The King is dead!!

The past week in M.1 has defiantly been harder than usual. So now everyone cheers, because the king is dead. There were many similarities between the way King Coyle handled things in M1 and the way the 13 colonies were ruled. The first similarity was that both were ruled…and they were both ruled by kings that did not care about what everyone else wanted, but more on what he wanted. The 13 colonies were taxed for practically everything that they needed or wanted. Ex; tea, stamp act. Similarly, we were taxed for denim, braces, and even using our agenda! We were taxed for things that we should not have been taxed on and that is called injustice. King Coyle acted like a tyrant because he had power over us, and simply because he handled out grades and because he was able to hand out detention slips. King Coyle ran a tyranny. He treated us unfairly, and he took away our rights, like King George III. They were both also very capable of threatening us. Clearly, we did not like this, and we wanted to be treated much fairly, and that is self-determination. No more worries! The king is dead!!

43rd war feedback

The absolute location that the 43rd war takes place in is the El Salvador. One piece of evidence is that that Atlacatl was the last ruler of El Salvador (wikipedia), and I figured that this could be a fact because in the book, it was mentioned that there is a volcano called the Atlacatl volcano. Also, the country had very bad civil war difficulties in the nineties (wikipedia). Another reason I think that the 43rd war was based in Salvador is because the main language spoken there is Spanish, which is also the main language spoken in the 43rd war. Also, the main religion in El Salvador is Roman Catholic and in the book, they used two twigs to form a cross for the dead. It appears to be that there was a lot of guerilla conflict in the country, and in the book they mentioned that a lot. Moeri probably did not mention the name of the country because she probably wanted to add some kind of friction to the book, and also because the government might not be happy about it because it is not all accurate.

Declaration of Independence.

It is a necessity that you explain when you are going to break away. It is obvious that all men were born equal and right full rights that should be our rights. That includes life, liberty, and happiness. Governments get their powers from the people. When any part of the government start to take over in ways that aren’t approved by the people, the people have a say in changing a few things, or creating a new government. When people have the rights to alter things about the government, it is because the people feel the government is not doing what they are supposed to be doing. All our colonies have suffered because of what the government is doing and now we are going to make sure that it does not go on any longer. King George the third has damaged our colonies in many ways.

King George has damaged the colonies by keeping trade from all the rest of the world. He has taken away our seas, destroyed our coasts, burnt our towns, and shattered the lives of our people. He sent us beyond seas so we were tricked for things they made up about us. He also deprived us, in many ways, of the benefits of trial by jury. And last he has kept us away from each other, in times of peace, standing armies without our permission of our legislatures.

Each time he acted on one of those horrible things, we asked for him to stop. We ask him only when what he does hurts us. He should not be the king. He is not fit for it. The king is an oppressor. We also talked about this to the British legislature and we told them why we came in the first place. Whatever we say does not matter. No changes were made. Everyone here is saying that freedom is upon us. We, whom represent our United States of America, will make this work by working together.

J O I N, or D I E

This political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin is showing that if all the colonies don’t join as one, they will die.

Note; the ‘JOIN, or DIE.’

Each of the pieces of the snake are the eight colonies that should put together to make one. If these colonies just want to stay single, and decide not to join to each other, there might be wars against one another and other colonies from other continents. Then, these colonies would have to fight back alone unless they made allies. But if they all stay as one, America, it is much harder for any of the other colonies to attack and if they were to fight back, they would be able to fight back as a one, whole, strong army. The cartoonist, Benjamin Franklin, made this to show everyone that if they want to win whatever happens to them, they need to stay as one. Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of America, so he is the one who put all of America together, and he wanted to show the people with this cartoon. His opinion in this cartoon is that they should be strong and all join as one. The evidence for this is the slogan. It says in the slogan ‘JOIN, or DIE’ which shows that he thinks that they should all just…JOIN. Benjamin could have made this better by turning the face of the snake towards the audience so they can see the snakes’ facial expression more and show more visual effects. Having the snakes face sideways doesn’t show much about how the snake is feeling or how vicious the snake may look, if it does.

Can we trust the "truthfulness"

We can trust the truthfulness of this book because everything in the book is directly taking quoted sayings from those who were once slaves. Also, most of the quotes were taken from sources like the library of congress, which is a huge library in the states that is much known. They have a reputation about history facts plus the library of congress would not have fake quotes from the slave trade years. Also, Julius Lester is a professor of black studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. A professor that experts in black studies, would not lie about what he learned…the truth. Another reason is that, the American Embassy School of Delhi is not going to spend money on a bunch of books that say anything but the truth. Also, many of us knew general facts about the slave trade before we read the book “to be a slave” and the book just restates the facts that we were already aware of from common sense. Everything that we read just tells us what it is like to be a slave, how they felt about it, and how badly their masters treated them. Lastly, the dedication clearly stated that this was to the memory of his great grandparents that were slaves too. Though he never knew them, there is absolutely no reason to why he would spend his time to publish a book that is not trustworthy.

citation;

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Scholastic, 1968.

GP

My partner, Asim and I played Germany in the GP. There were many tough decisions that were to be made at the start and to the end of the game. First choosing allies, was a hard decision to make because you had to make sure you aren't being allies with one of your other allies enemies. USA and France were the countries with the most advantage at the start of the game, probably becuase of the economic units they recieved to start with. They were strong countries but during the game, other colonies, like russia were able to catch up by planning, and choosing what to buy with their economic units. France's idea of waiting the first year and not making any allies was very smart because they then had the advantage to see which empire they want to join. Germany started out with a good number of economic points but during the middle of the game,we made many wrong decisions like helping out during a war and loosing more than getting back though we won the war.
At the start of the game, we bought alot of armies. That helped other empires defend and fight wars. But towards the end we wished we bought more industries and colonies becuase they add on extra econimic points. Industries dont seem important becuase they dont help you fight wars when it comes to seeing who has more becuase the amount of navy and army that an empire has is whats counted. But the reason an empire will have thier armies or navies at all is depended upon the amount of colonies and the amount of industries that you have. Navies are completely useless. You can fight with them in a war but they are only worth half of armies. Germany kept a very strong army in the begginning and many empires came to us to become allies. Even in wars, we saved them from loosing to other very strong empires like USA and France. If we were to play this game again, buying colonies and industries in the start of the game would help us a great amount for the long run.
Germany had many allies, all except for USA. We were allies with Japan but we broke off the treaties because they had joined the USA too. However, we were allies with France , who too were allies with USA but it needed to be made sure the France would not attack us. Japan did not have a very strong army and it did not matter if they were to attack us becuase Russia or great britan would help us, and Russia espeically had a strong army, and us put toghether is even stronger. During the game, i learnt you can't trust any of your allies becuase they might have made allies with your enemy too and they can always back out on helping you in a war. Also its a right that they help the other empire because they made allies with both sides.
During this game, i learnt that before getting straight to building an army, you should start with colonies and industries that will help you on the longer run. Another fact that i learnt is that you have to make sure you don't double cross your allies becuase they are all greedy just like your own empire. They want to take whenever they have that chance to take, and so they will just join these wars that started out small which became a "great war". I also learnt that conflicts dont always profit your empire becuase even when you win, you don't always get more than what you provided for the war.