Birmingham Field Trip

What I knew prior to the trip to the civil rights was the situation about protesters being sprayed with firehoses, and attacked by police dogs, also I knew the 16th street bombing happened but nothing more than that fact, I knew that there was a group of pro integration supporters rode a bus across south-eastern america in order to protest civil rights. The things that going to the civil rights institute brought to light for me was that the people in the downtown Birmingham protests were mostly teenagers, and that they had a goal of getting themselves arrested. One of the focal points of the Civil rights institutes exhibits was the church bombing exhibits, they put together the whole story and showed real evidence that it actually happened, really solidifying the reality of what happened and how those 4 little girls died that day. I didn't know that the freedom riders met so much diversity and aggression but still rode on, and even had a sort of military protection part of the way. I didn't know the extent of the systematic oppression that people of color faced in that there were people in positions of great power and authority that were openly racist, and that the acts of racism back then were hardly hidden and so widespread. The thing that stood out to me the most about our trip to Birmingham was the timeline that the museum layer out portraying the span of 50 years that authorities spent relentlessly searching for the people responsible for the bombing, the dedication of the FBI to investigate the case for that long really showed how some people were truly bought in to this movement.

Do we have control over the future?

As a human race in total I think we have complete control over our future, if there were a way to eliminate conflict and work together anything could be accomplished, as of right now smaller things other than world peace are still very controllable. The role i see for governments and institutions are to lead by example and to help facilitate progress through individual study and or experimentation. Other things that can shape the future are the creation of institution, to further society. I support very strongly the idea that we shape our own future and always have the ability to change the outcome of your current situation.

What people thought the 2000's would be like

Dominick Lioce
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57835/12-predictions-year-2000-19th-century-german-chocolate-company

In a gimmick by a chocolate maker in the 19th century a man named Theodore Hildebrand put a series of twelve postcards in the chocolate they sold each depicting something that would occur in the next hundred or so years, this included personal flying machines, shoes hat could walk on water, air ships, boats that could go onto a railroad without stopping, a roofed city, movable houses, even a good weather machine. the predictions that didn't come true are the roofed city, good weather mating, and railroad boat.

http://www.upworthy.com/11-ridiculous-future-predictions-from-the-1900-worlds-fair-and-3-that-came-true

flying cars, firemen with wings, domesticate whales and use for transportation, technology in education

still haven't perfects flying cars or even thought about whales for transportation
We do have technological uses in education

Analytical Article on Policing in a Developing America

     Throughout civilized history there has always been necessity of the law, and enforcing it. In modern day we call the people who enforce and carry out the law the Police. The police as we know it is very organized, efficient, well informed, and pervasive across most parts of the world. Not many people think about the reasons behind why we have such an effective police force. We have this established police force mainly based on need, because of how rapidly hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to america, and realizing how out of hand the urbanizing cities were becoming. The homocide rates skyrocketed, specifically leading up to and during prohibition in 1919.

       In the early to mid eighteen hundreds the leadership in america began realizing through "rising civil disruptions in the north regarding racial or ethnic disputes and skyrocketing immigration rates"(Policing In america) that the night watch system used in the seventeen hundreds was not effective enough to keep order inside these rapidly growing cities during the day time. Immigration led to urbanization because of the amount of poor people immigrating to the united states. They could not afford suburban housing so people took advantage of that and made tenements causing a huge overcrowding problem and also causing a large amount of the population to congregate in one area making a rapid and overwhelming change in crime rates.These events led to the establishment of the first police stations in New York City-1844 and Boston-1838 These two large cities became pioneers and models for what the police would come to be in the near future. These kinds of large booming cities were the primary ground to start a Police enforce because of rising tension between races, ethnicities, the higher likelihood of crime because of the proximity of people from one another combined with the poverty rate, and the huge amount of strikes and riots being carried out because of wage gaps and poor working conditions. “New York City had 5,090 strikes, involving almost a million workers from 1880 to 1900; Chicago had 1,737 strikes, involving over a half a million workers in the same period” to control these massive riots and strikes business owners tried to hire people to subdue the workers, but that only made the employees further resent them. This is where the  police came in, a third party figure to subdue the rioting while staying mostly impartial. The only problem was that in the early stages of policing there was a  massive amount of corrupt officers.

       The large amount of immigrants coming to the United states caused multiple things, a large overcrowding issue and a wage gap. People who provided tenements and such services profited greatly from the great number of migrants coming into america's cities, while the immigrants got poorer and poorer. The poverty in the tenement buildings and areas similar to the tenements drove many people to crime, the new and undertrained inefficient police force followed this trend and either focused on the larger problem at hand or were corrupted and payed to look the other way. The wage gap created a stressful environment in which Political bosses, gangs and the wealthy ran rampant without any police interference. These wealthy people and political bosses were the ones starting and funding these police stations which was the reason for the high amount of corrupted police. The american leadership in these cities were realizing the necessity for a incorruptible strong police force.

The reactive nature of the new police system was found to be ineffective and they started shifting toward a preventive system, starting first with getting police officers much more training, vetting, uniforms,

Uniforms implemented in Americas Police

and eventually multiple branches and forms of policing. The need to innovate and stay ahead of criminals created a whole new world of career for an american citizen. Police officers were dying because of the lack of actual authority of organization within the policing system. These deaths of police officers eventually led to officers carrying guns, being able to use deadly force on a citizen. This changed how people looked at the police forever. This was when the police truly started to take control and show they had authority and were going to maintain order.

Homicide rates in america Police officer deaths in america


The development of the police force in urbanizing america aided in the innovation of many other fields(through necessity to have a successful police force)  and opportunities in america, it sparked the start of american policing, investigation, forensic science, fire control, fixing homelessness, and a large number of other important themes that needed fixing in this time period. This necessity to innovate the police force led to the beginning of Forensic Science in 1880 when the first forms of fingerprinting was being used in america, it changed how we kept track of criminals in america,

First fingerprints officially taken in america

the development of vice squads to enforce laws regarding prostitution, gambling, and alcohol and narcotics abuse. This was further specializing the police and making them much more efficient. The police still walking a beat began using special telegraph systems to report crimes, or call for assistance which turned into a telephone that police and citizens could use to contact the police.

To the left: Police Woman using police Contact Phone
The police also started implementing hand writing analysis, and legitimizing early polygraph use. All of this innovation culminated in the development of the first forensic criminal investigation labs in america, and the start of federal involvement in policing. The bureau of investigation, the first version of the FBI was created in 1908. This sparked the rush of government involvement in the policing area. The government involvement in policing eventually led to the establishment of the first federal crime laboratory in 1932, and the National Police Academy in 1935.
        The rapid innovation and success of the police force can be directly related to urbanization in that if it weren't for the massive amount of immigrants flooding the urban areas of america causing much to rapid urbanization of the largest cities. As a result of this crime went up and order went down. To respond to this problem the Police Force had to become more efficient in order to keep society afloat, and be a conducive environment for the people of america. Without the problems created by the large scale immigration the government would have never been pushed to create such an effective police force and the police as we know it today would be completely different, for the worse of all of our well being.

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Dominick Lioce

         The warehouse in Oakland where this fire occurred contained many artists living on low budget. The owner of the property was a Mrs. Chor Nar Siu Ng. The Oakland ghost ship fire was an incident in which 36 people died in a fire in a warehouse in Oakland California. The reason this fire became out of hand so quickly because of the layout of this artist warehouse, there was a blocked exit upstarts, "webs of extension cords", propane tanks all around heating water. This warehouse was overfilled and filled with highly flammable practically materials made of tender. The fire started because of a faulty electrical system during an electronic dance party and Ms. Ng's neglect to satisfy the artists requests for better living conditions. There were so many victims because of the poor conditions in the warehouse and due to the fact that there were many people at the warehouse during a party.


This Fire is similar to the triangle shirtwaist fire because of the common neglect for the conditions of the people working in the building. This neglect included similar amount of clutter in the workplace, and highly flammable materials around the whole building.
Another similarity between the two fires is the owners of the building refusing to make changes that needed to be addressed like health and safety regulations for the only reason that they are cheap.
Also because of the lack of documentation at the party at the ghost ship fire and the damage the fire caused, like the triangle fire, many of the bodies were unidentified for a long while.
Although the triangle factory had almost five times the death both were very tragic and highlighted the issues upon the issues important to the people involved in the accident
-Ghost ship- Artists thought the reason for this fire is partially because of the lack of artistic space like this and caused them to not construct the living space properly
-Triangle Shirtwaist fire-workers were fighting at the forefront of workers rights, and started the movement to unionize widely and create a set of rights for all workers.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/us/california-oakland-fire-ghost-ship-warehouse/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/us/the-oakland-fire-what-we-know-about-the-warehouse-owner.html

Jim Thorpe was known to many people as the greatest athlete in the world as of the early to mid nineteen hundreds. He was a very successful athlete from middle school all the way to the professional leagues and in the olympics held in Sweden. In high school Jim was recruited to join any athletic teams including football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, hockey and track.

His Native american background in long hunting and trapping excursions aided in his physical development, significantly in endurance. In the 1912 olympics he won the pentathlon and the decathlon by 700 point more than the runner up. He also played in professional football for 12 seasons. This shows his ability to succeed at most physical activities. Jim Thorpe in my mind still is the best athlete of all time because of his ability to succeed in so many different sports and athletic events. Jim's life ended in tragic heart attack in the year 1953, and is buried in Pennsylvania even though his children tried to file a law suit to move his burial site back to the reservation in Oklahoma. Jim after a long athletic carreer continued work by acting in mostly stereotypical roles for an indian. He was divorced once and remarried later in life but got divorced again because of a drinking problem. Jim will go down no matter how his life ended as one of the greatest athletes in history whether native american or not.

Native American Classwork November 9, 2016

Dominick Lioce

 The Definition of savagery is the quality of being fierce or cruel
     The definition of savage is (of an animal, or force of nature) fierce, violent and uncontrolled
In this class period I have just read part of a textbook from the 1800's describing the indians found in north america.
          If I were an american student racing this back then I would have a completely skewed picture of the american indian, they described them as savages constantly, and only talked about their more primitive ways of living. They described their wives as slaves to them, and made it look like they were completely stupid, insulting their language and lack of books.