Moroccan Industrial and Technologic Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport, and cultural conditions starting in the United Kingdom, and then slowly spreading throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world.

The industrial revolution in Morocco started immediately after the War between Morocco and France. After the independence Morocco needed to start developing and thrive as a country in another sector than agriculture. Seen the important resources Morocco has, such as Phosphorus which is an advantage to the development of industries.
Morocco welcomed new immigrants from the rural area that come to work in factories in the city. At the same time, electricity becomes more and more accessible, as well as the telephone. The starting of new projects such as dams, the routes and highways in particular allowed more development and even bigger than industries until the end of the 20th century. Sectors like fishing become modernized and pass from the artisanal stage to industrial stage in cities like Rabat and Casablanca under the reign of Hassan II.

According to technology of Morocco, revolution is happening, since it is still growing. Many technological stores have been installed in Morocco, such as RadioShack, Apple, Samsung, Techno Park, and many other technological industries. These industries are still developing therefore now immediate revolution has occurred yet.

While i was talking with my family about industrial Revolution we found out that Morocco has all characteristics of a real industrial revolution. However, it is not as spectacular as the ones that happened in Great Britain since it was the first industrial revolution in the world. On the other hand, Morocco is starting to reach developed countries according to the technology, Morocco are making new ways of communication and building new networks that can cover a whole nation such as Maroc Telecom and Meditel. To conclude, this thriving nation is in the pathway to being a developed country.

Socratic Seminar

During the Socratic seminar I have gained much knowledge. First, I realized that some of my classmates and I were actually growing up since they could peacefully participate actively and give interesting ideas and later defend their ideas. However, the support of the teacher was a bit handy since he directed the seminar to be able to hear different ideas from different people. The teacher also used our ideas to concretize them to make further analysis and use our ideas to relate to real life and go beyond surface. The seminar was handled in a peaceful and respectful way, the ideas of each group were taken into consideration and the groups shared their point of view on each person’s idea rather than arguing and making contradictions. This method had more benefit because it helped the students understand what the real problems were and it didn’t hurt people.
No one dominated the conversation however; every group was assigned a question that they really had to investigate on, these groups had more to saw on a specific question but everyone contributed and followed turns to talk and follow up on what the previous person said to add on what he said or to share his point of view on the question or to tell his feedback or opinion. The groups help make the comments clear in other words reformulate them for the whole seminar to understand.
I had many evidence of people building on other people comments or making links to daily life such as Hussam when he blamed drug dealers and prostitutes from doing these jobs and their reason was that they had no economic opportunity like Thailand and other poor countries.
After having answered my questions with my group I had given them my point of view on the question, “How to bring about change…deliberately or quickly?” I had answered that they should make the change quickly to stop having economic problems, however Yasmin A changed my point of view and convinced me to choose deliberately since the change has to take time for the citizens to adapt and not make the country in rush to avoid chaos
Overall the seminar went well the good parts were that everyone could share his point of view without being interrupted or judged whether it was right or wrong, on the other hand students were disrupting the class until the teacher had to react in order to keep peace and in the seminar and avoid too much outside talk.

S.O.S Haiti

Thousands of people may have died. Haiti's worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, breaking the presidential palace. The Haiti earthquake occurred at a fault that runs right through Haiti and is situated along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates, which are rocky slabs that cover the planet and fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle. These two plates constantly creep past one another, about 0.8 inches (20 mm) a year, with the Caribbean plate moving eastward with respect to the North American slab. The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected.

The earthquake was a catastrophe Haiti's cost of the damage could run into billions. A number of nations, including the US, UK and Venezuela, are gearing up to send aid. The quake, which struck about 15km (10 miles) south-west of Port-au-Prince, was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude. Communications were widely disrupted, making it impossible to get a full picture of damage a powerful aftershocks shook a desperately poor country where many buildings are flimsy. Electricity was out in some places.

The American military has begun to do its first airdrops over Haiti but is proceeding cautiously despite an enduring need for humanitarian relief. An Air Force C-17 dropped more than 3,700 gallons of water and 14,000 packaged meals after US military personnel secured an area in a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince Monday.

Failures and Secessions of Reconstruction

Failures
· The Reconstruction was a time when the government thought that all people needed human rights even African Americans. Until this point African Americans had no rights. They were still considered less than a full person in a society that proclaimed that all of people are created equal.
· Corruption was one of the failures of the Reconstruction, since the Grant’s administration was being corrupted, greedy, and the government became very poor.

· The economy of the Reconstruction Legislatures taxed southern states, and therefore these states became badly in debt. There was also an economic downturn from the movement of equal rights.

· Violence was also a major failure in the Reconstruction, such as when white democrats used violence against federal troops to prevent freedmen from voting.

· Many blacks and white southerners remain caught in poverty because jobs are unavailable in the South, people are racist and refuse to hire a black person, and finally white southerners are poor since they have lost all of their lands.

Successes

· Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments guarantee African American the rights of citizenship, equal protection under the law, and suffrage. These amendments means that the conflicts and racism will be abolished therefore the black people will be able to gain money without any discrimination or any judgement.

· Freedmen's Bureau and other organizations help many black families obtain housing jobs and schooling. Since education will be given to uncivilized freedmen, therefore the overall education of black citizens will grow.

· The South’s economy grows and new wealth is created in the North. Since the economy in the North is growing, poverty will be less important in their therefore the industries will produce more products which will lead to a much more organized and structured society.