Essays 1-3 Exam 1960s

Josh Braley

12/19/08

period 1

Essay # 1

    Technology is changing rapidly now, there's television, Internet, radio, and cell phones.  If something happens then minutes later everyone can know about it.  When the Twin Towers were hit, it was on the news fast, not everyone really knew what was going on but it gave people an idea of what was happening.  Before you had to wait to know something, but now when anything happens someone is online blogging.

    In the 50'sand 60's television was coming around, and color too.  It brought out some very gross and disturbing images that really changed peoples outlook on things.  They had the Buddhist monk guy that lit himself on fire and just sat there calm until he died, this was caught on camera.  Murder of Emmit Till was broadcasted, and his mother wanted everyone to see that her son had been  brutally murdered so she had an open casket.  When J.F.K. was shot and killed a man got it on video, this changed history, because we can now view it and see what happened that day.  With being able to see events it makes them more real, we tend to care more about something that we can see rather than just reading it from paper.

 

 

Essay # 2

    Martin Luther King was a non violent civil rights movement leader.  He believed that the violence was not helping African Americans get equal rights.  He wanted to do it through religion and loving each other and not by hurting.  King used events like the bombing of the church where the young black girls were killed.  He was a very good public speaker and knew how to persuade people without using violence.

    Huey Newton was a very violent civil rights activists.  Newton talked about killing police officers, though he called them pigs.  His goals were to kill everyone that opposed the Black Panthers.  He said very graphic nasty things.  Some hated him, but some loved him.  Compared to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, Huey Newton was the most violent by far.
    Malcolm X was an African American that changed his name to, "Malcolm X."  He was a violent man but also a very sensible man.  Unlike Newton he thought before he spoke, and didn't say crazy, wild, unorthodox things.  His words were wise, they came from the heart and they were used in a way to persuade people.  X got people to think the way that he thought, therefore he got them to do the things that he did.  He was a combination of King and Newton together.

Essay # 3

    The early competition between the United States and the Soviet Union was the space race.  It started out being a race to see who could get something into outer space first.  The U.S. was about to get to an early lead until out shuttle failed, and then the Union got up there.  The states and the union went back in forth for a good time, then The United States were the first on the moon.  The first people on the moon came from the U.S. and this kind of sealed the deal that the U.S. was way in the lead.

    There was also the cold war.  This was not actually a war but more of just a confrontation.  It was kind of like a, "Mines bigger than yours" deal.  It was how many nuclear weapons do you have, 5? Well we have 10.  This went back and forth for a good chunk of time as well.  It never got to the stages where the bombs were set on one another.  What ended it was when the U.S. set off a baby nuclear bomb just to test it, and it did more damage then thought, this scared both sides and things quieted down.
    To sum it all up the United States and the Soviet Union were the big dogs, so to speak, in the world and they both wanted to be "the big dog."  The two countries had different outlooks on everything so this obviously made for clashing of heads.  The relationship between the two was not friendly.