Friday

Syria

unrest started with the Tunisian revolution reached Syria in mid-March 2011
with children doing anti-government grafitti the government responded withheavy handed punishment
the country did not respond well and an uproar began.
in a dictatorship
was going to do slight reform but decided to be harsher was better.*
soilders started to go against the government with harsh attacks

The Syrian government upset the people of their contry as far as they could handle. They took harsh action against a harmless prank and the people took action back. They protested and got worse and worse. Then Al-Queada came out and made things worse. In terms of peoples reaction and outsiders opinions on them (made worse very negative stereotypes). I'm wondering why the government just wants to get harsher and harsher when obviously the people arnt responding well to that kind of treatment? TO THE PAST- dictatorships dont work. They never have and they never will. One person will never have enough insight to control/run an entire country by themselves.

*?

The War in Afghanistan

Well, it seems as though the war is coming closer and closer to an end. They're trying to get everybody home to their families as soon as possible and their planning to end combat in a little less than a year- a year before everyone should be home.

Its understandble that people are angry about this war- I know that I hear my parents talk about how dumb it is all the time. I don't think people have heard a clear plan in a really long time and they need to know how they plan to do all these things that have promised.

possible sources...

http://www.jstor.org/stable/1185862?&Search=yes&searchText=americans&searchText=native&searchText=trail&searchText=tears&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dnative%2Bamericans%2Band%2Btrail%2Bof%2Btears%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=3&ttl=1248&returnArticleService=showFullText

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40582017?&Search=yes&searchText=american&searchText=trail&searchText=indian&searchText=tears&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Damerican%2Bindian%2BAND%2Btrail%2Bof%2Btears%26gw%3Djtx%26acc%3Don%26prq%3Dnative%2Bamericans%2BAND%2Btrail%2Bof%2Btears%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=3&ttl=2290&returnArticleService=showFullText

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40189858?&Search=yes&searchText=native&searchText=american&searchText=trail&searchText=tears&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dnative%2Bamerican%2BAND%2Btrail%2Bof%2Btears%26gw%3Djtx%26acc%3Don%26prq%3Damerican%2Bindian%2BAND%2Btrail%2Bof%2Btears%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=6&ttl=2107&returnArticleService=showFullText

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1224798?terms=trail+of+tears

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/410591?terms=trail+of+tears

http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/254463?terms=indian+removal+act

http://www.jstor.org/stable/40582012?&Search=yes&searchText=Secret&searchText=State&searchText=Tears&searchText=Cherokee&searchText=Carolina&searchText=North&searchText=Trail&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DState%2BSecret%253A%2BNorth%2BCarolina%2Band%2Bthe%2BCherokee%2BTrail%2Bof%2BTears%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=129&returnArticleService=showFullText

Thursday

QUESTION

I am learning about Native Americans and the Trail of Tears because I want to find out why Andrew Jackson found it necessary to move the Natives into a remote location in such traitorous conditions in order to find out weather it was really a necessary action to take and what it ended up effecting both negatively and positively.

Wednesday

Trail of Tears- links

Native American: Removal and Trail of Tears overview

Indian Removal Act (around 1830) and the stuff that follows:

Indian Removal Act- http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Topics/Display/1187738?sid=254448&webSiteCode=SLN_AMHIST&returnToPage=%2fTopics%2fDisplay%2f1187738%3fsid%3d254448&cid=23&oid=263244&useConcept=False&token=F0E781CCF1DEDAE31A3807244FA765E7&casError=False

Enacted on May 28, 1830 after one of the most contentious and bitter debates in Congress with the exception of the arguments over slavery, the Indian Removal Act proceeded to shift most of the nations of Indian tribes in the eastern United States to what was deemed "Indian country" in present-day Oklahoma. In the most notorious of the Indian removal efforts, President Andrew Jackson ordered the Cherokee nation off its land in Georgia in 1833. Although the tribe fought against the order in the U.S. court system, it was eventually forced to comply. As the Cherokee made their arduous journey to Oklahoma, starvation, illness, cold, and despair resulted in thousands of deaths, so that the journey is now remembered as the Trail of Tears.

Removing Indians west of the Mississippi River.

Forced Migration

Trail of Tears- http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1224798?terms=trail+of+tears

Monday

Responses and Answers to Race Questions

QUESTIONS: 1. What kind of impact might they have on the communities in which they took place?
2. What impact might they have on whites?
3. On African Americans?

Newt Gingrich and the Art of Racial Politics:

1. I think that in this case, the Community means the entire US, and people of color. This had a very big impact on the community in which it took place because he was racially profiling the Black community, by saying that they don't have a good work ethic and need to want and beg for better jobs. This upset a lot of people and Gingrich explained himself saying that he was talking about ALL Americans not just Blacks.

2. This particular argument may not have any effect on white people if other people don't generalize a race just as Gingrich had done. If nobody assumes that this is anybodies way of thinking except for Newt Gingrich then nobody will have to worry.

3. The impact on African Americans and Blacks is very apparent because it is directly calling out an entire race. Gingrich said that "black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps" and even though in his next statement that "poor kids are lacking a strong work ethic" doesn't mention a certain race he can't escape the fact that he did say "black Americans" and therefore generalizing that the whole race is on food stamps or not demanding a good enough job. This offended a lot of people although he did try and explain himself.

Kentucky Church Bans Interracial Couples:

1. The community in which this church is, is effected because if there are any other interracial couples, they now know that they can't get married at that specific church. Even if no other people in interracial couples have a desire to get married there, it can also stir up feelings of people not involved because they may feel a prejudice put on to them or their race- or they could just be really upset that their town and/or their place of worship still holds on to some racist thoughts.

2. The effect on white people in this situation is a more apparent one because it directly involves a white girl who can't marry a black man. This restricts the race from doing what they please, freely.

3. Same with African Americans but they could bring up the fact of racism and old prejudices that prevented this exact thing in the past.

I'm Internally Conflicted