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[ 0 ] June 3, 2012 |

David asks…

what do you think of this?

This portfolio artifact is about racism. The term racism refers to thinking that race is the primary determinant of human traits which creates inherent superiority of a certain race. (Inherent: essential belonging by nature)This first part of my portfolio would be answering some questions I had in mind before I did this artifact.
Part 1
Is everyone racist? Well, in my opinion, yes. Everyone is racist, even just a little bit. The fact that everyone just lets racism go on shows that that certain person is racist. Research shows that people are tolerant towards racism and do not try to put a stop to it. Even the people who consciously try to keep racially sensitive still continue to despise a certain person of another race. Selective racism is still racism. If you are fine with all Indians, for example, except one, I find that essentially racism as well. Not everybody wants to be racist but I feel that that is not a matter of decision. I find that everybody, whether thinking or showing has a part to play in racial discrimination.
Does the new ‘black’ president of the USA Barack Obama effect other’s viewpoint on racism? Yes. It does in fact affect other’s viewpoint on racism, and on ‘blacks’. But the fact is there is still racism going on. The definition says it is a natural thinking, therefore regardless of the time frame, racism will still continue. There is no way to completely stop racism, but what can we, as citizens of a multi racial country do to minimize the effects of this racism, or stop it completely?
Is it possible to stop the effects of racism on us completely? I say yes. Why? Because thinking that a ‘black’ for example is inferior is natural and inevitable, but stopping the action which is resulted from that thinking is possible. Examples of those actions are racial riots, insults, fights. How do we stop that? We can resist the want for us to spew insults at another person based on their race which stops any fights from happening. This makes it
Do parents have anything to do with the child being racist or not? The answer is yes. Research shows that if parents have positive attitude towards blacks, then their children would not be actively racist. (Actively meaning verbal or physically abusing another race)
Part 2
In this section, I would be referring mainly to the USA in the past, present, and the future. I would be talking about some key people who helped the USA carve a new era of a less racist country. The time change that has caused the USA to kill the idea of slavery would also be pointed out.
In the elections of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won for the republicans in their fight against slavery. This may seem unrelated to the topic of racism, but if there were still slavery now, the African Americans would still be disrespected for the work that they are doing. People from the USA would still consider anyone with a dark skin tone to be a slave, or at least have recent ancestral connections to slaves.
The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war in the United States of America, which took place from 1861 to 1865. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy). Led by Jefferson Davis, they fought against the U.S. federal government (the "Union"), which was supported by all the free states and the five border slave states in the north.
“Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state, leading to declarations of secession by four more Southern slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union assumed control of the Border States early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in the South a war goal, and dissuaded the British from intervening. Confederate commander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back at Gettysburg and, in the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg, thereby splitting the Confederacy. Long-term Union advantages in men and material were realized in 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attrition against Lee as Union general William Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia and marched to the sea. Confederate resistance collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. The American Civil War was the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths, and an undetermined number of civilian casualties, ending slavery in the United States, restoring the Union, and strengthening the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877, and brought changes that helped make Ameri
i wrote it myself...

Artie answers:

Where did you get that?

Where?
Race?
Races?
Human races?
Racism????

Where did you really get that???????????????

Paul asks…

History Help?????!!!! PLEASE????!!!?

Ok so i need a little history help!!???

7.) One of the first Native Americans groups who built dramatic cliff towns were the:
Hohokam
Aztec
Cherokee
Anasazi
8.) In the 16th century, many countries sent explorers to the New World because they thought it had:
Gold and Spices
Oil and coal
Exotic Animals
Tobacco and Cotton
9.) Which of the following things was NOT brought to the New World by the Europeans?
Guns
Horses
Corn
Diseases
10.) What was the main disease brought by the Europeans that killed a lot of Native Americans
Chicken Pox
Small Pox
Influenza
Polio
11.) The difference between archaeologists and anthropologists is:
Archaeologists try to uncover family stories by talking with the people of the culture, while anthropologists search for old artifacts that were made by the culture
Archaeologists search for old artifacts made by the culture, while anthropologists try to uncover family stories by talking with the people of the cultures
none of the above
all of the above
12.) Where did the Vikings come from?
Germany
Holland
Spain
Scandinavia
13.) Vikings are stereotyped as:
Barbaric pirates
Caring Natives
Adventurous merchants
Terrible farmers
14.) Why is Columbus allotted with the discovery of America and not the other two people who found it?
Columbus was white.
Columbus claimed it for his country showing ownership of the land.
Columbus was actually the first one to discover it. The other two people never did.
Columbus was the richest and the most important.
15.) What man was discounted for discovering America, but after the land was already named after him?
America Washington
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
King Ferdinand
6 hours ago - 4 days left to answer.
Additional Details
How many times was America "discovered?"
1
2
? 3
4
2.) The first people to cross into America were:
Asians
?Vikings
Spanish
Africans
3.) The first people came to America by:
Driving the car
Sailing in a boat
?Walking over a land bridge
Flying in a plane
4.) The person most the credited for discovering America is:
An Asian from 30,000 years ago
?Christopher Columbus
A Viking
George Washington
5.) The first groups of people who lived in America are known as:
Slaves
Europeans
?Natives Americans
Islanders
6.) Native Americans respect and revolve life around:
Environment
People
?Technology
Ideas

Artie answers:

Anasazi
Gold and Spices
Archaeologists search for old artifacts made by the culture, while anthropologists try to uncover family stories by talking with the people of the cultures
Scandinavia
Barbaric pirates
Columbus claimed it for his country showing ownership of the land.
Amerigo Vespucci
Native Americans respect and revolve life around:
Environment

Some if these questions and answers to chose go off the chart for bias and stupidity, but these are the answers your teacher wants.

Ruth asks…

PLEASE HELP! Biology take home test! The professor did not go over any of this stuff!?

26) The pressure of the plasma membrane pushing against a plant cell wall is due to
A) the weight of the water from the cell above
B) Near constant osmosis of water into a plant cell
C) Near constant osmosis of water out of the pant cell
D) The low solute concentration inside a plant cell
27) Experiment: You know that molecules, including proteins, diffuse inside of a cell and you have the technical ability to visualize the movement of single proteins in the cytoplasm. On one occasion you come across a protein that moves in nearly straight lines for tens of microns and does not random walk. It only begins a random walk when you deplete the cell of energy. You have discovered:
A) A motor protein
B) A violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
C) Nothing, all molecules diffuse
D) An artifact of the high viscosity of cytoplasm
28) Lactose intolerant people often suffer from diarrhea when they consume milk because of:
A) Osmosis
B) Toxicity of milk proteins to them
C) Milk allergies
D) None of the above

29) Dr. Ratfeather lives alone and hates everything (including animals). He administers large dosages of aspirin wrapped in chicken gizzards to local cats which frequent neighborhood porches. However the same cat never appears twice on the Ratfeather porch because of
a) suicide inhibition
b) enzyme degradation
c) feedback inhibition
d) a and b
e) everything except b and d
30) Dr. Ana Heggenfarther, employee of Dreadco Inc., has just invented a nullifier of entropy after being given a special dispensation by the Cosmos to violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. One consequence of adding a pinch of this Second Law inhibitor to an ordinary endergonic reaction with no ?H term could be
a) ?G is made even more positive
b) ?G is made negative and the impossible happens
c) the entropy of the Universe is diminished
d) a and c
e) b and c

31) Bacteria were recently discovered deep in South African gold mines and they are living happily outside of the solar biosphere equation. They are warmed by the heat emanating from the mantle and are powered by a redox chemistry that probably utilizes
a) reduced metals as electron sources
b) oxidized metals as electron sources
c) weak light from the Earth's core to energize electrons
d) hydrogen gas as an electron sink
e) all of the above
32) More than sixty years ago a several fad diets used protonophores to help people lose weight. Some people lost so much weight that they had to be cremated. The targets of these drugs (like DNP) short-circuited mitochondria by
a) Uncoupling the proton gradient from ATP generation
b) Uncoupling electron transport from the generation of a proton gradient
c) Inhibition of glycolysis
d) Inhibition of ATP synthase
e) b and d
33) One potential explanation for the lack of the use of atmospheric oxygen in glycolysis
is that
a) the first cells evolved in water and there is very little oxygen in water
b) glycolysis is probably one of the most ancient metabolic pathways and it takes a long time to evolve enzymes that can bind a gas in their active site.
c) there wasn't much free O2 on Earth when glycolysis evolved
d) aerobic respiration had already consumed most of the atmospheric oxygen by the time glycolysis evolved

Artie answers:

Easy, it's a take home test. You have time to look up the answers in your textbook. Breathe, read, Google.

Linda asks…

DId we come from aleins and where they here along time ago egyptians aztecs etc...?

i saw stuff about aleins created humans and stuff i thoguht it was crazy but i started thinking and then i read this the other day"Darwin was wrong! We are not apes, and have never been apes!! We have just been hybridized with them and the Annunaki - that's why we share genetics with them - but only on the mothers side. Our fathers are Nephilim. They began breeding us in Sumeria (the Garden of Eden), the first pair being our Adam and Eve.

The Human Genome Project is searching for us humans (ape-Annunaki hybrids) that are most like our parents from Nibiru, which would be the Africans. That's why scientists say we're all originally from there. That's where the Nephilim landed on earth - the Holy or Mother Land - and began human life as we know it. Humans were never primitive, and our highly advanced ancient civilizations prove that. There are ancient Sumerian text to verify all this.

Genesis 1:26 states "Then God said, "Let US (Annunaki) make man in OUR image, in OUR likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

The Annunaki were the creators of humankind, and God was their creator, and that of the universe. It was written. The truth was voted out of the bible by the Council of Nicaea, and being hidden by the Vatican, and their varying interlinking power circles of the 'Illuminati'. All these wars intent are probably over domination of the Holy Land which holds the truth to our history, such as the Ark of the Covenant!"

and i also watched the doc about ancient astronauts on history channel that in cultures around the world where they have found drawing and scripts about being falling from the sky and drawing of them ont he walls and stuff and int he bible it mentions lightning in the book of ezequiel it said "In amongst the living creatures glowed something like coals of fire or lamps, which moved up and down between the creatures: and the fire was bright, and from out of the fire flashed lightning.
And the living creatures ran and returned by flashes of lightning" so AND IT ALSO in ezekial it MENTIONS SOMETHIGN ABOUT "THE CHARIOTS in wheeles inside weheels HOW THEY WERE POWERED BY ANGELS IN METALIC LIKE SUITS AND how wen he saw the he fell to his knees then out of the glory of god came this being and told him alright man we brought u here and we want u to measure this building this monument and he asked why should i and they said thats why we brought u here" i found this extremly interesting and i think it said somethign about the angels sorta moving around so it could be fire since fire moves around and also in egypt they found artifacts about flying spaceship models they built and in india they talk about king solomon having a flying carpet it could be a flying machine and reffered to it as a spaceship and in centrl america in the pyramids that the mayans and aztecs built there are flat flat parts of the mountain maybe they were airports for the spacecrafts to land and they havee also found ancient ar maps of how the world looked like during the ice age it shows antarctica in great detail an africa too kind ahard to explain if u ask me so could it be possible i 10000000% beilive in the bible and im not saying i beelive this just a theory
sorry about the spelling i was in a hurry this afternoon nd i didnt make this up i dont beleive in it this is just what i have heard about not made up i hve seen nd heard im jw is there any true to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Artie answers:

Yes we do come from a power outside of ourselves but I don't know how anyone can say this power which is part of us is alien to us. I don't know what life form God has or where He comes from but am sure we will recognize it when we see it as part of our reality.

I am sure the Africans would be quite surprised to find science views them as ape-annunaki hybrids.

Many cultures believe the creative energy is fire. Nothing is pure but fire and this is where some of the teachings of a purifying hell come from. The Bible says "My God is a consuming fire".?:

The rest of the evidence you present I have seen as well as much more and there is certainly a time to pause in all this and consider if we are truly enlightened at this time or just starting to remember our spectacular past. There are many books as you relate, not just the Bible but many more that talk about a golden past where we understood the depths of space and the mysteries of the foundation of truth. Thank you for reminding me how much I have to learn yet.

Laura asks…

Shaping Opinion--A study of the Use of Propaganda?

Hello all, I need help with researching and presenting information about how propaganda was used in the historical events listed above and find one example of how it has been used in the last five years. These events are the most significant part of your project. You need to do the following or each event:
---Find at least one primary source that shows an example of propaganda. A primary source is an artifact that was created during the time period you are studying. or some of your topics you will easily be able to find more than one. Try to find a diverse set o mediums.
---Describe how this propaganda was used to influence people's thinking.
---Evaluate whether you feel this would have been an effective tool in shaping people's opinions. Explain your thinking.

Topics:

-How was propaganda used to shape the way Southerners or pioneers presented either African slaves or Native Americans. How did the distribution of this propaganda shape the way many people viewed and acted toward these two groups? You only need to choose one of these groups.

-How did the Nazis use propaganda against the Jewish people before and during WWII?

Artie answers:

For examples of propaganda against native americans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE81bSj-4Yo

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