Kennedy Conspiracy

Many people believe that the assassination of John F Kennedy was a conspiracy. however, i do not buy into the whole conspiracy theory and believe that it was just a crazy act by one man. i do not think it was a conspiracy because there is clear evidence against it every being a Mafia or other operation. all the evidence in the crime can all relate to Lee Harvey Oswald and no one has that much evidence on them and is "innocent." Finally, mostly all conspiracy theory's out there have been overturned. however, most people still do not know the answers to the bullet conspiracy. Also, people feel like Lee Harvey Oswald's death was a cover up and no questions and answers were ask to Oswald about the assassination. Even though most conspiracy theory's have been discredited, just about 75 percent of Americans by into the whole conspiracy theory.

Cold War and Butter Battle Book

the cold War and Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book have similarities and differences. one similarity is the idea of an arms race. in the Butter Battle Book one side tries to make weapons to keep the other sides away. although by the time the first side created their weapons, the other side d the same thing. this compares to the cold war because the united states and the soviets were fighting and creating different weapons such as the hydrogen bomb and ICBMs. another similarity is the wall that separated the two sides in the Butter Battle Book. this represents the Iron Curtain that symbolically divided the Soviets from the rest of the world. one difference is that in the Cold War, the Americans were paranoid about having traitors on their side. in the butter battle book neither side was paranoid about traitors.
i feel that Dr. Seuss' message was that the Cold War was just a match between two sides trying to out do each other. also, he feels that there were traitors and spies on the sides of the Americans.

"The Sources of Soviet Conduct"

The article was posted in the journal called Foreign Affairs by George Kennan. He talks about the U.S. policy of containing the Soviets. He also says that this act of containment is not a threatening action towards the Soviets, but just an act needed to be taken by the U.S. Kennan feels that the Soviets and U.S. will not be on the same page and neither accepts the polices that the other has. Kennan states that the Soviets are that of lessser strength but still feels this policy of containment will last a long time.

The A-Bomb

Even though the after math of the event was so tragic, I feel the U.S. was justified to take drastic measures. The U.S. gave clear warning to the Japanese to surrender their army before many more lives needed to be taken; Japan refused. At this time Japan was on the losing side of fighting so surrendering would have been a reasonable choice. On the other hand, other steps could have been taken by the U.S. that wouls have been more humain. For example, the U.S. could have set up a blockade or tried more elusive ways to negoitate a treaty. In the end, people can point fingers at both side but the U.S. had an ultimatum and they had to choice.

Life in the 1940's

Daily life for an American was tough during the 1940's. With the draft in effect, many people had familiy members and friends shipped to war. Almost all Americans were affected by the war and many had to relocate and take military based jobs. These jobs included working on the bases or in military production factories. Everyone followed war news on the radio because it was the most important thing in their lives. i could not live during the 1940's with the draft in effect. Life would be hard because i would be in an unfamiliar element, fighting a war i would not want to be apart of.

Boston Depression 2009

Drake Benett, writer of the article Boston Depression 2009, says that a depression today would not compare to the last one. Even though people think they know what a depression would look like, they have no idea. Benett says that their would not be massive lines of people trying to get food, rather trying to get healthcare benefits. He says this because food was more expensive in the 1930's and most of people's money today is spent on health care. I like his ideas on how a depression now would not impact Americans as deeply as it did in the past with all the technological and ecnomic advances. Benett feels that many people will just be at home all day watching re-runs of there favorite television shows until the depression is over.

A TRUE PATRIOT

In the time of war, Americans can feel the freedom to give up their liberties in order to better the country. This does not mean that our liberties should be forced from us. We, as Americans. should always have our civil liberties and be able to use them whenever. Civil liberties are rights that protect individuals from the government. The government has no right to take away a persons freedom of speech or another rights just to better the country. The government should know that if a person wants to help the country they would be willing to give up there civil liberties. However forcing someones liberties from them could negatively effect society and not help during war time.