One of the biggest inventions in history was the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. He perfected the incandescent light bulb. This is a light bulb that gives off visible light produced by heat. He also came up with the system to produce an
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Today in class we jsut worked on our blogs. Well, by work on, I mean complain about how the computers never work. I spent 20 minutes trying to opens bruns page. The Problem was that sometimes it would open up, and then when i would try to put up a bl
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 10:09pm
Today Greg presented on railways. We learned about how railways started time zones and about the Granger law that kept railways from charging more to farmers.
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 10:07pm
Railroads have undoubtably changed america in a huge way but do we all know the history behind them if the answer was no then Bruns you need to start paying attention in class. Railroads helped make time zones and made the United States smaller. Thes
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Bruns was gone again today with his swine flu infected child. Try saying "swine flu infected child" five times fast. Anyways, we had a work day today. I spent my class time looking for a new section to blog about. I picked Chapter 7, Section 3. I mus
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A failed state is a term that describes a state that has failed. More specifically, it's a gov't that has failed at the basic responsibilities and conditions of a gov't. Four key items are generally used to describe a failed state, and they are:- Bei
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5-3Today in history Chelsea finished her presentaion. A group of farmers started a Farmer's Alliance to try to change the price on railroads. This was also known as the Grange. This group first got together for educational purposes then it led to thi
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5-2Today Ashley finished her presentation. She talked about the major give away of land in Oklahoma. The state got the name the sooner stater because people claimed land sooner than they were supposed to. In 1889 Yellow Stone National Park was create
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Wikipedias Defination of a failed state is "a state whose central government is so weak or ineffective that it has little practical control over much of its territory." To me, this basically means that a coup d'état is in progress and that the people
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 9:49pm
Ida B Wells was born into slavery shortly before it was abolished. She moved to Memphis in 1880 and started working as a school teacher. She also became a editor for a local newspaper and often reported on racial justice. three of her busimen were ly
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For our blog topic this week, we are doing “failed states.” A failed state is a country that has no government or their government is currently failing. Now those states are pretty much living in anarchy. In the first article what I took away from it
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This is my assigned blog topic, mainly based on the term "Failed State," which means a government with a shattered social and political structure. An example of this is how CNN had stated Afghanistan was a failed state, because "after two decades of
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Posted by 3BrandonJames on October 11, 2009 at 9:30pm
Today we started presenting our power points.5.1We learned about the osage and Iowa tribes. Many indians didnt know what was past the missisippi river. The goverment did not treat the indians well at all sometimes they would get them drunk and make t
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The term given to the time frame of the 1870's-1890's is The Gilded Age. This term is derived from the famous novel by Mark Twain, The Gilded Age. The book is about corruption in politics, and the self-served ness of high ranking members in office in
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Today in class we got time to work on our assigned blog post for the week. We had to find something in a different chapter that interested us. I chose Angel Island. First i read the little paragraph that was in the book about it. Then i researched it
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Racial discrimination has been a problem ever since the colonial era. Religious and ethnically diverse whites are the type of people that our country has accepted socially in our history. The most racism or discrimination is mainly targeted on Native
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Why did immigrants come to the US?For religious problems, money, and a better life.Where did immigrants come from?All around the world. Cuba, Mexico, etc,What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?They had to go
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-What impact did railroads have on the US?It helped farmers. It created time zones. It helped develop the west.-Why were many people upset with the railroads?Because the fees weren't really fair.-What did the Granger or government do to regulate the
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Today in class I learned that racial discrimination had been around since the colonial era. The are many different types of groups that have been discriminated upon. Some would include Native Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Latin Ameri
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