Sunday, January 4, 2009

CALLING BABY NUMBER 2009

I interviewed one of my closes relatives. How was life like in the early sixties? Response: Life was fairly difficult at some points you felt that your family was doing well until things turned down hill. What type of situations did you face? Watching my family get disrespected for the color of our skin. What were the living conditions like? We personally lived in the projects which was not the best place to grow up in. How did you make it through? My mother was very religous and we were always in church so that helped greatly. Last but not least, would you go through it again? Never, at times I thought I was dead mentally. But I kept going so my children would not go through what I went through.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

AS AN AMERICAN WE ARE NOT TO BLAME FOR THE WAR. SEEING HOW WE WERE TRYING TO STAY ISOLATED FROM EVERYONE ELSE. BUT WE ARE BETTER ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.
SOVIETS- BIG, UGLY, DUMB(COLIN), CRAZY AND WHACK WITH HAIRY GIRLS ALL OVER.
AMERICANS- NICE, NOT UGLY(ONLY MEANING MYSELF), NOT CRAZY AND SMART WITH NO HAIRY GIRLS.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

New Deal For ME!!

As being a white woman life has gotten a little easier for me because of the new deal. I have gotten the right to vote, better pay, and a lot more freedom. Some of us have become flappers while others have become plumbers(Lilia). But on the other end of the stick were are looked at differently because of the things we do in public such as drinking, smoking, and dancing with our clothes half-way off.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Some anti-German propaganda was a German soldier killing an innocent family. Another was a German soldier killing babies. And last of all was Germans killing babies and sticking them on their bayonents. So of the propaganda for today's war is the use of political and war cartoons in the newspapers, on the internet, and in magazines.

Monday, November 10, 2008

The progressive movement tried to solve equality of wages for women. The problem was that wages of women was not equal to the wages of men.Women worked just as hard and had more things to do then the men had to do. Progressive leaders tried to solve the problem by helping to create the womens rights movement and caused to much drama. Even to this day women do not get paid as much as men for the same jobs they do for some areas of work. They don't get treated as fairly either which is still in certain areas of work as well. The progressivim movement leaders tried to help but did not do such a great job.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

July 8, 1839 John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery Rockefeller, a travelling peddler of novelties and "cures," and Eliza Davison Rockefeller, a devout Baptist. Under pressure from his father, John D. Rockefeller drops out of high school two months shy of commencement. He enters a professional school, where he studies double-entry bookkeeping, penmanship, banking, and commercial law. At 16, Rockefeller gets his first job, working for Hewitt & Tuttle, commission merchants and produce shippers Civil War begins and Rockefeller, like some other northern businessmen, hires substitutes to avoid fighting. The war at first disrupts industry, but ultimately it will accelerate economic development in the North, contributing to Rockefeller's meteoric ascent. Rockefeller gets involved in the oil business Rockefeller buys out his partners and founds Rockefeller & Andrew, Cleveland's largest refinery in the time being. John Rockefeller strikes a major deal with a railroad, guaranteeing a certain volume of shipments in exchange for rebates. The first of many, this deal was made with Jay Gould, owner of the Erie Railroad. The Rockefellers move to Euclid Avenue, Cleveland's "Millionaires' Row." Rockefeller founds Standard Oil of Ohio with $1 million in capital, the largest corporation in the country. The new company controls 10% of U.S. petroleum refining. At 38, Rockefeller -- still relatively unknown to the public -- controls almost 90% of the oil refined in the United States. Rockefeller is numbered among the country's twenty richest men. Standard Oil moves into new headquarters at 26 Broadway in New York. The address will become synonymous with Rockefeller's business empire.Standard Oil expands into the overseas markets of Western Europe and Asia, selling more oil abroad than in the U.S. The American dream is to be able to be poor and end up rich.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Reconstruction was and is considered to be a failure because in the end it did not help the free blacks. It was considered to be the governments way of helping but failed at its goal. Still the black free men did not have any land, any money, or had any major rights. So in total all Reconstruction did was help rebuild land.