Sunday, December 6, 2009

70's tv show essay questions

Archie is starting to see the period where race doesn't matter and whites and blacks can start to be together and racism is starting to change. His children are changing society because they keep telling him how he is prejudice and in the clip this is obvious. Because of their growing up time frame there OK with blacks and whites together it would seem because they have an African American guy with them on the couch they talk to and sing with. Whats changing with the Jefferson's clip is that all races are happy together and can live in the same places as whites and can ride in cabs and everyone is starting to become equal.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Ronald Regan

1. Problems America Faces
Inflation makes our economy weak.
Mortgaging the future to come for leisure of the present.
The government.

2. Regan's Solution
Equality in groups paying money and no discrimination "we the people".
Put all Americans to work.
Share production.

3.His effectiveness
That he makes jokes and entertains the people.

4. What does it say about Regan
That he speaks his mind and uses the truth to back him up.

5. Policy Regan might make
To help Russia become at peace by using the strength of America.

6. How did this effect his role with the public
He didn't want the tape out for everyone to see because he probably cared much for the public and he was brave enough to easily walk the streets and not even worry about his life.

7. Speech Audience
Religious people and people who want to help stop the communism.

8. Regan's Argument
To help stay free and believe in god and not turn in to Russia

9. Regan's Agenda
To use past quotes to help get his point across about how evil communism is.

10. Message shown
That under Regan the economy is doing a lot better.

11. ad's us sage of Carter
That Regan now is doing so much why go back 4 years ago when Carter was president.

12. Morals of country
That we are all about families and buying things like houses when we actually have money to spend.

13. Critism of Communism
That we allow change and freedom and they don't and that they walked away from the allience and now they need oru strong alliences to help out the soviets.

14. Effective Speach
It was effective he gave the soviets hope and showed we were going to help tear down the wall.

15. Audience
American citizens who care about the lybian bombign and other countries to knwo not to mess with the United States.

16. Libya bombing actions
Most people liked what he did and agreed America needed to step to the plate and deal with thie situation.

17. Foreign Response
I think it was that they would keep a close eye on America and when the time was right to attack America.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Regan Essay!!

What is the proper legacy of Ronald Reagan and his contribution to American history?

Was he revolutionary, nothing special, or racist? Many people have different opinions on what he was and how he helped the United States. There was conservatism, tax cuts, and anticommunism happening during his presidential reign. He started in office by saying the government was the problem to the economy and that together we would all fix that. He slowly started helping the economy become better.

He helped with anti-communism and helped support the Russians for the wall to be taken down and to capture the evil communism. Ronald Regan also helped end the cold war which had been going on for year and may of lasted longer if it was not for him. Another thing he did was come up with the war on drugs to try to lower drugs in the United States, even though most see it as a flop now his intentions were good.

In my own opinion he definitely was not a racist, he was something special because he made a big impact, and i would say he was on the verge of a revolutionist. He made drastic changes during his presidency that helped us as a country and also helped countries like Russia.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Research Group

Sierra and I are going to do baseball using psychology and the family tradition to tie it together to tell the family traditions using interviews

Friday, November 13, 2009

Bill Clinton

The way he directs what he says toward you as a person who asks him the question ameks it more powerful and meaningful. He was from a small state so he ca relate to a lot of people and their problems. He understand what everyone is going through based on his previous expierences in Arkansas. He also changes his voice to emphasize importants instead of being mono tone and talking straight for long periods of time.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

local Hsitory

I am planning to interview on paper my great grandmother who lived through 1920's - today

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

edmodo posts

The website is http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1221565619312...
This told about the company AIG and how it is one of the biggest insurers. The government decided it was to big to let go so they supported it with finacial help because they didn't want a catastrophy.

What is the role of banks and financial institutions in America?
The role of banks and finacial institutions are to allow people to take out loans and in return hope that they get paid almost double in interest. Then they sell their loans to bigger companies and when the economy is good everythign is fine but when the economy goes bad the banks and institutions slowly lose money.

Presentation

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ARzZoO2wvbo9ZGM0cGtuNHpfNDBncTU1cWNkYg&hl=en

Friday, September 11, 2009

20%

For my research project I am going to take a poll on what different pharmacists around think about the health care situation.

Local History

For my local history project I am going to take around 20- 30 pictures from back when my grandparents were kids and when my dad was born to see the wealth, clothes, location and ect.

Projects for American Studies

For our research project we are going to do why soccer is not popular in America. Our group members are: Meaghen, Kristin, Archie, Sierra, Destiny