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Author Archives: Yana
Posts: 8 (archived below)
Comments: 6
Riding the Rails during the Great Depression
This is the photo of the teenagers who left their homes during the Great Depression escaping harsh reality and trying to find jobs. By the 1930’s railroad was becoming very popular and many teenagers found some sort of romance in riding the trains. This photo will be included in my movie script showing the episode from that time called “Riding the Rails”.
Posted in 1932-1940, Social History
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Flappers
The term flappers in the 1920s referred to a “new breed” of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.
Flappers had their origins in the period of liberalism, social and political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of the WORLD WAR , as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.
The photo shows “flappers” dancing “charleston” dance.
New York City in the 1920s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5wk-5NRNM.
Here is the video of New York City in the twenties. The documentary movie is implemented with short descriptions of every scene. I thought it would be interesting to see how the City lived more than 90 years ago.
Resources: Ira H. Gallen Video Resources that have spent over 30 collecting and restoring from 16mm & 35mm Film Prints and Kinescopes some of the rarest and in many cases one of a kind FILMS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAKd_hCTqus
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were well known outlaws, robbers and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. The photo above was found in their hiding place in Missouri.
Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during what is sometimes referred to as the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934. Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. They were eventually ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers. The video below is the scene after their death. Bonnie and Clyde have become a symbol of dangerously in love couple and an inspiration for numerous movies, theater plays and songs.
Posted in 1920-1932, June 28 assignment, Social History
Tagged crimes, gangster, the great depression
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BIRMINGHAM
The Birmingham campaign was a strategic movement organized by the (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama, the most segregated city in the US in 1963
Organizers, led by Martin Luther King used non-violent direct action tactics to defy laws they considered unfair. King led a massive protest in Birmingham that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. After the campaign ran low on adult volunteers, high school, college, and elementary students were trained by SCLC coordinator James Bevel to participate, resulting in hundreds of arrests and an instant intensification of national media attention on the campaign. The campaign used a variety of nonviolent methods of confrontation, including sit-ins at libraries and lunch counters, kneel-ins by black visitors at white churches, and a march to the county building to mark the beginning of a voter-registration drive.To dissuade demonstrators and control the protests the Birmingham Police Department, led by Eugine Connor, used high-pressure water jets and police dogs on children and bystanders. King was among 50 Birmingham residents ranging in age from 15 to 81 years who were arrested on April 12, 1963. It was King’s 13th arrest.
While imprisoned for having taken part in a nonviolent protest, Dr. King wrote the now famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Posted in 1960-1968, June 21 assignment, Midterm Exam Review
Tagged 1963, Birmingham, civil rights, Martin Luther King
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The first Fast Food Franchise McDonald’s
The golden age (1953-1960) of the American society is characterized by its material abundance of merchandise. The word “freedom” changes its meaning to the freedom to choose from a variety of products. The new way of thinking emerged with the expansion of suburban living and having luxury things as necessities of everyday life. As some historians believe at that point the ideology had died and the new era of consumption and capitalism started. Owning a car transformed American travel habits; it symbolized the freedom of mobility and led to construction of the entertainment enterprises and eating establishments on the altered landscape.
As an example the first McDonald’s restaurant opened in 1955 in Illinois. The founders were two brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald who created their famous logo (an overlapping letter “M”). McDonald’s introduced the speedy food service system which led to its worldwide expansion and its famous franchise by another corporate founder Ray Kroc. McDonald’s was the first restaurant to offer drive though food service. But over the years the fast food chain has become a target of health issues that contribute to obesity and heart diseases among the population.
Nevertheless McDonald’s has certainly become the symbol of globalization and the American way of life of comfort and affordability. I consider the creation of McDonald’s an important change in the american nutrition sphere that has tremendously affected millions of citizens who suffer from overweight and see fast food as the only diet
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, 787 billion plan
The video shows Barack Obama signing the Recovery Act, an economic stimulus package.
This bill was signed into law on February 17 by President Obama at an economic forum he was hosting in Denver, Colorado.
The main goal of the Act was to bring the country back from recession on a path of recovery; the Act was intended to create jobs and promote consumer spending and investment. It also included federal tax cuts, expansion of unemployment benefits as well as domestic spending in education, health care and infrastructure.
I consider this Act a huge attempt made by the Government to recover the economics of the US, and according to various reports, the stimulus saved about 1.7 million jobs.
Posted in 2001-present, Economic History, June 8 assignment
Tagged bailout, obama, recession, stimulus
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The end of Cold War – The Malta Summit 1989
The Malta summit is considered as the official end of the Cold War (continuing state of political conflict, military tension). It consisted of a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev, taking place between December 2nd and 3rd in 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Malta summit signaled a major turning point in East-West relations lifting the Iron Curtain which had separated the Eastern Bloc from Western Europe for four decades. The purpose of the summit was to provide the two superpowers with an opportunity to discuss rapid changed taking place in Europe.
This image is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made during the course of the person’s official duties.
Posted in 1989-2000, June 7 assignment, Political history
Tagged gorbachev, malta, the cold war
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