Planning !

For my research about cold war, I am planning on using internet web pages. The library is closed therefor i won't have access to books so my main resources will come from internet. The sites i am using are good ones because they have solid and valid information that no one can just access and change.

Doing a regular Google search will give me broad information whereas using "advanced search" will give me the precise websites to find my information. The advanced search will narrow down my website options just for what i've asked. Books and online encyclopedia's are more fiable than internet websites. This is so because the information is always true and accurate information. Internet websites might sometimes be false information and changed a lot of times.

To conclude, Advanced search and books and online encyclopedia's are the best for accurate and fiable research.

Soldier's Letter

Dear Mom & Dad,

It has been a while since I haven't written to you. We've been moving from one place to another without any time to relax and write. Winter finally arrived yet theres not much difference.

Our whole life here is basically inside the trenches. Its literally hell in Earth. They get all muddy and causes you to have fungus in your feet. This then leads to maybe an amputation which is the worst thing that can happen since you need both feet to fight ! Oh and furthermore, there are tons of rats that would just walk on top of you while sleeping. They would also bite pieces from dead corpse that were left unburried.

We've suffered pretty much from everything: bullet wounds, shortage of food and shelter comfort. Not only have we suffered from physical pain but also mental pain.

I've made many friends, but they don't last long. Each time we expose ourselves, one by one I see them die. Each day becomes slower then the last. My family and friends are the reason I'm still alive. I keep in mind that one day or another i'll see your faces again and this makes me want to fight and finally end it. I miss you so much it hurts !

Your beloved son, James

Identifying and Analyzing Alternatives

Why problem ?

A very common problem in a 'typical' teenagers life would be that parents don't give them enough freedom. Children demand a great amount of liberty but their parents won't allow it. They're excuse would often be that their parents never let them go out, so they follow their parents rules. These young teenagers just want to go out and have fun with their friends, but the parents however don't understand that. An alternative to this problem might be to have limits with compromises. Children may go out and have fun with their friends, but they should also come back early. This way, both parents and children will be happy.

Globalization .. What in the world is it ?!

DEFINITION: Globalization is the coming together for a worldwide environment(celestew84). No more boundaries are made.

Pros & Cons

Globalization has negative affects as well as positive ones. When talking positively, globalization helps in different aspects. By international trade, industrial products and manufactured goods increase rapidly. Also, corporation have a greater capacity to interact and work across borders. There is a more active and rapid speed to transport goods from one place to another. With globalization, there is likely a minimal percent of chance to start a war between two developed nations. Culture emerges between the nations and one can learn from the other. More jobs will be offered to unemployed people and this will increase the economy. This globalization has good points, yet it still has its negative points. Such as diseases and infections could propagate quickly within nations. An important con is that most people are starting to lose their cultures. By having interactions with other nations and learning about their cultures, some people forget about theirs. Another con is that some people are losing jobs and companies are decreasing because of the high profits. To finalize, globalization is in both ways good and bad.

Citation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization#Pro-globalization_.28globalism.29

http://www.darkseptemberrain.com/ideas/advantages.htm

http://answers.ask.com/Society/Other/what_is_globalization

Fashion Revolution

Dear Mr. Buffet,

We would like you to fund a project we are working on. We designers and associates have a master’s degree in fashion and are recognized by the world of fashion. Our StyleXchange Company came up with a concept that will make a change to the world of fashion. We have designed 3 in 1 shoes for your comfort. No need to change shoes more than twice per day, our shoe revolution offers fashionable tall boots, short boots and heals. They are perfectly practical and fit. We are here to satisfy you desires with comfy and stylish shoes. What we propose is tall boots that can be shortened into short boots or even heels (for women). This is feasible by the help of the velcrum base of these shoes. Once our StyleXchange shoes are thriving, we will expand our products throughout the world. With your help, we guarantee success within the world.

Thank-you,

StyleXchange Corporate

Hanane Benkirane & Shemsi Berrada

· b Name of Company:

StyleXchange

· Products of Company:

Tall boots, Short boots, heals. The tall boots can change from short boots

· H Horizontal Nature of the Company

We will start our company in Morocco. Then we will export them throughout the Mediterranean Sea. We will export our products to Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Paris, Leon, Rome and Lisbon. Since Paris is the capital of fashion and Milan the capital of shoes, we are hoping to have as how in fashion week in LA to futher expand our shoes in New York City and Beverly Hills. Also, we are looking forward to design a clothing line after our shoe success.

· V Vertical Nature of the Company

Our cloth will come from a high quality factory in Thailand because it’s cheap. The velcrum will come from China. We will assemble the shoes in Morocco, sold in morocco, then exported to international franchises.

· E Energy

We manufacture and put together all our products in Morocco, Casablanca. Before doing so our products are imported from Thailand and China.

· R Raw Materials-Resources

Velcrum, wood, leather, and further cloths.

· M Labor

First, my associate and I are qualified designers with a master degree in fashion. We will design these shoes and send the sketches to our company in Morocco. Our 500 workers are paid 20 DHs the hour and we cover most of their insurance. We also provide transport. Most of Moroccan laborers do not have insurance or transport so our payment plan satisfies the laborers. By working eight hours per day, they will earn 190 DHs per day. It is fair for them. We have contracts with each laborer. These contracts satisfy our needs as they satisfy’s their

· G Government and Regulations

We will need their authorization to create our company and import our cloths, and make it public within the stocks. Additionally, when our StyleXchange revolutionary 3 in 1 shoes will be successful and people will ask more, we will export our final products further in the Mediterranean regions.

· P Profits

In certain regions around the Mediterranean Sea, the weather isn’t stable. It can change rapidly throughout the day. It has become an unpleasant task to the residents of those regions who always have to change shoes more than twice per day. A lot of them are complaining so our StyleXchange Company is going to make their lives easier by making 3 in 1 shoes. We are going to make our profit from those people willing to buy them and from the local brand and international franchises that are eager to invest in our shoes. We will distribute our shoes to them. When our shoes are successful, we will export them and have brands installed all over the Mediterranean. Our shoes will cost 170 $. This pair of shoes is equivalent to three pairs of shoes but its prince is equivalent to two pairs. We will also invest in the stocks, to have more profit.

Now that we are millionaires ...

Now that I'm a millionaire and that i've acquired all the money I need, I can start helping others. First I would create a small enterprise for the unwealthy people. I would import and export the same shoes as in my StyleXchange company but with different quality and price. It would be the same concept but diferrent texture and price. In this enterprise, I will have shops in different regions where any unwealthy people could go and buy cheap but practical pair of shoes. By doing so, I will help the inhabitants who doesn't own much to buy much.

Morocco's development

Morocco has greatly developed during these years.

In transportation; Tramways and TGV's are to be added in these next years

Tourism; With the recent Mazagan Beach resort, Morocco attracted more people and moroever more celebrities coming to promot these hotels. Such as the residence in Marrakech with the Desperate Houswives and in the Mazagan Beach with Lindsay Lohan.

Socratic Seminar

To be honest, that day of Socratic Seminar wasn't our classes best one. Good points were made but with the noise behaviour in class I couldn't really focus although i've found one point interesting and that I see in the present life. Money is not very hard to get however to earn it it is. People choose the easiest way which is either selling drugs or stealing. A person came up with a good example of getting money without earning it and that is by tipping a policeman when he catches you making a mistake. These policeman earn half of their money by actually working and the other half is by getting paid by others to let them go.

Not a lot of people participated but the majority of the class did participate sometime and then talked and then participated again. It was an ongoing on and off of focusing on the work that was supposed to be done.

Lebanon Plane Crash

An airplane Boeing 737-800 carrying 90 passengers and crew crashed off the coast of Lebanon on Monday. This airplane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about some 4 minutes from taking off of the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. During those 4 minutes interval, the pilot lost contact for an unknown reason and moreover there was a terrible weather. As the airplane was taking off, it crashed down about 3.5 kilometers away from a village called Na'ameh. Right after the crash, about 28 bodies were found leaving 62 more others to search. With the naval army still searching, no sign of survivors appeared.

Successes & Failures of Reconstruction

Successes

-The union got back together and they formed a group like they used to be .

- African Americas finally got their freedom, and with freedom comes education so they were able to become literate.

- Freedmen's Bureau helped the African Americans to get housing, education and jobs which was a great advantage for them to start a new life.

Failures

- Although Reconstruction ended, Souths industries were still slowly going.

- African Americans were still treated unequally in both North and South and racism remains until today.

- Even though Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans, some still remained in poverty

DEFINE

JOHNSON'S RECONSTRUCTION PLAN

This was made by Andrew Johnson and following up with Lincoln's Recondtruction Plan. It was

similar to Lincoln's plan only this one hasn't the 10 percent of voters in the state plan part 3.

BLACK CODED

These were laws that restricted freedmen's rights. They established laws for slavery such as 

Curfews- Generally black people could not get together after sunset.

Vagrancy laws- Freedmen convicted of vagrancy could be fined, whipped or sold.

Labor contracts- Freedmen had to sign agreements in January for a year of work.

Land restrictions- Freed people could rent land of homes only in rural areas. 

14TH & 15TH AMENDMENT

14th amendment stated that all people would be equal and the protection of laws. 15th

amendment stated that all citizens had the right to vote.

RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

This was a group of people who didn't accept the Black codes and thought that they were too

cruel and sever for the blacks. They tried to prevent the expansion of the black codes.

CARPETBAGGER

This was the insulting nickname given to the Northern Republicans by the Southerners. They

were called such because they moved to the South after the Civil War ended.

SCALAWAGs

This was the nickname given to the White Southerner Republicans who would be seen as

traitors.

NEWSPAPER

TIMES NEWS PAPER

Civil War Focus

The Civil War was over and the soldiers were finally happy to join their families. Yet, arriving to their homes, the soldier's delight became sorrow and grief by seing all houses destroyed. The cause of their war was defeated and their homes were ruined. These losses caused atroce damages in the soldiers mind. Some might become mentally disabled while others might even suicide since what they lived for was dried away. Most soldiers would be confronted with traumatizing pictures in their heads of their co-soldiers murdered with blood all over their bodies. They would make dreadful nightmares and would be frightened by anything. Most of all, almost all would come back to nothing. They went fighting with the thought of coming back to their families in peace, but almost all came back to no one and nothing. Not only would they have lost families and homes but also jobs and livestocks. The war destroyed railroads, farm buildings, shipping industries, factories etc. On the other hand, some 4 million African American were freed. They were starting their new lives yet not so good as they thought. When being slaves, they were given food and shelter, however in this new life they found themselves homless, jobless and hungry. Each chose theyr'e own pathways either going and searching for new jobs or returning to their former masters and work on plantation freely. In the real world, former President Abrahim Lincoln sought a reconstruction plan. Altough the Civil War ended, there were still some oppositions. Such as a group of congressmen opposing to Lincoln's reconstruction plan. On April 14th, 1865, Abrahim Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth. This led to Andrew Johnson becoming President and continuing the Johnson's Reconstruction Plan. It consisted of 4 things to do:

1. Forgive Southerners. 

2. Permitted each state to hole a constitutional convention. 

3. States were required to void succesion, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt.

4. States could then hold elections and rejoin the Union.

Lincoln's plan and Johnson's plan both consisted of forgiving the South and that states were able to hold elections and rejoin the Union.

This finalizes our Newspaper about the Civil War. Hopefully life will get better and the futur will be better than the past. 

Thank you for reading us, Best Regards Hanane Benkirane for Times News Paper. 

South vs. North Advantages

SOUTH

Southerners had lots of fertile land which made it easier to grow crops. Yet, all of this was worked by the slaves, therefore the Southerners didn't have much work to do. They also had a lot of military colleges. This is a great advantage because they were more trained than the Northerners. They also exported cotton to most countries thus adding to their economic advantage. Finally, the last advantage was that the civil war was fought in the South so they didn't have to waste energy traveling to fight.

NORTH

Northerners had more factories and industries which added to their economic growth. Most of them worked in factories which developed the production faster. They also had more military devices such as guns. Population also grew because there were more jobs offered to them therefore they would seize the opportunity and that added to its growth. With more people, the army grew bigger, which led more power to the North. 

Important Event of The Civil War

COMPROMISE OF 1850, and THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

30 years after the Missouri Compromise, another matter came up again. After the war with Mexico, US had acquired a vast territory which questioned to be enslaved or free. California, on the other hand has petitioned Congress to enter as a free state. Finally came Washington D.C, which allowed slavery and eventually had the largest slave market in North America. 

On January 29, 1850, memebers of Congress debated the compromise. After eight months they've come up with Territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Utah would be recognized as nonslavery. Washington would be abolished in the District of Columbia, although slavery would still be permitted. California would be addmitted as a free state. This brought the compromise of 1850 which included the Fugitive Slave Act. This stated that fugitives didn't have the right to go to trial and had to assist slaves. 

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

This act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. However, this lead to violence when people started to disagree and had pro-slavery and anti-slavery. President Franklin Pierce stoped this violence and once again pro-slavery won the the election with fraud. As a result, Kansas was not allowed to become a state.

ELECTION OF 1860

Slavery became a huge issue in the United States. Abrahim Lincoln was definitely against slavery. So, to protect the country, he tried running for presidenty. At first he failed, but after the second attempt he succeded and became the President of the United States of America in 1860. However this added more to the tensions between the North and South. This event is important because it led to the Civil War. By the help of Abrahim Lincoln, slaves were freed. 

Notes on the Movies

SLAVE RESISTANCE

The slaves used to work in fields. They were kidnapped from young age and sold to the slave markets for farmers. In 1831, Nat Turner was a literate slave. He led 30 slaves on a murderouse compagne and rebelled against 60 white people and murdered them each in their farms. The slaves had no weapons but stole some each time they were in farms. At the end of this murder, Nat Turner was hung and died. Slaves were meant to be unliterate and write because then they would learn that they have rights to freedom and would lead to rebellion. Hariette Tubman, a women who believed slaves should have freedom helped 300 slaves escape. Many southern governers and senate were helping slaves and were against helding them.

Barack Obama in China

The President Barack Obama meets with chineese leaders in Beijing. He's spoke with college students in Shangai about emphasizing on the importance of freedom of information. He then met with China's president, Hu Jinatao, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and discussed the importance of U.S.-China cooperation in tackling global challenges. Afterwards, Mr. Obama and other chinesse leaders then discuss climate change, trade, North Korea and Iran. 

Source-> http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-16-voa12.cfm

Morocco is home :) !

When I finish my university years, I am most likely to come back to my hometown Casablanca, Morocco. Using ESPRAT+G, I will discuss the reasons why. 

I would come back to Casablanca and start my own buisness enterprise of interior design. Since my dad own his own architerture enterprise, I would work with him. He would build the houses and I would design their interior. By the help of my father, I will then grow and build my own buisness and start my life independently. In Morocco, I have all my friends and family. I wouldn't be looking for other people to become friends with since I already have mine here in my place. As for Religion, this is an islamic country. However, people are free to believe in whoever they want. No one judges you on what your beliefs are. Technologicaly, Morocco receives all the new updates of every technical device. It lacks of nothing. Geographically, it is well situated. Casablanca is both hot and cold in the time being. It is nor too cold nor too hot, its in the middle. Therefore no worries about the climate.

Finally to resume, when I finish my university year I will come back to my hometown and hopefully start a new life of grownups.

No compromise situations .. !

In an adult/teenage life, a compromise may not be a solution. As in the situation of an arranged marriage. The girl/women wouldn't want to get married with someone she doesn't know and doesn't want. However her parents are forcing her to do so maybe for money problems or other reasons. The girl/women absolutley will not agree and the parents will definitely not step aside. Therefore there is no compromise because none of them would arrange an agreement that would satisfy both of them. 

In a moroccan political situation, there would be no compromise in changing the King. He should always be the son of the previous King. There is no agreement that could be made so that another King would replace the real one for so and so reasons. Therefore there is no compromise in this situation.

Reading Questions

1) Describe the debate over the nature of government. Compare the viewpoints of

Jefferson vs Hamilton.

- Hamilton had little faith in people. He believed that the government should be more active in directing American economy.

Whereas Jefferson had more faith in people than he had on the government. 

2)What is a political party?

- Political party is a group of people who look after winning elections and hold public offices in order to control the government policies and programs. 

3) Describe John Adams presidency. What were some of the difficulties he faced?

- John Adams lacked prestige. He had difficulties in trying to govern a youg country in which party differences were becoming larger and larger. He also faced the threat of war with France. Adams had failed to not evoke his critics and he angered many of his supporters.

4) Outline the key events of Jeffersonʼs presidency.

- Jefferson's first reduced the influence of the government over American lives by reducing taxes. After the case of Marbury vs. Madison, Jefferson opposed the development of a strong central government. He then bought Louisiana from France which increased both the size and the national debt of the United States. Jefferson at last convinced the Congress to pass the Embargo act which outlawed almost all trade with foreign countries. 

My Mind Map !

This is the website that leads to my mindmeister about George Washington !

Feel free to visit it anytime and I hope you enjoy it !

http://www.mindmeister.com/31406343/hanane-george-washington

Arrestation for Online Fraude Crackdown

On wednesday, the F.B.I arrested 53 people for fraude based on phishing which means to trick people by convincing them to give you their password and other information. The arests took place in Southern California, Nevada and North Carolina. F.B.I in Egypt also arrested 47 people for the same fraude. An indictment accuses the defendants to of tricking and convincing people through Internet into giving up their bank account information. These criminals have stolen about $2 million between early in year 2007 until past last month. These scams would target victims that have bank acounts in Bank of America and Wells Fargo, two of the largest national banks. The procedure was that the victims would recieve and email in which they clicked and it send them to a fake web site. It was designed to look identical to the real banking sites and they were asked to reveal their personal information as for passwords and bank acount numbers. The person in charge of all this operation was Joseph Lucas, 25. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/internet/08phish.html?ref=business