Sunday, October 17, 2010

Ellis Island

The photographs of Ellis Island shows the immigrants coming to the United States at the turn of the century. They must have been feeling really bad and they had to wait in line outside for tickets , they also had to go through a mental test and eat in very little places and often you had no seat to sit and eat because it was all taken. They also must have been really tired of all the waiting with they're belongings. It must have been very frustrating.

The Shirt Song

The workers who have often created music that served as a form of protest and a way to get them through the long hours of the workday, created a song that shows us how tiring and sad there life was. It shows how tired they were and sleepy. It also shows how the women were plying there needles, poor and hungry with no care what's so ever. The workers always working , day and night, nonstop , they need care. This song is really sad, it shows how miserable life must have been for these workers and how they were treated so bad.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010



  Truths about American cowboys is that after the civil war in America, American cowboys came from the east, Midwest, and south to work on ranches and drive the trail, over 50,000 rode the herds. The struggles that an American cowboy had to face was his duty as a worker in the cattle business is at times to ride over the range in order to see that straying cattle do not rove too far from the assigned limits of time herd of which lie has charge, at times to drive the herd from one locality to another, and at times to round up the dispersed cattle, by which is meant to collect them together for the purpose of branding calves, or of selecting beef cattle, which latter are driven to railroad stations for shipment to market. A few cowboys even came from the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. The reality are the interrelationships between humans, horses, and cattle in the early twentieth century. Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer features almost 100 of Smith's finest black and white photographs printed on warm-toned paper. This exhibition pays tribute to the beauty and excitement of Smith's work and the way of life he recorded. As a young boy in Fannin County, northeast of Fort Worth, Smith had a passion for art and for cowboy life. Daunted at first by the challenge of combining these two loves, he doubted his ability to properly capture the country's beauty. He wrote: "From the first time I laid eyes on the sun burnt plains of the West, with its grand scenery, I have been in love with its still, enchanted solitude. Its change of colors no artist can portray."





Tuesday, September 28, 2010

The Oregon Trail Game

  The Oregon trail game has a connection with learning because you get to see how the people back then used to wear they're cloths and what items they used to buy , what kind of foods they like to eat and how they used to live. It has to do with learning because it shows how it was to be a cowboy back then. Also it shows the kind of people they used to have a long time ago. It's very interesting to learn about country cowboy because you get to see what they used to do and how they used to act like. That's why the game has a connection with learning.

Hulu Gunsmoke Episode

  On Hulu i have noticed that the stereotypes on the Gunsmoke episode are of cowboys, the chief said no one but the marshall dylan can see the paper , they used the guy for a paper. the farmer is another stereo type that it means that farmers have bad mood if your trying to go on their lawn. They try to control the farmer they give him minutes to move out because they want to take his land by building a rail road. The woman is another stereo type of a sensible woman. Some of the other cowboys seem stupid because one of the cowboys don't know how to read, so he draws pictures explaining what he want's to say. Those are all different kinds of stereotypes, one much different then the other one.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Relationships Between The Treatment Of African-Americans During Reconstruction With The Treatment Of The Peoples During The United States Civil Rights Movement


The African-American Civil Rights movement , refers to the movement in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African American and restoring suffrage in the southern states. When most Americans think of the Civil Rights Movement, they have in mind a span of time beginning with the 1954 Supreme Court’s. Decision in Brown vs. Broad of education which outlawed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and culminated in the late 1960s or early 1970s. In the history of the U.S., no other era embodies the rise of youthful self-conscious idealism. The period produced a generation that questioned the premises and values sacred to their parents. Young white Americans, usually middle-class and living in large urban concentrations, participated in a process, which they expressed in art and in politics. After the Civil War, the U. S. expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

This amendment only outlawed slavery, it did not provide equal rights, not even citizenship. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. following the Compromise reconstruction ended of 1877 between Northern and Southern white elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South.