Chapter 25: Americans and a World in CrisisWaging Global War, 19339-1945

During this chapter, US was truly going through a crisis. Not financially, but through the abuse of their citizens. What I found particularly devastating in this chapter was the Japanese Internment Camps. This was during the time of World War II where we were in war with Japan, and the President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized these internment camps, and anyone behind the Japanese ethnic background would have to be sent away to these camps. It showed there would be more of a difference in what they would have to do. In many ways, there are so many different aspects to this controversy. Sadly, they had their properties taken away and their cherished belongings. People had to grow up their lives in these concentration camps. Sadly, they lost most of their property, and were able to have most of their life guarded.
All the rumors such as xenophobia where it was the fear of foreigners, and McCarthyism, which was the fear of communism. All these fears and phobias came up during WWII only because of all the fears of being attacked. It never made sense to why they wanted to have these reasons, but there were questions to why they were having trials. It seems to me that there were able to have reasoning behind it, but there reasons weren't broad, and was just on biased stand points. That's the one thing I did not enjoy reading about this chapter.

Chapter 24: The Great Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1939

This chapter particularly talks about the Great Depression. This started when the stock market crashed on "Black Thursday". The significance of this date will always be remembered as the start of the Great Depression. This hears about the national feed and in the nation's crisis, it has always been one of the most tragic events to hit US. Jobs and unemployment went down to 25% where people had to look to others for their bank such as neighbors, church, and other family members to help pay the rent. Lost homes was one of the biggest statements out there. Either the house was overvalued or there would be a housing problem and the families are forced to leave their homes. Sadly the world bank did not have the cash for the citizens to meet their ends, and a lot of for closure went on during this time.
After Roosevelt became President, he did everything he could to strengthen the world's banks. What surprised me was how long the Great Depression took to finally get over, and makes me realize how much we have overcame that time since then. I'm thankful we are not in the same position and we have came up with a system so the US wouldn't have to go through something like the Great Depression again.

Chapter 23: The 1920s: Coping with Change

  My favorite Era, the Roaring Twenties; where parties, and the culture of jazz and luxury came about in the culture aspect. The consumption of booze, jazz, and how urban the cities were getting started a new era. Flappers were the symbolism of these kinds of parties, and promoted the wealth of the rich through their high class societies and urban lifestyle. For me, personally I took this particular chapter into fascination because of the glitz and glamor during this Prosperity Decade.
  By this time, the Progressive spirit has died, except in one aspect which was the Progressive Party in 1924, but died shortly after. Though there was a bit of a postwar recession, that didn't stop from new inventions and lavished advertising which drove the economy forward. This is when media started finally getting huge, through the radio, newspaper, etc. I found this interesting due to their post war dilemma, and still found ways to have the economy flowing again. These were obviously no longer the hardship times, but rather a new way to start moving forward and having the sense of ownership of the US again.

Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

During the corporation boom, flocks of immigrants came over to the US to work in these harsh working industries. Most of these immigrants came from Eastern Europe and were often in overcrowded cities and which made things worse. I found this sad that they had to work in such harsh conditions when they only came to America to make a better living for themselves and their families. Though the wages of these grew, the average man couldn't make enough labor to support his wife and kids. This is why also during the early 1900's, there were a lot of children working along side their folks as well to help with the family income.
  The Progressive Era was in high anticipation because of the diverse array of reform activities of some emphasizing that would need to have the different array of activities to continue their acts. It showed that each time, there would be more of a different continuing acts and they would need to be more of a overall free for all act. Progressives focused on different aspects for the economy, and would try to focus on problems such as child labor, etc. What intrigued me is the fact that child labor was still being passed on, and that there wouldn't be in any harms way if they only addressed the issue properly. Child Labor is so dangerous, and there should be an age limit to what age they are allowed to start working in the factories.

Chapter 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age, 1877-1900

    There was a high vote in participation, and trying to win the approval of political parties. Sadly, these political parties focused on economic growth and expanding the railroad rather than addressing the consequences during this part of the industrialization. The platforms these political parties stand for, would always focus on the positive rather than the negative. This has been the campaigning strategy since the early days of America, and though every political campaign would need to talk about how they can approve the US, it's also better to address the negative in my opinion as well. It shows that there would be more than enough of a high participation in what they can play to be the name game.
  Another part of the chapter that I found interesting was even though all these high stakes between the north and south was going on, no one wanted to focus on the real problem, which was the social consequence of industrialization. It took too long for people to realize and address the issue and focused on trying to strengthen every other part of this growth. It never mattered to what the voice had to say, but rather on how it would be more of an every day kind of thing.
  Money was in short supply today after realizing how precious and valuable the silver was. They would anticipate more funds to come, but there weren't enough people for it to go around and practice these kinds of habits. They stopped making silver coins and expanded the paper money instead. I found this interesting because currency is the only thing that keeps the economy flowing, and the fact that they used all their valuables says something. I'm glad they started expanding paper money rather keep using the silver instead.

Chapter 19: Immigration, Urbanization, and the Transformation of Popular Culture and Everyday Life, 1860-1900

During this chapter, it explained the increasing population growth in the cities. The cities thrived with more live and diversity; poor and rich classes lived in the cities during the 1830's. Each class started having their own culture within their own society during this Victorian age. I found it interesting how the middle class played roles for each gender. The men in the middle class had to work while the women had to be intellectually cultured with each other. It made sense that they would to portray a role in their society and they wanted to more cultured and connected by new traditions. Education started becoming a major priority by the 1900. Universities started becoming the collegiate landscape and medical education was improving a lot. I find this part intriguing; with my major being a nursing/biology, I like how education started improving in the medical field because it would be more efficient each time. I like how everything was improving over time and this was the time for innovation. Inverting to different ideas was coping into different matters and over time was still the recreation and similar ideas with different beliefs.

Quote responses

“Work thus belongs to the vocation of every person; indeed, man expresses and fulfills himself by working.” (CA 6, p. 443 ).

  A man expresses himself by working by showing his passion, care, and commitment for what he is doing. There is a lot of time and devotion that is shown into this, and it's carefully thought out to what happened to be known as different explanations each day. Shown in the passion of the Sisters of Notre Dame, they opened the high school knowing they were giving free education to girls that desired the thirst for knowledge, which later became a private school. The nuns are one of the many reasons why the school still exists, by their hard work and core value.

“A workman’s wages should be sufficient to enable him to support himself, his wife and his children.” (CA 8, p. 445 ).
 Though the ideal wage for a working man would be able to support himself and his family, it's hard for some of the average working men to do so. Minimum wage is not even enough for them to support themselves, let alone feed other mouths. Though the working man could not do it on one job alone, he would either find multiple jobs or have his children and wife finding jobs too which contributes for more desperation looking for jobs in the working field. More people looking for hire are able to add more to society. 


“Political parties should foster whatever they judge necessary for the common good. But they should never prefer their own advantage over this same common good.” (GS 75, p.218).
Political Parties are based on ideas and promises that could be changed. Most political stands are based on the common good and would be able to change ideas that have different standpoints. They never change their own preference. The whole time, it was major contradictions, but these promises helped the industrialization by having these corporations built to improve America.