Hw#4

1. 2 effects that affected China was Peoplee started getting addicted to drugs and they started rebelling against them.
2. The chinese emperor lost his country because they were defeated in the war.
3.The British people took their trading ports. They had control over sice they won. They aldo made the chinese people sign two treaties.
4.The open door policy was recognized as the Berlin Conference. A lot of Imperial forces had acess to China.

Current events

This article is about China having a missile that can reach up to the American northwest. China is getting more power with it's new warfare technology. But America is keeping close eye at China. China's missiles are mobile. They can be launched by a truck. Not only that, they have a inflight capicity. That gives the air force a much longer range. China might even retake Taiwan in a war.

After the opium wars in China, They were weak. They were controlled by British. They were forced to the treaty of Nanking and Treaty of Tianjin. It included provisions for the opening of traditional ports to unrestricted foreign trades. Chinese Dynasty was put to an end. They were defeated badly.

But now China has gotten better warfare technology. They have weapons that have nuclear power. They're investing lots of money in war equipment. The population of the people in china may be poor but their army are getting stronger. They aren'y addicted to drugs but a country like Mexico is. It seems that China is rising

Hw#1

1.Sepoy: They are Indian soldiers
2.Jewel in the crown: the most valuable of all british colonies.
3.Sepoy mutiny: It's when they captured the city of Delhi.
4.Raj: The british rule over India.
2.Cause Effect
1.Decline of the The Indians started a rebellion
Mughal Empire
2.Colonial policies They started protesting
3.Seproy Mutiny They started capturing cities and attacking.

3.It made India rebel against the british. Just like the other countries that had imperialism.

Congress of berlin: This was a meeting of European great powers.
Partition of Africa: The cause of most of Africa's borders today.
Scramble for Africa: It was a process of invasion, attack, occupation, and annexation of African territory by European powers.

Title:Mexican Drug Trafficking
Author:
Date of the article: October 21 2010
website:Nytimes
This topic is about a war with well financed drug cartels. The mexican goverment sent 10,000 soldiers and federal police to take them on. All of the drug gangs fought for domain and territory. It has also strained relations with America to. A lot of marijuanna and weapond have been smuggled in. American security officers know that it could be a threat to national security. More federal polic are securing the border.

Hw#20

1.Laissez faire: the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference.
Adam smith: He defended the idea of free economy, or free market.
Capitilism:an ecomonic system in which money id transvested in business ventures.
utilitartianism:judge ideas, institutions, and actions based on their utility.
socialism:the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all.
Karl Marx: He introduced the radical socialism of Marxism.
Comunism: a form of complete socialism that is owned by people.
union:collective bargaining.
collective bargaining:negotisnts between workers and their employers.
strike: to hit

2.Capitalism:it is inested in business ventures.
both: both of them have to do with money.
Marxism: it argued about bad conditions for poor workers.
3.The main problems were that the union did not want to replace the skilled workrers. They weren"t helping the poor workrers a lot. But then the unions shared goals of making safe conditions and raising wages.
4.i think it is very important because economy is money. If it goes down it's bad. It has to be ina good level.

Hw #19

1.Industrial revolution: the increased output of machine -made goods.
Enclosure: larger fields.
crop rotation: best developments of the scientists farmer.
Industriliziation:The process of developing machines.
factors of production:sources needed to produce goods.
factory: A place that makes stuff.
entrepreneur: a person who organizes,man ages, takes on the risk n business.

Kevin Calle

Shipments from Yemen touch off global terror alert.
Author: Scott Shane
Date of the article: October 29 2010
The New York times
This topic is about a plane that landed with explosives. The plane came from Yemen and headed to the U.S. Obama made a speech about how this could've been a major threat to the U.S and now the plice and every other justice force are remaining alert. Trucks and other stuff were inspected for more bombs but none have been found. I chose this story because it's warning us to stay alert.

hw#18

Hw#17 Kevin Calle

1. Religion and music
2.Nationality

1. 1859-1860
2. They lost Sardinia.

1.Prussia had more territory.
2.1871

Hw# 16

1. Peninsulares: A island that is surrounded by water.
4. I agree. Spain doesn't have the right to rule other countries. Everyone has the right for freedom. It's not fair and everyone has their own rights and choices.

Hw # 15 Kevin Calle

1. Simon Bolivar accomplished of winning independece for a lot of spanish countries.
2. He was famous for winning freedom for a lot of countries.
3. He workde for france.
4. He fought for italy and other europe countries.
5.Italy, Venezelua, Spain, Columbia, france

Hw#11

Right now in the present, there are still poor people and rich people. Poor people right now are usually the homeless people. But some people are poor but they live in a house. They can get paid low money and live in apartments. That's how they look like. Their not poor but not rich either. Rich people have lots of money. They get paid more and can afford mostly everything. That's how they look like right now.

Hw#11

October 5 2010 Kevin Calle

It explains in detail the facts about them with pictures and graphs because it's easier to understand. The color of each character tells which one is the nobility etc.
2.The secon is more poerful than the third.

Hw#9 Kevin Calle

Title: Man gets life for killing South L.A liquor store owner
Author:The associated press
Link:Crime
website:Daily news

A man who killed a liqour store owner was sentenced to life in prison. He was killed in the year 2005. He was choked, beaten, and burned with bleach. This all happened in Los Angeles. Stewart had also been charged with other bad stuff.

Hw#5

Title:Gunman who shot doctor is dead
Author:Liz Robbins
Date:September 16 2010
Website:www.nytimes.com
Link:U.S
This article is about a gunman that shot a doctor but has died at the same time. This shooting occured at a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Police say that he died of a self-inflicted wound.
Nobody knows why he did it. A person that was in the same room also died from a gun shot wound. The possible are investigating if it was a possible murder suicide. The police man couldn't decide if the person that died had any relationship with the gunman. There were reports that the gunman was with a family member. The doctor has been sent to the emergency to recover.

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