TV in the 50s and 60s

http://www.ushistory.org/us/53c.asp
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/television-in-the-1950s.html
http://televisioninthe1950s.weebly.com/
 

TV commercials 50s and 60s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFbCGT_AWBI


       TVs in the 50s and 60s were very small and weren't light. They were in black and white and they didn't always pick up the show on the antennas. After the TV came out it didn't take along for people to start to advertise in between shows. Everyone started to advertise on TV from soda companies to government. some of the most popular shows were westerns and game shows.  

Book Report

THE LAST HERO  A LIFE OF HENRY AARON-By HOWARD BRYANT

        This book is about the life of Henry Aaron and the things he went though. As a child Henry Aaron ''Hank'' didn't have much his family was very poor. Henry Aaron was born Feb.5 1934. His father was an tavern owner and made some money so they moved across town to the middle class area. Growing up Henry Aaron had to deal with being treated like a second class american, he had to fallow rules like always call a white man by sir and always call a white woman by mam. In the schools the teachers for the black students were the teachers that couldn't get jobs, so they weren't very good at there jobs so there students didn't learn to much, most black students were self tout. He started attended central high school. Were he played baseball he played third-base and shortstop. His school was segregated from the class to the sports teams. He tried out for the mlb team the Brooklyn dodgers. So he returned to school his junior year of high school he attended Josephine Allen Institute a private school. He joined the baseball and proved him self on the field but the next year his school got reed of the black baseball program. So he joined the Pritchett athletics after that he joined the mobile black bears while on the bears he made 3$ that's about 91$ today. Aaron mlb career started when Ed Scott signed him to the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro America League. In 1957, he won the Most Valuable Play (MVP) Award. While playing for the Clowns Aaron got two offer from the MLB one was from the New York Giants and the other one was from the Boston Braves. He accepted the offer to play on the braves. The braves paid the Clowns 10,000$ for Aaron. His whole life Henry Aaron has had to deal with segregation and racism so when he went pro you can imagine how he must have felt. Some of the nicknames he was given over the years was ''Hammer'' and ''Hammerin Hank''. In 1982, he was inducted in to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1999, some year after getting in to the National Baseball Hall of Fame they introduced the Hank Aaron Award to recognize top offensive players in each league. In 1973, at the age of 39 he had hit 713 home runs and that was the last day in that season too. But Aaron started to fear he might not see the next season. During the winter season he received death threats from people that didn't want to see Ruth's record be beat by a Africa America. But on May 1, 1976 he broke the baseball's all-time RBI record, previously held by Ruth with 2,213. He retired at the end of that season, he didn't only change baseball but he changed America. 

News report for 20's

      Today were gonna talk about the 20's brought to you by a news team. were gonna talk about some of the things that happen in world news. when World War I ended housing market blow up and jobs and stores were coming back. The soviet union crated the USSR. The Russian Civil war Ends but the country struggles as a famine begins in 1920 and worsens the following year. The Great Mississippi Flood in 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest national disaster in US history.

Earth Day

PART 1.
They were talking about pollution and why we need to do something about it. its also talked about a group called Green Peace. They were a group that tried to stop whaling ships. One of the guys from Green Peace started his own group classed the Sea Shepreds. there first trip out they shunk a whaling ship and they have been stoping whalers ever seens.

PART 2.
The Dolphin Killing in Denmark: http://www.truthorfiction.com/images/PW21%20%282%29.jpg
I think mass killing of Dolphin is bad because if they keep doing it there might not be many dolphins left.

oil spills:
kills off wild life and can go inland and cuases dangers for people.

Manhattan Project

The Manhattan project was a project to design and build an atomic bomb. Einstein penned a letter to President Roosevelt urging the development of an atomic research program later that year. Roosevelt saw neither the necessity nor the utility for such a project, but agreed to proceed slowly. In late 1941. The research was based at only a few universities of Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. Over six years, from 1939 to 1945, more than $2 billion was spent during the Manhattan Project.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Med.html

chapter 10

II. Causes (The causes of the great depression were Bad Govt. Policy, Unstable Econ, Uneven Prosperity)

A. overspeculation 

people were envisting to much in the stock market.

B. Govt Policy 

the govt. didn't intervene in peoples lives like if someone had no money they wouldn't help they out.

C. Unstable Econ

banks were closing because the stock market crashed.

1. uneven prosperity

the rich got richer and the poor stay poor.

2. overproduction

farmers and factories made to much stuff and didn't have people to sell the stuff too.

3. worker issues / farm issues

dust bowl killing crops.

III. Effects

A. Poverty

not having any money, no homes, no food

B. Society

soup lines

C. World

great depreshtion 

IV. Solutions

A. Hoover
more power, more jobs because of the dam

1. Volunteerism

the use or involvement of volunteer labor, esp. in community services.

2. Public Works

the work of building such things as roads, schools, and reservoirs, carried out by the government for the community.

3. Hawley Smoot

was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.

4.RFC

a branch of the US Government during the Great Depression which gave aid to state and local governments and loans to banks and other businesses, helping to lay the foundations for the New Deal.

B. Roosevelt

commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the United States.

1. new deal

The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.

a. alphabet soup

            example.
CCC

            example.
AAA

            example.

WPA

            example.

CWA

b. Criticsim?

2. 2nd new deal

a.improved use of national resources
b.security against old age unemployment and illness

c.national welfare program

V. Criticicism

B. Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the conservatives and liberals )

A. Conservatives

because they felt that he was getting to much power from it.

B. Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)

Ex.

they didn't think it helped the people enough 

ex.

gave to much power to him

VI. Effectiveness

A. Changes in US

started welfare programs, and other stuff

B. Unions

helped workers get things lie better pay 

C. Culture

Disney

VII. Conclusion

lots of things changed in america after the new deal, and things lowly got better and so times things like this have to happen to make a country better in the long run.

Langston Hughes

      Langston Hughes was born in February 1,1902 and died May 22,1967. Hughes was a poet, novelist, play writer, and a social activist. He was one of the first people who started to writing jazz poetry. But Hughes was best know as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

    The Harlem Renaissance was a group of African Americans that wanted to express there culture across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States was also know as the Great Migration. they were trying to share culture and spreed peace and freedom for all.

http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313