Katrina Part 2

When I saw those people fighting for the lives, like looting, and not having food, and the heat and the deep water.  In August the heat must have been terrible.  When I go to camp I have no electricy, no technology at my camp we live simply.  This summer it was 104+ for like three days straight it just wouldn't rain.  I wanted air conditing so badly I felt like I was going to died.  But now thinking that people were hot, hungry, and dieing.  They were fighting for there lives.  And I was at a really nice camp and I was not fighting for my life.

Also in the movie when there were big X's with fill ins on all four sides.  And that most didn't have any died people.  But when one person came back for his mom, there was a marking that they had been there.  But the doors were locked and the windows weren't broken.   So how could have they gotten in?  I felt so bad for him and the other people that had to find out that way.  They didn't really search the house.  They lied, I think that's the worst thing possible.  A better thing than lying is that they did or didn't search the house.  Also that people died in there own home.

It is remarkable how the government treated the problem of Katrina.  And that other country's were helping alot more than the own country that suffered from it.  Also that the anchor was interviewing someone who was in the government that said they didn't know about the 50,000 people on the streets and it was the 5th day.  Who would be that stupid from the government on national TV like that.  He should have told the truth.  Alot of people lied that were in the government and I think they could have solved it differently.  There are many different ways to solve one thing but they choice poorly.  Who can trust some one that lies to all the people that worked in the government?  I don't understand how the choices were poorly picked.

internet

I beleive that the internet as caused a lot of damage in history.  If one person posts something it can never be deleted.  As many times as some one presses history delete it can always be tracted.   The internet, as and will cause alot more damage.  People can look at things more easily and gets around quicker.

I think that a lot of the tuteroist things happened because the internet.  It is just a theory that is going around, but I believe it.  Nothing that big that distroded buildings in America as done before the internet.  And then after he posted a vedio on youtube and say Chicago was next.  Things get around fast, and people were nevorous.  Then 10 years later nothing happened.  It caused all that trouble for nothing.  Things back then wouldnt have happened how it happened in the 21st centery.

Also like Friday by Rebecca Black, it had over 133 million views.  It sounded terrible, but after she put it up it was up forever.  I felt bad for her but her vioce is terrible.  I am sure that she is a really nice girl though.  And that something bad had to happen for no reason.  Things get carried more easily people send links to each other and its all over the internet in a blink of an eye.

Any thing you want, you can search it up.  Sometimes it's a good thing to search anything you want but sometimes its not.  It has really shaped our time period.  I know that alot of peoeple would think they cant beleive people didnt have google and ect.  But I know how it feels, I go to camp so i understand how it feels not to have the computer or electricy.  When ever I think of our period I think of the internet and techology.

Katrina

I was really difficult to watch the Hurricane Katrina movie.  Even though I don't really remember it since I was in 2nd grade, I know it had caused so much deviation to the world.  Also that what they were hit was huge but was only a three.  They got missed by a 5 hurricane.  When they say they were missed I didn't really understand it till I as thinking about it.   They were lucky that they missed the 5 hurricane.  Even though what hit them was huge.   Also that city was around because of techogoly,  I wonder how people thought when the techogoly failed.  If people didnt have the wall there wouldnt be a town, but people have to learn from the mistakes of techogoly not everything is perfect.
I couldn't even possibility think about being on top of a roof for days in the sun.  For me, I would have like drown or like fainted from the heat.  What caused them to have hope.  If I was them I would be looking at all the negatives and the not positives.  Its difficult to look at the positives when things go really wrong.
Also that people didn't want to leave and some people were in there home or homeless in a big pile of water on the streets.  Why didn't they go to the SuperDome?  Wasn't it a evacuation, doesn't that mean they have to leave.  I would I felt in a heart beat.  But the people that stayed most have felt really attached and couldn't leave or thought it wasn't as bad.
When people in the movie were saying that there was helicopters but they didn't stop to help them when they probability could see them.  And how they thought they were going to help the White people first.  I think that's because of the USA history down in the south.  And that it really shaped the people that lived there.  But there was one group of helicoptors that really changed peoples life's to get them to a safer place.  I couldn't be one of the people in the helicopter and not help someone I would not be able to sleep at night, because those people could have died.

Objects

A few of the objects that hit me for the presentation was a rubix cube, a picture of a table, and toy,  Those objects aren't really used a lot during a common day in 2011 but these items that pretty much mean nothing to us.  Can represent big issues and they can express more than you can think.

The rubix cube is so difficult to fit together.  How many people do you know that can do that?  I only know two.  Its really difficult to fit the like cubes in color coloration on all six sides.  Like its really difficult to have a perfect world.  For the little countries during epoch three it was difficult to fit the rubix pieces together.   Even thought there are many ways to put the rubix cube together, you never know how to do it.  They are millions of different ways but, how did they know they were making a good choice?  They could have made things worse or they could have solved the problem.  In this case they were able to build the rubix cube back together with some practice over time.

There is a table at my Grandparents house that was made in the 1760's in French which really tells a little piece of what the culture and furniture was like.  I think that it was so interesting that they had it.  How did it end up there any way?   Its a beautiful colors of wood painted, but why did it end there? Why not a museum, wouldn't people want to kept it for there family?  I was wondering those things when i was looking at a table that is 250 years old.  Its difficult to answer questions from so many years ago, sometimes people don't have an answer and that may have happened in that case.

Also there is a toy that reparsents Nalopien.  The toy sits on top of the box because he was on top.  He was the one that made the good choices.  leaders are so important.  Community's strive with leaders, I believe that leaders are the key to things.  They are there to hold the fort down and they are there to make sure that nothing that bad happens.  With out leaders one and another wouldn't be able to have a wise conversation.  

Group Project and objects

I am working on epoch three.  We can up with several questions that tie into World War I, the French Revelation, the scientific Revelation and about if society's need things like leaders and if they have to advance.  Because when the society of the world evidences so does the rest.  Everything needs to grow, with out it it hurts at the end.  Like at my camp its small we live simiply no electricity, and when things happen out side the gate of camp like advances the camp as to change a little to kept up and running the camp.  Also if there isn't a leader in anything like if we didn't have Obama, who would be running our country and what would out country's problems could be right now?  I believe that every thing works better when there is a leader to guide people into the right path.  Some one needs to take a lead in action to do better or make the situation even worse.  Like even hundreds and thousands of years ago there were still leader like people who were in charge of empires and even Napoleon was a great leader.  He lead the people into a better place.  What if he had lead them into deeper troubles?


The objects I am bringing are pictures of old furniture from the French Revelation period the epoch the group I am are working on.  These are things from the Grandma and Grandpa's house that they collect.  One of the photo is of a table that was made a little before the French Revelation, around ten years before, but it really tells what the furniture looked like during that time period.  It is a desk that opens with beautiful wood work and painted over the wood.  And then I am also bringing in a photo of a old clock that was a little awhile after the Revelation, the clock has a compass as the arm to how it is read to read the time.  Also there are words around it and they are French were the numbers would go.  Finally there is a temperature at the bottom, its cool because most clocks don't have the finishing work on them.

Epoch 5

It's weird to look at history when you lived when that event happened.  Like the big ones like 9/11 and like the wars we are in today.  And now that I am old enough to understand what is happening now in the world today and a few years ago.  It's odd looking back in history when you lived in the time of the event, because most of the history we learn is from many years ago or from 1000's of years ago.   I always think that you learn what happens in history many years after the event happened.  And knowing that you lived at the time is strange.  That's what I was thinking most of the time when I was reading epoch five.

Also knowing of other events that happened at this epoch that gets left out because its not as big as others.  And people wont know that it happened without people at this epoch telling its story.  It's kind of us the people that live around the world that makes the history and tells the history to others.  We edit bits and pieces of history out all the time and not even thinking about it.  People in the next generation wont be able to know those things that got left behind.

When I think about this epoch I think about all the biggest things like the first thing that comes to mind is 9/11 and then the U.S.S.R fell.  But I think about 9/11 first because it is the most recent thing that was so powerful and that hit so many families.  Also because I lived in the United States when the twin towers fell down.  I am sure there are important events between the Soviet Union falling in 1991 to the twin towers falling down in 2001.  Like Rwanda and how 800,000 people died.  I don't think about that, and there must be a lot more people forgetting about it too.  Another huge thing was the Internet we live our lives with it every day.  And for me, I couldn't think of not having a cell phone or a computer.  But when I think of people around the world with none of that, and that a ton of people live without it.  It is amazing to see how a custom people have been getting to it.

Epoch 4

History is mostly studied, by the people from the generation after the event happened.  Like the people who lived when there was WWII they didn't study it.  It's the generation or two after it.  Some of the major ones from that time period really shaped what happened in history next.  Also what people lived in and damage one and another people did.  Which is the Holocaust, Cold War, and the rise of Bin Laden.

For the Holocaust almost every body that lived at that time period did something bad or the country they lived in damaged others.  Most of that happened from only one person, that really changed the world forever Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini from their disruptive miltary.  Also the Americans dropping two Atomic bombs that changed the furture and the way people see things.  Second, how the people viewed the world as a less safe place after the droppings.  I feel like this epoch wasn't a time were people were happy.  I wouldn't want to be alive at this time in history.  But I think it is amazing for people to say that they survived the Holocaust or that they fought for a country.  Also knowing that my family in Europe was crashed from the rise of Hitler and many of them died in the Holocaust.  I feel like something good happend that epoch too but when you look at the big piture all you can see is the nasty things that happened that epoch.

When Africa was trying to get better the people with a lot of more power put two ethnic groups that don't get along.  Why would they do that?  Also that happened after World War II, and wouldnt the people see the world different?  Third, they don't want there to be a World War III and if they were given a chance to make the world a better wouldn't they take that offer.  Why make something bad when you can make it better?  These questions came to mind when I was reading Epoch four.  I don't even know how to answer them but they are so important.  They drove what happened later on like Darfor and other things too.  These things that happened have shaped the world since the events.  People think that something small won't be carried with people like 30 years later but everything gets carried.  Something gets left out in history, when the next generation learns about it.  We tell history and that's why it's so important.

Epoch Two: Advancements

During around Epoch two there was a ton of advancements.  I was wondering why that time period there were so many advancements and not another period?

Around 1,000 AD there were crusades and they were trying to get the "Holy Land".  I thought that Israel become a place after the Holocaust, to get a safe place so that they can pray and people felt bad for them.  Second, they got that place because no one wanted that piece of land in the Middle East.  I have never understood it all.  Even though I am Jewish and have been learning it at Hebrew school for the last like eight years, I have just never got my head around that.  I know that there are buildings from thousands of years ago, from the anient Israel people but why is it so special.  Aren't they just getting back what they had?  Why do the Christians and the Islam's wanted it so much? And now a day in present time people in the Middle East want it still.  I think that is significant because thousands of years later people still want the same thing.  People always want something they don't have.   Even though it doesn't repeat itself it tells a similar story.

In the Advancement epoch period people were trading alot.  And there was a disease that was traveled around Europe and Asia.  The trading was really good, but with something great there is always something bad.  Which is known as the Black Plague.    The advancemetns in that time period are so amazing from such a long time ago like trading on the Silk Road, and being able to press that made education so much stronger.  But the devastation of what happened in the epoch is so large.  I am sure that more stuff happened in that epoch but got left out in history because it wasnt as big.  I think that it hit so many people because everything was going so well and out of no where there was a killing disease that was hurting so many people and families.  Also that it spread so fast.  That epoch there was so many advancemetns but the Black Plague had to happen in bad timing.  Everything in history has to come with high and lows that's probability why it's so significant and why people are carring the story.  Also with out people carring the story of history it will be forgotten in the matter of time.

Epoch of Origins

During the Epoch of Origins, many "origins" of lanugage, law, environmentalism, religion, and culture that we experience today were created.  A big development that occurred was start of Judaism, which is still a major world religion, among others that were created during this early time period also.  With this, the Hebrew language and the Torah, also known as the Old Testament of the Bible.  This is really important to me because I am Jewish.  And the Traditions that were started in this time period are similar the ones that my family still follows today, such as Shabbot prayers, celebrating Passover, And Rosh Hashnana and Yom Kippur.

Many parts of our society today can be traced back all the way to the Epoch of Origins.  I believe the most important of these events is the formation of democracy.  The ancient Greeks created the independent form of government and encouraged people to participate.   The system that we use in the United States of America is based on this epoch.  Also, the people in Mesopotamia developed agricultural methods (such as irrigation) that are still used in modern farming.  We continue to interact with environment to farm crops and animals.  Finally, the first set of written laws was created during this epoch.  Hammurabi's Code formed the basis for the written laws today. 

Even though they did not have the benefit of modern technology, things such as religion and language spread across large spaces of land. One way this happened was that the Jews were kicked out of Israel  and had to spread into other areas such as modern Africa and Europe.  Both their religion and language were carried with them.  On the other hand, the Greeks chose to conqueer foreign lands and spread important things such as language, art, and their philosophical beliefs to other cultures.

History and the Past

I believe that history has made such a big in-pack of what we know from  the past, thousands of years ago.     Even though each event is so different from one and the other.   There are so many events and the huge ones really shape that time period.   I think thats what makes history so unique and so interesting in everything that you learn is so different.   Every thing that happens changes everything, if something didn't happen the history wouldn't be the same.  Like if there was never the Holocaust the history we would be looking at today would be so different.  Nothing would be the same.  We use so many techinels things like phones and we don't even think about it.  In maybe 1000 years it will be history and that would have really shaped the time period we lived in.  History gives the past and I think that is so interesting and in other things you wouldn't find out about what happened so many years ago.