Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Declaration of Independence

1) The passage says, violating right of life and liberty of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere. It also says that he is determined to keep an open market where MEN should be bought and sold.
2) To purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them and Murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them, with crimes of which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
3) Thomas Jefferson was against slavery and was against King Georges decision to encourage slavery in the 13 colonies, but at the same time Jefferson owned slaves of his own and did not set them free.
4) Jefferson accuses King George for encouraging slavery in the 13 colonies and refusing to restrict the slave trade, and inciting slave to rebel.
5) The King insinuates that slaves in the 13 colonies would be good. He also insinuates that the slave trade should stay.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Candidates 08






John McCain and Barack Obama are the last candidates running for president. John McCain is a Republican, while Barack Obama is a Democrat. The two have similar issues such as; the migration of illegal immigrants, and they both support stem cell research, but they oppose human cloning.

John Sidney McCain was born on August 29, 1936, Coco Solo Naval Air Station. He was a naval aviator for many years until he was shot down and captured by Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war for six years. John McCain retired from the Navy in 1981. He moved to Arizona and was the U.S. Senate from arizona in 1986. He was married and divorced, but is now currently married to Cindy Hensley McCain. They have seven children.

John McCain is for free trade and voted yes on NAFTA. He also plans to do something for the environment by Introduced the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007, created to reduce greenhouse gases and use different energy sources such as neuclear power.

Barack Hussein Obama was on born August 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. he went to Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review, Barack taught contistutional law at the University of Chicogo Law School for nine years. Currentlt he is the U.S. senator from Illinois. He is married to Michelle Obama. The have two children.

Barack Obama says that he would immediately try to amend NAFTA with Mexico and Canada, and would eliminate tax breaks with companies that are planning to move over seas. He would also start an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to ride greenhouse gases, and would try to make the U.S. a leader in the gobal climate change.