American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark. Young teens from around the area would show off their dance moves and thousands of kids from around the nation would tune in every week to see what the kids on the show were doing. Clark would often interview the teenagers about their opinions of the songs being played, most memorably through the "Rate-a-Record" segment. During the segment, two audience members each ranked two records on a scale of 35 to 98, after which the two opinions were averaged by Clark, who then asked the audience members to justify their scores. The segment gave rise, perhaps apocryphally, to the phrase "It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."

American bandstand was originally aired from Philadelphia with a man named Bob horn as the host. It was never supposed to be a dance show but when Horn decided that was the way to go. Dick Clark took over after Horn was fired after a Drinking and driving arrest. Clark on really ever hosted the show alone except for one special episode. The only person to ever co-host the show with Dick Clark was Donna Summer, who joined him to present a special episode dedicated to the release of the Casablanca film Thank God It's Friday on 27 May 1978. 

Even after the show ceased to exist and air it was used for inspiration in other movies. Grease and Hairspray are two examples. In Grease National Bandstand came and filmed their school dance and there is a resemblance between American Bandstand and The Corny Collins Show.

Denied Detained Deported

The book Denied Detained Deported by Ann Bausum tells the stories of three different immigrants. Emma Goldman is one of these three. After 30 years on American soil she was sent back to her homeland. She was deemed dangerous due to her Russian background.  The cause behind her deportation was small but not completely unjust. When World War 1 started she began encouraging young men and women to oppose the draft. For this she was arrested at a young age but was allowed the ability to continue her life until she was deported along with many others for being a force against what the government wanted. Herb Karliner was another of the three. He took the trip over on the St. Louis and was then denied entrance to the United States. He boarded the ship that was bound for Cuba in hopes of being able to reach the United States. Days before the St. Louis set sail Cuba denied the landing passes invalid. The ship reached Havanna and all but the Cubans, four Spainards and 22 visa holding Jews were sent back to Germany. On the way home word came that other European countries would take them in as refugees. Herb and his family did not have to return to Germany. The only problem still left standing was that while all of this continued to happen the U.S President did absolutely nothing to help. From these two stories her book shows that the discrimination against immigrants repeats in cycles.

This book helps to create a bridge from past experiences to present times. It gives the hardcore research to not make the same mistakes as we did. The author Ann Bausumn analyzes the lessons learned by the immigrants to better help explain modern events that are similar yo experiences held by other immigrants.

Sources: Denied Detained Deported By: Ann Bausum

Chapter 13 Section 1

- Roosevelt's goal was to create the United Nations and have a more peaceful world. The Soviets wanted to keep Germany weak and keep the countries inbetween them under Soviet control.

- Roosevelt believed that economic growth was the key to world peace.

- the declaration of liberated liberated Europe was a statement that the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live and it worked pretty well

- Germany was to be divided into four zones and be controlled by Great Britain, The United States, the Soviet Union, or France.

- Truman thought that we should stand up to the Russians because hew as very anti communist and suspicious of Stalin.

- A satellite nation is a communist country of Eastern Europe.

- An iron curtain is a large separation of a country based on beliefs and control over those people.

Earth Day

The Film "A Fierce Green Fire" is based on and tells the story of the environmental movement in America and how it spread all over the world.It largely started in America when earth day was established in the 70's. A large part of what Earth Day advocated for was pollution and Love Canal had a very large pollution problem. A business had been dumping their waste in a canal near their town and the amount of chemicals had gotten so bad that they were seeping into the towns soil and all of the basements. It caused many children to get sick much easier and 18 out of 22 newborn children were born with birth defects. The fight to get permanently relocated took time but eventually it happened. This idea of make our earth a better place spread to the Amazon where deforestation was a large problem. After a very long fight the locals were able to establish seringueros reserves where they could live and the land was protected. All of the pollution and environmental awareness around the world sprung up from Americans standing up for the land they were living on.

"Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.


Solar Power is the conversion of sunlight into energy. It can be direct or indirect. One way is Concentrated Solar Power systems. These types of systems collect sun from a large area and focus it into a small beam that is then transmitted into energy. the other type is called Photovalics. This is most commonly found as what powers our calculators and homes.

Due to the fact that we have found ways to power our homes and all electronics in our homes off of energy from the sun is pretty astounding. It is a new way of not only limiting our electronic uses but also taking the chemicals that add to the greenhouse gases in the environment out of the air. Solar power panels are what are most commonly used. They allow for a decrease in need for burning fossil fuels and thus allowing a decrease in greenhouse gas buildup. Some places where you can but solar panels and then have them installed are sometimes general stores like Target and Westsidewholesale.com.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power

-http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/solar-power-help-environment.htm

-http://www.google.com/search?q=solar+pwer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active#q=solar+power&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&safe=active&spell=1 

Chapter 12 Section 2 notes

1. Holding the line against Japan
- Chester Nimitz: planned against japan
A. The fall of the Philippines
- American and Philippine defenses retreat to Bataan
- evacuated to Australia
- Bataan surrendered and 78,000 were taken as prisoners of war
B. the Doolittle Raid
- Roosevelt wanted to bomb Tokyo
- replaced normal aircraft with B-25 bombers
- too long to land pack on ship... Had to land in china
C. A change in Japanese Strategy
- wanted to cut Americas supply line to Australia
- planned to attack midway: Americas last remaining base in the North Pacific
D. The Battle of the Coral Sea
- Americans had broken Japanese code
- caused japan to call of raid on New Guinea
- American supply lines stayed open
E. The Battle of Midway
- Americans also knew of the attack on Midway
- Japanese were squashed
- forced to retreat

2. Turning Back the German Army
- American sent supplies to Soviets
- Churchill planned to attack the periphery or edges
A. The struggle for North Africa
- America invaded North Africa to help fight in Egypt
- Afrika Corps: German troops in the area
- British forces pushed Rommel back
- Kassarine Pass: America suffered, Patton put in command
B. The Battle of the Atlantic
- German submarines had sunk about 360 American ships of the coast
- shipyards produced more ships than the Germans were able to sink
- navy set up a convoy system
C. Stalingrad
- Hitler went to knock soviets put of the war
- ordered to hold Stalingrad at all costs
- reinforcements sent and Germans forced to surrender
- put Germans on the defensive

Radio Hour

Radio Show
By: Maddie Williams, Claire Haley, Lexi Cole and Leia Watson


Claire: Hello everyone and welcome to The Dollys Show. We have a very exciting show for you today, but first Breaking News!

Leia: Today has officially been marked as Black Tuesday. This is due to the fact that the stock market has taken yet another large drop. As you all may know unless you receive a margin call there is no need to worry.

Lexí: On a lighter note we have a new music line up for you all today. Let's start it off with Ella Fitzgerald cover of Cole Porter's song 'Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)'...(play song here) Coming up,  the back story of Babe Ruth, but first a little Louie Armstrong...( play song here)

Claire: You all know Babe Ruth as The Great Bambino, but just recently I had the chance to really get to know Babe Ruth and learn about his life at home as well as his childhood. As a child Ruth was sent away to a reformatory school where he picked up his baseball skills. Later on in his career he met Helen Woodford and they then adopted a child together. Four years following, they seperated due to infidelities. Currently, Babe Ruth is said to be focussing more on his career as a baseball superstar. That's all for your daily sports update.

Lexí: Thank you for tuning into the Dolly Show on this fine evening. Tune in tomorrow for compositions of your favorite artist, latest storys, and sport news. Good night! (play a few dance songs before new show starts)

Dorothea Lange

Maddie Williams
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       Dorothea Lange was born in New Jersey during the year 1895. When she was young she contracted polio which caused her right leg and left foot to be noticeably weaker. Art and photography was a large part of Dorothea's childhood. Her parents were very invested in her education. Therefore creative arts were largely encouraged in the Lange household. After high school she decided to pursue photography. She studied the art form at Columbia University.

      After college she began her career working as an intern and assistant to multiple different big name photographers, such as Arnold Genthe a leading portrait photographer. She was running her own successful photography business and living in San Fransico with her husband and children by 1918. With the Great Depression in the 1930s, she turned her camera on what she started to see in her own San Francisco neighborhoods: labor strikes and breadlines. This was her first taste of documentary photography. She traveled documenting the rural hardship that she encountered for the Farm Security Administration, established by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Lange’s body of work from her adventures included her most famous work of art "Migrant Mother". This photograph is said to have perfectly captured the hardships of the Great Depression. It is subtle and beautiful but yet it is relatable to for thousands of Americans during this time and era.

I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. (From: Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).

        This is a quote from Dorothea Lange that portrays what she was thinking at the time she took her photo. Six different photos were in this set and all helped show the affect that The Great Depression had on most of America’s population. The Great depression took everything from families and caused to move and migrate constantly to where they could find work. After her photos became more noticed she was hired by the government to photograph people in Japanese internment camps. She began to have health problems and she began to get increasingly sick.  She battled these problems for around two decades until she eventually passed away from esophageal cancer in October of 1965.

Sources:
- http://www.biography.com/people/dorothea-lange-9372993#final-years&awesm=~oBqj81H6QofWR0
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/128_migm.html