Do you think bombing civilians is a fair/justifiable act of war??

I do not think that bombing civilians and cities is a justifiable act of war. The civilians cannot defend themself when the other countries are bombing at them.While their opponent has weapons, these people can't fight back because they have no weapons that could hurt them. They should give the big cities enough time to evacuate everyone that is living there. Why should the civilians suffer for the other countries? Even if the othe countires bomb the cities, the civilians are still getting hurt, but indirectly. They would still suffer from whats going on in the city. But if the countries are boombing civilians, more and more of them are getting killed and they can't even defend themself. Bombing civilians is unfair and is not a justifiable act of war.  

Great Depression Interview

Questions

1.) How did they stretch their money?

2.) What particular jobs did you do?

3.) Was it hard to feed your family?

4.) Did you feel guilty for not providing money for your family?

5.) Did you put your money in stocks?

6.) If so, how did you feel when the stocks crashed?

7.) If you had children, did they go to school? Or did they have to drop out?

8.) Was medication available when you were sick?

9.) What was the most expensive product you had to buy?

10.)  If you had a job, how much did you get paid?

Simpsons Prohibition

I think the producers of the Simpson's episode did a superior job showing the elements of the Prohibition in 1920. The accuracies outweighed the inaccurate or the comedic value of the episode. It showed how their was speakeasies in the 1920's and how they had to pay more money for beer since it was hard to get it. It showed how they had to bootleg the beer in Springfield and cost more for each cup, just like in the 1920's they had to increase the value of beer. I enloyed watching the Simpsons in class because it shows how different shows use historic times for their show. Its a different way of learning what happened in the past and how we see it today.

The scene in the Simpson's espisode that I would rewrite would be in the beginning where Bart was drunk. During the St. Patrick's Day parade, Bart accidentally got drunk which lead to prohibition. To make it more historically accurate, they should have put more people drinking such as women. Not only men were drinking during the 1920's, some of the women were drinking too. In my opinion, I think they should have more violent and destruction to the town. So people could see why they enforced the prohibition.

Reflection

During the war, I don't think citizens should give up civil liberties. These liberties are very important to people and they went through a lot of work just to get them. If America gave the citizens a choice to give up some civil liberties, it would work out better. They won't be force to give up their rights. They could still help out with the war without giving up any rights. They could send over supplies and food for the soldiers. Others could volunteer to fight in the war, but it would be their choice. They shouldn't be forced to do something they don't want to do.   

Progressive Era Reform

One issue that is in the United States today is health care. The increasing cost of medical care and health insurance is impacting the livesof many Americans. People who are uninsured have trouble paying their medical bills even though they have health insurance. The cost of staying at a hospital can be $1000 or more.  America’s workers have a hard time paying for higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments when they don't have insurance. The health care today needs to be less expensive so people who get hurt and have to go to the hospital won't have to pay thousands of dollars.

Yellow Journalism "U.S.S. Maine"

Revenge on Spain!

              

 On February 15^th a mysterious explosion sunk the U.S.S Maine. This explosion killed more than half of the innocent men, women and children on the ship. Some survived the explosion, but slowly drowned afterwards. This brutal attack caused pain towards love ones. Who caused this?! Spain always wanted a war. Spain planned to attack this ship just to get into war with us. Well, if they want war they got it! We need to get revenge on Spain! Spain killed innocent people, so they need to pay! This war needs to happen!