Friday, 15 April 2011
DISPOSAL!!!
Media
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/television/tv_impact_kids.cfm
Does media influence the actions of teenagers?
Yes media does impact the actions of teenagers, it desensitizes us as children and puts things in our minds that shouldn't be there at our ages. We are more likely to do drugs, drink, or have sex because television and media show it as an "okay" thing to do.
Does media influence the actions of teenagers?
Yes media does impact the actions of teenagers, it desensitizes us as children and puts things in our minds that shouldn't be there at our ages. We are more likely to do drugs, drink, or have sex because television and media show it as an "okay" thing to do.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
STEEEEEERIKE!!!
There I stood, a boy of nine years old... I couldn't scrape up the money to a buy a ticket for the biggest game of the season.... The World Series!!! Hundreds of people inside and out. Inside watching and enjoying... Outside listening to what is going on. I squeezed my way through this massive crowd, and was lucky enough to find a knothole in the wooden fence surrounding the park. As everyone else around me hears the commentators say "And here comes Ryan's windup!!! And what's this pitch going to be?! A curve ball?! A screwball!? A fastball?!" It's the bottom of the ninth, a full count, three balls.... two strikes... Could this be the game winning, and game ending pitch? Everyone surrounding me is imagining his wind up, the crowd falls silent, the anticipation of what is going to happen next has everyone straining to hear... Hoping that maybe they can hear either the bat smack the ball, or the ball pop right into the catchers glove.. but not me, I get to see this... here I stand awaiting the ball to leave the very tip of the pitchers fingers, watching it as it does. I feel the weight of curiosity fill my entire body as the ball flies towards the plate.. I can't see to the plate! All I have seen is the ball leave the pitcher, times seems to slow.. I'm knocked out of my trance due to the sound of the ump yell "STEEEEEEEEEEEEE-rike!" THE BATTER IS OUT! WE WIN THE GAME!!! And I got to witness the best of it, the best of this historic event, the game winning pitch.. all through that tiny peephole, in the wooden fence surrounding the park.
Topic 10 Concept Guide
McCarthyism Impact on Society- House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hollywood writers, directors, producers, and actors were charged if they had communist propaganda in films.
Communist “Witch Hunt” and impact on those accused- they were put to trial.
Space Race impact on government policies- The battle between U.S. and Soviet Union. Put more money into the education systems.
Cold War mind set for the United States Government and public- anyone that wasn't a communist was good.
Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads- more people moved to the suburbs because automobiles were more affordable and interstate highways were made making transportation easier to get to and from work.
Baby Boom- from 1946-1960. In 1955 there was a baby born every 7 second in the United States.
Urban-Suburban Pattern- [business district] {inner city- low income families} (suburbs-middle class) <suburbs- high income families>
GI Bill- you give the military 4 years of service, and they give you 4 years of college free
Expansion of the Middle Class (why were things “affordable)- the credit card was introduced, and because of the market boom after the war, and the men coming back from the war went straight back to work and women became house wives.
Communist “Witch Hunt” and impact on those accused- they were put to trial.
Space Race impact on government policies- The battle between U.S. and Soviet Union. Put more money into the education systems.
Cold War mind set for the United States Government and public- anyone that wasn't a communist was good.
Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads- more people moved to the suburbs because automobiles were more affordable and interstate highways were made making transportation easier to get to and from work.
Baby Boom- from 1946-1960. In 1955 there was a baby born every 7 second in the United States.
Urban-Suburban Pattern- [business district] {inner city- low income families} (suburbs-middle class) <suburbs- high income families>
GI Bill- you give the military 4 years of service, and they give you 4 years of college free
Expansion of the Middle Class (why were things “affordable)- the credit card was introduced, and because of the market boom after the war, and the men coming back from the war went straight back to work and women became house wives.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Casablanca
I Setting
A. Casablanca, Morocco
II Characters
A. Ilsa Lund- Rick's former lover, secretly married to Victor.
B. Rick Blaine- owner of Rick's Cafe, main character.
C. Victor Lazlo- Ilsa's husband, wanted by the Nazi's
III Plot
A. Begins in Rick's Cafe with a man trying to get him to hold letters of transit.
B. Ricks takes the letters and hides them.
C. A Nazi commander arrives.
D. Victor and Ilsa arrive.
E. Victor speaks to Rick about the letters of transit, he doesn't budge.
F. Ilsa and Rick encounter each other when she sneaks in and threatens to shoot him for the letters.
G. The cop and Rick plot to catch Victor.
H. Ilsa ends up leaving with Victor.
A. Casablanca, Morocco
II Characters
A. Ilsa Lund- Rick's former lover, secretly married to Victor.
B. Rick Blaine- owner of Rick's Cafe, main character.
C. Victor Lazlo- Ilsa's husband, wanted by the Nazi's
III Plot
A. Begins in Rick's Cafe with a man trying to get him to hold letters of transit.
B. Ricks takes the letters and hides them.
C. A Nazi commander arrives.
D. Victor and Ilsa arrive.
E. Victor speaks to Rick about the letters of transit, he doesn't budge.
F. Ilsa and Rick encounter each other when she sneaks in and threatens to shoot him for the letters.
G. The cop and Rick plot to catch Victor.
H. Ilsa ends up leaving with Victor.
Topic 9 Study Concepts
Role of Women during World War II
- They took the places of men in everyday jobs and society, and helped with the war effort.
- Pearl Harbor- cause
- Radioactivity- effect
- Before- U.S. was neutral
- During- helped out our allies
- After- we'd attack if there was a threat aimed towards us
- Inflation
- Destruction
- Japanese Americans put in camps.
- The government imprisoned Japanese Americans.
- Embargo on arms sales.
- U.S. battleships were not armed
- Americans could not travel on ships of countries at war.
- People were encouraged to use less of daily products, such as flour, oil (gasoline), not to buy refrigerators, and to drive less so the tires may be saved.
- the economy boosted
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Ebay
German Luftwaffe Gas Mask
This interests me because this thing is huge! Soldiers had these, and civilians. You never knew when you were going to need it. And the fact that someone would create such a toxic gas to kill people in a war is astonishing, because not only could it harm your own soldiers, but you're civilians. The nob on the end was the filtration canister and the mask was designed so your eyes and facial skin could be protected from possibly melting and blinding you.
This interests me because this thing is huge! Soldiers had these, and civilians. You never knew when you were going to need it. And the fact that someone would create such a toxic gas to kill people in a war is astonishing, because not only could it harm your own soldiers, but you're civilians. The nob on the end was the filtration canister and the mask was designed so your eyes and facial skin could be protected from possibly melting and blinding you.
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