USH Weekly Blog 1-16/1-20

Monday: No School 

Tuesday: No School 

Wednesday: 

4. Entertainment

Fads

  • Sitting on flags pole
    • Was a dare 
  • The radio was becoming a thing 
  • Dance marathons 
  • Crocheted hat 
  • PEZ candy dispenser

Sports 

  • Football
  • APFA or NFL
  • First meeting was held in- Canton Ohio 
  • Basketball
  • Weren't doing good in basketball 
    • Knee pads 
    • Short shorts 
    • Tall socks 

Entertainment 

  • Louis Armstrong 
  • The Charleston 
  • Make-up 
  • The Jazz Age 
  • Flappers 
  • Be as pale as possible

Slang terms 

  • Sugar Daddy 
  • Gold Digger 
  • Giggle water 
  • Spill 
  • Slay 
    • Meant that's funny 

Thursday: 44 ways to judge the Obama era

  • Unemployment 
    • Started-7.8%
    • Ended-4.7%
  • Oil
    • Brent Crude(barrel)-$55.47
    • Gallon of regular unleaded gas-$2.37
  • The Stock Market 
  • Down-ballot races 
  • Opioid crisis
  • Medicaid expansion 
  • Insurance coverage 
  • National debt
    • $19.940,614,376,504.40
  • Deportation 
    • 2013-434,015
  • Interest rate and inflation 
  • The Car industry 
    • GM- Down to $.75 in 2009 
    • 2017 Was up $35.35
  • Inequality 
  • Wage gap
  • Economic growth 
  • Bills vetoed and signed 
  • Homless veterans 
    • 2010 to now it has decreased by 36% 
  • Violent Crimes 
  • Hate crimes 
  • Childhood obesity rates 
  • Police violence 
  • Job creation 
  • Carbon emissions 
  • Countries visted and trips abroad 
    • 52 trips 
    • 58 countries 
  • State dinners 
    • 13 state dinners 
  • Price of home 
  • Home ownership rate 
    • Decreased by 4% 
  • Life expectancy 
  • People receiving food stamps 
  • Troops in Afghanistan 
  • Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay 
  • Rounds of golf
  • Executive orders 
  • Median household income 
  • Consumer confidence 
  • Poverty 
  • Birth rate 
  • Price of milk 
  • Student loan debt 
  • College tuition 
  • US citizen death overseas from defined terrorism 
  • US active military involvement 
  • US drone strikes 
  • Clemency 

Friday: Continued on presentations 

2. Women's rights and freedom 

  • The role of women had taken massive leap in 1920's
    • Women could vote 
  • New women
    • Flappers
    • New fashions 
  • Traditionalist 
    • Feared new women were threatening families 
  • Black American 
    • Harlem Renaissance 
  • 19th amendment 
  • Impact of WWI
    • Women took on jobs of men
  • New women could obtain college degree 
    • Learned to drive 
    • Went to work
  • Flappers 
    • Represented modernism 
    • Cut their hair 
    • Listed to jazz 
    • Began drinking 
    • Smoking 
    • Sexually liberated 
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