Gallipoli, Death and Destruction!!

      After watching the trailer from Gallipoli, i saw many unpleasant things. The number of casualties in Gallipoli was staggering. From death to destruction everywhere. Being a WWI soldier was not a simple task, knowing you are always at risk is not easy. A soldier must also be afraid of what may always happen next. From the trailer of Gallipoli, there are scenes that show why there were a high number of casualties in this war. In the video I saw a cemetery with numerous amounts of crosses that says that the number of deaths was significantly high. Also I saw many soldiers dead or injured.There is also a scene with massive artillery such as guns and cannons as well as barbed wires and fires. In the trailer the terrain also led to big factor in not helping the British out, because it made it difficult for the British to maneuver and provide enough supplies for their troops to survive and work efficiently. Apparent throughout the whole trailer were the machine guns, and that scene were soldiers marched with the guns above there shoulder were they would smile was astonishing. The number of soldiers enlisted to fight during war was huge and that is why the number of casualties was at a high rate. Britain would experience diminished power around the world and power to sustain its own economy. There would be a lack of people able to work productively in any career. Another impact is the affect on economy and trading between countries. The number of casualties in WWI affected many countries around the world. How does a nation recover from this?

Dogfight: A pilots thoughts...

       A pilot from World War I must have gone through a lot. They must have had a horrible life, thinking that they would die any second they were in combat. The planes were not made to resist the kind of machinery in war. So pilots would die instantly. Playing the game "Dogfight" I could imagine what was going through a pilots head. It's very difficult to focus on one thing at once, so imagine three or four and so on. A pilot must be thinking about is family as he starts fighting, he must be thinking if he will be able to see them again. He might also be thinking about how he might die, and the chances of him dying. A pilot must be really nervous, if religious, he would be praying to God for his life. The pilots are brave men who take there life's to serve for our country. Most knew that they were most likely to end up dead, but they still continued their path to victory. It was also hard to control this kind of aircraft, pilots would lose control at any moment. A pilot really does have a lot to think about in this last instances.  

Virtual Wars vs. Real-Life Wars

      War video games like "Call of Duty" play a big role in society. Especially for teenagers today, in our generation. Many kids and teenagers relate to this kind of video games in many ways. These video games try to portray what war is like, but in reality they don't because soldiers cant restart in real life. But the only people that really know the way war is, are the soldiers that have actually fought war. There is a big debate on whether or not games diminish the violence that actually occurs in real war. Violent video games, such as "Call of Duty", should be allowed but to an extent where the game is actually a little more restricted to some things. Its just a game though, and teenagers and kids are enjoying the time that they are spending playing on games like this. Maybe it gets to a time where some children get more aggressive when playing video games. Although it also depends on how long you play these type of games. Obviously, "Call of Duty" only shows a very small example of what truly happens in war. I believe that if a parent is willing to buy a game like "Call of Duty: Black Ops", then that parent should know how the teenagers or children will be affected by it and how much time they will spend playing. 

    These games known to be rated for mature audiences, are preferred by younger consumers as well. I believe that it is all a parent's obligation to expose their children to appropriate material. In my opinion games such as "Call of Duty" should be allowed, but higher standards should be set for them. It is only entertainment, players don't pay physical or emotional prices. Video game companies should revise this violent games and only allow some parts. I really don't think it brings out a violent side to any kid or teenager, it all depends on how long they play, and if that is there only hobby. I believe that younger kids should absolutely not be allowed to play these violent games. For that reason, manufacturers put a rating on video games like on this one Rated M for mature. I believe that morally this game is not right. It should be revised, what kind of message are people receiving playing this game. Today, kids are accepting more violence into there life's and even though they are at a young age they accept that war is good. They find it acceptable in life to follow fantasy.

        I think that video games like this should exist but I think they should be more realistic. They should also have some kind of message to follow. I believe that if we start to see that kids and teenagers begin to get mentally affected by these video games then it should not be able to exist but kids now are just playing to get to higher level and beat everyone else. As we are increasingly living in a society where winner takes all, and there is less compassion an sympathy for anyone else. Only the winner survives in this.  

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Dear Journal

October 4, 1910

                            I have to say that today has been one of the hardest days at work. The family is the only thing I am thinking about right now. I miss them so much and I hope I'll be back before the holidays. I really need to withstand these working days here, even though i hate it. More and more people die every day, because of the dangers that all of us face. Everyday at work I have to fear for my life and wait to see if something unexpected will happen. The truth is that I feel really lucky to have great health while my coworkers have yellow fever and malaria. Everyday before I go to bed I pray to God for my life, family, and health so that I can be able to go back home to my son and daughter. Trying to get away from those mosquitoes and other species that carry malaria is sort of impossible. If I do get stung I could die in seconds, I really don't want that I have a beautiful family back at home. The violence that goes on around these place while building is extremely dangerous. I wish that everybody could live in a calm and safe place. I pray to God once again to keep me alive so i could keep writing this journal and so that my children can see me alive. If I live, I at least could pass the story that I helped with and survived the building of the Panama Canal.

Tweets and Tweets

On the days leading from Jan. 14 to 17 Queen Liliuokalani had to give her throne away. In that sadness this is what she tweeted:

Queen Lili'uokalani:
Preparing for the closing ceremonies today at the Government Building. Trying not to get nervous, stay concentrated, but OMG I cant!
01/14/1892  10:00 AM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
Walking across to the 'Iolani Palace, declaring my new constitution, YESSS!!! What a beautiful band that is playing!!!
01/14/1892  1:25 PM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I'm having a big argument with the cabinet. They wouldn't sign the treaty. My enemies are somewhere in the crowd. :/
01/14/1892  2:47 PM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I am really upset right now. I can't believe they didn't sign my treaty. But life goes on. :)
01/14/1892  5:30 PM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I was informed that the Committee of Safety plan to overthrow me. I now want to avoid any possible danger that I might have. Ughh so much work :/
01/15/1892  8:40 AM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
Crisis on the harbor! Writing a proclamation to try to fix things soon!!!
01/15/1892  10:00 AM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
Thank you to all those "loyal" Hawaiians who showed up to support me. You my natives are the reason why I am here. <3
01/16/1892  9:45 AM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I can't believe my people would betray me!! If I have always done the right decisions for them. Why??
01/16/1892  12:00 PM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I gave up the throne today. It is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my whole life. I hope the president helps me reclaim the throne!!:/
01/17/1892  5:30 PM

Queen Lili'uokalani:
I knew this day was soon going to come, I have yielded my power! I'm sorry to all my people and troops. Know that I all love you very much!!!
01/17/1892  7:00 PM

Source: http://www.hawaii-nation.org/soa.html

Imperialism in Toy Story 3!!!

        Toy Story 3 is by far one of my favorite movies of all time. Not only is it the best animated movie I have seen, but it also shows imperialism. Throughout the movie and even in the first two movies we experience that power that Woody has over the group of toys. The leadership that takes in place when he calls for a meeting, and they all take for granted that he knows what is right and wrong. When in the movie Woody wants Andy to play with them that he calls his cell phone so that ONLY!!! Woody could hear his voice. Even though everything doesn't always come out right for Woody, he always tries to calm the situation down. As went coming out of the box he says that everything will be fine and that Andy will love them forever. Woody somehow overpowers that whole room when standing on top of the table that Andy has there. Though Buzz goes up to him and ask him that if he is sure that Andy will put them in the attic. Woody is not sure but he tries to make the best out of his  last few days in Andy's room. 
        When Andy put the rest of his toys except for Woody in the bag. Woody watched the bag as Andy was going to put in the attic, but he doesn't put it because he sees his sister carrying a box of toys that she will donate to Sunnyside Daycare. So Andy helps her out with carrying the boxes because she is having difficulty. His mom passes by, trips over it and thinks that its the garbage bag. As soon as Woody sees that happens he goes and tries to be that brave leader to rescue them. Then they break out of the bag and Jessey has a great idea to go to the Daycare because they will be played with there. Woody then tells them not to, he says it is a bad idea, but then Andy's mom starts the car and they are all heading to Sunnyside Daycare. Woody tries to take care of the situation but it is not possible.
       In Sunnyside they meet Lotso who is the leader of the daycare. He shows that imperialistic power. The way he speaks and orders the other toys to welcome all of Andy's toys in. Lotso is the evil guy that is in control of everything in the daycare. There is nothing to stop him from being that way. That imperialistic power is also exemplified when Lotso tries to be a nice sweet bear when giving them a tour around the daycare. He shows that dictator and political power that governments show when they begin their power. Not only is he an evil antagonist that we see in any animated movie, but we also see that imperialistic and control power that he has over everybody. His imperialistic ideas make him a creator of chaos and a villain who tries to make the most out of his own power. He suffers because he was one cared and loved by his owner like most of the toys in the daycare. With this imperialistic power he takes out his anger and shows how he once suffered as an owned toy. This movie is imperialistic because both Woody and Lotso hold power over the toys either in the Daycare or in Andy's room and also wherever they go. 

Source: http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/toy-story-3-   wallpaper-characters-logo.jpg
      

Yellow Journalism Today

      Yellow Journalism is still used today in newspaper headlines to exaggerate a story that causes for people to be more attracted to the topic. The purpose of the news is to attract people and make them talk about this publishment. The headline for today read: "Wall Street faces biggest ever insider trading probe". When you first read this article, you think why would Wall Street let this people work here. The truth is that this has been going on for years because now they are doing a three year investigation that could expose "a culture of pervasive insider trading in U.S. financial markets". Now they are going to investigate businesses that command big fees. They will also investigate consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund, and mutual-fund traders that don't even have to do anything with this none sense. They were trying to examine if certain traders garnered tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits. It is exaggerating for them to investigate all these innocent people. Those companies suspected traders should be investigated more but this by far has not been Wall Streets biggest ever insider trading probe because it has been going on for years. 

Source:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40284176/ns/business-us_business/         

Close the School of the Americas!!

       The "School of the Americas" (SOA) has been open and operating since 1946. The United States is in charge and operating the SOA, which was originally established on Panama in 1946. Then it was moved out of the country in 1984 under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. The SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in order to overthrow corrupt governments. I believe that the U.S should not be able to operate this organization which trains people to follow the practice of coup d'etat. The organization has former graduates that have been part of some of the worst massacres, and killings in the last 59 years in Latin America. After looking and reading through the website SOA Watch, an independent organization that seeks to close the SOA, I saw that this is not a good cause after all. Why?The United is responsible for the number of innocent people that die every day all around Latin America. This school should not even be up and running, why would someone want to be trained to kill and "assassin" others that are innocent. It's more depressing and it hurts to see Colombia as one of the countries that is involved in this organization. It is wrong to destroy life's of innocent workers, educators, union organizers, and leaders that want to make their country a better place. I believe that the United States is making the lifestyle of many Latin Americans unstable and insecure. After reading "men drove in trucks, opened fire, and threw grenades indiscriminately", I saw that there is no benefits at all for this organization, and that SOA should see the numbers of people dying because of their operations. How could the so called Boss of the World operate such a school? Finally, the SOA should be definitely closed so that those innocent people are not at stake and so they can practice human rights.

Weekly Article #3

     I agree to the blogging assessment because it is a quick way to have my own opinion expressed. The access to everything digitally is amazing. Just typing in the computer keeps me attentive on the topic that I am writing about. It's so much easier to do blogs because in order to do homework in pen and paper, I have to take these supplies out, then write my name, period, date, and class and finally begin writing the assignment. So just preparing the paper takes about five to ten minutes. The blogging assessment gives some flexibility when scheduling assignments for other classes. So I might do my blogs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. To help me be more organized with homework.
     This blogs give a another way to be educated and learn many other lessons by using blog posts and websites. It is a very interactive experience because it lets you acknowledge what other people believe in that topic. I also liked that many of the questions were not simple, but challenging and opinionated. There was really no right or wrong answer, it was just to opinion with valuable support. I also like that we are not trying to use textbooks to reference them. But to let our minds wonder in that particular topic. 
     There is also a way to interact with classmates, and learn how to improve in writing this blogs. By comparing the many points explained, and how different people write to be more structured. This blogs are not a piece of cake, the topics make you think out of the box. They make you plan out what you are going to write.
     I also like that we have more than one blog topics to choose from, just in case we are not interested in some we could leave them and pick other that you can write more about. The amount of time to get the blog topics done is such a wonderful idea because it keeps me on task and prepared to turn it in on time. And never have to deal with doing all of them on the last day of the quarter like today!!!!
     This blogger system makes everything so much easier. I look forward to keep writing blogs and turning them in on time. It is a unique experience with the potential to expose students to information they have never seen before. I agree with the blogging system.

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Favorite!!!!!!!!!

      Blogging was such a great idea to express ourselves, and I thank you Mr. Meechin for coming up with this idea. It's great and all the blogs were great and challenging topics. But I think that my favorite blog was the Oregon trail one. Playing it was so much fun, in the game i tried to keep the family alive but it was hard because either the weather or the food were not collaborating with the family and I ended up dying really fast like at the 4th day. Even though it was an old school game it was definitely interesting learning how to stay alive. I believe that this game help me learn even more than the other blog topics because it was visual and learning like this is much easier for me. It was a very realistic life of a person in those times. It was very educational, and I think we should another blog like this.  

Learning Differences when Blogging

       I liked to blog better than write in pen and paper because its a faster way to express yourself by typing. Also, because if you post something it's all going to be opinionated and every post can be commented. Blogging has the advantage to let me and everyone else share their ideas and thoughts. Writing in a piece of paper with a pen is just boring and a waste of time and paper. I believe that writing down on a piece of paper seems useless because sometimes you might not even remember what you wrote. Using the blog helps me learn in such a different manner because I do some research so my opinions will be supported correctly. So that others seeing my blogs will clearly understand what I am pointing out. For me, writing these blogs every week feels like I am in my own little bubble where nobody could disturb me. Where I could just write away into an endless story. Technologically, I think it was an outstanding idea because it keeps me on the computer wanting to do more things. It's not just like working on a assignment and all that I would be thinking about is when I will be done with it. Its fantastic, I am glad that we got to post blogs instead of doing writing assignments.

An American Dream

     Immigration in the United States in the early 1900's must have been a moment of big emotions. The immigrants had a mix of feelings when they experienced coming to the United States for the first time. Their first feeling would be sadness because they would be leaving their homes back in their country but happiness when coming to experience new opportunities. Many of them sometimes felt a relief when coming into Ellis Island and watching the State of Liberty as their ship went by. Ellis Island was a big thing for the immigrants. It's a beautiful place that is really fancy. They might have even felt like royalty when coming in to the United States. They were very excited and so they dressed very fancy like if they were coming into a new life. Some of them felt anxiety and hunger because the ships were full of many immigrants and the trip to New York was a long way, the food would not last for long in these ships. Many of the immigrants would feel very uncomfortable. With the ships at a full capacity, many of the immigrants would be sick, carry diseases, or even die. They also felt weird and scared because they were submitted into a mental test. They also felt exhausted and lonely with no money to supply their family. The experiences and feelings that the immigrants were very different but also harsh and difficult.

"Songs of the Shirt"

     The "Song of the Shirt" evokes an emotional feeling towards the women who worked in textile factories. In it is realistic to what woman dealt with in the 1800's. It describes how these women worked for long hours and eventually become exhausted of the sewing. They lived in poverty because of the wage that they got during those times. The women felt like they were treated like slaves. They would end up working until, they couldn't feel their bodies anymore. They were disrespected by not giving them the amount of money to live on. With reading the lyrics of this song the women were sometimes starving or full of dirt. The word "work" is used to emphasize the long hours of work and the low wages that they got. And not only did the women work but children were not expected to receive an education, so at an early age they began to start working. Some were treated the same way, they worked for long hours, eventually got exhausted, and looked like they were malnutrition. Woman had to endure a lot during this days, from work they sometimes went to take care of family, and it became very tiring. These events happened everywhere around the United States.

Cowboys Portrayed

    John Wayne was a popular American icon that was known for his role as a cowboy. Therefore Hollywood gave the public a perfect life of a cowboy, presenting him as a hero, the one who gets the girls, and the most respected person in town. But as Erwin E. Smith began to take pictures that documented the real life of a cowboy. Unfortunately, many people do believe this stories of the Wild West. The realities of the Cowboy life were full of managing cattle, living off land, and physical labor that would have physical and emotional impact on the cowboys. After all, Hollywood blocks out the many realities and impacts that Cowboys in the 1800's went through.

    Cowboys had to fulfill into a job because they had to leave their families to hopefully have a better life for themselves in the West. Many times cowboys had to befriend others to be successful in the job. Cowboys would be be in despair if they didn't befriend anybody at all. The spent most of the day working at the ranch, roping the horses, wrangling the cattle, and cooking dinner. They would have to listen to the Boss's instructions and from their begin there day. They would go to the deserts to ride in the range. Afterwords they would rope an outlaw steer, they would sometimes take hours to rope around horses and get them together. Cowboys would also have to train horses as part of their job. It was difficult for the cowboys to calm down the horses, because the horses don't like being touched by strangers. Many of these cowboys took many risks in their daily life. And cowboys began to be seen as an important travel transport because it would help them travel immense distances and it obviously helped out in the ranch. Having to endure the many hot desert days in the pants and long sleeve shirts made the factors that the cowboys faced more challenging then ever. The life of a cowboy was not clean, easy, or comfortable at all. They were subject to disease, lack of education, and there was no clear clean water.

        Many of Smith's photograph show the evident difficulty of being a cowboy. That came to be the emotional stress and how it impacted their life. In the movies they exaggerate on how heroic the cowboy is and how unhealthy the condition of a cowboy is. Loneliness is depressing and none of the cowboys wanted to go through but in the many hardships that they faced in the ranch, they began to stress. And so they began to have many issues in their life. It was really not an easy job. Dealing with wounds, Indian attacks, cattle stampedes, and the fear of revenge kicked in as the cowboys became more stressed. Not only did Hollywood portray cowboys differently, the struggles and realities that the cowboys faced everyday were even more challenging.

Image Source:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections/smith/collection.php?asn=LC-S6-197&mcat=5    

Six Word Story

Live a journey, within a dream.

The Oregon Trail

     Gaming can potentially connect with learning because as I played Oregon trail for the first time, I saw that I learned the many different aspects of life that people had to go through during 1848. This type of gaming demonstrates the different situations that people would be in if the game was real. The game obviously shows the decisions that people have to make. You have to know what to buy, like the food to get, and what to do during the trip to distract you. It also depends on who you were at the time if you were a farmer or a banker and the number of people you had in the family and it was hard because it was a trip on wagon all the way to Oregon. The game connects you to history and makes you understand the hardships that the pioneers were going through at that time. Eventually, you learn that it was hard to survive because of the many diseases that were around at the time. Understanding what people have gotten through and what they had to do to improve their lives is something that needs to be seen visually. This is a first experience, but learning and playing at the same time is even a greater experience. 

Treatment of African-Americans

          In history there has been mistreatment of African Americans everywhere around the world. As said before history repeats itself many times. During the Reconstruction in the 1800's and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

         The Reconstruction was when the government and states were trying to rebuild from a devastating war. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed by the Congress after the Civil War had ended. Then, afterwords it let the African Americans to have some freedom. But whites were against this and they stood up until the blacks were looked as inferior. Many African Americans were treated horribly . It was described as brutal, inhuman, and sickening. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were feared very much in the south by many African Americans. This group beat and killed slaves. They also passed the Emancipation Proclamation which helped out the slaves to be freed from the whites as property.The Amendments have been changed therefore to fit the African Americans as citizens, and also to be free and be somewhat equal.

           When the Emancipation Proclamation came out in 1863, it issued that that the slaves were free in the southern states at war with the north. This was the beginning of what became the freedom of African Americans. In 1865, it was when all the laws started to change in the U.S., the 13th amendment had been ratified, it outlawed slavery in the United States of America.  The 14th amendment was ratified three years after 1865. Which said that African American Americans were granted citizenship. In 1870, the 15th amendment was granted, it allowed blacks to vote and therefore be involved in politics. Laws are granted and ratified to give African Americans freedom. 

      The Civil Rights Movement was around the 1950's and 1960's, which is around Martin Luther King Jr's era. During this time African Americans were not being treated fairly at all. It became such a racist era after all. As said, before history repeats itself African Americans are not treated respectfully. It was also a point where there was desegregation in the United States. African American where still brutally beaten by anybody even by the police. At this time Blacks were understood to be more educated and as people of the American Society. And many organizations also helped like the U.S. military, they tried to integrate the African Americans into society more. Many activities around the U.S. helped African Americans defend themselves and present them as an American. Many great leaders and activist came to lead the way to the Civil rights like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. They all believed in liberty and freedom which brings us to what America has become today. 

        African Americans changed much in the years after the Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement. From better education and technology. To freedom, equality, and rights to be the same. They have been a great accomplishment in the American Society.

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photo 2: http://blogs.davenport.edu/studentnews/files/2010/07/martin-luther-king-jr.jpg

Reconstruction

          What effect did Reconstruction have on former slaves? Where they better off after Reconstruction than they were before the Civil War?

          The Reconstruction had a lot of effect on former slaves because they began to see that with the Reconstruction they were potentially going to be treated equally as other Americans would be treated. The Reconstrution told the former slaves and African Americans to step up, and defend themselves and their rights. It also brought many views that they should not be able to be enslaved and eventually develop to have their own rights. Consequently, it changed the former slaves lives forever. For some slaves it was really all they had to supply their family, and so earn money for their freedom.

           Many taught that laws that would be passed during the Reconstruction like the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were passed at that time to help slaves to be treated more properly. The amendments purpose was to try to end slavery, but no one was going to change the way Americans thinking of slavery. Americans still thought blacks as outsiders, immigrants and foreigners.

           The former slaves lives were so much better off as the Reconstruction came to an end. The views of African American citizenship became equally important. They eventually exercised their freedom. Maybe the lives of the slaves were not as easy because the whites would enclose them back and not let them be free but as the government began to see that the whites were some what dictating the African Americans than they took over, and acted upon this. So laws never restrict people from judgment and attitude.

            In conclusion, the reconstruction did change the lives of the slaves very much they began to be treated properly. But it took very long for the intended to be put in to place and for everything to be equal. It was just the beginning of what freed slaves and African Americans. Some exercised the rights, but others thought it was better off to live in the plantation.

Recontruction..Should south be granted amnesty????

         During Reconstruction there was great debate over whether the South should be granted amnesty. What are your thoughts? Defend your argument.

         I think that during the reconstruction the South should have never been granted amnesty because this words just represents a pardon for offenses or crimes. So as saying that back then in the South they were giving a pardon for criminals. Why in the world would the U.S. give pardon to some criminals??? Personally, I think that neither the South or North agreed with granting the amnesty to the South. It obviously brought more conflict and disagreements between both sides. The Reconstruction was just helping the South to be free of slavery but it didn't help out at all and neither did the amnesty. During the Reconstruction it might have been a benefit to the congress and government to grant this amnesties. But I think the government should think about the people when granting this amnesties. After all if the North would have never granted the amnesty there would have never been a war at all. It was wrong to grant that amnesty to the South because the citizens should have a response to what the government is trying to decide on.   

"That Government is best which governs least"

          When Thoreau said, ''that government is best which governs least", what do you think he meant? Do you agree or disagree? Explain

          Thoreau meant to say in this quote that a great government doesnt contol everyones lifes. A government with flaws is constantly checking on what people are doing. Or many governments have political, racial, and economic problems that influence them a lot to have many rules. Like for example, the United States created Homeland Security because of the 9/11 attacks. Afterall just looks at potential terrorists but still times have changed and the lifestyle is becoming more restricted because of the government. The less that a government follows you around, the better life you can have. Many things have been restricted because many things that happen in the government. I believe that the governmet sould trust citizens more, to have better government and life.    

Stereotypes

          Why do you think the stereotypes are so widely known by so many in our society?

      There are stereotypes for every person. Even for every race or ethnicity, and many people know this around the world. No matter if you are black, white, female, male, and there on. People agree with this because they see themselves as better group, race, or ethnicity. Many just agree because they group up that way or educated differently than others. Therefore stereotypes can become very disturbing and racist. Stereotypes can even be assumptions that are totally incorrect about a person. Many stereotypes are passed down along a chain and we are influenced by the people around us. Many people in America stereotype about the races and ethnicity because of the different cultures that are in the United States. Even back in history there was stereotypes, like in the Civil War and Slavery that happened during those times. Such as News and movies present us with the different number of stereotypes seen in our society today. Or maybe even at school we may see stereotypes against students just by the way the look, the religion they are, ethnicity, and race. Stereotypes will still be seen in the future and now we find that stereotypes are widely known by a lot of people.

Countries leaving pieces of their history out..

Countries should not leave pieces of their history out  even though it benefits the person who is documenting the history. It is better for citizens to know the truth about what is happening in the world. About its most recent current events. Countries prefer for students to be educated with lies that only benefit them, to make the country look like a hero or victor to the people being educated, for that reason students don't learn the truth. A truth is always accepted by many. Even though people would protest about lies, the controversies will still go on and there would never be a perfect point of view in a story. If history happens it should all be written down as it concludes. This is why countries shouldn't leave pieces of their history out, even though it is negative.  

History Matters

History matters in different ways, such as that we all are part of history. Everything that we accomplish affects history. Also, history keeps repeating itself over and over again. It shapes, molds, and is constantly a part of us. Without history students will never be able to learn what happened in the past, there wouldn't be books. If students don't learn about history, they won't be able to know what will happen in the future. Every bodies ancestry and background are linked to history, which is why this should be very important in our lives. In all, the issues that are seen today have happened before and continue to happen because history is a cycle that we see anywhere like companies or empires which grow, dominate, and decay. In Conclusion, history does matter because if not humans wouldn't be alive and we wouldn't have the evolving civilization that we have now.