Education has Changed. A little or A Lot?

Song or Rap or Rhyming Poem

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Back in the day, when the kids were stinky 
They went to school, with rings on their pinkys.
The school doors were closed to the brown kids
Because the white folks didn't ever eat no ribs

But today it's a whole bunch different
There are bunch less students absent
And the kids are dressing all fresh and funky
Back then, they smelled all skunky

Look at the picture, the girls in the dresses
I play basketball, and full-court presses
What student was Derek Rose back then?
When the teachers smack them.

Coming to the United States 1870's

1. Immigrants coming to the United States had a difficult journey. If you came from Europe, the trip took about a week; from Asia nearly three weeks. No airplanes. All steamships, which were a lot slower than the ships we have today.

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I would not have liked the trip if I were an immigrant at the time. No doubt about it.
Most of the travelers traveled in the cheapest possible way--the rooms were where the luggage and cargo were stored! Hell no! No windows, no fresh air. It probably smelled like butt. Nasty.
There were thousands of people in the same situation, and there were bugs, diseases, and many people died before they arrived to their destination.

2. Back in the late 1800's, before entering the United States as an immigrant, you had to prove to the immigration people you had at least $25, which is $625 in 2012 dollars (according to http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php).
The two immigration processing stations in San Francisco and New York were Angel Island in San Francisco and Ellis Island in New York.
The immigrant experience at these places were long and intense. The process would take about five hours, and everyone had to prove they weren't locked up at one time, and they had to pass a medical exam. Today we don't have to that, and I'm glad because I would hate to go through that for just visiting Tijuana.

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3. Denis Kearney of the Workingmen's Party in California tried to ban Chinese people from entering the United States because he thought they were taking jobs away from the native-born Americans. He was an important person in the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act law in 1882, which forbade ALL Chinese people from coming into the country except for students, teachers, businessmen, and government people.
That would have sucked to have been Chinese at the time because why did it have to be Chinese only? Weren't there other people taking jobs, too? It's racist, and I hate that crap. Plus, if I could do a better job at a cheaper rate, isn't that what all people want?
4. The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-08 was with the United States and Japan due to the racism that was occurring on the west coast at the time. The agreement provided that (1) Japan would severely limit the amount of non-professional Japanese immigrants coming to the U.S., and that the (2) U.S. would de-segregate the schools in which all the Japanese children were placed.

Labor Unions Emerge PG. 67

Your task for today:

• Respond to the Essential Questions from your notebook page 67. See sentence starters below
• Begin by finish reading the text here: http://goo.gl/QOuVc 
• All images you use must have two items: (1) a caption, describing the image, and (2) the source from where you borrowed the image. See example below. 
• Your post must have at least two images.
• Get stamped on your Bellwork Inventory for Page 67

 

Bodies of dead seamstresses who jumped from the burning Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. http://goo.gl/HVuh7

1. Based upon what I have read, labor unions were ___________ because ...
2. The ________________________ was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because _________________________________________. These deaths could have been prevented if ________________________________________________________________________.
3. Monopolists did not want unions because _______________________________. Union members did not like scabs because _______________________________________________.
4. Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because __________________________________________________.

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CBS News polls over the last two decades suggest that the American people have long been frustrated with their leaders, though their sense of alienation has ticked up in recent years. And the consistency of their outlook arguably only makes the situation more dispiriting. Instead of a spike in frustration grounded from a specific event - Watergate, the Keating Five scandal, Bill Clinton's Oval Office indiscretions - Americans have settled into a sustained aversion to their own government. (the web site address from where I found it)

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Marijuana Legalization in Colorado and Washington

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1. Cite examples of "Supreme Law of the Land"

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2. Cite examples of "federal vs. state authority?

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3. What was the "compromise" that helped to pass the referendum in Washington? How do you think this compromise would affect demand for the product?

4. Why was Oregon's referendum not passed?

Obama Victory Tweet

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2. Which candidate was most effective using social media? Explain. (This is an opinion question. Same rules for citations apply here as well)

3. According to Jeffrey Hermes, taking a picture of your marked ballot can be used to pressure people standing in line to vote. Do you agree or disagree, and why?  (This is an opinion question. Same rules for citations apply here as well)