World History

A short quiz for smart people

2006-03-15T08:32:00.000-06:00

The following quiz constists of four questions. The questions are not difficult. Answer these in a blog space to the best of your knowledge. Do not think too hard.
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?

2. How do you put a elephant into a refrigerator?

3. The Lion King is hostins an animal conference. All the animals attend, except one. Which animal does not attend.

4.There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and you do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

You choose what side...

2006-03-06T08:45:00.000-06:00

Read the attached article. When you are finished reading, you need to decide what you think about the article. Were the police officers wrong, or do you think the letters were misinterpreted? Please decide and state your reasons why in 4-6 sentences. Make sure you read over your blog to look for spelling errrors.
Thanks, -R
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11663148/

origins of Black History month

2006-02-28T08:50:00.000-06:00

Why did Carter G. Woodson start black history month and why is he celebrated as a influenctial individual?
http://www.blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/bh_featured.html?p_prodid=2001013113043031

Ray Charles

2006-02-27T08:02:00.000-06:00

Look at the information listed here on this website.
In class we have been blogging about Balck history month Throught our research we see the tension between the rules of society and personal freedoms. In your comment today, cite an example of a time when you felt that Ray Charles's personal freedoms conflicted with the rules of society in some way. Explain the situation. Please comment only on issues or situations that are appropriate for this public forum. Thank you.

http://www.raycharles.com/index.html
Use the legacy, the Man or the Music.

Crispus Attucks

2006-02-22T08:38:00.000-06:00

Crispus Attucks, (born 1723?—died March 5, 1770, Boston, Mass. [U.S.]) American hero and martyr of the Boston Massacre.Attucks' life prior to the day of his death is still shrouded in mystery. Most historians say that he was black; others argue that his ancestry was both African and Natick Indian. In any event, in the fall of 1750, a resident of Framingham, Mass., advertised for the recovery of a runaway slave named Crispus—usually thought to be the Crispus in question. In the 20-year interval between his escape from slavery and his death at the hands of British soldiers, Attucks probably spent a good deal of time aboard whaling ships.
All that is definitely known about him concerns the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Toward evening that day, a crowd of colonists gathered and began taunting a small group of British soldiers. Tension mounted rapidly, and when one of the soldiers was struck the others fired their muskets, killing three of the Americans instantly and mortally wounding two others. Attucks was the first to fall, thus becoming one of the first men to lose his life in the cause of American independence. His body was carried to Faneuil Hall, where it lay in state until March 8, when all five victims were buried in a common grave. Attucks was the only victim of the Boston Massacre whose name was widely remembered. In 1888 the Crispus Attucks monument was unveiled in the Boston Common.

Read this passage and search on google or wikipedia and find more infromation about this man. Please include where you located the information, the website.

Malcom X

2006-02-21T08:50:00.000-06:00

Read this passage and write 2 interesting facts about Malcom X.

http://www.blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/bh_featured.html?p_prodid=2005012510210048

Choose your own

2006-02-14T08:50:00.000-06:00

Today, please pick one person that we have not talked about in class and provide a short biography about the person.

Emmett Till

2006-02-13T08:23:00.000-06:00

Read this article on the link, below. Once you are done you have two options, 1. find an article about Emmett Till and write a short summary, 2. find a reference to Emmett Till in song lyrics and write a short summary of the song and the artist.
www.africanaonline.com/emmett_till_main.htm

Muhammad Ali

2006-02-10T09:17:00.000-06:00

BLACK HISTORY - Ali, Muhammad or Clay Cassius (1942- ) African American heavyweight prizefighter, antiwar protester, and international ambassador of goodwill. As the dominant heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and 1970s, Muhammad Ali won an Olympic gold medal, captured the professional world heavyweight championship on three separate occasions, and successfully defended his title 19 times. Ali's extroverted, colorful style, both in and out of the ring, heralded a new mode of media-conscious athletic celebrity. Through his bold assertions of black pride, his conversion to the Muslim faith, and his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (1959-1975), Ali became a highly controversial figure during the turbulent 1960s. At the height of his fame, Ali was described as "the most recognizable human being on earth."

Why was Muhammad Ali such a cultural icon?

Jack Johnson (boxer)

2006-02-08T07:52:00.000-06:00

John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. He was the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908-1915.

Give two details about his boxing career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)

Etta James

2006-02-07T08:21:00.000-06:00

Please name one Female music artist that you know of. Click on the link below and give two facts interesting facts about Etta James.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_James

Louis Armstrong..

2006-02-06T08:04:00.000-06:00

Please name one African American music artist that you know of. Click on the link below and give two facts about Louis Armstrong. If you have a chance click on the audio links and listen to some of his music.

http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstrong_louis.htm

Hank Aaron

2006-02-03T08:40:00.000-06:00

Please name one African American athlete that you know of. Click on the link below and give two facts about Hank Aaron.
Thank You,
Ms. R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Aaron

Aaron Douglas

2006-02-02T08:35:00.000-06:00

On this date in 1979 Aaron Douglas died in Nashville, Tennessee. Douglas, an African American artist, was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance. His works combined elements of African art with a modern European aesthetic.

Please find one fact, must be different than everyone elses, about Aaron Douglas. You need to define the Harlem Renaissance, tell when when this period began and ended and give me one other person from this time period.

Thank you,
Ms. R.

Coretta Scott King

2006-02-01T07:18:00.000-06:00

Please read about Coretta Scott King. Write 6-8 sentences about the article and what you learned while reading it. Please answer these questions: How did she influence or help with the civil rights movement? What did she do after her husband's death? How was she affecting society until her death? How has she impacted our society? (Now you must come up with 3-5 more sentences).

Thank you, Ms. R

Coretta Scott King dead at 78 Widow of civil rights leader advanced his legacy for more than 35 years.

The Associated Press
Updated: 8:32 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2006

ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband’s dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s creed of brotherhood and nonviolence, died Tuesday. She was 78.
King died in her sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said.
In a statement released Tuesday, the King family said she in Mexico “for observation and consideration of treatment for ovarian cancer. She was considered terminal by physicians in the United States. Mrs. King and her family wanted to explore other options.”
King was partially paralyzed and suffering from cancer when she arrived last week at the clinic where she died, clinic doctors said.
They gave the cause of death as respiratory failure, related both to a serious stroke she suffered in August and the cancer they said was diagnosed last year.
King checked into the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, on Thursday under another name. The doctors said they did not know who she was until her medical records arrived on Friday, and they never began any treatment because of her condition.
"She came here with half her body paralyzed," Dr. Rafael Cedeno, the doctor who was overseeing her case, said at a news conference. "She was in really bad condition."
Last appearance two weeks agoJust two weeks ago, she made her first public appearance in a year on the eve of her late husband’s birthday.
Arrangements were being made to fly the body to Atlanta.
News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in the Georgia Capitol and piles of flowers placed at the tomb of her slain husband. Flags at the King Center — the institute devoted to the civil rights leader’s legacy — were lowered to half-staff.
“She wore her grief with grace. She exerted her leadership with dignity,” the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King’s husband in 1957.
Rice, others hail civil rights iconIn a statement, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said “the United States and the world have lost a champion of human rights. Mrs. King was one of the pioneers in our country's fight for equality and justice for all its citizens. Her courageous stand alongside Dr. King during a time of tremendous struggle for America was one of our greatest examples of selfless dedication to the good of all Americans.”
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King’s top aides, said Coretta Scott King’s fortitude rivaled that of her husband. “She was strong, if not stronger than he was,” Young said.
Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children.
“I’m more determined than ever that my husband’s dream will become a reality,” the young widow said soon after his slaying.
Pressed for national holidayShe pushed and goaded politicians for more than a decade to have her husband’s birthday observed as a national holiday, achieving success in 1986. In 1969 she founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and used it to confront hunger, unemployment, voting rights and racism.
“The center enables us to go out and struggle against the evils in our society,” she often said.
She also accused movie and TV companies, video arcades, gun manufacturers and toy makers of promoting violence.
King became a symbol in her own right of her husband’s struggle for peace and brotherhood, presiding with a quiet, stoic dignity over seminars and conferences.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with her husband when he was assassinated, said Tuesday that she understood that every time her husband left home, there was the chance he might not come back. Jackson pronounced her a “freedom fighter.”
“Like all great champions she learned to function with pain and keep serving,” he said, adding: “She kept marching. She did not flinch.”
In Washington, President Bush hailed her as “a remarkable and courageous woman and a great civil rights leader.”
After her stroke, King missed the annual King celebration in Atlanta two weeks ago but appeared with her children at an awards dinner a few days earlier, smiling from her wheelchair but not speaking. The crowd gave her a standing ovation.
Despite her repeated calls for unity among civil rights groups, her own children have been divided over whether to sell the King Center to the National Park Service and let the family focus less on grounds maintenance and more on King’s message. Two of the four children were strongly against such a move.
Flags at half-staff in GeorgiaGov. Sonny Perdue ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff and offered to allow King’s body to lie in repose at the Georgia Capitol. There was no immediate response to the offer, the governor’s office said.
King died at Santa Monica Health Institute in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, south of San Diego, said her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley of Cheyney, Pa. She had gone to California to rest and be with family, according to Young.
Coretta Scott was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and planning on a singing career when a friend introduced her to King, a young Baptist minister studying at Boston University.
“She said she wanted me to meet a very promising young minister from Atlanta,” King once said, adding with a laugh: “I wasn’t interested in meeting a young minister at that time.”
She recalled that on their first date he told her: “You know, you have everything I ever wanted in a woman. We ought to get married someday.” Eighteen months later, in 1953, they did.
A move to MontgomeryThe couple moved to Montgomery, Ala., where he became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and helped lead the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that Rosa Parks set in motion when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. With that campaign, King began enacting his philosophy of nonviolent, direct social action.
Over the years, King was with her husband in his finest hours. She was at his side as he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. She marched beside him from Selma, Ala., into Montgomery in 1965 on the triumphant drive for a voting rights law.
Only days after his death, she flew to Memphis with three of her children to lead thousands marching in honor of her slain husband and to plead for his cause.
“I think you rise to the occasion in a crisis,” she once said. “I think the Lord gives you strength when you need it. God was using us — and now he’s using me, too.”
Her husband’s womanizing had been an open secret during the height of the civil rights movement. In January, a new book, “At Canaan’s Edge” by Taylor Branch, put his infidelity back in the spotlight. It said that not long before he was assassinated, King confessed a long-standing affair to his wife while she was recovering from a hysterectomy.
The King family, especially Coretta Scott King and her father-in-law, Martin Luther King Sr., were highly visible in 1976 when former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter ran for president. When an integration dispute at Carter’s Plains church created a furor, Coretta Scott King campaigned at Carter’s side the next day.
She later was named by Carter to serve as part of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, where Young was the ambassador.
Favored trial for husband’s assailantIn 1997, she spoke out in favor of a push to grant a trial for James Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing her husband and then recanted.
“Even if no new light is shed on the facts concerning my husband’s assassination, at least we and the nation can have the satisfaction of knowing that justice has run its course in this tragedy,” she told a judge.
The trial never took place; Ray died in 1998.
King was born April 27, 1927, in Perry County, Ala. Her father ran a country store. To help her family during the Depression, young Coretta picked cotton. Later, she worked as a waitress to earn her way through Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Passing the torchIn 1994, she stepped down as head of the King Center, passing the job to son Dexter, who in turn passed the job on to her other son, Martin III, in 2004. Dexter continued to serve as the center’s chief operating officer.
Martin III also has served on the Fulton County (Ga.) commission and as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, co-founded by his father in 1957. Daughter Yolanda became an actress and the youngest child, Bernice, became a Baptist minister.
In 1993, on the 25th anniversary of her husband’s death, King said the war in Vietnam that her husband opposed “has been replaced by an undeclared war on our central cities, a war being fought by gangs with guns for drugs.”
“The value of life in our cities has become as cheap as the price of a gun,” she said.
In London, she stood in 1969 in the same carved pulpit in St. Paul’s Cathedral where her husband preached five years earlier.
“Many despair at all the evil and unrest and disorder in the world today,” she preached, “but I see a new social order and I see the dawn of a new day.”
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Black History Month

2006-01-31T08:52:00.000-06:00

Tomorrow starts Black History Month. Everyday we will be talking or researching a different African American. Please list 2-3 African Americans that you would like to study over the course of this month.

Reading Material

2006-01-27T08:48:00.000-06:00

What is your favorite magazine or newspaper and why? Please tell me about it in 2-3 sentences why this periodical is your favorite.

Scientific Research

2006-01-26T08:39:00.000-06:00

Please list the two individuals that you have picked from the chapter to research. Please write two interesting facts about each scientist and why you picked to research them.

I am

2006-01-25T09:16:00.000-06:00

Renea Descartes believed that everything should be doubted until proved by reason. The only thing that he knew was that he existed, because he wrote" I think, therefore I am".

How do you feel about Descartes idea? How do you interpret his reasoning of existence. Please explain in 4-5 sentences.

2006-01-24T08:48:00.000-06:00

What are some projects that you would like to work with this quarter in class?

Beginning of Blogging

2006-01-24T08:46:00.000-06:00

This blog will feature questions or topics for students' discussion beginning on Thursday of this week. Students will be required to post their comments periodically as part of the requirements of the class. Ms. Raveill will post questions or topics, and students are to respond appropriately and intelligently, based on their current knowledge and understanding of the topic. Students may respond to other student's comments as long as the responses follow the class's rule of respect for the opinions of others. Please keep this rule in mind at all times when posting to this blog.
Another issue for this blog is that the discussion focuses on the social implications of an issue. While a student may have personal experience with the issue, he or she should refrain from sharing extremely personal information in this public forum. As always, the appropriate for school rule of discussion applies.

I am glad you are here!
Ms. Raveill