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U.S. Involvement in WWII

I'm going to do my "interesting thing from our project" blog on the role that America played in the war. Even before the war started the U.S. was giving supplies to other countries which already made us a part of the war. The U.S. was in isolationism

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Assigned Blog #14- Robert Sturges

Robert Struges, an officer of the Royal Marines, is very unheard of. He severed for royal military and navy from 1908-1942 when he retired. In 1908 he joined the Royal Navy. Although in 1912 he transferred to the Royal Marine Light Infantry. During W

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Assigned Blog- Erwin Rommel

While researching the second part of my world war 2 project I ran accros a person i thought to be pretty interesting. His name is Erwin Rommel. Erwin was born on November 15, 1891 in Heidenheim, Germany. When Erwin was a young adult he had dreams of

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In our everyday lives, people are starting to see more and more games pop-up out of nothing, making games out of the simplest things such as brushing your teeth, or finding your way to the grocery store. On an article in CNN Jesse Schell, a game desi

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The 1956 Presidential Election

During the 1956 Presidential Election, Dwight Eisenhower was running for re-election. Eisenhower was the Republican Candidate. Dwight D. Eisenhower was extremely admired, but had been diagnosed with health issues. These issues made people reluctant t

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Brown vs. The Board of Education

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through out the years previous to 1954, segregation was legal in the U.S., although 16 states had already prohibited it, the rest of the country were at diffrent standpoints on it, the south having it completely legal, having several books justifying

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Blog Assignment #15

1) GI Bill of Rights-- Congress passed an act known as the GI Bill of Rights or the Serviceman's Readjustment Act in order to help veteran's return to their life was easier. This was passed in 1944. It encouraged veterans to get an education. How it

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Today we went over the Europe map many times. Most of the names of the capitals and countries are really weird and hard to pronounce let alone remember. I think the best thing for me to do will be to just go over them on my own for a few minutes ever

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Today we went over the Europe map and Mr. Bruns took another atempt at showing us the Thomas Friedman lecture but it failed again. The rest of class, Isaac and Matt gave their presentation over Climate Change. Some causes of climate change is volcani
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4/18/10 Assigned Blog

Indian Termination Policy this policy was between the years of mid 1940's and mid 1960's. This was a policy to get rid of reservations for the Indians. Their was pressure on Congress to reduce Washington autority in the West. So thats what they did.

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Friday, Arpil 16, 2010

Today is Friday once again and I absolutely cannot wait to get out of hear. I have a bad case of Summer Fever. Anyways back to class and the daily grind. A good deal of the class is unfortunately gone and I am the only one in my group who has not gon

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Today I finished my test after Mr. Bruns got reprimanded by Mr. Viss for wearing a pink shirt. The girls in this class and in the other class all agree that it is alright for a guy to wear pink. I guess I don't have anything wrong with that either, u

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General George Patton (take two)

This is the second time that I have had to post this blog because I think that I had accidentally deleted this blog while editing another blog last week. I hope that it wont affect my grade but I got it posted back up once I realized that it was not

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The interstate highway system is a limited access ways in the United States. This system was named for President Eisenhower. After World War 2 he discovered the usefulness of good roads. He also discovered that efficient roads were harder to destroy

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1948 Election

The 1948 election was between Harry S. Truman and Thomas Dewey.

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On July 12 the Democrats met in Philadelphia and they were down about the upcoming election seeming to be favoring the Republicans who had the majority of both houses of congress. Public

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