Month: November 2017

racism then vs now

In my opinion racism is different now then before because now African Americans have the same rights as white people. Before it was African Americans were kept as slaves. Then slavery was abolished but Jim Crow laws were put into place so African Americans couldn’t use the same water fountains or washrooms as white people. African Americans also couldn’t be treated by a white nurse and to have their children educated separately. Some more evidence is how Martin Luther King jr really changed the world. He did this by doing non violent protest and trying to get white people to see how African Americans were the exact same and not different in any way. Also with the Ku Klux Klan they would terrorize and hurt groups/people they didn’t like  or agree with because they were unhappy with the way they and others were treated.

 

Letter to a soldier

(I did it as a soldiers wife)

Joe,
Here at home so much is happening. We have a new law called the war measures act. It makes it so the government can do whatever they want to get you and the other soldiers what they need.they have food, defence, materials, and many more things. They say the man in charge is Sam Hughes but that he has been replaced. They have started to censor mail and made people from Germany or Austria-Hungarian people carry identity cards. They have also created internment camps for all of the Germans and Austrian-Hungarians. They even have started to detain people without needing to have to have a reason for it. Many of the men that are still here are enlisting but the people from Africa, the Japanese and the First Nations are very discriminated against when they join. Also the women aren’t allowed to join because they think that we are too weak and emotional. Propaganda has started. I have heard from some Belgians that have fled here what happened. They told me how many are wounded and/or dead. Newspapers, posters, and magazines have used these stories and changed them around to make more people join. They say how barbaric Germans are and how they intend to destroy the civilized world. Many jobs have become open from all of the men leaving for war. We can now operate fishing boats, work on farms, and work in factories. I think that’s quite an improvement from being nurses, teachers, or servants because now many more women can work and bring home money. I work at a factory for filling artillery shells. Our motivation is having each other around and knowing that we are helping in some way. The economy has gotten really bad. The government has started raising prices for food we need to survive but not reasoning how much we are being paid. They started raising prices because so much of the stuff we need is being shipped off to the trenches. Us women have started to have more rights and equality ad we are finally allowed to vote. I’m not too sure if the war is a good thing because of how bad it has gotten here. I really do appreciate the fact that you have left to help Britain win the war. But is it really worth your life? You still have so much to live for because you are so young just like many of the other men in the war. I just hope that you return safe back to me when this is all over and I hope that the world returns to the way it was.

October lab reflection

The lab that I chose to reflect on was the “cake in a mug” recipe. I chose this recipe because this was a lab that I really enjoyed. I also chose this because it was a lab that wasn’t as big as the others but it was still very enjoyable. I enjoyed this lab because I had done something similar before but with a different recipe. It was nice because it was somewhat familiar so I kind of knew what I was doing but there was still new components to it. I also enjoyed this lab because it was the last lab with our first groups so it was kind of a nice goodbye. Our product definitely turned I the way I had hoped because it tasted and looked good. The only problem was that we mixed the chocolate chips into the.batter as opposed to putting them on top. It also turned out the way that I hoped because it was very chocolaty, there was the right amount of it, and the clean was very simple and didn’t take very long. My group worked ver well together on this lab because we all agree don how to do things and we all read through the recipe before we started. My group also worked very well together because everyone was following instructions, staying on task, and doing their job that they were supposed to be doing. If I were to do this lab agin I think that I would do everything the same because of how well everything worked.