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In 1971 President Nixon declared the War on Drugs.

"When Reagan assumes office and prioritizes the war on drugs, extradition becomes the greatest fear of the Colombian traffickers."

"Reagan responds by creating a cabinet-level task force, the Vice President's Task Force on South Florida. Headed by George Bush, it combines agents from the DEA, Customs, FBI, ATF, IRS, Army and Navy to mobilize against drug traffickers. Reagan later create s several other regional task forces throughout the U.S."

"Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign becomes a centerpiece of the Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign. The movement focuses on white, middle class children and is funded by corporate and private donations."

"1986
Anti-Drug Abuse Act - Mandatory Sentences
President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, instituting mandatory sentences for drug-related crimes.
In conjunction with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, the new law raised federal penalties for marijuana possession and dealing, basing the penalties on the amount of the drug involved. Possession of 100 marijuana plants received the same penalty as possession of 100 grams of heroin.
A later amendment to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act established a three strikes and you're out policy, requiring life sentences for repeat drug offenders, and providing for the death penalty for drug kingpins. "

The drug war of nowwww:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/16/eveningnews/main4672172.shtml?source=search_story

• What are the problems America Faces?
• We are facing sustained inflation
  
• Fixed income
  
• Unemployment

• tax system tax
  
• public spending
  
• deficits
  
• economic upheavals
  
• economy.
  
• Government
  

• What are Reagan's solutions?

No groups singled out

Interest group-

Healthy vigorous growing economy.

Revived economy

What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this-

MILITARY!!!!

Using strength.

:D

What does this event reveal about Reagan's Relationship to the country as a leader?

How did this event effect Reagan's roll with the Am. public?

Who is the audience for this speech?

The audience for the speech is a group of christians.

;)

What is the argument Reagan makes here?

He is talking a lot about god and communism and he was using god to argue. I think he does this so he can make his speech seem more important, and to make the religious groups pay more attention to what he was saying and his argumentt.

What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?

I think Reagans agenda was to get the attention of everyone watching, and to make a huge point.

10. What is the message here?

11. How does the ad use Carter?

12. What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?

70's Post

70’s
Episode Watched: Brady Bunch
Focusing on: Family Life
Before the 70’s: Life was very simple. Families ate together, there were not nearly as many divorces. The mothers were very young. The mothers stayed home and cooked and cleaned, while the man was out working. Children could play outdoors without adult supervison. They only had one tv in the whole house, as well as one phone. It was a very simple life before the 70's. There were only 385,000 divorces before the 70's, which is across the ENTIRE United States.

During the 70's: In the 70's everthing changed, well, to an extent. There were still the happy little homes, like the Brady's and even though they weren't perfect, because they too came from split families, but got along all too well, with one another. They made life look perfect. They could solve an issue in 30 minutes flat. The mothers in the households started to work more than they did in the 50's or say the 60's. Then you watch a show like That 70's Show that is trying to depict the 70's, and they look like the most dysfunctional family. But back then, the parents actually disciplined their child for doing wrong, and not just let them off the hook. Divorce's in the 70's also increased to about around 800,000 or 900,000 which is triple the amount before the 70's. The 70's changed alot for the people also. They had Nixon for a president, and that led to the Watergate scandal. Nixon also promised to end the Vietnam war, which tore through families across the nation. The seventies were a critical time for families. They didn't really frown upon divorce, and there were tons of split up families.
After the 70's- The changes since the 70's are phenomenal. Divorce is a consistant thing, it seems more are divorced than together. There are more split families than ever before. No one even bats an eyelash to a divorce, yet, are surprised if parents are still together. Now, almost every child across the nation has a cell phone, computer, and a myspace or facebook, when before these never even existed. The music has changed too, before the music was happyish, and upbeat, now most music is down. We have had a war raging on for 7 years, and really have no solution on how to end it. Some things have also gotten better, we now have our first African American president, and we are more technology sophisticated, so we can make computers and such, to help us. Everything is a lot different.

CHAT WITH KRISTEN

friesiangrl14: hey
me: Hi.
khamilton403: hi
me: Hi Kiana.
friesiangrl14: ok so i think that he was right and the real threat of america is faith in our country and that we are all loosing that faith.
me: The yellow means then, that the country as one is losing faith, and it's not gas, oil, or anything like that. He also states that the economy will get better, but we need to have faith that it will get better. He also says that the government can't do it all alone.
khamilton403: he mentions how this didnt happen over night, and that its goin to take more then just a copple of weeks to get out of it. carissa you were right we all needed to come together as a nation not just the goverment.
friesiangrl14: To answer back to the second part of this question in the yellow i would say that this would never leave this country though maybe not noticed it will always be here.
what do you think carissa
??
me: In my opinion, I don't think that specific threat is with us today. I think that we have more of a threat of economy today. The economy is really bad, now it's not as much as us having a problem of faith, it's the economy bringing us down now.
Now onto the red.
friesiangrl14: ok
:)
me: I read the first red paragraph and what Jimmy Carter is saying is that we used to be a strong country that is run on our faith in god. Now we are selfish and we basically pay alot of attention to what we have, and what can be bought for us. But even that can't help fill the void we have. :D
friesiangrl14: This paragraph that i had just read talks about how america needs to look up and that
if we dont then nothing will happen and what you are letting yourself beliving it will come true.
What about the third?
me: Yeahhh. On too green. :D
Third paragraph you mean I get it!!!!
friesiangrl14: no carissa we still have another paragraph lol
hehe someones a loser
;p
me: We are supposed to be doing are work. Not making smiley faces.
friesiangrl14: ok i def. think that this paragraph is not completely true because the reason we treat some of these facilitys like we do is because of the reaction that we get back from these places. For example our schools, well of course we are going to have disrespect for this if they raise our taxes to keep paying for things not needed.
NOW on to the next question....
me: YEAHHHHHH.
friesiangrl14: ok
me: green.
friesiangrl14: lol
I do think that this relates to america today what about you?
me: Yeah, how do you expect us to respect them when we buy things for schools, and stuff we don't. Okay now onto green.
Wow, I just repeated youuu. Hahaha. But I agree comp-letely with you. :D
friesiangrl14: okay.. someones lossin there mind
:0
me: Are we on green nowwww?
friesiangrl14: yessss
me: So in green we talk about how he is makiing a bunch of points starting with how we need to not use a lot of foreign oil. The second point is how he will use his presidential authority to make sure we have a quota. The third is to conserve energy in a way.

Richard Nixon and Watergate

What was the Watergate scandal and why was he reelected?

• The Watergate scandal was when 5 people broke into the Watergate hotel. They were then indicted for breaking into democratic government head quarters. Then they were indicted with two others for conspiracy, burglary, and wire tapping. The seven men were ignored at first until Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein began investigating. The two others were part of Nixon's committee to get him reelected. The one who was Chief was a man who used the alias of "Deep Throat" who was Mark Felt. We did not find this out until about two years ago, after he died.Also another big thing to be involved was CReeP which is the Commitee to Re-Elect the President.
  
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_Re-Elect_the_President
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
  

Indicted- To accuse of a wrong-doing. Law- To make a formal accusation.

Conspiracy- an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.

• Why after the Watergate scandal was Richard Nixon elected?

Many people say that Nixon got elected because he said he would end the Vietnam war, even though more soldiers died under his presidency. Nixon promised an end of the war, and that is the main reason he was elected for a second term. After the Watergate scandal was thouroughly investigated, Nixon was not Impeached in 1974, he resigned so they could not impeach him. :D 

Space Race Brittany+Carissa

Paragraph 1.

CARISSA-Why did we engage in the Space Race? Was it a good idea, or waste of Resources?

The Space Race was almost like who made more accomplishments in space. We engaged in the Space Race because we were competing in a global struggle against totaliarian communismn. Totaliarian communism means that the government controls every aspect of lives. Was it a good idea, or waste of resources is another question. We used a lot of resources to get into space, there were some major things that happened. A good thing is that we ended up making it to the Moon, which is a major accomplishment. The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite, with the US not far behind. Yes, it was a good thing we made it to the moon, and we ended up winning the Space Race, but we could have used the money for other things other than using it to try and be the superior country.
BRITTNEY- I think the next big thing we should for focus on is to try to figure out how to communacate with animals. I mean some how we could put on a helmet and thy're sound would go in then it would tranlate it into a language we could understand. How cool would that be, being able to to listen and understand what they are saying to us. I think that would change the animal's way of life and the role they play on Earth. They would have have a say on what we do to they're envirorment.

JFK Letter.

Dear Gram,
On the day of November 22, 1963 a wonderful man named John F. Kennedy was assasinated. He was shot three times and was pronounced dead. What did you think of the murder? Did you have any more questions after everything was said and done? It was a lone gunman who did, though he was also killed. What really made you suprised about it? Were you surprised that it was only one person? Do you think the ''lone gunman'' had a reason to do it? I'd really like to hear your opinions on this. This information is really interesting to me. I am awaiting your response.
I love you.
Carissa