Research. Aren't you just LOVING it?!! So many great things to find and read and we haven't even gotten to the WRITING yet!! ;) Remember, those source pages are due at the end of the hour THE DAY we get back to school, so if you don't have five ready yet ... you'd best get to researching!! For this week's blog, write a journal entry describing your research topic and why it was unjust. Some of these topics may be familiar and some may be new to everyone, so give us a brief SUMMARY of the situation and why it fits into the social injustice theme.And ... for those of you wanting another chance to boost your grade, I have a new blog created by a student looking for opinions on a rather controversial subject. Follow this link http://newagerevolution-newhippies.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-hippie-movement.html and post a comment expressing your opinion one way or another for up to 10 extra-credit points for Term 4. The more thought you put into it and the more thought-provoking your comments are, the higher your grade will be! PS It does not matter whether you agree or disagree with the post; your points are based on your participation in voicing your opinion either way! :)
Enjoy your bonus break and keep warm!!
My topic is over the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela. It's unjust because he spent 27 years in prison for 'sabotage'. He was actually fighting for freedom from the oppression from apartheid. Apartheid is basically legal discrimination in South Africa, but is no longer active after 1990.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is the Valkyrie. This was a group of people who were out to kill Hitler. They were usually the genrals of Hitler. They did not like what Hitler was doing and how he was treating them. This topic is unjust for the ways that Hitler killed them,and how he killed their families. I think they had every right to kill hitler. He was a horrible man. He killed so many people,and Hitler never had to go and kill team valkyrie just because he was mad,and he also had no right to kill their their families. Hitler hung most of team valkyrie,some got a way. The valkyrie also had barely any trials. This is why all of this is injust. You would have thought Hitler would have got the message that what he was doing was BAD!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am doing the O.J. Simpsons trial. Its unjust because just because hes a celebrity, the jury found him not guilty of the death of two people, and domestic abuse. This is unjust because there is plenty of evidence showing that O.J.Simpson was guilty.
ReplyDeleteMY topic is over the imprisonment of Mumia-Ablua Jamial. It was unjust becuase he has been in prison for 28 years for the killing of a police officer. It was an obvouis discrimination from the jury. It was wrong to put this man in jail.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing the case of Lizzie Borden. She was accused of in the middle of the day hacking up her parents with an axe. It's unjust because they had no evidence that she had actually done the deed. Though she wasn't proven guilty many people believed that because she was rich and an innocent looking women she was let off the hook. And there it is :)
ReplyDeleteI am doing the Amistad. The Amistad is a ship and Americans travel in their ship and go to different countries an steal African Americans. They use them as slaves and treat them terribly. They are beaten until eaten all of dry rice, and they are bunched together, they also have to sit in a crouched position for months.
ReplyDeleteI am doing the July Plot. The title "Valkyrie" is often associated with the July Plot although, they are not one in the same. The July Plot was a plan to assassinate Hitler and transfer his power to the Schutz Staffeinel and the Gestapo. The plan was unsuccessfull and led to the unjust execution of around 5,000 innocent Germans in the search for those responsible. In my research project I am telling why the execution of the innocenct people was unjust. I have nothing to say about whether or not the assassination attempt was just or not.
ReplyDeleteI am doing the Scottsboro boys, It is unjust because I think it was mostly racism.
ReplyDeleteleo frank. northern jew prosecuted for murder of a 13 year old girl. Conviction was ocerturned 70 years after death. Was convicted by anti-semite jury.
ReplyDeleteim doing ruby ridge its about a fudalism and he had to pay 10mollion dallars to caputar a hemit who was comited for a crim that he did not do and he was sent to jail for killing his family
ReplyDeletemy topic is over the rodney king trial it is about when rodney was pulled over by white policce officers and they beat him and put him in the hospital i think that this is unjust because you should beat someone an in of there life just cuz different color race sex or religion
ReplyDeleteI asm doing patty hearst and honestly o-o idk why its unjust, i just liked it because it was a woman with a shotgun in the photo.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is about Saddam Hussein. He launched an Anti-Kurdish Anfal Campaign. Which was the genocide and gendercide of the Kurds. Mostly it was males that were killed.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is the Trial of Socrates, it is unjust because they persecuted and killed Socrates just because he believe differently from the others of the city.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is the trial of Saddam Hussein. Most of it notes are for the execution, but others believe it was too speedy of a trial and a gruesome way to execute a political leader.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is O.J. Simpson. It's unjust because somehow he was found not guilty by the jury when there was a ton of evidence linking him to the murders of his ex-wife and her boyfriend.
ReplyDeleteJoan of Arc's case was unjust because the Wnglish were sore losers. They had a system that her and her strategists found a way through. Because she was so good at what she did and because she was a woman they accused her of being a witch, summoning demons, etc. They then said that she had repented but went BACK to the devil so they had to kill her
ReplyDeleteDroping the atom bomb on Hiroshima is what i am doing my research paper over. I believe its unjust, beacuse it was a more than burtal way to end the war. The war was already near an end for Japan. Some of the people who died from the atom bomb, 1. could defend or fight back at it. 2. Some of the people in japan didnt even agree with what their country was doing. Our government also said that this was a scientific test. In my opinion test on other humans is unjust.
ReplyDeletemy topic is over the deadly chemicals AO or agent orange and napalm. i wanted to do this for my report because i like the vietnam war. and im very interested in these chemicals because ive never seen them before or heard of them until a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeletey topic is the Scottsboro boys. It's unjust because 2 white woman said that 9 black boys raped them when the only reason that people believed the 2 girls is because the boys were black!
ReplyDeleteI am doin the Unjust hapenings of Leonardo Da vinci, how the things acused of him were unjust. He was acused of molestation and being gay. Like being gay is crime!...anyway the things he was tried for were unjust becuase if ruined his painting caree for the rest of his life, fortunatly this happen after all of his major works. All we ever hear about leondaro da vinci is that he was a great painter or so on...thats not all. so im here to prove that the things they said were unjust :)
ReplyDeleteMy research was on Rosa Parks. The woman who was arrested for not giving her seat up for a white man on the bus. It is crazy because she was tired and the rules say that blacks have to do what the whites say!
ReplyDeleteMy topic is John Dillingers unjust killing in cold blood. He just walked out of a theatre and they blew him away even though he was a criminal he was still a human being.
ReplyDeletemy topic is the black sox scandle. its about 8 men who in order to gain more money bet againts themselves in the world series. they were easily favored to win, so they bet alot of money on the game. they lost the series intentionaly and gained alot of money in doing so, but were caught in the end
ReplyDeleteMy topic is about Nixon's Watergate scandal, it was about how Nixon's administration hired 5 men to infiltrate Democrat headquarters and retrieve information about a previously conducted deal of Nixon's. Though it turns out the Democrats weren't even aware of the deal that Nixon made until The Watergate Scandal blew up in Nixon's face and forced to to resign. So pretty much Nixon was "impeached" due to his massive paranoia, which is too bad because Nixon was pretty Neeto Burrito.
ReplyDeleteme topic is galelio and it was unjust because he was right and the system was wrong...
ReplyDeleteMy topic is Japanese American Internment Camps. Which is where after the bombing of Pearl Harbor America freaked out and placed the Japanese American citizens into internment Camps. Because they were afraid the japanese would betray their trust and tell Japan things we did not want Japan to know. It is similar to what Hitler did, but the Japanese were not tormented.
ReplyDeleteim writing about the bataan death march its unjust because of how the pows were treated
ReplyDeleteMy topic is the trial of T.I. he had is body guard buy him gun's that were illegal. It was unjust to put him in jail because of the second amendment, but even after he was convicted it took 2 years for his trail and he had a $3 million bail.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is the Boston Massacre. A trial Following the Seven Years War. Great Britain was faced with a rise in national debt causing Parliament to impose new tax laws on the colonies leading to the Boston Massacre. In Boston the colonists refused to pay taxes causing the king to take action and send British troops to maintain control. The presence of the troops in Boston was unwelcome. This only made the colonist more upset and caused riots to break out. In one of these riots soldiers fired at a crowd of Bostonians killing five civilians and wounding six others. This tragic event in history is what became known as the Boston Massacre. The punishment put on the soldiers who killed the men in the crowd was an M branded on their thumb. The punishment was unjust for their actions.
ReplyDeletemy topic is about sammy the bull and it was unjust because he committed 9 mureders and only got sent to jail for 5 years because he turned himself in and betrayed his gang the Gambino family and told some names to the cops even sammy thought that this was unfair. He also made a book about his life and all the crimes he has committed and all the gangs he was in.
ReplyDeleteMy topic was about Rose Parks
ReplyDeleteand the Montgomry Bus
Boyycot. IT was very interesting
to learn about. Because she
was one of the first black women to go to colloge