Annotation #4: The Cuban Missile Crisis

October 14, 1962: U-2 photograph of MRBM site two nautical miles away from the Los Palacios deployment – the second set of MRBMs found in Cuba. This site was subsequently named San Cristobal no. 1 (the photo is labeled 15 October for the day it was analyzed and printed).

Annotation #4: The Cuban Missile Crisis

October 14, 1962: U-2 photograph of MRBM site two nautical miles away from the Los Palacios deployment – the second set of MRBMs found in Cuba. This site was subsequently named San Cristobal no. 1 (the photo is labeled 15 October for the day it was analyzed and printed).

Thesis Statement: John F.Kennedy: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Topic: John F. Kennedy

Occasion: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: stated to be the closet chance to a all out nuclear war between America and Cuba. Danger zone at it highest point. J.F.K was the president at this time. Which meant he had to be a strong leader, make tough excutive and military decisions to keep America from going into an all out nuclear war.

Position: J.F.K was the president in 1962 during The Cuban Missile Crisis. Forcing him to make excutive decisions.

Evidence: 1. Kennedy order an air strike on cuban after American l -2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba and a pilot killed

2.October 16, 1962, John F. Kennedy called together a group of his closest advisers at the White House. Late the night before, the CIA had produced detail photos of the Cuban missile bases.

3. A naval blockage was deported around cuban borders

Thesis: The Cuban Missile Crisis, was the stated to be the most dangerous moment history, where nuclear war danger zone was at it peak. During this time our President John F. Kennedy was force to make tough excutive and military decisions to insure the safety of America. The threat of a nuclear war, cause Kennedy to use excutive power and order a air strike to prevent another death of an American. Kennedy gather officials and use CIA evidence to deport naval forces. America being threatern by a nuclear war, cause President Kennedy to be a strong leader and use excutive and military power to prevent the most dangerous moment in history.

Annotation # 2 Cuban Missile Crisis

November 5, 1962: Low-level photography documents loading of Soviet missiles at the main Mariel port facility for return to the USSR. On the dock are vehicles later identified by NPIC as nuclear warhead vans.

Annotation # 3 Cuban Missile Crisis

Early November 1962: Low-level photography captures convoy of Soviet trucks driving onto dock at north Mariel port to begin loading process.

Annotation # 1 Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York: New American Library, 1969), 107-109.


This piece of document is a conversation between President Kennedy and Ambassador Dobrynin. Discussing his feelings about the missile base being build by the Soviet Union. Mean while reconnaissance planes flying over Cuba had been fired upon and that one of our U-2s had been shot down and the pilot killed. Cuba states that they was had violated Cuba air space. But the promise removal of these missile bases was broken. That why america got involved to remove the missiles themselves. All possible chances of war we try to have avoid.

My NHD Topic: Individuals in History

For my NHD project the individual i have chosen is Fidel Castro. I have chosen a Fidel Castro as my individual because he has effect American history and not many people are aware of him. Last year in Spanish we did a classwork assignment on him and found that the C.I.A made 638 attempt on his life. I think people should know why the U.S would attempt so many times to kill this man. For this to be true he had to effect American in some way.

Service learning

Last week during service learning we started to discuss how are we gone to know what class need to be tutor over others ,who would volunteer to be a tutor and whether teacher think tutoring would benefit there class. We decided to make a survey for teachers and students, and plan to hand it out through the school.

Service learning

Last week during service learning, we took the the surveys we had students and staff fill out around the school and tally them to which subjects would need the most tutoring , the time of tutoring, and who would like to be a tutor.  

Service Learning

Last week, in our service learning group we dicuss the wheres, when , and what of our service. We split up in to two groups, one of the group organize the letter will would send to other school offering our tutoring services to different schools. The second group had to organize a list of schools to go too. This week I hope to expand on last week topics

NHD: Philadelphilia Female Anti- Slavery

We chose our topic by coming up with ideas that we liked for a NHD project. My group and me narrowed the projects down to two; they were the Philadelphia Black Mafia and the Male Perspective of the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society. We gathered research on both of the societies and then asked some historians and teachers which do they think is least known about so people won’t be able to know more about the project than we do and which one stands out more they all said the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society. It was a society that most likely never talked history classes.

We started our research by starting on the Internet. We found a few things and when we found all we could find we turned to the teachers work. The teachers got us news articles and they gave us primary sources that were found from a museum. We went to two different places, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and The Quaker Meeting House. This helped us out by meeting people who actually studied the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society. The Quaker Meeting House had a book on the PFASS that told us about the group in the eyes of Lucretia Mott. The book was called “ Valiant Friend The Life of Lucretia Mott.’’ The Historical Society of Pennsylvania gave us the primary source documents we used for our annotations.

At first we were going to do a documentary, but we had a choice change to performance. We decide to change our project type because we thought if we did that it would be more creative than a documentary. We thought by doing a performance it would bring the project to life if we acted the Male Perspective of the PFASS out.

This project relates to the Conflict and Compromise theme because in our play we the audiences knowing what the conflict is and at the same time let them decide what they think would be the compromise. Whether the compromise was the burning happening an the PFASS meeting at new places or letting the Pennsylvania Hall burn and still responded with peaceful actions.

We chose this topic with many different ideas. Our research was a great help so that we could write our skit. The different topics were to well known so we chose something not many people didn’t know too much about. The project really relates to the conflict part of NHD. We chose this topic because we really wanted to learn about something that will probably not be taught in history classes.

Should parents beat there Children

Parents beating there young as been an issue in society for a while now. The problem is whether beating your child is considering child abuse or not. I think that people shouldn’t not beat there young for three reasons. If you beat your children you can end up beating them too harshly, and it becomes child abuse, also if a parent beat there children, it can result in mental problems in the future, and there are alternative punishments.
My first reason why parents shouldn’t beat there is that you can end up abusing them without knowing it. Some parents feel as if there just disciplining there children and teaching them right from wrong. You heard the saying this hurts me more than it hurts you. That’s not true; the pain you afflict on your children can become too heavy. Child abuse is against the law. Do you want to take the chance of being lock up, because you didn’t believe you were abusing your children? Just teaching them a lesson. Beating can count as child abuse against you.
My second reason is that beating can result in mental problem in the future. In my first paragraph I mention the quote “This hurts me, more than it hurts you”. Too your child that isn’t true, you’re hurting him physically. And mentally. I think beating you child messes with you in both categories. You probably think this a lesson to be learning here but what if there getting the wrong message. What if the message is that they shouldn’t be around no one because they thought they was gone to hit them, are they feel like no one loves them. You have no idea what message you may have inputted in them.
My final reason is that there are other ways of punishment. You can ground them. Take away the phone, or going places. You can even settle the matter with a simple time out. Beating your kids isn’t the only opposition.
Parents shouldn’t beat there children. If you beat your children you can end up beating them too harshly, and it becomes child abuse, also if a parent beat there children, it can result in mental problems in the future, and there are alternative punishments.

Converse issue

  In english class we were debating converse issues. some of the issue we debated was whether parents should beat their children, what is the appropriate age for dating, whether religion should be inputted in school learning. We then had chose one of these topics and write about them.