Marking Period 1 of 4

This marking period I think that I did well. The work that I did was reasonable with the grade that I have. The theme that I had writing, I had worked hard on and the detail I put in al the blogs and themes so far. Hoping to have a grade that I would be happy with.  I thought that to kill a mocking bird was a book that had a lot of detail and was very interesting. Because of that I read this book without a struggle. The only change in that is I believe that we should have had more time in between each section, because sometimes I found myself feeling rushed to read. But I always enjoyed it while I was reading. It was not like most books the school assigns, this book had action, romance, historical facts, and some parts where even funny.  I also think that most of the quizzes in this class were generally easy, other then the memorization of the characters I always seemed to have trouble with.  I liked the fact that in this class there was not any major homework assignments, I think its harder for students to get any of the homework done if they are overwhelmed with so much in one class.  The time in class that we had to work on our blogs and themes were appreciated, we got a lot done in class and I used the time in class I had to complete what was asked of us at the time. This is how the first marking period reflexed on me.

Imagine

I chose "Imagine" by John Lennon because I think it relates to Atticus since he wants everything to be a perfect way. He wants the people of the town to look out for each other even when sometimes they do not. He likes to block the idea that people in Maycomb are not his friend, when there are many people out there that do not like him or his family. Atticus treats all blacks the way that people treat whites, equal. In the song, "Imagine" by John Lennon it talks about how not to be greedy and the brotherhood of man is necessary in life. You cannot live alone, you need help in your life and that's how Atticus' way of thinking is. He tries to raise Scout and Jem to think the same way as them but they are starting to see the real world when Atticus is surrounded by a mob.


 "Imagine" by John Lennon

The Cause of the Great Depression

There were many major reasons of what caused the great depression. In 1929 the stock marketing crashed, stockholders lost over 40 billion dollars and then in 1930 America entered the Great Depression. Also there was 9000 bank failure throughout the United States and banks that were left open where unsure of the economic situations so they were less willing to give out loans. Banks were much more stricked with their money. In the late 1920’s the money distribution was so unequal that it affected many other things later in the years. But the people who were wealthy still did not want to spend their money so it was never going back to the government. This made prices at local stores have to increase a lot more than anyone would want to spend.  The Federal Reserve had raised the interest rate again in the early 1930’s to preserve the value of the dollar. But this meant that businesses were restricted the availability for money. Causing many more places to go into bankruptcy. The main cause of the Great Depression was bad use and handling of the United States’ money by Making unequal salaries and, bad management of the money.

americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm

www.thegreatdepressioncauses.com/