The AP Test

The AP test was very different than any other tests I've taken. For me it seemed so much harder than the SATS, which is the any really large test that I have taken that I think to compare it to. Because the test wasn't separated into many sections it was hard for me because I felt like it was so hard. The first part with the multiple choice questions was not too bad but the essay part was awful. The first DBQ was not too bad but the other two essays were so bad. I literally hated my life during them..Hahha..and I felt like I couldn't think correctly anymore. One thing that maybe could be different is the number of answer options for the multiple choice questions for the tests. This is kind of a stupid comment but for me because there were only four choices that was weird for me because normally there were five options. Overall it was not too bad because I felt prepared for the essays because we did so much work on the essays throughout the year.

The Communist Manifesto

Pros:
1.The worker's union was a positive for the labor force.  This helped group the workers and lower class together.  This strength in numbers approach helped them greatly to get fairer rights.
2.  Wage labor is a good thing for the workers because this promoted competition among workers which eventually led to taking down of the upper class above them.
3. In a communist society the present dominates the past which is a good thing because it focuses more on the future and because of the abolition of private property no one has their own private issues to deal with from their past history of ownership for example.
4.A system of free love in communism which is a positive because it takes away previous restrictions of who you could marry in the Bourgeoisie society.


Cons:

1. The Bourgeoisie took away the individualism of people and the professions.  They made it so family was just a money and business instead of how family should be.  This is a negative clearly because no one wants the family structure to be like that.  Marx and Engels continue to say that the Bourgeoisie are always trying to change things for more money and stuff and that they are constantly changing the social relations including family structure.
2. The revolt and rebellion occasionally against the Bourgeoisie causes destruction and chaos.  When this happened it would cause state of panic and even barbarianism. This is all because of too much industry and commerce.
3.Treatment of workers is a negative that is highlighted.  When the treatment of the workers is increased the wage decreases.  This was an awful thing and was not fair for the treatment of the labor force.  People would do whatever they could to increase their profits they did not care about the safety or well being of the people making the products or services.
4. The demoralization of the lower class who works.  This is a negative because the people working were all viewed as objects to help the richer people make money regardless of their sex or age.  Those two factors did not go into their jobs at all except to think if they could still manage the machine or whatever they had to work with.  In my opinion this is a bad thing that in a way dehumanized the lower class.

The Liberator Hero

These paintings have several things in common including that all four of the men are holding an item.  For three of them they are holding sword which shows power and threat.  Also most of the men have a look of confidence and power.  The point of the artist in doing this was to show how these leaders were in their role as a hero and leader.  Also most o the men are confidently standing up with a power stance. This gives off their power and almost sends out a message of intimidation.  In regard to future generations regarding these men they will look up to them and want to be like them being heroic, and having confidence and power.  It gives an example for how future heroic leaders should be if they want to be successful.  These revolutions need to have heroic figures who are strong and powerful to represent the movement as a whole and to give an image of the struggle and goal.  They are heroic because of what they provide and give up of their personal life.  Also they are heroic because they have personalities that are brave, confident and powerful.  Also they have rebellious ideas that they are brave enough to speak of and stand up for what they believe when maybe other people cannot.  

TED talk given by Niall Ferguson

I agree with the points given by Niall Ferguson.  He was very smart and the points he made were very logical.  He made six points or 'apps' from western culture that help societies.  These include: competition, the scienentific revolution, property rights, modern medicine, the consumer society and the work ethic.  I agree with him in that all of those can be used and shared to help expansion and societies profitiablity.  I really enjoyed the video because it was interesting and not slow and boring like I thought it might have been.

The Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals

1.  The reason for the textbook to group the Ottomans, the Safavids and the Mughals is becuase they all had the same Islamic religion.  That is the main reason but also the three groups have other similarities that would make it beneficial to group them together.  This was good decision in the sense that you could see the similarities of the different groups right together and in line.  Personally for me I like things being clearly separate and more easily to distinguish between, that way there is no confusion. 
2.This period of global interactions was in my opinion a good one.  Like everything there are bad things too but the good things make the bad things seem less negative.  Some of the good things about this time period was the productive trading and trade routes established.  This was not only helpful for that time period but also for future time periods.  The slavery during this time period was helpful and very good, even though it is not a good thing it was helpful for trading and the people at the time. 

Passage about Christianity

The passage is about Christianity and Fabian Fucan finding the faults in it.  He first starts by attacking the religious aspect of it by explaining how their faith is wicked and later he says crooked.  He also talks about the political aspects of the religion by saying that the Christians are only looking to take over Japan.  Another is the social aspect of the religion where he says that is lacking because they do not value the follower's lives, by calling them 'less than trash'.  Lastly he discusses the history of Christianity by comparing it to Buddhism.  By doing this he makes Buddhism seem more of a legitimate than Christianity.  

Chapter26

The important people, places, & events

http://www.glogster.com/bhsapwh12/chapter-26/g-6lm7hmducm67q6i7ffid5a0

Capitalism

After reading I now have a clearer view on capitalism. I think it is when companies wether small or large run the company all by themselves meaning they use their own supplies, equipment and materials. This system allows people to make their own decisions about their company. Also the important part of this economic system is competition and supply and demand. I still am slightly confused on this whole concept but way clearer than I was a few days ago!

Christianity and Capitalism

In my opinion I think Christianity keeps splitting up into different ways because of several reasons.  One reason is because over time people naturally will question and discuss what they believe and sometimes that will form new branches of the religion.  Also people who want to have more power can branch off of the main religion to form their own and therefore have more power. 
I do not know what capitalism is really but I know it has to do with the economy and money. I really have no idea the specifics though :(

Griot

There are both pros and cons when it comes to learning history through the methods of the griot but in my opinion the cons over weigh the pros.  The cons include the fact that you are being given biased and opinionated information because it is being passed down orally so information can be changed or misconstrued.  Also this narrows the span of history being given so you can not be given a wide variety of information.  The pros include that you get a more personal view on what was going on in history at that time.  You get the point of view of someone and not just the facts which can be a good thing sometimes.  Also even though information might not have been passed accurately all the time it was being passed quickly compared to written down information.
In my opinion I prefer learning history through the textbook method which we use rather than learning through storytelling, music, and dance.  For me that is not how I would enjoy learning because I would never be able to accept what I am learning because I will not know if it is 100% true or not.  I prefer learning from the facts regardless if it is lacking emotion or point of view.

Mongol Trial

The Mongol Trial was a very fun activity which I enjoyed a lot. The only bad part about it was that sometimes during cross examination it got a little awkward. Overall though this helped to further my knowledge about the Mongols. I had the opening statement so I did not have to deal with the unknown of what the cross examiner was going to ask but in a way in wish I could have been a witness because then I could have logically argued our side. I was defending the Mongols and I still agree with that stance because I think because of the situation and the time period the Mongols actions were justifiable. I think we should admire the Mongols for the determination but not praise them for their over use of violence in some cases.

Genghis Khan

In my opinion do not think Genghis Khan was a psychopathic killer. He was just like any other ruler who had to kill his enemies to gain more land and power. And it is bad that he killed women and children but that was part of how ruthless leaders were in that time period. The main reasons why he wasn't an awful merciless person was because he valued loyalty and he tried to justify his killings. This shows that he had morals that he tried to lead his career by. He also had a heart because even though him and his friend went their separate ways and he was betrayed he still tried to give him a second chance, and not kill him. I also think it was a nice thing to go yo the lengths he did to protect his wife.

The Crusades Project 1/12..Finally Done :)

Now that I am done with this project I can look back and reflect on how it went.  I think the twitter thing went well but in the future I probably wouldn't do this again.  It got kind of confusing and it was hard if you messed up because of the order of the tweets.  I think it came out good and I hope it is as clear and understandable as I think it is.  I really liked the whole idea of collaborating with other people because it was really helpful! It was cool to give and get advice via our blogs too.

Too find my project search @MuslimGirl135 on twitter and the name is just Muslim Girl.  My tweets are all there!

So I am so frustrated because I just realized I forgot to put in these tweets. :( They were supposed to follow after the one with the picture...sorry
Our holy city of Jerusalem has been lost #devastating

People have been saying this has been a divine punishment by God for us not following our religious duties #timetopray

We need to liberate our territory back from the #evil crusaders


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Crusades Project 1/11

So as of right now I am writing out the tweets I plan to use, but I don't want to do them officially until later tomorrow so I known the order is right and everything is just the way I want. People have been really helpful with this project, like Paige giving me advice and help on a post on one of my blogs, talking about the fifth crusade outside of school with Priscilla, getting ideas and talking about it with Nadia, and getting advice about formatting my tweets with Rhiannon. I have also been trying to help them too with their problems. Google is still my top choice, but bing has also been really helpful. I never really used that website before but for this project it is helpful.

Crusades Project 1/10

So after doing some more research I have (temporarily) decided ocrusades first, third, and fifth crusades. I want to do the first one because it was militarily successful and I found a lot of information on it. I want to do the third crusade because primarily I am interested in Babarossa and he is involved in this one. And lastly I want to do the fifth crusade because I think it will make it interesting writing from a Muslim's point of view on this because the crusade was kind of pathetic. Now I need to try and find people with the same crusades to work together!

The Crusades Project 1/9

I have started researching the different crusades to figure out what three I want to focus on but I have not decided yet.  I have been using websites like google and yahoo to help and of course wikipedia to get a general idea of the different crusades.  I tried using my encyclopedias but they were not helpful because they are so old.  I am pretty sure I have decided on a twitter account pretending I am a Muslim girl who experienced the crusades for the project.  This will make it interesting hopefully!