When I got this assignment in my hand, I was very overwhelmed because I did not know what to do. I was always the one who was using wikipedia articles not the person who post the article. It was very different to have these experience, I guess. At first, I got so confused with my topic (even though I picked it). My topic was child savers that related to child delinquency but I was getting the idea of child labor. So I was getting totally different sources at first and it did not turn out well but eventually Elizabeth (who I worked with) straightened me to the right direction so I got to finish it on time. It was so difficult to find some sources that Elizabeth did not find. Working together as a group was great but when it comes to resources, sometimes it overlapped and I had to find another new sources, so that was little difficult. However, in some point, I was so overwhelmed in the fact that I did not know how to put the article in correct way but wikipedia tutorial really helped me and I was so glad that Prof. Boggs went over with us in class.
After I post my article, I was little nervous. What if some people delete it and leave a bad comments or something. I hate when my writing is published in public because I’m not a great writer. Also, I was nervous because this was not just my work. It was Elizabeth’s work too and I did not wanted to ruin it because of me. So I watched my article overtime but gladly people did not delete it. But I will be happy to see some corrections or edit if there are mistakes. The one thing that I should of done is adding some images. I thought about it but there were no picture that it comes to my mind.
Furthermore, throughout this class, I really enjoyed learning history through articles, images and films. Also, because I did wikipedia article, I got to know child savers. I learned U.S. History in high school so I was very familiar with American Revolution, Slavery and etc that we’ve learned this semester but child savers was totally new to me. Because I never heard of child savers so through this assignment, I got to know new facts about history. I was so proud to bring out new facts about history and post it on Wikipedia so that everyone can use it. I thought it was a good experience to do these kind of assignments to research new things about history and learn from it by doing rather than lectured.
In all wars, whether justifiable or not, whether there is a moral benefit or not, or whether unavoidable or not, there is always human suffering on all parties involved. A war affects everyone involved in the conflict either directly or indirectly. Frequently, the horrors of war directly affect noncombatant civilian populations surrounding the areas of military campaigns. Always, family units are indirectly affected by having family members in the Armed Services with the military volunteers or draftees returning in body bags or never returning. However, at the very least, for soldiers in the battlefields, directly involved in the hostilities, the suffering is usually physical, emotional, psychological, and frequently, death. For the men that do survive death, there is always a price to pay, which is a transformation from what they were before to what they unwillingly must or will become due to the pressures of the war.
Acknowledging this, I read Tim O’Brien’s noble, ” The Things They Carried,” in my first year and he came to Mason to speak. This noble is about a platoon of soldiers and their experiences and emotions brought by the controversial Vietnam War, shows how soldiers become desensitized to the death of others, and acquire an induced violent nature while also making an effective anti-Vietnam War statement.
I believe many things contributed to the American Revolution besides the American people themselves. Some influential ideas that contributed to the Revolution are Enlightenment ideas. The Enlightenment thinkers behind these ideas are John Locke, and Voltaire. Because I took Economic class last semester, it stood out to me in the fact that Economics also had I major impact on the American Revolution. Geography also played a major part the uprising of the American Revolution.
There were many Enlightenment ideas that provoked the American colonists to start the American Revolution. John Locke was very influential with his ideas of consent of governed, and limited Monarchy. Voltaire also had great ideas which contribute to the American Revolution such as that the government should be run by Natural Law instead of Gods Law.
The start of World War II opened new chapter in the lives of women living in America. With the entry of the US and the absence of men, the demand for supplies increased and women called out of the kitchen and into the workforce. Posters, banners, and jingles were all aspects that helped encourage men’s entrance into the workforce. Millions marched into factories, offices, and military bases.
Women’s occupations varied from war nurses and cooking for the army, to making bombs and making weapons. Other occupations flourished, as well. Women photographers, writers, and reports were for once given a chance. The war offered women opportunity never given to them before.
The new employment opening also, for the first time, gave women a salary of their own. Women received better pay, improved and new skills, and the self-esteem that comes with receiving income, freedom, and opportunity. Women were given a chance to make their own decisions, without the advice of their husbands, brothers, of fathers. The financial situation was entirely up to them. They made and managed their monthly budgets, and decided where and how to spend their money.
From the beginning, women were always struggling to gain status, respect, and rights in their society. Prior to World War II, a woman’s role in society was seen as someone who cooked, cleaned, and gave birth. But the years during and following the war marked a turning point in the battle for equality. Women, for once, were being seen as individuals with capabilities outside the kitchen, and for the first time given a chance to prove themselves.
When I watched Cooking Term, I realized how women in 1950s were dedicated for their husbands but in same time women were willing to cook for their husbands. Women were domestically charged everything, serve their husbands and “career as a cook”. The narrator brought this term “career as a cook” and it was very stand out for me because I’ve got better understanding on women back in the days did not have rights or respect in society but just to stay at home and cook. Also, what I got from this clip was that there were much responsibilities for Margie to accomplish and how her husband will be happy if he get chocolate cake for lunch. I felt like it was all about her husband and not for Margie. So obviously, it explains that woman is not important as man in domestic or in society.
The one clip that I found was that short trailer of The Nanny Diaries. This movie was about working mother was hiring nanny to take care child and household. Therefore, with this clip, it explains that drastically changed women’s role today. Almost all women today are working and being a mother but rather than they are more mother -like, they are more acknowledged as career women. It is hard to do both so women have the position to hire nanny and most nannies are women and they are getting paid. In the clip, after the mother hired the nanny, the mother was ordering the nanny how it should be done when she gets back and I think it shows that, now a days, how much women gain a power to rule other people and have certain position in society too. There are still stereotypes about women all around but I think it got progressed how much women have a certain position in society and get respected.
When I think about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the first person that comes to mind is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s has been limited to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. I don’t think that this limitation has anything to do with information not being documented, but for the fact that society tends to place an individual, particularly a male, upon a platform and focus upon that one person as being the significant leader of the cause. I do not necessarily disagree with this approach, but unfortunately, many people become excluded and unrecognized for their contributions for the same cause. Just as many have the conception that the Civil Rights Movement in itself began in the 1960s. On the contrary, that was far from the beginning of the fight for freedom by African Americans. The fight for freedom and equality began when the first slaves were shipped to this country, there was always a will to be free and a struggle to obtain that freedom.
However, the women in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, who were not only contributors, but supported, worked extremely hard, and dedicated their lives in the fight for equal rights in this country. Without the women that were involved in Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King would not have been able to accomplish as much as he did. Movement can tell us a lot about the lives of ordinary and extraordinary women and their ability to access and be denied power in a movement for black liberation that was based on the idea of equality.
One of the events that caught my attention was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott gave me a clearer aspect of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. If it were not for this movement there would be a lack of freedom to this day.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott marked the end of segregation in Montgomery. When Rosa Parks was arrested for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an established rule in the Montgomery that African-American riders had to sit in the back. Blacks were also expected to surrender their seat to a white bus rider if it was needed. Rosa Parks, however, broke these rules.
The boycott continued for over a year. It eventually took the United States Supreme Court to end the boycott. On November 13, 1956 the Court declared that Alabama’s state and local laws requiring segregation on buses were illegal.
I believe that Rosa Parks was one of the strongest women in this movement. Her courage and independence started freedom and equality through the south. She gave other blacks the strength to stand up for themselves and what they believe in.
After I read the Wikipedia article, Communism can be defined as an economic and political system in which facts of production are collectively owned and directed by the state.
Communism has had many drastic changes at a time, but has been able to overcome them. One of the advantages of communism is that everybody has a job, but the downside is that no matter how much you work or whom you work for, you will always be getting paid the same amount of money as everyone else. . In our economy, we must work to make money. The more we work, the more we will get paid and we will be able to buy what we need, and what we want. In a communist economy, we can work as much as or as little we want, but we will still get paid the same amount of money as everyone else. Why would we want to work so hard if we were going to make the same amount of money. Another weak spot about communism is the fact that consumers will not always get what they desire because the government decides on what people will buying. In a communistic society, the government makes all decisions for people.
We talked about Cold War last class. I believe Cold War never presented any real threat on America. It was nothing more than the propaganda of two battling super powers. Also, I kinda remember from my high school that the super powers involved in the Cold War were the United States and Soviet Union. The two countries were constantly battling over who is the most powerful on the planet. The supposed threats were mere techniques of propaganda used to scare the other countries public into believing they were more powerful. Over and over again, the U.S. would flex its muscle and the Soviet Union would flex its muscles until eventually one country couldn’t. The Cold War lasted very long time and it was fought through battles such as the Korean war and Vietnam. Well, last class did not touch the Korean and Vietnam war but as Prof. Boggs said, we will eventually.
As we talked in lass class about internment, I believe discrimination against Japanese-Americans with the recent attacks on the United States by terrorists, many Americans have been experiencing feelings of fear, sadness and tremendous anger. With Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban being held responsible, many of Middle-Eastern descent have been experiencing great prejudice and discrimination and are being stereotyped as terrorists. I also believe these types of feelings are very prevalent in American society today. Japanese-Americans probably have felt these feelings directed toward them for several generations. Going from the extreme of being herded to internment camps after the surprise attack of Pearl Harbor, to the more commonplace, being stereotyped in the entertainment industry and internet sites, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping have been apart of the lives of many Japanese Americans.
