Current Events May 2015

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/us/mohammed-drawing-contest-shooting/

Headline: Two Shot Dead After They Open Fire At Mohammed Cartoon Event In Texas

Description: After Mohammed art exhibition, two men opened fired then shot. 

Summary:

• Two men opened fired just as the Mohammed event came to a closing
• Police shot the two men
• Gunmen still unidentified
• Everyone around area had to be evacuated
• Police still searching the area for explosives and whatnot

Analysis: I feel bad for the unarmed security guard who was shot in the leg. I think that what the police did was right. In this show called, Blue Bloods, there was a man holding a group of people hostage and he shot a woman in the shoulder. When police found him, they shot him dead.

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Leading to Civil War

Missouri Compromise (1820) - Compromise was passed for Missouri to be a slave state and Maine as a free state. 

Wilmot Proviso (1846) - Condition to eliminate slavery within land obtained from the Mexican War.

Compromise of 1850  - Agreement in which many compromises were made such as, admitting California as a free state, slave trade ending in Washington, D.C, etc. 

Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) - Novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe's centered around a slave's life named Uncle Tom.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) - Act that allowed white male settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in a certain territory through popular sovereignty.

Paragraph on Speeches

Frederick Douglass's speech and the Seneca Falls' speech share many similarities. Frederick Douglass refers to the abolitionist movement. In his speech, he expresses his discomfort for Independence Day. Since there were still slaves, he wondered if the 4th of July really celebrated everyone's independence. Slaves were treated like animals and could not acquire liberty until about many years later. Seneca Falls' refers to the antebellum women's rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott took action and promoted the first women's rights convention. In the speech, they displayed their injustice they experienced because of their deprived rights. Women could not take part in political events and other various things. In the two speeches, both parties fought for their equality and freedom. Because of their limited rights, they had to take a stand for themselves. They were denied of education and deprived of money that they earned. Both experienced injustice and displayed their distress about it. 



Abolitionist Movement

Antebellum Women's Right Movement

Fredrick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a slave that opposed Independence Day because the Declaration of Independence contradicts slavery.

1) (answer to what the 4th of July is to a slave) "A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." This means that slaves were unjustified during Independence day because they were not free.

2) "Your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license," This quotes displays the point of view of a slave and how cruel it was to have your liberty restricted while everyone else was claimed to be free.

3) "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour." Frederick Douglass is expressing his distress towards the United States and how shameless they are to be claiming to be a free country.

4) "I see the bleeding footsteps...on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine..." Slaves were not being treated like human beings and were being sold off like animals.

5) "The Fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIME; and bribes the judge who tries them." This quote shows the injustice and how people would bribe the judge into not taking the slaves' side.

Frederick Douglass

Current Events

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/30/us/florida-church-van-crash/index.html

Headline: Church Van Crashes in Florida, Kills 8

Topic: Car accident results in the death of 8 people

Summary:

• Van accident in Florida
• Killed 8, Injured 10
• Van ran a stop sign then stopped in a ditch  
• All adults in van expect for one 4 year old (child is okay)
• Two people are in critical condition
• Driver was killed
• Cause of crash still unknown

Analysis:

I think that this van accident is very tragic and I hope that everybody involved is okay. This is relative to my sister's life because she got into a car accident once. It was caused by a car that was speeding while my sister was trying to turn out of the driveway. Of course, it was seen as her fault because the other car had the right away. 

Transcendentalism

 The transcendentalism movement in America in the 1800s was a intellectual movement that happened because people were against the idea of philosophy being taught and learned at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes:

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
-This quote means that the more chances you take, the more experiences you will have and that chance you took could take you a long way. 

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." 
-This quotes means to never give up and try again. Even if you fail at something, you should get back up on your feet.



Henry David Thoreau Quotes:
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
-The meaning of this quote is that your experiences to your goals is more important than the goal itself because it made up who you are. 

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
-The meaning of this quote is to not dwell on the past because there is no purpose. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears was when Indians migrated out West due to Andrew Jackson having passed the Indian Removal Act, to give lands in the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands, in 1838 and 1839. Cherokees, Indian people of Southeastern U.S, moved west and settled in Oklahoma and North Carolina. In 1832, the Black Hawk War, a minimal conflict between the Americans and Native Americans. The Second Seminole War is a war that broke out in Florida from 1835 to 1842. 

Map of Trail of Tears

People Migrating