Climate Research

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I have been doing research about Antarctica. I so far have been looking into the politics 
and resources in Antarctica, and I hope to move into the actual facts about the climate in Antarctica 
soon. 

Climate Topics

I would like to do the "concerns section of the climate project. I am interested to learn about possible causes and effects of the changing climate and how to handle them, because in order to solve the problems, we first need to identify if they exist, what they are, and what the causes are.

Climate

Climate-change

Temperature

Humidity

Global-Warming

Green

These were the first five words that came to my head after hearing the word "climate." the fact that three of the words were about climate change and only two were about actual scientific facts about the climate shows that I care more about the fact that it is changing rather than proving that it is changing. 

How will the availability of drinking water change as the climate does?

1930 Reading Questions

the Great Depression (Links to an external site.)

Black Sunday (Links to an external site.)

The Drought (Links to an external site.)

Mass Exodus from the Plains (Links to an external site.)

1. Hoover was criticized because he did not do enough to stop the Great Depression. While did do somethings with government money to stifle the depression, he didn't do nearly enough and seriously underestimated the severity of this recession, because he believed,like many Americans, that the economic prosperity was a reflection of character and was deserved. This moral of Social Darwinism caused many Americans to blame themselves for their own poor economic standing. However, when looking at the problem as a whole, the concept that individual Americans did something to deserve this kind of poverty is simply false. 

2. Black Sunday was the day of an extremely powerful dust storm. While this are had been experiencing dust storms for most of the year, the one on this particular day was by far the most severe. The pain that would have been felt by the sand crushing those caught in the storm could only be matched by the fear of not knowing where you were or being able to see enough in front of you to find shelter. 

3. The drought was most prominent in the "Dust Bowl," the area consisting of the eastern part of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, south Colorado, and north New Mexico. a wicked dry spell and the systemic destruction of soil through misused farming techniques caused an abundance of loose dust particles to be constantly carried by the winds, and n the worst cases tornadoes. I disagree with the statement the writer makes at the end of the post. The dust bowl, (and most aspects of the depression) was the result of old techniques being unsustainable, However, because they had never failed before, no one had any real reason to expect them to, and therefore no reason to develop more sustainable methods. 

4. The migration from the dust bowl to California was the largest in American history. Many migrants faced discrimination by locals for overcrowding the farms and driving down wages for local or foreign workers. They also were often forced to live in slums or bad company houses that lacked water or electricity. 

Speech Questions

How’d the speeches go? Pretty well overall, some were a little dull or just plain wrong

Any distinguishing people? Madi, Andrew, Victoria, and Karen.

What would you do better next time? Write a better intro and conclusion and develop my thoughts more. 

Radio Advertisements

To me the most interesting thing about radio advertising was that many advertisers were responsible for creating the broadcast content directly, as opposed to modern TV ads which go in between content created by others. Radio advertisements were the first place that jingles were used. These often were design to both help audiences remember the name of the product they were trying to sell, and also associated positive vibes around it. Advertising was such a monstrous industry, that they had to create an accountability agency to ensure that no advertisers were lying about circulations.




http://adage.com/article/75-years-of-ideas/1930s-radio-captivates-a-nation/102701/
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~class/am485_98/graham/visitor.html

Speech

            The 1920’s were largely defined by a growing economy, a new mainstream culture, and the various reactions to that new culture.

            During this era, the American economy boomed. WWI left most of Europe’s industry and economy in shambles, leaving the U.S. as the only major industrial power in the west. New technologies and consumer goods, like radios and telephones, increased manufacturing and spending. The revolutions in the automobile industry made cars a ubiquitous product, and they needed to be met with the construction of new roads and houses, which boomed the construction industry. These increases in manufacturing and spending led extreme shifts in the culture of the decade.

            With all these new products to sell, advertisers adopted new tactics. In previous decades they simply would have told the consumer facts about the product. Now, they begin to market to specific audiences by convincing them that they’re identified by the products that they bought. This led to “consumer culture.” However, this culture of mass production produced a kind of uniformity, and those who didn’t fit in its image felt marginalized or pushed out.

However, rather than attempt to conform to societal norms, or break down cultural expectations, these groups often formed their own subcultures to combat the uniformity of society. Many artists of the “lost generation” were resistive of the new culture, and wrote novels criticizing the consumerist wave. They became known as the “disillusioned.” Meanwhile, African-Americans in Harlem began an artistic movement of music, art, and literature that both defined African-American culture and brought it to the attention of white consumers, which became known as the “Harlem Renaissance.” Rural Christians began to develop a stricter and more literal interpretation of their faith in response to the emergence of scientific theories that contradicted traditional religious principles. In addition to subcultures that emerged outside of mainstream consumer culture, the youth subculture emerged within it.

Due to a growing emphasis on education, school attendance grew. This phenomenon was combined with the widespread use of the automobile, which let kids be more separated from their parents, and the new advertising techniques led to youths defining themselves based on other youths rather than their parents. Not only did youths redefine themselves in this era, but women also developed new identities.

By now, a woman going to college was less of a spectacle, yet many professional women still lacked employment in many fields, and married women often had to sacrifice their careers for family. Conventional wisdom about a woman’s role in a family changed as new psychologists and sociologists developed new methods of child rearing. Also, rising availability in birth control, made possible mostly by female activists, led to changing ideas and perceptions of women in America.

            The 1920’s saw a huge variety of subcultures that emerged from the mainstream culture created by the strong economy of the era. 

My Mini Book

This is the book I wrote for the mini book project. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Harlem at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, and shows him as he explores and consume the emerging cultures present there.

Mini-Book Reviews

"Professional Woman and the Flapper-Image vs. Reality" by Madi Smith is a book about two young middle class women in their twenties. At first both of them are working, but when one of them marries and has a child, she drops out of the work force to focus more her child and husband. The other stays single, remains in the work force, ends up becoming a flapper, and then becomes interested in the rise of Birth Control. this juxtaposition between the more traditional role of women and the new roles of women, emphasize the way that this era changed American life. when the flapper eventually finds a man she wants to marry, she expresses her hopes that she will remain independent and is able to keep her job, which emphasizes the lasting impact this shift in the roles of women would have in the coming world. Overall, this book is a well articulated demonstration on the importance of the changes in women's lives this era saw.


"The Life of Robert Williams" by Austin Lu is a story about an average, everyday american boy growing up through the 1920's. While he begins his early life in poverty, his prosperity grows as the American economy booms after the war due to rapid growth of the automobile and construction industry. He and his family suddenly have the necessary capital to buy discretionary goods, like radios and telephones. Because the economic boom also led to an education boom, Robert enrolls in school, not with the intention of being part of the schools' social scenes, but to prepare himself for a presumably bright future. This book offers a perspective of the American economic boom from the view of a well developed yet average American teen, which gives new and unique eyes to view the era through.