“One Of The Worst Supreme Court Decision Ever In The United States”

For the third unit of the course Policy we studied, we learned the purpose and powers of the judicial branch, and how those powers have been executed throughout history. We learned the role of the judicial branch and who is that branch today. We learned the difference between Federal Court and State Court, the different wars America has been in and habeas corpus. For our action project, we had to choose a court case and find research on it. The purpose of this action project is to document a historical Supreme Court and analyze how it has affected society since. I chose the Dred Scott v. Sandford case because I had some previous knowledge of it and because I think that this case had a change in our history. The media I chose to present my finding was prezi because I think it’s easy to handle and I think it captures people's attention when there's animation. During this project I had difficulty finding the truth because in every website it was different dates, different scenarios and I just didn’t know which one to believe. I also struggled with getting the quotes to go along with what I was explaining and that supports it. At the end of this project I learned to have patients when researching because it was a lot of research and lots of contradictions, but also to know what's coming because when researching about historical moments there are lots of versions to the situation, so that’s a hit that the research won’t be easy. I hope you find my prezi below informative.

Was The Iraq War Just Or Unjust?

In the second unit of the course Policy, we studied in depth the wars that the United States has been into. We had many discussions about different wars, when did the United States entered the war and why. We also learned the purpose of the execute and how it functions. For our action project, we had to find a war of our interest and that the United States participated in it. I chose the Iraq war because it was recent and when it was happening, I had no idea what was going on. Thats where my interest came from just knowing what was happening around me when I was a kid. During this action project I had difficulty finding a policy that was made in that time and how the citizens interpret it. I had lots of information, but it was difficult to place in information in the right place. I learned how to write an essay with lots of information from lots of websites.

Bush Doctrine. Wikipedia. March 23, 2016.

The war was fought in Iraq. The war takes place 2003-2011, the U.S was in the war since the beginning because they started the war. Countries involved in the war against Iraq are United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Italy, Poland, Australia, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, MNF-I, and Azerbaijan. Countries in Iraq are Baath Loyalist, Islamic State of Iraq, Mahdi Army, Special groups, IAI, and Ansar al-sunnah. Some tactics and strategies that the U.S. Army used was the Coalition forces were able to topple the dictator's regime and capture Iraq’s major cities in just three weeks, sustaining few casualties. “Despite fears that Iraqi forces would engage in a scorched-earth policy—destroying bridges and dams and setting fire to Iraq’s southern oil wells—little damage was done by retreating Iraqi forces; in fact, large numbers of Iraqi troops simply chose not to resist the advance of coalition forces” (Encyclopedia Britannica, page 1.) The causes of the war was The Dictatorship of Saddam Hussein that violated the peoples human rights. Also it was suspected that the dictator had a weapon of destruction or was making one to attack other places, such as the United States since the United State was certain that the dictator was involved in the 9/11 attack that happen in New York. Some underlying causes was the United Kingdom notice Iraq getting lots of weapons and technology. When that notice was made they requested the UN inspections to see if Iraq had a lot of weapons and Iraq didn’t comply. I think that the Iraq war was unjust because all of the President's Bush reasons were at the end proved wrong. All of his assumptions were just assumptions nothing that he claimed they had was true and yet many lives were lost both from America and Iraq citizens. Though several antiwar protests occurred in American cities in the lead-up to the invasion, many opinion polls showed considerable support for military action against Iraq before and during the war. American opinions on the war sometimes crossed traditional party lines and doctrinal affiliation, with many to the right of the avowedly conservative Bush seeing the war as an act of reckless internationalism and some to the political left—appalled by the Baʿthist regime’s brutal human rights violations and its consistent aggression—giving grudging support to military action.

Just after the United States Army stated the explosion on rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger” (History, page 1.) President Bush declared war in Iraq on March 20, 2001. Congress supported President Bush because they didn’t want another attack, they knew that the terrorism of 9/11 were from around there and Iraq had a weapon of destruction. Congress agreed to help protect the people of the United States. President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.

The Bush administration's foreign policy will be remembered mainly for the Iraq war and the doctrine of pre-emption.The pre-emption policy that President Bush made for the Iraq war was to allow the United States to attack Iraq before Iraq attacks them. Although the United States reasons weren’t as valid to attack and kill many people who might have been innocent. Mr. Bush's doctrine of pre-emption, which calls for attacking a country or group deemed to be posing an imminent threat before it attacks the United States. He proposed this because he felt that after 9/11 attack, he needed to be ready for another attack and with the knowledge of weapons in Iraq he didn’t want to risk another attack. Before knowing for sure he decided to make this policy to attack potential terrorism before 
they do. The policy was intended to prepare the country to go to war for potential reasons of President Bush.

Although the war wasn’t in the United States, there was protest about the war in Iraq. People didn't agree to the declaration of war because they didn’t see how sending sons, daughter, brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers to war and putting their lives in danger was an honor. Not only people in Iraq will die or get injured, but also american citizens can have the same fate. Making the soldiers believe that they were fighting for something great, when actually there was no need for that blood shed and all the trauma the soldiers had to go through just for a policy that our government made. Government can declare war, make bills and laws, but most of the time they just make them because it doesn’t affect them. When declaring war they are safe at home far away from the war and they just have to deal with some updates about the war, the government don’t go through what the soldiers do. Soldiers fight, see things that they shouldn’t and do things that might be against their will, but the government doesn’t understand because they aren’t in the war they are just in the side lines. In Chicago about 5,000 protesters gathered at Union Park and marched to Federal Plaza. Three students were arrested for walking on the street and charged with disobeying a police officer, resisting arrest, and damaging to property. I think that the way the american citizens protested against the war and try to defend our soldiers and innocent lives in Iraq was just because they can see a solution without violence and risking lives. Consequences of this policy is Iraq was in January 2005, the Iraqi people elected a 275-
member Iraqi National Assembly. A new constitution for the country was ratified that October. On November 6, 2006, Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging. No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

I think that the war was unjust because President declared war on Iraq when there wasn’t strong enough valid reason. There was the cause that the dictator in Iraq violated the people's rights, but the United States didn’t go to war to protect and fight for innocent people. The United States fought for an assumption that Iraq had destructive weapons and that they will attack the United States, but at the end after investigations there was no evidence found. President created the pre-emption where allows the United States to attack a group of people before they attack them, but there was no evidence that the group was going to attack even if they had the weapons people claimed they had. After the war american soldier were traumatized from the war and many lives were lost on both places. It was hard to restore law and order in Iraq because since the dictator was in power a long time and many people were on his side, people didn’t know who to trust, follow or who should be in charge.

Citations:
"Iraq War." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. Web. May 13, 2016.
“List of wars involving the United States.” Wikipedia. May 12, 2016. Web. May 12, 2016.
Nicholas Kralev. “Iraq war defines foreign policy.” The Washington Times. January 15, 2009. Web. May 13, 2016.
“Thousands Across U.S. Protest Iraq War.” CBSNews. October 27, 2007. Web. May 14, 2016.
“War in Iraq begins.” This Day In History. March 19, 2003. Web. May 12, 2016.

Electrical Circuit and Home Appliances

In the second unit of the course Urban Planning, we studied circuit diagrams, circuit flow, more about the World’s Fair, Ohm's Law, AC vs. DC and the War of the Currents. To study more about structure we went to the only building left from the World’s Fair, which is the Museum of Science and Industry. There we saw a Tesla coil and we went to the Brick to Brick exhibit, where all the structures of buildings were made out of LEGOs. For our action project, we were given a scenario to build a circuit with five resistors, one main switch and one parallel switch. We were put with partners to create the circuit and along the way it was very difficult to get all five resistors to work at the same time and to have the parallel switch. I learned how to make a circuit in this project and how something small can stop the circuit from functioning.

Women's Wage

In the first unit of the course Policy, we studied our government, how it works, what each branch does, people who represent the branches, how bills are made, we talked about the presidential debate in depth about what's going on, who makes a good argument and who has valid points. We also read some chapters of the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, it's about the Vietnam War and the book is written by a Vietnam Veteran so it's based on his experience and observations. With that we talked about war, world war 1 and world war 2, why it started, why we participated and how it affected U.S. We also went to a Vietnam National Museum where we saw exhibits of the war made from war veterans. It was really cool to engage in their work and see everything through their eyes. For our action, we wrote a letter about an issue that needs change. We wrote it specifically to someone who can change the outcome and hopefully with our letter they pursue that change. I chose the topic women's equal pay because it’s something I can relate to and that soon I will be looking for employee. I also chose to send my letter to President Obama because he has daughters and he can relate to this issue.

Men-And-Women-Double-Equal-Sign-Gender-Equlity. August 24, 2014. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. Web. April 29, 2016. 

KIS
GCE Lab School
1535 N. Dayton St.
Chicago, IL. 60642

25 April 2016

President Obama
The White House.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500.

Dear President Obama,

Would you like to see a man get paid more money than your daughters? Do you think that’s fair? Well it’s the same thing now with women working as hard as men, but get paid less than men when they do the same job. Last year, “In 2015, female full-time workers made only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent.” I think that if anyone has the same amount of experience, does the job right and gets things done than that person should be paid same amount as anyone. It’s not fair that because of your gender or race you get put less than others especially with something that our whole government is based on which is money. Imagine a mother without a husband how will she provide for her children if she gets paid less than a man when she does the same thing as him.

Another big part are the job opportunities. Common jobs for men are software developers, project manager, construction and computer system administration. Common jobs for women are a registered nurse, elementary school teacher and human resources administrator. A study was done to show when women will get equal pay if nothing is done to improve this situation “slow pace as it has done for the past fifty years, it will take 44 years—or until 2059—for women to finally reach pay parity.”

On the other hand people could say “No one seems to think wage inequity is a problem where they work. Seven in 10 employees — that's men and women — in these countries believe that their current employers pay them equally.” In other countries there might be similar or equal pay, but not in the U.S. Women work hard in what they work for and they strive to stand out, to be recognized between all the men. Not paying equally can be the cause of women exposing themselves to gain money because they know that they won’t be as successful as men. I know that you are leaving the white house soon, but before you leave consider this and pass the bill. This bill will be beneficial to the women and for the country because with more equality there is more diversity.

Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
KIS,
GCE Student

Resources:

• “Do Men Really Make More Money Than Women?” PayScale. Web. April 28, 2016.
• Hickson, Ally. “Most Workers Don't Think Women Get Paid Less Than Men — But They Do.” Refinery29. February 11, 2016. Web. April 28, 2016.
• “Pay Equity & Discrimination.” Institute For Women’s Policy Research. Web. April 28, 2016.