Declaration of Independance

What the Declaration of Independence states, is that when the time is right you break away, and you must state why you have done this. And when the time comes, and if government is in horrible conditions, it is your duty to fix the government. It also states and supports its reasons why America wanted to break away and what mistakes the British government had made. And most importantly, it declares that all men were born equally, and should be treated equally.


There are several horrible things that King James the 3 has done to America. Here are a couple:
For preventing us from trading with other parts of the world.
For charging taxes without America’s approval.
For sending us overseas and pretend that we are criminals.
He has refused to stick to his rules, and include American citizens.
He has not stuck to his rule that he would assist in America’s army.


And lastly the declaration states that America has attempted to tell the British that what they were doing was wrong. Only the British did not listen, so now they are writing the Declaration of Independence to put this form of government to an end.

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Snake Picture

Some of the main visual elements on this picture are: a snake’s body separated into 8 pieces, the initials of some of the original 13 colonies, and in big bold letters, at the bottom of the page, words spell out, Join, or Die. I think the political issue this picture is representing, is the conquering of land, religion, etc, by means of various threats, some of them including death. The author of this picture was, from what we can tell, not happy about this situation. One example of this is the way he stated the words, Join, or die. If he was happy about the situation he would have said this in a more positive way. If the cartoonist wanted to make his point even stronger, I would give him one suggestion. Add some more derogatory aspects to the picture, such as adding flames around the initials of the colonies. But over all, I think the picture was well drawn, and made its point well.

Source: http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/page/3/

Can we trust the book, To Be A Slave?

I would say we can definitely trust the book, To Be A Slave. The reason we can trust this book is because the author gives us many points of view, as well as from different people. And, evidently, all the stories in this book from various people, all lead toward the same answer. Slavery was a bad thing. The second reason we can trust this book is that the author seems to know a lot about slavery, therefore, being well informed about the topic. And the third reason we can trust this book is that it’s been published and checked by an editor.

Here’s one quote that supports all of what I’ve just mentioned from the book, “Others died because they took their own lives rather than live as slaves.” (Lester, 24)

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MLA Citation: Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dell, 1971.

Graet Powers Game

During The Great Powers games my country was Great Britain, with Shuk as my partner. Building our empire went by quite smoothly in the beginning. Are armies, navies, colonies, as well as industries grew rapidly, almost doubling each year. Are country took the lead in obtaining the most economic points per year and also had the largest and most powerful army. Our country had a large advantage over all the other countries, and held position for the largest empire.

In the end, it was more important to by colonies and industries. This was because the more you by of these the more economic points you gained each year. And then that money would be put toward armies and navies. We also made allies which, when the first great battle took place, served us well. One area our country could have done better in was to make more allies, as we still did not have enough. Unfortunately, during the last year, the U.S declared war on us and all the other countries helped the U.S. Because our allies betrayed us, we, the country of Great Britain, were not in a position to trust them.

In Conclusion, during the The Great Powers game, many conflicts arose. As in the real world, these issues revolved around economic and financial aspects.

Quarter 3 goals

Well, I met alot of my goals for humanities last quarter.Some of them were improving my hand writing, completing AR before the quarter was over, and reading faster.

For this quarter my goals are: to complete my AR by the second week of school, improve on my socratic seminar, and improving on my tests and quizzes.