Current Events May 2015

Robots threaten these 8 jobs

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/13/news/economy/robots-threaten-jobs-unemployment/index.html

This article is about the 8 jobs that are threatened to be taken over by robots.

• Robots threaten the jobs of Cashiers and Toll booth operators.
• Robots threaten the jobs of marketers and advertisers. 
• Robots will take over customer service.
• Robots threaten the jobs of factory workers.
• Robots basically threaten the jobs of ALL service people. 

Robot

I don't think robots are gonna take over ALL the jobs. For goodness sake if you are good at your job then a robot won't be able to fully take over it. Unless the robot is cheaper then of course you'll be fired. But! there will have to be robot fixing people, and lots of those people.  This issue affects a lot of people basically everyone except the president.

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Leading to Civil War

1. Missouri Compromise (1820) (map)

This event led to the Civil War by igniting the fuse for the division of the states, into north and south. 

                              2. Wilmont Proviso (1846) (map)

This event led to the Civil War because it let people know that different parts of the United States wanted different things and they would fight for those things. 

3. Compromise of 1850 (map)

This shows that the states began to sort of pull together since they were starting to gain a tad more freedom.

4. Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) (image)

Uncle Tom's cabin depicted the life of a slave which really affected how the northerners felt about the south, and concreted their beliefs.

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) (map)

Lastly the Kansas-Nebraska act showed that people did not want to live together all in one democratic agreement and would fight for their protection.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

The following quotes are by Frederick Douglass.

"Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty?"

• Here Douglass is talking about how it can not be argued that a man does not have liberty.

"Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?"

• Douglass talks about how god did not give slavery to man and that he can not be used as an excuse for slavery.

"I do not despair of this country."

• Douglass is saying that the speech he has given does not mean that he hates America, only that he wants to see it improve.

"I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary!"

• Here he is saying that he is not free and since 4th of July represents freedom then he can not participate in the anniversary.

"Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery?"

• Douglass says that its pretty clear that everyone knows that slavery is bad, thus he doesn't have to argue anyone against it.

To a black man the fourth of July means nothing since he is not while while his white counterparts are is what Douglass's speech directs. 

 

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