Thank God the King is Dead

If you need two words to describe the rule of king Coyle here they are: Injustice and Tyranny. He ruled over us just for his own fun and pleasure. We were losing all our rights and then there were those really annoying suck ups. They had no self determination what so ever. They might have had a back bone but now it was bent and cracked. They kept proclaiming their love for king Coyle over and over. All I heard was, "Yes King Coyle. Of course King Coyle. You're the best King Coyle." I was going crazy. Only a few smart people had any self determination throughout the entire thing, an those people really got to rebelling, but of course the king with his might followers took care of any of those rebellions. None the less the kings rule was horrible, and I thank god with all my heart that it is finally over.

Where is the 43rd war taking place?

By using good and useful sources we have estimated that they are currently located somewhere south of the River Santa Maria in Mexico. It is clearly mentioned in both the 43^rd war book and the Nations of the world Atlas that Mexico has had many wars and its own revolutionary party. Also the Santa Maria (Moeri, p.14) is located in, Mexico (Nations of the World Atlas). Lastly, Ignacio mentions that to escape the only border he would need to cross would be the Mexican Border (Moeri, p.197). There for they must be in Mexico.

The reason why Louise Moeri didn't give any absolute location for this book is because it could have happened any where else and throughout Central America, such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and etc. (NATIONS OF THE WORLD ATLAS). There wasn’t any need to specify the location because the fact that river Santa Maria was one of the geographical features gives some accurate location, but otherwise, knowing that it was a Spanish speaking country with Roman Catholic as one of the major religions gave ideas of vivid settings. Also, revolutions did not happen only in one specific location, it was carried out all through Central America during one of the many revolutions(The 43rd War).

Sources:

London, England) Collins (Firm :. Collins Nations of the World Atlas. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Moeri, Louise. The Forty-Third War (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

13 colonies cartoon analysis

The main visual elements in this cartoon are: the snake split up into 8 separate pieces. These eight pieces each represent a colony; V for Virginia, N.C. for North Carolina, etc. It is showing that England took a healthy snake which didn’t ever bother them, and split it up into lots of pieces. These eight pieces then became separate colonies of a once, well working snake. The US was taken, divided up, emptied of the American Indians, and then left alone for people to come and build in. It is obvious that the author did not feel to happy about all of this, because the colonies are in the for of a snake and that is usually a hated animal. To really show this, though, the author should have actually shown a knife with England written on it.

To Be A Slave - Reliable?

We can trust the truthfulness of what we read in this book. For one if you look in the back of the book there is a complete bibliography of all the sources that were used in the book. These sources seem to be real sources with all the appropriate information. Also if you check, the in-text citations seem to match up with the bibliography. My third and final reason is that I found another cite that has information on Julius Lester, which mostly matches up with the info on the author in the book. It seems that Julius Lester is an honest and truthful man who really is telling us the truth about slavery.

Bibliography:

"Julius Lester - Home." Julius Lester. 14 Jan. 2008 .

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dial Books For Young Readers, 1986.

Great Powers Game Debrief

I was the Ottoman Empire in the game. At the start of the game we were one of the weakest countries. Because we felt that it is very important for everything to be equal when buying, we usually did not by many colonies and therefore did not have a rapidly growing economy. But as the game progressed we did have a change in our economy. Also at the start Great Britain and the USA were the most powerful countries. I recognized this immediately and started trying to become allies with both very quickly. Soon enough though, I had to break allegiance with the USA because of a huge war that Great Britain had a huge advantage in. After the war we though that it is most important for us to restock our army therefore we did not buy many industries. I do not think that during the whole game only one thing was most important to buy than the other, but it changed as the game continued. Also our allegiances never really did hurt us, but mostly helped us in gaining more economy. Because we were always on the winning side of the wars, we always got a share of the gain and never lost much except for the armies used in the war.
I learned many things about conflict from this game. Firstly, I learned that during any type of conflict, no one is to be trusted. Also, many conflicts only arise because of economical gain. Third but not last, I learned that the strongest in the beginning of a conflict is not always the winner in the end. Great Britain and the USA were both weaker than us in the end, Great Britain with only 8 economic points!

End of Quarter 2 Feedback

For Quarter 2 I had the following goals:

• Better self editing
• Better reasearch skills, like spending more time researching and researching more thouroughly
• Improve paragraphing and dividing the writing into different groups

I do think that I improved on my first and second goal, but I did not get a lot of time to work on the third goal so this will remain one of my goals for 3rd quarter. These are the goals that I will have for 3rd Quarter:

• Having no small, punctuational or conventional mistakes
• Improve paragraphing and dividing the writing into different groups
• Improving and learning some new video editing techniques
• Being able to put together a interesting and fun script for a play or video presentation