Letter to the Principal

Dear Dr. Rhinehart,

I am writing to you to about my concern on whether history books used in school should be censored. As we all know history is a very important class. I believe that it is one of the most important because without it our generations and the next ones wouldnt know how we came to where we are now. In history we all learn about past events that have influenced on how the world is today. We learn about mistakes Empires made that lead to their downfall as well as the history certain people made, and all the wars the world have gone through. But the text books we get in classes seem to only tell us what we want to hear. We never hear the COMPLETE truth about all the horrendous things nations have gone through. Some topics that are not in ext books may be a really bad things to talk about, but it is better if wee know the truth than grow up believing that nothing ever went wrong. Because like any people have said the past may reoccur and if we dont know about those inhumane events we would not even know what to expect if that were ever to happen again, no matter what it is part of our history. In my opinion text books should not be censored or written with part of the truth of certain events, they should include all of the good and the bad times in the history of ALL the nations and not hide part of our own history , no matter how bad it may have been.
Sincerely
Paola Angarita

Picture

Fights

View James Braddock's figths. in a larger map

Cinderella Man : Outline

James Braddock.
Protagonist in Cinderella man.
Boxer in look for a better life for him and his family d8uring the great depression.
Wife: Mae Braddock.
Had three Children (2 boys & 1 girl.)
Best friend was Mike Wilson.
During the great depression everything got harder for him and his family.

They go from large home, to living in a shack with their three children.
Jimmy lost everything he had because of the stock market crash of 1929.
Goes out to search for jobs but it becomes hard.
The whole family is affected because of the crisis.
Things only get worse.
Jimmy gets the chance for one fight and breaks his hand while fighting.
It becomes difficult to get jobs but he still works , even with the broken hand.
Ends up going to get relief money because it is not easy to work in his condition.
Jimmy starts to fight again and has a great comeback.
At the biggining he has a couple of bad fights.
Coach , Joe is determined to get him in further that he sells all the furniture he has.
People don't believe in Jimmy.
His wife knows he wins equal money she is just nervous about him getting hurt again.
As time goes on he gets better and better, he starts winning all the fights.
Jimmy moves on to fight heavyweight and then is scheduled fight with Max Baer
People warn him not to go through with the fight because of the reputation Max has.
Jimmy stilll fights. He wins & becomes the new heavyweight champion of the world.
After the big fight he has enough money to support his family and live stress free.
In the end Jimmy still works in construction.

Evolution v.s Religion

During the 1930's it was unlawful for teacher to teach or lecture their students about evolution. During that time period it was mandatory for teachers to teach about creation and religion. Americans were completly opposed to evolution during the 1930's. John Scopes was a high school teacher put on trial for teaching students about evolution. Now a days it is the complete apposite, teachers are not allowed to teach or lecture their students about religion. Every one has their ow belief on how we have come to how we are today. People may have a different point of view but for all we know, neither of them may be right, or they might be. Either of these theories do not have an actual 100% defnition. No one knows the absolute truth. In my opinion, neither of them should be baned from teaching. Why teach one and not the other ? Teaching religion and evolution is school should be allowed because this way students will learn about both theories and from there they can believe which ever one they believe is true. I dont agree with having one or the other, just because you teach religion doesnt mean that you have to convert into that religion. Learning about it doesnt mean your are forced to believe what you are being taught. I believe teaching both would not be easy but it doesnt seem right that in the 1930's religion was allowed to be taught and now it is not, it should just be fair and allow eacher to teach about both theories. Either way it will never be one hundered percent sure on how humas got here and how it all started.

Study Giude .07

Scopes Trial
The biology teacher, John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution to his students.
There was a lot of media attention and national publicity
He was found guilty.
Evolution was taught in schools and religion was not allowed to be taught it was unlawful
Prohibition
Women's organizations believed that drinking increased domestic violence and child abuse
The IRS was the main enforcer of Prohibition
Henry Ford wanted to stop alcohol because he needed his employees to be productive and sober.
18th Amendment banned manufacture and sale of alcohol
1933, 21st Amendment is approved, repealing 18th amendment
ut it did NOT ban consumption, possession, or transportation
Prohibition actually created more bars (speakeasies) than before
"Bootleggers" "Moonshine" "Bathtub Gin" "Rum Runners"
Most of the rum came from Canada
Flappers
Women of the 1920's
Showed their legs (gams)
Wore a LOT of makeup
Economic Issues
Demand
Credit for consumers available (dangerous)
Low interest rates
Introduction of the installment plan
Credit cards
Stock market
Speculations
Buying on a margin if stock market went down you would be in a lot of debt with the stock brokers
Dust Bowl
Severe dust storms
Caused by drought and extensive farming without crop rotation
Over 500,000 Americans were left homeless
Drought
Overfarm
Not rotating fields
Agriculture Issues
No crop rotation and deep plowing created large dust storms
agricultural depression
Farmers were overproducing because now machines do all the work!
Immigration Policies
Laws became more strict
US could do without immigrants
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 te ethnic groups were limited to 3% of 1910 population
National Origins Act of 1924: ethnic groups limited to 2% of 1890 census
there were no Asians allowed because of all the conflict.
Restrictions on the number of immigrants coming into the states
Nativism
Immigrant restrictions became stricter
Afraid of Communism spreading
KKK had 3 million members and used Nativist rhetoric
Americans were for isolationism following the end of WWI
1920 Significant Literary Works
Main Kampf ,Hitler
The Great Gatsby,Fitzgerald Life during the 1920's
The Jungle,Sinclair told truth of mat process
How the Other Half Lives ,Riis how other half lives
The Ways of White Folks ,Hughes
Unsafe Atany Speed, Nader safety issues of cars.
The Great Migration
African Americans moved from the rural south to the city, North
Increase in African American population
Better employment and education opportunities for the blacks
About 7 million African Americans move North
Harlem Renaissance
African American artistic movement
InNew York City
Involved Music,writing,dance
Blacks were showing their pride for their race
An explosion of culture which had never happened before
Sacco and Vanzetti
They were Italian Anarchists
Died because they were accused and charged with robbery and murder
Sentenced to death,during the Red Scare
Lies, they died electrecuted.
1920 Labor Issues
Welfare
Wages increased, while work time decreased
The amount of strikes increased
Unemployment rate = 5%
The Red Scare
Afraid of Communism
Bolshevik Revolution
Afraid of un-American behavior and foreigners
Palmer Raids: arresting un-Americans without evidence
Lenin comes to power in Russia
Schenk vs. USA
Schenck sent letters to draftees saying that the draft was motivated by capitalists It upheld the Espionage Act
Schenck's conviction was decided constitutional

Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Invertigating the Sccco and Vanzetti case has been one of the most interesting yet tough tasks throughout my career. These two men were Italian anarchists that were charged for robbery and murder. Here is sme background information on these two men, they were both born in Italy, Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on June 11, 1988 in Villafalletto was born innorthern Italy. And Nicola Sacco was born in Torremaggiore southern Italy on April 22, 1891. The two met on may of 1917 in Boston at a meeting of Galleanist Anarchists.

Throughout their lives they committed many crimes, right now they are on trial. Their trial lasted a very long time. they have spent a lot of money on a lawyer they believe will get them out f this mess. In their case it will be very hard and there wont even be enough moneyto find a lawyer good enough to protect them. They had more people on the prosecution witnesses than on the defense witness side. As we all know many people are comletly for them to be sentenced for a very long time because of all of the things they did. They were very dangerous men. They owned very dangerous guns with out a liscence. They have killed and wounded many people, with these two men around was not safe at all. On July 10, 1927 they were sentnced to serve their time. They tought that by writting letters and petitions to the judge and the people on the jury they would have a way of getting out. During the trial they were both asked many questions and there were many lies told during this trial which shows the criminals consciousness of guilt. Sacco lied about where he was on the day of the crime why he had a gun with him on the crime date amd were he bought it and his anarchist convictions.

After all the lies and the evidence from the gun, and bullet i believe that they got what they deserved They were executed by electric chair, a terribly painful death. The jury believed them to be guilty of the crimes. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed after seven years of waiting for their sentence. The jury was correct in finding Sacco and Vanzetti guilty. The bullet matched the gun that it came from exactly.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Save_Sacco_and_Vanzetti.jpg
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2007/06/23/saccoandvanzetti.jpg

crime small group

After seeig all the presentations on all the gansters from te prohibition era, taught me the true meaning of a gangster. Now days the word gangster is not used the way it really is. Gangster from the prohibiton era were very dangerous people who impacted a lot in man peoples lives. Being a gangster had a very big meaning to it, from robbing to kidnapping, murder etc. They were very dangerous people over all. Their life cosisted of crime, and their lives ended due to one of their crimes. The gangsterwee aslo very smart, they planed up increadible crimes and sometimes got caught but they would escape fom jail , not once but several times. These presentations showed me that ll gagsters are very similar yet theyhad completly different lies and becuse of them during the prohibition era the police was reinforced.

Acrostic Poem

P olice was reingforced.
R eingforce the law for the good of the people.
H as to ban alcohol.
I n the US
B ritish mechants were not happy.
I mportant law.
T o keep order.
I n the towns.
O rganization ment to rebellion.
N ever worked completly.


R emembered as an unforgetable period of time.
O old americans.
A nd new americans.
R einforced the different classes.
I n two different neighborhoods.
N ever agreed on anything.
G ams were exposed more and old americans did not like it.

T hought they were better than the others.
W ishing they were the better class.
E veryone loved to party.
N ever stopped drinking alcohol.
T he best was giggle water.
I it made everyone happy
E nding up chanching societys ways.
S piffy was what moll's looked for.