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NATO and Warsaw Pact

2009-04-06T06:33:00.000-07:00

The NATO and Warsaw Pact are two organizations formed by the US and Soviet Union. The U.S formed NATO and Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact. NATO and the Warsaw pact are against eachother. They had the Cold War which was a non physical fight. It was just a competion of who can create the most and powerful bombs basically. The Cold War was a nuclear arms race. The amount of Nuclear bombs that the US and Soviet Union has created could wipe out the world. Bomb are smaller and thousand times more powerfull than the first bomb that the US dropped in Hiroshima.

Russia has more Bomb than the US. While Russia spends more money to build bigger missles and not worry about the quality, the US spends money to make fewer but with better quality.

Film Lesson: Night and Fog

2009-03-26T06:06:00.000-07:00

The film was pretty powerful. It showed many things that happened in the Holocaust. The scenes compared the Schindler's List was more brutal. It showed more detail and the movie. The documentary showed the burned bodies and the crematoria. In the movie it was less brutal. Some scenes in the hollywood movie werent really true like the showering part that had water coming out of the showerh heads.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

2009-02-13T06:14:00.000-08:00

To make his nation look modern, he made the fez illegal and told them to wear hats with a brim. He told women to stop wearing the veil and made the Islamic calemdar give way to the Western calendar. Mustafa kemal wanted turkish to civilized and dress worth and appropiate. He made them wear bootsand shoes on their feet, trousers on their legs, shirts, jackets, and hats. He wanted Turkish to be like another Europeon country instead of the muslin traditions.

Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

2009-02-12T06:10:00.000-08:00

Gandhi helped his nation by protesting, boycotting and all with non-violence. He told the Indian people to stop buying the british made clothes and make their own like he did. They also march all the way to the sea to make their own salt because the british taxed their salt. While Gandhi was doing this he didnt want violence. When the Indian people would fight back he would fast. He didnt want violence because his plan was to make the British look bad. He went to jail many times but still continued to march after.

The indians were killled by the dozens without even raising a finger in resistance from the british attack. In the End, India won their Indipendence but muslims got their own country, Pakistan. While the hindus stayed in India. Gandhi didnt want it to turn out that way. He wanted the muslims and Hindus to stay together.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

2008-12-03T09:56:00.000-08:00

In the movie the Europeans had a hard time going through Africa. It was a long trip and supplies were running low. It also was very hot and people were thirsty. They came upon some water but it was diseased. When they found the first lake some people drank the water and start dying.

The Europeans name the source of the nile river Lake Victoria. That was their Queens. Its weird to name the third largest lake in the world and located in Africa after a queen from Europe. The African most likely dislike the name.

Africans werent up to date in technology back then. They were really poor. The Europeans had many advantages over them with all their technology. They also had more knowlegde than the Africans. The Europeans had the greater advantage over the Africans and conquered them. They were able to conquer them very easliy because of their weapons. Europeans had machines guns and other weapons like that while African only had spears.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

2008-11-06T10:06:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was known as a 19Th century revolutionary. His ideas were influential and other countries through the years practiced them, but not in the same form Marx invented. Karl marx was a social scientist, philosopher, historian and revolutionary. Though ignored by many scholars, his ideas were accepted in the socialist movements after his death in 1883. His idea of communism was inspiration from the idustrial revolution. He thought that since there were more workers than owners, the workers would get tired of the low wages and start a revolution and take over.

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

2008-09-23T09:51:00.000-07:00

The Region of Terror was a period of violence that occured. People who were agianst the state would get executed. Max Robespierre started the Reign of Terror. He ruled France like a dictaor and would execute many people. He even executed the queen. People eventually got tired of him cutting peoples head off and formed a conspiracy against him and he was soon arrested.

The French Revolution

2008-09-22T09:51:00.000-07:00

1.)a. Many people in france were critical about the nobitliy because they were the richest and didnt have to pay taxes.
b. The kings ruled absolutely and the people had to par 50% for them.
c.The clergy only had to pay 2% taxes compared to the third estate. Also they can become important officers in the army.

2.) In 1789 the French peasants would have grumbled about the crop failures .

3.) the cartoonist was probably say that the life the peasants were horrible compared to the first and second estates.

4.) The life of the peasants were hard. All they did was wrok for the King and several lords. Their lives were not easy.

5.) Yes, I think , from source c, that the poor were the ones with the lowest income.

6.) The french peasants would be most influenced by Rousseasu because it was about how the french peasants were treated and how everyone should be equal.

7.) The pamphlet was most likely banned because the French government didnt want to lose their power.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

2008-09-18T09:50:00.000-07:00

Jefferson was influenced by John Lock's ideas. The rights Jefferson was talking about in The Declaration of Independence was Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Gives right to the people to alter and/or abolish any form of government that is destructive and institute a new government. The government comes and gets its power from the people.

Copernicus and the trial of Galieo

2008-09-12T09:49:00.000-07:00

There was a theory called Heliocentrism and it was said that the sun is in the center on the solar system. This theory was was fullly presented by an astronomer Nicolous Copernicus, was later elaberated by Johannes Kelper and Galileo defended it. It bacame a huge debate.

There was also the old geocentric theory that the earth was place at the center of the solar system. This theory came from the Scentific Revolution. Nicolous Copernicus soon replaced this theory with the heliocentric theory saying that Earth was just one of the planets orbiting the sun.

The Catholic Church had put Galieo on trial because he promoted to idea of Earth not being the center of the solar system in a book. Galieo believed that the Sun was the center of the Solar System while the Catholic Church believed that Earth was the Center of the Earth.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

2008-09-11T10:05:00.000-07:00

The scientific method are steps used to do experiments and to prove prove theorys. This method can be used for many things. And example would be when Aristotle said heavy objects with fall faster that lighter objects but Galileo proved him worng. Galileo did an experiment on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he droppped two rocks with different weights and proved that objects with the same weight will fall at the same speed.

Evolution vs Creation

2008-09-05T10:10:00.000-07:00

To me they are both right. I think in the beginning Creation was right because its basically what created Evolution.

Evolution is when thing envolve. Like the world back then is way different than the world now. Evolution is science. Things mutated. Its how all the animal and humans are here today. We dont know exactly where everyhting came from and thats where creation comes in. The thing that were created have envolved. Creation is a religious belief. Thats why peole fight over Evolution and Creation. Its like a battle between scince and religion.

Personal History

2007-07-17T07:31:00.000-07:00

This blog post will be about personal history. It will be about my Languages, religion, and more.
My grandperants were born in Guyana which is in South America. They speak English there but with an accent. As much as I know I'm sure that all of my ancestors speak English. My religion is Hinduism.

Language: The language I speak is English. The reason I speek English is because I was born and raised in America. My perants and grandperants speak only english, but they had an accent and they were born and raised there. English is the official language in Guyana. There were other languages spoken in Guyana. They speak Engish there because during the eighteenth century the British assumed control.

Religion: My religion is Hinduism. Im not really religous. I dont believe in that stuff but thats just me. Three major religions in Guyana is 57% Chritianity, 37% Hinduism, and 9% Islam. In my family when someone gets married they have something like a religious wedding. The bride would usually wear red or yellow.

Using Google

2007-07-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

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Searching the Web

2007-07-13T07:35:00.000-07:00

This is a Bad site about Remy Ma . Its bad because Remy ma was caught and isnt wanted. She had turned herself in. A good site to find out about Remy Ma's shooting is one with more links to it like this, (A good site). This one has more details in it and makes more sense.

Peer Review of I Am

2007-07-11T07:53:00.000-07:00

This is a review of Bhabeeta's "I Am" blog post . Her paragraphs were good and detailed. I saw some mistakes, but they werevery minor. The only thing that bothered me was the colors. I didn't like the blue and red mixed. Made it kind of hard to read.

I Am

2007-07-06T07:59:00.000-07:00

My name is Hema Puran. I live in Jamaica Queens, NY. I am currently 14 years old. I was born on April 29, 1993. I am an athelitic person. During the winter I like to snowboard and in the summer, I skateboard, play basketball, swim, and other sports. During my free time I go on the computer. I make graphics on photoshop. I've been making graphics for more than a year. I make something on photoshop , atleast one, everyday.

I graduated at Van Wyck M.S 217 on June 22,2007. I am a travel person. I've been to many places. The best place iv'e been to is most likely Europe. I love to listen to music. I have my ipod everywhere I go. I dont think I could live without it. There are times when I can be loud and then there are times when i can be the most quiet person around. I can be mean but thats when you really get on my bad side, which is quite hard to do.

In middle school other than going to art class, afterschool i would go to the band room. I played the drums there, but then i stopped after a while. I didnt know how to read music and I still dont know, but somehow I know how to play the drums. I won the art gold award at the award ceremony. I like to take pictures. Photography is another thing I like to do. Most the pictures I have taken are portraits.

I have two older brothers. One is 33 and the other one is 34 years old. My oldest brother lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana with his wife. I have two nieces. the youngest is 10 and the oldest is 12. I live with both my perants and one of my brothers.

Passwords

2007-07-06T07:58:00.000-07:00