Progressive Thinker

After asking my family about being a progressive thinker, they told me that it meant to be progress towards everything. An example about my country that is Israel. Israel is making an enormous progress in anti terrorism and also a progress in evryting of daily life. Israel is only 61 years old and it is a developed country so we can see that it is a big progress. Also Israel is in ceased fire with palestine for the moment and I hope they will not continue the war because they have killed many people but it is not their fault.

Imperialism in United States of America

Imperialism started in the late 1800s in the US and since then the US has been influencing many other countries in political, economic and cultural ways. The effect of USA imperialism has been positive because countries like Panama and Phillipines became democracies. I think that the US did a great job in the countries that they colonized. In Panama the US did build the Panama Canal and it is useful to both countries since. In Phillipines the US did a great job by going there because now it became an englophone country and it is a democracy. I think that the US did also a great job in Porto Rico because it also became a democracy and they helped the Puerto Ricans from death with the Spanish.

Globalization

Definition:
Something that is representated all around the world and that helped people about different livestyles

Pros:

• Productivity grows more quickly
• Living standars can go up faster
• Cheap imports keep a lid on prices
• Export job pay more than other job

Cons:

• Lost of jobs due to imports
• Lost of jobs especially due to companies under competitive presure

http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_17/b3678003.htm

Business Plan

Brian Azran
Reda Belmaachi

Name Of Company: Luxury Cars

Products Of Company: We will import luxious cars such as: Ferraris Lamborghinis Aston Martins..... and then we will sell it to rich buyers

Horizantal Nature Of Company: We will start our business in Las Vegas because people that go to Las Vegas are especially rich and rich people normally like luxious cars. Las Vegas is the good place for us where to start our business.

Vertical Nature Of Company: After starting our business in Las Vegas we will try to expand it in all the USA. If we make money we will expand it to France,Monaco,Spain,Germany and England. If our business work well in Europe we may do it in Africa such as Morocco, Ivory Cost and South Africa

Energy:The energy we will use in our own energy because we will put all of our energy to make our comany expand trough out the world and also to make money.

Raw Materials-Resources:We will need a little of resources such as fixing cars equipement to resolve the problems our customers may be getting with their car.

Labor: At each location someone I know really well from this location will work and manage the store with 5 other employes. Our payment plan is to give 4000 dollars to each manager and 2000 dollars to each employes

Government and Regulations:I will only work with the government to make a price fro me when I will import the cars because I will bring many cars

Profits: We will make money because we will sell the cars a little cheaper than our concurents so more people will buy the cars from us.

Revolutions In Morocco

My dad told me that 5 years ago they were a very important revolution in Morocco that is about making clothe in Morocco and a lot of people form all over the world opened factories to make factories. Now it has stoped because people are now going to China because it is cheaper

What Have I Learned From The Socratic Seminar

The Socratic Seminar did help me in many ways and I think did learn to all the class a new way of teaching ideas to each other. From this Socratic Seminar we did learn from each other point of view.

During the Socratic Seminar I have learned:

• A new way of teaching ideas to each other
• How to share our ideas
• We learned each other point of view on every question

This are the most helpful ideas that I learned from the Socratic Seminar

US And UN Struggle To Distribute Haiti Aid

About 20 American military Black Hawk helicopters have descended on the ruined grounds of Haiti’s presidential palace.Troops unloaded equipment, water and food rations, raising hopes that it would become a forward base for the distribution of aid.Since the earthquake a week ago, Haitians desperate for life’s basics, and frustrated by the lack of aid reaching them, have posed an increasing headache for security services.Overstretched UN peacekeepers dispersed a crowd of survivors who were searching for anything, from water to a mat to sleep on.The Haitian police too have had their work cut out as lawlessness spreads throughout the capital Port au Prince. Shots rang out as scores of Haitians raided a destroyed hardware shop. And to help bring some semblance of normality back to Haiti’s streets, the UN Security Council has unanimously agreed to send 3.500 more troops and police in the hope they will afford some relief to the security forces already there.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/01/19/earthquake-us-and-un-struggle-to-distribute-haiti-aid/

Pros and Cons

From the successes:

• The union is restored and I think this is a great success and the most important for me
• The south economy is growing up and it will help them reconstruct what the north had destroyed during the war
• The 14th and 15th amendments will help the African Americans enjoy life for the first time in USA
• This Bureau is a very good creation because it will help the blacks have rights among the whites
• To have a mandatory education is a very good because some families do not have money to send their child to school

From the Failures:

• Many southerners stood democrats and the republicans and federals were doing there jobs for nothing
• The south will not gain a lot of money because they are slow in industrializing
• It is sad that Terrorists did not let the African Americans vote for their next President
• Many people became poor because of the war they lost job opportunities
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Friday Homework

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan after Lincoln's death was to:

1) Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty.

2) No pardons would be available to high confederate and people owning properties that are more than $20,000.

3) A state was required to repeal it's secession ordinance.

Black Codes:

The black codes were laws that blacks had to follow in the USA about civil rights and civil liberties.

These laws were very limited to them.

Amendments 14 and 15:

The 14th amendment says that every citizen have his rights.

The 15th amendment says that every one have the right to vote if they are older then 18 years old.

The laws were also according to the blacks.

Radical Reconstruction:

The radical reconstruction is when republicans were not happy about the 13,14 and 15 th amendments.

Carpetbagger:

The term carpetbagger actually means a bag made out of carpet but it is also an expression to call someone from the north of the USA.

Scalawag:

Scalawag was a moniker for southern whites who supported reconstruction after the civil war.

Role Play

As you all know the civil war just stopped and it was the biggest massacre the USA have lived since it's foundation. The North have destroyed many things in the South. Most of the war ships have been destroyed 9000 miles of rail roads have also been destroyed most of it in the South. Farm lands, Farm building have been destroyed too. Other things destroyed are the factories, ports, cities and canals. The most important thing that were destroyed are soldiers, over 600,000 soldiers(from the North and South) have died during the civil war. One family out of three have been touched. Four million Black people are now free and to do what ever they want. The former slaves owners had now to let blacks vote, run for office and learn(go to school). While the South had to rebuilt their farms, houses and factories, little of the North have been destroyed.

Would a War Tax end the War?

If people had to pay taxes for war then they will maybe no war again in the world. By making the price to 11 billion dollars per month the war effort costs would pay for a lot of health care and other needs but I am not sure that raising taxes during a recession is a good.

What I remenbered from the video?

From the video I remembered many things such as:

California was a free state, New Mexico and Utah were becoming free states too. He wanted slavery to be allowed on the mexico territorry. Harriet Tubman was a spy of the USA during the civil, she contributed to the cretion of the underground railroad and she saved many slaves by sending them to the North and to Canada were they could be free.By late September, California was recongnized has a free state and New Mexico and Utah were created and they also signed the legislation by late September and Texas became has a slave state. The compromise was well suported by the nation. Slaves could have get 10$ if they said that they are slaves and 5$ if they say that they are free. If you lived in the north during the 1850's the south was far away. Harriet Stowe wrote a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Harriet family were abalonist or in the minister. Sha writes because she is very christians and she says that slaves should be treated with religions the same way as white people and not differently.Steven Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska act and the big problem is that they wanted to make one state free and one state not free.Southerners wanted Kansas as a free state. In 1855 the election and the problem was that there are 3 million people living in Kansas and they got 6 million votes.

Northen Advantages VS Southern Advantages

Advantages that the South had over the North are:

Fighting a defensive war

Fighting Spirit

Fighting on their own soil

Military Leadership

Military Aptitude

Interior Lines

Advantages that the North had over the South are:

Better Manufacturing(all industries were in the south)

Union Troops(more weapons and ammunition)

Country Foods(The army had much more food)

Great number of fighting men

Presidential Election Of 1860

The election of 1860 was when the United States population elected Abraham Lincoln. This is important to now for our study of the Civil war because the Civil War started the month after Lincoln's election

Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Kansas-Nebraska act was when in 1854 they created those two territories that they called the Nebraska and the Kansas. This is important to our study of the Civil War because they allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery in those two territories.

Compromise Of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was the confrontation of 4 years between the slaves that lived in the south and the free states of the north. It is important to our study of the civil war because this compromise didn't made the war stop and it made the Kansas and the Nebraska divided.

Safeguard Agency In Morocco

Mohamed VI asked the government to create this society so that they can protect the oasis zones in Morocco and the Argon Trees that are very important to the government because they only exist in Morocco .

Compromise

Being selfish is an good example of compromise.It is a good example because when we look at a very nice clothes and we want to buy a kind of it, then at the last minute you say that it is too much money or it is not on sale and it is bad because you like something but you don't want to buy it(it is not that you can't). An another good example is when a friend need a little amount of money in school to buy a brownie or water and you tell him NO, then for him you are not a really good friend because if you were at his place he will maybe give it to you but now that you prove him you are selfish he will do the same thing with you.

The best place for me to live.

After my universities studies, I would like to come back to Casablanca and leave there because I will be with my family, and they are many jobs opportunities not as an employer but as a boss because in Morocco it is easy to make a company and win money. I would like to do the same jobs as my dad is doing right now or work with him because I admire this job and I like cloth style. If he does not want me to work with him I will follow the same path as him by making a small company before becoming one of the best companies in Morocco and for the moment my dad's company is one of the best in Morocco after Axal company(Zara....) and Nesk(Mango....).

The main political parties in Morocco

In Morocco there are 3 main political parties like in France there is the Left Part, the Right part and the Center part.

In the left part they are many groups such as:

Socialist Union Of people's forces

National popular movement

Democratic Union

In the right part they are also many groups:

Independence Party

Constitutional Union

Justice and Development party

In the Center part they are also many groups:

Citizen's forces

Democratic Independence party

National congress parrty

these are the most important ones