Gambling for a brighter future
Posted in October 28 Assignment, TV24
Tagged FDR, Hope, new deal
Comments Off on Gambling for a brighter future
Category Archives: TV24
FDR v. Lindbergh (the Lone Eagle)
Posted in October 28 Assignment, TV24
Tagged charles lindbergh, FDR, new deal
Comments Off on FDR v. Lindbergh (the Lone Eagle)
New Deal vs. America: Modern Trojan War?
Posted in October 28 Assignment, TV24
Comments Off on New Deal vs. America: Modern Trojan War?
Christmas Eve 1933
Throw Money At The Problem
Posted in October 28 Assignment, TV24
Tagged Excess spending, FDR, political cartoon
Comments Off on Throw Money At The Problem
Little FDR
Posted in October 28 Assignment, TV24
Tagged FDR, The New Deal, uncle sam
Comments Off on Little FDR
Experimenting with Socialism?
Posted in admin only: Featured, TV24
Tagged new deal, president roosevelt, socialism
Comments Off on Experimenting with Socialism?
Programmed to Buy!!
This video talks about how America used Freud’s theories to manipulate the economy. Freud’s nephew, Bernays, thought if propaganda could help in war, it could help in peace time as well. He saw that if you wanted to sell a … Continue reading
Posted in admin only: Featured, October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged 1920's, Advertising, Edward Barneys, Sigmund Freud
1 Comment
Lone Eagle
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/25392-heroes-of-aviation-charles-a-lindbergh-video.htm On the evening of May 21st, 1927, Charles Lindbergh made history. He became the first man to fly across the atlantic ocean alone; a feat he completed in 33 1/2 hours. Although I could not find out when the … Continue reading
The Farmers’ Plight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jAAGe883o This video is a group of students making a video of farmers in the 1920s. Though this video doesn’t directly relate to The Farmers’ Plight as mentioned in the book, it does utilize the silent film style of movies … Continue reading
Posted in admin only: Featured, October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged 1920's, 1924, Immigration, immigration act
Comments Off on The Farmers’ Plight
Al Capone & Organized Crime
Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920s. There were many gangs in organized crime but his was on top. They ran many illegal businesses including gambling, bootlegging and prostitution. Money was made fast and very easily which … Continue reading
The Danger of Prohibiting!
As discussed in this prohibition video. This put another divide in the nation between “wets” and “drys.” Making alcohol illegally only gave bootleggers and “gangsters” during this time period something else to get their hands on. With a very high … Continue reading
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged Al Capone, Alcohol, beer, booze, Prohibition, temperance, Theodore Roosevelt
3 Comments
General Motors beats out the Model T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6A2Hzg1_M This video is about the development of the company General Motors. It traces its growth all the way back to its roots. During the 1920’s, America underwent a period of prosperity, and industry blossomed to a whole new level. … Continue reading
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged 1920's, Ford, General Motors, prosperity, The Twenties
1 Comment
Evolution or Creationism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ6NuB_VlF0&feature=related During the 1920s a very important controversy that came up in a Tennessee public school was the teaching of evolution. John Scopes was arrested for teaching his students Charles Darwin’s theory because it was against a law during that … Continue reading
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
1 Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY6Yo6lE-Jg The Roaring Twenties was alternatively known as The Jazz Age. This “movement” in which jazz music grew in popularity by immense standards in the U.S., also influenced other parts of the world. Following World War I, around 500,000 African … Continue reading
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
Comments Off on
Lets Have Another Cup of Coffee
This Video is really a song but I think it really says something about the state of the nation circa 1932. It is well known that the depression started in 1929, on Black Tuesday when the market crashed. What is … Continue reading
Life in the Roaring 20s
The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. This novel is a critique of the American dream in which the American society enjoyed prosperity after World War One in what was called the “roaring” 20s. … Continue reading
Posted in admin only: Featured, October 19 Assignment, TV24
Comments Off on Life in the Roaring 20s
Billy Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVZ-J3c8_AY The original date of production of this video is unknown. This was a time when fundamentalist and modernist came out and fought for their religious beliefs. Modernists defined Christianity by combining science and religion, where as, fundamentalist viewed dropping … Continue reading
Posted in admin only: Featured, October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged Alcohol, Billy Sunday, christianity
1 Comment
Corruption in Government
The original date this video was produced is unknown; however, it was created by Christopher Camie and Nicholas R. farell regarding the 29th president of the United States- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923). The two producers … Continue reading
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged Corruption, presidency, Warren G. Harding
Comments Off on Corruption in Government
Warren G. Harding, “America First”
Warren G. Harding was still a Senator when he gave this speech during the 1920 presidential campaign. He talks about America being a bastion of freedom, liberty, and representative democracy.
Posted in October 19 Assignment, TV24
Tagged 1920 Presidential Election, Democracy, Warren G. Harding
Comments Off on Warren G. Harding, “America First”