The Great Depression vs. The Great Recession


For our project, we decided to do a video presentation using the Educreations website. In our video, we talk about the differences between the great depression and the great recession. We contrast the causes of each one. We also talk about the different ways out government tried to solve them. We compare the New Deal to the Obama administration's plan to fix the economy. To view the video, click here. Our annotated bibliography is included below. 

Harold Sims, CCC Cadet, and his portrait of FDR. 1933. http://newdeal.feri.org/attic/004.htmWeb. 26 Feb 2013. <http://newdeal.feri.org/attic/004.htm>.

This photograph was taken in 1933. It shows a man named harold sims who was a corporal of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He is holding a portrait he painted of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  He is standing in front of some sort of fence.

This source supports my argument that the public were in favor of roosevelt’s new deal. The man is holding a picture of roosevelt he painted. The picture does not cast any sort of negative light on the president. It shows his face looking at the viewer in a friendly determined manner. His eyes are facing forward, indicating honesty. And he has the words “A NEW DEAL” across the bottom on a clean looking banner. The fact that he took the time to paint this shows that he was very appreciative of the Presidents plan to save the economy.

This source is helpful because it shows someone involved in one of the New Deal programs showing support for it. It helps prove that that this was not a begrudging task set upon the people. It was a collaboration between the government and the people.


Roosevelt, Franklin. "The New Deal." 2 Jul 1932. Address.


This is the transcript of a speech given by Franklin Roosevelt (FDR). It describes his plan to help save the American economy. In the speech: he talks about his faith in our people, what we need to do as a country to turn the economy around and how he would implement this plan.

This speech helps to show what he intended to do as president and what his attitude toward the roll was. He talks about watching out for the needs of the whole country as opposed to a chosen few. Which is the belief held by our current president. In the speech he also talks about what still needs to be done instead of dwelling on the past.

I plan to contrast FDR’s speech to one made by obama, and contrast their similarities and differences. I think I will do this by chopping up audio from each of their speeches and making a new one.

Obama, Barrack. "Renewing the Economy." Speech at Cooper Union. Dr. Tucker. New York, 27 march 2008. Speech.
This is the transcript of a speech given by Obama in 2008, shortly after his election. In the speech he describes what he thinks should be done for the economy and what he wants from united states citizens.
This source is good for me to use because it is similar to a speech made by FDR regarding the economy. I know it is reliable since it is a direct transcript Obama’s speech. This is one of the better sources that will be in my bibliography since it comes directly from the President. It is unbiased since it is just a transcript.
I will be contrasting this to the speech made by FDR shortly after his election. So I will be comparing those two.

Corporate America Flag. 2011. http://www.adbusters.org/content/corporate-america-flagWeb. 1 Mar 2013. <http://www.adbusters.org/content/corporate-america-flag>

This is a piece of graphic art posted by the Occupy movement’s site staff. It depicts an American Flag with different corporate logos as the stars.
This source is reliable because it is a political cartoon someone made. There is no analysis of the cartoon attached. These two things make it a primary source. This is different from some of the other sources used because it is a political cartoon. Unlike some of the more formal sources in the bibliography.
We will be using this source to help describe the opinions of some of the American population. This will be accomplished by analysing what the art communicates to the uninformed observer.

The Great Depression and The Great Recession


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The group chose to present our work and findings through a website because a website would allow the viewer to see both the Great Depression and the Great Recession in an interactive way. We talked about both the 
Great Depression and the Great Recession, the different programs that were made to help the economy, the views of different political cartoons, and FAQs. This was an informative project and we believe that we produced very informative work. 

The Great Depression and The Great Recession were both times when economic conditions were not the way it was supposed to be. Banks Crashed and Investments were made but that was just the beginning. Many plans were considered to help the economy and solve the problems that were occurring. This website will explain and go deeply into all of the successes and failures of the economy during the Great Depression and The Great Recession. The following questions will be answered: Does american learn from past lessons?, What national conditions bring about similar historical events? and How does the economic success or failure of America change the lives of American systems and individuals?

Kilah Kemp Diamond Blenman-Business Project

Introduction:
In history class we are learning about business and how America handles it. We are touching on two major topics in history, The Great Depression and The Great Recession. Although they happened at two totally different times in history and were caused by different things they both were significant to american history. With all the information we had gathered we composed a project comparing and contrasting the two time periods. My partner and I decided to do and Info graph, we figured it would be a great way to explain everything in a fun way.  
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Viet Le - Business

​For our history project we had to highlight the main ideas of both the great depression and the great recession. Something key in this project is also to compare and contrast the difference between the responses for both events. What did New implement and what did the obama administration do?

Click here to see my info-graph!

Click here to see my annotated bibliography!

Business Project - Daniel Varnis

Introduction:
Here is my Business Project and all of the links to go along with it. This blog post contains a lot of enriching, thorough, and deep information about the Great Depression, Great Recession, The New Deal, and President Obama's Administration, showing how they all connect in different ways through video representations to visual infographs.
 
Compare/Contrast of the Great Depression & Great Recession:
This visualization can be found here or below. The link forwards you to the same picture, just with a higher resolution and allows you to zoom in to your liking.
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Compare/Contrast of the Obama Administration Program & The New Deal Program:
Click here to see the Google Story Builder Presentation
(Please excuse on the video, you will notice that the typing starts to glitch and isn't technically inline on the visualized document about a minute into the video. That was something Google did while creating and finalizing the video)

Annotated Bibliography:
Click here to see the Annotated Bibliography containing all of the sources and citations used in the making of this project

Kenny & Tyanna History Business Benchmark

The Great Depression caused FDR’s New Deal to be implemented in America’s history, but today the Great Recession is Obama’s Administrations problem. For our history benchmark, we had to summarize the main ideas of the New Deal and the Obama Administration, while finding similarities and differences. We also had to find out the possible successes and failures of Obama’s administration programs based on the success and failure of the New Deal, while keeping mind of the essential questions.


By: Kenny Le and Tyanna Pleasant

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Click here for our annotated bibliography.





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We've all had those friendships that kind of went downhill. People drift away from each other for many different reasons, for better or for worse. Maggie Hohenstein realized that the relationships she had with her friends was becoming emotionally unhealthy for her. The conversation I had with her goes over the details of her middle school social life and her final decision on how she would deal with her friends.


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Audacity was a new program that I had never used before and I think I adapted pretty quickly on how it worked. The questions and conversation was kind of natural because Maggie and I are really good friends. We have sort of skimmed the topic once or twice before but I felt like this project would be helpful in understanding a bit more of her past. What I thought was the hardest part was the music choice because music specifically made for conversations is hard to come by. I ended up using the intro of a song and then looping it on audacity and then choosing the end of another song for the end of the conversation. 

Songs: 
Suburban War by Arcade Fire
The Good Times Are Killing Me by Modest Mouse

Karly & Kristi's Business Project



Living within an economic crisis, leaves people with a lot to endure. The consequences are awful, as both the Great Depression and the Great Recession caused a crash in the stock market. Many Jobs were laid off as a result, particularly the primary and successful companies within the US. The economy was not only affected within the US but also globally. Without economic improvement, the US would simply not have been strong enough in the world. The poverty needed to be reduced, higher education needed to be pursued and health care needed improvement as well. Reflection of the past is greatly vital especially now that the economy is better off than it was when Roosevelt and Hoover were in the picture. President Barack Obama is now in their footsteps and his outlook seems to be quite similar to Roosevelt’s. The Great recession only occurred because attempts of help failed, regarding the Great Depression. This suggests that mistakes are being repeated to cause another economic crisis after the Great Depression; the Great Recession.

The history within the struggle that people lived through, is represented in this comic to enlighten people who may be younger than a teenager. The depths within the history of the United States are shown in this comic. World War I was greatly responsible for all of the occurrences that are displayed figuratively and literally.

In the introduction page, there are two boxes; one representing the Great Depression and another representing the Great Recession. There are also two clouds representing the two presidents. The sole reason why Roosevelt and Hoover are two clouds is because both are from the past, intended to look eerie and cloudy since they are no longer current. The comic is set up so that one can differentiate between each cloud and box because one will always be greater than the other. For instance, The Great Depression was greater than the Great Recession, therefore it is a rectangle withholding greater volume than the Great Recession’s cartoon representative. Furthermore, as Hoover was greater in size than Roosevelt, one can assume that their ghosts would reflect this size difference. That is how the two cloud cartoons are set up to be differentiated. Overall, this cartoon is meant to entertain and inform a young audience about all the factors that play into the Great Depression and the Great recession.



Annotated Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1ZiuJyAgYXi4o7FnE3er-H7BSAgMiBo0bdLnuzqaaa6g/edit


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The Greatest of The Greats

Project by Jordan Hairston and Merrick Saunders 

This project was created to compare and contrast the programs that would help America recover after we suffered from economic recessions. The project compares The New Deal (created by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress) and Obama's Plan (created by Obama and Congress.) This project will reveal information on both topics and help to come to a better understanding on how our Nation was able to stand tall once more after we have fallen. 

Link To Our Website: http://www.greatestofthegreats.weebly.com

Link To Our Annotated Bibliography: 
https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1MbOgXSrKxr8yhUJGXbpYg-dbLlHOE3KEx0Qtvo6R7XE/edit

Business Project (Great Depression and Great Recession)

​Goldie Robins and Antonio Reveron

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We created a website, because we felt that this would be the best way to express everything we wanted to express and really give as much information as possible. We included everything between the start of the New Deal and when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the stimulus package from President Barrack Obama. We really talk about the new and old stuff and compare and contrast it. Some are very similar, yet very different at the same time. I hope you enjoy our website! Lots of fun went into making it. :) 

Great Depression Vs. Great Recession

​For this mini project my partner Franklin and I decided to create a small podcast where we discuss the causes of the great depression and make comparisons with the recent great recession. We tied in the information we've been learning in class during the past few weeks and we created an easy to follow along conversation in the form of a radio talk show podcast. After we compare the two economic downturns we use sources and statistics to predict what we think will be the outcome of the great recession.

Link to the podcast


Link to our annotated bibliography:

Great Depression and Great Recession Project

For this project, our assignment was to research the Great Depression and Great Recession. We then had to summarize the causes of each, and learn what the Government did to attempt to fix each. We then compared the Great Depression and Great Recession, and used our knowledge of the Great Depression, to predict whether or not the response to the Great Recession will be successful. We then had to create a unique project to present all of this information. Click here to for a link to our annotated bibliography.

Project made by: Seamus Kirby and Brandon Hall
Business Project

"Striving for Education" by Emalyn Bartholomew

​It's easy to get caught up in what people deem as the "social norm", especially when defying it would ostracize you even more. Listen as my mom, Stacy Bartholomew, talks about her experience with overcoming boundaries in education set in both societal ways, and familial ones. 
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Crossing boundaries set by society come with a completely different set of repercussions than those set by family. When you have to take on both headfirst, it's a daunting task to say the least. Talking to my mom was interesting, especially learning stories and aspects of her life that have never been brought up before. As I look at my own life, especially as it leads closer to college, I see the differences in how she was raised, but also many similarities in our mindsets. 


The hardest part of this project for me was not the actual interview, which came naturally and flowed well as a conversation between my mom and I. It was, however, figuring out which stories and aspects to cut out of the podcast, while choosing the most beneficial ones to stay in. I set out with over 45 minutes of raw material, and sifting my way through that was difficult. However, it made me realize which parts of her story were more focused on the point, and which parts most reflected her story. 

God's great test

This story is about my mother Dawn Lewandowski getting pregnant at a really young age and how she lived the rest of her life after her situation as a child started with children.

You will need to know that many situations happen with this story and my mother was not apart of the reasons why my sisters had the problems that they did.


You will also see that I set a boundary for myself to cross and you will understand why after listening to the full pod cost.
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   Crossing boundaries can be both physical and mental and happens in many cases. When one crosses a boundary they can do it with or without the knowledge of them actually doing it. In this case my mother actually crossed two boundaries as you know. One being the boundary of comfort and the boundary of responsibility. In the case of my mother crossing her boundaries made a plus, even if some negative things happened without the situation. When one crosses a boundary it can set both cost and benefits it just determines on what the boundary is.  While I was doing this project I learned many things I didn't know about my mother and sisters. I honestly would not do nothing different then what I did maybe interview my sister Tiffany. Tiffany is the middle child with her son is the care of someone else. The only reason why I did not interview her is because the whole story is very emotional and with the problems she was diagnosed with she would make the story more sad then it is and its hard for her to talk about that story because it's a huge part of her life. I believe that my peers were right, I took great time and I believe that my overall topic was very interesting and even though teen pregnancy story's are common today the added information with the lies and my sisters conditions make it better.

"A Third Culture Kid" by Leah Kelly

Returning to your home country can be hard after living your entire life time overseas, especially when you don't think that you belong in either country. Listen to my mom, Shareen Kelly, talk about her life growing up in boarding school and coming to America for college from Africa. Also, listen to her reflection on being what society calls a "third culture kid".
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In my mom's case, she has been crossing a boundary her whole life, which leads her to having felt like an outsider. When she was in Africa, she felt left out and misunderstood because she was white and that was not her native country. However, when she came to America for college, she felt like a foreigner as well because she was used to the Nigerian culture that she had grown up around. In her opinion, this was the reason behind some of her really deep friendships with other missionary kids-- they knew what she had experienced and they had experienced the same thing. Also, growing up without her parents made her value the little things that she could spend time doing with me and my brothers as we grew up.

The actual recording of this interview was easy-- my mom is a great conversationalist and gave me thorough answers, lots of backstory, and interesting tidbits that made the story feel more personal for me and I'm sure for the listeners. Also, she was not afraid to talk about how she really felt when she came to America, which is something that is very personal for her and something that I was glad that she was able to share so eloquently.

This was a really fun project to do. Not only did it help me get to know my mom better, but it also strengthened my interviewing and editing skills. Since I had to cut a lot out of the interview, it made me realize the details that are necessary to a story and helped  me figure out with ones could be cut away so that I am left with  just the raw story. Also, thankfully, I did not have many technical errors when using Garage Band, which was great.

The New Deal: Sean and Kyler

Introduction:

Our project is in the form of a comic in which the Obama's "Big Deal" is presented as The New Deal. So the reader can understand how the New Deal is very much like Obama's focus on healthcare, work inequalities, and financial reforms.

The idea behind the comic inspired by an article about how Obama's "Big Deal" and new stimulus package, and attempts to turn around the Great Recession are like the FDR's New Deal. And how these points of great reform and economic depression are similar
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International Educator- Julian Makarechi


Julie Castagnet left everything behind just to teach children. She had to deal with not being with her family for her whole career. This young French woman took the chance to move to the US to find a job as an educator, but with doing so she had to separate herself form her home country and family. 

PLEASE NOTE: 9 minutes and 9 seconds into the podcast this question should be added: "Did you try to look for jobs to help with money, besides being an educator?". 




Julian Makarechi- Interview- Q3 BM

This is a story of a French teacher that decided to work abroad, in the US. There were some good things and bad things that occurred but she never stopped loving what she did. Not only was she the only person in her family to be come a language teacher but also the first to move to the United Sates.

If one wants cross boundaries they have to be willing to be brave, give it all they have and make sacrifices. It also comes with a lot of self motivation; to make a change one must feel very strong and confident about their goal. Crossing boundaries takes time and usually it is hard to do it on your own; one should accept help from others.

This was my first time using Audacity so I had problems editing things. I would recommend to use Garageband to avoid such confusion. I did not quite understand the way it was set up and wished things were more clear. 

Throughout this project I learned how make a podcast. The examples that were given to us in class were very helpful. Before this was assigned to me, I did now know all they key elements to make a well rounded interview. I used what I learned for my final project;  an intro, deep question, a conclusion and a reflection. The interviews we listened to gave me great ideas for how ask questions that will get the speaker to go into depth about the topic. 

I definitely feel that my strengths of this project was how the story was told and how it effected Julie’s life. I was able to get her to tell me things that I did not even know, and that ended up helping me to get more information on how exactly she crossed boundaries. Almost none of my questions made her have a one or two word answer, which was good. Another thing that made this project good was how we were both able to relate and have a great conversation about the topic. One thing that I do not believe that I did well on was my editing. 


A Blessing Within A Tragedy

A young man (Jospeh Wactor-Brown:My Uncle) in his late teens was diagnosed he has kidney failure. This podccast talks about the struggles he faced with dialysis, work, school, family etc. He talks about his life after and before his kidney transplant. Also my mother (jamila medley) was interviewed about the boundies crossed during this time for her brother. Bounderies such as her thinking about donating her kidney, her first teenage boyfriend dying and becoming the doner. In the end of the pod cast you will discover the Blessing within the tragedy.
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Business Unit Project/New Deal Website


Jalen Smith and Sarybel Melendez
The website that we've created describes exactly what had happened during the time of the New Deal And the Great Depression. This website supplies you with useful information about these events and also it supplies you with useful videos which gives you all a visual as to what happened during this time. We hope that you all will enjoy it and we hope that we have supplied you all with enough information to understand exactly what went on during that time. Thank you and enjoy.

Website Address
​http://newdealexplorers.weebly.com/index.html

Crossing Gender Boundaries by Jenny Cruz

​In life everyone wants to feel comfortable in the skin that they're in but sometimes it's not all about your complexion or race but gender. Through making this podcast one can learn that there are many boundaries even gender can get in the way but it's what you make of it and how you choose to portray yourself. There are a lot of sap stories out there but most are kleshay though still against societies norm. I believe boundaries are merely restrictions disabling us to speak or act the way we want to. 
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"RISE" By Reginald Simmons

My sister's name is Courtney Simmons. She's the first of our family to go to college -- certainly a high achievement. Along the way, we've both faced a lot of heavy stuff, stuff that has made the future look very grim, but she's finally made it. I'm very proud of her, and I hope you'll enjoy this short story. 



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My sister is doing something that no one in our family has done before. For a while now she's had pretty solid plans about what she wants to do after high school. It really feels good for me knowing that she'll really be able to do them. There have been a few hardships that we've had to deal with, but now, things look pretty good. Success in the things we do has always been something greatly emphasized throughout both our lives. Surprisingly, the actual process of editing the video was very fun. It was cool to work with the computer program and make something that sounded nice. Nice to me, anyway. I did have to go through a few different programs though. Still enjoyable. But the absolute most enjoyable part of the project was talking with my sister. Of course, I knew all of these things already, but it's still really interesting to hear it again. To see how she feels about it, stuff like that. I would definitely gladly do something like this again. I don't really use computer editing/ moviemaking programs often, so naturally I was a little nervous about having to put together an entire fifteen-minute audio clip. But, after reading a few manuals and playing around on them a bit, I got the swing of it. This project has actually made me a little interested int he process. I'd say my greatest difficulty with this interview was coming up with questions that were serious, but not so serious that they produced convulsive sobbing. It went pretty well. 

MUSIC: 

"Settle" by Two Door Cinema Club; Beacon

"Rise" by Hans Zimmer; The Dark Knight Rises (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition]