Sunday, January 31, 2010

Industrial and Technological Revolution

While I was talking to my family about the industrial and technological revolution in Morocco, I noticed that war may sometimes bring change to a country. After morocco was occupied by the French, the industrial revolution began. Many areas were starting to fill with projects such as building dams, railroads, and highways. Morocco also started to notice that its lands occupied vast areas of precious material that could be sold to other countries and therefore attract more and more immigrants. If further projects are applied, Morocco may easily reach the level of the developing countries because it is in the route of development.
Another important area in which Morocco has been working for years is technology. Technology can help the country to modernize in order to reach the level of the developing countries. Presently, Morocco is starting to host more and more stores in order to bring the technology from other countries. This is a major revolution because morocco can also create its own technological goods in order to export to other countries. A trade can be present between our nation and the outside world. We can conclude that technology is a major is major area in which our country will need to work on.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Socratic Seminar

During our socratic seminar, everybody in the group took part of the conversation by dividing each question to a group of people. Each tim we had a new question, a group of people would center themselves in the middle of the class and be the core of the discussion. We discussed numerous topics such as the reconstruction and the economy of several countries. We also discussed one main current event that was the earthquake of Haiti. One of the main questions that followed this topic was about how Haiti could reover from this calamitous event. Overal, we all contributed to the discussion in order to receive ideas from students in the class.

Haiti's earhthquake

This earthquake was one of the worst that the little island of Haiti could imagine. It caused billions of dollars of damages that left the people in search for food and water. This devasting earhtquake caused thousands of deaths in the capital of the city Port-au-Prince that was left in ruins. On the other hand, this event could cause the people to re-build their city better with the help of enternational countries.
On wendsday january 20 another earthquake stroke haiti with a force of 6.0 on the Richter scale. This could also caused other damages. Now, the only question that the people might be asking themselves is "what are we going to do?"

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Conclusions to Successes and Failures of Reconstruction

I disagree with "freedmen's bureau and other organizations help many black families obtain housing, jobs, and schooling". My reasons are because although they helped them, they weren't treated equally as the white families. Many other black families were unemployed and "remained caught in a cycle of poverty." Failures after the civil war were that there were the black codes, Jim Crow Laws, and many black families remained in sharecropping. The successes were were that all black people were free and people could choose who to be slave to if they were unemployed.