Topics for research
1. The Red Scare (first one) - Chavez, Jared, & Graham
2. Hassidic Jews - Zack, Jon Jon, Savannah
3. Unskilled and Semi-skilled workers strike of 1919.Molly, Hannah, Hayden
4. Atlantic City - Baily, Mark, Ty - look at http://www.hbo.com/html/series/boardwalk-empire/inside-boardwalk-empire/index.html
5. Dillingham Commission - Lawrence, Chris, Randall
6. Rise of Ku Klux Klan - 1920s - Mica, Nathan, Lane
7. Prohibition - Michelle
8. Populist Movement- Isaac, Chase, Cody
9. Henry Ford's book, The International Jew - Carson & Connor
10. Johnson Act - Blake, Cole, Conner D
Phone numbers - Insert these in your phones by Sunday, and I will delete them after Sunday.If I have your phone number wrong, let me know asap.
Mark -432-978-0000
Hayden -806-445-2773
Conner D- 806-831-8667
Jared - 806-893-7995
Connor -806-319-1277
Hannah - 806-781-9471
Chavez -806-543-9095
Perryman -806-773-5809
Graham -806-789-3012
Molly-806-893-5281
Baily - 806-203-0338
Zack -806-632-3628
Savannah -806-252-4537
Lawrence - 806-559-5932
Carson -806-787-7285
Chris -806-224-8583
Randall-806-790-7858
Isaac -806-786-3361
Ty -806-239-4054
Mica -806-445-1247
Lane-806-441-4884
Cole -806-392-7484
Chase-806-523-8312
Michelle -806-773-0358
Blake-806-241-1327
Cody-806-549-9291
Nathan -806-781-9007
Couch -806-470-9940
Tonight's rehearsal was great! Thanks for your patience. I know it was tedious. Write your list of why your subject relates to our play. You may work together. Just be sure to sign your comments so that I can give you a grade.
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~ J.K. Rowling as Albus Dumbledore
The Dillingham Commission relates to our play because it kind of symbolizes the wide spread racism towards immigrants in the 20's. It was a congressional group built to mainly find out the sins associated with a surplus of immigrants to the U.S. The government and mainstream America was totally behind it, like how most people were backing Jon Jon when he was fighting Chavez. Also sorry bout my horrendous handwriting. My number is actually 806-224-8583.
ReplyDeleteThe populist movement was just like what the Ku Klux Klan was trying to do; it was people who were going to keep white people in command of all the important stuff and do as much damage to what the colored people were doing and do whatever it took to make sure that the way they thought was the right way to live and would do whatever it took to keep it that way. They thought that the colored people were a nuicance and were violaters with them drinking alchohol.
ReplyDeleteChase Howard
Atlantic city was a hit for blue collar workers in the nighnteen twenties, therefore, there was an abundance of drinking, gambling, and prostitution. Alot of men brought their familys however, so some wouldnt partake, but the majority would. Remember, this was in the 1920s, during prohibition, but Atlantic City kind of ignored that rule, and that is also one of the reasons they vacationed there.
ReplyDeleteTy Webb
The Workers strike of 1919 is crucial to our play because during this time, Communism was a threat in the minds of most americans. The travelers from out of country populated most of the steel factory that gave little for wages and maintained a low standard of work area. Going on strike only worried the the owners, it made the owners' job of making the immigrants look like instagators of trouble even easier. This is related to our production because we need to portray these different walks of life in our play. This shows the tension between people who think they are higher than the recent immigrants and the folks who think they should be treated equally because they have required citizenship.
ReplyDeleteThe Red Scare is relevent to our play because the immigrants in 1918-1919 were considered "Reds",anarchists and communists. The steel strike of 1919 was a result of the red scare and shut down 90% of steel production. the people and workers were already losing jobs so the put up more strikes for better wages. There were many race riots. In over a dozen cities causing many injuries and even deaths.Colleges were a target for Red Hunting, looking for communists and anarchists. Even some professors were aressted.all of this fits into Merchan of Venice because most characters are Italian immigrants and some other. Many Italians were not proven to be Reds but their defiance of the law (bootlegging, crime sprees, protecton wages, etc) caused their aressts and titled as Reds.
ReplyDeleteThe Populist movement relates to our play because seperation of the blacks an whites and also the dislike of blacks. Like how there is hatred towrd the jews and how shylock wants to keep his daughter seperated from lerenzo. The Civil War was apart of the Populist movement. The Populist movement is also known as "Populist Party" or "Peoples Party" and was established in 1891 but ended in 1908, it was most important in 1892-96.
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The Prohibition relates to our play becauswe Atlantic City was one of the biggest most popular cities in the 1920's and when the Prohibition started it was way more common in the bigger cities than in the smaller ones.
ReplyDeletethe johnson act of 1924 was an immigration act limiting the number of immigrants who could be admited into the untied states to 2% of the number of people orrigonally from that country who were already living in the united states.In the 10 years following 1900, about 200,000 italians immigrated annually. this new act cut that number down to 4,000 immigrants per year. this is important to the play because the characters of the play are the exact people targeted by this act
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