Extra Credit (Due 27th and 28th)

Your task for 10 points:

Identify the young people who wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt by gender, age, race, religion, geographic region, education, or the apparent socio-economic status of their parents.

Additionally, Do APARTS
Author
Place
Audience
Reason
The Main Idea
Significance

Port Morris N.J.
March 20, 1934

My Dear Mrs. Roosevelt,

Do you realize that “Easter” is at hand? Do you realize how many hearts are broken on this account? Do you realize how hard its going to be for most people? Like me, for instance, I am a young girl of fifeteen and I need a coat, so bad I have no money, nor any means of getting any. My father has been out of work for two years.

My brother works on the C.W.A. but he is, or rather has been, insane in an asylum and has taken most of our money. My mother gets ‘fits’ when I ask her to buy me something new. Poor mother, I sypathize with her because it has been very hard on her, this depression, and having no money at all but debts piling up on us. I want to tell you something: We were once the richest people in our town but now, we are the lowest, considered, the worst people of Port Morris.

For Easter some friends of mine are thinking of getting new out-fits and I just have to listen to them. How I wish I could have a least a coat. That would cost about $5.00 at least. I need a dress. I want one and it only cost $.79 cents. Dear Eleanor how I wish I had this coat and dress for Easter I would be the happiest girl. I love you so much.
Please send me about $6.00

I thank you so much.

A. C.
Port Morris, N.J.
________________________________________

Reply to the letter:

March 24, 1934

My dear Miss C.:

Mrs. Roosevelt asks me to acknowledge your letter and to express her regret that because of the great number of similar requests she receives, she has found it impossible to comply with them, much as she would like to assist all those who appeal to her.
Assuring you of Mrs. Roosevelt’s sympathy, I am

Very sincerely yours,

Secretary to
Mrs. Roosevelt

Extra Credit

Anybody interesting in extra credit, needs to come after their last class on Monday and Tuesday.

3 points each day (no more than 10 minutes of work)

Extra Credit #4

Period 6, The previous Cartoon (The Wise Economist) is due by class on the 21st

Period 3 and 6, This cartoon is due by class on the 22nd or 23rd depending on your class day.

Mr. Reynolds (reynoldsm@firn.edu)

The Young Lady is quoted as saying “I used to know your Daddy”

Questions:

1. What significance do you attach to the depiction of war a female and a prostitute?

2. To whom does the women refer when she speaks of the youth’s daddy?

A Wise Economist

Questions (must be e-mailed)

1. How did the artist make the man a symapthetic character?

2. Why did he have a squirrel ask the question?

3. What was the artist saying about the American belief in personal responsibility?

Extra Credit #2 – Business Week Editorial

There is a general agreement among the leading businessmen who have appeared before the congressional hearings that something must be done to regulate hours, pay, production, and prices. Even more convincing are the results of a questionnaire conducted by Cornell. Most of the leading businessmen questioned felt that the times demand drastic reorganization designed to reduce to a minimum the effects of the business cycle, to increase the stability of employment, and to ensure adequate purchasing power. A minimum wage is necessary to prevent the unscrupulous from exploiting labor. Any plan devised to reach these ends must have in mind raising the standard of living of the country as a whole.

QUESTION:

The editorial called for a national recovery program instead of one based on individual initiative, assistance to a particular industry or sector, or help to a specific region. How was it national in scope?

Purpose of upcoming posts

Everyday or so, I will post a primary document. Your opportunity for extra credit is to type a response to some of the questions that are listed about it or summarize and analyze the document before the next class. All responses should be e-mailed to me.

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
U.S. Government

Introduction
Aristide Briand, the French foreign minister, angered U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg when Briand asked the American people directly whether they would sign a treaty with France to prevent future wars. Kellogg believed that Briand should have gone through the normal diplomatic channels. Furthermore, the secretary believed that accepting Briand’s offer would eventually draw the United States into another world war. Although its actions were not isolationist, the United States had an isolationist feeling during the 1920s.

Because the United States believed that the European alliance system had caused World War I, it was hesitant to sign any type of alliance treaty with another country. There were some groups, however, that thought cooperating with the French would bring the United States closer to joining the League of Nations, and Briand feared their public attacks if he failed to pursue the offer. Kellogg, adopting an idea from isolationist Senator William E. Borah, proposed a multilateral treaty that fifteen nations signed. Think about world events in the 1930s and 1940s as you answer the following questions.

Questions to Consider

1. What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlaw?
2. What did the pact propose in its place?
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of this policy to solve world problems.