Unit 4 Assignment 1

Once me and my cousin were on our way home and we started talking. She said something to me that made me get smart with her. And she got mad that I got smart with her and reached over and hit me. Me being the non giving up person I am hit her back and then she hit me again and we were just passing licks. Then she got really mad and started driving the car really fast and tried to wreck the car with both of us in it. I started laughing and it made her madder and she started cussing at me and calling me names and I did the same. When we got home we didn’t speak to each other for at least two months. I tried to avoid the fight but when she hit me I changed. Now that we are talking again we laugh about the situation. When looking back on it that’s the first and only time we ever got into a conflict with each other.

Top Most Exciting Moments From 1789-1850

UNIT 3- Assignment 1

Growing up can be both exciting and painful. I can relate to this very well because I am in the stage now that I am about to be out on my own and have more responsibilities. It's fun while growing up. When you get 18 you are old enough to go out to the club and hang out all night. No curfew. You are then legal to do anything you want except drinking alcohol under 21. But me growing up is exciting for awhile. Until i get my own place and have to pay bills then it starts to get scary and painful. This is because not all the time you are going to have the money to pay your bills and not stress about it. Also when growing up you don't have anyone to really depend on but yourself because you are grown and you then have your own responsibilities.

When Breaking the law is Justified

All over the world people tend to break the laws. Even though the laws are passed not all people abide by them. This is just like the American’s did the British. The laws were made by the British and the Americans refused to abide to them. People most likely will not go by rules that they did not agree to.

The American Revolution was one of the events when most people did not go by the law. The people in the American colonies didn’t abide by these laws because they did not agree to them. They also wanted to be an independent nation and didn’t want the British ruling them. They were making them pay extra money on anything. Such as taxing everything without an agreement. Meaning without a consent. Also in the time of the American revolution the British killed half of the American citizens and burned their towns. Also large groups of British army troops were put into peoples homes and made to work for them. Such as cooking and washing clothes for them.

Another movement when the citizens didn’t abide by the law was the Civil rights movement. This was the time period when Rosa Parks a very well known woman, decided to sit in the front of the bus. But there was a problem she was an African American and they were allowed to sit in the back of the bus. She refused to sit in the back of the bus. A white man wanted the seat she was sitting in and the bus driver told her to get up, and she said do what you got to do I’m not moving. This movement then became boycotting. Which was when all the blacks refused to ride the bus. They did this to get the people to give them right to sit where they want to sit on the bus.

Those two movements happened in to different times, but they both had an affect on people not abiding by laws for their own rights. These laws where made without a consent of agreement. With out these people agreeing to these laws they fought for their rights. So today the things they fought for are still working in the world today. We live in a free country which the Americans fought for during the revolution. Also blacks and whites are now closer and blacks can sit anywhere on the bus as much as whites. So when breaking the law is justified was well worth doing back then. If not we would not be living the good life today.

Assignment 6: Common Sense

What i learned in the revolutionary era that the people didnt' have a mind of their own. They lived by a king in things they could do with their living lifes. They didn't have the thught of doing things on their own. It wasn't until Thomas Paine wrote the Common Sense. This was A document to tell people they don't need a leader for everything. Like when you are to eat in your home and such things like that. This pamplet was written after the war and people thought their lives were nothing and they didn't know where to start. Then this pamplet was made to tell people common sense what you could do you don't need anyone's help trying to figure it out. What supprise me the most about what i read was how people didn't know how to handle their self. But i guess it was because they have never been taught.