Powers Of Persuassion

Guns, tanks, and bombs were the principal weapons but there were other, more subtle, forms of warfare as well. Words, posters, and films waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry just as surely as military weapons engaged the enemy. Persuading the American public became a wartime industry, almost as important as the manufacturing of bullets and planes. The Government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to galvanize public support, and some of the nation's foremost intellectuals, artists, and film makers became warriors on that front.

BBC Article And One Other Act Of Genocide

After it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It documents the events, based on the author's research, leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The view that the Japanese government has not done enough to redress the atrocities. Based on estimates made by historians and charity organisations in the city at the time, between 250,000 and 300,000 people were killed, many of them women and children. The number of women raped was said by Westerners who were there to be 20,000, and there were widespread accounts of civilians being hacked to death. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

  While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . This convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, anational, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

James Braddock's Fights

The Out Line Of The Cinderella Man

. During the Great Depression, a common man hero, James J. Braddock- the Cinderella Man, was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history.


. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom.


. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him was his family and they were in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief.


. Deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible quantity of grit, he willed an made an impossible dream to come true.



. In a last chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete.

. The depression is on and Braddock has had a series of defeats. Fighting injured, including with a broken hand, made him less of a fighter. Braddock, like many others in that era, lost everything in the stock market and scrimping by on the small fights he can get and on dock work. His wife would prefer he quit boxing, but knows how badly they need the money to get by with their three kids. Watering down milk just to make it do for several more days is a common occurrence.


. When his trainer manages to get him one more fight on the spur of the moment against the current #2 contender, Braddock rises to the occasion and knocks him out. His amazing comeback becomes the source of inspiration of many down on their luck Americans. A series of fights later leads to the championship match against the arrogant champ, Max Baer. Baer, who had already killed two men in the ring, urges the older Braddock not to fight him. Of course, Braddock feels he has nothing more to lose and very devastating, intense fight ensues. Contains very brutal boxing violence.

.  then James J wins.

Topic 07 Concept Guide

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes, a Tennessee high school biology teacher, was arrested and charged with teaching evolution, violating the Butler Act. Scopes was found guilty and charged with $100


Prohibition: Jan. 1920; Was pushed by women's organizations because of domestic violence and child abuse. 18th Amendment prohibited manufacture & sales of "intoxicating liquor"


Flappers: Women who: had short hair, smoked, showed her gams, shoulders, and cleavage.

Economic Issues (1920s): Credit available to consumers but was dangerous & people couldn't believe it. Low interest rates meaning they were charged money to borrow money.


Dust Bowl: A period of severe dust storms which damaged a lot of agriculture across America and Canada. Contributing factors included droughts, over farming, and mechanisation.


Agriculture Issues: Caused by Dust Bowl but was aided by start of mechanism which meant no more crop rotating and made it easier to plant.


Immigration Policies (1920s): Oppositions to quotas disappear due to soldiers returning home from war taking all the jobs available so immigrant workers were less needed. Immigration Act of 1924 was established where 2% limit of each ethnic group from 1890


Significant Literary Works (1920s): Jacob Riis: "How The Other Half Lives" - Tells about the living conditions in New York slums in the 1880s. Upton Sinclair: "Jungle" - Where he reveals how processed meat is made.


The Great Migration: African Americans migrate from the south and more and more places up north are being occupied by African Americans. In some places, they even have their own little community where they own shops, businesses, and services.


Harlem Renaissance: It was the first time African Americans expressed their culture and were proud of it. Jazz was then created.

Sacco & Vanzetti: Italian anarchists convicted of murder and robbery. They were executed on Aug 23, 1927

Labor Issues: A lot of people were unemployed but most were drunks who drank all the time so they didn't look for jobs.

Red Scare: Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin takes Power in Russia, Russia turns in U.S.S.R., People were afraid of "un-american behaviors", examples include being foreign.

Schneck v. The United States: Espionage & Sedition Acts declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court.

Evolution vs. Religion

three time presidential candidate for the Democrats, argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney, spoke for Scopes. The trial saw modernists, who said religion was consistent with evolution, against fundamentalists who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible trumped all human knowledge. From my knowledge i think that everyone has an opinion on something and it does not matter why or if it's wrong but it's what you think. In schools i think that they should teach both because evolution is the history of men kind and religion it's more about what the person believes in. Some people believe in god , some others believe in evolution but neither is right or wrong both are right because we all don't have the evidence of things in life. it's a very personal argument and it should come in of what you believe in. Evolution is more about history of how we had an evolution from monkeys to what we are now and religion is based on god and much other things not just god but they believe in any god there is , that's why i think that evolution and religion is good to put in schools so that the kids can choose on what they believe in.

Alcatraz

One of the myths surrounding Alcatraz was that it was inescapable. Although the waters surrounding the island are extremely cold and full of strong currents, there are no man-eating sharks as usually portrayed in the films. In recent years two 10 year old children actually swam to the island to prove that it could be done. But, as with every prison, there were escape attempts. In total 36 men attempted 14 separate escapes, Like all the islands in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz began its life as a mountain punctuating a vast savannah. At the end of the last ice age around 13,000 BC, it extended beyond the Golden Gate and was home to such exotic and extinct animals as the short-faced bear, the American cheetah, etc. Alcatraz Island is 22 acres and reaches 121 feet above sea level. Aside from the few natural rainwater collecting cisterns, the island has no source of fresh water. "The Rock", a place We're on an island surrounded by boiling acid that just happens to be infested with sharks. There are guard towers every twenty feet and there are more Mooks here than you've had warm meals. The only way on or off that miserable piece of land is a narrow bridge, with explosives wired. That's how Alcatraz was a very important subject in history.

Reflections On Organized Crime And Small Group Presentations

Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are politically motivated Violent non-state actor (VNSA). Gangs may become disciplined enough to be considered organized. In the United States the Organized Crime Control Act (1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of a highly organized, disciplined association, Criminal activity as a structured group is referred to as racketeering and such crime is commonly referred to as the work of the Mob. The small group presentation showed us how Mafia is a term used to describe a number of criminal organizations around the world. The first organization to bear the label was the Sicilian Mafia based in Sicily, known to its members as Cosa Nostra. In the United States, "the Mafia" generally refers to the Italian American Mafia.

CSI investigation of Sacco and Venzetti

source: http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html

I am the CSI investigator and im investigating the case of Sacco and Vanzetti case, well as they say "tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident, Our words, our lives our pains, nothing", "lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler all! That last moment belongs to us". They are all wrong because they cannot own people. They were put for trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly divided a nation. As the two convicted mens and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. on April 15,1920, a paymaster and his guard were carrying a factory payroll of $15,776 through the main street of South Braintree, Massachusetts, a small industrial town south of Boston. Two men standing by a fence suddenly pulled out guns and fired on them. The gunmen snatched up the cash boxes dropped by the wounded pair and jumped into a waiting automobile. Three weeks later, on the evening of May 5, 1920, two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fell into a police trap that had been set for a suspect in the Braintree crime. Although originally not under
suspicion, both men were carrying guns at the time of their arrested and when questioned by the authorities they lied. For a first criminal offense in which no one was hurt, Vanzetti received a sentence that was much harsher than usual, ten to fifteen years. This signaled to the two men and their supporters a hostile bias on the part of the authorities that was political in nature and pointed to the need for a new defense strategy in the Braintree trial. This is the case of Sacco and Vanzetti.