Honors blog

A revolution is when a government or political system is overthrown by the people being governed. For us to figure out if the Civil was is actually like the a Second American Revolution we have to look at what happened in the Civil war and see if it is like a Revolution. There were several rebellions throughout the Civil war, and throughout the Civil war there was a new government that was set up with new political parties, things where getting established at this time, things where changing in the world. Also the North and the South where fighting or their independence.

The North and the South had some issues with each other because at this time there was slavery and they both had the totally opposite view on the issue at hand. The North did not want slavery they thought that it was not good to have slavery because the slaves were people themselves. The South on the other hand thought that slavery was a good thing they did not want to get rid of it, slavery was beneficial to them because the slave did a lot of things for them and they didn't have to pay the slaves anything at all. The north and the south felt strongly on where they stood on the issue of slavery and they were not afraid to use unnecessary force to get what they wanted. A republican senator Charles Sumner gave a speech condemning slavery, and he insulted South Carolina and one of its senator, the Congressman of South Carolina Preston S. Brooks did not like that very much and he beat Sumner over the head with a can with a lot of anger even after it broke he kept on hitting him with it. This quote is from the Nation Of Nations book " The can had shattered into three pieces from the violence of the attack, but Brooks, swept up in the emotion of the moment, furiously continued hitting Sumner until the senator collapsed unconscious, drenched in blood." there is where the violence started because a senator had insulted someones state and they fought back with violence. The southerners were trying to keep the slavery through their big powers, for example the Dred Scott case he was not granted his freedom because there were five southern justices int he supreme court, " Two Northern justices joined all five southern members in ruling 7 to 2 that Scott remained a slave..." This quote form the Nation of Nations, people were standing up for what they wanted in big places like the Supreme Court. It was like the southerners were separating themselves and they wanted to have their own rules. People were either pleased or angry at the Dred Scott decision. People where taking a stand through the judicial power.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the main issue to why the southerners receded and kind of made their own government they separated themselves and became the confederates. When Lincoln became president the southerners got scared and they feel that what they were fighting for would soon come to an end because the president had an opposing idea that what they did. This quote shows it " Lincoln's election struck many southerners as a blow of terrible finality, they felt that them receding was the only way to protect their liberty. They succeeded from he union and then they made their own government with their own president,this quote from the Nation of Nations shows it " The rest of the deep south followed, on February 7, 1861, the states stretching from South Carolina to Texas organized the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis president." It started with a couple of states and then moved to the others like a domino effect they all started to separate themselves, that is how they all became the Confederate States. A lot of states started to succeed and i was all so unexpected Lincoln felt that something had to be done,this quote from the nation of Nations shows this " Matters had passed beyond compromise.”

The North was given the order to put down the rebellion in the southern states
people though that this war wouldn't be very long and the southern rebellion would be stopped. This war was actually very bad with the deaths of many. This war was fought by so many troops as much as 100,000, and they were supplied through the railroads, " So many combatants could be equipped only through the use of factory-produced weaponry, they could be moved and supplied only with the help of the railroads..." this is a quote from Nation of Nations. These people were fighting for what they believed was the right thing for their country whether it be slaves or anti-slaves. You can say that the Civil war was not a typical war it was different than the ones that had come before it. Wars were usually a fight for a piece of land, but this time it was different they were fighting for liberty, and some were fight in for the rights they thought people should have including the slaves.

The Civil War was referred to as the Second American Revolution because there was a difference in the war people were fighting for what they though was right, there was a change going through this people made their own Government and they had like their own Confederate States. The people being governed rebelled against the government in place and did their own thing. It was a revolution but in the Civil War people fighting for what they thought was right.

THanKs!!!

I am very thankful for my mother This year and every year, she has been through so many struggles physically and emotionally, but somehow she still seems to put everyone before herseflt, she like to help people, and she really wants me to do something with my life as do I. I am thankful that she puts up with me, and never gives up on me even when I am not the nicest person in the world. THANKS MOM!!!!

PART 2
One of the things I am going to do befor spring break is that I am going to finish my second draft of my story board because some of the stuff I was going to put in the video have changed.

The second things I am going to do is On Saturday I am going to go to the surf rider beach clean up at dog beach, and when I am there I am going to be filming a little bit and I am going to take pictures for my video. After that iam going to be interviewing some people that I need in my video an that is what I am goin to do.

The third thing I am goin to do is that I am goin to work on my edeting of footage and I am going to be working on the creation of my video, that way I can have a good start on it. This week we got to start working on it and that is exactly what I did I took the time given to me and started working on them.

QUestions aNswered...

1. I am discovering many things in this project because it is also connected to Biology class and we get to test the water at the local beaches for different bacteria. I am discovering that a lot of the bacteria comes from the sewage runoff into the water, and something that is weird is that at the beach that I am mostly focusing on in this project OB, we got to go water saple collecting one day after it rained and when we went to the beach if you were to look at the water the whole shallow water all the way out into deeper water was yellow and you could really see the difference from the dirty water, and the clean blue water. I got to see first hand the dirty water I found that interesting because if it was before this project I wouldn't have even noticed it. I am interviewing people as well so I will get their input on how they feel about what is going on.

2.Sometimes I feel that it is going to be very easy but then I get hit with reality and it is actually not that easy so what I have to do is work really hard and do all of my work, but I have to measure my time wisely because we do not have to much time to do things and I really have to focus.

3.The next steps would have to be get all of of my interviews done for my video and also do the research for some of the facts that will be in my video ass well. I also have to take pictures of the beach that I will be putting into my video. Last but not least I will have to put all of my video together do a lot of editing and just make it look good.

Some kind of help..

I liked this video because it kind of looks like a commercial and it has text through out the video like I am planning to have in my video. I only like certain aspects of this video that I might use in my video,like the text and maybe how the pictures move fast. That seemed pretty cool maybe i can do that in the end when the video is finishing.





This is a good video because it has a little bit of what I want to have in my video. I am going to have interviews with people and also the doctors from urgent care on the beach so I think that this video shows that. I will also take footage of the people on the beach and this video shows it as well.

My Plan!!!

My question for the H2O project is as follows:
How do bacteria levels in local beaches affect beach goers?

I am planning on making an informative video of me interviewing people, their response will be most of the video there will be a little bit of text and some photos that I will take at the beahces.

A)Resources needed

*A camera so I can take picturea
*A video camera for the video portion with a tripod.
*Computer to edit footage
*Water samples from different beaches like OB,PB, and other beaches
*Transportation (if possible)

B)People I will need
*I am going to be getting a contact list for people I can interview
but so far I have a couple of people so far:
*I would interview beach goers anyone who would be willing to be interwieved
*Surfers
*Doctors from the urgent care on the beaches
*Lifeguards

C)Schedule for the next two weeks

Thursday: make my plan for what i need for me to follow through with this project

Friday 11/7/08: Finish list of questions for the interviews, and also get help on finding contacts from Randy. So that i can get approved and will have access to resources in the foolowing days when needed.

Sat 11/8/08 through Tues 11/11/08: Plan out what I am going to do for the interviews, and maybe try to make more questions for interviews.

Wed 11/12/08 through Fri 11/14/08: get my resources and go to the beaches and do my interview with the people, doctors, and lifeguards, some of these may be scheduled. Also take any photos that I may use in my Video.

Mon 11/17/08: taking last minute pictures or getting any more interviews if needed if not then it will be as follows.

Mon 11/17/08 through Fri 11/21/08: This week I will be putting all of the pictures and editing all my footage together to make my video. I will be editing the footage to transition well throughout the video, and i will be fixing all of the photo and text into the video.

That is what I have planned so far for the next two weeks....!!

Election Reflection..

I feel really good about the elections because someone that isn't what everyone is used to won the elections. I like how Obama one it is showning that our country is changing new things are happening.
First of all I just hope that people accept that Obama is the President of the United States, and that people stop being mad about it, because there isn't much they can do now too change that. Our country has made a big change from what people are used to seeing. Peopla shoulc not hate it but they should try and see what something new can offer before they judge the person.
Another thing that I hope is that there can be more equality due to the ellections and now there is a difference.
My concerns for our community are the economic crisis that we are in I hope that it can be helped, the war in Iraq I hope the decisions made are the right ones.

H2O Project

1)How acidic is the beach water now and will the acidity increase with all the CO2 being produced in the environment?

Yes some oceans are becoming more acidic, and it is increasing with the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. It is not good that all of this CO2 is being absorbed into the ocean, and article that i read stated that,
"The ocean naturally absorbs about one-third the total amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere; as concentrations of the gas increase in the air, so does the amount taken up by the sea"

That is not so good one of the things that is happening is that the coral reef is dieing and it is said that it will all die by the end of this century if the water keeps absorbing the CO2. the coral reef is home to a lot of marine life if the coral reef were to die it would affect a lot of other species. This article says:
"called the rain forests of the sea, coral reefs are the ocean’s most biologically diverse ecosystems, supporting roughly 25 percent of marine life and more than 4,000 species of fish."

With all of the CO2 being absorbed by the ocean the acidity is going up in the oceans, the pH level is going down which means it is becoming more acidic, the article from PLENTY says the following about the pH level in the oceans,
"The sea’s pH has dropped by 0.1 units over the past century."
That shows us that the water is becoming more acidic over time.





2)Does it cost us money to have clean water?How much does it cost to do so?

Yes it does cost us money to keep our water clean.People have been trying to keep the water clean for the longest time and it does cost money to have clean water. in this article that I read it says that the government helped fund organizations who wanted clean water. There is this thing called the Water Clean Act and according to the article,
"...hundreds of billions of federal, state and local dollars have been invested to achieve our national clean water goals."
The cost to having clean water is high. For some time the funding for things was working and it helped clean a lot of water everywhere the article says,
"From 1974-1994 the Federal Construction Grants Program invested $96 billion in new construction and upgrades of municipal wastewater treatment plants. Local governments followed suit with an investment of $117 billion. The federal, state and local funding strategy worked, and we made remarkable environmental progress.

Over the next years the cost will go up more and it is said that it is getting harder since the government can't really help because of the economic situation we are in at the time. The price for clean water is higher, the article states,
" From this perspective, future wastewater investment costs are more than twice as high as EPA's estimate — at least $330 billion over the next 20 eyars. This $330 billion needs estimate does not include rising operation and maintenance costs, which could increase by an average of 3.8 percent per year over the next 20 years, putting more pressure on the ability of local governments."
So things are not getting any easier, they are actually getting harder which is not very good for us,because then it will be like drinking dirty water.






Sources:
PLenty: H2O + CO2

AMSA: clean water