Wiki Assignment Bibliography

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Mickey’s Mellerdrammer

4 Wiki References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_shows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney:_Hollywood’s_Dark_Prince  <<<Article about a book about Disney being antisemitic>>>

2 Internet References

http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/complete_history_1.html <<<Official Corp History>>>

http://imdb.com/title/tt0024331/ <<<IMDB details of cartoon>>>

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=5339&p=s <<<Includes Image from Movie Poster May be considered public domain b/c of age. Downloaded Image from Alt site now sitting on my MACBookPro Desktop>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnXuObzkZc <<<Found the cartoon on you tube,,,shows characters putting on black face…>>>

2 Book References

http://www.newint.org/easier-english/Disney/diswomen-p.html <<<<discuss how cartoons influence children’s view on race and stereotypes>>>

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/Giroux/Giroux2.html <<<More about the influence of media and stereotypes, critical of Disney>>>

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:fPT_3ZL-IvQJ:nhaeyc.org/newsletters/articles/Racism_in_Childrens_Movies.pdf+Disney+and+Racism&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=u

The Game of Life

During the Nativism and Spanish American War lecture prof Boggs brought up the similarities to the Spanish American War and the War in Iraq. Both were about America expanding its influence beyond it’s borders.

Why would a nation care about expanding it influence abroad? Is because Dick Cheney is power hungry despot, is it because Americans demand cheaper oil and gas prices? Access to the markets in China, in the case of the Spanish American War? Maybe…but…

The War in Iraq is not completely about spreading democracy, or completely about finding new markets. Its about preserving our way of life. Democracy leads to individualism…Which leads to choice…Which leads to consumerism…Which leads to capitalism…Which leads to furthering and protecting our way of life, whatever that is. How so? Its hadard to want to fight someone if you have a job, want to live a comfortable life. Free trade and free market economies leads to insuring our way of life.

The same could be argued for the Spanish American War.

Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law!

I hate making light of part of history that is totally and completely wrong, but I got a good laugh when we covered the Virginia law that said inter-ethnicl marriage was against the law in Virginia. When I got home and told my wife that during the 1900’s it was against the law for people of different races to be married, she laughed at the stupidity it of it too. And since my wife is Korean, we gave each other a hard time about whether or not this was the worse law either had broken in their lives.

The discussion about what percent or fraction of a person makes them not white, and, what rights, or treatment was expected to if they were not white, made me think of the day 1/2 Korean, 1/2 white son was born. When he was born and before we left the hospital, the hospital gave us the social security forms to fill out for him, and one of the questions for us to answer was “race”. At this time, there was no “other” box for us to check, so we discussed what we should choose for him, white, or asian. We discussed the benefits of choosing one over the other, or if it really even mattered. And since at the time, it was to hard to tell which one of us he looked more like we could not rely on that. So in the end we chose to check the box asian thinking maybe one day on some college entrance application MAYBE it would benefit him.

Who knows, its stupid we have to chose, and in cosmopolitan places like the DC area, more and more children are born hybrid’s where it totally doesn’t matter.

Civil War

Is it me or did the Gods and Generals movie remind me of the worlds largest Civil War reenactment? The Movie was clearly NOT from the infantrymen perspective, it was all from the leaders (generals POV) …

Cold mtn shows the perspective of the war from the home fronts perspective, and somewhat from the infantrymen’s perspectives (battle of Petersburg.) Conflicting views of civil war, south soldiers didn’t always hate northern soldiers and vice versa.

When Prof Boggs brought up that the Civil War is the most researched, most beloved, and most contested topic in American history made wonder if perhaps the GWOT (Global War On Terror) would one day be studied nearly as much. Our opinions of Bush’s GWOT has divided many American’s. Clearly not as much as the Civil War, but divisive nonetheless.

We read the CSA constitution. Which Says slavery is their right and that whites are better than blacks and have to be slaves masters over them. WOW, that ends any argument about what the war was really over. Those arguments about states rights seem pretty thin now.

Assignment #2: Libertyville Where Liberty Comes Home to Live

Libertyville: Where Liberty Come Home to Live.

The community designed in the illustration below has the charter to solve the problem of a growing country, westward expansion, and a citizens fear of growing government. This community is designed to provide Libertarians and Capitalists a community where there is minimum government rule and regulation that interferes with business, commerce, or citizens personal choices.

The only role Govt will play in this community is to protect the property rights of both its private citizens and private businesses. This is a particularly difficult concept and planned community to create, since that natural tendency of a Libertarian is to avoid planned, public, govt organized initiatives b/c of the rules and norms most wish to exercise. Most libertarians were probably on the wagon trains heading west, looking for their own private lands to live their lives they way they wanted, free from the rules and norms of others.

However this community is designed to prohibit government growth. You’ll notice this community has no roads this design is on purpose. Partly because the community should not tax its residents for public roads. Road should be allowed to form naturally, and be maintained privately by the citizens whose property these naturally formed roads traverse. The fixed park surrounding th public building is preserved land that under the communities charter can not be built upon by the community administrators. This is to prevent the local government, and community administrators from developing this land for government expansion. The park is not maintained by the government but allowed to be a natural park and preserve.

Citizens are free to follow and practice any faith or religion they choose. All property with the exception of the shared public facility will be privately owned. The public office will be funded and maintained on a donation basis only. The only function of the public facility is property rights administration and enforcement. There will be no income tax, or sales tax. There will be no “public” projects or schools, only private ventures. Agriculture and industry will be at the choice of its citizens to pursue. In this Libertarian Utopia citizens will be free to pursue ventures they feel will profit themselves the most. Over time a balance of industry and agriculture will develop itself. This is in accordance to free trade economic theory. This community will be open to the rest of the world, for both trade, and immigration. All people from any country are free to immigrate. Since slavery infringes on a persons most basic property right, there own labor and resource of trade, slavery is outlawed or banned.