Protest song

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds...Oh lord yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait `till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning,
as you hear the bodies burning.
No more war pigs of the power,
hand of god has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, god is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercy for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings...Oh lord, yeah!

War Pigs by Black Sabbath is a perfect example of a protest song. It is saying how politicians make decisions that never really affect them but they affect the average citizen. It says they started all the wars but they are not the ones that have to fight, it is the poor people that have to fight and put their lives on the line.

Womens rights

I think that womens rights have come a long way and almost have the same rights men. In some cases however they do not. For instance, women sometimes do not get paid as much as men for jobs. That is about the only instance that women do not have the same rights as men.

JFK

I learned a lot about JFK that i did not know prior to the trip. For example, i had no idea that JFK did anything to help with the mentally retarded. Also, i had previously heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis but i had no idea what it was or that it was during JFK's presidency. Another thing i learned is that JFK had eight siblings. The most interesting part at the museum was the coconut. I felt that the story behind it was very interesting. I felt that it was a very good field trip and i can't think of a way that i could have made it better. I feel that JFK had the potential to be one of the greatest presidents ever because he had extremely good ideas that could have greatly improved our country. He could have potentially been great but he did not have the chance to follow through on a lot of his ideas because he was assassinated.

The Simpsons

The producers of the Simpsons did a great job in portraying the 1920's and Prohibition in Springfield. The accuracies greatly outweigh the fictional comedy in the episode. For example, they mentioned the word speakeasies a lot in the episode. This is very accurate because the undercover bars were called speakeasies during Prohibition. Also, in the episode there were corrupt police officers that got payed off so that they would not shut down the speakeasies. At one point officer Wiggum was in a speakeasy just like some officers were in the 1920's. I enjoyed the episode a lot and I think we should watch more things like that because we can relate present day comedies to history. A lot of the things in the video were portrayed well and were just like they would have been in the 1920's.

The one scene that i would have changed to make more historically accurate would be the scene when everyone is in the speakeasy, the cops came buy, and it turned into a pet shop by pulling a lever. This was a little bit too exaggerated. The cop would have never believed that the pet shop was open all night. Also, The pets would be dead if they were turned up-side-down and underground. The last thing that i would change about that scene is the underground tunnels that the bowling ball goes through to get to the beer to the costumers. This would have never happened in the 1920's, they would have just hid the liquor, no send it in bowling balls. Besides that scene i thought most of the episode portrayed Prohibition and the 1920's very nicely.