Meritocracy

I don't agree becausein you are not detimind and if yo care about what people say you will become it with time.

Jena and Little Rock

I could not believe that there is stil people that wouldbe so low, that they would send people to jail because of race and because there was not enogh investigation for the case. This is similar ro Little Rock because they were rejected from the tree spot because they were black. Just like they did in the schools.

I am Poem

I am an African-American student
I wonder why white people hate me so much
I hear mobs yelling at me
I see one hundred army soldiers
I want society to be normal
I am an African-American student

I pretend I am in a happier place
I feel like I'm taking a strand for my race
I need people to understand me
I worry about the mob
I cry because my people are dying
I am an African-American

I understand why people hate me
I believe our nation can be equal
I dream of a place where color doesn't matter
I try to get an education
I hope for a better nation
I am an African-American

Topic 11 Concepts

MLK and Civil Disobedience: This is talking about the non-violent protests that African-Americans had with MLK as its leader.

Power of the "Mob": It is basically the more people you have the stronger you are.

Plessy v. Ferguson vs. Brown v.Board of Education: Separate but equal than in the brown it became unconstitutional.

Civil Rights Goals: They were to obtain equality for all races.

Eisenhower's Role in Little Rock: He sent the one hundred and first to protect the African-Americans students that were attending white schools.

Rights of the Accused: The accused had to be read their rights so that they won't be released even though they are guilty.

Chavez and the United Farm Workers: he helped get rights for Mexican-American get rights so that they can get equal pay and same things that African-American wanted.

FHA and ADA: Fair house act band people from denying to sell or rent under racism thoughts. and the Americans with Disability act made sure that everything is equal for people with disabilities.

Filibusters: Was to lengthen the period for debating new laws so that they would not be passed.

Sit-Ins and other Protests: They were there to show that we will fight for our freedom.

Media

http://bunow.bloomu.edu/3047-the-effects-of-reality-television-on-our-society

Yes, teenagers are influenced by the media. Because the media provides the push for teeagers to do things that they never would. Also they would give people that we look up to, so that once we see them doing something new and we like it we would also do it. Just like in the 1950's when we started buying things just because we saw an advertisment promosing it will get the job done.

sexism

This picture demonstrates sexism because it is showing that only woman clean the house and teach their daughters how to clean and use wax to shin the floor and anything else that is wood. Women doing the work and staying at the house presents women as the weak and can only do house work with help of store bought items.

Short Story

A young boy was playing out side, and he accidental makes a fool of himself. He runs inside and finds himself looking at paintings of his ancestors that served in all the wars that the US was in. When he looked up at the pictures he thought to himself, "i bet these heroes didn't care if they did the wrong thing because they are now heroes". So then the young boy decided to become one of those heroes. He even imagined his picture on the wall of fame and books that told stories about his courageous adventures. Left outside play as if nothing happened that man lived on to be the great William Gills.

Topic.10 study guid

McCarthyism impact on society:House Committee of UnAmerican Activities. McCarthy accused Department of State of harboring Communists. people just wanted to get what they want through revenge or blaming people that had nothing to with communism.

Communist "witch hunt" and impact on those accused:was supported by anti-Communist groups. The impact was that it imprisoned hundreds,and thousand lost their jobs.

Space Race impact on government policies:It began the cold war, and had the government in vest in the education system more.

Cold War mindset for the US government and public: the US was not happy that we lost the technology race to space. Also people stared to fear communism.

Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads: buying automobiles lead people to live out in the suburbs, so than they needed fast roads to get them to the cities, so the Highway Act was passed.

Baby Boom: it happened because of the twenty years of depression and war time. so people began to have many kids and have more items. the baby boom is giving us problems now because of social security.

Urban-Suburban pattern: it went like this Business District, inner City = low income families, suburbs = middle income families, further suburbs = high income families

GI Bill:it helped returning solders to get money for education.

Expansion of the middle class (why things were affordable):was because of the baby boom, affordable homes and credit cards.