Civil Rights Speech

We are young adults! If we don't stand up for ourselves now! Our future will be in a white man's hands! Are we to be treated like our grandmothers that we may or may not even be related to?! NO! I say we stand up now! And fight for our future, now! But before we can fight a war we need to unite ourselves from within. We need to join our fellow teenage enemies in order to reach a happy neighborhood and life. Not only is our ultimate goal our freedom, but also to live in peace with others who aren't of the same skin. Blame is being put everywhere! We should not be blamed for our color! However, as we follow Malcom, we will not put the blame to others. It will end with start of equality! Let us not direct the blame anywhere, especially not to our God! If we believe in Him, He will not lead us down that suicidal path! It is not the whites we need to remove, but the cancer of racism! In order for us to do something now, we need to follow Malcom X and help him, help us.

Civil Rights Speech

We are young adults! If we don't stand up for ourselves now! Our future will be in a white man's hands! Are we to be treated like our grandmothers that we may or may not even be related to?! NO! I say we stand up now! And fight for our future, now! But before we can fight a war we need to unite ourselves from within. We need to join our fellow teenage enemies in order to reach a happy neighborhood and life. Not only is our ultimate goal our freedom, but also to live in peace with others who aren't of the same skin. Blame is being put everywhere! We should not be blamed for our color! However, as we follow Malcom, we will not put the blame to others. It will end with start of equality! Let us not direct the blame anywhere, especially not to our God! If we believe in Him, He will not lead us down that suicidal path! It is not the whites we need to remove, but the cancer of racism! In order for us to do something now, we need to follow Malcom X and help him, help us.

Nixon/Carter paragraphs.

What the real threat to America is, according to Carter, and is that threat still with us today?

According to Carter, the real threat to America is confidence. "The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways." "deeper than the gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession." "The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America." "Our people are losing faith, not only in government itself but in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy."  So, the real threat is our own confidence in ourselves, each other, and the future is dwindling, fast. "Confidence in the future has supported everything else- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States." He says that it is possible for us to fix it. "There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure. " " the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our Nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem. " I think the threat is still with us. With the economy the way it is, and the way it affects everyone and everything we don't have any confidence in anything we do or may be able to do. 

Summarize what Carter is saying about American Society and analyze America today against his critique.

"In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption." "Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns." Carter is saying that American Society has changed from being hardworking, neighborly, and having faith in God, to selfish, worrying about self-indulgence rather than their friend who might lose their job. Americans became self-interested. I think what Carter is saying about American society is right and correct to this day. Even though we, as a whole, have found that owning things does not satisfy our longing for meaning, we still do it. It's like a ladder, the more things someone owns, the higher up on the ladder they are, the less stuff they own, the lower down they are. 

How do President Obama's plan and Carter's plan differ and how are they alike? How do their plans reveal what they think the problem really is?

"intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our Nation."

"it is worldwide"   

"never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977--never." 

"to ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my residential authority to set import quotas... I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow."

"energy security... most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in out Nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel... creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace 2.5 million barrels of imported oil per day."

"creation for the Nation's first solar bank, which will help us achieve the crucial goal of 20% of our energy coming form solar power by the year 2000."

"asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our Nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil by 50% within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source." 

"To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the redtape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects. "

"I'm proposing a bold conservation program to involve every State, county, and city and every average American in our energy battle."

Carter says that by obeying his energy plan it is considered an act of patriotism. 

 "Every gallon of oil each one of us saves is a new form of production. It gives us more freedom, more confidence, that much more control over our own lives. "

The big difference between Carter's plan and Obama's plan is that Carter asks more of the Americans than Obama does. Obama is doing more on his part and putting more money out there, whereas Carter asked the Americans to participate and was  relying on us more than Obama is. Obama's plan goes straight to the cars, making them more energy efficient instead of making the citizens do an active part. Both plans support breaking the Nation's dependence on oil. I think the real problem is the cars and technology that give off the emissions, and our dependence on oil.

1. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS CHANGING IN AMERICA, FROM ARCHIE'S POINT-OF-VIEW?

Inter-racial relationships. Blacks and whites are being shown kissing on television. He's stunned and can't believe that the world has come to that. 

People can choose their religions, like Sammy being Jewish, Archie finds that odd. Minorities are being moved to "white countries", when they shouldn't because "God would've put us al together if he wanted us to be together"

2. IN WHAT WAYS ARE YOUNG PEOPLE (HIS DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW IN THE CLIP) AND MINORITIES CHANGING SOCIETY FOR ARCHIE?  

They make his point of view (prejudice) stand out and make him look like the odd man out. The society is becoming more accepting of minorities. When Archie says that he was always against slavery, the daughter and son-in-law and other man start singing, and making fun of him because he really wasn't and if just sucking up to Sammy. 

3.  WHAT IS CHANGING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE CLIP BELOW?

Black Americans are moving up in society. They get to move into a new apartment on a higher floor and a higher position in the economy.

Ronald Reagan. unit project

Ronald Reagan was a brilliant president, due to his skill to communicate and his skill to communicate was based on the fact that he believed what he said and people no matter who they were, where they were on the spectrum, believed what he believed. That by itself made him very effective. His persona brought a kind of nostalgia. He also brought a lot of anti-black populism, was against black rights. He wasn't a racist personally, but instead used anti-black as a political stance. "he would gift his shirt off his back to someone in need whoever it is but who on a cultural and philosophical level can often be accused of at least insensitivity."(Richard Norton Smith) "...there was something more about Reagan than anything we have talked about the policies and that was the picture of man...He made the country feel good...he actually had a sense of an imprint on the public; that's leadership."(Haynes Johnson)

    These quotes speak for themselves. "Reagan made more changes and I believe more significant changes set in motion even greater changes than I think any president since FDR." (Richard Norton Smith) "His legacy is ending the Cold War without weapons being fired" (Annelise Anderson) Reagan was really serious about ending nuclear weapons. "...if Ronald Reagan had not been president in the 1980's, the Cold War might have lasted longer than it might have ended on terms that were a lot less happy for the United States."(Michael Beschloss) "...continued the policies of every president since Harry Truman in fighting the Cold War". (Haynes Johnson) "He changed the role of government, depreciated the role of public service, the way money was spent and allocated." (Haynes Johnson) "changed the American mind by saying no longer am I going to be in the rubric of Lyndon Johnson who essentially said let's centralize power in Washington and make government as strong as possible." (Michael Beschloss)   
     "...most politicians, after all, were incrementalists -- they were perfectly prepared to live with the equilibrium in terms of not only the Soviet Union but with the 50 years long seemingly irreversible trend by which power flowed to Washington, DC. Reagan began the revolutionary process of reversing that flow." (Richard Norton Smith) "he also changed the way people see conservatism...most people thought that conservatives were people who wouldn't look at a new moon out of respect for the old." (Richard Norton Smith) "Occasionally historians have minor contribution to make and sometimes we forget that that's so, and one of them is that as time passes, you can siphon away sometimes the things that are perhaps less important from those that are really more important." (Michael Beschloss) The same goes for Ronald Reagan, sometimes Presidents have minor contributions and people tend to forget who they were, but Ronald Reagan did important things that got us to where we are now.

 

 

What are the problems America faces?

One problem is the U.S is facing the longest and worst sustained inflation that distorts our economic decisions. Another problem is public spending. Government is the problem.

What are Reagan's solutions?

Government is not the solution. Not singling out groups of people to pay higher taxes. To focus on a special interest group, Americans. Plans to put all Americans back to work. Freeing all Americans from the run away living cost.

 

 

What makes Reagan effective here?

His humor.

What does this reveal about Regan?

"I was a democrat" He took some blame in it, through his humor. It also reveals that he might not want to answer the question so he turns to humor or that he's being normal and friendly. 

What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this?

Policies that enforce strength, restraint, and confidence. He would decide when to invade when we are strong and not wait. He would back away militarily when necessary (restraint) and negotiate. Through making peace, he would be confident in his decision and his country,

How did this event effect Reagan's role with the American public?

 His role changed from not having to worry about walking around the block, to seriously considering it and not doing it. I think before he wasn't thinking that other people had a strong dislike towards him until that event. After the shooting, I think he knows that he needs to be more careful.

Who is the audience for this speech?

 The citizens living under the roof of Communism.

What is the argument Reagan makes here?

 Communism is evil, and makes its people non-believers. It is inferior to the United States. Before Communism you may do or be something but after Communism you are no longer doing or being anything.

What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?

To stick up for America against the people who try and make America feel inferior.

 What is the message here?

 Things are so much better in that time period and during Reagan's presidency than they were during Carter's.

 

How does the ad use Carter?

 Carter was before Reagan, they talk about Interest rates being lower than the 4 previous years and how times are so much better since he's not President.

 

What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?

 They are raised since Reagan; that because he is in office everyone is happier and their morals are raised. People are striving to do better.

 

What is the criticism of Communism being offered here?

 becoming to understand the importance of freedom. new policy of reform and openness. "Are these the beginnings of the profound changes in the Soviet State? Or are they Tolkien gestures intended to raise hopes in the West or to strengthen the Soviet's system without changing it?" He is saying that the Russian's supposedly welcome change but aren't really changing it. He also says that the U.S does welcome change and welcomes that you actually have to do something to make the change.

 

Do you think this was an effective speech?

 I think it was an okay speech. It was subtle, which is good because you don't want to come right out and say what someone else is doing wrong. I get it because the Soviets need to "tear down their wall" of self-righteousness or independence, but it just didn't do it for me. It is also well done in terms of friendliness. It's not like we're holding out our hands, but it's also not like we are saying they need to be our friends or we'll be their enemies. Overall, it got the point across.

 

Who is the audience for this broadcast?

"talking to the committed" I think the audience is to the other countries who might think about bombing us.

 

What do you think the American people thought of this action and Reagan's explanation of it?

Apparently they supported it; 4,672 (80% approval rating) people supported the President's action. I think they thought that they did everything they could to avoid the American casualties because there is no mention of Libyan casualties.

 

What was the foreign response, do you think?

I think the foreign response is criticism; from Russia, and Arab countries

1990's

1990's Extra Clinton Notes

Extra Clinton Notes
Clinton talked to the "American People" and he addressed who asked the question. He went up to them and asked them how it affected them personally. Definetely in that moment, he was persuading people to vote for him.

2nd quarter research project

The Grim Reaper. How it works. What's so scary about dying; what will it feel like? what will we see? what will we do? where will we go? (maybe not that one)