Thinking About Progress

1. Progress: A development that betters someone or something
2. The time period of the Progressive era is from the 1890's to the 1920's because after the war, many tried to fix social and economic problems. 
3. Issues, Actions and achievement associated with the Progressive Era
1. The Prohibition: reduced drinking
2. Government Corruption
3. Prison Reform
4. Civil Liberties
5. Women's sufferage
4. Progressive reforms seem to have a common area of changing very large and broad topics to benefit the people of the United States
5. Best to worst
1. Civil Liberties
2. Women's suffrage
3. Government Corruption
4. The Prohibition
5. Prison Reform

The Progressive Movement

The Future

Predictions about the future people were making 100 years ago:

1. Digital Color photography - True
2. Rising Height of Americans - True
3. Mobile Phones - True
4. Pre-made Meals - True
5. Slowing population growth - True
6. Hothouse vegetables - True
7. Television - True
8. Tanks - True
9. Bigger Fruit - True
10. The Acela Express - True
11. No more C, X, or Q - False
12. Everyone will walk 10 miles per day - False
13. No more cars in large cities - False
14. No mosquitos or flies - False

Watkins' Predictions

Most of these are predictions and warnings

Predictions 50 years ago

1. Increase in food supply - True
2. Their is more wealth in the sea rather than the land - False
3. Birth Control Opinions - True
4. More Space Navigation - True
5. No more war - False
6. Cure for all diseases - False

These are both prediction and a wish list

Predictions

1. Police with X-rays - True
2. Flying Machines - true
3. Movable Houses - True
4. Airships - True
5. Undersea Ships - True
6. North Pole Trip - True
7. Water Walk - True
8. Ship Railway - False
9. Roofed City - False
10. Theater - True
11. Moving Sidewalks - True
12. Good Weather Machine - False

Most of these are predictions that came true, while things such as "Moving Sidewalks," and "Roofed City" are just a wish. 

19th Century Predictions

People started predicting the future having positive impacts. The have a hope that the world will become a better place

Predicting the Future:

1. Obese rates are going to increase
2. More war in the US
3. More diseases will be cured
4. We will run out of space for the population
5. College will be more expensive
6. Inserting a chip to track you
7. Cars that run off of water
8. More sink holes
9. The Upper class will decrease
10. Public School system becoming abolished
11. We won't have a need for social skills

We do not have much control over the future. I see individuals becoming less competent, the national government being smaller, groups not having control over the things that we will being to do. International Organizations will have a word in the future with our internal affairs. As of now we have control of our own destiny, but I believe in the future we won't. The future is out of our control, but individuals can always try to shape it. The world is changing, but we don't always have to. 

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

1. What I already knew about analyzing political cartoons:
1. Use prior knowledge
2. Read the words 
3. Look for detail and key points
4. Loof for irony
5. Look at the picture as whole
1. What I learned
1. Look for over-exaggeration 
2. Decided the cartoons main-analogy
3. Ask yourself what the author is trying to persuade you of
2. Looking at political cartoons in the future, I will try to look at the big picture as a whole, and then look at smaller details.
1. Method to analyzing cartoons (my own method)
1. Look at the cartoon as a whole
2. Go over your prior knowledge
3. Link how the words on the cartoon help the cartoon as a whole
4. Look for over exaggeration 
5. Decide the cartoon's main point
1. Persuasion
2. Mockery
3. etc.
6. Look at smaller detail
2. Guide to analyzing political cartoons
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4. 
1. Quest for an Empire
1. This cartoon shows how the United States wanted to build an empire. It shows the countries that the US wanted to claim. The eagle compared to all the countries is over-exaggerated, showing that the US is bigger than everyone else, and will try to dominate all of the smaller countries.
2. 
3. Quest for an Empire
1. This picture portreys the Spanish-American war as a meal. Uncle Sam represents the US, and President McKinley serves the US. It tries to show how the Americans just picked a country, just off of a menu to capture.
5. 
1. Quest for an Empire
1. This shows how the US has a grasp on other countries including the Caribbean, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam. The US does not give up, and will not give up until the countries are captured by the US.

Documentary of Mark Twain

Topic- Mark Twain
Focus- The reverent anti-imperialist motives and sentiments about the war in the Philippines through the eyes of Mark Twain.
Angle- Mark Twain was a powerful writer through the Spanish-American war, and he had motives in the Anti-Imperialist league that helped identify why the United States is going to war with other countries, not for the good of the people and country as a whole, but for their own self-gain. He cited reasons to fight US annexation of the Philippines such as: the reasons of the economy, legal, racial, and moral motives of the United States.

Mark Twain Quote

Mark Twain

Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau

The filmmakers called the film Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau, because it showed that Eddie Aikau had such a love for his Hawaiian culture, and helped make an impact in how and why he wanted to protect his identity. He was proud of his culture, and didn't want anyone to degrade it like the Americans and Australians. The films angle shows how and why he wanted to track and preserve his ancestors, and he would do anything to create a better outlook on Hawaiians. He was passionate for his family and other people, and his connections helped shape his career. The fact that this movie was a part of ESPN, it was to grab everyones attention. It shaped the films content by showing his evolution of his love for surfing, and this transitioning to his voyage. If this film had been made by PBS or the History Chanel, it would have been more fact based and historical facts and ideas, such as the history of Hawaii, and other evidence how the water was important in Hawaiian culture. 

Eddie Would Go

Phrenology

During class, we briefly observed Phrenology- the theory of brain and science of character reading. We then researched to find a variety of questions. We then found out that the L.N. Fowler brain was made in the early 1800's, split into two parts, and based on brain functions. While researching, I typed into the search bar a broad topic of this model such as, "L.N. Fowler," or "Phrenology head." I did not type in exactly what I wanted to be able to find information about it. I learned that you must be very specific while researching, and be very observant of every angle. The question of "is this model a real artifact?" came up. The only way to know was to look at the manufacturer at the bottom. It was not an artifact, so it is not a primary source. A provenance is the ownership of an antique, or the place of origin for the earliest known history of that artifact. This head could only be used as a primary source if the question of, "how did students of the 21st century learn about researching?" and then it would be a primary source.




American Phrenological Journal