Monday, October 19, 2009

"Founding Fathers Democratic or Not"

I believe strongly that the Founding Fathers were not democratic. I say his for many reasons but all of them boil down to one attribute most of them held, selfishness. The Founding Fathers all would have and did, benefit greatly from the creation of a strong central government. They benefited by being able to make it so they could keep slaves, many had government bonds, many were big loaners and that way they would profit greatly, and lastly they they also were some of the biggest land owners. Also I say they weren't democratic because thy let the four biggest social groups (slaves, indentured servants, women and men without property0 completely out of the conventions and they were the people who would be most affected.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

September 11, 2001

On September the eleventh of the two-thousand and first year I was sitting down for a math lesson in the third grade. Our principal at the time at Cathedral was Mr. Uhren came into the class and talked to our teacher. Right away she looked really worried. About ten minutes later he came back and talked with her again. Right after he left she got up and said to the class, "Class, there has been an attack on the United States. It happen at the Twin Towers in New York." The rest was blur me and I don't remember much. The reason: my uncle was in New York doing business at, The World Trade center. As soon as I got home I asked my mom, "Is he okay." She knew what I meant right away and for some lucky reason, my uncle had not go in that day. For the rest of the night all I can remember is sitting in front of the T.V. with my family, and I kept seeing the same two words on the screen constantly: Terrorist Attack.