Posted by 3Schechinger on January 17, 2010 at 11:39pm
Franklin Delano Roosevelt or known as FDR was born into a plethora of wealth. Frank entered the “system” in 1910 and slowly worked his way up the ladder. Although he was struck with a devastating virus in 1921 known as polio, he wasn’t going to let t
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Posted by 8 MaKayla on January 17, 2010 at 11:30pm
1. 2009,It finally happened. A Honolulu judge struck down a Hawaiian law permitting only opposite-sex couples to marry, and Hawaii became the first state to recognize same-sex marriages.(1) Of course, the ruling hardly came as a surprise. The surpris
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is most widely known as The First Lady in the United States, or otherwise known as the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eleanor was born on October 11, 1884 and passed on November 7, 1962 living to be just 78 years of age. Eleano
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In the 1930's our country, as well as the rest of the world, was struggling to survive. The world had entered an era that we all know to be the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the result of a culmination of the stock market crash on Wall S
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Today I was not in class, I was only allowed to do half days for the first week if I ould go to school at all. Monday I will be trying to do a full day:)ps. mono stinks:(
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Crash of 1929Any more causes?people were just really really really optomistic about everything, they never thought that the economy could crash.Story of the Crash?five days before the crash Lamont wrote a letter to President Hoover saying how the eco
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The Social Security Act is the one thing that pops into my head when i think of chapter 15. The act was meant to reassure people's confidence in the economy, reduce poverty, and make people confident in retirement. I wanted to write on this topic bec
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Dorothea Lange was known for her photographs during the Great Depression. Her documentaries and photos were influential and told the real story of the Great Depression. Her images were icons of the 1930's era.Dorothea Lange is native to New Jersey, h
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family from New York on January 30, 1882. His full name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was an only child. His parents were James and Sara Roosevelt. His father was a landowner and a business man, he was
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"We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want," said Franklin Roosevelt. I selected this quote because I think it fits perfectly with the 1920's and the 1930's. Mr.FDR worked to create programs though the New Deal which helpe
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1) First African American President: The inauguration of Barack Obama was held on January 20, 2009. He became the 44th president of the United States. His acceptance speech was delivered to around 75,000 supporters and viewed by more than 38 million
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John was the oldest in his family and he had two younger siblings, a brother and a sister. He was born into a middle-class family. His father was very supportive of him. He was taught at home in his earlier years. When he went to school the teachers
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Franklin RooseveltMy blog assignment is about Frank Roosevelt. The guy who got us out of a crisis. The Great Depression. The early part of his political career he was a New York Governor through 1929-1932. Until the Democratic candidate became Presid
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Today we continued watching the movie. Mr. Bruns told us that the movie would probably take the whole class period and that we might not even finish it. I like watching videos and I hope we do it more often. I still had these questions to answer. . .
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Posted by 2courtneyl on January 17, 2010 at 9:04pm
In 2001 two planes crashed into New York’s twin towers which killed 2,752 people. This was a big disaster and is remembered on September 11 every year. It is known as 9/11. It was the first major terrorist attack that took place on U.S soil.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was established in 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of his New Deal program. It was suppose to help U.S. farmers reduce the growing of crops, and raising the prices of farms and trying to get expa
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Today we continued doing our blog discussion about the causes of the stock market crash and the Great Depression. Mr Bruns put of an overhead sheet of causes of the stock market crash. The causes were overspeculation during the 1920's, overproduction
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When we first got into class Mr Bruns had a little pop quiz for us. We had to write down five things about the movie that we watched yesterday over the 1920's and 30's. Mr Bruns called our pop quiz a write to learn, I think. It was really easy, he sa
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Today we watched a movie about the 1920's and 30's. Mr Bruns gave us one question to answer about the movie.What made the 1920's roaring, exciting, and fun?During the 20's people putting their morals aside and. We were going through a third industria
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Today in class we got the computers back, hopefully they are completely clean of viruses! Mr. Bruns talked the whole class period. He explained some stuff over again. Mr. Bruns also talked about some rules. He said that the main rule is to be positiv
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