Today in class we went ovwer the asia continent map and i got most of the countries right. Next we watched a video called Did You Know. The video was very interesting and had a lot of facts. The video stated thet techology is gaining a lot and by 204
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Today we continued on with presentations. Mr bruns talked about voting and how there was a secret ballot. Children had to work 16+ hours a day. If you got hurt working you got fired.
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Posted by 4Danielle on November 11, 2009 at 11:09am
brandon;child laborthe progressive error -it was a period of time when people who wanted to make things better with normal or common people like people who worked in factories, men and children..kids from 6-18 would have to work like mines and stuff
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Posted by 5Shelbie on November 11, 2009 at 10:53am
Today i discussed. My topic was Prohibition.-What did Progressives do to reduce hours for workers?The supreme court case Muller vs Oregan said that women couldn't work more than 10 hours a day. About nine years later in 1917 the supreme court upheld
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Posted by 5Shelbie on November 11, 2009 at 10:43am
Today we started out by Mr. Bruns telling us about the progressive era. The progressive era was time during the late 1800's and early 1900's when reform happened. A lot of change came about to help to common people. There were four goals of progressi
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6. What was the importance of Netscape going public on 8-9-95?Netscape browser-first commercial browser-opened internet up to everyone (common people) and triggered the .com boom. Public could communicate and be connected through the internet. Spent
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More of the falt world essay, and the video and all that noise. We stopped midway cause mr. bruns wanted to go over some things. Didnt go over maps today.
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Flat World/Current Events #3 Test-50 Points1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?It means because of globalization everybody is on an even “playing field”. We can trade, communicate, and other stuff. Ultimately making th
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7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?To bring other people from other counties into the business world and work at a U.S. owned company in a different country8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.Internet video
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7. What is outsourcing/offshoring and why are many Americans opposed to it?To bring other people from other counties into the business world and work at a U.S. owned company in a different country8. Give two examples of “open-sourcing”.Internet video
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The open door policy in China was created by John Hay in 1899. It was created to allow United States to trade with China and other countries. That meant that countries couldn't form monopolies and trade with other parts of China. The US was worried t
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Today in class we went over the Asia map, we are going to have it on Thursday and Friday.Today we worked on our our projects, and Mr. Bruns went over the rules of how we should present it. The most important thing is to know our content and don't rea
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Today we kept talking about chapter 9.4. What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?- In 1902 1 stats after the other reported death cases- Muller court case vs. organ- Children would work up to 19 hours a da
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The Progressive era was a period of time between 1890 and the early 1900's when a lot of change came about to help the common people. The four goals of Progressivism protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, an
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1. Describe what the “flat world” means before watching the lecture?Everything in the world is contected some how with every contry.2. Briefly describe Globalization 1.01492 to the 1800Strunk the world from a size large to a mediumwhy Country money l
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Posted by 2courtneyb on November 10, 2009 at 4:34pm
Today in CWI we started watching the world is flat video. This is the second time watching this for me all tahnks to Bruns. One of the most important things I learned today is Globalization means the world shrinking to a size that doesn’t really matt
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Today in class we continued our blogs. We answered the questions and discussed each topic. Here is what we talked about. Oh, and Mr Bruns did this HILARIOUS 'soft musically murmuring' voice! :)1. What did the progressives do to make the workplace saf
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Today in US History. We continued answering chapter 9 questions.1. What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?-The workplace was very dangerous and people worked long hours. Worker’s Composition made workplaces much safer. Guard rails w
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Today we continued doing our blog talk projects.Zach started his talk over child labor laws.During the progressive era kids would work up to nineteen hours a day as well as adults. there was also great chance of injury because there wasnt rails to gu
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