Over 130,000 Syrian refugees have fled over into Turkey from its border near what the Arabs call Ayn Al-Arab and the Kurds call Kobani. For around a week ISIS or the Islamic State has been going into mostly Kurdish inhabited areas with tanks and heavy artillery and laying waste to it. With this causing a massive flow of refugees Turkey is becoming afraid of the numbers saying the not knowing how many more villages are going to be raided or how many more refugees are going to be made that this is worse than a natural disaster. Even with this being said, there is still fighting against the Islamic State, the Kurdish militia has stopped ISIS troops five miles outside of the town of Ayn Al-Arab. And not only they are fighting, fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in Turkey or the P.K.K. have joined the fight. Also, with westerners getting involved, even the small degree that they are, ISIS is not happy about it. They have given the command for Muslims to attack non-Muslims. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/europe/over-130000-flee-syria-for-turkey-in-wake-of-isis-raids.html?_r=0

In todays court, we heard the two sides for and against the shooting in the back by Mr. Mann of Lydia, the slave rented to him by the slaves actual owner Mrs. Jones, in the case State V. Mann, a case mainly for or against slavery. The shooting occurred after Lydia ran away from a lashing that Mr. Mann was going to give her causing near death injuries. The team against slavery, talked about how the slave was rented out to Mr. Mann and he is not the owner of the slave so he does not get to decide whether the lave needs to be punished. With the injuries given to the slave by being shot in the back lessens the amount of work and the quality of the work that Lydia could do. Doing this to a slave lessens the worth of the slave and ruins a slave's livelihood. Finally they spoke about how for certain animals there is a fine and a chance for imprisonment, and a slave is higher up than an animal, even if it is only 3/5s a person. The side for slavery talked about how Mr. Mann was upholding law and tradition. He was upholding law because he has the right to whip the slave for punishment because Mrs. Jones rented Lydia out to Mr. Mann giving him full rights over the slave and making her technically his possession. They spoke about how he needed to whip her so that she would fully submit to him and do the work he needed done. And finally they spoke about how the slave was not a full person and should so be considered property and that the slave is needed to tend products such as cotton, tobacco and other products. After hearing both sides of this case I came to the final conclusion that slavery is a bad thing and I am for abolition. Slavery should be outlawed in these United States because as the Declaration of Independence states "All men are created equal." http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/268/entry/

NYC… For or Against Lincoln during the Civil War?

According to Bill Morgan of the New York Times, The Great City of New York was very much against the war and the Unions war aims. The citizens of the city believed that it would be bad for business to fight the South in a war. Also, Southerners owed New York Banks tons of money and poor New Yorkers thought that if the Union won, the city would be flooded with cheap work from the newly freed slaves. Knowing this, when Lincoln went up for reelection in 1864, he lost in New York by a landslide, but won the electoral vote for the state because of upstate New York's love for Lincoln and the cause. Instead of Voting for Lincoln, the City voted for Senator Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 and Gen. George B. McClellan in 1864. To surmise, the City of New York voted against Lincoln almost entirely so that they would have bad business and a flood cheap African American Labor, which would have hurt the more poor citizens of the city Link below: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/why-new-york-city-opposed-abe-lincoln/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0