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Ever since the war ended and african americans have earned their freedom the process of restoring the war-torn nation.Lincoln created an agreement to forgive all confederates who didn't participate in the war and have all generals andpeople who worked in the confederacy army to stay out of the union. The Government disagreed with this and thought thatThe punishment was too light so they rejected Lincolns agreement and made up their own. All people who vowed to respect the rights of the newly freed people and give up slavery would rejoin the union. Because of the rapid changed being made,a former confederate assassinated our President Lincoln. Andrew Johnson became President and the black people were given 40 acres of land and a mule per family to live upon.

Effects of The Afghanistan War

The war in Afghanistan has caused significant destruction in the civilian community who are choicelessly caught in the crossfighting between the coalition forces and the Taliban militants. In the first 6 months of year 2009, about 1000 civilians have been killed. Many families in Afghanistan are suffering emotionally and economically due to the death of family members and destruction of businesses. One of the most significant impacts of this war, has been the loss of single-earning male members in many families. As a result of this development, elders of many families have stepped in to repair and preserve the social, economic and emotional health of the community. Elders have done this by primarily re-establishing or starting new enterprises that immediately take care of day-to-day survival needs of the family. "I'm rebuilding the shop so the children will have work and they can feed the rest of the family," Ahmed says, surrounded by spades and wheelbarrows. Many a times, families have to sacrifice something to survive these difficult periods. Children's education is the first major casualty/sacrifice in such scenarios. This article also provides a few insights on the coping mechanisms in the community. While the elders have stepped in by rebuilding the community, the women and children are not far behind. Children are wholeheartedly supporting the elders in their business enterprises while the women are doing their bit by baking bread for the neighbours and sustaining their families. In this way the entire community is making sure that young people do not have to sacrifice on their education because of the ongoing war.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8302963.stm

What I learned

From Ken Burn's Civil War video, I learned that, it wasn't only the governments arguing upon the issue of slavery. While the Confederates wanted slavery, the Union were headed towards abolishing slavery. I learned from this video that during the Civil War period, a lot of political parties were being formed,. I also learned that many people from the south said that slaves were happy and would rather continue being slaves rather then be free. Another fact from the video was that slaves were paid 5 dollars in court if they said they were free, and 10 dollars if they said that they were slaves. This shows that at that time, the force of law was very corrupt.

Northern Advantages over the South

-The southern army weren't prepared for combat (lack of discipline and control)

-The Northern Army sent in more troops by train for the first time.

-The population in the North had more than double the population of the South.

-The railroad mileage was higher in the North

-More factories to provide wealth and resources for more troops, food and weapons.

-The North and far more money than the South.

Western Sahara rights activist expelled from Morocco

Aminatou Haider, a Western Sahara rights activist, got arrested and expelled from Morocco for not following normal police procedures and renouncing her Moroccan citizenship. This happened as soon as she arrived to Laayoune airport from Canary Islands on the 11/15/09. It was unclear whether she could return as Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport. Since she had a spanish residency permit, she could stay there if she wishes.

Aminatou Haider is a leading defender of human rights of the Sahrawis, Recieved the Civil Courage Prize from The Train Foundation in New York. (October 21)

Haider was criticizing Morocco after Spanish colonial rule ended in 1975. "I have been threatened with arrest on my return." she said.

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Political Parties in Morocco

Political Parties of Morocco are divided into 3 groups. The "Left"side is against all political governement judgements and the way the government runs the country. i.e Democratic Union. The "Right" side is political parties that agree and cooperate with the government with nearly every decision they make. i.e Justice and Development Party. Finally theres the "Center" side which is political parties in very close relations or within the government although can have opinions similar to the "Left" or "Right" sides. When I had a conversation with my mom, she said that the political parties in Morocco are incompetent and barely do anything. Some of the most important political parties in Morocco include the Socialist Union of Popular Forces. The political parties are often formed by rivalry to prove in wat they believe would be best for the country.

Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The first amendment in the bill of rights is the most important because it's freedom of speech that gets people to share their political ideas, talk about what's wrong with their leader/government and thus, helping the government improve. Freedom of speech is also important for people to revolt against a corrupt/inefficient government whenever needed. The 13th amendment is the second most important one because it gives people of other colours their rights and prevents slavery. This will give a population boost since the number of deaths from insufficient medication decreases as the rule of slavery is lifted. 24th amendment is the 3rd most important one because it allows people who do not have the monny to pay taxes to vote for who they believe will lead the country fairly. 14th amendment is 4th most important to me because it allows people BORN in the USA instead of people from there to be elected president, so the nation would have smart minds with different points of view from all over the world. People can have their sons/daughters elected. The 19th amendment is 5th most important to me because it prevents sexism when it comes to voting and elections. The fact that women couldn't participate in political voting was crude and unfair.

Colonists Victory

The colonists first rejected the Parliament of Great Britain in the last half of the 18th century. The colonies joined together to defend the idea of self-governance. They united to form one nation and broke away from the British empire. 1776 is when the colonists made the Declaration of Independence. They made their rights and proved the British king a tyranny. They established a relatively powerful federated government. The United States Bill of rights came directly after, compromised the first 10 constitutional amendments.

Mercantilism

Mercantilism was a sort of government when the English were conquering the Americas. The State had control over human behaviour. They had a shared economic philosophy. The main purpose was to accumulate wealth for the European colonies. Spain and Portugal had strict control over the inhabitants but the English had looser boundaries. In 1650, the English established laws of trade known as Navigation Acts. This would limit the trade back and forth to Britain only.

Migration in and out of Morocco

New neighbours, new neighbourhoods. Ever wonder why people move from place to place and live in different locations? Well, the main reasons why people migrate away from Morocco is to continue their business elsewhere depending on what their job is. Some people migrate to Europe or the Americas to find a job. Others simply like to have a little change of climate for a few years. The young ones who move here probably just found a suitable school for themselves and decided to continue their education elsewhere.

People move into Morocco for the hot weather, beaches, and calm non-polluted society ( except for Casablanca). Maybe handling trading services for various companies or long-term assignments which can only be completed in Morocco. People may also come here to retire and live in the suburban areas.

ESPRAT+G

ESPRAT+G stands for: Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Religion, Arts, Technology and Geography. It's a study method for people learning about the politics and history of Earth. The acronym was created by Don Zimbrick. He used it alot in his teaching. Esprat is basically a framework used by teachers, scientists and sometimes students for studying Social Studies.

Israeli hero's son dies

Aasaf Ramon, son of Israel's only astronaut, Ilan Ramon, who died in a space shuttle explosion 2003. Asaaf died in a plane crash. The jet was on a routine training flight and nobody knows why the F-16 crashed. Sunday's crash took place in a hilly area south of the city of Hebron. An unidentified eyewitness said the plane flew low over the southern west bank before crashing and there was a huge fire.

21st Century Skills

The skills we need in everyday life as an adult is the mastery of most core subjects. Such as Languages, Arts, Mathematics, Economic, Science, History. Global awareness (including the knowledge of current events) is also needed. Health, Civic, Financial, Economic Literacy helps people not fall low in the economy of today. It is needed mostly by people with careers related with the market.

Good Reasons for Blogging

Why do people blog? Increased motivation for reading and writing is one of the reasons, and since blogging is so fun, everyone gets caught up in making their blog posts or reading other peoples blogs. It also provides freedom of speech and allows people to express their ideas and themselves in whatever way they want. Another good thing is, blogging students are learning without knowing it.

Colonization in Morocco

Morocco's colonization came in a bit too rough. In the late 1900s, southern Morocco was conquered by the french, and northern Morocco by the Spanish. The country was unable to act because they had economic difficulties to deal with. The flood of european products in the marketplace was one factor of those difficulties. The sultan's brother, revolted against the government. 1909, the sultan's brother was succesful, but their problems were far from over. The spanish troops began making their way into morocco.

Why Study History?

Alot of people ask that question don't they? Are you looking for a good reply? You've come to the right place! History, what if people didn't learn from their past? Would we still be silly cavemen living in caves and huts? We would be repeating the same mistakes our ancestors did, we would also lose alot of knowledge about evolution if out ancestors haven't drawn them, wrote about them (in their own WIERD language). We would never know how the earlier species acted, what they ate, what was needed to do to calm them down. The worst part is: the people who's ancestors migrated from one land to another so many years ago would never discover their origin unless it was recorded. One way history helped me was that it opened my eyes to how cruel Christopher Columbus really was and what he did to the native americans who lived there. I would have been supporting a corrupt person. Thanks for reading :D. Peace out

About Me

Heya people, this is a little paragraph about myself and if you (by any chance) want to know more, just ask me stuff! :D. Let's see here.... my favorite color is crimson, my favorite car is the Ford Mustang, and my favorite band is Linkin Park. I'm not a very active person and i enjoy taking it easy (chillax as some of you might say). My main priority is to listen to music for at LEAST 3 hrs everyday. I love being sarcastic when I get the chance and you'll probably be annoyed by it but guess what? You gotta live with it. Hmm.... I guess thats about it, I'm just gonna finish up this post and go get som Z's. Peace out.

Hobbies

I'm a very laid back type of person and mostly enjoy reading, playing games, and hangin out with my friends at school, public areas and at home. One thing I do think is my hobby would be photography, I do try to take some fascinating pictures of certain environments, but to be honest I think i'm failing at it. Some mountains, rivers and forests can be an inspiration.

My favorite sports would be badminton and soccer (only recently has it become one of my favorites), although I don't play them too much. Well, that's about it. Peace out.