Organized Crimes. ♥

    Yes, i wasn't there to see the presentations on Monday but i did learn a lot about my person who was George Kelly Barnes. He committed a lot of crimes and got infamous from many especially for kidnappings. This man grew up from a wealthy family so you would think he would of ended off on the right foot, but instead he took a wrong turn. He even dropped out of college and thats when he got involved with the wrong people and the wrong business. But, apart from that, he was just a person like all of us. His mother died, got divorced, events happened just like it would for all of us. But he eventually got what was coming for him. He got arrested plenty times, and honestly thats where he belonged. I believe many people like him got involved because the 18th amendment passed and it was a fast and easy way to get money because many people wanted to drink alcohol and gangsters provided it.
                               This is what led to gangsters like Machine Gun Kelly.
     The Prohibition laws on alcohol led to the organized crimes. All because of this law, crime rates shot up.  Arrests for being drunk, Homicides, assault, and battery increased like crazy. Gangster's started to develop for example Al Capone. Al Capone ran many illegal businesses including bootlegging, gambling, prostitution and murder. A lot of people didn't have jobs and they needed to provide their families. Gangsterism was dangerous but it was a fast and easy way to make the money they need. The government thought passing Amendment 18 would curb crime and violence, Prohibition did not achieve it's goals. It lead more toward crime rates and violence with many people dead or sent to jail. Also, now with the gangsters in business and selling illegal alcohol SPEAK EASY's (illegal bars) were pretty much out of business. I guess Amendment 18 didn't go as well as they planned due to the organized crimes.

Acrostic Poem, :)

Prohibition passed and increased the amount of drinking.
Rum runners were people who smuggle alcohol.
Out with the drinking.
Henry Ford pushes Prohibition Amendment.
IRS were enforcing Amendment 18.
Bootleggers which were people who make illegal alcohol.
Illegal bars were also known as SPEAK EASY.
Transportation of alcohol was banned.
"Intoxicating Liquors" manufactured and sale of liquor was banned.
Opposite was true instead of promoting the nations health and hygiene, criminal activity and drug abuse increased.
"Noble experiment" didn't work out too well when violent activity went on due to no alcohol being present.

IN THE

Roaring Twenties was a time when lifestyles changed, financial excesses, and technology progresses.
Organized crimes escalated and notorious names such as Al Capone appeared.
Amendment 18 had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor.
Red Scares refer to the fear of communism in the U.S.
Inventions like the automobile, radio, and the first movie with sound developed.
Nation became urban and commercial.
Great Drepression.


Traditions stopped when new technology developed.
Women smoked, drank, danced, and voted. They were called flappers.
Established law was broken by many people who began to look for other ways of obtaining alcohol.
"Nifty" and "Nobody's home" is some examples of slang, it means great and describes someone whose dumb.
Techniques of architect allowed builders to construct taller buildings; first skyscraper began in the 1920's.
Immigrants in major cities created the feelings of a foreign takeover. 
Education was another important source behind the 1920's.
Society changed and brought many positive and negative changes in America. 

Dear,

 Dear editor, 


      Okay so, i know you heard of WikiLeaks, and how much it has cost us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm not really on any side, but honestly people have different ways on viewing this whole situation on whether they are all out for WikiLeaks because they hear about the information that is not getting to us from the Government itself, and some just think it's too much for them to fathom, or don't even want to deal with it in other words.
         
       The people who think WikiLeaks is a somewhat blessing. They think this because they do not want no secrets between the Government and us, people. These people want to know what the soldiers are doing, and how we are doing things in war. They find it that the Government lies to us, and they need to let us now what's going on because we live here to and we deserve the right to know. This is a good thing and a bad thing. 
  
      For those people who think WikiLeaks shouldn't exist. They don't like seeing our government bad, because it shocks them because we are suppose to be this big role model, and it seems like we never to anything wrong. But, we are wrong. We do make mistakes, and these people are just embarrassed. Maybe this was a bad idea because the Government didn't want this getting out for a reason, maybe that reason was to protect us. Who knows?


     From my experience seeing the video where innocent people were killed, and how the soldiers were joking around with killing whoever like a video game makes me think what are we in this war for anyways anymore. This is a reason it should have been leaked. It makes me and probably other people what we are doing is very wrong, and this should be stopped. Yeah watching this scared me a little, and i thought it was fake for a minute but that doesn't change what they did. They did what they did, and now it's leaked out. That's their fault and they can't blame anybody for it. 
     
        This guy Julian caused a lot of trouble, but also gave us the REAL information and let us see how everything really goes down. It may be illegal, but it's the right thing to do in some cases. Some people would agree and some would disagree. Like i said, many people have different views. My view is simple, i'm neither for or against WikiLeaks, i'm kind of in the middle. I would love to hear what your thoughts on this so called trouble making sites called WikiLeaks, i mean we all have different opinions anyway. Thank you for your time, and i really hope this whole WikiLeaks gets cleared up, also the soldiers learn by this leak that what they are doing in war right now is not right. 


     Hope this made you think a little bit about the possibilities of WikiLeaks.

                       Sincerely, 
                         Marissa Balance

tone of the US declaration/German

   I think the tone of the United States Declaration of war was kind of a peaceful thing. They wanted people to have rights, and to be free. But the US didn't want to get involved in anything, but they have to because Germany was "messing" with the US, making them want to get involved, and doing things to tick them off. But no matter what i think the tone of the declaration is that they are ready, and armed to fight. They don't like to be in war, but if we have to do it, we have to do it. The German seem to be disappointed in a way. They seem to not be as good as the US well duh. But, they seem determined, like they refuse to not loose. 

IED's, "NO, DON'T HURT ME!"

A. You should treat these prisons not so well. You should threaten their life, and torture them in ways that will make them tell you. If you threaten them, and torture they will eventually come out and tell you everything they know. I just don't believe you should go as far as physical hurting them, just mentally.


B. If you mistreat them in the long term, they could become mentally ill, and or die. They might just think that they are already going to die because they are captured so they wont tell you anything, and you wont have anything to help you so all of it was a waste. Do torture them too much, just do it as far as something you do will make them tell you.

Weekly article #5, ♥

        When dealing with the subject of violence of video games mimicking war, like “Call of Duty”, I believe everything people say is exaggerated. Video games such as these are really only for entertainment purposes. If parents or other people think that video games with that amount of violence are too much for them to handle, then they should stay away from it. These games only show a very small example of what truly happens in war, even the amount of blood when shot in these games would never compare to the amount in an actual event where someone is shot. Yes, people will continue to say that the violence is too much, but commercials are shown on TV every day encouraging people to enroll with the Marines or join the military. But yes these games do diminish the amount of violence, but for the specific reason that people do not see the reality of what it is really like in war. If a parent truly believes that their child could be affected by what these games display, it is very easy to stay away from it. Some parents even say that their children may try to mimic what occurs in the game. But the way I see it if you have a child who is able to get to any type of weapon and do things with it then that is called bad parenting, not video game violence. It seems as though some people are trying to find something to blame for anger or violence in their own children or people they know, or maybe even in themselves, and in this case it is games like these. No game tells the player to go out and copy what you see, every one controls their own actions and they are the only ones responsible for what they do, not a game. I think that that is the reason each game has its own rating, it warns you of what is in the game or just how intense it gets. From being someone who has played “Call of Duty” there are even parts in the game that warns you before you play it. The game even asks you if you want to skip any parts, so everything done is by choice. The rating is a clear restriction to anyone who may be offended by these games or anyone who thinks that they are just too intense for anyone. It’s a little crazy itself to blame any video game for being too violent, there is a reason they are called games, entertainment. Either way people should know to look into whatever they are trying to buy anyway, if they do this it would easily solve any problems with people who buy games not knowing the contents that they contain. Videos games that mimic what occurs in war can never be too violent or explicit. The graphics and events in these games has such a diminished level of violence that they could never be compared to the real violence of war.
   
    Video games are different from actual people in war i admit, but each has it's own morals. Also, when you're playing Call of Duty and you die, you could just hit the button that says "play again." But in the case of someone actually fighting in the war, they don't have the type of button where you could just redo it and be alive, instead they die without any changes if shot or bombed. People need to realize the difference. But Call of Duty being just a game should exist because i don't see a reason why it shouldn't.


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The one and ONLY letter..

   The frustrations of just having the letter for the soldiers only life line pretty much sucked. I read some of them, and they say that they find the letter in the bottom of the box and sometimes find them really late. Also, some say that one of their friends write them that they are sick. The soldiers must get really frustrated on how long it takes for their letters to be sent or received. Also it must make them really sad because if a person wrote them that they are currently sick, that person could have already died for what ever reason and the solider would have never known or even had time to write the back a letter. Having that one life line must of caused a lot of stress because now-a-days if i don't talk to my boyfriend for one day, i flip out. I could imagine what they went through missing all of their loved ones, and not knowing if they are okay or not. Mostly, they are mad because they have no clue whats going on back in town, or if their girlfriend has moved on. There are plenty of reasons why one messily letter could pretty much piss off a solider.