NHD Reflection

   This year in NHD my topic was  Chrisophter Columbus. My group and I chose to do a performance.  The reason  we chosen to do this topic for the theme Individuals in history. 

     We came upon the topic of Columbus, when we was watching this documentary on him, on history channel. At first we wasn't sure on who to do, we had other people in mind such as Fidel Castro, JFK, and Sideny Poiter.  

This year NHD compare to the last year didn't run as smoothly. The hardest thing about this year had to be the research and finding a way to do a performance on him. my group and I keep throwing ideas but it didn't seem like we would get one, until we came up with one. We decided to set up classroom scene to introduce him and transition into a boat scene explain his legacy. I believe that this year play, idea was better but performance wise wasn't.

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.