to find work, randomly stay in one work area for an overly long period of time) as well as best friends. They head to a job in California at a farm, Lennie has a mild case of a mental disability and is big, George is smaller and is Lennie’s best friend through out this novel. Lennie likes to feel soft things for example mice and silk stuff like that. There is a couple of other stable hands including a the boss’s son, everyone is fairly nice though not the boss’s son Curley. Curley is also married to a flirtatious wife as well. Towards the very end of the book Curley’s wife asks Lennie if he wanted to feel her hair and he said yes, then he grabbed it to hard and she screamed. Lennie trying to silence her grabbed a hold of her head and accidentally broke her neck, she died. Curley then ran down to his meeting place and later showed up was George, George not seeming angry at Lennie and telling Lennie to look over at the bunny’s then he shot him right in the head, because the other people of the farm were coming to shoot Lennie, George said that Lennie had shot himself.
Some of the main characters would be George, George is small and cares for Lennie he also dreams about his farm that he would like to have with Lennie and often Fantasizes about it through out the book, he also talks a lot about how much better his life would be without Lennie though he really does care for him. Another main character would be Lennie, Lennie is a larger person he has a mental disability so therefore he depends on George, Lennie loves to pet soft things, small animals, dresses, hair ect. Also the character Curley plays a big role in Of mice and Men, Curley is the boss’s son and wears high healed shoes to tell himself away from the other stable hands, he is married to a wife that loves to flirt, he also is mean-spirited, and aggressive. Some of the supporting characters would be Candy (an old man, stable hand, only has 1 hand and, also gets into the land idea with George and Lennie, also he has an OLD dog), Crooks (black stable hand, Bitter though proud, he is also fond of Lennie), Slim (old mule driver who bothers Candy about putting his dog down).
The theme of this book would be to describe Migrant workers in the historical concept and would be friendship between the two men in the literary concept. Migrant workers were a huge part of the U.S.A. in the early 1900’s. Men would live their lives on day to day basis not knowing what was going to happen the next day or what they were going to eat they were totally oblivious to the fact of settling down and living a stable life. The men would normally be kicked out of their jobs for criminal reasons if it was misunderstood they would just vanish. Friendships like the one that George and Lennie share were not as common back then, people were usually looking out for themselves and maybe family, only because it was hard to support people by yourself. Unlike today how we have homeless shelters and companies that are more then willing to help for certain homeless causes. People just did not have the money or resources back then.
To conclude this book was very well written, I enjoyed this author a lot. His audience would probably be young adult to adult because of the vulgar language used within this novel. I thought he displayed his plot, theme, and reasoning very well. I would defiantly recommend this book to someone just looking for some pleasurable reading.