DISPOSAL!!!

This ad displays sexism by of course SHOWING THE OWMAN IN THE KITCHEN. She is all happy and dressed up in the kitchen, which was the norm for this age... But it puts women in that role of being the homemaker, and not the money maker.

Media

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/parents/television/tv_impact_kids.cfm

Does media influence the actions of teenagers?
Yes media does impact the actions of teenagers, it desensitizes us as children and puts things in our minds that shouldn't be there at our ages. We are more likely to do drugs, drink, or have sex because television and media show it as an "okay" thing to do.

STEEEEEERIKE!!!

There I stood, a boy of nine years old... I couldn't scrape up the money to a buy a ticket for the biggest game of the season.... The World Series!!! Hundreds of people inside and out. Inside watching and enjoying... Outside listening to what is going on. I squeezed my way through this massive crowd, and was lucky enough to find a knothole in the wooden fence surrounding the park. As everyone else around me hears the commentators say "And here comes Ryan's windup!!! And what's this pitch going to be?! A curve ball?! A screwball!? A fastball?!" It's the bottom of the ninth, a full count, three balls.... two strikes... Could this be the game winning, and game ending pitch? Everyone surrounding me is imagining his wind up, the crowd falls silent, the anticipation of what is going to happen next has everyone straining to hear... Hoping that maybe they can hear either the bat smack the ball, or the ball pop right into the catchers glove.. but not me, I get to see this... here I stand awaiting the ball to leave the very tip of the pitchers fingers, watching it as it does. I feel the weight of curiosity fill my entire body as the ball flies towards the plate.. I can't see to the plate! All I have seen is the ball leave the pitcher, times seems to slow.. I'm knocked out of my trance due to the sound of the ump yell "STEEEEEEEEEEEEE-rike!" THE BATTER IS OUT! WE WIN THE GAME!!! And I got to witness the best of it, the best of this historic event, the game winning pitch.. all through that tiny peephole, in the wooden fence surrounding the park.

Topic 10 Concept Guide

McCarthyism Impact on Society- House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hollywood writers, directors, producers, and actors were charged if they had communist propaganda in films.

Communist “Witch Hunt” and impact on those accused- they were put to trial.

Space Race impact on government policies- The battle between U.S. and Soviet Union. Put more money into the education systems.

Cold War mind set for the United States Government and public- anyone that wasn't a communist was good.

Relationship of suburbs, automobiles, and roads- more people moved to the suburbs because automobiles were more affordable and interstate highways were made making transportation easier to get to and from work.

Baby Boom- from 1946-1960. In 1955 there was a baby born every 7 second in the United States.

Urban-Suburban Pattern- [business district] {inner city- low income families} (suburbs-middle class) <suburbs- high income families>

GI Bill- you give the military 4 years of service, and they give you 4 years of college free

Expansion of the Middle Class (why were things “affordable)- the credit card was introduced, and because of the market boom after the war, and the men coming back from the war went straight back to work and women became house wives.

Casablanca

I Setting
A. Casablanca, Morocco

II Characters
A. Ilsa Lund- Rick's former lover, secretly married to Victor.
B. Rick Blaine- owner of Rick's Cafe, main character.
C. Victor Lazlo- Ilsa's husband, wanted by the Nazi's

III Plot
A. Begins in Rick's Cafe with a man trying to get him to hold letters of transit.
B. Ricks takes the letters and hides them.
C. A Nazi commander arrives.
D. Victor and Ilsa arrive.
E. Victor speaks to Rick about the letters of transit, he doesn't budge.
F. Ilsa and Rick encounter each other when she sneaks in and threatens to shoot him for the letters.
G. The cop and Rick plot to catch Victor.
H. Ilsa ends up leaving with Victor.

Topic 9 Study Concepts

Role of Women during World War II

• They took the places of men in everyday jobs and society, and helped with the war effort.

Cause and Effect of Use of the Atomic Bomb

• Pearl Harbor- cause
• Radioactivity- effect

US Foreign Policy Before, During, and After the War

• Before- U.S. was neutral
• During- helped out our allies
• After- we'd attack if there was a threat aimed towards us

Effect of the War on Europe

• Inflation
• Destruction

Effect of Pearl Harbor Attack

• Japanese Americans put in camps.

Japanese Internment

• The government imprisoned Japanese Americans.

Neutrality Acts

• Embargo on arms sales.
• U.S. battleships were not armed
• Americans could not travel on ships of countries at war.

Rationing

• People were encouraged to use less of daily products, such as flour, oil (gasoline), not to buy refrigerators, and to drive less so the tires may be saved.

Results of World War II

• the economy boosted

Ebay

German Luftwaffe Gas Mask
This interests me because this thing is huge! Soldiers had these, and civilians. You never knew when you were going to need it. And the fact that someone would create such a toxic gas to kill people in a war is astonishing, because not only could it harm your own soldiers, but you're civilians. The nob on the end was the filtration canister and the mask was designed so your eyes and facial skin could be protected from possibly melting and blinding you.

Ruth Elisabeth Dahl

Ruth Elisabeth Dahl was born on May 30th, 1922. She was born in Geilenkirchen a small town that was German and near the Dutch border. He dad was a cattle dealer, and her family was made up of orthodox Jews. Her aunts were sent away to Auschwitz and killed, and she later found out her brother had died in a march. She went to Catholic School Her mother, father and herself went into hiding her being separated from them. Once the war was over she was reunited with her parents in Valkenburg.

1. What was it like suddenly being looked down upon by the people who had once accepted who you were?

2. Did you ever think the Germans would invade where you were in the Netherlands?

3. What was it like leaving the home you grew up in, and leaving the people you had grown to to know?

4. Did you ever think you would see your brother and aunts again? Or did you know they were gone?

5. Were you scared of being captured in hiding and after coming out of it, and did you fear that you'd never see any of your family ever again?

Bonnie and Clyde

The class worked in groups to become experts on different "Gangsters". My group which consisted of Alex Johnson, Alex Thomas, and Vince we learned about Bonnie and Clyde. A "couple" who didn't start out as a couple. Bonnie had been visiting her husband in jail and that's when she met Clyde. And wound up breaking Clyde out. They became notorious for robberies throughout Texas. Their careers ended when they were shot down and killed.

Topic 7 Formative Concept Guide

con·cept [kon-sept]
–noun
1. a general notion or idea; conception.
2. an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct.

The Scopes Trial- a trial about a teacher who was teaching about evolutionism instead of creationism

Prohibition- to ban something

Flappers- women who followed the "New" America

Economic Issues (1920s)-hish unenployment, food issues, homelessness
Dust Bowl- overproduction of crops due to new machines in the Midwest

Agriculture Issues- too many crops and overproduction

Immigration Policies (1920s)- ethnic groups were limited to 2% of count from the 1890 census. Asians banned completely.

Nativism- strong hate towards anyone other than people from your homeland.

Significant Literary Works (1920s)-

The Great Migration- the African Americans moving North for jobs and cheaper housing.

Harlem Renaissance- a movement of literature and art for the African Americans

Sacco and Vanzetti- Italian immigrants that were anarchists

Labor Issues (1920s)- demobilization, too many people not enough work.

The Red Scare- people were afarid of those who displayed un-American behavior.

Schneck v. the United States-Espionage and sedition acts were declared constitutional by the Supreme Court

Rapes? Famines? Horrors?

I do not think schools teach us ENOUGH about history. There is so much they censor us students from.. for what reason? So when we get into the real world and some disaster strikes us, we don't know to react? I feel that yes at younger ages some things in history should not be taught until at an appropriate age for us to be able to handle it. Things like the Rape of Nanking shouldn't be kept from us, or the Ukraine Famine. We should learn about these horrific events so we can better understand our world's history, and know how to look for the signs of it possibly occurring again! In the past history has repeated itself over and over because governments have censored and hidden the truths and wrongs they have done to protect really only themselves, not their people. My generation and future ones, shouldn't be the history repeaters... we should be I guess the history writers. I mean this in the sense that we know what has happened in the past and not let that become reality once again. Who cares how harsh and brutal the history is? Personally, I'd rather LEARN about it then be apart of it! It's happened, it's the past and should have the opportunity to learn in detail about what's happened. If someone can't handle it, then they should leave the room and be given an alternate assignment. It's better to be given the chance to learn about horrible genocides, and famines, and wars and what went on, then to not get the chance to learn about it at all..

Should we?

I do think that we should get involved in SOME affairs in other countries. If genocide is going on or something terribly wrong we as one of the strangest nations in the world should get involved, and help the people who cannot help themselves. Now how far we go to help these other countries in this day and age is different. I do not feel we should fund too much to helping, especially not if its putting many of our military men in danger for something that's not going to help us in the long run. But we should speak up and try our best to put a stop to it. We have the resources to help the "unfortunate" countries get through these hard times and to help their people.

Cinderella Man

• The movie started out with him winning a fight and coming home to a HOUSE where his wife and children were happily waiting.
• The next scene showed him in a small apartment with nothing on his chestier drawer.
• He entered into a fight where, he left penniless and got kicked out of the boxing association because he broke his hand and they saw him as washed up. Jimmy Braddock
• He had to try and find work in the depression and would show up to the docks every morning. Hoping to be chosen.
• His friend went missing and he had to go to a hooverville to find him.
• He got back into boxing, and became a stud once more.
• He ended up making it to the World Championship and winning.

How does it compare..?

The Bourgeoisie represents the class of Capitalists which represents Willy Wonka because he privately owns the factory and all the investments, distribution, pricing of the products, ect...All are run through him and the market economy. while the Proletariat is known as the working class such as Charlie and his family who could be termed as socialism. this class will eventually overrun the Bourgeoisie/capitalists because socialism is basically sharing everything as a whole common community. know to Marxist as the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles. Like the movie, Charlie gets the factory because he gives Wonka back the everlasting gobstopper thus representing how he shares common things as a whole with the community, and shows that he a "Faithful" or "Loyal" subject to his superior.

Torture Tactics

A.      I would treat these prisoners with the respect that their country would show towards our American prisoners. In the worst way possible. I’d do anything to get this information out of them for the sake of my countrymen. These prisoners are MOST likely trained to be put through these torture tactics from the age of one. So it’ll be nothing to them. Hurt them, whip them, mess with their heads… I DON’T CARE as long as I’m doing it for the right reasons.

B.      A short term repercussion could be people looking down upon us as “Inhumane”. But really? Who cares?! What’s a couple BAD people compared to TONS of good people?!  Weigh it, innocent should win in this.

BRING IT ON!

In dog fighting, I’m pretty sure the only thing going through the pilots mind was “Oh, goodness I’m going to die no matter what” that’s what would be going through my mind! If the wing is shot, you’re doomed, if you make a wrong turn, you’ll crash into either the other plane or the ground. That’s probably the scariest thing anyone could go through! Unless the pilot was a very cocky man, then he’d just go down with his pride eventually, because his thought was most likely “This guys going down, he ain’t got nothing on me, BRING IT ONNNNN!” (said in manly voice) <--- if that was his thought process then good for him. Unless of course he was seriously skilled at this style of fighting.

Frustrations

A frustration from the communication barrier of the war would definitely if being a soldier, not knowing what is going on back home. For me being a girl, if my father, brother, or loved one were overseas… I would be a wreck. I can hardly go a day without talking to my big brothers, better yet not knowing if at that exact moment if they are alive, captured, or injured.  Not having the men in my life everyday would drive me insane, there was never a certainty if everything was going to be okay with the men fighting in the war. For the soldiers too, missing out on their little girl growing up, or not knowing if their wife was being faithful, that had to be tough. They had so many things to worry about, and so many days to wait for replies.

Thoreau

Thoreau’s attitude of the government was that it was actually more harmful than helpful to people in society, therefore cannot be justified. He felt that civil disobedience of that government was needed by the people governed in order to keep the government from growing too powerful, through the corruption, and deception using expanded powers.  Civil, not meaning, polite or with respect, but rather "relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state".  

He insisted that instead of serving the people as government should, which he felt would never work, that the inevitable end would always have the people serving the government as a form of slavery. Thoreau spoke out against slavery and indicated through his writings that free thinking and actions of one’s own mind, of what was thought to be right and was far better than the mindless obedience of laws established by a government.

I personally agree with the statement that “the government is best which governs least”, because we all need to be self reliant and responsible for our lives and consequences of our actions. We should turn to ourselves for solutions to our needs, not rely on the government for answers to all our problems.   I believe the government should help in protecting our way of life, meaning freedoms granted by the constitution, but not to feed my family, or provide me with a roof over my head.  

Free land was given by the government in the expansion of the west, which was less expensive than the government building the infrastructure needed for a growing expanding population. The land was given away to those who would by their own means work the land building, creating and growing, through farming, raising livestock and eventually manufacturing. Only those that worked their claims of land and produced a product to assist for the needs of others, would be rewarded the deed to those lands for their efforts. Now presently in our current society, a majority of our population feels that they are entitled to the “free land” because others may have it. Regardless of the fact that the one’s who have received the rewards of their success by means of their own sacrifices and personal risks to achieve it.

Civil War? Reconstruction?

First Reconstruction after the Civil War was the most chaotic time in US history.  Simply put some parts of the country were more of mess than when they were at war. The transformation of the Southern States had New Republicans and Democrats fighting for individual powers, leaving the former slaves being used as pawns, which led to a more Radical Reconstruction.  Many failed Reconstruction policies, some of which included some States giving free land to slaves, led to violent controversy throughout the South over slave’s free rights and the ability to vote. Bitterness like this led to the birth of the Klu Klux Klan, and other white supremacist organization.

Free slaves were never really supported as equals to the whites, they were cast into hard labor jobs, such as building the railroad out west, or coal mining and the lucky ones continued to still live as sharecroppers on their original owners land. But as years passed, many ended up through education, integrating with success finding opportunities running for public office, and acquiring successful land and business ownership.

In some parts of the country it took almost a hundred years after Reconstruction, where the African Americans were treated as equals. Were the freed slaves better off after the Civil War, yes by what was accomplished with humane slavery abolishment. But the immediate freedoms they were given only led to more dependence, and suffering because our country was not facilitated to receive them in society as equals for many generations. Many could not read or write, and these cases they may have been better off still being slaves and cared for by the land owners that had them tending their crops.

African- Americans

Relationships between the treatment of African-Americans during Reconstruction and the United States Civil Rights Movement, were very similar.  In both era’s throughout the South and in many parts of the North, Black–Americans were treated as second class citizens, threatened by violence, and discriminated against for equal rights of where they could work, live and even seek education. It was not until Civil Rights Laws were passed during the Second Reconstruction resulting from the movement in the 1960’s did Black -Americans truly get recognition and protection of their rights that were given to after the Civil War over a hundred years before.