Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon can be considered a good and bad president depending on how you look at him and the situations he was put in. I think Nixon was a good president. I think this because he campaigned under the idea of law and order. Although many Americans at the time would not admit it after the hippie movement, they wanted law and order. Americans wanted a stable environment and Nixon promised to give this to them. Also, Nixon didn't focus too much on civil rights. This could be viewed as a negative aspect of his presidency, but by not involving himself in civil rights he was able to devote more of his time and energy into more important things that benefitted the entire country instead of just a specific group of people. One of the most important positive aspects though of Richard Nixon was his willingness to call Chine by name and open up a new door of trade and relations with China for the first time ever in the United States. All in all, yes, Nixon has some drawbacks, but he was ultimately a beneficial president of the United States

ERA

I do support the ERA. I believe that woman deserve to be in the constitution with equal right just like men. Although in society today men still believe they are the stronger sex and that women don't belong at work and should "stay in the kitchen making sandwiches", women are just as equal as men and it should state that in the constitution today. I think it should be revived. It's a disgrace that women are still not included in being equal and in todays day in age us women should be included in being equal to men because we are.

Is it fair/justifiable to destroy cities/civilizations during a time of war?

I do not think that it is fair or justifiable to destroy cities and civilizations during a time of war. I think that cities get bombed, and are ruined it is affecting the innocent people that had no part of the war to begin with. Countries need to figure out new ways of solving problems instead of ruining cities and civilizations. It is not fair because most of the country's citizens probably do not want to go into war to begin with, so putting them in a state of shock, and ruining their cities and everything with bombs is just not fair whatsoever. It is not fair to ruin the lives of people who didn't want to go to war to begin with.

Pg. 750 #6:

10 Questions to ask a young man living during The Great Depression:

1. Were you one of the many people who invested their entire life savings into the stock market in the 1920s?
2. Did the stock market crash of 1929 have an affect on you and your money?
3. Are you stable financially, or is your family struggling like so many others?
4. Did you get laid off or receive a pay cut due to the depression going on?
5. If you were laid off, how is your family dealing with this tragedy?
6. Are you able to find more work anywhere where you live?
7. Do you have to go to other cities to find work and make money?
8. Is your wife working now too to try to make some extra money, or are you the main provider for the family still?
9. How has the depression directly affected you?
10. Has this depression had an impact on your children? for example are they still in school, or did they have to be removed because of the cost?

Homer Simpson versus the 18th Amendment:

Part 1. 
In the episode of the Simpsons "Homer Simpson versus the 18th Amendment", I think the producers did a good job accurately portrayed many elements of the 1920s. Many of the accuracies they included within the episode outweighed the fictional comedy. Some of these accuracies included prohibition started because of drunkenness, fighting, and violence. This was in the episode, it showed drunkenness and violence. Also speakeasies were a major part of the 1920s so that people could illegally drink. These were also in the episode as the former bar. Cops in the episode were shown breaking the law, and illegally drinking in speakeasies. This is another accurate point from the 1920s because in the 1920s, many police officers broke the law and drank as well. In the 1920s, many people found other ways of obtaining alcohol such as making their own, or buying it illegally. This was accurately portrayed in the episode because Homer was making his own alcohol and selling it. In the 1920s this resulted in a rise in organized crime. Some of the fictional aspects however that were not accurate and there for the sole purpose of comedy were the digging up of the beer at the dump, smuggling beer in bowling balls for bars, and being punished by catapult if one was caught breaking the law and drinking illegally. I personally enjoyed this episode because it was very comical with accurate facts from the 1920s, so it related perfectly to what we are studying.
Part 2.
Based on what we have studied in class, the scene where the police force and the governor and everyone in town catapult the people who have disobeyed the law against alcohol proves to be extremely inaccurate. I understand this scene was put in the episode for comedy purposes, however, I would change it to be more accurate. Instead of having the people who were caught with alcohol catapulted out of town, I would have stuck to the facts. People who were caught drinking or selling alcohol illegally during the time of prohibition were often put into jail. So I would have put the people who were caught with illegal alcohol in the episode in jail instead of using the catapult (although it was pretty funny).

I do not think that the American government should take away civil liberties in times of war. Forcing Americans to do things like enlist in the army during wartime takes away certain rights that United States citizens pride themselves in having. If you force Americans to join the war, or take away other civil liberties, you defeat the purpose of being a free country.

New York Post

February 16, 1898

USS MAINE EXPLOSION!

SPAIN TO BLAME!

9:40 last night. Spain launched a vicious attack on the U.S.S Maine, a ship anchored in Havana Harbor. Spain is believed to have put bombs in and around the ship yesterday morning, causing it to explode. 1,000 were killed in this attack. Spain admitted to being responsible for this, and not stopping until they have taken down the United States. Actual words from Spanish people included, "We are the better country! We have to take down the United States before they become too powerful!" There's no option now, we have no choice, before more people get hurt, we must go to war!