Monday, September 30, 2013

Child Labor in the Early 1900s

 
 
 
  Life was extremely hard in the early 1900s, especially for those who worked in the mines. young children such as the one above worked full wok days, from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. This child from west Virginia was only one of thousands to suffer from the poor conditions within the mines. disfigurement and death was common within all industries during those times, so he was definitely in great danger. Another tragedy for him was that because he worked , so much his chances of getting a formal education wee almost none. Child Labor laws had to b passed to keep these types of situations from occurring.

Monday, September 23, 2013

My Native American Name

My native American name is Laying Bear. the first part of the name, laying is very symbolic to me and my personality because I am extremely laid back and I sort of hibernate as much as I can when I am home. I usually don't feel like doing anything and I would rather sleep in all day than do anything else such as cores or working out. tat is why I picked "laying" as my name, because I like to play around.

  "Bear" is the second name I picked for myself because even though a lot of the time I just want to relax, like a bear hibernating. at other times I have amazing energy and I become extremely active. An example of me coming into my more aggressive state is when I play spots, my aggressive side come out along with the second name that I have picked.
 

Monday, September 16, 2013

Native Americans and there struggles with eropean westward expansion

 
 
 
  As more and more Europeans kept moving westward the native American struggle to keep their land and their traditions intact became an impossible goal. So they became content with just trying to keep their way of life going. They had treaties with Americans but those were broken constantly and native land was taken from them whenever the white people needed to expand. In the picture above it illustrates extremely well what happened to the natives as there world came to an end. they had to keep migrating, and having to move into reservations. For a lot of natives, moving to a reservation was a sign of giving up. Some tribes even tried to migrate to Canada to try to salvage their culture. I believe that we as a nation need to not forget about the struggles and injustices that were forced upon the native American.