Weekly Post 3

This week I liked watching all of the videos, it really gave me a good idea of what it was like in the war.  Videos really do a good job of showing all the details of war and how they did things.  I thinik that we should watch a full movie some class so that we can get a better idea of what went on.

Book Portfolio 3

    Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine
Book portfolio
Josh Braley

    "Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine" by Thomas A. Desjardin is about the truth of the 20th Maine Regiment and of the entire battle of Gettysburg during the civil war in 1863.  The theme in this book is stand together in a time of crisis.  On July 2nd 1863 the boys from Maine stood strong and had a powerful impact on the war, if they had fell apart then the war may have had a different outcome.  The role of perspective in the book is historical.

    The title of this book is pretty much the theme for it as well.  "Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine" is fairly close to the theme, stand together in a time of crisis.  In the battle, the 20th Maine Regiment had a group of musicians, when times got rough and men got thin some of the players fought and some of them acted almost as a medic, carrying stretchers with wounded men on them.  The men in the army were not all people who wanted to be there, but they decided that they would and they were needed so they went along and helped the cause.  Without those men sticking together and standing strong
    The twentieth Maine regiment took part in the Battle for Little Round Top and in this battle they came together as a unit and kicked ass and won.  The soldiers took part in a great down hill bayonet charge to become one of the most famous thing happening there in the battle of Gettysburg.  All of the men in each regiment came together to fight as one army.  By doing so they came out victorious because they stood strong.  This was very important because if this had not have happened then we (north) may have lost the civil war and Gettysburg.
    Standing strong in a time of crisis is a very good thing, good things can happen during bad times.  At the beginning of World War II everyone came together and went to war whether they wanted to or not.  The women went to work making tanks and guns and all of the necessities needed for war.  This was a good thing because it ended the depression by lowering the unemployment rate that before this was at 25%.  In this world people need to stand together and come as one more often, the world would be a much better place to live because one person is weak but billions of people together as one is very strong.
    Stand strong in a time of crisis.  In a time of crisis like the civil war the 20th Maine Regiment stood strong as one and overcame the task at hand.  If people never came together in life then nothing good would ever come.  It is important for coming together as one because we are stronger that way.

Weekly post 2

This week i missed Mondays class, but Wednesday and Fridays classes went well.  I liked the debate between the teachers.  I think that helps me to learn about something because I get two perspectives instead of just one. 

Class post 1

The first class this week i did like the way it was done, i didn't mind the whole sit in circle discussion thing, even though i hate talking in front of people, but i do like to have a visual as well as sound.  I think it is hard to just listen to a recording with nothing to look at.
Today's class was good.  The slide show and having you talk about it is a good way to teach, because then we have what you say about it and then a hard copy to go look at for studying.

Qt. 3 Exam Essays

Essay # 1

    Ending the Cold War was a good thing.  It was a sign that the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was coming to an end.  Also it was a telling who had the better government, communism was taken down by Ronald Reagan.  He was able to do something that the other presidents before him could not do.
    To end the Cold War Ronald Reagan boosted our military, he made sure everyone would know that we were not to be messed with.  The conservative republican president spent money on something that was vital to our Nations success from the beginning, our armed forces.  We as a country had a very strong national defense so this made the Soviet Union back down.
    In the above paragraph I stated that Reagan did this and that to end the war, though this is not all that ended the war.  The Soviet Union had troops in Afghanistan, the cost of having them in this country was not that cheap.  They were being effected by the spoils of war.  The economy factor of the Cold War is where America wins and the Union loses because they could not afford it.

Reagan Video ? Answers

1. What are the problems America faces?

 Unemplyment, taxes for the people that work.  Getting out of the Nations debt.  Government is the problem.

 

2. What are Reagan's solutions? 

Over time we the people will overcome the problems.

 

3. What makes Regan effective here?
He is laughing and joking around.

 

4. What does this reveal about Regan? (Consider the saying: "Wit has truth in it.")
This reveals that Reagans personality is good, and that he used to be a democrat.

 

5. What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this?

He might make policies that involve keeping peace with other nations, but in doing so he wants them to know that we are strong and will kick ass if he needs to.  We are confident as a country.

 

6.  How did this event effect Reagan's role with the American public?

It made them want him more as president

 

7.  Who is the audience for this speech?

The people, the young people.

 

8.  What is the argument Reagan makes here?

Communism should not be tolereated and that it is evil.

 

9.  What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?
That communism is no good as a government.

 

10.  What is the message here?
With Reagan as president there will be a new start to America.

 

11.  How does the ad use Carter?
Carters term was a bad time for America.

 

12.  What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?

That they were not very good but he knows that it can be turned around.

 

13.  What is the criticism of Communism being offered here?
With communism you have no freedom. You can't make your own choices.

 

14.  Do you think this was an effective speech?

Yes he did a good job persuading.

 

15.  Who is the audience for this broadcast?
The public, he wants to make people think it is a good idea to attack.

16.  What do you think the American people thought of this action and Reagan's explanation of it?
I think they liked Reagan's explanation.  They wanted to stand up and be strong.

17.  What was the foreign response, do you think?
I think they didn't like it very much but they learned their lesson.

 

All in the Family video

In this video Archie gets mugged. They asked him who did it and he said surprisingly it was a white guy, not a black one. Also at the end he makes a remark about the police man that comes to his door, he calls him a flatfoot or something like that.