The United States and World War I

Before people began using war tactics, 
WWI was based off of trench warfare and this led to many deaths.

There were many causes to why World War I Began. It started because of nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and bad alliances. This war was interesting because once certain countries began fighting, other others joined.

There were two sides on this war, The Central Powers and The Triple Entente. Which later went on to re-name themselves "The Allies." The countries that were part of the Allies were Great Britian, United States, France, and Russia. The countries that were involved  in the Central Powers were Germany, Italy, The Ottoman Empire, and Austria-Hungary. This war was important because it allowed countries to made better alliances with one another and help countries realize who was on who's side.

There were several reasons to why this war started in the first place. One reason was because Russia wanted access to the Mediterranean Sea. Another reason was because on June of 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was heir to the Austrian throne, visited Sarajevo, Bosnia. While he was there, a Serbian nationalist named  Gavrilo Princip assassinataed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

As World War I went on, many countries around
the world began joining sides.  But, some were neutral.

The military strategies are very different in comparison from WWI to now. As the fighting began between the sides, they did not have any sort military tactics but only one and that tactic was called trench warfare. Trench warfare was when each side would create dugouts and would just shoot at one another with no sort of strategy. In end of all of it, the British suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day and with a final result of 1.2 million casualties.

The difference now, the military is more advanced in technology and has better strategies and tactics. Today's military uses drone and GPS signals to track their enemies and implement less men then they did before.

The United States did not wanted any sort of involvement in the war in the beginning. The felt there was no need to join the war because it was 3,000 miles away and they were not threatened at all. Also, they wanted to set the example of true in the world. As the war went on, many immigrants in the U.S. followed the war. They did this because they had ties with their past countries.

After years went on, the United States finally declared to join the war. They joined the war for two main reasons: to ensure the allied repayment of debts to the United States and because they wanted to prevent Germany from threatening United States shipping. The U.S. played a major part to the war. Once the United States joined, the war ended shortly due to their advancement in weaponry. This led to the Allies winning and the Central Powers losing World War I. 

Food Inc. : How Our Food Is Made

Ever since kids meals came around, children have driven
their parents crazy in order to get one from a restaurant 

When I was younger in the 4th grade, I really favored a Happy Meal from a McDonald's restaurant. I like the food it had, but the main reason why bothered my parents so much for one was because of the toys it had. Throughout my childhood years, I failed to realize the main purpose of the excitement that waited for me within the box.

In the documentary titled, Food Inc., viewers were sent on a learning field trip that shows us the truth about how our food in the happy meal is being made.

When McDonald's first started off, it was a regular restaurant. Back in the 1950s, many restaurants were. similar and they had someone's food delivered to them by someone in roller skates. One day, the owners decided to cut down on the cost of making their food and created a new process. This new process began a new idea on how restaurants are going to work in the future. In their new process, the McDonald brothers introduced the factory way of making food.

The factory way had less workers with lower pay. This helped the McDonald brothers make help money by making food at a lower cost. Coming with this change, McDonald's became a very rich company that it is today because of these changes.

Ever since restaurants started, they have bought their meats from four major companies. These companies are Tyson, Swift, National Beef, and Cargill.  With that, the American Beef Supply is majorly controlled by these companies. In 1980, these companies only owned 20% of the supply. Now, these companies now own 80% of the beef supply.

Now that the four companies own the American Beef Supply, they have lying to people about how there animals are treated and made. They would say the animals are raised on a farm, but, they are really raised in a factory. Also, the animals are not being treated right. For example, chickens that are raised in factories are being mutated to grow faster and the owners of the factories make their muscles grow bigger than usual.

Chickens are forced to live in tight spaces in factories 

Since corn is very cheap, these major factories buy corn in order to feed their cattle or chicken. It only costs about 50 cents in order to make it. Since corn costs less, it is used as main ingredient that is used for their products. Not only is it used for the companies products, it is used to make many things we eat and drink. Products like, juice, Kool Aid, Ketchup etc..., are made with a certain type of corn.

Even though the cattle is fed corn, these animals were meant to eat grass. The only reason why they were corn was because it made the cattle bigger and fatter. Since these animals were meant to eat grass, them eating corn would result to having bacteria and microorganisms in their stomachs. All the bacterias that ended up in the cattle would result in them having E. coil in their stomachs.

In 2001, a little boy named Kevin Kowalcyk died of hemolytic-uremic syndrome. His death was caused by eating ground beef that had E. Coli O157:H7. After twelve days of having it, he passed down away at the age of two years old. Since E. Coli was becoming to be a problem, the beef companies started soaking their meats in ammonia.

Now that the companies are controlling the E. Coli in their meats, they are selling their meats at a cheaper price. Foods that are heavily subsidized are one of the cheapest foods that are bought. Obesity, diabetes, and poverty are linked to all of this because these foods are high in calorie, and the cost of the food is very low so this is causing people to be overweight.

Out in the country, there is a man name Joel Salatin that owns his own farm and animals and he sells his own products. But, according to the USDA, this man's farm is considered "unsanitary." They considered this because his farm is open air and they do not use ammonia.

Inform: Chickens

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Chickens in farms only get about 2/3 of a sq. ft. of space

Perdue is a major chicken processing company in Salisbury, Maryland. Their annual sales in chicken are in excess of $6 billion. Perdue Processing Company was founded in 1920 by Athur Perdue and his wife Pearl Perdue. They began by just selling chicken eggs but in 1925, they began to sell raised chickens. In 1939, their son, Frank Perdue, dropped out of college to join the family business.

In the opinionated article titled, Abusing Chickens We Eat, by Nicholas Kristof, informs many others how several people were concerned about the animal welfare and food safety. Although people were concerned, the company manipulated the public. Nicholas Kristof argued that it was very inhumane to how the chickens were being raised.

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Difference between chickens from 1950 and 2008.
Chickens now are mutated to increase muscle growth.

The Perdue Chicken Company would manipulate the public by advertising on their products that birds on the farms were cage-free. But, many consumers have figured out that each bird within the farms only obtained 2/3 of a square foot of space. Also, these chicken's farms were never cleaned so all of the chickens would walk all over the remains of the birds and resulted to chickens being featherless on the bottom of their body.

Another false advertisement within the he text is when the company's chairman, Jim Perdue, says "Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely." Although the chairman may have said this, the company does not follow what he has said.

In my own opinion, I strongly believe that the company is treating their animals very inhumanely and do not keep them in sanitary conditions. I also believe if the company continues to do as such, they may lose multiple consumers.

In 1906, living and working conditions were said to be "disgusting." Many people would throw their trash away on the streets and would technically use the streets as a bathroom. Within meat factories, many of the meats were processed in very unsanitary conditions. The meats were not refrigerated and during closing hours, rodents would eat, walk over the meats, and leave their remains on the meats. The factories would take the pork that had poisons within them would be made into sausages. They also gather rejected meats from other countries and would process and can them.

That same year, President Theadore Roosevelt passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act. This law prevented factories from adulterating and misbranding their meats. This meaning that the different types of meats cannot be combined. This ensured that meats and products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Education and Inequality

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Chart in regards of education and life expectancy between
rich and poor people in the United Stats of America.

Public Schools were created in the United States because they wanted to train people for jobs and help foreign people receive citizenship. Also, many Americans believed that the greatness of the country depended on scientific and technological knowledge.

In the beginning stages of starting public schools, there were many problems that came along with it. There were many strict rules and physical punishment implemented on the students that made them very miserable. The requirement for students was to attend school for four months a year. Teachers of these public schools would punish the students for the simplest reasons, like, making their chair squeak or not stand up right away.

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Kindergartens offered employed mothers to take care of children.

Schools helped families by creating kindergartens that offered employed mothers to take care of their children while they were working. It also taught them how to read, write, and learned math.

Schools perpetuated inequality because the opportunities differed from white and black people. 62% of whites attended and 34% of blacks attended. From 1890-1910, 1% of black people attended high school and over 67% of those students attended private schools.

What Happen To The 43?

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Many Mexican citizens rally for the missing 43 students.

The Ayotzinapa School is a teacher preparation school located in the state of Guerreo, Mexico. Many students of this school were children of farmers or poor people. The main teaching goal within this school is to show others to stand up for themselves and provide the right information when confronted.

On a night of September 2014, many students of this school commandeered three buses and headed toward Iguala, Guerreo. While passing through a street in this city, the local police discriminatly opened fire upon the weapon less students. On this night, six students were killed and fourty-three students went missing. People of the community believed that Jose Luis Abarca, Mayor of Iguala, and Maria De Los Angeles Pineda, wife of Jose Abarca, were connected with the drug gang called "Los Gerreros Unidos." With this, many believe that These two people ordered the ambush on the students so they would intervene with the events Maria Pineda organized.

Many families of these missing students and locals of the community joined to help search for the students. Also, they hired a forensic team from Agentina to help search for them since the Mexican Government did not help in the search. With several parents upset, they marched to Mexico City, Mexico. Multiple parents rallied to meet with the Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, to under
-stand why the government has not been helped in regards of the missing fourth-three students. After a long meeting with the parents of Peña Nieto, He finally signed a contract saying he would agree to help search for the missing students and bring them back alive. But, after a while of searching, the parents of the missing fourth-three received very tragic news that there children were murdered. Although the parents found this news, they still believe they are alive and continue to search for their children.

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Parents meeting with Peña Nieto 

How Tycoons Became Rich

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Andrew Carnegie became rich when
he was offered stock trade

By the age of eighteen years of age, Andrew Carnegie became a personal secretary to an executive in Pennsylvania. One of the most import aspects of this man's life was that he got offered an opportunity to buy stock. Once Carnegie bought the stock, he had an epiphany when the first dividend check arrived to him. Andrew Carnegie also became a "steel man" after Besserner process was a way to make steel out of iron.

Tycoons always looked for new ways to make better products and to have products more cheaper than usual. The tycoons tried to use many new machines to make their products. As well as trying new ideas to make better and cheaper products. Tycoons became very wealthy because of many new products they came up with.

Some of the business strategies tycoons used was to that they attempted to control as much of the businesses as possible through vertical interrogation.

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Robber Barons was after establishing their monopolies, owners began raising the prices higher than before and started to reduce the worker's wages.

Social Darwinism was about if you were rich, then that meant it was a sign from God's favor, and being poor was a sign of being lazy or interior and deserving of property. Many rich people liked the Social Darwinism philosophy because it was all about the survival of the fittest, natural selection, self improvement, and genetics.

Passive House Poem

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A solar passive house in Canada

What is a passive house??
Is is a truly energy efficient,
Comfortable, affordable house.


Many people do not understanding
the concept of this house.
Some say it is too pricy
Other say it's just a simple home
like the rest.

And although the house way cost a lot,
It will save you money over the years and be more environmentally friendly.