Essay

I believe that the North had the advantage during the Civil War. They had immigrants, no slavery, more agricultural/manufacturing and railroads.

Immigrants give the North a huge advantage to the war. Most were either from Great Britain, France, or other European countries. These countries have all outlawed or have initiated the beginning of outlawing slavery. Not only will these people, in all probability, fight for or support the North, but their countries as well. Immigrants could potentially help the North prosper as well when in need of trade for cotton/supplies that the North would have lost due to the South attempting to break off. With more immigrants in the North, the South suffers a great disadvantage.

Having slavery in the South is a disadvantage to them in the war. Although one could argue the fact that they could make a profit with their slaves working on their fields, it's actually a large issue. With the amount plantation owners have to pay for their slaves and property, they'll also have to use ships to get it to anyone who will trade with them. Although it would be complicated to find a nation who would trade, considering that most countries who was already trading with the United States had banned slavery. If they aren't able to find countries to trade with, what profits would be made? They're country would collapse with slavery because not only taking care of the slaves would be an issue, but finding places to become an alliance with would be an issue because of the cause they're fighting for.

The North has agricultural and manufacturing advantages. The agriculture in Northern states was worth more than the South. In places like New York and Pennsylvania it was more than 600-700 million dollars than places such as Florida. As for manufacturing, the North had more people working. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania had over 200,000 manufacturers. North Carolina had only a little over 14,000 and Texas just over 3,000 employees. This let Massachusetts produce more and make a larger profit.

The railroad was a huge part of transportation in the 1800's. Before the cars and airplanes, trains were the most important/fastest way of transportation. They brought any sort of supplies/products to wherever they needed them to be. The North had more than the South, letting them get things to places quicker. This helps them make profits faster and in larger quantities, letting the North prosper better than the South.

The North had a greater advantage on the South. Yes the South may have had a better military commander(s), but the North had a greater chance on winning and surviving on their own.

12/18/12

Since I wasn't in school for class yesterday I decided I'd blog today. Today in class we had a worksheet on the herbeas corpus, a law that basically stated a person couldn't be jailed for no reason. Lincoln suspended it since in the Constitution you could suspend it as long as it was during times of rebellion. At this point in time Lincoln considered the South as "States in Rebellion", giving him the right to suspend the herbeas corpus.

12/12/12

Today in class we got worksheets which was of Abraham Lincoln's speech regarding South Carolina's attempt to secession. He basically doesn't acknowledge the fact that they've broken off, still calling them states. He says that they can't leave, that signing the Constitution was their contract to being a part of the country. The way he said it smart because rather then "telling them off" or "scolding" them, he basically states they can't leave the union, and if they were allowed to it would lead to anarchy, the thing they left behind when coming to America from England.

Dec. 10th

Today in class we got about four worksheets mainly focusing on the words "Liberty to all", and finding where it came from, why it is so useful and stable, and what Lincoln compared it to. He said that "Liberty to all" was like a gold apple (which was found in the bible) and that the Union and Constitution were just a setting of silver (also from same sentence in bible) ment to oreserve that phrase.

Timeline update

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/constitution-timeline--79/edit

History Class

Today in class we learned about a caricature made in the 1800's, representing all the candidates for presidents ideas for the country. Lincoln and Douglas were ripping the west apart, showing how they are going back in forth between their ideas. Another man named John was, which how I personally interpret it l, was tearing the South East apart from the North East, showing how he was pri slavery. Another man (I can't remember his name) was on a baby's high chair, gluing the country back together, showing how he only cared about getting the country to be a whole once more. It was quite funny to see how people drew the politics.

As for my challenge, it's going pretty well. Track has left me sore and sulky, but there are going to be results.

11/29/12

Today in class we went over John Brown and his attempt to help stop slavery which was a bit of a fail, although he got people talking, his goal was not fulfilled by any means. I think he went about it all wrong. He didn't have enough people, information, supplies, or knowledge on what he was doing. He ended up getting others as well as himself killed. And although those weren't his intentions, he should of thought through that is was more than just a possibility that someone would get hurt.

As for my goal, I'd say on the getting fit part, I'm doing quite well. I started track, first time ever. Sometimes it can be a lot of work, but it's worth it. As for school, I think in some subjects I've been slacking, which is not good at all. But I'll try to work on that.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UXl1nY5eglW0vPwjN1GI_MfzkLddtqd7ARHEThk14lw/edit
just incase it didn't cooperate

Link to Voice Thread

https://voicethread.com/share/3703996/

11/8/11

So I found this picture via Facebook. I think this definitely follows through with the whole lesson we've been learning about with which states were anti-/pro- slavery, as well as tying in the election. I've also been hearing a lot of talk from my teachers about history repeating itself... this is not to say that Romney is for slavery or anything, not to my knowledge, at least. But those same types of people live in the same place and support the same things. Not only are Southerner's known to be racist, but they also are against a lot of groups that have been given or are trying to get rights in America, including women and gay rights. So what is that saying about our country? Our thoughts are almost completely divided in two,

My Goal

So our new assignment was to make a goal and report each week as to how well we are -or aren't- following through with it. I decided to make my goal to be a healthier person. Now I don't mean healthy as in I'm going to go on a silly diet, but I mean eat healthier, exercise, go to sleep earlier, do better in school, and just become a better, healthier version of myself. I started it yesterday and went to sleep at 8:00, which is a lot better then my usual routine if 12:30-1:00. I've also been trying to drink water instead of other drinks, and a lot of it.

Timeline

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/constitution-timeline--79/edit

10/24/12

Today in History we learned about different paintings of the American Revolution; who painted them, how they painted them, different lighting, structure, technique, and emphasis. The most common technique for the paintings was triangular composition, which made whom/whatever was the tip of the triangle superior to everything else. I thought how strange it was that some of the artists weren't even at the battle, some miles away. But some paintings weren't very accurate at all, more detailed by symbolism rather than actual facts of what the scene looked like. Some had different parts of the scene painted at the same time. It was interesting to learn about the background of the artists, too. Some were very involved with the revolution, others from different countries, trying to make a point to their country what it was all about.

Voicethread

http://voicethread.com/share/3585624/

10/19/12

Today in class we discussed our essays about if we agreed or disagreed whether we were in times men's souls were tried or not. Although some people had good counterexamples, I still stay strong to my opinion. We also saw some of the tactics Washington used during the war, using Christmas to help him attack the British, since they all were "supposed" to take the holiday off from the war. He also took advantage of a storm to escape Long Island to Manhatten, where they were able to escape towards Pennsylvania. I think Washington was smart with how he worked his army, say how a solider who runs away is able to fight another day.

History class

Last history class we wrote an essay about whether or not we are still in times where men's souls are tried, directed from a quote by Thomas Paine. I disagreed; I think that we are not being tried whatsoever, especially compared to people who were fighting in the revolution back in the late 1700's. Our times are nothing like theirs. I do agree that some people have it harder than others, but if you have the newest TV, phone, laptop, etc., then either you need to work on your spending or you just are complaining because you're doing quite fine. Also, they were fighting to get freedom. Now, with the war we're in, we may not like to admit it, but the only reason we're fighting is to get oil from foreign countries.

link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en_GB&v=Fxsw-Y4Xg18

10/10/12

Today we learned about the Battle of Bunker hill. It was the British vs. the Colonists in Boston. The British fought in a very formal way where they all were in certain lines and were supposed to shoot a certain way at a certain pace. The colonists, however, were using guerilla warfare tactics, where they'd be hiding anywhere possible and shot/attacked from their hiding spots and then would run away. But when the battle of bunker hill came, the colonists had an advantage. They were on the higher ground, so it was much harder for the British to shoot at them; it would either be too short of a shot, or they bullet would go over their heads. Either way they weren't able to really attack them. When it came down to it, the colonists were forced to retreat bunker hill because the British took over Breed's hill. But if you count up the deaths, and who lost the most amount of people, the British lost over twice as many people as the colonists. So what does that mean? Well I'd have to say the colonists were the real winners. They were able to kill about 1000 British soldiers with no sort of military tactics/training other then to follow a bit of a plan, while the British, having the "best army" and military training, supposedly know what they're doing and think they'll easily take care of the colonists.

10/3

Today in History we did an edcafe where we were given a sheet on a specific subject (mine being the Boston Tea Party). As a group we were to make a power point set up of it through drive on our gmail's. I like the concept but the drive was difficult to use; it was really slow and you had to constantly refresh it to get it to work... constantly as in there were times that if it took me too long to copy and paste my paragraph I had typed in word onto the slide I'd have to refresh it once or twice before it would work. Then I'd have to refresh it again to change the font size, etc. It was a bit too stressful but the idea I really liked. I think it would be easier if we had used a different powerpoint system and then everyone just e-mailed their paragraphs to one person instead and then that person could copy and paste it to the powerpoint. It'd be easier and faster to do.

Comic 2

http://stripgenerator.com/strip/684257/whitey-bulger/#share

Comic 1

http://stripgenerator.com/strip/684254/aerosmith/#share

History Class

Today in history we did a group discussion where each of us got a certain subject from the first amendment and had to explain why our certain subject was important. Mine was freedom of speech. I think it worked out really well. The first time was a little awkward because we really weren't sure what exactly to do and we felt that 8 minutes was too long of an amount of time, but by the last group it was basically the opposite, and we ended up not having enough time. I really got into the discussion and I liked doing it because it gave us the opportunity to talk about what we're learning. I think it worked really well though, and I'm glad to do it again. Almost everyone in the groups were talking and we all learned a lot from it, both researching it on our own and hearing what others had researched/had to say on their subject. It was a really great idea and worked very well.

History Timeline

Bill of Rights

Today in class we worked on the Bill of Rights and learned all the amendments. We did a worksheet on a group of people visiting a private Madonna performance, how the police handled it, and how each person had at least 2-3 amendments keeping them from going to jail and being able to sue. The Bill of Rights is a list of amendments which basically is a list of all the rights we have when it comes to the law. I think this system was working really well but the way things are today isn't the same as these amendments (FBI, CIA, etc. listening to phone conversations, going into people's internet, etc.). I don't think it's fair that they're able to just do as they please and look at what others are doing and saying (because we all know there are people in the FBI, CIA, etc. that abuse that power).

Dear Scott Brown,

Hello, my name is Brittany Gallant. I'm a sophomore at Triton Regional High School. I've done some research on the 2012 campaign for senate and I do give you credit on what you've stood for; abortion, health care, and tax cuts. These are all great accomplishments that have helped Massachusetts. But what have you done for the middle class? You may have said you'd like to help them, but how? The middle class being treated the way they are with taxes and what not is the biggest concern right now and should be a top priority. Almost, if not more then (depending on what you consider "middle class") 50% of the population is middle class. Most of our people are middle class, so why does the least percent (upper class) pay the least in taxes? Get the best benefits in healthcare and education? This shouldn't be going on anymore. The middle class is the glue to our country; it keeps us together. If I were you that would be at the top of my list of things to do. I'd make sure that the middle class got treated better than the upper class, because they're working harder, getting less pay, and paying more. Even the lower class gets better benefits. As for me, I'm growing up in a middle class family, and I know the struggle my parents face to pay taxes. My friend's parents as well. And then there are people that are more than well off, have no worry in the world, and get treated like royalty. Some of them their parents only work one job. They go on luxury vacations, get into great schools, etc. Which brings up another concern of mine. Why should people with more money get a better education? Do they deserve better than I? It's not fair; and I know "Life's not fair" and all, but come on. This is education we're talking about. That's something that we need to keep our country going. So why do I have to pay thousands to get a good education when my teacher went to the same school as one at a public school. It doesn't make sense and I think you should fix these things because they are very important. Thank you.


Brittany Gallant

Recently we've been working on the Constitution and the three branches. Learning about all this makes you realize how much thought and time was put into the Constitution. It wasn't easy to just come up with these laws and systems; there was a lot of debating and different ideas that had to be thought out before making it official. Each branch was made so that they interacted with one another. They made it so if a law was passed it'd take going through a lot of people to actually be a law, instead of having one or two people decide. It keeps our country from having so much conflict. The separation of powers is something that makes us strong and spread out (as in not just one branch has all the power). Although there are flaws in it, it wouldn't be humane if it was perfect.

Spreaker

http://www.spreaker.com/user/4863886/my_audio_presentation

9/18/12

Today in class we worked in groups on the branches that make up our country: judicial, executive, and legislative. The judicial branch is the supreme court, which is made up of federal judges. Executive is the president, vice president, and civilian & military employees. The legislative branch is congress- the senate & the house of representatives. We did a packet on identifying how each branch interacted with the other. 

In the past two days of school we have been learning about the Constitution; how it was made, who was there, how they decided what their choices, etc. Yesterday we got a sheet where we read actual notes taken during the meeting. My sheet was whether they should have proportional or equal representation. Each person gave their own reason as to which one they preferred, some even changing their minds. Then today, after being tested on the preamble, we worked with others to see what they're sheets read and what the people thought about; "1 house or 2 houses" and "whether the people should make the elections or not". Every persons opinion had a great support as to why they felt that way, which led us to learn about how together we were able to make the "Connecticut Compromise".

Civic Values

http://private.rewindy.com/story/pwlrVr2B/view/1

Three Artifacts to Describe Me

One artifact that would really describe me is a phone. I don't necessarily mean that I talk on the phone or am texting all the time, but I like to talk to other people and listen to what they have to say. Whether I'm gossiping (yes, I'll admit, I love listening to gossip!) or asking someone's opinion on something, I love to talk to people. Sometimes I do get into trouble for it, but I will admit, occasionally, it is something relative to school... sometimes!

Another artifact that would show my personality is an electric guitar. Not that I can play one, (I wish I could though) but because they're loud and different, and I love music. They stand out and are always heard (and of course listened to). To be specific, it wouldn't be just any electric guitar. It would be red (mostly because I have red hair, but also because red just pops), and shaped as if it's "flared" or there are flames on it.

A recycling bin is another artifact that would describe me. I'm not a total earth-loving-save-all-the-trees-vegetarian, but I do like making a difference to make the world a better, cleaner place. Whenever I think about what I want to be when I grow up, something relative to helping the environment always reaches my mind. Of course, so does becoming a billionaire pop star, but hey, a kid can dream. I do like to do small things that I know will be put to good use, and hope one day that I'll be able to make a bigger difference.