America's Food Supply

        Perdue is a major chicken processing company located in Salisbury, Maryland. That has been accused of false advertising. The company stated  that they treated there chicken humanly when it was from the truth. In the article "Abusing Chickens We Eat" by Nicholas Kristof published in The New Work Times the author states that Perdue is a hypocrite because they put on there labels "humanly raised" and "cage free". The  author also states that chickens should be treated humanly.



This is how the chicken barns look with limited space. Source

      The author was able to talk to one farmer that raised chickens for the Perdue company. The farmer watched a video of Jim Perdue and how they mistreat the animals and he said "It couldn't get any further from the truth."  The author also talked about how the chickens live in the barns. He described how the chickens are all unable to walk a lot  do to the wait of their big breast. They are also always laying in excrement from other bird that were kept there before which causes them to be featherless.

      Nicholas Kristof wrote in his article "So "cage free" is meaningful for eggs but not for chicken meat. Moreover, Perdue's chickens are crammed so tightly in barns that they might as well be in cages. Each bird on the Watts farm gets just two-thirds of a square foot." I think this quote is the best quote because it describes how the chickens live in the barns.



Kids would play in alleys full of trash. Source 

      In the novel "The Jungle" by Upton Siclair he described how the factories were in bad  conditions for the workers. In 1906 people would just throw their excrement out the window. The factories were full of rats. Where the meat was stored it was at room temperature and rats could eat it. Flies were always on the food.

     During 1906 when the book was published the president at that time Theodore  Roosevelt had read it and sent investigators to check how the meat was being handled. His investigators backed up what Siclair had written in his book so he did something about it. He passed the Federal  Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Thanks to the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 the meat now is clean and not rotten. The act prevented adulterated or misbrand meat to be out in the market.

       In my opinion companies should not mistreat the chickens. The barns were the chickens are being held should be clean every time that new chickens are being brought. The chickens should also get a little more space because that's why some of them die because there is not a lot of breathing air.

What Happened to the 43?

     


This is the Ayotzinapa school were the 43 missing students. source 

          The Aytozinapa School is a college located in Guerrero. It helps train future teachers in rural areas. It teaches the students with limited amount of supplies. The students are tought with communist ideas. Government doesn't agree with the political beliefs of the Ayotzinapa students wich creates a lot of tension between the police and the students.
          On the night of September 2014 three buses full of students from the Ayotzinapa school were intersected  by local policies. The polices then started to open fire. Three students were killed and three bystanders.  Later 43 of the students are kidnapped and haven't been seen since that day
          Jose Luis Abarca was the mayor of Iguala. Maria de Los Angeles Pineda was the wife of the mayor. Both the mayor and his wife were linked to the drug cartel in Mexico. People believe they had something to do with the case of the 43 missing students.
      The Mexican people want the government to do something about all the missing people. They already lost fate in the government and have started there own search parties to hopefully find the missing students. The Mexican government hasn't been taking that much interest in the case of the 43 missing students. The parents of the missing students are demanding the government to return there kids alive. The parents have also made marches and rally's to demand there kids back.

Enrique Pena Nieto is the current president of Mexico. source

           Enrique Pena Nieto is the president of Mexico. Infront of the parents of the missing students he signed a paper saying he would keep the investigation going.



          Angel Aguirre is the governor of Guerrero. He has personally helped out with the investigtion but then gave up on the case
       


         

Public Education & Inequality

The first schools only had one or two classrooms. Source

      The purpose for the first public schools was people needed better training. People believed that education was key to finincial security and social status. They also saw education as an opportunity to merge millions of immigrants.

      Some problems with the first public schools were that the students only were required to go 4 years. If students didn't pay attention or follow the strict rule in school they were hit. The schools also didn't have that many resources. In the schools the teachers would make the students read the Protestant bible. They would also encourage only speaking in English which made most parents with other culture mad.



Kids on their way to school. Source

        Schools were able to help families by taking care of them while the parents were working. The schools also helped take kids out of sweatshops. In schools the kids were able to learn how to write and read. They were also thought math and science.

       On problem was that schools perpetuated inequality. Opportunities differed sharply for white and black students. According to statistics taken 62%  of white children attended elementary school while only 34% of African American attended. After 60 years public schools became available for the majority of black children in the southern states.

       

Has the U.S. Moved On From Racism?

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        I belive the U.S has not moved on from racism.  In the article "Why Do Millennials Not Understand Racism?" the author talked about how racism has changed during years. People often time are incarcerated for minor offenses(ie. vagrancy or homelessness). Very few families discuss about racism. Only 37%  of the families talk openly about race, which make racial discussions uncomfortable. We know that Racism still exists  today because 44% of the African-American families own homes versus 73%  of white families. If the U.S was colorblind than the percentages of people that own houses would be more equal. African -Americans die four years earlier than whites because they have lower income which leads poor healthcare and leaving in bad neighborhoods.

How The Tycoons Became SO Rich

Andrew Carnegie was a Tycoon that at a young age he was really rich.  Source

            One of the interesting things about Carnegie's life was when his boss actually let him buy stocks. That was rear at the time because poor people could'nt afford to buy stocks.

            The tycoons were businessman of exceptional wealth and power. They got wealthy by continually searching for new ways to make better products for less money. Tycoons also tried new machines. They also attracted new talented workers by offering them great pays and benefits that they couldn't resits. Competition between workers was also  encouraged.

      

            A strategy that Tycoons used to control their business was verticle integration.

John D. Rockerfeller was a Tycoon that focused on oil. Source

             

            Robber barons are wealthy businessman. and after establishing their monopolies, owners began raising prices higher than before and began to reduce wages for workers.

             Social Darwinism was the idea that being rich was a sign of God's favor, and being poor was a sign of being lazy or inferior. Darwin described how species flourished and passed their traits to other new generations. This is why America thought they were the best.

            

Passive House Poem

This passive house has glass as walls to use as much sunlight. Source

Passive house the most ecofriendly houses
Don't have your traditional heating and air conditioning system
Use sunlight instead of lights
Expensive but worth the cost
Solar panels one of the best commodities in the house
They help with your electricity supply

This passive house has solar panels facing south to capture as much sunlight to produce energy. Source

Summary of Tech Readings

          In the article, How Science and Life Interacted During the American Revolution compiled by Danny Blas we learned that cities spread outwards and upwards because a lot of people started to move into the cities and elevators were introduced.
           
             Technology helped changed how people moved around cities because we created transportation above the surface, on the surface, and below the surface during the Industrial Revolution. Above the surface transportation refers to airplanes. On the surface refers to street cars and below the surface refers to subways.
            
             Technology also changed the way we read and learn because back then it was hard to get news until printing became cheaper and newspapers were cheaper so people were able to get there information that way.

 

        In the article The Passive House: Sealed for Freshness by Sandy Keenan we learned that a passive house is an environmentally responsible house without traditional heating and air conditioning systems.
      
        To be certified you have to meet 3 requirements. The first requirement is if there has to be a certain level of  air tightness. The other two requirements are the measures of energy use. All of this requirements are tested during the construction phase so the walls don't break down.

        The people that live in expensive neighborhoods close to the passive houses are jealous and didn't want other social classes with mixed with them.
       
          Technology has changed Americans lives drastically because of the  Industrial Revolution in 2014. Now houses are in high apartment building because we have the material to spread buildings upwards. Also people can live a little bit far from work but still get in time because of all the transportation options they have.