12/05/1945 Five planes and entire crew disappear in the Bermuda Triangle

Check out the famous disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle ~ Wikipedia

Other instances:
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/lost_ships.html - Lost Ships
http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/lost_aircraft.html - Lost Aircraft

In 200 words or more:
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
Why you believe the Disappearances occur?

November 22, 1963 JFK Assassination

November 22, 1963 JFK Assassination

History.com Video

Picasa Web Album

JFK Speech

In 200 words or more please answer the following questions.

In your own words what does it mean to be a leader? What does it mean to lose a leader? Some people are saying that Barack Obama is the next JFK what would it mean to you if he was assassinated?

November 14th, 1851

Moby Dick Trailer

On this date in 1851 Herman Melville published his novel Moby Dick. Despite initial mixed reviews this novel has now been considered to be one of the greatest writings in the American language.

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. ~Wikipedia~

In 200 words or more:

1. List 3 of your favorite books.
   
2. Choose one of those books and give a brief summary geared to promoting the book to someone of your age.
3. Explain why it is important to read and or How reading has changed your life.
   

November 4th, 2008

Barack Obama Wins 44th Presidential Election.
How does this change the world?

Teachable Moments

Watch CBS Videos Online

Look at the above "Teachable Moments" images and watch the CBS video then answer the following question in 200 words or more.

How has this election changed the world?

October 31, 1517

Martin Luther post his 95 thesis on the door of the Catholic church. This later led to him being "expelled" from the Catholic church/religion which led to the creation of the Protestant religions.

• Protestantism
• What is Faith?
• Faith around the world
• Religions
  

In 200 words or more please answer the following questions. Remember to place your first name and period you have class on the blog posting.

What is religion? How do people use religion in their lives? Do you feel that religion is important to yourself, to the human race? What would the world be like without religion?

October 27, 1904

New York City Subway opens

Look at and read the links below and then answer the following questions in 200 words or more.

• Sizes of transportation
• Washington Post Atticle
• Mass Transit and your Health
• Ministry for the Environment
  

How has mass transit impacted our lives? Think about how you get to school everyday. What would happen if someone had to drive you to school everyday? Think about how vehicles effect traffic, pollution, the environment and your everyday life. How could we, as a society, improve transportation so that it would improve our lives?

October 17th, 1919

Celebs Before and After - Creating a false sense of beauty

October 17th 1919 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed. The company became a giant in electronics, especially radios and TVs. It would later own its own TV network (NBC) and other broadcast interests.

Read this brief (it is only 3 paragraphs) article

In 200 words or more answer the following questions.

How has media influenced our lives? Think about what is popular and why is it popular? How does media affect the way we think about ourselves?

October 10, 2006 Google buys YouTube.com

October 10, 2006 Google buys YouTube.com for $1.6 billion

What is a web 2.0 webpage?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

December 25, 1990 the internet is invented. Sir Tim Berners-Lee "father of the internet"

Look at the links above and then answer the following questions in 200 words or more.

How has the internet affected our lives?

• email
• online shopping
• IMs
• online gaming
• advancements in computing
• collaboration of ideas instantly
• Advancement in software - Google Earth, Google Sketch-up
  

How has web 2.0 affected our lives and the world?

Digital pen-pals. How do you feel about conversing with someone from the other side of the world? - instantly

October 2, 2002 - Gun Laws

Are we safe?

Look at the links below and think about how guns and violence have changed your lives. Then in 200 words or more answer the following questions.

Why do so many people think guns are "cool"? Are we safe? How has violence/guns affected your life? Should there be a change made to the 2nd amendment? Should there be more strict laws and punishments for those who use guns illegally?

2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir-crime-murders-with-firearms

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment II) is a part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the pre-existing individual right to possess and carry weapons (i.e. "keep and bear arms") in case of confrontation. Codification of the right to keep and bear arms into the Bill of Rights was influenced by a fear that the federal government would disarm the people in order to impose rule through a standing army or select militia, since history had shown the way tyrants eliminated resistance to suppression of political opponents was to simply take away the people's arms and make it an offense to keep them.

September 25, 1957

PBS Video

May 17th, 1954
Brown vs Board of Education

On September 25, 1957, nine black students entered the school under the protection of 1,000 armed members of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army.

After watching the above video and skimming the Wikipedia site, in 200 words or more comment on the following questions:

Think about integration of nationality, religion, race, social economic and other determining factors.

What is integration? Should integration be instated again? Are there benefits to integration?



Little Rock, AR

September 15, 1935

On September 15th, 1935 Germany enacted a set of laws infringing on the Jewish religion. The Nuremburg laws were the first set of laws to deny basic rights to Jews throughout Germany.

Eventually these laws were further defined to deny even the right to live for members of the Jewish faith, leading to the Holocaust.

The Nuremberg Laws
What is a jew?

In 200 words or more answer/discuss the following questions.

What is equality? Are we all equal? Are some people better than others? Who has the right to take away the rights of another?

September 11th, 2001

1. Watch the video listed below or the video provided by your teacher, look at the wikipedia link and read several postings from the SHS Constitution Day blog then proceed to question 2.
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cb1627a2044908a42fdc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks

http://shsconstitutiondayblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-does-freedom-mean-to-you.html

2. In 200 words or more answer the following question. Remember to include only your first name and the period you have class

What is freedom? How do feel to be an American or live in America?