I learned today that you do not know much about industry. This is ok, I guess, but it is also important to know where things you enjoy on a daily/weekly basis come from.
Also, I feel that 1st period did not believe me in America's love of the farmer. In my corner, I offer the following as evidence:
Today we answered questions over China/Japan during the Early Modern Age. Make sure you understand concepts like Neo-Confucianism, daimyos, foot-binding, Edo, and the cultural changes that are happening in both thanks to world-wide trade and travel. I find foot-binding especially interesting. China during this time is clearly a patriarchal society; footbinding, as the book explained, made it impossible for women to work or be self-sufficient (as well as permanently disabling them). During the Mao's Communist Revolution, one of the social groups that he was very successful in wooing to the cause was women, who in communism were promised an amount of equality that hadn't been seen. So in some ways footbinding led directly to Communism!
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Make sure when we are talking about all of these things you are making connections! Does Edo sound like Versailles? Can you compare the peasant labor to the mita system or the encomienda system? How do both Spain and China change thanks to the influx of silver? How does Asia respond to Catholic Jesuit missionaries compared with how Native Americans respond to these same people? These kinds of questions are ones we love for exams, as does the college board.
For tomorrow, please have read The Monkey King.
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Monday - Explorer's Expo DUE!
Wednesday - Economics of Violence reading due; be prepared for a graded discussion!!!
Thursday - Quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't been doing your reading....shame on you, but also read yo, read.
That's it for class, now on to more interesting things...
This day in history:
- 1805: Admiral Horatio Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar. Interestingly, Mr. Garafola and I went to the cemetary for the Battle of Trafalgar on our honeymoon. It is in Gibralter.
Gibralter also has these cute monkeys from Africa, but they steal stuff. - 1879: Thomas Edison invented a workable incandescent electric lamp.
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- 1959: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opened to the public in New York City.
- 1989: Marty McFly is asked by his good friend, Doc Brown, to go into the future to save his family from ruin.
Happy Back to the Future Day!!!
Some trivia:
- Apparently Ronald Reagan was amused by Doc Brown's disbelief that an actor like him could become president, so much so that he had the projectionist stop and replay the scene. He also seemed to enjoy it so much that he even made a direct reference of the film in his 1986 State of the Union address: "As they said in the film "Back to the Future", 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"
- When Marty is being judged at the band auditions at the beginning, the judge who stands up to say he is "just too darn loud" is Huey Lewis, whose songs, "The Power of Love" and "Back in Time" are featured on the movie's soundtrack, and also wrote Marty's audition song (which is a re-orchestrated version of "The Power of Love.")
- Sticker on Doc's rear truck: One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
- Marty McFly mimics famous rock stars during the later part of his performance at the school dance, when he starts playing heavy metal. His kicking of speakers (The Who), playing the guitar while lying down (Angus Young of AC/DC), hopping across the stage with one leg kicked up (Chuck Berry) and his solo (Jimi Hendrix/Edward Van Halen).
Finally, go here to find out which Back to the Future character you are!
Happy Wednesday, halfway through the week already!
- cbg
That foot binding picture will haunt me for months.
ReplyDeleteAlso, bless you for posting "The Power of Love". Monumentally underrated 80"s gem.