Week Seventeen

     Week Seventeen started off ok. On Monday at the beginning of the week, the weather dropped which immediately my mood. Monday and Tuesday, I was just focusing on staying warm, and also felt very tired. Monday was particularly a good day however, because Ms.G finally returned from her seven week medical leave and I had missed her like crazy. By the end of the week, we were told by Ms.G that we would not be having our annual GnD show at school considering the theater would not be ready which honestly ruined my week and made us all very sad. On Thursday, I got sick and stayed home half of the day, and Friday it felt as if everyone in the school was sick and right there on the same page with me. The long weekend however made things better butt seemed to go by really quickly. I had a great, eventful MLK day.

Week Sixteen

     This week was the first week back from our two week off winter break. On Monday, coming back, it felt like I hadn't seen anyone in forever. However, as the week progressed, it started feeling like we were never even on a break. My Christmas and New Years were both great so all throughout the week I was thinking of that. I spent lots of time with friends I do not see a lot, over break and I also spent time catching up on sleep and doing little things in the house. Coming back, it felt like teachers were all talking about finals which made me upset considering this was only our first week returning. I also got lots of work back from classes and overall it was a pretty decent week.

Red Scare Summary

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The Red Scare was a belief as well as a period in time that occurred from the late 1940’s to the mid 1950’s. In this time period, people apart of the Red Scare were ones who were afraid that Communism would continue to spread throughout the world. Just before the Red Scare, Communism had just begun to spread from country to country after WWII. This includes the countries behind the iron curtain, as well as China. Soon after this, people became worried this spread would soon increase and every country in the world would be Communist, which of course the Americans did not want. Behind all of this, there was one person leading this action to stop the Communism growth, Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy started off as a Republican Senator in the state of Wisconsin. He grew bigger as he made assumptions and would claim random people of the US, as well as the USFG, to be Communists and Soviet spies. By using his beliefs and manipulative tactics, he was quickly able to persuade people into this paranoid way of thinking, and at the end of the day, made citizens more afraid than they should have been. Not only this, but the people whom he made accusations to, would then have to testify and all that did was make people more afraid that there were even more Communists and spies whom did not come forward to their doings. Many people say now, McCarthy did nothing but ultimately ruin people’s lives and only persuaded the nation into such thinkings to gain power.

This period in time truly began, as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the US became more intense. More and more people part of the USFG were being analyzed to make sure they were being 100% loyal to the country. From then, McCarthy began taking over and the issue went from being a slight US issue, to a huge issue. Not only this, but McCarthy was said to have taken over the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which is a committee of the House of Representatives who investigate the Communists of the US and testify hearings before Congress.

As for how the ending of the Red Scare, it all slowly started dying now, and was not an abrupt process. Towards the mid 1950’s, it began to hit people that McCarthy’s ways were not doing much for the nation. So around that time things just slowed down and eventually, it was not a big issue anymore to the US citizens.

Week Fifteen

     This past week was pretty average for me. This is that one week everyone was trying to get past in order for it to be break. That is all that was on my mind really. But, the best day of the week was definitely Wednesday considering the guys had their first home basketball games which I went to, and I also did a little Christmas shopping with my mom in the evening. It has also been strange week, considering I expected to get lots of homework, but turned out I barely had any this week. However, I had a couple of quizzes throughout the week. I am excited for the weekend so I can finish Christmas shopping and get myself together for Christmas. I also am going to be very busy at events and with friends this weekend which should be fun. Lastly, I need to finish doing Christmas shopping so that I will be free for other things during the week. Good week overall and I am excited for break like crazy

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Week Fourteen

     This past week was definitely better than my thirteenth week but it was not the greatest. It started off kind of bad because on Monday I was feeling tired considering I had a long good weekend. Then on Tuesday it was bad because my sister was diagnosed with a bad concussion. She had ben complaining about her head all weekend but she is a drama queen so we figured it was nothing but took her to the doctor to check. Now she has to stay home from school and physical activity until her head feels better so I have been paying close attention to her all week. As for the weekend, I went to my friends house Friday where an event was held. Saturday I went out to breakfast then to the Poms competition which was depressing and I felt bad they did not win. I later went over another friends house which was lots of fun. Sunday I came home to tons of homework which I have been avoiding all weekend.

Week Thirteen

     This past week was not the best week for me. The week just went by extra slowly for me and it also felt very slow considering the many bad events that happened in the course of this week. One of my friends had a really bad event happen to them last week and I was just finding out about it this week so I struggled in trying to be helpful to them throughout the week. However, my weekend went really well. I did not do much Friday but shopped a bit for presents with my mom and sister but Saturday was the more eventful day. Saturday, I spent time with a friend during the day which was nice, and I then went to the Basketball Classic Basketball game at UIC. Even though there were games going on in the day time, I only went to the last two games and the last one was Whitney vs. Simeon which was interesting. After, some friends and I went to a friends birthday celebration at a hotel. Sunday was very chill but I was tired and had dance then worked on some homework. I posted a comment on Maddie Mortell's blog on her tenth week.