Bri+Johnson

__**Reform Project: William McKinley: Voice Thread- the microphones still don't work so i put typed comments in.

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photo websites:(I forgot that we were supposed to put these on here so i only got two of them, sorry!)**__ [|McKinley:] [|McKinley]

__**5 Websites:**__ [] I thought this website was AMAZING, it was the white house website, and it gave every president from George Washington to Barak Obama. This website gave in depth facts about William McKinley. It told about his presidentcy in great detail. The bad thing about this website is that it didn't talk about his life before presidency. But it was a very informational website.

[] This website is actually for the University of Virginia. It is just a bunch of essays on William McKinley's life and presidentcy. I liked this website because it had information on other people that were in congress and stuff when william McKinley was, like the first lady, vice president, secratary of state, and stuff like that. It was kind of helpful for me, it has just like facts written on the page and that was really the only helpful thing. I thought it was very bland, and i don't do bland.

[] I thought that this website was very very through, maybe just a little bit too through. I thought it was super boring to read(well most of it, not all). I thought it was very informational though. It gave every aspect of his life in extensive detail. I thought it was pretty helpful overall.

[] I found this website to be quite reliable. It gave an over view of who William Mckinley was and then McKinley's biography. It gave very good facts about his life and it was put together very well. I thought this website was reliable because it had a list of all of the websites at the bottom, and that was reassuring that it was a reliable website. I also liked that it had photos, because none of the other websites did.

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William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843. He had a normal life like any other boy, he liked going fishing, hunting, horseback riding, ice-skating, and swimming. At a young age his father had him working in his iorn foundry which gave him a "strong work ethic and a respectful attitude." It's no wonder his life was filled with politics. William McKinley started his career in law and politic after the Civil War ended. Soon after, in 1976, McKinley got his first spot in congress. He kept that spot until 1891 then he went back to Ohio where he had lived previously because people weren't really on his side anymore. In 1891 McKinley ran for governor in Ohio and won by a small margin. With congressional experience, and the Republican party at an all time high, McKinley decided to run for president in 1896.

William McKinley won the election with ease. I learned that McKinley called a session for congress and enacted the biggest tarrif in history! He was a big part of why alcohol and tabacco became taxed. In his first year Alochol taxes brought in 114.5 million dollars, tabacco taxes brought in 30.7 million dollars, and stamp taxes 260,000 dollars! I thought that McKinley had a really hard desission when it came to the cubans and the spanish fighting. because he had to decide wether to intervene or not. he sent out the announcement of neurtral intervention on April 1898. Congress then voted a declaration of war for the liberation and independence of cuba. During the 100-day war, "the United States destroyed the Spanish fleet outside Santiago harbor in Cuba, seized Manila in the Philippines, and occupied Puerto Rico." McKinley ran for president again in 1900, and won again against William Jennings Bryan. But this term was short lived because in September of 1901 McKinley was shot twice. He died two days later on September 14, 1901. And the guy who shot him was put on the electric Chair and died October 29, 1901.

William McKinley was an extrordinary man, even from child hood. He did many things to help our country in time of need. He was an amazing congressman and president. With his strong work ethic and respectful attitude, William McKinley was an amazing person and has changed the Unitied states forever.

__**Urban Nation Project: Chinese Immigration**__ **25 /50 pts: 5 websites w/evaluation. Critical evaluation must be at least 5 sentences in length and be much deeper than "This site contained maps" etc. I need to see that you have actually taken the time to thoroughly explore the websites. What makes it valuable and useful? How do you know the information there is accurate? Does it cite other sources? (For full credit on this really dig deep and EVALUATE it. Why is it good? How do you know if it is reliable or not?)

20/20 pts: VoiceThread (5 slides w/explanation of the images) 15/30 pts: 3 paragraph essay (3 distinct parts written in first person) written in 1st person to avoid plagiarism issue. I also want to know what you learned.** (You are getting there with the essay. On the next one try to close out the opening paragraph with a thesis statement in which you introduce all of the things you are going to discuss in the rest of the essay. Also, make sure it is written in first person.....use phrases such as I learned that or while researching this topic I discovered, ect.


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Both of the microphones are broken here at the school, so i had to use the typed comments.

Five Websites:__**[] This website was very helpful to me, it didn't really have any information about Chinese Immigration on it in particular. But it gave a bunch of websites that have a lot of information on Chinese immigration. I like this website because it isn't like when you google "Chinese Immigrants" and you get every page on the worldwideweb that has those two words on it. This website gives links for websites that are all about Chinese immigration and next to the link it gives a little discription of what the website has on it. It also gives information about china itself. It was extremely helpful to me.

[] This website was helpful to me because it gave the reasons why the immigrants came. It said that some came for the "gold mountian" and some just came for better job oppertunities. It also talks about what periods people came in, and there was a few different periods of time where Chinese came to America. It said that the first spurt of Chinese that came was right after the gold rush started. And that it ended very quickly after it started because of the Chinese Exclution act of 1882. Then it goes on to tell about that Act. This website was overall very helpful for me.

[] This website was very heplful It gave photos and lots of information of how life was on the ships. The title of it is Journey to Gold Mountian, which is refuring to The California Gold Rush. It tells more in depth why people were coming to America. They came because of War and better lives for their families. This website also tells about how they got over to America, and how the living conditions on the ships were. It told about missionaries that were on the boat and how they would preach to all of the people on Sundays.

[] This is one of the websites that the first website gave me. It talks about how Mark Twain observed the immigrants in california, and how he discribed them. This page is a part of one of his books, __Roughing it.__ It was actually kind of hard for me to understand, just because it was written a long time ago, and it just sounds weird to me the way he wrote. I didn't really use anything off of this site, but it was helpful in some aspects.

[|http://memory.loc.gov/learn//features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.html] This website is the same as the one above, just a different portion of it. It was veryhelpful to me. It was really easy to navigate around, and it is just like a presentation, so I could just look at the top to make sure i was at the correct page. It gave a lot of very useful information and good photos of Asian-Americans. I liked how the website was seperated, that made it really easy to find information. but it didn't have as much information as I wanted it to, that is the only bad thing.


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The Chinese had it very rough when they came to America. They came thinking that they were going to have a better life for their families and most of them had the exact oppisite experience. The ships the Chinese took to get here, to America, were not big enough to house all of the people who were on it. But they made the best of it, because they were happy that they were coming to America, because they thought that there were job oppertunities, and "The gold mountian." The Chinese came to make a better life, and become rich!, because that is how they saw America, that's how everyone saw America.

Most of the Chinese immigrants came from Pearl River Delta in Guangdong. Almost all of the Chinese entered though San Diego, at Angel Island. They entered though California because of the Gold Rush. Almost all of the Chinese immigrants were coming to find better econmoic status, or to escape the political curruption. I read all of the websites and everything i could find about the Chinese immigrants, but the one thing that opened my eyes to how the chinese were treated, and how they weren't treated how everyone else was, and how they got denied "the land of the free" was reading the excerpt form Mark Twains book. Although it was in big weird words I could barely understand, he said that Chinese got treated no worse than dogs, and that they were harmless. They didn't drink or do anything that the white man did, but they still got treated un-fairly. They worked for small wages and enjoyed it while the white man just stood there, got paid more and complained about it. I learned that Chinese have pretty much always been used for what they do and their hard work, while it is just convienent for Americans.

The Chinese Came to America to provide a better life for themselves and their families. But they got descriminated against hard-core, and they ended up pretty much in the exact same position that they started with. The Chinese immigrated for a reason. No one could seem to understand how much they did for America, and what they endured in China. They didn't have it really any better in America than they did in China... That kind of takes away the whole meaning of "the land of the free", don't you think?

media type="custom" key="4540764" Bri---I LOVED the VoiceThread. Excellent job!!!!!

[|Http://inventors.about.com] This particular website was very helpful with everything. It had stuff on it about Alessandro Volta, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell. It also showed pictures of the inventions like the light bulb. The bad thing about it was that it showed a lot of information so I was just tempted to get all of my info off of it instead of going to other websites. Other than that it was a very trustworthy website. [|www.alexandergrahambell.org] This website was very helpful with information on Alexander Graham Bell. It gave everything in great detail about his whole life and his inventions. It showed pictures of his family and told all about them. It told about all of his inventions and showed photos of them. It was a very good website for finding all of the information about him. [|www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml] This website had a lot of detail, especially when it talked about Alessandro Volta and the first battery. It broke down the parts of the battery and explained it in extensive detail. It showed the photo of the people and gave a brief description about them just so you get the point of who they were and what they did. The bad thing about it was that it was a little clustered, but for the most part it was easy to navigate around. [|www.livescience.com/mysteries/080110-llm-first-battery.html] This website was not very big, but it helped by telling me how the first battery was made. It gave great detail about how Alessandro Volta created it. It was also bad because it didn’t give the correct date it was made. It said in 1799, but every other website I’ve gone to has said 1800. But overall it was a pretty good website.

(3 sentences)  [|www.lucidcafe.com/library/96mar/bell.html] This website just kind of confirmed what I already knew but also had interesting facts. Such as Alexander Graham Bell had 18 patents to his name and 12 of them he shared with collaborators. But it was a pretty cool website and had accurate facts about Bell.

Inventors and their Inventions

Where do your paragraphs begin and end? You need three distinct paragraphs....an into, body, and conclusion. This is a good start, but you need more depth. Dig a little deeper on the next project. For a first attempt you did a fantastic job. I am impressed!

**In the 19th century there were a lot of things, which we don’t think about today as a big deal, being invented. It was very hard to choose which inventions to select for that fact alone. Scientists were taking advantage of new technology and creating hundreds of things we have today that are no big deal.I chose to do Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery; Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; and Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.

Alessandro Volta was born in Como Italy in 1745. Early on Volta was a teacher at a public school, and later on he was a professor of physics at the Royal School in Italy. He studied the chemistry of gases, and discovered methane. In 1779 Alessandro Volta became a professor of experimental physics at the univercity of pavia. He married a woman named Teresa Peregrini, and they had three sons; Giovanni, Zannino, and Flaminio. Alessandro Volta invented the first battery. The first battery was made with discs of zinc, silver, and copper, and in between the pieces of metal were wet pieces of cardboard or paper.

Alexander Graham Bell was also a magnificent inventor. Bell was born in Edinburg Scotland in 1847. He became a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University. his wife and his mother were both deaf, which inspired all the work that he did. Bell got most of his early schooling, like his brother, from his father. At a young age, he went to Royal High School, and later left. Bell had two brothers, both of them died from tuberulosis. He invented the telephone in 1876 and in his lifetime he had 18 patents, 12 of which he shared with collaborators. He was also credited with the invention of the metal detector and he experimented with air craft. Alexander Graham Bell Married Mabel Hubbard on July 11, 1877, they had 4 kids, 2 girls, Elsie May Bell, and Marian Hubbard Bell, and they had 2 boys who both died while they were still infants. In August of 1922 Alexander Graham bell died.

Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, was born in February of 1847 in Milan Ohio. He had 7 brothers and sisters. He was taught how to read, write, and do arithmetic by his mother. Edison got married on christmas of 1871 to a 16 year old girl who's name was Mary Silwell. they had 3 kids whos names were Marion Estelle Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Jr., and William Leslie Edison. Mary Edison died in August of 1884, possibly from a brain tumor. and in 1886 Thomas Edison married again, a 20 year old woman, Mina Miller, they had 3 children together, Madeleine Edison, Charles Edison, and Theodore Edison. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and the phonograph. And he died in October of 1931.

It was very interesting learning about the different inventors and how their lives were. It was also pretty cool to see photos of everyday appliances when they were first invented, they look similar but WAY different.**

 Brianna Johnson Refrences **
 * Coca-Cola
 * Doctor John Pemberton
 * In May of 1886
 * Coke was made to be a refreshing drink, but it also was a pain killer. It had extracts of cocaine and extracts from the kola nut, which had caffine in it. Dr. Pemberton first sold it at his pharmacy. His Bookkeeper helped him with the name and had very good writing and wrote the first logo on it, which is the famous logo that we still see today. The first year of sales was bad, they made about $50 for the year and it cost $70 to make it for the whole year. In 1887, Asa Candler bought the formula from Dr Pemberton for $2,300 and had great success.
 * Even today, 123 years later Coca-cola sells hundreds of millions of dollars worth of products every year. And people still stop by the convience store to get a refreshing Coke.
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