Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Harriet Tumban - Feb. 18, 2016
Thesis: Harriet Tubman's greatest achievements were her involvement with the Underground Railroad, working with the Union Army, as well as giving up time in order to help others for a better cause.
Paragraph 1: Firstly, one of Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement was her involvement with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad were a series of passages that allowed enslaved African Americans to escape to the South.
Paragraph 2: Secondly, Harriet Tubman worked with the Union Army, leading enslaved African Americans to freedom.
Paragraph 3: Lastly, Harriet took time to help others by earning her own money to help others for a better cause.
Conclusion: In conclusion, over the course of Harriet's lifetime, she had achieved many great achievements which includes her involvement with the Underground Railroad, working with the Union Army, and giving up time to help others for a better cause.
Paragraph 1: Firstly, one of Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement was her involvement with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad were a series of passages that allowed enslaved African Americans to escape to the South.
Paragraph 2: Secondly, Harriet Tubman worked with the Union Army, leading enslaved African Americans to freedom.
Paragraph 3: Lastly, Harriet took time to help others by earning her own money to help others for a better cause.
Conclusion: In conclusion, over the course of Harriet's lifetime, she had achieved many great achievements which includes her involvement with the Underground Railroad, working with the Union Army, and giving up time to help others for a better cause.
Character Reflection
1. Think about the main characters in a film, television show, or video game you’ve enjoyed. Who are they?
One of my favorite main characters in a television show is Emily Thorne from the tv showed call "Revenge."
2. Where were their individual objectives? In others, what did they want more than anything? Her individual objective also known as what she wanted more than anything was to get revenge on those who had taken her father away from her as well as those who had wronged her and her father. Mainly wanting to get revenge on Victoria Grayson, one of her father's lovers who betrayed him. Her goal was to destroy the lives of every individual who played a role in ruining her father's life/imprisonment. A little backstory or basic knowledge on the show is: Revenge is a tv show about a woman named Emily Thorne. The story takes place at the Hamptons and rents a beach house which was her childhood home. When she was younger, her father was framed by her neighbours, the Graysons family, for treason.The show continues to talk about how her father was soon imprisoned for the "crime" and was soon murdered in prison by associates of those who had framed him. During this time, she was separated from her father and spent time in juvie. Hiding her childhood identity, she created a new identity and moved back to the Hamptons as an adult.
3. What were their obstacles? What kinds of things were standing in their way of meeting their objectives? Over the course of the show, Emily had faced many obstacles. At times when executing stages of her revenge plan, she found it difficult to be emotionally detached from what she was doing. At times she also struggled to identify her true motivations and had times where she examined how her actions changed her sense of how she saw herself as well as her identity. Through her journey, she begins to meet people who she could trust but worried how their involvement would change their lives and how she would proceed after she enacts her revenge. Another obstacle was that she began to become quite emotionally attached or somewhat felt a personal connection when she found her childhood friend, hiding her childhood identity and living a new life with an unknown identity. One last obstacle she would constantly faced was that her life was constantly in danger. There were also many times where her plans nearly fell apart, causing her to rethink her actions, but she still continued to work to achieve her objective.
4. How did the protagonist/antagonist relate to each other? How did they support each other? How did they fight against each other?
Though this character was sort of a mix of the protagonist and the antagonist due to the fact that she did plan revenge on those who had treated her and her father wrong. She had times where the audience were able to see her soft side. Whereas there were many times where her plans of revenge were quite cruel, ruining the lives of those who had a part of her father's death. The main antagonist or the woman who was Emily's main target, Mrs.Grayson, had times where they supported each other yet it was mainly them fighting against each other. For example, Emily began to get closer with Victoria Grayson's son in order to find more details about the family. During that season, Emily and Victoria had an on and off battle, fighting with each other verbally or Emily had planned minor things that would build up to ruin Victoria.
Here is one of my favorite scenes from the tv show where Emily shows a change in character. Especially since she had just recovered from a serious accident leaving her to forget everything.
One of my favorite main characters in a television show is Emily Thorne from the tv showed call "Revenge."
2. Where were their individual objectives? In others, what did they want more than anything? Her individual objective also known as what she wanted more than anything was to get revenge on those who had taken her father away from her as well as those who had wronged her and her father. Mainly wanting to get revenge on Victoria Grayson, one of her father's lovers who betrayed him. Her goal was to destroy the lives of every individual who played a role in ruining her father's life/imprisonment. A little backstory or basic knowledge on the show is: Revenge is a tv show about a woman named Emily Thorne. The story takes place at the Hamptons and rents a beach house which was her childhood home. When she was younger, her father was framed by her neighbours, the Graysons family, for treason.The show continues to talk about how her father was soon imprisoned for the "crime" and was soon murdered in prison by associates of those who had framed him. During this time, she was separated from her father and spent time in juvie. Hiding her childhood identity, she created a new identity and moved back to the Hamptons as an adult.
3. What were their obstacles? What kinds of things were standing in their way of meeting their objectives? Over the course of the show, Emily had faced many obstacles. At times when executing stages of her revenge plan, she found it difficult to be emotionally detached from what she was doing. At times she also struggled to identify her true motivations and had times where she examined how her actions changed her sense of how she saw herself as well as her identity. Through her journey, she begins to meet people who she could trust but worried how their involvement would change their lives and how she would proceed after she enacts her revenge. Another obstacle was that she began to become quite emotionally attached or somewhat felt a personal connection when she found her childhood friend, hiding her childhood identity and living a new life with an unknown identity. One last obstacle she would constantly faced was that her life was constantly in danger. There were also many times where her plans nearly fell apart, causing her to rethink her actions, but she still continued to work to achieve her objective.
4. How did the protagonist/antagonist relate to each other? How did they support each other? How did they fight against each other?
Though this character was sort of a mix of the protagonist and the antagonist due to the fact that she did plan revenge on those who had treated her and her father wrong. She had times where the audience were able to see her soft side. Whereas there were many times where her plans of revenge were quite cruel, ruining the lives of those who had a part of her father's death. The main antagonist or the woman who was Emily's main target, Mrs.Grayson, had times where they supported each other yet it was mainly them fighting against each other. For example, Emily began to get closer with Victoria Grayson's son in order to find more details about the family. During that season, Emily and Victoria had an on and off battle, fighting with each other verbally or Emily had planned minor things that would build up to ruin Victoria.
Here is one of my favorite scenes from the tv show where Emily shows a change in character. Especially since she had just recovered from a serious accident leaving her to forget everything.
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
Textbook Reading Pages 476 - 481
New Land Renews Slavery Dispute
- U.S. added more than 500,00 square miles of land - result of winning Mexican - American War - 1848
- Missouri Compromise of 1820 - divided Louisiana Purchase into either free or slave regions
- Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan encouraged popular sovereignty, idea that political power belongs to the people, who should decide on banning/allowing slavery.
- California gold rush caused rapid population growth - California applied to join Union as state instead of territory.
- Most Californians opposed slavery - illegal when state was part of Mexico. If California became a free state, balance between free and slave states would change - favoring free states.
- South - imbalance was unacceptable, Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & other Southerners didn't want California to enter Union as free state.
- During war, Representative David Wilmot offered the Wilmot Proviso - document stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory."
- Northern-controlled House passed document, but in the Senate, the South had more power - Wilmot Proviso didn't pass
- Wilmot Proviso spurred debate - showed growing sectionalism - favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.
- Free-Soil Party - antislavery northerners formed a new party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso. They worried slave labor would mean fewer jobs for white workers.
Compromise of 1850
- Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky helped settle Missouri crisis - 1819-20 & nullification crisis of 1832-33 - proposed compromises
- California would enter Union as free state
- rest of Mexican Cession would be federal land. This territory, popular sovereignty would decide on slavery.
- Texas would give up land east of upper Rio Grande, Government would pay Texas' debts from when it was independent republic.
- slave trade (not slavery) would end in nation's capital
- more effective fugitive slave law would be passed.
- Calhoun asked that the slaves states be allowed to secede - formally withdraw- from the Union.
- Compromise enacted that year * seemed to settle most disputes between free & slave states - achieved majority of Clay's proposals
- Compromise of 1850, California was able to enter the Union as free state. Rest of Mexican Cession was divided into two territories - Utah and New Mexico - where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided popular sovereignty.
- Texas agreed to give up land claims in New Mexico in exchange for financial aif from federal government.
- Compromise outlawed slave trade in District of Columbia & established new fugitive slave law.
Fugitive Slave Act
- Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime to help runaway slaves & allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
- Slaveholders permitted to take suspected fugitives to U.S commissioners, could use testimony from white witnesses. Enslaved African Americans accused of being fugitives could not testify.
- faced 6 moths jail time and $1,000 fine.
- Commissioners benefited from helping slaveholders - rejected slaveowner's claim earned $5, who returned suspected fugitives to slaveholders earned $10.
- September 1850 - same mont law was passed - federal marshals arrest African American James Hamlet.
- thousands of northern African Americans fled to Canada in fear.
Antislavery Literature
- Northern Abolitionists used stories of fugitive slaves like James Hamlet & Anthony Burns to gain sympathy for cause.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin - anti slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe spoe out powerfully against slavery.
- daughter of Connecticut minister, Lyman Beecher, moved to Ohio when she was 21.
- Met fugitive slaves & learned cruelties of slavery.
- Fugitive Slave Act greatly angered Stowe.
- decided to write book that would educate northerners about realities of slavery.
- published in 1852.
- more than 2 million copies sold in United States
- novel electrified nation and sparked outrage in South.
- impact of Stowe's book suggested by her reported meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1862
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