Magnet APUSH Post #1

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

              Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is lauded with the discovery of the Grand Canyon as well as credited with the exploration of the American Southwest. His story begins in 1510 in Salamanca, Spain born to a prosperous and wealthy family. However, seeing that he was the youngest and would not inherit the family estate Coronado decided to go to New Spain. There, Francisco Vasquez earned a position in the colonial government and soon enough met his wife, Dona Beatriz who was the daughter of the colonial treasurer.

              Through the explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Vasquez found out about the Seven Gold Cities of Cibola. European explorers believed that due to the immense wealth discovered in the Aztec and Inca empires, the same amount of treasures would be found in the Americas. In 1539, he decided to go out and find Cibola. Coronado set out with 300 soldiers and 1,000 Indians. He ended up encountering Indians in New Mexico. He destructed the tribe of the Zunis that offered no type of wealth or luxuries and also encountered other tribes such as the Hopi. Continuing on his exploration, one of Coronado’s men, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas spotted the Grand Canyon located in Arizona. Coronado continued on his search to Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

                                    

               He returned to Spain in 1542 and became the governor of Nueva Galicia. The inability to find wealth in the explored lands broke off the friendship between Coronado and Antonio de Mendoza. Coronado was removed from his position as governor due to his cruel treatment towards the natives. He later lived in Mexico City where he ended up passing away on September 22^nd in 1554. After Coronado's attempt to find the Seven Golden Cities of Cibola, many Spanish explorers branded him a failure. He is one of the first Europeans to explore the American west.

Blog Post 7B

I think that students can't finish their homework that lasts 20 minutes because people rather spent hours doing nothing than do homework that is boring. Students woould rather relax their brain and not stress out about their homework until one day before it's due. It makes sense because even I would rather sleep than do homework because sometimes the homework I get is hard and I want nothing to do with it until later especially if it's spring break.

Blog Post #6B :)

Is this ship still the ship of Theseus?

I do not believe that this is the ship of Theseus anymore because the same material that was on his boat is not the same. It is not the same boat that he himself constructed. It has been renovated and changed. If I leave Boyle Heights and return twenty years later to see that everything is very clean and the trees are sparkly and glittery, it's called Boyle Heights but it's not Boyle Heights. It's not the one I knew. The same thing with the boat, if Theseus came back to see the boat and saw that the wood and everything else was replaced, he's going to wonder what happened to his boat. If it was his boat his hard work would be shown the exact same way he left it. No one would change Abraham Lincoln or John F. Kennedy's speeches just so it sounds better or the English Language has changed since then, or put a parenthesis next to their words to say what they meant. No! Original is original and that is why original can't be changed. No one wants their creations changed if it's not the way they made it or remembered it. That is why the boat is called Theseus' boat because he made it with his own hands and left it the way they did. No one should have messed with the boat even if they thought it was for the greater good of the boat. Even a small modification results in a tragic change and it's just not the way it used to be. There are old artifacts rotting in museums but they haven't been recreated into something else, why, because it wouldn't be the same. The original work of someone is what is most important.

Blog Post #5B :)

Who: Paul Conroy, a British Sunday Times photographer
What: He was rescued by Syrians and taken to safety
When: At the beginning of February 2012
Where: From the city of Homs to Lebanon
Why: The people behind the attacks were causing an uprising towards the President's rule; government opponents were leading rebellious attacks

Yan is out sick again

It was dark an gloomy. A perfect day for a mass murder. No one would have suspected that their lives would en suddenly. As Mark stared at himsel in the mirror he wondered on how many newspapers his fac would be on and how many different people would remember it forever. He went over the plan in his head once, twice, ten times. It all made sense and he smiled as he thought abou blood splattered on the walls and the beautiful sound of screams piercing his ears.He felt in control, powerful. Adrenaline ran through his veins an he couldn't keep his excitement in any longer. The clock ticked behind him and every second was closer to what he was determined to do. As he pulled a 9 millimeter shotgun from underneath his bed he gently caressed it and admired it's beauty. He loved that feeling of the bullets lined up one behind the other, all with someone's name on it. It was a shame however that the beauiful gold bullets, would be engraved in a heart, a liver, a lung, or a brain. He tucked in the gun in his bag. Without it he was just a normal kid. No one would suspect a thing. After being satisfied with his accomplishments, he would only have to wait for the police to handcuff him and it wouldn't be too long before he'd be declared the most dangerous teen in the world.

BLOG POST #3B :)

I prefer personally going to a store and shopping for what I want. For me it's better to get off my lazy butt and exercise. I don't like using the online store because the website may say that the item is available but really it isn't or it's out of stock. Also, you have to pay using a credit card which is something I don't have. When you are shopping for clothes you don't know I it's going to fit you. At a store you can chose any item of clothing and see if it fits and check for any defects and pay in cash unlike the online stores. Where is the point of shopping online if your friends aren't there or check out the cute new cashier at Macy's. There is no fun and I guess I prefer shopping at stores because I like to leave my house once in a while. The advantages for online stores is that you can search for whatever you are looking for and find it in a matter of seconds instead of having to look for it from store to store. It also saves you time when you have to make a quick buy.

BLOG POST #2B:)

Anything you buy is never for you. You can't use it for resale or copy it because it is against the law. Even if you buy a sandwich and feed it to the ducks, you can't do it. We don't have rights over anything when you really ponder about it.The government can come and take it away from us. During school, our electronic devices or cell phones are confiscated but it belongs to the person who bought it right? So they are the only ones who have a right over it no one else. Saying you can't hack into a video game or copy DVD is very ridiculous because the buyer already spent their money on that item approximately thirty dollars if they want a Blu-ray DVD. Good for Warner Bros or whoever made the movie that convince someone to buy their film and waste their money on it, but now the DVD is their property and they can break it, throw it to the trash and oh yes copy it! It is like when someone doesn't pay their bills, their car and their house can be taken away, but they bought the house so what's up with that? Nothing is ever a buyer's to keep.