My Choice Martin Luther King Jr

For my blog this week I wanted to write about Martin Luther King Jr simply becuase we go a day off from school because of this guy. I wanted to give a brief outline of his accomplishments so people will know why we get a day off becuase of him. In 1957 King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference he would use this power as a basis to start his campaign for civil rights. In an eleven year period between 1957 and 1968, King spoke over twenty-five hundred times and wrote five books.
In these years he had some huge accomplishments. One was when he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama. This was where he was able to write his monumental piece titled "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", which was a summary of his feelings on civil rights and more specifically his feeling on the treatment of African Americans. King also directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C. This consisted of 250,000 people. It was at this gathering where king delivered his famous "l Have a Dream", speech.
To show how strong King was in his fight for civil equality he was arrested over twenty times and assaulted four times. Some of his honors that he recieved for his actions included five honorary degrees, being named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963, most importantly he will always be remembered as the main leader in the fight for civil equality.

Political Cartoon 6

1. Cartoon is by Petar Pismestrovic
2.© Copyright 2010 Petar Pismestrovic - All Rights Reserved
3.Obama's actions in his first year in office.
4.The cartoons message is that Obama did not do too much regarding these 4 major issues and he may have even made them worse.
5.I agree with the message in this cartoon. In regards to health care only small steps have been taken to pass a bill that congress can agree on. As far as the war on terror goes Obama may have complicated the problem by increasing the amount of troops in Afghanistan. When looking at the financial crisis there is still lots of unemployment in the U.S and he has done little in regards to climate change.

2011 Political Predictions

I honestly don't know what will happen politically in the year of 2010. For starters I think the healthcare bill will be passed by the end of the year however it will probably be very differnet than the one being debated right now. I do think the economy will be improving however I don't think it will be completely resolved for another few years. One thing that I am curious to see is if the increase in the amount of troops in Afghanistan will improve the situation there. I hope and predict that this increase will eventually end the war by the end of the year.

Political Cartoon 5

1.Cartoon by Monte Wolverton

2.2010 Monte Wolverton

3.Homeland Security

4.That there are many issues in the status of American Homeland Security.

5.For the most part I disagree with the message I think it is too harsh on homeland security. I feel safe here and don't see any major problems. However with the whole airplane bomb on Christmas it does show that there are imperfections in the system.