WW2

Throughout the years there are multiple people that know who was responsible for World War II who killed a total of 6 million Jews, civilians, and caused a big casualty in Europe, Adolf Hitler of Germany. But did you know that there are more than one dictator in WW2 besides Hitler

Adolf Hitler,Joseph Stalin,Benito Mussolini on the right.
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Benito Mussolini was from Italy, Joseph Stalin of Soviet Union or Russia, and Adolf Hitler fromGermany were the three dictators of WWII during September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. These three dictators gained power where they converted their country as totalitarian regime or a single person has absolute rule of the government and country. This did not last because their nation failed to prove its worth. 

Both Hitler and Mussolini believed in fascism, a single person rule over a nation, nationalism or belief of superior culture, powerful government to controlled private property, and were anticommunist; Joseph Stalin was a communist who wanted to equalize  wealth between people that means no private property only state ownership. Despite their differences, they crushed all of the oppositions before them in their nation to achieve their totalitarianism regime. Despite of the many dictators in WWII, Adolf Hitler stood out the most to cause to remember how he and the Nazi known as Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party, took control of Germany despite of Germany was in a state of Great Depression.

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Before Hitler began his conquest had the advantage of attacking nations due to the position of Germany in the middle of Europe. First a was Austria, where Hitler was able to convince the German people of Austria to join with Germany. On March 12, 1938, Germany was able to conquered Austria without any war only a welcome party from Austria.

  

3: In Munich, Germany on September 30, 1938, Hitler told the French president and British prime minister that the Sudetenland would be his "last territorial demand." The French and British leaders agreed with Hitler's demand, so all three of them signed the Munch Agreement and Sudetenland goes to Germany without a war.

In spring of 1939, Poland, Hitler also began propaganda of Poland attacking the Poland German. On August 23, 1939, Germany and Stalin signed the nonaggression pact and secret pact to divide Poland between them.  September 1, 1939, the German Luftwaffe of German air force bombed Poland to test a new strategy called blitzkrieg or lightning war with the main purpose: surprise attack, then executed quickly with overwhelming force. 
7: September 3, 1939, World War II had begun.

 The 18 European countries that the Nazi invaded were Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Denmark, the Netherlands (Holland), Belgium, and Soviet Union. World War II could have been prevented if the League of Nations was effective which is to prevent world war.   

 The League of Nations tried to appease with Germany and Italy from militarizing by giving Hitler and Mussolini their demands,but the appeasement did not worked since Germany and Italy kept invading nations. Russia made Hitler and Germany sign the nonaggression pact since Hitler believed he could invade European countries without any worry. Even though WWII begun, America still isolate itself from the world until the war came to America.

America was terrified from the many deaths of WWI, so America wanted isolationism, the act of isolating itself from the world war. This lasted until December 7, 1941, where Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This forced America to join WW2.         


          

Public Education & Inequality

The reason that public school was created in the United States was to train student as they grow up since the U.S. depended on science and technology. With this, it provided training for better jobs which was one of the important key to a stable and prosperous nation. Education not only provided financial security and social class it also assimilated millions of incoming immigrants.

Not only there were multiple benefits from it, but also it had some problems. These problems were during the first public school, it was only 4 months long of school since students were mistreated by their teachers. 

Years passed by after the first public school started, conditions started to change by providing child care for parents. More importantly it took kids away from working in factories where they needed to learn how to read, write, and lastly understand math. These school were known for being unequal where colored students had different opportunities. In these schools white students have 62% chance of actually attending the school itself, compare to colored students with 34%. Not only Americans or colored people were encourage to learn, but also Europeans, where schools replaced native language with English. 

Why the United States joined WW1

During World War 1, there were multiple countries that formed and agreed to be allies with other countries. These allies are called the Central Powers which consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungagry, and the Ottoman Empire. The other allies are called the Triple Entente, but they were mostly known as the Allies which are the France, British, and Russia. Did you noticed that the United States was not in any of these allies? Well it is because America did not want to have anything to do with the war which was the most interesting part of World War 1. Americans did not really see any reason to join the war because it is 3000 miles away and it did not threaten the lives or property of America.

World War 1 was important because we mostly learned a lot from it when it comes to war, how back then everything required manual labor. Unlike now in the present, we have advance technology where we can send drones to do the work needed, compare to World War 1 where soldiers used trenches to take cover. After World War 1 the results were the Allies won against the Central Powers. The United States ensured the Allied paid off their debts to the United States and prevent the Germans from threatening U.S. shipping.

Abusing Chickens We Eat

All over America their are multiple factories that are processing chicken meat. One we'll know farm is located in Salisbury, Maryland called Perdue, where they process chicken and annually sells $6 billion worth of chickens. This company was founded during 1920s where a married couple who has been keeping flocks of chicken. Later  they started selling eggs around 1925 and decided to start selling chicks to farmers rather than eggs for humans to consume.  Untill now, Perdue is one of the third-largest American producers of broilers where they roughly produce 59,320,000 pounds of broilers that are ready to cook.

"Cage Free Chickens"

The article Abusing Chickens We Eat by author, Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times argues that chicken that are being sold in stores are mistreated where chickens are supposedly raised caged free and sometimes humanely raised, but is this true? Kristof Farmer Craig Watts have  raised a total of 720,000 chickens are per year for Perdue, where he watched a video of how Perdue chickens were raised, these chickens have lost their feathers, also have raw, angry, red flesh. 

"U.S.D.A. Is the accomplice of Perdue in the fooling of consumers. " This quote is significant due to the fact that the USDA is a major agency that inspects our food to ensure the safety of the American public, but in this article the USDA failed to do their job by ensuring that these chickens are raised "cage free" where egg-laying chickens are caged. Lastly, these chickens are crammed tightly in barns where each of these chickens get two-thirds of a square foot. 

In my opinion after reading this article, I believe that the author's argument will change my behavior when it come to buying chickens in the market. One way I can do this is by checking whether the chickens are raised caged free.  

Free Range Chicken

Food Inc: The truth Behind Chicken Nuggets and Cheeseburger

A picture of Happy Meal from McDonald's

As you walk in McDonalds, do you ever wonder which toy you would get after receiving your happy meal given by the lovely cashier who sees you every Friday with your mom because she wanted to reward you with your good behavior.  Throughout the times you walked in that restaurant, do you wonder what your chicken nuggets and cheeseburger was before you see it packed in a box or wrapped?

In the documentary film Food Inc., viewers were shown how food such as meat and poultry are truly processed before it even gets to what we see as chicken nuggets or cheeseburger. Also how the government is mostly controlling most of it. 

During 1950 the first McDonald's was completely different from what we are used to now, it was first a restaurant where foods were serve by worker on a roller skates. Until one day the McDonald brothers decided to save money by firing all of their employees and switch to a factory process which was later on adopted by other restaurants. 

With this process, workers were paid lower which meant there was not much workers needed. This new process helped the McDonald brothers by making multiple amounts of money while the food cost less. The made McDonald's one of the riches company during the changes in 1950. This resulted McDonald's supplier to become rich and bigger. As of now four companies now owns 80% of beef business here in the United States. 

Today, multiple companies out there are misleading people their products based on the name and labels they put, these products are meat and dairy. We, buyers are mislead because these companies have a nice picture of an animal or a red barn. We think that these animals are living in a clean environment, but most of these animals are raised in factories where they don't have any freedom to walk around.  One example of a company that is misleading us is Tyson Chicken company. This company genetically enhance chicken's breast by injecting hormones into them which makes them grow quicker. In the documentary, it stated that these chickens fully grow in 49 days compare to 6-8 weeks. But Tyson company does not want any of us to know what the truth is on how these chickens are raised. 

Do you want to know what these chickens or cows are eating in a daily basis? About 30% of the United States land are used to grown corn, but did you know that our government is paying farmers to over produce and use the extra corn to feed the animals which makes corn a dominant crop? You'll mostly see corn on mostly everything you eat nowadays such as chips, ketchup, cheese, and also battery! With this dominant crop it might be a good thing, but is it? Cattle and other animals are supposed to be eating grass instead of corn, one of the major problem that has emerged as a result of feeding corn to these animals mostly cattle is called E. COLI 0157:H7 which is an acid resistant that makes you sick for weeks and life threatening disease. 

One of the major consequence of this deadly disease is a young kid's live was taken away from him by the name of Kevin Kowalcyk where he ate a ground beef from a restaurant that could be McDonald's or Burger King which was contaminated with E.COLI 0157:H7. Who do you think was responsible for Kevin's death? The government should be responsible for his death by making sure that the U.S. Department of Agriculture were processing meat that does not contain any diseases. After Kevin's death the government decided to add additives in some meat to prevent E. COLI called pink slime which contains ammonia. 

Most of us does not know what the food we eat everyday such as poultry or meat go through before we see them wrapped as a burger or on a packaging. But do you wonder why in every fast food restaurant there is a dollar menu or something similar to that? Well these companies get their meat in a low-cost because it is not pure beef as we think it is. They get it from a factory that adds other parts of meat into it which makes them cheap. Companies believe that with this process, they will be able to produce food quicker in a safe, clean environment. 

Farmer, Joel Saladin strongly disagree with this process, he believes that every animal should be raised in a open, sanitized, unclosed environment before they are slaughtered. Compare to factories, chickens are raised their factories where the living conditions are poor and covered. Also, Saladin stated that these chickens go through chlorine after they have been slaughtered while the chickens that goes through his company does not. Lastly, factories mostly get their workers from other countries such as Mexico where workers are in need of a job. Workers are provided with jobs but as soon as the company meets its demands, they start letting this workers go by deporting them back to Mexico. 

Workers that previously worked in these factories are highly upset due to this companies promising them a job where they would get multiple great benefits. But this industrial food companies are dishonest or misleading because they are putting the environment, society in harm and lastly health cost. But we cannot do anything about it due to this food corporations protected by laws where representatives choose to protect the company rather than the consuming citizens. 

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A tycoon is person that has wealth and power in a business industry. Mostly tycoons were not born to be successful due to them facing multiple struggles, but as they grow up they came up with strategies that made them who they are, a tycoon.

Tycoon's main strategy is to use their own power which is wealth. With wealth they were able control their workers by forcing them to work multiple hours which eliminated competition against other companies.

Robber baron later established monopolies which raise prices of products compare to regular prices this resulted workers wages to reduce.

Social Darwinism is the theory of survival and succes of the most capable people where being poor was a sign of being lazy or inferior and deriving of poverty. Also where God maded them as they are and they should stay like that. This theory was mostly favored by American billioners because they believed that they would no longer have to work and restrict any profit.

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Passive House Poem

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Source A 3D section view of a passive house 

Passive houses is probably the most Eco-friendly houses to date.

Where you will mostly see them upstate. 

Passive house will save you multiple amounts of money in energy. 

Even though we are living in the 21st century. 

So do yourself a favor. 

Be a life saver. 

A deep description of a basic passive house

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Tech Reading Summary

In the article compiled by Danny Blas, technology changed our lives and how we lived because of steel which was discovered durin the Industrial Revolution. With steel, we were able to build skyscraper and used it as a frame to support the infrastructure. With this advantages, it not only changed the way we lived, but also the way we get to certain places. Subways, trains, and street cars was developed which lead to increase of population. Also with the help of railroad cable and suspension bridge brought cities together by providing an easy access to one city to another. With the help of technology, it changed the way people read by having newspapers which first appeared during the industrial revolution. Throughout years, newspaper price were reduced due to multiple people buying them, which kept them updated to any current events.

Another article compiled by Danny Blas, it started by deeply explaining what a passive house is, which is an environmental house that has no air condition or heater. The only downfall about passive houses are it cost multiple amounts of money to build one. But a certain house could still pass as passive house, one way is by having multiple solar panels that would lessen the usage of energy. In this article, home owners were disagreeing about passive house in their neighborhood, due to it being nonidentical to the other houses. Throughout this years, technology changed the way we lived from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until now. One way was discovering a new method of transportation, and also how we communicated by writing letters and sending out through mail. With these advantages we were able to advance through by having mobile devices which could be used for greater distance compare to what we had before during the Industrial Revolution. 

Industrial Revolution

In the article titled The Beginning of the Industrial Revolution compiled by Danny Blas, transportation of products played the biggest role during the Industrial Revolution. One of the major pathway Americans used was the Erie Canal, a man-made water way that helped moved products and people from one place to another, the Erie Canal is significant until now.

A group of free enterprise and entrepreneurs made a big impact during the Industrial Revolution by increasing the growth of economy in the United States. Free enterprise operated mostly for profits with little government regulations. With the help of free enterprise, entrepreneurs invested their own money risking to gain more profit in new industry machines. Both free enterprise and entrepreneurs shaped the economy of the United States by providing jobs for those who needed one. 

Not only the economy of the United States was wide known, it also had multiple natural resources. The major resource in the United States are coal and iron. These resources was used to create steel, where it was used for railroads that helped the U.S. become a world-wide industrial power.

Black gold made major role during the Industrial Revolution where it was used as light lamps at first then later on used by Edwin L. Drake on a steam engine that drilled oil which started an oil boom that quickly spread on some parts of America. The demand for oil quickly increased due to it being used in automobiles that transported products and people. 

Steel was manufactured by removing carbon from iron that produced a lighter and more flexible steel. A famous process called "Bessemer" developed by Henry Bessemer was widely used where  they blasted air inside the iron to remove the carbon. Steel was mostly used in every structure during the late 1800's, which led to the U.S. producing 90% of the nation's steel.

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, buildings started to change due to materials used to support it. These materials are steel and etc. 

Levi Kinsel: A Navy Sailor

During the era of 1939 to 1945, there were multiple different sailors in the navy that experienced difficult times such as World War 2. One of the sailors was named Levi Kinsel, who has been writing to his love one, Rose B. Kinsel living in San Diego. Throughout Levi's letter that my classmates and I transcribed, I believe that he showed multiple different personalities and these major personalities are dedicated, companionly, and considerate. 

Levi showed us that he was dedicated throughout his letter for Rose, his loving wife by showing his affection to her when tough times strikes him. For example on letter forty-nine, Levi stated, “I guess I had better tried to send the things I have for you while I am here it may be some time before I see you.” This quote shows Levi is facing multiple difficult obstacles such as going through peace during the war and especially sickness. These proves that no matter what Levi is going through, he finds his way to communicate with Rose and update her with what is going on around him. Another example that Levi was dedicated is on letter four from March 30, 1939. He stated, "I will send that stuff to you in a few days but I don't know just when I have to go to the post office to send it and office is only open during working hours. I have a lot of work to do again now." This quote shows that Even though Levi had a tough schedule, he still managed to send her the package that she needed and also responded to her in a heart bit. 

Another personality that Levi showed is companionly. Levi portrayed this personality on letter forty-nine from August 11, 1945 where he stated, "How are you and "sandy boy"? I would sure like to be there." This quote shows that he not only knew Rose from San Diego, he also knew some other people and this portrayed even though they can't be with them physically, he still wanted to checked up on them. Also on letter fifty-one from August 28, 1945, Levi stated "Well I have been busy but have written you letters you should have before now. I sent two pkgs. a week ago sent them first class so you should have them by now." This shows that even with the navy taking most of his time, he still manages to write back to Rose. 

The last personality that Levi portrayed in these letter is considerate which means careful to cause inconvenience or hurt others. On the second letter from April 25, 1939, Levi stated, "I wish I could see you, I haven't been ashore yet, don't believe I will go either. I hope you are ok I guess you will be trying your money about feb. 1st I drew 25 today so I think we got rations up to the 10th." This shows that Levi was trying his best to support his wife even though he's facing financial problems in the navy. 

In conclusion, Levi Kinsel was a hard working man who was serving his country for freedom and living and constantly supported his love one in his best ability. Where we found out that he was a dedicated, companionate, and considerate person after transcribing the letter that he wrote to his loving wife Rose.