Well, today in CWI, we continued watching the video Planet in Peril from Friday. We left off where Dorothy was murdered. Pretty grim way to start class but okay.mThen Anderdson Cooper and some other guys were at the Crahoe tribe's territory. They wer
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Today, Bruns started off the class by talking about semester test and all that jazz. We then started watching the video again. It started off with the part about the men who were caught by the Brasilian guys trying to protect the forest, as the men w
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Today in class we continued to watch the end of the movie Planet in Peril. It mainly talked about how there are poachers that they are trying to catch, and people ilegally cutting down trees.We can not cut down our rain forest because we do find a lo
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Today we continued to watch "The People Bomb", the CNN Anderson Cooper special. For the passed few days, the movie focused only on the effects of climate change on things such as rain forests and endangered animals. This is what we always hear about,
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Today, in class, we got on the computers, which was being quite a pain, and continued watching this bomb video.We kicked the video off in a segment about poaching, how the crime-stopping crew arrested some chumps that had claimed to be hunting a smal
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I figured i would talk a little bit about some different ships used during WW1.There is many different types of ships used in WW1 but i figured i would talk about some high speed transport ships. There were two seperate classes in the US Navy (for hi
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The country of Rowanda is divided into two major ethnic groups- the tutsis and the hutus. For years the two groups worked together to do the work of farming. The tutsis usually owned the land and the hutus farmed the land. There were many marriages t
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Well, when I first Googled "Genocide in" several African Countries came up. Just saying.So the history of these two tribes, the Hutus and Tutsis, has always been voilent, but appearently it exploded during the Colonial period. Belgium was the country
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World War one affected women in numbers of ways. They had to work in factories and in fields, drive trolly cars, and were nurses in the war. Women had to do all of this because so many men were going off to war. Most women didn't like the work they h
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Today we finished chapter 10.The Dollar diplomacy. We want week south military. Dollar is the key word of the dollar diplomacy. Horwed Haft was hand picked by Roosevelt. Taft was not liked. Instead going directly into the military we would slowly tak
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The Rwandan Genocide was the mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and peacekeeping Hutu in 1994. This great bloodshed was enacted by the Hutu dominated government. In the relatively small time frame of approximately 100 days, begi
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Today we talked about the last two assigned blog for the semester. With the chapter 12-14 project we were told to have at least 3 resources.When we were done talking about the last projects of the semester we finished up on chapter 10. The panama can
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In 1994 Rwanda began to have some major issues within its country. It all began on April 6, 1994 when Tutsi's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, and Hutu's president Cyprien Ntaryamira, were assasinated. This sparked a mass genocide between the Tutsi's
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It all started off with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Austro-Hungarian goverment wanted to go after Serbia but didnt have an excuse to do so. But with the assassination now gave them a chance to wage war on them.Then Russia signe
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Today in class we watched that video of that guy who Mr. Bruns adopted his site after. I thought he did it after the Xbox 360, but no he had to do after something on CNN, which transfers into a very funny acronym. Anyways, the guy had trouble repelli
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Absent.It looks like today was another work day. People worked on their blogs and projects. Mr. Bruns answered any questions that people had over all the work we have due in his class.
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Today in class we worked on our project while people took their tests. I worked on my assigned blog about one of the things that most interests us about World War I that's due Sunday night. I picked the flue epidemic. I thought this was interesting b
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Today in class I was the first one to take my test. :/ After that we worked on our projects. I learned that the flu epidemic took more lives then the first world war did in 1918. One fourth of Americans were effected by this. Mine had to be shut down
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In class today people worked on their project while other people took there quizzes. Whitney and I got Economic Changes we divided them up and these are the things I have to do:Section 3 – tax increases support education1 reason the economy boomed in
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The Flu EpidemicAbout one quarter of the U.S. population made up the home-from crisis. In the fall of 1918, an international flu epidemic took place. It also had a huge effect on the economy. To avoid contagion, mines were shut down and telephone ser
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