The Hummanities w/ Punky

Letter home

2008-05-16T08:39:00.000-07:00

Dear Mother,

How is everyone back home? I've been better. This war is so stupid. They make us sleep out side in the cold, the snow, and the rain. The houses we stay in are bad they smell bad the other men are pissing up stream from where we alol get are water, its really the worse camp i've been in. why would some one just want to run for months on end, wasition runs and runs and acts like he dont want to fight, but if we dont start fighting i'm going to a diffent camp. I am sick and tired of running all the time thats all we do is run, sleep drink water with piss in it.i hope little alex is okay. tell him daddy will be home soon and i miss him. i'll write him next time.

Tell Susey that her big brother is coming home,and hows dad? i hope hes well and Jan is she well too? if so tell her that i miss her with all of my heart and i love her. I cant wait until i can come home to see all of you.

Love always and forever Jim-Boy

Commom Sense essay

2008-05-08T08:53:00.000-07:00

The king of england was a very mean guy. He wanted every one that was in the states to still answer him, the colonies fought for there rights. Some acts the king put in play is Grenville,townsend, coercive, and the proclamation acts, made it so they could only use english money and they couldnt have town meeting because the king was tring to take there rights away

Daborah Sampson

2008-04-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

Deborah Sampson Gannett was born December 17, 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts. she also was the first known American woman to impersonate a man in order to join the Army and take part in combat.As the fifth of seven children of Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson, both of whom were direct Mayflower descendants.

Her siblings were Jonathan, Hannah, Elisha, Ephraim, Sylvia and Nehemiah. The family lived in Middleborough, Massachusetts. Her family was poor and her father was rumored to have been lost at sea off the coast of England in 1766, when Deborah was not yet six years old, because her mother lacked the means to support the family, her children were sent to live at different households. Deborah lived in two different households; with a spinster first and then with the widow of Reverend Peter Thatcher,before she became an indentured servant in the household of Deacon Jeremiah and Susannah Thomas, the parents of ten sons.
In 1770 She became strong and mastered work in plowing fields, spreading manure fertilizer, milking cows and stacking hay. With the books that were around the household, she learned the things that other children learned in school. She did both women's and men's work and mastered carpentry, spinning, sewing and weaving cloth.

Most importantly, she was permitted to tag along with the Thomas' sons to the town schoolroom. where she devoured every bit of information possible. With this education, she began to develop a great interest in politics and in the events of the war that had begun between the American colonies and the British.

Deborah Sampson wanted to be able to fight, but she was not allowed to do so because she was a woman. She then acted and played the role of a man in order to get into the war, and she achieved it.She had little trouble doing this, since she was tall, intelligent, and just as strong as most of the men. Even her own mother failed to recognize her while she was disguised. In disguise, the local recruiting office enlisted her under the name of "Robert" of Carver.

Because of the notable manner in which she held a quill pen, she may have been recognized and did not report the next day for service. On May 20, 1782, she tried again, enlisting in the Continental Army on the Muster of Master Noah Taft, this time under the name of Robert Shurtliff from Uxbridge. (This was the name of her brother who had died before she was born.) When she entered the Army on May 20, she was chosen for the Light Infantry Company of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment. Deborah Sampson enlisted as a soldier and by pretending to be a man, she joined one of the classes required for the war from the Town of Uxbridge. Captain George Webb was the leader of the company, which contained 50 to 60 men. She joined in Bellingham, Massachusetts, and the unit then mustered at Worcester under the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Shepard. Her distant cousin, Reverend Noah Alden, a minister in Bellingham, kept her secret.

During Deborah's time in the Army, she fought in several skirmishes. During her first on July 3, 1782, outside Tarrytown, New York, she received 2 musket balls in her thigh and a huge cut on her forehead from a bullet. She begged her fellow soldiers to just let her die and not take her to the hospital, but they refused to obey her. A soldier put her on his horse and they rode six miles to a hospital. The doctors treated her head wound, but she left the hospital before they could attend to the musket ball. Had she stayed, they might have discovered the secret that she was trying so hard to hide, so she removed one of the balls herself with a penknife and sewing needle, but her leg never fully healed because the other ball was too deep for her to reach.

In 1783 she was promoted and spent seven months serving as a waiter to General John Patterson. This job entitled her to a better quality of life, better food, and less danger.After the peace treaty was signed, everyone thought the war was over. However, on June 24 the President of Congress ordered General Washington to send a fleet of soldiers to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to aid in squelching a rebellion of several American officers. During the summer of 1783, Deborah came down with malignant fever and was cared for by a doctor, Barnabas Binney. He removed her clothes to treat her and discovered the band she used to bind her breasts and, thus, discovered her secret, but kept it safe and took her to his house, where his wife and daughters further treated her.After Sampson recovered she returned to the army, but not for long. In September 1783 peace was assured through the signing of the Treaty of Paris. When Dr. Binney asked her to deliver a note to General George Washington, she knew that her secret was out. However, General Washington never uttered a word; instead, she received an honorable discharge from the service, a note with some words of advice, and a sum of money sufficient to bear her expenses home. Thus, on October 25, 1783, General Washington honorably discharged Deborah Sampson from the Army at West Point.
Deborah married at Stoughton, Massachusetts to Benjamin Gannet (1757-1837), a farmer from Sharon, Massachusetts, on April 7, 1785. They had three children: Earl (b. 1786), Mary (b. 1788) and Patience (b. 1790), and adopted an orphan, Susanna Baker Shepard. Earl was named after Sampson's favorite tea, Earl Grey, Mary was named after Mary in the nursery rhyme Mary had a Little Lamb, while Patience was named after all the patience Deborah had to have while waiting for tomatoes to be delivered to the army every morning. Tomatoes were Deborah's favorite vegetable.

Eight years later, in January 1792, she petitioned the Massachusetts State Legislature for back pay which the army had withheld from her, since she was a woman. Her petition passed through the Senate and was approved, then signed by Governor John Hancock. The General Court of Massachusetts verified her service and wrote that she "exhibited an extraordinary instance of female heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex, unsuspected and unblemished". The court awarded her a total of 34 pounds.
Ten years later, in 1802, Sampson began giving lectures about her experiences in the army. She was not only the first American female to cross-dress at the time war, but she was also the first woman to give a lecture. Deborah enjoyed speaking about serving her country. These speeches were initiated because of her financial needs and a desire to justify her enlistment. But even with these speaking engagements, she was not making enough money to pay her expenses. She had to borrow money from her family and from her friend Paul Revere on many occasions. The soldiers in the Continental Army had received pensions for their services, but Sampson did not because she was female.

Captin Preston's trail

2008-04-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

Gentlemen of the juery at first thing that happend that night is the boys where picking on the sentle but they were only being boys. then the sentle sent word to Preston and his other men came to help or so THEY say, them red coats made it a bigger deal then it really was. So as the bell rang people started showing up to see what was going on, and
preston is gulity of telling his men to fire on the people in the street because the boys my age(14-17)made the sentlen was mad becasue the boy where telling him off but that didnt gave him not reason to hit the boy with the butt end of his gun. then call all the other people in the army to handle but by the time the other men in the army could get there other towns people where there to see what the hell was going on. Some of the men that came in to day to tell us what they saw some said that the boys where looking for a fight i say they where being boys. When the army got there some people say that Captin Preston yelled out fire some say the poeple where tried to get a fight but I dont think that anyone would let some guy hit there kid in the face they would but not anyone else. so i have say the captin preston was the one to give the call that killed five people. So I think he should be put to death.

Notes

2008-04-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

Revolution and War
1763-1789
Revolution Notes

1763—Proclamation Act

was a line that was "drawn" thats tells the indiens were they could live and the english can live

1764—Grenville Acts (direct tax)
Sugar (molasses, wine)
Stamp
Quartering
Currency
Virtual/ Direct Representation

way for them to get money

1765—Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
John Hancock
Propaganda
Boycotts
Lobsters (Lobster-backs, Thomas Lobster)

was a way for them to get people to buy stuff

1766—Declaratory Act

this is an act that was made by the british to show everyone who is the boss and that they could pull all the taxs back

1767—Townsend Acts (indirect tax)
Charles Townsend
Writs of Assistance (search warrants)
Revenue used to pay Royal officials in the colonies
Tea Act (glass, paper, paint) support British East India Company

British put taxs on everything that came in.

1770—Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Local reaction (primarily)
5 dead colonists
John Adams defends British soldiers/5 exonerated-2 convicted
Convicted men discharged and thumbs branded

Was when a small british group that shot five people of the town rebeled agenst them.

1773—Boston Tea Party

November 30, 1773--Dartmouth sails into Boston Harbor

December 16, 1773--Tea dumped into harbor
340 chests of tea dumped (value of 10,000 British pounds)

when then americans went and got a group together and dumped all the british tea in the ocean

1774—Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts in Britain)
Close the port of Boston
Shut down Provincial and Town Governments
All offices appointed
Named General Thomas Gage as Governor
Gave all western lands north of the Ohio R. to Quebec, allowed Catholic Church to practice

was a serires of laws passed by the british parlament so they could get Mass under control.

1774—1st Continental Congress
September to October (7 weeks)
Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia
New England—John Adams, Paul Revere, Silas Deane
Virginia—Washington, Patrick Henry, Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee
Pennsylvania—John Dickenson, Joseph Galloway (Plan for American council under Parliament, to avoid war)
New York—John Jay, James Duane
Maryland—Samuel Chase (future Supreme Court Justice), Charles Carroll (richest man in Maryland, Catholic)
Declaration of Rights—rejects Parliamentary authority over internal colonial affairs, colonies manage own defense, united aid to Boston if Intolerable Acts continue, absolute boycott of British goods to be enforced rigidly

It was the first meeting where all the colones get together and start there own goverment

1775— January
William Pitt urges Parliament to withdraw troops from America because the idea of managing the colonies through force was “too ridiculous to take up a moment of your lordships’ time
Before the wars happend william saw that fighting with the colonies was stupid

1775—April 19 Lexington and Concord
Gen. Gage sends 700 men to Concord to seize the powder supplies
Paul Revere and William Dawes raise alarm the night before
Town of Lexington is on the way to Concord
Minutemen are assembled on the town common
“Shot heard round the world”
18 colonials killed and the rest run away
British march on to Concord and find the munitions were moved overnight
Minutemen ambush the British the whole way back to Boston
430 Redcoats make it back to Boston
30,000 Colonists surround Boston

british was dumb for trying to take the powder supplies from Concord because Paul Revere and William told everyone what was happening. Out of 700 men the red coats 430 made it back to boston.

1775—May
Gen. Howe, Gen. Clinton, Gen. Burgoyne
5,000 British troops
Ethan Allen, “Green Mountain Boys” seize Fort Ticonderoga
Henry Knox uses canon to lay siege on Boston
Benedict Arnold (Connecticut) takes Fort Crown Point to impede an invasion from Canada

war is growing british are bring in more people and we are really stepping up to them

1775—May 10, 2nd Continental Congress
Sam Adams pushes for Independence
John Dickenson (Penn.) urges restraint
Agree to form Colonial Army
Delegates unanimously agree to Washington as Commander of Continental Army (John Adams suggestion)

That we need to be own contrey, and we needed to have a good gen. to take them to win

1775—June 17, “Battle of Bunker Hill”
Actually fought on Breed’s Hill
Gen. Howe leads assault without canon support (his canon had been matched with wrong-sized cannonballs [Amherst at Ticonderoga])
Militia waited to within 30 yards (some say 15 yards)
Militia target British officers
Militia ran extremely low on ammunition
On the third assault, led by Gen. Howe, British troops overtake the colonial position
Britain losses almost 1000 men (about half the attacking force)
Colonials lose about 500 men

That the british troops are better preareed for war and battle better then militia are,but the british lossed more men.

WAR

1776—January, Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine
120,000 copies sold in three months

Trying to get people to go fight the king.

1776—March
Gen. William Howe evacuates Boston
July 2, lands in Staten Island, New York (Loyalist base)

1776—Declaration of Independence
June 7, Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) introduces legislation to declare independence from Britain
Before voting on Lee’s proposal Congress appoints five-man committee to draft a formal Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson, 33, does most of the writing)
June 28, Declaration presented to Congress
July 2, Congress approves Lee’s legislation to declare the United States of America independent of Great Britain
July 4, Congress officially adopts the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration intended to:
Undermine loyalty to King George III
Outline basic principles of representative government
Establish the “right” of rebellion

They became independence from England.

1776—August, Brooklyn Heights, New York
Largest Naval group Britain will launch until the 20th century
British victory, city falls to England
As winter came “sunshine patriots” left the American Army
Initial colonial enlistments due to expire

1776—December, Battle of Trenton
Howe believes war almost won
1,400 Hessians stationed at Trenton
Colonel Rall (Hessian) builds no fortifications
Washington “Crosses the Delaware” Christmas night
2,500 men; 18 artillery guns
Surprise attack at dawn
106 Hessians killed, 918 captured
No colonial casualties
Washington retreats in secret to avoid Gen. Cornwallis counter-attack

1777—January, Princeton
Washington ambushes British troops
Colonial victory establishes this will not be a quick war for Britain

1777—September-October, Saratoga
Gen. Burgoyne plans a three-prong attack on colonials at Albany
Plan does not consider the terrain, forcing British troops to march through swamps, lakes, hills and forests full of rebels
Two of the three “prongs” never arrive (Howe goes to Philadelphia instead, St. Leger retreats to New York afraid of Benedict Arnold)
Sept. Burgoyne crosses Hudson River
Oct. 17, Burgoyne surrenders
Establishes American Army as real threat
Helps secure open French Alliance
Turning Point of the War

1777-1778—Winter at Valley Forge
Under-funded troops
Low morale
10,000+ troops
4,000 troops listed as “unfit for duty” due to poor supplies (boots, blankets, coats, etc.)
2,500 troops die of disease (typhus, typhoid fever, dysentery, pneumonia)
George Washington mentioned a lack of shoes so severe that the men's "marches might be tracked by the blood from their feet”
Local farmers would sell produce to Brits who could pay cash

1779—February, Vincennes

1780—August, Camden

1780—October, Kings Mountain

1781—October, Yorktown
British Gen. Cornwallis
American Gen. Washington (also “Mad” Anthony Wayne, Baron von Steuben)
French Gen. Rochambeau (also Marquis de Lafayette)

Essentially a French Naval victory
Last significant battle of the war

1783—Sept. 3, Treaty of Paris
Britain recognizes American independence
America gets all land from Atlantic coast to Miss. River, Great Lakes to Florida
Fishing rights to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland
America must pay debts to Britain
American congress would “earnestly recommend” all Loyalist property returned (States ignore this request)

2008-03-06T08:29:00.001-08:00

Outline for Plymouth Essay

I. Introduction

A. The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence.

B.Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence.

C. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.

D.Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.

E. It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.

II. First Major Point

A. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence.

B. Standish killed an Indian named Wituwamat. That stood up to him but that's not why he killed him was because Standish thought Wituwamat was getting all the Indians together so they could kill the pilgrims.

C. Standish was brought over on the may flower so he could the muscle for the pilgrims and to keep them safe.

D.Standish went up to see Morton and to tell him to stop trading with the indians,

E. Its good to know that Standish brought the violence.

III. Second Major Point

A. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.

B. Church stood his ground with only a half dozen a 300 Indians coming to kill them

C. He helped kill Philip.

D. Most of the men he fought with at the pea field fight helped him in the killing of Philip.

E. Church was very brave. But he also knows what it takes to keeps the people safe.

IV. next main point

A. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism

B.The English left englin because they couldnt have there own god.

C. they wanted to beable to have there own house and there own land but they should have done something a little diffent in there ways to get what they want.

D.For Church thought God was keeped him and his men safe from death because the number of indains where way more then english that day at pea field.

E. It just shows you that the english had weird befilives about haw to treat poeple. wheather its killing them or taking there land .

V.Standish was very good at the violence of the Indians he was a sholder so that was his job to keep the settlers salf.

A.There was alot of violence and idealism with the settlers.

B. Standish was the one to bring the violence to the indians.

C. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.

D. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.

E. This paper is importin becasue it will help you understand that back when the english first came over to the u.s. that it wasnt all fun and games for every one.There was alot of violence beteween the pilgrms and the indians because the english wanted the indians land. The english tryed to make the indians have the same beliefs as them.

Essay

The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence,There was not much fun and games going on. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. He thought that by useing violence would work on the indians but it only made them madder. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.

Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Standish killed an Indian named Wituwamat. That stood up to him but that's not all of why he killed him was because Standish thought Wituwamat was getting all the Indians together so they could kill the pilgrims. Standish was brought over on the may flower so he could the muscle for the pilgrims and to keep them safe. Standish went up to see Morton and to tell him to stop trading with the indians, Its good to know that Standish brought the violence.

Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Church stood his ground with only a half dozen a 300 Indians coming to kill them. He helped kill Philip. Church was very brave. But he also knows what it takes to keeps the people safe. Most of the men he fought with at the pea field fight helped him in the killing of Philip.

Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. The English left englin because they couldnt have there own god. they wanted to beable to have there own house and there own land but they should have done something a little diffent in there ways to get what they want. For Church thought God was keeped him and his men safe from death because the number of indains where way more then english that day at pea field. It just shows you that the english had weird befilives about haw to treat poeple. wheather its killing them or taking there land .Standish was the one to bring the violence to the indians.

Standish was very good at the violence of the Indians he was a sholder so that was his job to keep the settlers safe. There was alot of violence and idealism with the settlers. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. This paper is importin becasue it will help you understand that back when the english first came over to the u.s. that it wasnt all fun and games for every one.There was alot of violence beteween the pilgrms and the indians because the english wanted the indians land. The english tryed to make the indians have the same beliefs as them.

2008-02-14T08:37:00.000-08:00

They are gentle, loving, faithful, lacking in all guile and trickery. The words denoting lying, deceit, greed, envy, slander, and forgiveness have never been heard. They have no jealousy, no sense of possession.--John Smith (character)

We shall make a new start. A fresh beginning. Here the blessings of the earth are bestowed upon all. None need grow poor. Here there is good ground for all, and no cost but one's labor. We shall build a true common wealth, hard work and self reliance our virtues. We shall have no landlords to rack us with high rents or extort the fruit of our labor. --John Smith (character)

Wounded Knee

2008-01-29T08:27:00.000-08:00

I. Introducion
A. Wounded Knee illustrates one of the final cuents in along series of violent conflicts motivated by racisn, disrepact,and lach of understanding.
B.Mr.Viles Blog on Nokomis History.com essay
C. Wounded Knee video on you-tube
D.monument video you tube
E.The Sources i have listed given are important because give good info.

II. Body of Essay
That the soldiers wanted revenge on the indians because they killed custer.
the soldiers were mean to the Indians put unloaded guns in there faces.
Killed not only men But..... WOMEN AND CHILDREN! I got them off the essay
The details i have here are very important becase they are what helps you see that it was a massacre and not a battle.

III. Conclusion
This was not only a massacre on men but woem and children.
That just because someone does not have the same skin tone as you dose not make them any diffentthe you.
That the white men that came to this land tryed to take over but when they didnt they got mad and tryd to kill everyone.
that not olny where the men in danger but so were their wifes and children too.
That you souldnt kill everyone just because your captin died in battle.

Although the U.S. Army has attempted to shift the blame for the massacre to the Sioux, it was in actuality caused by the actions of the 7th Cavalry, whose members were intent on getting even for Custer's defeat at the Battle of the Little big horn.
Wounded Knee illustrates one of the final cuents in along series of violent conflicts motivated by racisn, disrepact,and lach of understanding.

My sources come from the eassy on Mr.Viles blog it was The wouned knee about the soldiers. Thats where i got most of all my info.

The soldiers where mad becase at the battle of Little Big Horn Custer got killed so the U.S Army tryed very hard to make it like it was all the indins falt and none of it was on them they were only trying to fight off the indins not the other way around. so when the 7th Cavalry took Big Horn prosioner some of the soldirs got drunk and tryed to kill him the the men told to grand him didnt let him. The next day they took all the guns away from the indins when they were doing that they would pull an unloaded guns on them and pull the trigger.

Then when the soldirs when a battle broke out the men Indins got some of there guns back some others died trying to get them back.

The women and children ran from the battle most where killed running away, most of the women died and told there children to run and they did, but when the battle was over the soldiers called to th childern that lived and called them out of there hiding places and shot them...... The childern didnt do anything to them and still they killed them.

Thsi was not only a massacur on men but women and childern too.

I have learned that it dont matter what color your skin is diffent then your's dose not make them diffent.

That the white men that came to this land tryed to take over but when they didnt. So they got mad and tryed to kill everyone.that was not olny where the men in danger but so were their wifes and children too

prompt# for mid-terms

2008-01-22T06:28:00.000-08:00

Hitler- he was a really mean man, because he killed men, women, and kids just because they didnt have blond hair and blue eyes.
Mao-he wanted every one to be just like him, he wanted them the dress, acted and be just like him.

Stalin-was a man that got in alot of troble when he was on his own he tryed to ake people act not like themselfs.

thing

2007-11-15T08:32:00.000-08:00

1.What does Joseph Stalin's advice to the people of Stalingrad say about him as a leader?
Stalin issued a proclamation that anyone who surrendered, or retreated, would be shot.
The lives of ordinary people, trapped in the middle of this tyrannical quest, were reduced to unimaginable horror. Many people died. Those who survived were sustained by little more than the human will to live

2.Explain why Hitler would react in the way shown after signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin?
("I’ve got them!") thats what Hitler said

3.Explain the significance of propaganda in this battle, using examples from the posters.

Kill the German Beast"
"That’s Enough, Fascist Beast!"
"Death to the Fascist Monster"
The battle for Stalin’s city was originally code-named "Operation Blue." It wasn’t long before German soldiers called it Rattenkrieg (translated: War of the Rats). Doing what they (and Hitler) never wanted, German troops were forced to fight man-to-man where rats lived: in the streets, in the cellars, in the ditches.

4.
What do the extremes of the war reveal about what it takes to win a total war?

Child slavery in the middle east

2007-10-25T05:32:00.000-07:00

Before the Gulf states were blessed with oil the practice was not as widespread as it is today. Now the rulers of the Gulf states have more money than they know what to do with. You may well have seen reports of some of the extravagances that occur on television. The richest horse race in the world is in Dubai, sponsors are few and, as the UAE is a Muslim country, gambling income is nil. Greyhound races are similarly run at great expense and generate no income. Such sports are a means for the ruling families to compete with each other. Massive sums of money are spent on the animals by each family. There are special animal hospitals for the racing camels where no expense is spared. A camel jockey however is nothing more than ballast. If he gets hurt it is easy to buy another camel jockey.The jockeys will tipically start their life in the same way as millions of other children in the Indian subcontinent. Perhaps having parents who are poor, but still have dreams for their sons which do not involve camels. Then maybe at the age of two or three the children go outside to play and never return. They are kidnapped by local gangs who will deal in any commodity that makes money. The children will then be taken by adults who when questioned may claim to be the children's parents. They will then travel, perhaps along the ancient slave routes to Karachi, and across the Gulf.The work of a camel jockey is no holiday. Away from their parents, in a foreign country with no legal status, the children have no one to protect them. They must exercise the camels seven days a week in heat that even the local people shelter from. There is no choice about whether to work on the camels or not. A beating or two and a couple of days without food convinces them all. There is nowhere to run to. Many of the children are told a story about being unwanted and being sold by their parents into slavery, just in case they were considering trying to get home. Before the camel races the children go without food, not as a punishment, but to keep their weight down so the camels will run faster. The children receive no schooling and grow up without even knowing the country of their birth.The move comes after widespread international criticism of the use of young children to ride camels during the long and often hazardous races. Officials say a prototype of the robot was successfully tested on Saturday. Aid workers say there are up to 40,000 child jockeys working across the Gulf. Many are said to be have been kidnapped and trafficked from South Asia. The issue of child camel jockeys has been an embarrassing one for the Emirates, says the BBC's Gulf correspondent Julia Wheeler. Camel racing is one of the UAE's traditional sports and an important part of the region's heritage.One in a series of laws was introduced this month to forbid the use of jockeys under the age of 16 from taking part in the sport. Now it seems there will be no need for the rules to be flouted, our correspondent says. Mechanical light-weight jockeys have been designed for the purpose to be used in the races. "The mechanical jockey is light in weight and receives orders from the instructor via a remote control system fixed on the back of the camel," the daily Gulf News said, quoting an official statement. At a test in the Emirates, members of the royal family of Abu Dhabi said they were impressed. the idea is likely to be received positively by human rights groups, says our Gulf correspondent. They say several thousand boys, some as young as four, work as jockeys - many after being abducted or sold by their families. Many of the children are told a story about being unwanted and being sold by their parents into slavery, just in case they were considering trying to get home. Before the camel races the children go without food, not as a punishment, but to keep their weight down so the camels will run faster. The children receive no schooling and grow up without even knowing the country of their birth. Occasionally, in response to pressures from outside the region, rules are written to restrict the legal age and weight of camel jockeys, but when the camel belong to a sheikh, a trainer will always choose to break the rules if it gives the camel a better chance of winning. The trainer receives a small prize if his camel wins. The camel jockey receives nothing.Once the children grow too large to be of any use as camel jockeys a lucky few will be employed by the camel stables, a few more will be able to get work by employers who know and can exploit their situation. However, if they ever step out of line in the future they risk being arrested as illegal immigrants. Throughout the Middle East the punishment for being an illegal immigrant is a fine and the punishment for not paying a fine is prison. Through no fault of his own, a camel jockey could end his days in the inhumane confines of an Arab prison. Occasionally an effort has been made to repatriate children once they outgrow their usefulness, but, as no records are kept about where the children came from, this merely dumps the children into the slums of a nearby country.The insult "camel jockey" has worked its way into the languages of the Middle East to mean someone with little education. Many of the people who use this term are ignorant of the true origin of the term and often those that understand prefer to keep quiet rather than risk upsetting the wealthy people who run the traditional sport of camel racing.

2007-10-19T08:36:00.000-07:00

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2007-09-26T09:07:00.000-07:00

here are peple that just got done fighting in a warand theres all kinds of dead people all over the ground.
this is a black and white pic of people at war.
this is all the red coats walking down the street about to kill people.

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2007-09-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

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Project Proposal

2007-09-14T09:57:00.000-07:00

My topic is Globle slavery. My angle is child slavery that are camle jockys. And my medium is that i will make a web-sit.

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2007-09-12T07:59:00.000-07:00

I dont know how to get to the thing we did last class and i could use some help when you get the time plz tell me how to do it Tiffany

What I think about this

2007-09-06T08:46:00.000-07:00

Well I don't have a computer oat the house I stay at. So the work mite be a little late but i will try to get it to you but it is not always be on time but i will try my hardest to get this to you. Hey i wanted you to know your the bomb.......................have fun