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    All of the actors in the movie "war horse" wore believable costumes to fit their personality and the character they were acting. The movie took place in France where they fought in the war. The actors were amazing they were all good at their part they took place in. I actually believed that Albert really cared about the horse. Although the little girl who found joey when he ran off with this black horse that i think he really likes, she really wasn't a good actor I didn't believe that she really wanted the horse. She looked like she didn't care but the grandfather looks like he really cared about the little girl.



The war Horse 

prohibitation

                 Prohibition is defined as the act of forbidding something, especially by law. Prohibition had greatly impacted the alcohol brewing business when alcohol was banned. during that time there were many bootleggers, which were people who sold alcohol illegally without registration or payment of taxes. There were also many speakeasy's which were saloon's or nightclubs that sold alcoholic beverages illegally. Which I don't really blame them because there are people that make a living off of selling alcohol and for it to be banned takes away so many peoples money income. During post- prohibition only half of the breweries that had been open reopened.

A dead body found in a speakeasy 

A bottle of medical whisky for "medical purposes only"

A "flapper" carrying a bottle of whisky in her garter

prohibition agents examine liquor confiscated from a captured rum runner

Rum running boxes floating near rum row

Obama

James Wright Foley was an American journalist and a video reporter, was abducted on November 22, 2012 in northwestern Syria.

Steven Sotloff was an American-Israeli journalist, was abducted in August 2013.  He was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria, and held captive by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

The Middle East 

The Levant 

Muckrakers

The progressive era was a period of social activism and political reform. Muckrakers are reform mined journalists who exposed misconduct. One  muckraker was Lincoln Steffens,  his area of focus was mostly government and political corruption, some of his major works are, "Pitsbug is hell with the lid off", "The shame of the cities", "The Traito State", "The Struggle of self-Government", and "Autobiograph of Lincoln Steffens".

Lincoln Steffens

Next is Jane Addams, she was the most prominent advocate for the settlement house movement. Some of her most famous works are, "Twenty Years at Hull House",  and "Democracy and Social Ethics". 

Jane Addams

Next is W. E. B Dubois his area of focus was civil rights. Some of his major works include "The Souls of Black Folks", "Black Reconstruction in America", "The Crisis"

W.E.B Dubois

Ray Stannard Baker is the next muckraker also known as David Grayson, he covered the Pullman strike, he wrote two autobiographies called "Native American"(1941), and "American Chronicle"(1945)

Ray Stannard Baker

Lastly is George Creel, he was the president of the United states committee on public information, some of his famous books include, "Quatrains of Christ", "Children in Bondage", and "Irelands fight for Freedom"

George Creel

Thanksgiving and Ameica

In life I have many things to be thankful for. One of the main things I am thankful for is my family, I am thankful for them because no matter how much we fight we always have each others backs. Family is very important to me, and I feel like it should be to everyone those are the people that have made you the person who you are today weather it is good or bad. My family is very close and I value that a lot because I know that not many families are like that. Something that I am thankful for in America is the fact that we have freedom. Its a very small thing but not all countries have it, some countries have absolutely no freedom, and others have too much. I feel like America has the perfect amount of freedom, we have just enough but not too much that we are a mess.

Me and My sister on thanksgiving last year

Freedom in America

Spanish-American war cartoons

      The Spanish- American war was a war in 1898 between the United states and Spain. The results of the war was that the Americans and the Cubans pretty much won the war. The Cubans won the right to be an independent country away from Spain, and the US was now free to own Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that little or no legitimate well-researched news. Propaganda is information of misleading nature used to promote or embarrass a particular political cause or point of view.

This image is showing president McKinley as a coward

This image is suppose to be President McKinley trying to contain war pressure 

Spain lost the war

Electoral Votes

1876- The Republican party, and it received 13 electoral votes
1880- The Republican party again, with 13 electoral votes
1884- The Republican party, with 14 electoral votes
1888- The Republican party, with 14 electoral votes

 For the most part all of New England votes for the same party, except for Connecticut, they voted for the opposite party every time.

2008- both candidates were part of the Democratic party, but Massachusetts voted for Hillary Clinton
2014- Massachusetts voted for the the Democratic party with 11 electoral votes

 I noticed that in earlier elections Massachusetts voted for the Republican party and now they mostly vote for the Democratic. Also I noticed that all of New England voted for the same party now. Lastly I noticed that all the states in the Us vote now, rather them before when it was just New England and the west mostly.

Electoral college results in 1888

Electoral college results in 2010