Draft # 1

Bacon’s Rellbellion – Life of Different Classes
It was a big difference between life of rich and poor in the history. Rich people were friends with government, and poors were slaves which worked for the wealthy level. The class level was depended on race or skin color sometimes. People who had lighter skin like white were in a higher society level, and for those who had darker skin like black. Many of arguments or protests in a country often involved society level or racism in the past, and it could still happen today in our society somewhere in this world too.

In 1676, Bacon’s Rebellion started as a dispute over Virginia’s Indian Policy. During this time, more and more Europeans moved into New World since Columbus explored America. As more Europeans came, they needed more lands to build houses and plant foods. The governments had signed a contract with Indians in Virginia which says the Europeans will not cross or take over rest of Native American’s territory. At this point, people who studied about Columbus should have known that a lot of cruel tortures he did to the natives. And I do agree that the government signed a treaty with Native Americans to protect natives’ rights and keep out from their territory, but the protection did work for long.

The time before the policy begun, the Algonquian chief had led Indian to have a surprise attack which killed about 500 Virginia colonists in two days in 1644. So for next few years, there were fightings between Indians and colonists. When government signed a treaty, those colonists felt unfair and mad about “Why can these uneducated Indians to have that much when they do not know how to use the land?” And also for those poor servants who did not have money to buy lands for their own, they wanted to get it from Indians. Of course the houses and environments they lived in looked different depended on your class. There was slavery going on in the society during this time. For the labor, planter and servant, they did not have that much money to spend for their houses. Most of planters would put all their money back into their tobacco crop while people who were wealthier could pay more money for their homes. At main time, a man named Nathaniel Bacon, he started a rebellion with some colonists. They were both against the government and Indians. They were fighting for lands and freedom for the slaves. If I was Bacon I would do the same thing too, because the rich people and colonial rulers had a very close relationship and charged a big number of taxes on the products. So even if I worked hard at that time, I will never able to saving anything by paying high taxes. Just for this reason, more and more colonists came to support Bacon’s Rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon became a hero to many of the poor freemen. He was not a poor man. He was the son of a wealthy English gentleman. Bacon was sent to Virginia with enough money to establish a large tobacco plantation. At first he was welcome by the governor but not till he came up with a rebellion. To me, Bacon was a brave man with strength and good opinions of his own to led a group of mistreated people to get their rights.

The governor at this time was a man named William Berkeley. Bacon had declared war against Berkeley and others on his side. Berkeley called Bacon as a traitor. There was a castle called Bacon’s Castle. It was built in 1665 by Major Arthur Allen and it actually named as Bacon’s Castle in the 19th century, because Bacon was going to use this house as a stronghold during rebellion, but he may not been in this house if he did not have any chance to use it. Once you go in, you can really tell that it is a rich family’s house. During this time period, more money meant more power and higher society level, and less wealthy meant you have less power and more works to do. After Bacon declared a war against Berkeley, his crew and him fought the Indians and sacked the grandees’ plantations, and attacked Jamestown. But Berkeley and his people took the revenge by plundering homes and destroyed the farms of Bacon’s supporters. In this case, I do think it was a smart way for Berkeley and his people destroyed Bacon’s supporters’ houses and farm to stop them from attacking them, but of course Bacon’s supporters were not that easy to be stopped. Bacon and his supporters continued fighting until one day in October that Bacon was unexpectedly died from a disease.

AOD #2

I am just back from volunteering in a theater. I was helping with selling some snacks and drinks. And i got to stay to watch the show for free. It was a really fun night. First I learned how to run a small snack bar and communication with others. I really like this kind of opportunities which I know them from the Key Club from my high school.

Also this Wednesday during the community meeting, i made an announcement at front of everybody. It was the first time I spoke up and had everybody's attention. So from both of them I learned and practiced how to communicate adn talk in public and helped others at same time.

Notes for Bacon's Rebellion (貝肯叛亂)

1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p274.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon's_Rebellion
3. http://www.conservapedia.com/Bacon's_Rebellion

place: Jamestown, Virginia
time: 1676
involved: Bacon, Coloinalist ( government) and Indians
Sshort Infromation from internet : Bacon's Rebellion was a revolt in 1676 by frontiersmen, indentured servants, and slaves, in colonial Virginia. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon, who organized a militia to deal with Indians who were raiding inland farms. In 1676, Bacon was elected to the House of Burgesses where he continued to promote his Indian raids, much to the dismay of colonial governor William Berkeley. In his Declaration of the People, Bacon denounced the colonial government for doing little to protect the frontier farmlands and unjust taxation, among other things. Eventually, Bacon's militia turned on the colonial capitol of Jamestown seizing and destroying property of the aristocracy for three months. The rebellion ended shortly after Bacon's death, due to body lice.
Bacon's Rebellion was the first major rebellion in the American colonies in which free white men were involved.

Arts of Democracy #1

Celebration and appreciation- expressing joy and appreciation for what we learn as well as what we achieve

From this new school year, I started to be a TA in a Chinese school computer class. This is my fifth year to go Chiense school every Saturday morning in main campus of Highline. I am there to help with the translation beacuse the teacher doesn't speak Mandarin well. Also if some students have question I would go to him/ her to answer, and if I couldn't answer or slove, I will ask the teacher to go to that student to help after he is done with talking or speech.

There are some adluts in this comptuer class too. They like to ask me for helpo before they ask the teacher because I am easy to get along with people who are older than me and speak in my language. That's what they told me. So I will be a TA this year and in the next few years if they still offer this class. From this I can increase my computer knowledge and joy to help people. I alway happy or enjoy the time that I can help some who are needed.

Topic Sentence

Smoking is a way of chronic suicide. As we can see, Europeans bought tabacco from native people and they turned out to like it. So they started to grow tabacco in the New World and then they shipped and sold it in Europe. That's how tabacco started to spread all around the world. And one thing I would like to say is that tabacco is like a kind of drug that is bad for your health. From the facts I read in " http://www.thetruth.com/ ", this web has many examples of what happened to the people who smokes. For examples, the cigarettes can cause wrinkless, cause of vision loss, and it also causes cancers. There are 69 animal/ human carcinogens are in tobacco smoke. Every 6.5 seconds, someone in the world dies from a smoking-related disease, and about 339 people in U.S. die of lung cancer every day. And education is important for the children, they learn what they are not supose to do or what is bad for them. The higher smoking rates are associated with lower education levels. Also there are some facts shows about 918 people die each year on U.S. from smoking-related fires, 719,000 have heart attack drom smoking, and over 8.5 million Americans live with tabacco-relatived illnesses. There were close to 50% of people said that they wanted to quit, but only 4.7% were succeed in quitting. And it is a big responsibility for the parents to tell their children no to smoke. So on, we can reduce the percentage of smoking people in the future. Also the smoke from the the cigarettes is a pollution to our environment too, so we should really convince to people who smoke to stop smoking anymore.

Alternate Reality Games

After understanding this article, I think ARGs is like a proudct that people will have different reslutes after they try it. Just like a Question, that we can come up with many different answers. Also it is like a arugment too, people have differnet point of view and oppions. It sounds interesting to me, but I know it won't be too interesting if I don't even know what are we playing when I get to do something relate to it. So the questions i have are DO I HAVE TO PLAY IT? WOULD IT BE FUN? IS IT HARD TO PLAY? and WHEN WILL THIS ARTICLE HAVE A EASIER VERSION?!

PSEC COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY

Last Firday was PSEC COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY. At morning, my group and i met in PSEC first and then we started to divide people into 3 cars. Ashely, Ramila and I were in Ravi's car. On the way to where we were going, we talked about what nationality we are and what do we want to so afer PSEC. When we get there, it was a female senior's house. Girls were responded indoor works and boys are outdoor works. We cleaned the windows, floor, and window curtains. And then the girls ate lunch on the sidewalk on the street. Of course we brought our own lunch. I didn't get to finish mine because other girls ate so fast. After that we started to work again. When we finished the indoor works, we went out to help boys with yard work and outside windows. At same time, Ashely and I found a tiny honeycomb with a bee on it. And then we used some kind of spray to spray it on the honeycomb. It was time for boys to eat lunch. They ordered PIZZA and sat on the chairs and table to eat it. That was so not fair~!! Well, who cares. I already had my linch at that time. After we done with everything and got back to PSEC, it was close to 3pm. I guess we were the last group went back to school. I wasn't really happy or exciting about doing those works, BUT I did enjoy to help people. Maybe sometimes it's kinda bored, but i do like to help people with things that I know how or what to do.