Due 12/17/2013
Barack Obama: "And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part - through protests and struggle, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience and always at great risk - to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time."

• This is a speech President Obama presented in 2008 about race. What he is conveying to the public is, slavery has gone pass what was delivered by the Emancipation Proclamation. There still isn't equal rights for men and women of every color today in the United States. What he is suggesting for this to become a true reality is for people of every color to bond together through protests, courts, and struggle to narrow this great  gap.

Due 12.10.13

Wilson: "Who in this great audience knows his employer? I mean among those who go down into the mines or go into the mills and factories...Therefore, whenever bodies of men employ bodies of men, it ceases to be a private relationship" (p.440).

1. Wilson is talking about the workforce not being private anymore, due to the fact that so many are being employed and employees don't get to know their employers directly. With such a large number of employees the enterprise is public, the government can exercise its power in businesses.
2. I chose this quote because this is still going on today. Wilson lived many years ago and his progressive ideology come to past in this day and age.

The Great Depression:

"The failure of so many banks, combined with a general and nationwide loss of confidence in the economy, led to much-reduced levels of spending and demand and hence of production, thus aggravating the downward spiral."

1. Banks crashed leading to people loosing all their money and assets. It really took a toll on the economy in general. People wern't able to get a job and couldn't really provide for themselves and or their families.
2. I chose this quote because it helps to illustrate the effects of that time period. I learned about the great depression in school before but I never fully paid attention to it. This was such a hard time for people, not being able to work and provide for their families, having to sell whatever they can. Its just horrible! 

I chose this picture because it conveys the message of heartache and pain of a citizen during this time. It shows how this person and how many people felt; being down on their luck not being able to survive they wanted to. It relates to today.This economy now is not doing great, and many people look and feel the way this person in the picture looks. Many people are unemployed and not sure about tomorrow. 

Due 12.3.2013

" that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abe Lincoln wrote this around the time of the civil war and what he is stating in this address is how the young lives who fought in this battle were extremely devoted for fighting and dying for their country. They didn't fight and die for nothing, they fought for a cause which was for liberty; they in essence gave a new illustration of freedom.

I chose this quote because I think constantly about how over the many years this country has grown and developed. It came such a long way. Departing from Britain and making way as a new and developing country makes me proud as an American as I sit and reflect on what Iearned. Im not a fan of wars because all the casualties and deaths,but there are deeper meanings behind it once you think about it. Brave men and women are fighting over seas in defense of our country everyday and those who lost their lives, its an unfortunate event, but at the end of the day, in my opinion, did not die in vain.