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Reagan Revolution seemed like a tough time for business owners and workers because it says in the book that it “blended ideology with greed”, and therefore various people had to suffer through nationa ...

I enjoyed reading this chapter because from what we have read in the past, I felt that there were a lot of sexism and racism going on in the society. Immigrants, blacks, and Asians were not welcomed i ...

Because Great Depression was such an awful time, I think New Deal helped a lot socially, politically, and economically. New Deal was described in the book as “mixed bag of reforms and emergency measu ...

The chapter is called America, Inc. because as people said in the previous posts, there was a huge shift of culture and media through “consumer-oriented economy and of mass entertainment”. Even in th ...

hey alex i was really confused about that too..
we already read the chapter and did the posts... but i guess we're supposed to talk about the hand out and make connections??

hmmm im not sure. do t ...

The Roaring Twenties seemed to have good, stable economic situation as well as development in industries, technologies, and home construction. I had the feeling that the workers were getting the most ...

Not only did the book talked about unions not accepting Asians, but also the prejudice of other workers of color was mentioned. In many places, Black workers were not accepted easily because there wer ...

It's fascinating to read how there were three important groups, AFL, SP, and IWW, which had competed each other with different programs for better lives of the people. Each in which attracted people w ...

For me, the reading seemed very interesting because the knights of labor was kind of making majority of people equal. It was opened to women, blacks, employers etc. but some of the people were exclude ...

oh,, and here are the questions!!!

1) think about the word "framing" in the subtitle of the film. what are some different meanings of the word "frame"? what does it mean to say ...

When I think about the word “frame”, the first image that comes to my mind is a photo frame. or picture frames which are hung in the art museum. There are so many different meanings to the word " ...

Why is this era called the "Gilded" age? For whom is it gilded? How?

This era was called the “Gilded” age because just as lily have said above, a very thin coat of gold is covered in Am ...

In the above, people discussed about how black soldiers were paid less and had harsher conditions than whites. And how blacks were trying to protest by refusing to take any money… I think they themsel ...

i think martha is telling us to read pg85 to pg92

we did read ch4 last night but we didnt read the first two sections of the chapter..

so our homework for tonight is to read the first section, & ...

So the previous question was…Did slave owners really have no control over these "secret" meetings? (They must have been suspicious)

Slave owners definitely tried their best to forbid th ...