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Great Depression Picture

                                        Walker Evans, Moving Possessions, 1938 summer

     When I was looking over the picture choices for this assignment this one really stuck out to me. I think that Walker Evans is trying to show, through this picture, that the Great Depression caused many families to move away or send their kids away to other family members. This picture really helps the people who look at it understand that the Great Depression caused families to move away from homes they could have lived at for almost their whole lives because they did not have the money to afford the costs. It also gives people an idea that families sent their kids away because they could not afford to take care of themselves and their children. I also think that Evans is trying to show that people had to move out of their comfort zone. For some families they remained wealthy throughout the Great Depression, but for some people who had been wealthy before it was a different life completely. Some of the families that were well off before the depression now had to beg for jobs and hope to find ways of income. Others had to even go to federal places and take handouts just so their families would not starve. I think that Walker Evans did a good job with this picture showing the hardships of the Great Depression.

World War I Era Communication Technology

   In our history class we started studying World War I. For this project I am writing about the communication technology used during the World War I era. At this time many breakthroughs in technology occurred. During the war, the military needed the fastest way to communicate possible. They started using anyway they could, whether it was airplanes or telegrams.

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   During the period of the war, airplanes just came around. I found, by reading World War I Primary Sources, that because airplanes were so basic they were mostly used for scouting and delivering messages. They were used much differently then we use them today, for fighting. In a letter I found in the  book, a pilot says he just received his first duty, to take photographs of the enemy's second-line trenches. He also says that the plane he was using, the BE2c, was a plane that was unsuited for the job.

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    I wanted to find out about the other way airplanes were used during the war era, for messengers. The pilots of the airplanes had to either land, or drop the messages from their airplanes. This posed a problem because it made the process of delivering messages very difficult. Later they started making progress in using tele-communications in the planes. Towards the end of the war, a lot of the planes used for messengers had radios in them.

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    The radio was one of the earliest forms communication that uses electrical signaling. When I read an article from 1919, i found it interesting that they thought the wireless radio telephone will never out-do the wired telephone. During the 1914s many experiments were conducted to try and create a radio telephone, none of these succeeded. One problem with radio communication was at the time, they were non-secret. Anyone was able to listen in on the conversation, even enemies of war!

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    Although radios played a huge role in the war, they also changed things back home in the US. After researching I found out radios were used for many different things. During this time period there were accounts of soldiers transmitting songs for entertainment during the war. Back in the US people also used radio broadcasts to promote the war. The U.S.S. George Washington, in 1919, played concerts on it's radio to the passengers. 

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     Another important source of communication during the war was the telegram. I knew that the telegram played a big role during the war, but i did not know how big it was. The most famous use of this technology is arguably one of the reasons the US got involved in the war, the Zimmerman Telegram. The German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to Mexico, promising lost territories that belonged to the United States if they joined the German side. President Wilson released the telegram to the press, completely changing the public opinion to become against the Germans. This helped make the decision easier for the United states to enter World War I. 

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WWI research

For my research I read a letter written by Robi Wilcock. In the letter it describes the author researching Private Walter Goodwill. Private Goodwill was part of the 281 Scottish Constitution and the 1931 Enlgish Constitution. Walter was around the age of 32 during the war. Walter Goodwill was killed on 3/9/1916 during battle in France.

Day 3 research

I am finding new pictures for my project. one is the ship. Another is the sailors jumping off into the water. I researched the visiting of Chile,  Virginia, Italy, Japan, and Christmas festivities.

Great White Fleet Research: Day 2

So far for my research on Day 2 i have used the wonderful source of Alabama Virtual Library to find a source on the Great White Fleet visiting Australia. I have also found more pictures, one includes a very colorful ship that made the journey with the fleet. Another picture i have found shows the journey that the Great White Fleet made. Using the Alabama virtual library i found another source talking about a storm that the Great White Fleet encountered during it's voyage. Some more pictures include the fleet entering a harbor and the fleet passing through a beautiful mountain range.

The Great White Fleet research. Day 1:

So far in my research i have started to look for good primary sources and pictures for my postcard templates. Some of the pictures i have found include a couple of ships and Teddy Roosevelt . I have also found a good primary source using the library of congress digital archive. This source shows an advertisement for the Great White Fleet in the New York Tribune.