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After WW1

After the world war one, Americans were very afraid. They believed that the war was a terrible thing, and everyone besides Americans were terrible. They were scared of outsiders. They were also scared of becoming a communism country. This would make rich people very upset because they had to share their money with everyone.

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To relieve some of these fears, they became nativist. They only wanted to be around people who were classified "American." They also isolated themselves from other countries. This caused them to be racist. Since they were scared of becoming communist, they hunted people that they believed were apart of the communism party.
Americans had fears that related to the League of Nations. They had collective security vs. national soreignty. They did not want to deal with other countries. They had idealism vs. pragmatism. They wanted to force idealistic goals.
The goals of the communist were to create a economic and political system. They wanted create a single-party government ruled by the working class. They wanted to disribute wealth and party equally.

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Food Inc.: How Happy Is Your Meal?

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When I was younger, my favorite food of all time was a McDonalds Happy Meal. I tore through the bright red box with the huge, yellow smiley face. Did I care about the milk, apples, cheese burger, or fries? Heck no! There was more important things that I had to worry about which was the little package wrapped in plastic: the toy. But that was years ago. Now I am sixteen years old and I've taken a deeper look at the food that you believe is made in farms.
In the documentary Food Inc., the truth is told about how McDonald's meat and vegetables is made and brought to our table.
During the 1950's, McDonalds and many other resturaunts were very similar. But one day, the owners of McDonalds wanted to cut down prices. They chose to create food by making it in the factories, which was a cheaper than making it in the farm. They had less workers now and they only gave them a little bit of money. This made McDonalds a very rich company. The suppliers of McDonalds meat changed as well. 8 of 10 hamburgers in America are owned by four companies that make their meat at factories.

If your mom or dad goes to by a pack of meat at the store, you will find a label on that package. You will see pictures of farms and a lot of grass. But these pictures are fake because these animals are not raised on farms but in factories. You can find these labels on dairy products as well. For example, chicken in 2014 look totally different from chickens in 1950. The chickens now are bigger and grow very fast. This couldn't be done on a farm. You are probably wondering why these companies don't just tell us the truth. When the movie makers of Food Inc. tried to interview Vince Edwards, a chicken grower from Tyson (a chicken company), he was not allowed to. Tyson does not want us to see the truth because they don't want us to stop buying their meat.

Did you know that 3 out of 10 grass areas in the United States is used to make corn? Corn is such a major crop in our country. I bet that you didn't know what syrup, coke and every batteries have corn inside of it. Our government wants to makes corn the most sold crop in the country. This is because they pay corn growers only if they can make more corn than other corn growers. This means that corn becomes very cheap, which is why they feed it to the animals we eat. This is why fast food is so cheap. Companies that sell a lot of meat want to be able to feed their animals cheap food. Cows are supposed to be eating grass, but because cow growers are so cheap, they feed them corn. This makes cows infected with E. Coli. If you eat a burger with E. Coli, you will become ill and it can kill you. In fact, a boy named Kevin Kowalcyk died from eating meat that had E. coli. The people in charge of our country, also known as the government, knew that E. coli was in the meat. They did not stop selling it for 27 days!

People that don't have a lot of money are living in proverty. Since these people don't have a lot of money, they eat at places that make unhealthy, fast food, such as McDonalds. They become sick or overweight but they cannot buy the medicine to make them better since they do not have the money.

Joel Salatin is a farmer that raises meat in a very clean way.  He even feeds the meat grass. The government believes that his farm is dirty because he cuts the meat outside and it makes the air nasty. Large factories get most of their workers from Mexico and pay them very little money. Joel Salatin pays his workers fairly. Some people don't think its fair that fast food isn't honest about what's in our food. If you try to critize what these factories are doing on TV, you can go to jail.

The people who created Food Inc wants all of us to understand what goes on in these factories. Since big companies don't want to tell us the truth because they don't want to lose money, Food Inc decided to create a documentary about it.

Americas Food Suply

Purdue is a major processing company in Salisbury, Maryland. This company takes about 6 million dollars worth of takes each year. Nicholas Kristof was the author of "Abusing Chickens We Eat" which was publicated in the New York Times. Kristof was arguing that animals, regardless if they're food or not, should not be treated cruely.

Source Chickens are not in small cages, but they're are thrown
on top of each other.  

The evidence to support his argument was that the animals were being feed hormones when the CEO says that they're being raised humanily.

Source Jim Perdue is the Ceo of a chicken company. 

The farmers stood up against the CEO. The best quote from this article was "doing the right things is things like treating you chickens humanely," said by Jim Perdue. This is ironic because chickens by that company are not treated that way. It is wrong that chickens are treated cruelly, especially because we have laws that are against animal abuse.
The living conditions of 1906 were very terrible. The waste from toilets were thrown straight out of the window. Rats and flies were infested everywhere. None of the workers wore gloves when they were cutting meat. There was feces everywhere. The Meat Inspection Act helped Americans by preventing adulterer and misers dead meat. Meat had to be handled in sanitary environments. This also forced companies to be honest.

Public Education and Inequality

Horace Mann was one of the most influential
person to contribute to bringing education public. 

 The reason that public schools were created was the U.S. depends on science and technology, so it provided training for better jobs. It was key for a stable and prosperous democratic nation. Education provided financial security and social class. This also assimilated millions of immigrants. Some problems with this first public school was that it was only 4 months of school for 8-14 years olds only. The students were also miserable because they were mistreated by their teachers. 

Majority of the students were white. Whites were encouraged
To go to schools. 

Public schools provided child care for parents. It also took kids from working in the factories. Children needed to learn how to read, write, and understand math. 
These schools perpetuated inequality. White and blacks had very different opportunities. 62% of the children attending these schools were white and 34% were black. Europeans were encouraged to learn. These schools also replaced native languages with English. 

Passive House

Source  A modern style passive house
located in Germany. 

Source A image showing some principles of passive house

Who knows what the future has in store for us.
We come up with new ideas and they're thrown under a bus.

            Thinking of sustainable living for your great grandchildren,
            This home could ultimetly save you billions. 

                        If you people would just open up your eyes,
                         You would be smart enough not to believe lies. 

Summary of Technology Readings

 In the article compiled by Danny Blas, technology changed how and where we lived because we were able to deal with crowdedness. We started to live in skyscrapers due to inventions such as the elevator and steel reinforced skeletons. Because of technology, we were able to fit more people into less space.
Technology also changed how people moved around. American cities began to electrify transportation with electric streetcars that were also called trolley cars. Subways and trains also contributed to population increase. Railroad networks and steel cable suspension connected the cities.
Technology changed the way people read and learned. This was caused by newspapers. The cost of newspaper priced was reduced due to a lot of purchases. Since newspapers were cheap, more people were able to learn.
In the article compiled by Danny Blas, a passive house is an environmental friendly house that doesn't use traditional heating and air conditioning systems. Passive houses are different from traditional houses because they only use a fraction of the amount of energy traditional houses use.
The Americans and the Germans have different believes on the passive houses. This is because the house in the different regions are different. I would settle these differences by making different restrictions in different regions.
Some people that reside in expensive neighborhoods would be against the new passive houses because they look different from traditional homes. They also believe that these homes are not unique and all look the same.