Friday, September 26, 2008

Progress in South

Over a decade, South has definitely become more industrialized. Before the Civil War, north side of America was more industrialized and South concentrated on the agriculture for most of the part. As a result they needed more work force and decided to bring slaves from Africa.
As industry grew with new technologies and ideas, South began to concentrate more on industry than on agricultures. Less people began to work on farm and factories and buildings were beginning to be built on lands where there used to be farms. Now majority of Georgians work as non-farmers and live in cities. My town Fayetteville, which probably was farmland hundreds years ago, is now a town with businesses.
Other significant progress in South is fading of racism. Before the Civil War, South brought slaves from Africa and used them to work for their farms. After South lost the war, slaves were freed, but they certainly did not have the same rights as white people of the America. Racial segregations and prejudices still existed and caused many problems for African-Americans. They were treated unfairly, and many people began to protest about the racism. Most famous person for the Civil Rights Movement is Martin Luther King Jr., and racism was very much reduced after his and many others efforts. Today, racisms are rarely spotted around where I live now.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

what I could have done

If I were in Korea, I could have taken videos of Korea. I would have videotaped streets of Korea where there are full of just bunch of Koreans walking aroundand hanging out. With visual, I can certainly show what i meant by Koreans joining together.I would have definitely videotaped streets of Korea during major sporting events such as during World Cup and maybe even during when huge number of Koreans are protesting on streets.I probably could have interviewed some of them too and ask them about their opinions about North Korea. The interviews may show how they are certainly hoping for the unitywithin two Koreas.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Agreeing with Beth's argument

Beth, a little girl in the Children of the Confederacy, argues that the concentration camps during the Civil War were too cruel. I agree with her argument, but I find it hard to find evidence to support my claim. I have not heard or seen anything about the concentration camp or imprisoning during the semester.

Closest thing I may be able to use, would be that I am now in college away from my family. I am forced to study hard and had a couple of all nighters already, and I did not get to go home last week because of the coming tests. I miss my family not seeing for two weeks, and I find it very cruel for those people in the camps unable to see their family for such long time and go through hardships. Whereas being in college is much less severe compared to the concentration camps during the Civil War, Beth compares the camps to the concentration camps during hallocaust which was much more severe.

Friday, September 5, 2008

An argument from Confederates in the Attic

"I like Auschwitz... It makes me wonder how human beings can possibly do that sort of thing to each other, and how you keep your spirit in that situation. Then I got to thinking about Salisbury's prison..."
Beth, a little girl in the Children of the Confederacy, argues that the concentration camps during the Civil War were too cruel. She claims that how they treated prisoners in the concentration camp and prison was way too cruel for human to do it. She is speaking this to the author but audiences can be any other Americans who did not know much about prison during the Civil War. She makes successful appeal by telling an example of condition at prison, how some prisoners killed themselves at Salisbury. She is using anologies when she compares the Jewish concentration camp with the prison in the Civil War and makes arguments based on facts and reason.