Diamond on Colbert Report

An interview with everyone’s favorite historian, Jared Diamond.

Survival from Atomic Attack

Duck and Cover

Cold War Homework

Look over this website. I want you to respond to this blog on one of the 4 aspects that are listed: Culture, Technology, Espionage and the Bomb.

This will be a homework grade. Make sure you make a clear statement that you can support in regards to what you think about the topic you choose.

Pearl Harbor

Response to the Video on WWII

What kind of picture does the World War II video portray? What is it missing? What side is it leaning towards, why? Please give a thoughtful response. I will be looking for a thesis and evidence to support your statement.

Islam: What is it?

Read the following blog entry by the ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt written for the Washington Post.  What is your response?  Do you agree with the ambassador’s statement?  Why or why not?

TV Commercials for Expressions Project

Here are a few TV commercials as examples. What do they tell you? What are the advertisers trying to do? How can you use these examples as you prepare to make your own commercial? What is in an advertisement? What do ads say, what do they mean?

Impact of World War I

Here are some of the effects of World War I

http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/great_war/effects.htm

Front Line

Read the following document and be prepared to answer the questions that go along with the document:

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/g3/cs2/g3cs2s2a.htm