History

Today we worked on world history. We watched clips on you tube about martin luther king and his speech on blacks freedom. We watched a few clips on the falling of the berlin wall. Also we a clip about jfks famous speech. Also we watched clips about egypt. All of these clips were very informatinal about the people themselfs showing what kind of people that each one was. Each of the people were very touching and helpful to the country and to whites and blacks alike.

Ancient torcher

The torcher devices used in the earlier years were so gruesome and painful looking. The stretching device called the rack would tear your bones and tendons. They were whipped with a thing called that had small hooks on the end of it that would rip the flesh off people and that could go down to the bone. They had a pear like device that would stretch the human jaw and dislocate it and cause swelling in the back of the jaw and cause suffocation. There was also one on the show, that showed how vlad the impaler would impale people through the rectum and would go all the way through and out of there mouths. This would make it so they could last up to two days with the steak through them. People would suffer so much with this. All of this was on the history channel. http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=373070

Swine Flu

The swine flu has become big. There are cases poping up everywhere. Many people are starting to get sick from it. They are trying to reduce it by having free flu shot and nasal spray at schools work places and clinics. This is going to be one of the only ways to keep the flu case numbers down. People also need to wash there hands and sneeze into there sleeve this will also help reduce the numbers. Also if you are sick then you should stay home so you dont spread it.

The Depression

The Depression of the 1930's was huge. The impact on people was harsh and very tough to deal with. The money was horrible then. They were averaging 30 dollars a month. One of the people in the story was a young boy who went to the CCC HE was making the 30 a month and he was sending 25 to his family and keeping 5 for himself. He was extremely home sick after one month that he decided to hitchhike home. He ended up laying on the top of logs on a logging truck. It was 40 miles home on top of that truck. One of the people in the story was saying that they had learned from the last recession that you buy only what you need, not everything you want. I belive that the recession/depression that we are going through now is going to be pretty bad. Many people are loosing there job because of it. People already are working odd jobs to make ends meat. This hopefully wount be as bad as the last one because there are many people who need to afford things, such as medical stuff and feeding there family. People need work to survive. This will/ can end up being the worst depression ever.