War huh? What is it good for!?!

I'll say right off the bat war is never the solution to any problem in life. I think leaders use it to get there way and prove their point to the enemy. Why can't people just talk it out and if that doesn't work, just bring in a mediator. Their isn't a big enough problem in the world that can't be solved by compromising. I think Its our hot headed leaders who just want to get their way and do anything in their power to do so. Why can't we all just be peaceful and love one another like john, bob, and Ghandi did. So I say no, war is never the way. PEACE!

Nick's Unit 5 Descriptive Logs

Heliocentric Theory
1. the sun is the center of the universe
2. Copernicus presented a full mathematical model of the theory
3. became the center of major religious dispute
4. states some or all of the planets revolve around the sun
5. Nicolaus Copernicus was the person who thought of this theory
Galileo
1. he was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
2. played a major role in the scientific revolution
3. improved the telescope
4. he supported Copernicus
5. studied accelerated motion
Enlightenment
1. 18th century movement in European and American philosophy
2. emphasized the use of reason and experience
3. movement of intellectual liberation
4. had major influence on Bill of Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
5. influenced socialism and anarchism
Absolute Monarch
1. monarchical form of government
2. has power to rule his or her land or country and its citizens freely
3. has some laws or legally-organized direct opposition in force
4. has power over aristocracy and clergy
5. some have powerless or symbolic parliaments
Louis XIV
1. ruled as King of France and of Navarre
2. acceded the throne in 1643
3. remained on the throne until his death in 1715
4. acceded the throne a few months after his 5th birthday
5. he reign spanned 72 years
French Revolution
1. 1789 - 1799
2. a period of political and social unheaval in political history of France and Europe
3. absolute monarchy underwent many changes based on Enlightenment principles
4. the changes resulted in violent turmoil
5. Napoleonic wars resulted in the revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte
1. a french military and political leader
2. had significant impact on modern European history
3. he was a general during the French Revolution
4. Mediator of the Swiss Confederation
5. Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine
Industrial Revolution
1. period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
2. agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation had effect on socioeconomic
3. had effect on cultural conditions in Britain as well
4. spread throughout Europe and North America
5. eventually spread throughout the world
Adam Smith
1. a Scottish moral philosopher
2. a pioneering political economist
3. wrote two treatises
4. his work helped create the modern academic discipline of economics
5. one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism and libertarianism
Karl Marx
1. 19th century philosopher, political economist and revolutionary
2. addressed a wide range of political and social issues
3. famous for his analysis of history
4. believed capitalism will be displaced by communism
5. he was a scholar and a political activist
Imperialism
1. forceful extension of a nation's authority
2. territorial conquest establishing economic and political domination
3. control of one or more countries by a dominant nation
4. policy of systematic domination by one country to another country
5. indicates a degree of dependence in the subordinate
Nationalism1. refers to doctrine or political movement
2. has the right to constitute an independent or autonomous political community
3. usually defined in terms of ethnicity or culture
4. devoting the the interests or culture of one's nation
5. belief that nations will benefit from acting independently

All Shook Up!

The landscape of America was changed drastically by the colonization of the Americas. The reason the landscape changed so dramatically is because the natives used the land differently than Europeans did. When the Spanish and the English came in they started to cut down trees and build establishments. The Natives needed the land and everything that goes with it to live their daily lives and stay alive, so they worshipped it. Then these arrogant white men come in and start to destroy what they love and worship the most. They enslaved the Natives, but when Native population dropped too low to fulfill the Europeans labor needs they turned to Africa for slaves. These rich white men that came out of nowhere came and messed a lot of people's lives up. In all these events that happened the Old World only changed a tad bit; they got new food, slaves, and tobacco. The New World, on the other hand, was as messed up as could be. People got separated from their families, war, violence, rape, racism, and the white man rules everything became the way of life. The landscape and the people were all thrown around too much and taken for granted by the white man!

May I Explore the world

Dear your Highness
I wish to embark on a most terrifc jounrey my lord. With your permission and supplies, I would like to leave port in the year of 1534 if possible. My name is Mr. Cartier, and I have been a explorer my whole life. I love to find new places and people, and I would also love finding you business, supplies, and new converts to Christianity. I would like for my voyage to take place mainly on the eastcoast of North America. With my findings I will give you all the glory, gold, and all the love God put in my heart to thank you for letting me lead the journey across the ocean. I will be bringing two advanced pieces of technology with me to ensure my journey is successful. First is the compass; it will tell us if we are going in the right direction or not. Secondly I will need you to give me a caravel sail boat to get me from one place to the other. I can not assure anything your highness, but I will do my best, and please trust me if you will. Thank you for your time, and please send back whenever you decide.

From Mr. Cartier
1535

I'm a spaceman

You have to look at the details of this question before you try to answer it. If I was already a astronaut, I think I could build up the courage do it, but if I was some random Joe with a regular job, I wouldn't. I would take it as a very big risk in my life as everyone else would, but I would still see it as a big adventure. In space you would learn about and see different things that no one has ever encountered before. It's a whole new world out there and you are finding it out first hand what it's like. If I didn't accept the job, then all I would be doing is sitting at home watching the news and feeling dumb because I didn't go. Although there is one thing that would probably make me go if I was really scared, the chance of being in the history books. You could discover good and bad things there but the good always levels out with the bad.

good old johann gutenberg vs. the mighty computer

Although Johann Gutenberg's invention was so spectacular and changed the world, his invention has no chance against the computer, nor should it have a chance. I think what he did started everything good intelligence wise anyway. Thank god that the Renaissance did happen, or we would all be dumb as rocks at this point as we were when we started. That's all beside the point of course because we are talking about computers and how they had a bigger impact on society than the printing press. Not only do you have a machine that you can type on and delete a whole paragraph at a time if you needed to you, but you also have a whole world inside this little machine that sits in front of you. I mean there are endless possibilities. For example with the Internet you can play games and communicate with anyone you want to around the world. The computer really had more impact on the spread of knowledge than Gutenberg's invention, but after all with no printing press, there would be no computer.

By: Nick Wehunt

do you Carpe diem

I don't really understand why i wouldn't agree. i mean everyone would want to seize the day or pluck the day right. I mean people don't just wake up in the morning and say today i am not going to succeed in anything at all. I usually wake up and want to have a good and successful day and actually accomplish something. that is of course if i wake up in a bad mood and really don't want to do anything at all.