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What we saw in class was astonishing. The kids believed that the collars were holding them back from achieving true success. In my opinion I disagree, I believe it's all psychological. For instance, a placebo pill. It can be filled with purely sugar and a doctor can tell you its for better sleep at night. With you not knowing what it really is, your brain tells you what you want to hear, so you're going to have more positive feedback because you really don't know its a sugar pill. This goes for the kids in the movie. They think that just because they wear that collar, they aren't as good as the other people. They get that mindset and thats what they will go by. There's nothing physical or chemically done to make them think they are worse. Its all in the brain, thus it's all psychological thinking.

I Am. . . .

I am a white freedom rider
I wonder what other whites think of me
I hear my name being slandered
I see the beautiful countryside
I want peace
I am a white freedom rider

I pretend racism doesn't exist
I feel hatred
I need this to be over
I worry I wont make it
I cry for freedom
I am a white freedom rider

I understand that I am not wanted here
I believe in equality
I dream of unity
I try my best not to strike back
I hope this will end soon
i am a white freedom rider

Interview from the past. . .

Bernard (Green) Greenspan

1) What was your first reaction when you heard the gun shots? Did you panic?

2) Did anyone ever find out that you weren't really Polish?

3) Did you ever regret joining the Military?

4) Did you give up hope or keep your head up high and keep trucking?

5) When you saw the truck full of Jews, what was going through your head?

Shopping In WWII

This WWII era Life Jacket was Worn by one of the Boatswain's on board the Clark on the very evening that the ship was torpedoed by a German U-Boat.

The Life Vest was marked and inspected by the Bereau of Marine Inspection Jan. 21 1942. (just 2 months before the ship was sunk)

This Life Jacket has Been Signed by atleast 17 members of the crew onboard during the attack. Not only did they sign their names but also their addresses so I can only speculate that this could have been done after the men had reached land and had time to reflect on the events. It does look as though 90% of the signatures were done with the same pen or pencil.

On the inside of the vest in hard to read blue marker I can make out : Boatswain, though I do not know if this was Harold Rew's Jacket or if it belonged to an assistant boatswain.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-WWII-SHIPWRECK-LIFE-JACKET-SUNK-German-U-BOAT-/140518494968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b78e12f8

Acrostic Poen

Concept:
P-public enemy, everyone hates them
R-Respectful, they're very respectful people
O-Old Americans, opposed to new ways
H-harmless, doesn't like to fight
I-into god, very religious people
B-Berries, very happy, cheerful people
I-intelligent, very smart, sophisticated people
T-tranquil, very quiet,nice people
I-Intellectual,very smart
O-Opposed to new ways, like their"old school" customs
N-Not bad people

Opposing:
R-rebellious people,always looking for trouble
O-outta' control, starting riots
A-assembly line was introduced
R-relentless
I-Immigration restrictions governed how many people could come
N-not good people,always in trouble
G-giggle water is the drink of choice

T-tough crowd to fit into too
w-wasteful people, don't cherish anything
E-eventful, always something happening
N-neighboring chaos is all around
T-Terrible things happen everyday
I-inconsiderate people
E-everyone was drunk
S-Sacco & Vanzetti were famous anarchists

My life be like. . .

Day One,1904,0800hrs.
Well, Here I am. Arrived at the so called "Panama Canal". I recently heard to be careful of some of the things here. Well, gotta go to work.

Day Six,1904,2100hrs
Today was a hard day. Carrying supplies back and forth place to place. Its just painstaking work. I got bit by a mosquito today. Jeeze did it hurt. Ehh probably nothing.

Day Twelve,1904,1800hrs
I was dismissed from working today due to sickness. Its been a brief amount of time since my last journal entry. I have a horrendous fever and uncontrollable sweating. hope it passes soon.

Day Nineteen,1904,0600hrs
Wow so much sweating. Its gotta be like over 100 degrees here as it is, and on top of sickness. It just keeps getting worse and worse.

Day Twenty One,1904,0900hrs
Just witnessed someone pass out. I hope they are okay. My sickness seems to be getting better. I think I'm becoming numb to it.

Day Twenty Four,1904,0800hrs
Working seems to get very monotonous and im getting very tired. Although im still sweating, I became numb to my sickness. Maybe its out of my system.

Day Twenty Five,1904,09000hrs
I have been served papers for the clinic. They said I have roughly a day to live. Wow. This is hard to believe. They said it was some disease called "Yellow Fever" or something like that. . .

Imperialism. . .or is it?

The 2009 fantastic movie Avatar, Directed by James Cameron is a very good example of imperialism. It clearly shows imperialism and biodiversity. The movie consists of a character (Jake Sully), paraplegic marine who is accepted into an "Avatar" program to be one of the native species. The Marines find out that the native species (sky people) are inhabiting an area where a precious rock lays. This stone is worth millions and the Marines will do anything to meet their demands. The marines end up going to war with the Navi people. The marines clearly using genocide to and imperialism to try to conquer the species.



The Navi fight back with Jake Sully and push back the marines into a retreat. The marines had lost the war against the Navi. According to Answers.com, Avatar seems to fit the role for imperialism.

"The most prominent reason for imperialism was to make as much money as possible there were many ways of doing so through imperialism one was to obtain raw resources from colonial resources like gold, spices, and valuable gems. Another way of making money through imperialism was by using the people native to that area as a work force in factories and textiles. Gaining control of the people was key for imperialism to work and therefore imperials sought after land gaining and keeping strategic land points so that power could be attained and held over the people, and lastly the desire to map out and explore uncharted land was another purpose for imperialism."

http://www.thewallpapers.org/movies/avatar.php
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Examples_of_imperialism