Post Trial Refection

1. The prosecution's argument was that the bill was going against a federal law which no state can do. they said that this bill will include racial profiling. They are also saying that its more important that innocent people are protected than guilty people are punished. they argued that not all illegal immigrants are committing crimes, that some are just looking for jobs. Just because a bill is popular, doesn't make it morally correct. Arizona has overlooked the federal law. They referred back to the constitution saying that everyone has natural rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Prosecution witnesses were : John Adams, James Madison, Raul Grijalva

2. The Defendants argument was that the bill was going to be a helpful thing for the illegal immigrants. That it could potentially save them from dangerous temperatures and other things that could fatally injure them. That immigration needs to be adressed

Defense witnesses-

- Jan Brewer

- Russel Pierce

- Robert Watchorne

3. The most significance piece of evidence was about how the police could arrest a person because the person looks like "they are thinking about a crime" and how that was racial profiling.

4. That you can't just arrest a person or an illegal immigrant unless they committed a crime, and if the only crime they committed was existing then you can't arrest them or anything because that would be racial profiling which is also against the law.

5. Well, at first I was apart of the jury and I do believe they violated the spirit of the United States' immigrant history through AZ SB1070 and HB2162. I agree with the jury because I was part of the jury and also because they were going against a federal law. Which a law clearly states that a state law cannot override a federal law.

I think I deserve a 47 out of 50 points because during the Mock Trial Court session I was neutral. I was biased to either side, because I honestly knew that I was going to learn a lot more than what I already knew. I took lots of notes, I payed close attention to what witnesses were saying. I was a help rather than a distraction. But, towards the end of the court session, I began to notice that I started to lean to one side because I felt that one side was giving more evidence, making more sense, and got the opponents witnesses to break down and agree with them. As a result I do agree with the jury's verdict.

WW2 Letters

1. I'm a soldier at Iwo Jima. I decided to be a soldier on Iwo Jima because of the t.v. show NCIS. The way they showed the emotions of this certain soldier was inspiring to me. Also, because of how interesting they portrayed a certain part of the war/battle.

2. The Battle of Iwo Jima began February 19, 1945 and ended March 25, 1945.

- The U.S. invasion was charged with the mission of capturing the two airfields on Iwo Jima. The battle produced some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.

- Kuribayashi also received a handful of kamikaze pilots used against the American fleet. Three hundred American navy sailors were killed by kamikazes throughout the battle.

- Controversially, the U.S. Navy only provided three days of bombardment, rather than ten requested by the Marines.

SITES:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWjima.htm

http://www.reznetnews.org/article/mont-iwo-jima-soldier-honored-65-years-later-43620

Semester DOS, Blog #15

*Technology:

The technology interested me the most because of how they made the nuclear bomb, and what massive damage it had on the countries it bombed. Also, because I'm into war games. I know about the Mustard Gas and how it was undetectable in the air and it would cause severe deforming to the skin and even when you breathed it in I believe. I want to learn more about the different other bombs than the Mustard Gas, H bomb, nuclear bomb, and the atomic bomb I think?

Semester DOS, Blog #14

1. What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2?

- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. He was the heir to the Austrian throne and was murdered by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This was the spark that caused war to be declared.

- First known use of chemical weapons (mustard Gas) was in World War 1.

- More than 9 million died on the battlefield, and nearly that many more on the home fronts because of food shortages, genocide, and ground combat.

- World War 1 or the First World War, 1914 - 1918, was the first war that involved nations spanning more than half the globe.

- The World War 1 was commonly called “The Great War” or sometimes “the war to end wars” until World War II started .

- 12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in World War 2

- There were 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War 2, 219 of them were given after the recipient's death

- Air attacks caused 1/3 of German Generals' deaths

- Most members of the Waffen SS were not German.

- 84 German Generals were executed by Hitler

Sources: http://www.strange-facts.info/facts-about-world-war-1, http://www.world-war-2.info/facts/

2. What do you hope to learn about these wars?

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3. How/Why are these wars important today? How do they impact and/or inform our world today? hint: think about alliances, democracies around the world, cultures, international institutions, nuclear (and other) technologies, etc.

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Semester TWO, Blog #13 (GOW Final Essay)

In my opinion the balance between the “zoomed out” chapters and the regular chapters was not mind grabbing at all. Zoomed out chapters distracted me so much that it took away from what story was suppose to be about. It was dull, boring, slow, and got me off track of the storyline. Way too descriptive in the zoomed out chapters. Consequently, these unnecessary "zoomed out" chapters are what ultimately ruined the story as a whole.

Zoomed out chapters weren’t helpful in the book. For example, when you’re reading about Tom Joad and the truck driver talking,and then suddenly switch to an entire chapter about a turtle crossing the road, and then back to a chapter about Tom Joad and Jim Casey meeting Muley. Every other chapter has major jumps, and sometimes don’t even relate to each other.

The book was uninteresting because of how slow paced it was. It made me want to put the book down because of how little happened, and the way things were told in the book. For example, even though the turtle chapter was clearly random, in my opinion, it had one action part in it but after that, you don’t get much of it anymore. I believe that the more action it would’ve had given me much more interest.

The “zoomed out” foreshadowed and symbolized different things throughout the book. They could have inserted them as clips in the normal chapters instead of making them full on “zoomed out” chapters that made them seem very irrelevant to the story. These chapters that were very broad meant something later in the book. For example, when the turtle was crossing the road and almost got hit, then Tom picked him up, then put at symbolized the farmers and croppers going West to California.

In conclusion, because of the random chapters in the book, they had a big impact on future situations. Although they symbolized something, me and my fellow classmates wouldn’t read the book again, because it had a huge impact on us.

Semester TWO, Blog #12

Mind is going blank right now......

Semester TWO, Blog #10

So Far I would say so because of how the book focuses on the journey of the Joad Family getting to California. Also because of the way it goes into detail about the trip. It seems like you know every move the characters make in the book. At the beginning, the book, was clearly biased to the Dust Bowl farmers because of the length the author chose to talk about it. It just seemed like the author put more effort into the beginning, then he did when he started getting further into the book. Although the book elaborates more on the journey to California, in the beginning the Grapes Of Wrath does establish sympathy for the plight of the Dust Bowl farmers.