Tucker (U.S. History)

The Great Gatsby

Paragraph 1- The Valley of Ashes and Eckleburg

In a time of seemingly bountiful wealth and extravagence, "The Gilded Age", the Valley of Ashes represents the dirt and grime under the exterior gold appearence, or the true state of an industrial, and poor America.  The location of the Valley is the first indicator of the valley's role.  It is located "about half way between West Egg and New York" (23)   This surrounded by wealth and oppurtunity, the Valley is desolate and barren, a direct contrast to the American appearence.  It is placed here in order to demonstrate the real work that powers the people who surround it. 

TJ Eckleburg represnts a new version of God, which in this time is money.  Fitzgerald uses Eckleburg to criticize the way people worshiped money like a god.  T.J. oversees his workers, and the descriptions of him, a giant towering man with yellow eyes, are powerful, but not nessecarily ethereal.  He appears corrupt, trying to sell his product every where to make money.  He is worn and withered out by this to show that treating money as god leads to failure. 

Paragraph 2- Daisy and Gatsby

Pg. 95, Last Paragraph

Gatsby cannot love Daisy because he built up the dream of having her, and loves the dream, not her.  She "tumbled short of his dreams".  These dreams had become Gatsby's life, his motivation for success, and his occupation of his time.  They "had gone beyond her, beyond everything."  The dreams consumed him, and without them he is not Gatsby, only Gatz, and thus cannot love Daisy.

Interview a Boomer

During the “interview a boomer” activity I learned a lot about the 1970s and 1980s from my father. It was interesting to get his perspective on things, which helped reiterate the lessons I have been taught. For example, I learned that he and many other American’s were fed up with Post

Vietnam

, and Watergate era, hence they elected Jimmy Carter. In my Dad’s words,

America

needed a switch from the scandal that surrounded Nixon’s presidency. However after Carter’s liberal presidency where nothing was accomplished, my father like the rest of

America

was caught up in Conservative resurgence. The thing I took out of this interview was that

America

goes through stages, repeating a cyclical change between liberal and conservative governments. When it is time for one to end, the other begins. Also, as my father said, it seems like the Conservative era, starting with Reagan, is reaching its end. Likely a democrat will win in 2008, starting the cycle all over again.

The interview also helped me to understand the impact Watergate had on people, as this was the political event that stuck out most in my dad’s mind. It seems the feeling in

America

was that a change was needed, to get out of the rut that

America

was in. Watergate only made it clearer that this change had to come. While the scandal with Nixon was a dramatic affair, it did not seem to lower the opinions of the President. At least my Father still held a great deal of trust in the President, just not in Nixon and his companions. This is shown by the fact that the “contra-gate” scandal did not bother him. However it is easy to see that the Post Vietnam Era was marked by scandal and that

America

was ready for a change, which came with Ronal Reagan. Ronald Reagan had the great impact of uplifting the country and bringing it back on top and restarting the cycle.

            

Progress (revised)

What primary sources have you found?
I have two newspaper articles, a magazine article, two videos, as well as more video clips from the "eyes on the prize" tapes.  The newspaper articles are from proquest, and are both New York Times Articles.  They focus on the Freedom rides, and provide direct quotes and views of the rides at the specfic time.  One of these also focuses on the FBI's involvement (or lack of involvment) in the events, which helps to demonstrate the national attention and feelings toward the events.  The magazine article is from Time magazine, and I found it at time.com.  This article also focuses on the freedom rides, particurlay and eclelectic mix of freedom riders, which shows how influential television was in attracting supporters.  The eyes on the prize videos , besides having interviews with actual riders, has raw footage of the freedom rides.  This footage with my secondary sources is perfect to help me illustrate what people felt when they saw these images for the first time.

How did you find them? (Describe tools and search strings)
Databases such as proquest and ABC clio were useful, I used search strings such as 1961 Freedom Ride in both video and newspaper sections.  I also went to the library and found the eye on the prize tapes, because I knew they would be helpful.

Do you feel that you have adequate primary and secondary source material on your topic? If not, why not?

yes

What primary sources have you found?
I have two newspaper articles, a magazine article, two videos, as well as more video clips from the "eyes on the prize" tapes.  The newspaper articles are from proquest, and are both New York Times Articles.  They focus on the Freedom rides, and provide direct quotes and views of the rides at the specfic time.  One of these also focuses on the FBI's involvement (or lack of involvment) in the events, which helps to demonstrate the national attention and feelings toward the events.  The magazine article is from Time magazine, and I found it at time.com.  This article also focuses on the freedom rides, particurlay and eclelectic mix of freedom riders, which shows how influential television was in attracting supporters.  The eyes on the prize videos , besides having interviews with actual riders, has raw footage of the freedom rides.  This footage with my secondary sources is perfect to help me illustrate what people felt when they saw these images for the first time.

How did you find them? (Describe tools and search strings)
Databases such as proquest and ABC clio were useful, I used search strings such as 1961 Freedom Ride in both video and newspaper sections.  I also went to the library and found the eye on the prize tapes, because I knew they would be helpful.

Do you feel that you have adequate primary and secondary source material on your topic? If not, why not?

yes

Progress

What primary sources have you found?
I have two newspaper articles, a magazine article, two videos, as well as more video clips from the "eyes on the prize" tapes.

How did you find them? (Describe tools and search strings)
Databases such as proquest and ABC clio were useful, I used search strings such as 1961 Freedom Ride in both video and newspaper sections.  I also went to the library and found the eye on the prize tapes, because I knew they would be helpful.

Do you feel that you have adequate primary and secondary source material on your topic? If not, why not?

yes

Ordered Books:

Torres, Sasha. Black, White, and in Color: Television and Black Civil Rights. 2003. 1-168.

More informatin when book arrives, from google books/minuteman

I would like to borrow an Ipod in order use/cite the two "eyes on the prize" chapters

Websites:

March on Washington. 1963. 6 Feb. 2007 http://www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?entryid=204149&fulltext=civil+rights&nav=adv&specialtopicid=-1&_playback=true.

Sit Down Demonstration. 6 Feb. 2007 http://www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com/library/searches/searchdisplay.aspx?entryid=204153&fulltext=&nav=adv&specialtopicid=-1&_playback=true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_rides

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize

These are the useful sources I uncovered that were links from my original source.
I have ordered all of the books present.

Everet, Anna. The Civil Rights Movement and Television. The Muesam of Broadcast Communications. Jan. 28 2007. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/civilrights/civilrights.htm

Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy a film

by Abby Ginzberg and narrated by Congressman Ron Dellums run time 50 minutes. The Museum of Broadcast Communications would like to thank Abby Ginzberg for permission to stream this dynamic documentary about a defender of Civil Rights in America. 

Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, editors. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. New York: Ballentine, 1979; 5th edition, 1992.

Gitlin, Todd. Inside Prime Time. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

Hill, George, with others. Black Women in Television. New York and London: Garland, 1990.

Kellner, Douglas. Television and the Crisis of Democracy. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1990.

MacDonald, J. Fred. Blacks and White TV- Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1992. -----. One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of network 7V. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

McNeil, Alex. Total Television, Including Cable: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. New York: Penguin, 1980; 3rd edition, 1991.

Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976; 4th edition, 1987.

I think if i had to narrow my topic down it would include the freedom rides because there seems to be a lot of info/video on that, and it interests me.

Paper Topic

Interests

I am interested in the role that the relativley new invention of television played in the Civil Rights Movement. The Amerian people were deeply moved to make a change in the country because of the images they saw on the the television. I want to take a look at these individual movements and write about what they did to the American people and how the country was changed because of them.

Keywords:

Television, Civil Rights Movement, Kennedy, Freedom Rides, Race Riots, MLK, Footae

Television Civil Rights Movement; Television Kennedy Nixon Debate; Video Freedom Riders; Video Birmingham race riots; Television 1960s; Television 1950s; Martin Luther King; Footage Nixon Kennedy Debate, Footage Race Riots, News Coverage Negro;

Eventually you will come up with a project like this:

general topic: Television

specific topic: The role television played during the civil rights movement.

primary sources: footage of events such as race riots, freedom rides, coverage of trials, Nixon-Kennedy Debate

basic historical question: What role did television play in obtaining equal rights for blacks in the Civil Rights Movement?

Bibliograpy

Everet, Anna. The Civil Rights Movement and Television. The Muesam of Broadcast Communications. Jan. 28 2007. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/civilrights/civilrights.htm

Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy a film

by Abby Ginzberg and narrated by Congressman Ron Dellums run time 50 minutes. The Museum of Broadcast Communications would like to thank Abby Ginzberg for permission to stream this dynamic documentary about a defender of Civil Rights in America.

Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, editors. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. New York: Ballentine, 1979; 5th edition, 1992.

Gitlin, Todd. Inside Prime Time. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

Hampton, Henry. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. New York: Bantam, 1990.

Hill, George, with others. Black Women in Television. New York and London: Garland, 1990.

Hine, Darlene Clark, with others, editors. Black Women in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Kellner, Douglas. Television and the Crisis of Democracy. Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1990.

MacDonald, J. Fred. Blacks and White TV- Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1992. -----. One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of network 7V. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

McNeil, Alex. Total Television, Including Cable: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. New York: Penguin, 1980; 3rd edition, 1991.

Mills, Kay. This Little Light of mine.- The Life of Annie Lou Hamer. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Newcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976; 4th edition, 1987.

My New Family

My New Family

I was livin' in Indiana, on a farm with my parents and my older brother Russel. We grew corn, and I helped harvest it. It was a pretty nice life, compared to now. Every once in a while we'd listen to the Fireside Chats and Franklin Rossevelt told us everythin' was fine, and we beleived him. But pretty soon things went and changed. Big dusts clouds came in like a plauge, I think they called it the dust bowl. Anyway, after our crops were nearly wiped out from the dust money grew real tight. Pretty soon tomato soup was turnin into hot water with a little salt and 'tatos in it. Finally, when I was 14 I'd had enough, so one night me and Russel, who was 'bout 16, took off in the middle of the night, and headed to California. Never said goodbye, can't say why, but I reckon it would've been to hard. We rounded up all the money we could find, 'bout three and ahalf dollars, and walked through the dust to the station. By the time we got there our only clothes were covered it dirt.
An old feller named Clayton helped us gettin' on the train. I guess he'd been stayin' at somethin' called a CCC. They had jobs and food, and it sounded good. Then he told us all the tricks of the trade to gettin' aboard safely. He told us, "Once your own make sure to keep quiet and try to hide behind cargo, and watch out for them bulls." We followed his words, but a bull still found us on the train. "Hands up," he said, "I got a gun." When the bull came to collect, I turned out my empty pockets. His response was a tough hit in the stomach, and i fell to the floor. I heard Russel talkin', he said "I'm not givin' you nothing." BAM. Russel was on the ground with me, dead. I reckon he was too tough to live. 'Fore I realized what had happened I was gettin' shoved off the train. Next thing I knew I was just another 'bo livin' on the street, and I didn't even know where I was.
That night Clayton made dinner for me, called it Mulligan Stew. "W'as that?" I asked him, but he just told me to try it. It tasted bitter and only made me thirsty. Turns out its made from clothes! When I found this out I threw up until mornin'. I woke up and Clayton was gone, and I decided that I stay on my own, until times got better. I set out for a job but ain't nobody who want a dirty 14 yearold workin' for 'em. I did however find a nice alley to sleep, 'cause it had a nice bed of newspapers to sleep in. When it started to rain, I wondered if I could go home, but reelized I had to be tough like Russel. I fell asleep thinkin' bout sweet corn and how hungry I was. I bet you coulda heard my empty tummy grumblin' for miles.
After 'bout a month in the same alley, which turned out to be in Seattle, I realized I had a nickname: Scrappy, makin' me Jon "Scrappy" McDaniels. It was nice havin' a nickname 'cause I felt like was gettin' a new family. Clayton had come back, and he was teachin' me everythin' he knewed 'bout makin' a livin' off the street. I guess thats how I got my nickname. I "scrapped" all I could get: little jobs shinin' shoes or sellin' newspapers, or maybe stealin' little bits of food, or even connin' a few suckers out of a few dollars. Yessire, me, Clayton, and everyone else on the alley were a pretty close group. We'd help eachother out with money or food and keep eachother company. We even had a thanksgivin' feast. We saved up a little grub and had a little turkey meat, potatoes, and apples. I'd only wish Russel coulda been there.

Growth of Sports

So far there have been good and bad things about reasearch.  I have found a lot of good sources by searching the sites Mr. Daccord gave us, and looking at old text books.  I can find a lot of info about sports in that time period, from different perspectives.  The trouble  i have is that i dont know what to do with the information b.c. i don't know how i could write paragraphs and form a question with the info yet.

From the sources I have learned that interests in sports skyrocketed in the new era.  Before people's heroes were politicians, but now atheletes were house hold names, including people like Jim Thorpe, Babe Ruth, jack Dempsey, and Bobby Jones.  I also read about how sports became more available to the public, for instance school sports and to the middle class. I also learned about the raise in spectator and profesional sports, such as the NHL being founded.  People focused on individuals who were "larger then life" rather than the teams themselves.

Great War Peace Treaty

Regarding Germany-

1. Germany is to blame for the war.

2. This proposal is congruent with Italy's choice for Germany's reaparations.

3. This proposal is congruent with Great Britain's choice for the size of Germany's army.

4. This proposal is congruent with Great Britain's choice for the size of Germany's army.

5. The German empire should remain intact so that one day it will be fit enough to become its own nation of self governing, thus Sudentenland should become part of the German nation, the league of nations will regulate the country until then.

6. These countries are to be come Autonomial nations.

Regarding Austro-Hungary

7. Austro Hungary is not blamed for the war.

8. see proposition 2

9. see propositions 3 and 4

10. All of these states should become Autonomial.

C. Misc. issues:

11. Freedom of the seas.

12. Free trade.

13. A leauge of nations should be formed including Germany, not Russia, that regulates international affairs, including the state of Germany as to eventually grant Germany freedom to become its own self governed state once again.

What is the proper role of government today?

Government today should regulate buisness in a way that is not socialism but not completly laissez faire. Steps should be taken to reduce economic equality in the country.

The US government should do nearly anything to protect its citezens, and this includes war with other countries that may be a threat to us. We can not just sit back and wait for something like 911 to happen again, we have to prevent it at its source.

The US should not neccesarily spread democracy all across the world because that is not the best form of governments for all places because a strong middle class is needed. However, it is in those countires best interest, as well as the US interest for friendly affairs with other countries to make sure other places are no opressing their people and the US should interfere with those dictar governmnets (like Darfur, North Korea) This will not only help these people but protect the world