Square Deal

In the years leading up to WWII, the federal government, as part of the many programs resulting from the New Deal, created a program called “The Bonneville Project Act" in 1937. This act gave authority to a new federal agency known initially as the Bonneville Power Project, and after 1950, as Bonneville Power Administration, (the BPA). This agency, which still exists, was tasked with developing hydroelectric power resources on the Columbia River in rural western Washington State. In the process…

of every four Americans was unemployed (Tindall and Shi, p. 1100). He was burdened with the responsibility of getting a struggling nation back on its feet. He set out to accomplish this through a series of legislation known collectively as the New Deal. Roosevelt began by…

The Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, made the radio and was able to send and receive radio signals in nineteen sixteen. Radios had become an important technological advances that positively affected society (Taylor. Pg.5). The radio impacted many lives in the past and today. The greatest impact radios had in life was during the Great Depression. Without radios, the United States would have been socially and economically behind because of the Great Depression in the late nineteen twenties and…

believe that no one died in Tiananmen Square. Based on the evidence from the reading, I would infer that someone probably died in Tiananmen Square that day. The choice is up to you, as you will believe what you want to believe. Who is the audience? Throughout most of the article, it seems as if this would be a news article from a newspaper, as it's very persuasive and to the point. In addition, the article tells you what you want to hear - no one died in Tiananmen Square. This article would be…

moment. In Beijing in 1989, many students were upset with China and they felt that they needed to protest against the government. Time Magazine claims that this picture has a lot of effect on what people think actually happened that day in Tiananmen Square because of the fact that the Chinese government blocks out most of the information of what happened that day. “More than a quarter century after the massacre, the Chinese government’s extensive censorship apparatus — which employs two…

In the photo the photographer depicts a single man, although many stepped in front of the tank at different times of the day. This action represented a small sacrifice compared to the larger one that occurred in Tiananmen Square. This time no bloodshed occurred, only a silent protest that showed the students hadn’t given up and the threat of violence wouldn’t change their steadfast beliefs. Thanks in part of this photo, the region will always be known for the courageous students…

Westward Expansion Via Manifest Destiny LG: How did Americans come to believe in Manifest Destiny? Americans came to believe in Manifest Destiny, by John O’ Sullivan stating, “God has given land to Americans”. Thus, making the country to believe that it was justifiable, that Americans should expand the country from coast to coast. Though the expansion lead to Sectionalism with the North and South. Due to America’s history, culture, and government, Americans thought that they were the best…

enmeshed in a system that controlled people ...and by habituating them to mass campaigns of terror and intimidation. Such a system bred both fear and compliance” An example of this can be seen in the Tiananmen Square massacre. In 1989 almost a million Chinese, mostly students gathered in Tiananmen Square to protest for democracy in China…

control, in effort to have the upper hand on knowledge of the people. The Chinese authorities still censor information regarding the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989, with 2 million online censors (Thomas). But the question begs, why has Tank Man made more of an impact and is one of the top chosen photos among Widener’s other images taken during the Tiananmen Square Incident of 1989? Widener’s other photos depict much more violence or focus on one side of the massacre, displaying either the…

Tiananmen Square massacre. Tiananmen Square, situated in China's capital, Beijing, is the largest public space in the world. Being one of the largest tourist attractions in the world, it is surrounded by monumental public buildings that line its edges and vast spaces in between that echoes this scary event. It is named after the Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace) located to its North. This gate separates it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the Third largest city square in the…