What I learned from Socratic Seminar

During the Seminar I leared that there are a lot of problems in the world that people are facing, and I noticed that what our teacher(Mr. Carpenter) has been teaching us has helped us to answer these questions. He gave us suggestions which we can give the people in charge of the Reconstruction of the places we are learing about(Korea, and Haiti). In the Seminar I learned that you can't bring about change quickly, you must do it deliberately. I also learned that if you are to do something you should take your time and not rush into it(Diliberately)
When I say that you cant bring change fast, I mean that if were to bring change it has to be deliberately. To bring change to fast you are avoiding the problem like the compromise of 1850(like chadine said). To bring change to fast is not to bring change but further problems, if you are to bring change it must be at a steady pace. Deliberately, is how change should be brought forth. There are certain steps which need to be taken in order to ashure that the change will be worth it in the days to come.

Did anyone dominate the conversation? How did the group handle this?
- I dont think anyone in the group really dominated the conversation, but I do think that others had some very good ideas which we built off to start a discussion. The group handled this well and collected thoughts from this person and then carried forth a new perspective towards the question.

What evidence did you see of people actively listening and building on others' ideas?
How has your understanding of each EQ been affected by the ideas explored in this
seminar?
-I answered this question in the question above....

What was the best part of the seminar? The worst part?
-I would say that the best part of the Seminar is that some really good ideas were laid out on the table and that my head really started to think about all the possibilities. There wasn't really a worst part, but the time where people were interrupting the class and had to be dealt with.

What would you like to do differently as a participant the next time you are in a seminar?\
-I would like to have been the person starting this discussion because, I was just sitting there taking mental notes.
Summary: Overall I think that this seminar was a very good idea, because as a class I think that all the students interacted well with the EQ. We all had good ideas its just that some were better than the others.

Current Events

Venus Williams a great tennis player is not turning 30 and she wants to show that she is not getting old, and that she can still play tennis. After she beat Lucie Safaravo, 6-2, 6-2 see mainly said in a interview that she has no plans of retiring anytime soon. She says that she is still capable to play a good game and she plans to win every tournament she enters.

The history of the two sisters mainly states that they are great athletes that know the insides and outs of the sport. The sisters dislayed over and over again that they are not getting old, and that they are willing to play the youngest of them.

Johnsons Reconstruction Plan:
In johnsons plan he pardoned southerners who took the oath to the union, states were required to abolish slavery and repay the confederate debt. States could then have elections and join the union.
Black codes:
-Black people couldn't gather after sunset
-Black men had to sign a agreement that said they would work for a year and those who quite early usually lost all of there pay
- Black people could rent or own homes only in rural areas
- Black people who didn't work could be wiped, fine or sold for a years labor.
14 and 15 amendment
- Stated that all american citizens could vote, and the color or race of that person didn't matter.
-all people born in the united states are citizens and no state can make laws making a certain race abide by the rules which another race doesn't
Carpetbaggers
-carpetbaggers were greedy men who tried to profit from the southerners
-usually educated men who wanted to make money
Scalawags
- people who oppose secession
- many scalawags were poor but not all

The war ends

At the end of the war, there are very big changes. The blacks are now free, but they are also now without a home or food. The war has destroyed two thirds of the souts shopping industries and the south has lost 260,000 soldiers. After the war there were many widows and orphans, due to the fact that all who fighted were men.

Linchon had a reconstruction plan put in place, which said that if any confederate who took oath with the uinio would be pardoned. There were no pardons for people who didn't take the oath. All states were to participate in anything the union did they were to come back fully to the union, this was another rule of reconstruction.

Blacks with freedom had the freeedom of movement, freedom to own land, freedom to worship and freedom to learn.

The Compromise of 1850

When the gold rush occured the Americans said the California should be admitted into the United States as a free state. This would mess up the balance between slave states and free state. Henry Clay proposed the idea that was then named the Compromise of 1850. He came up with 5 laws: 1. Congress would admit California into the Union
2. People in New Mexico and Utah territories would decide whether to allow slavery or not.
3. Congress would abolish the sale of enslaved people, in Washington D.C
4. Texas would give up claims to New Mexico for $10 million
5. A Fugitive slave act
This avoided the problem because slavery was still there it was not taken care of.

Current Events: Two Moroccan Journalist Jailed for Misinformation

Two moroccan journalist were jailed due to the fact that they published misinformation it wasn't backed up by the truth. So mainly they lied and recieved a consequence of jail time. They lied about major drug trafficking network that is called the "Triha" which is the name of the suspected leader. I cant find in the article when and where all of this took place I will update this blog when I find the information.

In which situations will compromise not work in a teenagers life?

In a teenagers life there is mainly two sources of power, one which everyone abides by the Goverment, and the second would be their parents. Every teenager or most teenager get rules in which he/her cant change, rules like you cant stay out past a certain time, you cant get into a fight at school or else you are grouded, or a rule could be that as simple as call your mom every saturday. Lets say the teenager were to get into a fight at school or break their curfue, the parents would then make up a certain punishment in which the parents feel would make sure the child would never do it again. But in my opinion this never really works. One way in which you can avoid a punishment like this is to just not do it, or dont get caught. On rule that no one can get around is murder, a human being cant murder another human being without having to pay a certain consequence. Well I am sure a couple slip by but I know the vast majority of murders get caught and they then go to jail for a life sentece or a certain amount of years. This is a rule which no one can alter, people take this very sereously. A pathway you can follow to some how get past all of this would yet again be to just not comit the crime, or get a very good lawyer.