Reflection, Week 13

How I feel about the topic on feminism is more toward the word of enlightened. Being raised around strong females and also my mother teaching me about the movement. Reading about it just basically gave me more knowledge on it with the whole civil movement. What was new to me about the topic  was that In December 1961, President John F. Kennedy placed the issue of women's rights on the national political agenda. Eager to fulfill a debt to women voters--he had not named a single woman to a policymaking position--Kennedy established a President's Commission on the Status of Women, the first presidential panel ever to examine the status of American women. Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the commission issued its report in 1963, the year that Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. The report's recommendations included a call for an end to all legal restrictions on married women's right to own property, to enter into business, and to make contracts; equal opportunity in employment; and greater availability of child-care services.

Also one the topics was radical feminism this topic was crazy to me. I read that new ideas from women's liberation leader, Ti-Grace Atkinson, denounced marriage as "slavery," "legalized rape," and "unpaid labor." Meanwhile, a host of new words and phrases entered the language, such as "consciousness raising," "Ms.," "bra burning," "sexism," "male chauvinist pig." An for some for situations I can agree with these labels because women was looked at like property for years and still in some countries today. But August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the women's liberation movement dramatically demonstrated its growing strength by mounting a massive march called Strike for Equality. In New York City, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue; in Boston, 2,000 marched; in Chicago, 3,000. Members of virtually all feminist groups joined together in a display of unity and strength. Yes like I knew about this topic but just didn’t realize there so much history behind it.

"Week 11 Reflection"

how i feel about this week post is sad. it is crazy how they just got placed in the camps like they was not human. For more than 30 years, few faces in Juneau, Alaska, were as familiar as that of Shonosuke Tanaka. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the hungry miners, longshoremen and fishermen of the frontier town piled into the greasy spoon owned by Tanaka—who had arrived in the Territory of Alaska’s capital in 1907—to chow down on everything from sourdough pancakes to sweet ands sour spareribs. seeing things like that it makes me wonder how they sleep at night. also The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. The living conditions of Japanese American internment camps were very hard for the Japanese because of housing, food, and the daily experiences Japanese went through. Japanese citizens were give approximately 48 hours to evacuate their homes, and they were only allowed to take few possessions. The Japanese where treated as if they where animals if not worse. Families where torn apart and lives where ruined for years to come. Not to mention the mental illnesses it causes being ripped away from your home and community, it caused severe ptsd, depression, and anxiety. It further perpetrated the racism Asians faced in America and is still instilled into some minds of Americans today. Many Japanese people came to America for the freedom and to provide a better future for their offspring and families back home to be treated in such a atrocious way in the “land of the free” is very hypocritical in my option. The reparations which included 20,000 for each camp survivor is nothing for what  the Japanese had to deal with in  The United States. 

Week 10 Reflection

So this week post is about the Great Depression and why the Depression lasted as long as it did. Also why It devoted particular attention to the impact on African Americans, the elderly, Mexican Americans, labor, and women. With the addition to assessing the ideas that informed the New Deal policies, this section examines the critics and evaluates the impact of the New Deal. How I really feel about this week is really scared for a lot of people. The big reason being do this pandemic it forced a lot of people into being jobless, business owner closing, and putting kids in a hard spot. On the people filling for unemployment is through the roof times like this could cause us to go through another Great Depression. Like for instance stock market crash of October 1929 brought the economic prosperity of the 1920s to a symbolic end. For the next ten years, the United States was mired in a deep economic depression. By 1933, unemployment had soared to 25 percent, up from just 3.2 percent in 1929. Industrial production declined by 50 percent. In 1929 before the crash, investment in the U.S. economy totaled $16 billion. By 1933, the figure had fallen to $340 million--a decrease of 98 percent. And how its going right I feel like it going to go down in a similar way. The sweeping Democratic electoral victory in 1936 was followed by a deep economic relapse known as the "Roosevelt Recession." In just a few months, industrial production fell by 40 percent; unemployment rose by 4 million; stock prices plunged 48 percent. Several factors contributed to the "little depression." Reassured by good economic news in 1936, Roosevelt slashed government spending the following year. The budget cuts knocked the economy into a tailspin. Roosevelt's virulent attacks on "economic royalists" also undermined business confidence. Like after just seeing all that looking like we gonna go back into it, hopefully not though.