4 paragraphs about The New Deal

Georgia Avery



Blog prompt: Identify and explain four ways that the New Deal still impacts us today. Focus on big ideas and/or individual programs that are still around today. For guidance, try looking at these six categories: banking/finance, workers rights, social, infrastructure, agriculture, and environmental. 

This is a four paragraph response. In each paragraph, explain the following about the lasting impact you are discussing: What was the importance then? Why is it important still today? How has it changed over time?





      There are many ways the New Deal affects us now. One is through the Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA). It is still used today. It was used to pay farmers to plant less crops and raise less livestock. The government also bought excess food to store for when there wasn't any food. It made food prices go up so that farmers could keep their farms. This is still used by the government today.
      A very important one is the Social Security Act. It helped old and poor people, handicapped, and children. It also made national pension happen. This is still very much in effect. It has changed a little, because now it helps put orphaned children in foster homes. Though it has changed over time it hasn't lost it's importance.
     The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped conservation efforts as much as it created jobs. People replanted forests and became firefighters. It is no longer in effect today, but that does not mean that it does not impact us today. Forests exist now because of their efforts. It also provided work and pay for men from ages 18-25.
     Soil Conservation Society (SCS) was created as a response to the "black blizzards" and dust storms that destroyed the farmland in the Dust Bowl. They planted trees in belts across the sandy eroded soil. These trees helped hold down the soil and stopped the winds from destroying everything. A version of the soil conservation service still exists, to protect the precious topsoil.

      

My essay

“Let us not forget, after all, that there is always a moment when the moral choice is made. Often because of one story or one book or one person, we are able to make a different choice, a choice for humanity, for life.” -Elie Wiesel (1928-2016). When I first read this quote I thought ‘No one is really influenced by people or books, everyone is their own person’. Then I realized that without my friends and family or all the books I have read, I would be very different. I have been changed by them. We are all unique, but we are influenced by almost everything we encounter. I can’t say that one thing has shaped my decision process. There is one book series that has had the most impact, the Harry Potter series.

Those seven books have influenced me in my decision making because they taught me empathy and how to put myself in other people’s shoes. I learned the that actions have consequences. There have been multiple studies which show that people who have read the Harry Potter books can be more tolerant and empathetic. The studies included groups of middle school, high school, and college students and they were asked questions about their opinions of refugees and immigrants. Those that had read Harry Potter were mostly more accepting of refugees and immigrants. Obviously these tests don’t prove that everyone who read Harry Potter automatically likes immigrants more than people who haven’t read the books. People who haven’t read the books can feel the same way. These tests just showed that the people who read them saw examples of discrimination between “pure-bloods” and “muggle-borns”, and they saw how it didn’t matter.

There is something about the main character, Harry, that readers identify with. He teaches us about ourselves and we can find situations in the book that happen to us in real life, if not in the exact same setting. Our decision making processes is shaped by our experiences, the experiences of people around us, and the experiences of people in books.

I now realize that books can influence you and change how you make your choices. I think that I would be a different person if I hadn’t read Harry Potter. The studies show that most people who have read Harry Potter make better ethical decisions. Harry Potter can not take all of the credit, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers, and everyone I have met all are responsible for me being who I am. I am challenging everyone, to think about who has influenced them, no matter how small, and then think about who they have influenced. I hope it will make everyone a little more appreciative.

Describing the Museum of Tolerance experience

Our field-trip to the Museum of Tolerance

            Last Friday we traveled to the Museum of Tolerance and learned about the Holocaust. It was a changing experience. After the long bus ride we entered the museum and me tour guide Walter. You could tell that he was very passionate about whet he was talking about. It hurt him to expose us to what happened back then, but he wanted us to know what happened so it would never happen again. We wandered through the exhibits and watched the videos of survivors and descriptions of the horrible events that led up to the Holocaust. We went into a replica of a gas chamber and you could imagine gas coming out of the spigots and smell the toxic fumes. After we went through all of the exhibits we got the opportunity to hear a survivor talk about his escape form his country.

           The survivor's name was Rolf, and he described the fear and uncertainty that plagued his town and country. His words were powerful and reached a lot of the audience. Though he did not experience the prison camps of gas chambers, he told us his story of how he barely escaped and was one of the few lucky Jews to get sponsored by an american citizen.

           A quote by Elie Wiesel is "When you listen to a witness, you become a witness". This is true because now I know about the Holocaust, and I know how to prevent it from ever happening again. i have had the chance to speak to a Holocaust survivor! Not many people have that opportunity now a days. We all saw how the hate was started, and how easily another Holocaust could happen. That is why it is so important to know how to prevent this from happening.

A gas chamber

Blog prompt: General Lee's horse journal entry to General Lee about what we have seen

My blog prompt: General Lee's horse writing a journal entry about "what we have seen" to General Lee


Day 20 of traveling

It is me again. Your horse. I am keeping a journal about our journey. Today we traveled through the mud, and we didn't stop all day! There was some new grass growing on the side of the road, you didn't even let me have a nibble! The rows of people and horses made lots of noise. My legs hurt, but I prefer a long trek to a charge into battle like last night! There were explosions everywhere that lit up the night. When are we going to go back to the Pasture? I want to go home.
      Horse out.




 
                     Me in all my glory

Blog prompt: A slave writing a letter to the American President

My prompt is: To write a letter to the american president as a slave about why slavery should not spread west, set around 1850

R = Slave
A = American President
F = Persuasive LetterT = Slavery should NOT be allowed to expand West because...



  Dear President Fillmore,
         My name is Matthew and I am a slave. I have asked a scribe to write this letter. My master has told me that the government and you are trying to decide whether or not California should be a free or slave state. I firmly believe that California should be free. Not just because I am a slave, but because I care about the gold miners. If slaves were allowed in California the gold miners wouldn't make as much money because the slaves would do the work and they would all give the gold to their owners, and unfair advantage to those who cannot afford a slave because the slaves are stealing the work.
        I hope you will at least consider my argument.
                   Matthew

My Mars Myth

Georgia Avery

12/9/16

Mrs Alldredge

English, A

How Humans came to Mars, and the discovery of the Star Leaves

Hundreds of years ago, humans lived only on Earth. They did not have spaceships that could go beyond the moon, and Mars could only be seen through a telescope. The people there dreamed of traveling to Mars and the surrounding planets. People scoffed at the thought that they could live on two planets. However, the human race has always sought to do the impossible and expand. One man who dreamed harder than everyone else was Scott Kelly Jr. He had wanted to go to Mars ever since he was little, so he piloted the first manned mission to Mars. It was called Explorer One. After a two year journey to Mars, they touched down on the surface of the Red Planet. They soon learned that they were not alone. There was intelligent life on Mars! They were tall, green, three legged beings that had root-like hands and leaves for hair. They called themselves the Star Leaves. The Star Leaves were peaceful, and without the humans wouldn’t have survived. The people of Mars initially declared independence from Earth, allying with the Star Leaves, but the two planets eventually united under a flag that showed Mars and Earth surrounded by a circle of stars. Mar’s original flag was a leaf in the shape of a star with a background of red. They traded goods, and people from both planets were allowed to travel to and from the planets. However, humanity was not satisfied, and scientists soon set their sights on other planets.

What would be the Bill of Rights on Mars?

My Blog prompt:
    What would be the Bill of Rights on Mars? Conceptualize what you think would be the 10 most important rights of individual citizens on Mars.


In the future if Mars was successfully colonized, there would need to be something like the Bill of Rights. Basic "undeniable truths",  and I need to find ten amendments that the future Martian government might use

1. I think that one really important amendment is: The First Amendment. It says that we have freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and peaceful assembly.
2. Another good one is the Sixth Amendment. It says that people who have been convicted have the right to a speedy and public trial, and an impartial jury.
3. Amendment Nine gives rights to the people that are not mentioned.
4. Amendment Ten the powers reserved for the states and the people.
5. Twelfth Amendment clarifies elections of Presidents (which Mars may or may not have.)
6. 15th rights regardless of race, etc . . .
7. 16th gov right to tax.
8. 19 women's rights.
9. 20 terms for President
10. 22 terms for elected President