The Reds

HUAC was the House Un-American Activities Committee. HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties. Citizens suspected of having ties to the communist party would be tried in a court of law. Also during this time, Senator Joseph McCarthy began a campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions. From 1950-1954 “McCarthyism” described the practice of accusing Federal Government employees of having affiliations with communism and leaking information. Government employees could be blacklisted (viewed as untrustworthy or someone to avoid) and could lose their jobs. The threat of Communism was a driving force that created a wedge between society and the United States government.

During this time period the lines of civil liberties and national security began to blur, and U.S. citizens felt a sense of uncertainty. Some Americans felt that their personal freedoms were being taken away, while others believed HUAC and McCarthyism were necessary to secure national security. Government officials felt the same types of pressures on the home front. 

Before this, from 1917-1920 The first Red Scare occurred in the wake of World War I. The Russian Revolution of 1917 saw the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, topple the Romanov dynasty, kicking off the rise of the communist party and inspiring international fear of Bolsheviks and anarchists.

Following World War II (1939-45), the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union became engaged in a series of largely political and economic clashes known as the Cold War. 

Following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 near the close of World War II, the uneasy wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel. By 1948 the Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army.

That’s when the Cold War started

The intense rivalry between the two superpowers raised concerns in the United States that Communists and leftist sympathizers inside America might actively work as Soviet spies and pose a threat to U.S. security.

Americans also felt the effects of the Red Scare on a personal level, and thousands of alleged communist sympathizers saw their lives disrupted. They were hounded by law enforcement, alienated from friends and family and fired from their jobs. While a small number of the accused may have been aspiring revolutionaries, most others were the victims of false allegations or had done nothing more than exercise their democratic right to join a political party.

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Questions

  1. What was the HUAC? House Un-American Activities Committee
  2. Whats another term for communists? Reds
  3. Was McCarthy a communist or anti communist ? Communist 
  4. What happened in the 1917-1920? The red scare
  5. When happened the “McCarthyism”? 1950-1954

Woman Choose Death

The author of this myth is Blackfoot. The main idea of this myth it’s the creation of human, and how it was decide that they would die. The characters are: the old man creator of human; the woman who decided if humans would live for ever or die and her child. This myth take place in a river during the day.

The myth starts with the old man creating a woman and a child and they coming to live. They decide to throw a rock in the river and the woman decide that if the rock sank humans would die and if it floated humans would live for ever. They threw the rock in the river and it sank

The old woman and the end of the world

1- What is being explained with this myth? Do you think this is a reasonable explanation? Why or why not? It’s trying to explain why the old woman never finished her quillwork, I thinks it not a reasonable explanation, ‘cause dogs can’t (or at least not in earth) control humans

2- How is the old woman described? A thousand years old 

3-  What role does does the dog play in this myth? Is its behavior logical? Could another animal have been chosen? If so, what kind? No, and yes, it could have been a cat (I think)

4- Based on the tale, how difficult do you think quillwork is? I guess it’s hard 

Choose a passage from the selection, that you found the most interesting, copy it, and explain why you chose it. 

“She is dressed in rawhide, the way people used to be before the white man came.” – I chose this passage because it tell us one of the things that changed after white man came

Monique’s

   Hi, this is the story of Monique’s life changed for ever. She was just a 16 years old girl, with a normal life.

  It all started in October 30, when Monique and her best friend Peter were walking home from school. They were talking when suddenly they notice there was no one else in the streets, it was weird but they decided to just, walk home and ignore it. When they got to her house, she notice that Peter it’s looking at the door with a terrifying look, she turned around and there it was… a huge creature with a purple and blue body. The creature sat in front of her, and looked at her with his golden eyes. Within seconds her hand was on his head, between his big ears. Monique started petting this creature, and after a few minutes Peter did to. After a while Monique notice that it was a wolf, but there was something out of place, the color of his hair and his golden eyes. The next day the creature was still on Monique’s door outside 

   After a week Peter told her that she should adopt him, and of course she agreed. She named him Hades, after the underworld god. Hades was the nicest wolf ever, lovely and well behaved. Until the full moon, Hades started acting crazy, wouldn’t let anyone get close, just Peter and Monique. That night it started raining so Monique got Hades inside, but he stared at my room’s window all night, Monique was totally scared of Hades behavior, but she sat beside him and petted him, he cried still staring at the window. Monique was confused, so she looked at the window and she was totally surprised, it was an electric storm, but not a normal electric storm, the lightnings where purple, blue and pink, she didn’t know how was that possible and she  started googling.

   And her heart stopped for a second, she couldn’t believe what I was looking at a picture of her own wolf, Hades, with a guy dressed in black and shining gold eyes. She didn’t know what to do, what did her cute creature had to do with the storm?

   Monique was so panicked that she decided to stop searching for answers, but every full moon the weather would go crazy, the storm would be stronger and Hades would act weird. After the fifth full moon she started searching again until she found it. The guy on that picture that she had found on the first full moon; it was Magnus, a kid that died with his pet on a thunder storm caused by Zeus. Zeus felt so guilty that he decided that Magnus needed another opportunity, but the wolf had to stay dead, he promised Magnus he would take care of the wolf so Magnus could live his life and come back for him. 

   Well Magnus’ pet was no one else than Monique’s creature, Hades. After the storm she took Hades to the bridge where he died and within seconds Zeus showed up and looked at Hades. Her heart raced when she saw Zeus staring in front of her. Hades sat on Zeus’ side as he thank her for bringing him his wolf.  Peter got there and Monique hugged him while started crying and as they looked back, Zeus and Hades were already gone.

“The coming of corn”

^ In the story it’s explained how his grandmother even dead, helped him to feed himself and others.
^ The relationship between the kid and his grandmother was great, but he didn’t trust her though.

^ I think a women represents corn, because he was like his son, and she would feed him, just like when they have a newborn, they feed him.
^ People who passed away live in the heart, and in the memories of people who is alive.

Literary quote #3

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” ~Lao Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

You know a family it’s happy or unhappy because of the way they act. When a family it’s unhappy most of the time they have a complicate relationship, or wouldn’t communicate; while a happy family would give everything to spend time together and express themselves with each other.

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