Weekend. This should be a fun class. Today, we are going to talk about the spanishamerican war. But before we get into that i want to recap a few things we did in our last class. Specifically, lets talk a little bit about the imperialism that developed in the late 19th century. Have anything you can contribute in this regard . Sure. Had we were imperialistic and we thought that going sorry. To go werereasons humanitarian. We tried to help our little Brown Brothers down there, to try and make them more american because we felt it was superior. Joseph it is really an ethnocentrism. Yeah. Joseph taylor, do you have anything to add to that . That stood one thing out the most to me was the economic aspect because the u. S. Had a lot of territorial interests in cuba and a lot of americans owned sugar plantations and they wanted to protect their citizens and investments down there. But in the u. S. , there was also overproduction, so they were also looking to advance to new markets. Joseph go
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To children. As they keep growing theyre wearing bigger clothes and im doing something i rarely do and im buying online. This is from my 11. 5yearold wearing man size socks now. I have ordered socks and pajamas and shorts all online. Typically you have to adjust. Michael, ill start with you. Are you changing your Shopping Habits and noticing time marchs on even though some aspects of life have slowed dramatically. They were buying more for the children and becoming simplified and obviously, theres needs growing. I think within that, we realized now that were home and organizing stuff we realized we have a lot of stuff. We have a lot of stuff. Theres an attack of trying to get rid of stuff. Just wait until the pandemic is over. Theres going to be a lot of people donating to places Like Salvation Army and good will. Youll see it. Just wait. Yeah, all right. Lets get right into the coronavirus coverage. Governor new . Says the number of covid19 cases has been moving in the right direction
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Remember how many times a young female marine that had been raped or sexually assaulted told me that she looked at these guys as your brother or the suspect as your brother its a kin to what happens in a family with incest. Because you know in the military when were functioning at our best a cohesive unit with brothers and sisters of the band of brothers and sisters i mean we are family when that ball and of trust is violated. The wound penetrates to the very most inner part of ones soul one psyche. I have this folder that i keep i have all my boot camp letters and if my mom and my sister and. People and. I was just going through some of this stuff and im like whats this you know and i open it up im like oh my god. My suicide letter. Bomb im sorry for the grease that you must feel. Just because im gone physically doesnt mean i will be there spiritually i truly feel that god will take me without question even though i took my own life. Ive had the most broken thoughts of dreams and phys