Annotations #1-10

Andrew Jackson." The White House. 115 Oct 2008. US Government. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.html.
This website offers me a brief history of Andrew Jackson’s life and his background before he became a president. It talks of how he was elected by popular vote more than any of his predecessors. Also it states that he was the first man elected by Tennessee to the House of Representatives.

From this website I got info on how our seventh president Andrew Jackson’s life before presidency and it’s a secondary source because they weren't there for any of these moments in his life and are just putting the pieces of history together.

"Encyclopedia The State Library of North Carolina." http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/index.html. July 18 2008. Information Services Branch of the State Library. 16 Oct 2008 http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm#Public.
This source I found on the Internet gives me a more thorough understanding of the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It shows me how roots of the Trail of Tears can be linked back to him and also how he didn't uphold his bargain by protecting the legal rights of Native Americans during his Administration.
This site that I visited gave me a lot more than the previous website that I visited it went into further context about his life plus gave me some info about how his wife was married while she married him.

"The War Hero." Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency. PBS. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/alife/war_hero.html.
Now this source gave me a lot on his background as a general and how he was referred to as "Old Hickory" as he shared his men hardships such as walking while the injured rode or how loyal he was to his troops and how he joined other Native American tribes to battle with him at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
This site is legit to me because PBS is known for dabbling into American and World History. It offers videos Pictures of the events and it was a secondary source because no one was there to witness this.

Zebra, Doctor. "Maladies and Conditions." The Health and Medical History of President Andrew Jackson. Oct 21 2003. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g07.htm.
This source shows me all of the wounds that Andrew Jackson has received, which caused him problems later on in his life. From smallpox to bullet wounds received in duels it shows and describes all of them.
This site is a primary and secondary source because it gives quotes for certain parts of this list of injuries from the people who were there and just summaries of the other injuries he read in books on these presidents.

Artist, Unknown. "King Andrew the First." National Archives . 16 Oct 2008 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/treasures_of_congress/Images/page_9/30a.html
This picture shows the impression of the unprecedented veto of the Bank Bill and how his opponents accused him of abusing his Presidential powers. And this cartoon depicts him as a tyrannical king stepping on the Constitution.
This picture is a primary source because it's from his period of presidency and gives you a feeling of how they viewed their president during that time.

Remini, Robert V.. "A National Hero, the Battle of New Orleans." Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). Nov 7 2005. 16 Oct 2008 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/aj7/about/bio/jack07.htm.
This source speaks of Jackson's military skill in the battle of New Orleans and how by using carefully dug fortifications repelled the British troops who tried to invade and seal off as many passages as they could to stop surprise attacks.

To me this site adds a little more to my understanding of Jackson's views and how he operates in times of war and how by using wit sustains little casualties of war.

"People & Events Indian removal ." Judgment Day. Africans in America. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html.
This site shows me how President Jackson felt about Indians in his country who were here before the Americans. He goes to war in order to remove them if all else fails which leads to Second Seminole War in order to relocate the Indian southeastern nations.

This site shows me the darker side of Andrew Jackson's presidency and how he tricked certain tribes with illegitimate treaties that lead to the Trail of Tears for the poor Cherokees. They tried to go to Supreme Court and battle this but ignored them and after that kicked them out and as they left white people looted their homes.

Lindneux, Robert . "Welcome To My Tsa-la-gi ( Cherokee) Page." 16 Oct 2008 http://www.simplyangel.com/tsalagi.htm.
This source shows me an illustration of the challenges the Cherokee faced while walking or riding horseback on this cold and winding trails. I could see despair and misfortune all around them.

This primary source gave me views on how President Jackson feels toward Indians and the troubles they faced with this discrimination.

Summers, Robert S.. "Andrew Jackson." Presidents Of The United States. July 12 2008. Presidents Of The United States. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.potus.com/ajackson.html
This next site gives me many unknown facts to me about Andrew Jackson telling me notable events and giving out more links for biographies about him like him being the first president to be a prisoner of war or born in a log cabin or even the first president to ride on a railroad train.

Analyzing this site gives me even more unknown and interesting facts on our seventh president and its legit because I saw many of these facts posted on other websites.

Jackson, Andrew. "President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)." 100 Milestone Documents. National Archives. 16 Oct 2008 http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=25.
This tenth annotation explains Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act and how if removed in Georgia the townspeople will mine for gold on their tribal lands Also to settle lands on the east of the Mississippi river held by Indians.
This is a primary source because Andrew Jackson himself wrote this plan to rid the east side of the North America.

Thesis Statement

Andrew Jackson was our nation’s seventh president, and one of our best generals in the Wars of his time period. Our nation’s 7th president who found America a republic but left it a democracy. With thoughts of claiming military glory this man jumped at the chance to offer his assistance in the war. Known to his allies as “Old Hickory” for sharing his men’s hardships while he let his wounded men ride horseback. Thoroughly known for participation in the Creek’s civil war, known for his military prowess in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and New Orleans, plus his cruelty towards Native Americans consequently leading to the Trail of Tears.

Topic Selection Essay

The individual in history I chose is Andrew Jackson our seventh president who is shown on the twenty dollar bill because I am interested in his participation in the War of 1812. He was a major general who became a national hero and his influence he made as a president. He was important to history because without his views we couldn't have branded nullification as treason and made Congress reduce tariff in 1833, defusing the Bank War & nullification crisis.

Thursday meeting

Well on that Thursday we had walked around the school going to the lunchroom and outside for ideas for a bench there. I said some good ideas and everyone else did too.

Service Learning Reflections

What do you want us to do clean the dirty keyboards in the school or start planting or just go around helping the janitors?

Service Learning Reflections Week One

On week one of our group hours we were having fun until Mrs. Thompson had separated us into two groups like pre-schoolers. There was group A&B. She was always deducting points for stupid things like talking or laughing and then she made us pass around a talking stick to stop everyone from talking at once. But near the end we did come up with good ideas like a lounge for students and a student garden or making one at the NCC but we'd have to use annuals (year long flowers that grow back every spring). And that's what we did.

Service Learning Reflections

4/7/08
Service Learning Reflections

During my independent hours I was working at TYWLS (The Young Women’s Leadership School) at Rhodes. For my hours I did things such as shredding old documents and copying papers to pass out papers and stapling them for the secretaries to pass out in the school to advisors and teachers. I also had worked in the supply closets to stock reams of paper on the shelves as many as 100, 20 lbs. reams of paper and then on some days I would walk around the entire school from A-D house to handing out supplies to many schools during Saturday School hours handing out reams of paper, some days give out lunch passes and hall passes, giving out boxes of tissues to the many classes of that school. Then sometimes if worked hard they get me something to drink. So on all the other days I was by myself going to the many classes handing out supplies.

Service Learning Ideas

5 Ideas for Service Learning Project For Me

• Working with my mother at Saturday School for 3 hours for 4 Saturdays.

• Work at my local daycare part-time helping out Mrs. Lou.

• Help out my grandma around the house for a while.

• Tutor kids around the neighborhood such as helping them with their homework.

• Clean up the neighborhood.















6 Ideas For The School Wide Project

• Go to a soup kitchen and help out the homeless.

• Make a school garden.

• Do a school wide fundraiser.

• Re-paint the school or fix it up.

• Help out another school.

• Do a can-good drive

My Reflection Of NHD

2/26/08 My NHD Experience

My view on this NHD project is simple it's time consuming and too short to prepare in less than three months. My project was called The 1844 Bible Riots Cause & Effect. It showed how the two religions the Protestants & the Irish Catholics went to what you could call a war between the two religions. All of this started because one bishop from a Catholic church wanted the school district to allow the teachers to allow the Catholic version of the bible into school instead of being forced to read the Protestant version everyday. One of the success of my project is my bibliography because my Allee and I
Made sure everything was up to par with our bibliography and our board explained our topic although it could’ve had a few improvements. One challenge was constructing our board and we could’ve used an extra partner to do work for our middle section because we basically had nothing. So next year I’ll do a paper because writing 1,500-2,000 isn’t nothing for me.

Huck Finn Mind Evaluation

1/9/07

In these next two paragraphs I'll explain why Huck Finn in the terms of the Id, Ego, and Superego he's the Ego. I'll explain why Huck's always torn between two sides constantly from making a small fib to a huge lie like in the movie where he was with two con men who tried to rob three heiresses of their inheritance. Another case is when in the book where Huck goes to school and the Widow tries to make him into a good kid. But the Id as it always does lures him off track to cut class and wear rags trying to live life his way.

 In real life there are people who always follow their Id to do unspeakable things such as murder, stealing and con people. Like in the story two men were mistaken for brothers of a deceased man who in fact had a great fortune from property values to gold coins. So they ran into Huck and Jim and forced them to go along with their plan since Jim was a runaway slave. So since they were told they'd get their cut if they play along for a while until they take the money. So Huck was an English valet and Jim a Swahili Warrior and they conned everyone in the town except the youngest sister and the doctor. Until Huck's superego came into play and makes him do the right thing and tell the sisters all that he knows which leads to the two men being tarred and feathered.

The second case is when the Widow makes Huck go to school and at the time his Ego let play along and try to better himself by being a young man until Huck's Id over powers his Ego. So then he cuts school to hang out with Tom Sawyer and the rest of the gang, lies to the Widow and Miss Watson by saying he went to school even though he hung out with friends. Playing games such as highwaymen robbing rich folk taking their possessions and other things. But then his Pap came back and his Id went back to sleep making his Ego gain control and tell him to escape.

So to summarize my entire essay Huck is basically torn between to mindsets the Id and Superego. From time to time his Id gets loose thus making do bad decisions that he soon regrets later on and then he settles down which finally releases his Superego to which makes Huck do the right thing and set things straight thus, clearing his conscience and helping people out.

Should Huck Finn Be Taught In School

1/9/08

I believe that Huck Finn should be taught in high school. One reason is because even though high school kids are immature they could learn from this book. Two is because this book is a good read if you can read between the lines for example interpreting what Jim really had intended to do.

My first reason for why Huck Finn should be taught in school is because high school kids can learn life lessons from this book. They learn how true friends look out for each other from saving the other friend from a slave catchers to helping the other get away from bad family members. Look out for the other when one is bit by a rattlesnake and can't travel for days. Or making sure the other friend stays out of trouble when he lies.

Now on to my second reason why Huck Finn: should be taught in high school. No one happens to read between the lines anymore but just read what's in front of them and no further. The first example is when Jim wants to go north besides being sold he wants to be free and go up North to get a job and to buy his family from this unequal servitude. That’s one of the many things that you can put together before the character talks about it more deeply.

So that's my opinion of why Huck Finn should be taught in high school in my honest opinion. But that's my opinion so you don't have to believe it. So read the book put together all the things I said and see if I'm right.

Links

NHD Links

http://candst.tripod.com/boston3.htm

http://www.aoh61.com/history/bible/phila_riots.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm

http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/philadelphia.htm

http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html

Annotated Bibliography

1/8/08 Ryon Willis

Bible Riots
Feldberg Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.
This source talks about how Irish Catholics were the targets of Nativists aggression, which was torching two of their churches a mob pillaged and wrecked the homes of Irish Catholic residents who ran away with anything they could carry.

Geffen M. Elizabeth,” Violence in Philadelphia in the 1840’s and 1850’s.”
Pennsylvania History 36 (1969): 381-410.
This source also talks about how mobs attacked Irish weavers in Kensington after displaying a banner outside their workplace. It also points out how African Americans were also targets through the 1830's like the anti-slavery activists.

Johnson R. David, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the
Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1979.
This site talks about how police in this time period created night watch for criminals, fires, and drunks and how thousands of drunks, vagrants, and disorderly were beaten for not "moving along". So as a result beggars and kids playing in the streets ran away when the police came.

Johnson R. David,” Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840–1970,” in The Peoples of
Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790–1940, Ed.
Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1973: pp. 89–110.
This source talks about how the disgruntled laborers resorted to violence during rapid industrialization in the 1820's. So rioting to them countered the mechanization of their trade voicing their anger at the growth of manufacturing and surplus threatened to lower their wages.

Lane Roger, Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-
Century Philadelphia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
This source talks about how the usefulness of suicide, accident, and homicide measures to human behavior, which is violence and how it’s connected to the impact of population growth, and other behaviors.