If you missed this assignment, do the following:
divide your paper in half and label like so
Reasons TO drop the Bomb I Reasons NOT to drop the bomb
Use the documents HERE to list reasons on Both sides. Bullets and short statements are fine, you don't need quotes. You should have several on each side.
Please have this turned in to me no later than April 4th, Friday
Monday, March 31, 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
WWII Biography
1. Choose one of the names below:
Ruben rivers
Ruben rivers
Elsie ott
Desmond T. Doss Sr.
Tarea hall Pittman
rigoberto garcia perez (a bracero worker)
Rudolph Davila
Josephine Kelly Ledesma Walker
2. Create a timeline of their experience during WWII (1941-1945 ONLY)
- This timeline should involve all IMPORTANT events of the person's WWII experience
- Please explain what MAKES each event important
- This timeline should NOT be copied word for word from a website. I'll know and dock you for it
3. Find one PRIMARY source (letter, interview, diary entry, photograph, etc) for this person and print it out in the computer lab (ask for a pass). Annotate this source as you did the letters last week.
- Not sure if it's a primary source? Click this link.
- Not sure if it's a primary source? Click this link.
4. How would THIS person's experience in WWII compare to your own, if you were their age at the time? Would you take the same actions? Would you even be able to? Take into account gender, ethnicity/race, prejudices of the time, etc.
- Do this on your own paper
- Around 1 handwritten page
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Tuesday US Work
(if you have to search for it, the title is "
(Minorities During WWII by matt flynn)
Create a list of the problems facing each of the different minority groups on the home front:
women, hispanic americans, african americans, asian americans
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Monday US HISTORY LINKs
Click this link. Scroll down the page until you see the posters.
For each propaganda poster (On your OWN paper):
1. summarize what it shows (yes, this is helped by the description next to it. try not to copy)
2. What is the PURPOSE of this propaganda poster? What message or value is it trying to convey?
Then, answer the following at the end of your paper:
Based on these posters, what were the priorities of the US govt during WWII? Try to use evidence from the posters.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Pop pyramids
Really excellent description of pop pyramids:
http://www.slideshare.net/lntrullin/understanding-population-pyramids
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Model UN
For each of the issues at hand, write 2-3 paragraphs on your country's stance on the issue, with particular focus on specific reasons that your country does or does not support it. Each issue has its own links, and generic links for your country can be found below:
Aral Sea & Water Resources
The issue: Soviet engineers diverted the flow of the rivers that feed the Aral Sea in the early 20th century. Now, the sea is down to 90% its former levels: an environmental catastrophe. The issue at hand: how much control should each country have over the water that passes through it?
Peak Oil
Oil is a limited resource. According to some OPEC nations, their ability to produce oil at current levels will end in 2014, after which oil production will diminish and prices will go nowhere but up. Less developed nations, however, have limited ability to transition to clean energy resources, but developed nations can, though their economy might take a hit in the process. The issue at hand: Should MDC’s bear the brunt of transitioning the world towards renewable energy?
Food Crisis
LDCs like Niger starve while MDCs like the United States struggle with an obese population. While MDCs produce food in cheap, mass quantities, citizens of LDCs are pushed to grow food for MDC markets and profit, rather than their own country, often on land owned by multinational corporations. Farmers in poorer nations are migrating to cities, where food riots are common and increasingly destabilizing to the local governments. In addition, the looming threat of climate change could cause major shifts in regional food production. The issue at hand: Should MDC funding be pushed to supply stakeholders (local farmers and landowners) with funding to invest in new crops and technologies, or should the current funding by MDC’s continue to flow through the multinational corporations (Monsanto, Macdonalds, conAgra, etc) in a for-profit model.
Global cultural preservation in the face of global trade.
There are significant cultural costs to the globalization of the world's economy. Multinational corporations are creating uniform landscapes in cultural centers of ancient cities. 6 corporations control production of many of the world's consumer products. There's no way for many local food sellers and retailers to compete with the influx of western stores and merchandise. The television and internet are spreading popular culture around there globe. Yet many countries, particularly LDCs, rely on their own folk cultural exports and tourism for income. The issue at hand: Should a country be able to ban the import of products and services it deems threatening to the economic livelihood of their cultural trades, though this would violate free trade and WTO agreements?
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