Kitty On A Bomb

Humanitarians,

Today we discussed the changing way war is fought thanks to industrialization. WWI is the first fully industrialized war, which means everything Europeans think they know about how to fight and win a war is, uh, wrong. This leads to massive loss of life from ALL countries plus a stalemate, which is why this war, which most thought would end in a few weeks maybe months, takes 4 years to resolve.

Also, it leaves Russia supa salty, which explains so much of what will happen next....

TOMORROW, YOUR TFA PROJECT IS DUE, NOOOOOOOO EXCEPTIONS!

Also, you have a humanities reading due on Thursday as well. :WINK:

This day in history?!?!?

• 1763: Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War...and setting the stage in many ways for the American Revolution.



too damn many

• 1837: Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin was killed in a dual. 
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God bless, Russia + Gilmore Girls, my life is complete

• 1967: The 25th Amendment was ratified, establishing presidential succession.
• 1996: IBM's computer, Deep Blue, beat the world chess champion, Gerry Kasparov, in the first game of their match. 

• 2005: Pulitzer prize winning playwright Arthur Miller died. You will read/watch on of his plays, The Crucible in 11th grade! Also, he was married to Marilyn Monroe for a hot minute.

And our Civil Rights Activist for the day, as part of Black History month, is....

Stokely Carmichael, or Kwame Ture, a Trinidadian-American revolutionary active in the Civil Rights Movement and in the global Pan-African movement. He was first a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader of the Black Panther Party (a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization from the 60s-80s. Its core practice was arming citizens to monitor the behavior of police and challenge police brutality in Oakland. It also opened several community social programs, such as Free Breakfast for Children and community health clinics), and a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party.

While Stokely Carmichael faced criticism from the nonviolent Civil Rights movment after his transition to the Black Panthers and criticism calling him misogynistic for comments he made about African American women in the movement, overall, he and the Black Panthers were extremely influential in the 60s-the mid 1980s.

And finally, social media for the day... a little social commentary with a giggle today...  @manwhohasitall on twitter. This parody account makes fun of some of what women go through in the "quest to have it all" i.e. a career and family, poking fun at some of the ridiculous advice from women's magazines and social media, by turning it on it's head and targeting men/dads instead. Pretty good satire, I think. Check it....(WARNING! some of the tweets make fun of women's magizines like Cosmo, so mentioning of male genitalia). 

READY FOR YOUR PROJECTS TOMORROW!!!

- cbg