Book Cover

My book cover shows the significance of this era by showing different examples of things that were major parts to the revolution such as a train, Assembly line, Petroleum, and a Steel mill while in the middle having an image of the 4 major tycoons surrounded by dollar signs on both sides.   

Reflection

Supply chain

Explanation

Oversight of materials as they move from the different groups. 

Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals Essay

Jake Weese

           Smoke Signals showed Indian Culture in both a positive and negative way through the way the characters dealt with native history and stereotypes as well.. Our Main characters are Thomas and Victor, 2 Native American's who live on a reservation in Idaho. When Victor's dad is found dead in Phoenix, the two embark on a journey to originally just go claim the body and the stuff but it ends up being more than that in the end.  

         Our Characters have to deal with a lot of stereotypes and struggles with Native History. Victor even tells Thomas that he doesn't act like a true native and asks him how many times he'd seen "Dances With Wolves". Even Victor himself ends up acting like a stereotype later on When he explains to Thomas what it's like to truly be a native "Don't Smile, you need to look tough, be stoic Thomas, act like you've just killed a buffalo." This line is shown later to be false when Thomas tells Victor that their tribe weren't buffalo hunters but fishermen. This last example also helps to show that even the boys don't know they're own tribal/native history as well as being a stereotype since the boys assume every tribe killed buffalo. Later the Boys talk about how the Cowboys always seem to win, but they don't base this on facts, they base it on John Wayne movies, another stereotype.   

Our Characters find power and meaning through their history and culture as natives. The Boys talk fondly of Fyrare bread a native tradition which while not being apart of their tribe, it is still a native dish that they find as apart of their cultural traditions. An example of finding power through the Native culture is Thomas's ability to tell stories which help the boys out in the long run for Thomas uses his ability like many other natives to get things such as the boys getting a ride in the opening or later it's how Victor learns more about his dad through his Friend who lives in Phoenix which wouldn't have been possible to get that info about the dad had it not been for Thomas doing a story swap where he told a story and the friend told a story in return. Victor finds meaning in the symbolic cutting of his long hair to short, He does it to transition many things such as his new understanding for his dad, his maturing into a man and a fresh start as well now that the weight has been lifted of why his dad left/wanted to leave. 

   Smoke Signals was an accurate portrayal of a group that is highly romanticized in pop culture past and present and they show this very nicely through it's characters struggle at first to understand what it means to be native as they base most of their ideas and such through stereotypes, while later they understand what it means and even mix the modern with the tradition in a way.  

Company's that use Indian Ensinga/Names

What I found was a few company's that use Indian naming in their products such as Pontiac and Land O lakes butter. The other thing I found was an article that had a list of all the company's that use logos of natives for their products, there was over 450 company's that do this, it was a wide range of products as well.  

Links:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/native-american-images-names-corporate-america-today/story?id=23241293#2

http://time.com/2894357/redskins-trademark-indian-interactive/

Stories of The Wild Wild West

Railroads and Murder. 

Arizona Sentinel Stories of Murder

Arizona Sentinel- Railroad/Marcipoa

            What I learned from the Arizona Newspapers was of stories of murder and stories of a new town called Maricopa which was used as a railroad town and established in the 1870's. While the Story of murder was about a man who named Micheal who's  nickname was Rawhide, His story took place in Yuma County and he was murdered by 2 Indians with an axe, after digging deeper I found out that his case  resulted in the first judicial hanging in the Arizona territory.

Organ Trade

NYT-Organ Trade article. 

CBS News-Ethical dilemmas 

CBS - first known USA Trafficker

The Problem that we found is that people need the Kidneys and some people need the cash. But that the groups/people who are making these connections are doing it in shady ways such as paying them much less than they are initially offered and not getting them the proper medical attention that they need post operation, they'll watch them for a day or 2 and then send them on their way with the cash and a plane ticket. If there was someway to manufacture an artificial kidney or organs in general things like the organ trade wouldn't exist. 

10/11 Updated

 Today we talked to the other groups and what each of there forms of modern day slavery was. I learned that sex trafficking makes a lot of money as well as it being a lot closer than we think with it having a big prominence in Atlanta. This was really surprising to me as this was a topic I knew a little bit about due to the movie Taken but that was just a movie so learning this really shocked me. 

List

-Political instability 

-Extremes of wealth and poverty

-political corruption 

-stigmatized excluded groups

girls

poor

ethnic minorities

-countries with no/few legal representation for individual rights.

In Class Essay about 12 Years A Slave and Glory.

It is possible to analytical skills and explore real events, circumstances, and attitudes just by watching movies in a critical way, and doing some research. In both 12 Years a Slave and Glory I heard about historical events that I never had heard of before, such as the 54th Regiment and Solomon Northup and without watching those movies, I would have never heard about them before either. These movies along with my post research where I looked into the lives of Samuel Bass the man from Canada who wrote to Mr.Northup's friends in the North and Mr.Shaw from Glory the young leader of the 54th Regiment. 

              Through the films and the Research I saw the real events, circumstances, and attitudes of these characters. I saw how Shaw's attitude to his men changed, at first he was hesitant to train them as well as leave his old company behind as Civilwar.org told me, he knew he would see action in the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry and no action in the 54th Regiment, as well as only taking the job in the 54th to make his mom less worried about him. At the end of it, Shaw respected his men making sure after getting $3 less than the white soldiers that they receive the full $13 dollars like any other soldier even refusing his pay until they all got the full amount. 

                We also get an accurate portrayal from both films on the attitudes of how slaves and free black's act towards one another. In Glory it's very hostile, The slaves think the free black's are somewhat of sellouts for living freely with the white people as well as thinking they are delusional for trying to act white since they are black. While the free blacks think that the slaves are stupid for being slaves/caught. In 12 Years A Slave it's different though, When Solomon is still free and living in New York, his family goes shopping at a grocery and a Servant of a white man walks in to, he is obviously confused why Solomon is allowed to go in and talk to the shop owner like friends and wishes he was able to as well and Solomon the freed person in this situation looks away, he pities the man but knows there isn't anything he can do about it, this situation replays itself later on when Solomon is freed, Patsy looks on longing hoping that she too can be free and Solomon now free again can only pity her as the carriage drives away.     

The Films both only have limited time to tell their stories so of course a few small details get omitted, such as Solomon having 3 kids instead of 2 or Solomon getting into 2 incidents with his first Master's Overseer instead of 1. But as a whole the movies both get deep into it's source material (the book and letters) and have very little fictional elements to it. 12 Years a Slave gives us a lot of insight into what Slavery was like towards the end of the Comprise era as well as the Pre-Civil war era as well. It's a harrowing look from being set-up by Slave traders to showing what Plantation life was like. While Glory gives great examples of the Civil war and truly shows how hectic battles in the civil war were with the drumming, with the gunfire as well as with the standing in one big line shooting at each other at such a close range that you were sure to get killed or injured. 

Citations:

Time:Historical accuracy of 12 Years A Slave: I used this source to tell about the 12 Years A Slave details that were omitted.

NYT's 10/17/13 12 Years a Slave review

Genealogy/History of Samuel Bass

Glory:Historical accuracy

NYT's 12/14/89 Glory Review:     

Biography of Shaw: I used this source to talk about how Shaw was not looking forward to leading the 54th at first.

Illustration of Solomon reuniting with his family

Illustration of what a slave auction would look like.

 

Edwin Epp's house, Solomon's 2nd Master's home.

Illustration of Solomon.

Photo of the Real Col.Robert Shaw

Reflection on Paraphrase Practice

What I learned Today: 

I learned over the course of our classes how to paraphrase and quote. Paraphrasing is useful when when you want to give your own explanation of a quote, so instead of having to quote it, you can just explain it in your own words. While Quoting is good because it makes your paper stand ou

These are the things Mrs.Lawson wanted us to learn and I know them!

• Only use a direct quote when it adds power and style to my writing.
• Always make it clear,from context,that I understand the full meaning of the quote.
• Whether I quote or paraphrase, I must always be transparent about the source and how I'm using it. 
• If I use another author's exact words or phrases, to any extent, I have to use quotation marks and give credit. 
• If I use another author's presentation of facts or ideas, but put their ideas in my own words, (paraphrase) I better have a good reason for doing so, and I MUST give credit. 
• Hyperlinking is so easy, there is no excuse for not being transparent about my sources.                             

Practicing incorporating a Quotation

I thought Glory was a really good movie, I have to disagree with the reviewer though, The New York Times says, "One of the film's least effective sequences is historically true: a raid on the tiny South Carolina village of Darien during which Shaw was forced by a superior officer to order his men to plunder and burn all buildings" I thought that was one of the most powerful scenes in the movie, we see Shaw who has to chose between doing what is moral right or lose his troops to another commander of black troops who treat his troops badly and not as humans. 

What I was doing practicing incorporating a Quotation. 

Paraphrase Practice

 Paraphrase Practice

  

"The attack on Fort Wagner, which is the climax of the movie, comes as close to anything I've ever seen on screen to capturing the chaos and brutality that were particular to the Civil War battles. Weapons maimed as often as they killed. Soldiers were so disciplined that they marched in firm lines into the sights of guns fired at point-blank range. Hand-to-hand combat was commonplace".
  This is a link to the  New York Times  review of the film Glory which is what this excerpt is from. 

      The Climatic battle on Fort Wagner is an accurate example of showing the brutality and chaos of Civil War battles. A solider was just as likely to be injured as much as he was to be killed. Troops were so firm they stayed in lines and marched into the enemy fire at a range where they could not miss. Brawls were a regular occurrence on the battlefield. 

My group

Film Review: 

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=
 950DE4D8113FF937A25751C1A96F948260

Reflective Question over the topic. #1

           In US history, We've spent the last two days discussing historical evidence. We've talked about what good evidence can tell us, and we've critiqued statements that are not supported with evidence. Finally we looked at evidence from technology and economics to understand the cotton economy of the US. Reflect on what you've learned?

What I've learned about Evidence and the cotton economy is that more land equals more profit and more cotton produced. I've also learned that some states after there land dried up after years of abuse become human traffickers and would sell slaves to states, so that farmers could go to auctions where these newly acquired slaves would be at and then sold to some farmer. I've also learned how to find better evidence and look for websites with things such as .org, and .gov instead of .com as the endings to the url, Primary Sources are the way to go when looking for evidence as well. The final thing I learned was that the whole US depended on the cotton industry, I thought it was the south only.    

Empathy vs Sympathy

Empathy is putting yourself in someone Else's shoes, while Sympathy is feeling emotion for someone Else's trouble.  Empathy is essential for Historians because they need to be able to look at things through different perspectives not just go off of their emotions to learn about history.

US History look back, 1600's-1860's

The US went through a lot of changes from the 1600's to the Civil War. The US started out as small settlements in the 1600's, one of the most famous of these was Jamestown founded in 1607 by entrepreneurs. Later in 1620, the pilgrims arrived and become the first self-governing colony. By the 1700's the 13th colonies had been established and a population had boomed to 1.6 million by 1760. After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, We denounced that we were apart of Great Britain and now we were not a country yet but we were close. After the Revolutionary War we gained our independence from Britain and were now a country!
     After our first form of Government failed, The US decided to revise it in 1787. One of the issues they faced was over Slavery, The slave holding states wanted to count them as part of the population which the non slave states didn't agree. They decided to count slaves as 3/5th of the population. Another issue they tackled was the import of slaves which they decided to let people import slaves until 1808. In 1801, The US decided to expand and bought more than 800,000 square miles of land from France, this purchase would later be known as The Louisiana Purchase. But the "ole" US had another slavery issue soon and in 1820, they decided to prohibit slavery north of a certain latitude  (36 degree, 30 minutes north). This began the "Era of Compromise" where Congress began keeping the number of slave and free states equal. It wasn't all drama in 1820 as the US added Missouri and Maine as states.
                 From 1829 to 1848 The US now had   Texas after they declared independence from Mexico and also during this time frame US was in the Mexico war which after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo The US now had California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming for only 15 Million dollars. 1850 saw more Comprise as California enters as a free state, and the slave trade is banned in Washington D.C. to make sure slave states were happy they don't ban slavery in other Territories from Mexico and runaway slaves must be returned to their master.  1853, US gets more land from Mexico, gaining Southern Arizona and New Mexico. In 1854, The Republican party is founded they are founded by opponents of slavery. In 1857 Supreme court overturns the Missouri Comprise, claims Congress had no right to regulate spread of slavery. Congress can no longer make comprises. 1860 Civil war starts.