Link To Website on the History of tea

For All The Tea In China Project

Tea is a huge part of our history. In my opinion I love tea, but never really thought much about where it came from, how it became such a huge commodity, and so on. So I decided that I would look into it, and what I found amazed me. I had no idea how much tea has impacted history, and has made it what it is today. For All the Tea In China by Sarah Rose, is a step by step story about "How England Stole the World's favorite drink and changed history." This book is packed full of information, but not like what you would find in a text book, instead an incredible story about one man, an idea, and Europe's love for tea.  

Middle East Project: Israel and Iran's Nuclear Programs

Thoughts and Reflections on: Maps in the Middle East

Ben Howson
World History 2 per.2
Thoughts and Reflections
05/06/15

Continuation of The Israeli - Arab Conflict
This video starts off with the defeat of the Arabs in 1948, and then goes on to talk about Nasa gaining arms from the Soviet Union, and how he became the new power in Egypt, and all the conflict that it created with other countries, such as the Israel, France, and Great Britain. It then moves on to the the wars that this created, and how it was all ended with the USSR, USA, and UN getting envolved. Israel and Egypt had a peace agreement in 1978. It then gets back to the wars between the Israelis and Arabs, and how they had lots of wars due to the disagreements between the two, but came to a time of no war between the two, while discussing things, but in 2000 Israel disengaged.

Continuation of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict
This conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians was due something that had happened during the conflict of Israelis and Arabs. 1987 was the beginning of the Intifada, which lead to the negotiations and Oslo Acause between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, which lead to the peace process. It then talks about how every thing was going well, because they hadn't covered any of the sensitive topics, which they eventually got to, and that caused the second outbreak to happen, which gave the Israeli army an excuse for a violent recuperation of the Palestinian towns. This forced the USA, and other big powers to intervine, which ended out straitening up both the Israelis and Palestinians.      

From watching the videos on the different maps in the Middle East, I have noticed a trend. Basically, there is a country that has conflict with another, they try to work it out multiple times, but they all end up in war. Then while they are solving their problems, and have done so, another country decides to pick a fight with one of them, and then like before, they try to work it out, but it just ends up with both of them going to war. Then later they finally solve their problems with another. This same trend continues on, and on, their is basically never a time, when one country isn't fighting with one other country or multiple. They go to war, or fight a couple of times, but then finally find a thing in which they could agree upon. All of these fights are always on the same topics, and a lot of the time, fights between the same countries, fighting for the same thing that they were last time. But for something to finally stop, other countries in the world, like the USA, would become involved and force the two to come to an agreement, in which both would be able to work with.

   

Thoughts and Reflections on: A Leader Tries to Shape a Master Race.

Ben Howson
World History 2 Per. 2
5/04/15

The Holocaust 

It is possible for a modern society to carry out a systematic murder of a people for no other reason other than they are Jewish, and this exact thing happened during the Holocaust. Germany was in an economic crisis, but then Hitler stood up and got everyone's attention. He blamed the Jewish for what had happened, and he truly got people to believe that he was right, so they went along with it. Even when the killings started to happen, Hitler had just engraved in people's minds, that what they were doing was right. He stood up when people were down, and he got them to do what he wanted with no questions. There is always a reason why some people resist and other's obey authority. Many people obeyed Hitler, because they were scared to stand up against him, but some people, despite the fear, really knew that what he was doing was wrong, and that it would have to stop. They basically thought that giving up their life trying to help others was worth it, because they looked at it as one life for a hundred. For the people that obeyed Hitler, they could of had something really important to them, like a family, and just didn't want to leave them, so they chose fear, and to obey him. Many people stood by and did nothing when the Holocaust happened, for really three reasons. Either

the people whom worker for Hitler were truly convinced that what they were doing was the right thing. The people that were against him, they were treated like Jews the moment they stood up, there for couldn't do really anything. Also, basically anyone that was outside of Germany had no idea what was happening for the longest time, because they would show them fake videos of the camps, to make people believe that every thing that they were doing was good. I am sure that an event like this could happen today under the right circumstances, it is just that we would be better prepared for it, so it probably wouldn't get to the same point of extremity. Today, the situation in North Korea is pretty simular to what happened in the Holocaust, but with just a few minor differences. The thing that sets apart the Holocaust from other events in history, is that during that time, basically an entire group of people was wiped out; exterminated due to the vision of one man in power.

USSR Final Assessment: Republican view. The Dystopian Nightmare

Ben Howson, Savanah Franklund, and Mac Zee

World History per. 3

05/01/15

Five Best Things about Socialism:

1.  In socialism, the lower class must provide the farming industry which helps build up the higher class and government owned farms. This provides space for a well qualified leader to do their job.

2.  Socialism strives to expand life expectancy by providing healthcare for all. This also helps with life qualities in a socialist environment.

3. Socialism is against discrimination of class, so they provide education for everyone, allowing anyone to get an education.

4. Socialism is not only against class discrimination, but also wealth advantages.

5. Socialism gives a lot of responsibilities to the government, which helps citizens everyday lives.

Five Worst Things about Socialism:

1.  Socialism obtains forced labor camps, causing many problems in production processes. In these camps, the workers have no experience, and are forced to do work, making their motivation minimal.

2.  A socialist government takes away many personal rights of the citizens, causing them lack of privacy.

3.  Because socialism promises such services, the provided aids could lack experience to allow everyone equality.

4.  Even though the government promises to take on such burdens of the people’s lives, they could make mistakes that could affect the citizens live’s in negative ways. If any mistakes were made, each citizen could be at risk financially and beyond.

5. Socialism accepts government discrimination, and keeps from what would typically stop the government from separating people into groups.

Five Pieces of Evidence Against Socialism:

1.  A black market is now considered a bad thing, and that is essentially what the socialistic government made itself to be. They achieved this by lying, stealing and forcing labor.

2.  Soviet production advancements were little to none, and very unpredictable. The low production can be held accountable to collectivization.

3.  Overall, collectivization was not beneficial in any way, and actually  began to cause problems in the USSR.

4.  The CIA shows the falsely portrayed statistics of growth, which shows the lack of honesty from the government.

5.  They deprived each citizen from basic rights including freedom of speech, and wrapped them into their own structure.

Five Words and Definitions:

1.  artel: a cooperative association of craftsmen living and working together.

2. Consolidated: make something physically stronger

3.  Blockheaded: a stupid person

4. opportunism: taking advantage of opportunities when they arise, regardless of planning or principle.

5. procurement:  the action of obtaining something.