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Check out the Wordles for the United States Declaration of War and the German Response to the United States. In a short blog post predict what you think was the tone of the US declaration of war. Also, discuss what you think the German response said.


The United States was not yet at war and was one of the first big major wars the United States has been in so the US was more concerned on the military and helping the other nations. Where as Germany was already at war and was pushing to cause the other nations to starve and stop the US entering the war.

World Safety

Your squad breaches the door of a suspected insurgent safe-house. After securing the building and flex-cuffing six people found inside, one of your team members finds materials typically used in making IEDs (bombs) under some floor tiles. There is reliable intelligence that the IEDs are also being assembled in another location nearby. Unfortunately, this location has not yet been specifically identified. Finding this other "bomb factory" is a vary high priority.
a. How should you treat these detained prisoners?
b. What are some potential long and short-term repercussions if any of these detainees are mistreated?


In the matter of war or that people lives are in danger i would treat the matter very seriously. Scaring the prisoners into telling me where the next location is will be my main goal. Killing some of the prisoner to scare the ones that are left. And beating some of them so they know we will not give up until they tell me. Some of the repercussions could be in trouble with your own government and possibly starting a war. Which is not wanted. But I'm sure you would get into some sort of trouble if you killed some prisoners for information. But its for the safety of the world to do so. So it is nesscary. 

Weekly Article 12.10.10

With the introduction of video games such as Call of Duty, and other war shooter games, a controversey has brewed about the violence they recreate. Read the following articles dealing with video game violence. In your weekly article this week, aruge for one side of the video game violence debate. Should games that portray war, such as Call of Duty, be allowed to exist? More importantly do they diminish the violence that actually occurs in real war (keeping in mind there was no "reset" button for soldiers of World War I)?  

Video game violence has been around for years now. Kids and teenagers around the world have seen the violence in movies or video games. So its nothing new to them when a new video game comes out because they have seen it before. I believe that Call of Duty and other violent games should be allowed to exist because they should know what real war is like or can be like. War is a bad thing and for kids to know this early might make them a peaceful person. But the only reason kids that are under a certain age cannot buy the games if it is too violent. A lot of the times the parent buys the game for the child so the parent is in wrong also. I think if you are old enough to buy the violent games there's nothing wrong with playing the game. I do not think they diminish or lessen the violence that happens in real war because when you are in war, you would be very scared and worried for your life. Call of Duty is not going to be in your mind when you are in a war. Also no matter what people are going to fight, a video game is not going to effect the war or the fighting in the war. The video game to the left is called Grant Theft Auto, one of the most violent video games on the market. Many teenagers and kids play this game. As you can see in the bottom left hand conner there is a rating. The rating stands for mature which is 17+. So you have to be 17 to buy the game. But the video game is completely fake to me. It is not even close to reality and a war seen. In the video game you can go around killing people which is not nice. Many people get ideas of video games and do it in real life. This would be the only reason to me as to why they should not be allowed in society. In real life, you do not have a extra life or a pause so you can keep living. If you get shot most of the time it was most certain death, you unless you were lucky and controlled the bleeding and got the bullet out fast enough. In world war one, the great war many times doctor's would have to amputate body parts for the person to live. To me they make violence in war more worst because they have seen what they can do on the video games and want to do it in real person. Most of the time this is not the case, if you live like you do in a video game you will die pretty fast. So i do think violent video games should be able to exist because its the parents choice if the children can play it or not. There is nothing wrong with them because they are not reality and do not lessen the war, nor do they make it worse.

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Air Combat

World War I introduced lots of new technologies on the weapons front, one of them being the airplane. Check out Dogfight (that's what you call two planes fighting air-to-air combat), play it, and write about what you think was going through a pilot's mind while fighting in an air-to-air combat situation. This fighting style continued through the Cold War.


When a pilot takes off his airplane to go into combat with another airplane, the feeling must be terrible. They would try their hardest to move the plane without getting shot at while the other man would defend his plane with a turret gun. The turret gun had to be very smart because he could shoot his own plane up when the pilot moves the plane and the plane could crash. So there are many things you have to think of while you are fighting in a dog fight. Another through that would be on the pilots mind was if he was going to live or not. Also when its time to land the plane and return home would also be running through his mind. Pictures of family members are also placed in the window so they can have their last view of loved ones. Because there was a 50 to 50 chance of getting shot out of the sky. Now a days i would feel more safe in an airplane because the jets are much more fast and safer. They now don't have dog fights anymore they just drop bombs on targets.

Artillery shells

At the time - World War I, the Great War, saw the greatest number of casualties the world had ever seen. Watch the trailer from the remake of Gallipoli (1981) and predict what you think caused the great number of casualties. Be specfic pulling specific examples from the video clip. Also discuss what impact the number of casualties had on society.


From watching this movie trailer and stuff i have already known i predict that most of the casualties where done by disease among the trenches and battle wounds not been treated. Remember that this is in the year of 1915 so there where not many ways too stop bleeding or to survive the bleeding. Many times you would have to cut of arms and legs so that the casualty could live. Another cause of the great number of casualties in world war 1 was the invention of artillery which killed and wounded many people from the shrapnel that the bombs produced. Sinking of battleships and navy fights also killed a lot people because if the boat was hit by artillery from another ship, the ship would sink and it took many people to man a battleship. The last cause of many casualties was because of gun to gun warfare. Which many people where slaughtered in the battlefield.

Now that you are an expert on the topic of imperialism and all that it entails... find a current event article that gives readers an example of imperialism (not involving the United States). Provide a link to the original article and then provide some discussion as to why your selected example is imperialism - and go one step further - is it economic or political imperialism (or both).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11799078

In this current event the stronger nation being Russia has captured a Israeli mercenary back to his country after being caught since 2001. This is an example of imperialism because the stronger nation has already oppressed the weaker nation by capturing a spy. But since the weaker nation could do anything to get the captured spy back this is an example of imperialism. Like the queen of Hawaii could not do anything to stop the United States annexing the islands. The spy was found in Colombia and the Russians captured him and has just been released back to his home country.  

Digging holes for Bodies

Read this post from a blog documenting the history of West Indians (people from the Caribbean islands). The blog post discusses several of the issues faced by workers during the construction of the Panama Canal. Write a short journal entry from the point of view of one of the West Indian workers detailing the dangers they faced during the construction of one of the most pivotal man made structures in the world.


Dear Journal


Arriving in Panama, with numbers. Many of my friends where scared of death. I was not, if i was going to die i was going down with a fight. I would try my hardest to get the job home and return home. I knew that the most common ways to die were Malaria and yellow fever. The only possible thing that could be scaring to me was the heat we had to work in. I was not use to cutting down jungle after jungle for hours on end the dreadful heat. At I was a white man, we had more chance of survival than the black man working in Panama. Even if the black man lived he would be scared for life of the days,weeks, or months working in Panama. At least i wasn't on the bomb team. Chances of team where highly likely because explosions could happen prematurely or early. Most of the bomb teams were black people so i was lucky in that aspect also. Seeing many people die from railroad accidents was horrifying. It was like working to jobs one building the Panama Canal and the other digging holes for bodies.