Regan questions;

1. What are the problems America faces?
- inflation and tax collecting.

2. What are Reagan's solutions?
- tax cuts and government needs to be reduced.

3. What makes Regan effective here?
- that he's funny.

4. What does this reveal about Regan? (Consider the saying: "Wit has truth in it.")
- It shows that he can be funny, even when getting criticized.

5. What policy decisions might Reagan make according to this?
- He's a strong leader.

6. How did this event effect Reagan's role with the American public?
_ He became a type of hero.

7. Who is the audience for this speech?


8. What is the argument Reagan makes here?
- Communisum is evil.

9. What do you think Reagan's agenda is in this speech?
- To get them to support him.

10. What is the message here?


11. How does the ad use Carter?


12. What does the ad suggest about the character/morals of the country?


13. What is the criticism of Communism being offered here?


14. Do you think this was an effective speech?
- Yes.

Book Portfolio #3

Fashion: From Concepts to Consumer by Gini Stephens Frings, was about how fashion has changed over the years. This book was copywriten in 1982 at Prentice-Hall Inc. in New Jersey. In the 1920's pants became popular to women and they started wearing them. Coco Chanel was the inspiration because of her boyish figure. Over time a lot of things change, even what people wear.

Over time everything changes, even what people wear. The book talked about how during World War II, most of the fashion shops were closed. How Coco Chanel helped promote women wearing pants beucase of her boyish figure. Another thing was Coco Chanel hepled design the 'Flapper Girls' costumes.

Given time, clothing styles change. Women use to not be able to wear pants, or short's, or a skirt that didn't come all the way down. Coco Chanel helped promote women and short atire, or women with pants.

Everyone has to wear clothes. Gini Stephens Frings wrote this book becuase she loves fashion. She loves clothing and how they make people feel, and she always wanted to be a fashion designer.

Fashion: From Concept to Consumer was good and very informational. Coco Chanel was a huge part of fashion and has made a very big impact on. Women can now dress themself, and we look pretty great doing it.

class 3/18/09

Today's class wen't pretty good. We talked about World war 2 and Pearl Harbor. I liked the map that was done, shoing where things went and how. I didnt like that we didnt have questions to make us follow along though.

Malaise

~What the real threat to America is, according to Carter, and is that threat still with us today?~

-Carter thinks that the threat to America is, America losing confidence and faith in the nation.

-Yes I still think that this conflict is in our nation. Maybe it's not as bad because we now have a new president and we don't know what's to come but then again that could make us not confident because we don't know what's going to happen with our new president. Maybe we'll have more confidence to talk to a new president then to a president that we'd had for a long time.

-Jimmy carter was saying that America had become a place were your charcacter didn't matter all that much and people only cared about what you had. He said that peoples morals have changed and people dont think the way they use to. In today's society it is in a way kind of they same thing. There is people that still have morals from along time ago but there is a lot of people who only like someone for what they have or what there name is. American people havent really changed much it has only been the economy and other things but the people have only slightly.

3/10/09 Class questions

1. How does a person make money on an investment?
-Buy low, sell high, buy it cheaper than you sell it for.

2. What makes 'cheap credit' mean?
-Means the economy is going well, and it’s easy to get a loan.

3. What is 'buying on margin' mean?
-Investors only have to play 10% of the stock’s actual value.

4. How is 'speculation' different from 'investment'?
- Speculation is people selling stocks to make money.
- Investment is when someone likes what there getting.

5. How does 'panic selling' start?
-When everyone tries to sell at once and then the market bottoms out.

6. How can high unemployment start a negative economic cycle?
- Because people aren’t making money and people aren’t spending money. When they don’t spend the money the other factories can’t make money of the stuff people bought.

7. How did increases in technology contribute to overproduction in the 1920's?
- If a company makes 3 cars a day and then turns to technology the company can then turn out 6 cars in a day. The problem with this was, then they had no one to sell the other 3 cars too.

8. What is meant by 'uneven distribution of wealth? Is it a bad thing?
- Some people are wealthy, but more are poor. This was bad because most people were poor.

9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the modern economy (post-WWI)?
- A tariff was an extra tax you have to pay for imported goods, beucase everyone started putting taxes on our stuff.

10. What is 'rugged individualism? Is it real?
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11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?
- Places where massive amounts of homeless people

Class (3/6/09)

I think class went okay. My favorite part was the humor brought into it. But it wasn't something memorable, because I've already forgot what class was about. When i go back and re-read the notes I do remember parts, but without the notes online, I don't remember anything about the class.