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During the Great Depression Era there were many acts put in place according to the New Deal.  President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put the court packing plan into place, this deal stated that for every member over the age of 70 years and 6 months in t

The Hollywood Film Industry

            During the Great Depression companies all over the country and the world were closing down and losing money. They had to sell their companies or just go bankrupt. Many people lost their jobs, homes, and money.

Criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt

During and after his terms, and still continuing, people have criticized Roosevelt. Many people criticized him out of fear that he was heading toward a dictatorship. He did this by attempting to seize control of the

                The Empire State Building was originally designed to compete against other buildings for the prestigious title of the “world’s tallest building.” It was designed from the top down by William F. Lamb who worked for an architectural fir

The BPA

In 1937 the act of congress had created the BPA to the Bonneville dam which is on the Columbia River. The BPA was founded by Franklin Roosevelt in the New Deal in the 1930’s The BPA started out as the Booneville Power Act and was signed into l

     The Farm Security Administration, of FSA was originally created in 1935 during the New Deal. It was an effort to combat rural poverty in the Great Depression. The FSA stressed rehabilitation efforts to improve the lives of poor farmers. One prog

        Ok. My Blog was on the Hindenburg disaster. The Hindenburg or Luftschiff Zeppelin #129 was a Zeppelin. A Zeppelin is a blimp. A German Blimp that was the leader of the Hindenburg class built by the Nazis. My Report won't really be on everythi

Bonnie and Clyde

Infamous Criminals During the Great Depression

During the Great Depression, many people were unemployed without any means of supporting themselves or their families.  Thinking there was nothing else to turn to, many people turned to cr

I had the NYA.

The National Youth Association (NYA) was established within the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on June 26, 1935. It was funded by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. It provided work training based on U.S. citizenship a

Today in CWI we started off by talking about Presidential trivia. We've had 44 presidents, 43 different presidents, 8 presidents have died in office, 2 of which were assassinated, FDR was the only president to be elected more than two times, the only

We started by talking about a tech conference that took place last night. There was a lady that works in the FBI and went to Sandy Hook. She said that it is not a conspiracy. We then stated doing some presidential trivia. Since 1900, there have been

Today Mr. Bruns talked about the conspiracy theory of Sandy Hook. FDR was the only president to serve  4 terms. Two presidents to be impeached by the  house- Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon. 17 of the 44 presidents have served 2 terms. Inauguration is

Today we talked more about the Sandy Hook conspiracy and how you have to look into closer detail about things before you judge people. We did a game about president trivia. 650 hostages have been freed from Algeria. We watched a video about Lance Arm

We had some presidential trivia since the inauguration is Monday.  There has been 44 presidents, but actually 43 presidents elected. 17 of the presidents have served 2 terms.  We also watched the interview with Oprah and Lance Armstrong.  He agreed t

President Trivia:

How many presidents have we had? 44 Different presidents? 43

How many presidents have died in office? JFK, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Z. Taylor, FDR, Harding. How many were assassinated? JFK, Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield.

Since 1900..

today we started class with presidential facts
4 assinations
8 presidents who died in office
since 1900, 12 reb, 8 dem
nixon stepped down before impeachment, Ford took his spot
2 impeached by the House - bill clinton, andrew johnson
17 of 44 have served 2

Monday is the Inauguration in the US. There have been 43 presidents. There were 8 of them that died, 4 were assassinated. FDR was elected 4 times, he was also the only president to do so. Bill Clinton lied under oath, and the house did impeach him. 1

Today in Mr. Bruns' class he told us about the tech night last night at the school. It was a night for the parents to come see what we're learning on the computers. They had an FBI speaker from Omaha who went to Newtown, but mainly works around Iowa.

*Due to the ingorration on Monday, we did some Presidental triva. I didn't know like any of the answers.

*WH Harrison was only president for about a year. JFK, Lincoln, Garfield- less than a year, and McKinley- 3-4 years were all assassinated. Zachary

Today in class Mr. Bruns shared his distaste for the name Burns. Then we talked about the tech conference. Then we discussed the conspiracy. Then we did president trivia.  Then Obama's Inauguration, and now the Lance Armstrong video. Plus inauguratio