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Dear Mom
The front here in Paris is agonizing and it's just as hard for a medic as a soilder we see dead bodies all day every day and those who aren't dead bodies at first will be within the hour, soilders drop as the artillery bring fire upon the trenches and when we look over the trenches we have seconds before a sniper takes you out. Yesterday I was smacked against the trench wall due to a artillery shell exploding just above me suffered a small conccusion but had to get back on my feet to work with the wounded if not for my helmet I would have probably died, I can't wait to go home in a year I miss good cooked food and a warm bed, going to sleep without bombs going off would be comforting.
Two of my friends bet each other who could look over the trench the longest and they were both killed by snipers, tell dad I said hi and I sent something for Francis, an officers pistol, we got it from a German officer who commanded this trench before we took it back, keep the bullets on you though I don't want him shooting until I get back so I can teach him.




This is your sons company commander
SGT Turner

This note was found at the medic camp, your sons body was not there, he was taken prisoner by German forces he is deemed a P.O.W and hopefully we will be able to get him back, we are sorry for your son.
We send to you the pistol he mentioned in his letter and his dog tags and belongings when we find him we will send him back to you

History links

Books I would like to read
 The adventures of huckleberry Finn: a well known adventure book
 Civil war humor: a historic comedy of the civil war
 Killer angels: the story of Gettysburg

The great migration (1910-1930)

The Great Migration

(1910-1930)

By: Sean Marbell

The great migration is a period of sadness for all southern African-Americans just because people weren't excepting of blacks in there community. Many of them moved away from friends and families to start a new life in the North with new friends and escape the harsh treatment of Southerners. Many who made the trip were unskilled laborers looking for a good education to get the tools they need to get a job. A total of 1.6 million migrants came from the south to the north in a span of 20 years.

Big cities were the main destination of this migration. the most went to cities such as New york and Chicago. Due to this migration the average of African-Americans in northern states increased about forty percent. Migrants, though they left the south, only educated migrants got jobs and the rest tried to get education but just when things got good discrimination was still there to hold them back. The immigrants discriminating against the migrants were only intimidated by this work force out to take jobs from them so they tried to not let that happen by being mean and making conditions hard on them.


 

The jungle

1) What qualities did Sinclair believe a person must have to succeed in Packingtown?
The qualities Sinclair thought where needed to succeed in Packingtown was dishonesty. you had to be a cheat your way to the top in order to get to the top of business.

2)According to the passage, what is the plant owner's main goal.
The plant owner's goal is to squeeze every last bit of energy and effort out of his workers then toss them out and replace them.

 3) What does Sinclair mean when he says, "...there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar....?"
money meant more then loyalty of your workers in packingtown.


In 1937 a drug killed 103 people before quickly being recalled, drugs then weren't tested as much as they are now-a-days because now all drugs are being tested until chemists are almost 100% sure it works effectively.

Sinking of the Maine

Sinking of the Maine.

The Maine was a second-class battleship built between 1888 and 1898. This large ship was sent to Havana in January 1898 to protect American interests during the Cuban revolution against the Spanish government. The evening of 15 February 1989 the Maine was destroyed when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded killing nearly three-quarters of her crew.

The sinking of the Maine led to out-cry among citizens of the U.S for war and to popular belief Spain was to blame.Within a few month America went against Spain and we basically kicked the Spaniards out of the western hemisphere and the Cubans got Cuba back as there own place with no one else in control. The Maine's wreck was raised in 1912 to clear the harbor in Havana and to investigate the cause of her sinking. The remains are scattered in the ocean north of Havana.

  

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was born in April 27, 1820 and died December 8, 1903. He was an English philosopher, a biologists, an anthropologists, a sociologists, and a political theorist all wrapped up in one man. Herbert Spencer was an enthusiast of human evolution in every way, mind, biology, and even human cultures and societies. Spencer is best known for the expression "survival of the fittest'' which he did in principles of biology a book he wrote in 1864.

   Although Spencer had many great accomplishment he did have a life of his own as well, as a young man Spencer worked as a civil engineer during the railroad construction in the late 1830's. He also took his free time to write journals. From 1848 to 1853 he serves as sub-editor on the free-trade journal ''the economists.''

    

Life in the railroad camps.

                                   Life in the Railroad Camps

 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-hell/

life in the camps where hard sometimes you would finish setting  up a temporary bar only to take it down then set it up 20 miles west or north from there only to set it up and take it down again. Entrepreneurs followed these railroads to make money off the idle railroad workers from a bar to a barber to a brothel. tons of money was made and these entrepreneurs made it easier for workers building the railroads. Boom towns as they called it where towns set up by entrepreneurs and when the railroad stop bringing in money the town went broke and people moved to the next boom town to make more money. In 1869 true chaos broke out when a large group of shopkeepers and railroad workers declare war to form there own group and hung a vigilante called "the kid" they later started to hang almost all criminals in the area of the railroad construction getting criminal after criminal until the kids gang retaliated and broke out into an all out battle in the streets of a boom town, it was criminals versus shopkeeper and railroad workers, the criminals lost and many where hung and the rest where chased from towns and hunted down.

By: Sean Marbell