1. The US built a strong relationship with Britain and still traded with them through the war, this in turn made the US an allied power. The event that really made the US no longer neutral jump into action was when the Germans attacked the Lusitania, a British ship. The US was able to grow their military forces at a rapid pace which allowed them to participate in modern warfare overseas.
2. Entering the war in the first place was a major concern for many US citizens and spawned arguements across the nation. Another topic people debated was whether or not the US should make military and economic preparations for war.
3. The US suffered minor damages compared to other European countries. It was a military struggle but it didn't last too long and it didn't cost the US greatly economically. About 112,000 soldiers died during the war but only about half of them died due to combat, the other half died of sickness and disease.
4. Since WWI, the US economy benefited greatly. The end of the war led to the great roaring 20s and boosted the US role into a position of international power.
Monday, April 24, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Propaganda Posters
Garrett Barrilleaux
1. Propaganda is a form of advertisement that is made to be appealing to people in order to get them to join a cause or contribute in some way.
1. Propaganda is a form of advertisement that is made to be appealing to people in order to get them to join a cause or contribute in some way.
2. "Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc." http://www.dictionary.com/browse/propaganda
3. a) America is in the form of a woman wearing a red, white, and blue dress with a blue and red hat covered in white stars. Big lettering at the top and bottom of the poster saying "WAKE UP, AMERICA!" and "CIVILIZATION CALLS EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD!". The womn has light skin with a dark background to focus on the woman. She's wearing makeup which helps focus on her face.
b) Germany is represented by a big angry gorilla holding a fainted woman in it's arms. It's holding a bat that says "Kuktur" which refers to Germany and their culture. The gorilla's face is brighter than the rest of it which draws your attention. It's wearing a German soldier helmet. It's standing on land with America written on it. It says "DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE" across the top and says "ENLIST U.S. ARMY" across the bottom.
c) The background is a big ominous German soldier looking over a destroyed city with blood dripping from it's hand and gun. He has green eyes. It says "Beat back the HUN with LIBERTY BONDS" with "HUN" written in bold red. There's a body of water in front of the soldier.
4. a) The artist wanted to make viewers seem like they aren't doing enough or helping so they would strive to serve their country and contribute to the fight.
b) This artist wanted people to see Germany as this imposing monster that needed to be destroyed. The helpless innocent woman in it's arms shows that we need to help an destroy the monster.
c) It shows Germans as an impending monster or demon that is bloodthirsty and coming or them. It makes people thin that liberty bonds will save them an beat the Huns.
5. a) This poster is meant for anyone who sees it as stated at the bottom of the poster,"Every man, woman, an child" Its meant to make people feel like they aren't aware or doing enough for the cause.
b) This is aimed towards men able to enlist to oin the army. It dramatizes the impending threat of Germany so they will fight it.
c) This poster is for adults, male or female, to buy liberty bonds and lets them know that you can still help the cause without actually enlisting.
6. I feel like advertising for the war was important because it informed more people of the dangers and how they could help, but the exaggeration in some of them and misleading images they depicted should have been restricted.
7. I think the government felt that propaganda was necessary because it was the most influential way of getting citizens to help fight the war. Since America wasn't fully prepared for this world war they needed all the help they could get and they believed that propaganda was the best if not the only way to achieve their goals.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-7jsJa5YaWremFlUFk1OVpDWUU/view
b) This is aimed towards men able to enlist to oin the army. It dramatizes the impending threat of Germany so they will fight it.
c) This poster is for adults, male or female, to buy liberty bonds and lets them know that you can still help the cause without actually enlisting.
6. I feel like advertising for the war was important because it informed more people of the dangers and how they could help, but the exaggeration in some of them and misleading images they depicted should have been restricted.
7. I think the government felt that propaganda was necessary because it was the most influential way of getting citizens to help fight the war. Since America wasn't fully prepared for this world war they needed all the help they could get and they believed that propaganda was the best if not the only way to achieve their goals.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-7jsJa5YaWremFlUFk1OVpDWUU/view
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Birmingham Field Trip
1. I knew about segregation in general during that time period such as the separate fountains and classes and that type of segregation. I also new about the church bombing and about the 4 little girls who died because of it, and I knew of the freedom riders.
2. I learned about more protests that occurred around Birmingham including the main one that involved the 16th baptist church and the park across from it. I learned about the thousands of people who arrested themselves for the cause in those few days and the backlash they fought through from the police force and firefighters.
3. Something that stood out was the case that held the items that belonged to the 11 year old girl who died in the church bombing. It showed her necklace, bible, purse, and other normal belongings with her that day. It also showed the brick that killed her and was embedded in her head which gives you a sense of the brutality of her death.
2. I learned about more protests that occurred around Birmingham including the main one that involved the 16th baptist church and the park across from it. I learned about the thousands of people who arrested themselves for the cause in those few days and the backlash they fought through from the police force and firefighters.
3. Something that stood out was the case that held the items that belonged to the 11 year old girl who died in the church bombing. It showed her necklace, bible, purse, and other normal belongings with her that day. It also showed the brick that killed her and was embedded in her head which gives you a sense of the brutality of her death.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
History Question Response
Garrett Barrilleaux
Q: How much control over the future do we have? What role do you see for individuals, governments, institutions, or other kinds of groups, or other factors, in shaping what happens in the future?
A: I think an average working class citizen does not have much power over the future of our society as a whole. The government and powerful innovators determine what society as a whole lives and becomes. Individual people have the ability to control their own future through hard work, but civilization as a whole depends on the most powerful an innovative people of the world.
Q: How much control over the future do we have? What role do you see for individuals, governments, institutions, or other kinds of groups, or other factors, in shaping what happens in the future?
A: I think an average working class citizen does not have much power over the future of our society as a whole. The government and powerful innovators determine what society as a whole lives and becomes. Individual people have the ability to control their own future through hard work, but civilization as a whole depends on the most powerful an innovative people of the world.
Monday, February 6, 2017
Music and Urbanization
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Music has changed and developed drastically over the past two centuries. Beginning as a representation of the upper class, and shifting to everyday entertainment for all ranks. Through this change, it affected urbanization and the culture of America as a whole. Popular forms of music such as jazz and ragtime spread across popular cities, causing a spread in culture and formed connections, allowing rural areas of America to join the urbanized world.
During the 19th century, music was used mainly as a form of entertainment among the genteel class in America. It showed a pubic demonstration o their elite stature over the lower classes. Over time it was realized that music could be used as a way to promote social reform with the poorer classes, and music was completely transformed. Developing from an act of elite priority into a tool to promote social, political, and economic reform, which in turn, reflected the ideals of the century of the Progressive Movement. This time period of the early 1900s consisted of focus towards American evolution and advancement. During this period, people believed that the government should be actively involved in this reform. The school systems were a part of this demand, which eventually led to a new form of music aid in education. The Progressive era encourage the widespread of music to rural ares with this inclusion into schools.
One of the more popular forms of music which appeared during the late 19th century was ragtime. Ragtime by definition is "a genre of musical composition or the piano". It was inevitably a form o music that acted as a base or other music genres, such as jazz, to then branch off and add on to it to created a more popular and established composure. During this period of the late 19th century, ragtime was popularized in Missouri by a teenage musician by the name of Tom Turpin, who created a defining piano piece titled "Harlem Rag". Over time, ragtime was slowly over taken by jazz which fed off of the ragtime genre. Ragtime still had its own unique style, but jazz branched off into a more popular genre of music.
azz was one of the biggest booms in the music industry during the early 1900s. It all started in New Orleans, otherwise known as "The Cradle of azz" at the time. New Orleans played the biggest part in impacting the development and the culture of jazz in America. As the popularity of jazz grew, it spread away from New Orleans across America to bigger and more populated cities. This spread across different places and cultures slowly morphed jazz with new techniques and and styles added to it. A popular example of this included African-American musical culture as blues songs and piano techniques. As the industrial revolution began, music and entertainment became a mass "industry" and attracted audiences and performers to populated cities and shows. The development of travel bands also created a new form of entertainment that was able to come to populated cities and audiences.
One of the greatest and most influential musical figures of the 1900s was Louis Armstrong. He was born and raised in New Orleans, the heart of jazz in America at the time, and had a natural talent for music. Growing up he was a part of a barbershop quartet, which helped Armstrong developed his ear for rhythm and musical tone. His ability to improvise and create new music with his trumpet caused a roar over audiences and built his fame. This ability also helped transform the more stiff tune of ragtime into the relaxed rhythm of jazz. His popularity transferred through the younger jazz musicians and created an entire branch of music that developed throughout history.
During this era, American music and culture was forever changed. Transforming and developing from a secluded form of entertainment and demonstration of rank, to a public and widespread tool used for different aspects of life. The late 19th century and early 20th century was a time of changed and advancement with bled into the entertainment industry. Without the help of reforms and the great musicians of the time, entertainment as we know it toady could have been completely transformed.
Work Cited
https://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2014/05/the-development-of-music-education-in-an-ever-changing-society/
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035811/default.html
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/443700?terms=jazz+music&sType=multi
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/245426?terms=1900+musicians&sType=quick
http://z15.invisionfree.com/schurrapush/ar/t1674.htm
Music has changed and developed drastically over the past two centuries. Beginning as a representation of the upper class, and shifting to everyday entertainment for all ranks. Through this change, it affected urbanization and the culture of America as a whole. Popular forms of music such as jazz and ragtime spread across popular cities, causing a spread in culture and formed connections, allowing rural areas of America to join the urbanized world.
During the 19th century, music was used mainly as a form of entertainment among the genteel class in America. It showed a pubic demonstration o their elite stature over the lower classes. Over time it was realized that music could be used as a way to promote social reform with the poorer classes, and music was completely transformed. Developing from an act of elite priority into a tool to promote social, political, and economic reform, which in turn, reflected the ideals of the century of the Progressive Movement. This time period of the early 1900s consisted of focus towards American evolution and advancement. During this period, people believed that the government should be actively involved in this reform. The school systems were a part of this demand, which eventually led to a new form of music aid in education. The Progressive era encourage the widespread of music to rural ares with this inclusion into schools.
One of the more popular forms of music which appeared during the late 19th century was ragtime. Ragtime by definition is "a genre of musical composition or the piano". It was inevitably a form o music that acted as a base or other music genres, such as jazz, to then branch off and add on to it to created a more popular and established composure. During this period of the late 19th century, ragtime was popularized in Missouri by a teenage musician by the name of Tom Turpin, who created a defining piano piece titled "Harlem Rag". Over time, ragtime was slowly over taken by jazz which fed off of the ragtime genre. Ragtime still had its own unique style, but jazz branched off into a more popular genre of music.
azz was one of the biggest booms in the music industry during the early 1900s. It all started in New Orleans, otherwise known as "The Cradle of azz" at the time. New Orleans played the biggest part in impacting the development and the culture of jazz in America. As the popularity of jazz grew, it spread away from New Orleans across America to bigger and more populated cities. This spread across different places and cultures slowly morphed jazz with new techniques and and styles added to it. A popular example of this included African-American musical culture as blues songs and piano techniques. As the industrial revolution began, music and entertainment became a mass "industry" and attracted audiences and performers to populated cities and shows. The development of travel bands also created a new form of entertainment that was able to come to populated cities and audiences.
One of the greatest and most influential musical figures of the 1900s was Louis Armstrong. He was born and raised in New Orleans, the heart of jazz in America at the time, and had a natural talent for music. Growing up he was a part of a barbershop quartet, which helped Armstrong developed his ear for rhythm and musical tone. His ability to improvise and create new music with his trumpet caused a roar over audiences and built his fame. This ability also helped transform the more stiff tune of ragtime into the relaxed rhythm of jazz. His popularity transferred through the younger jazz musicians and created an entire branch of music that developed throughout history.
During this era, American music and culture was forever changed. Transforming and developing from a secluded form of entertainment and demonstration of rank, to a public and widespread tool used for different aspects of life. The late 19th century and early 20th century was a time of changed and advancement with bled into the entertainment industry. Without the help of reforms and the great musicians of the time, entertainment as we know it toady could have been completely transformed.
Work Cited
https://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2014/05/the-development-of-music-education-in-an-ever-changing-society/
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200035811/default.html
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/443700?terms=jazz+music&sType=multi
https://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/245426?terms=1900+musicians&sType=quick
http://z15.invisionfree.com/schurrapush/ar/t1674.htm
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