Story Corps

I've listed to 5 interviews on Story Corps.

The first one was the most interesting one. I listened to  "What's your life like now, Dad?" "Priya Morganstern and Bhavani Jaroff interview their father, Ken Morganstern, who has Alzheimer's disease." It was very interesting listening to them ask him questions to see if he was going to be able to remember certain things. His wife passed away four years ago and he said he had no idea he how he met her in New York. He remembers dating her just not how they met. It was also kind of funny, they asked him how many children he had and he said maybe four, and he couldn't remember his sons name.

What I noticed about all these interviews is that most of them are about something that means the most to them or something that truly affects them. Something that hits the heart and makes a change in their life. You can tell how much certain situations mean to them by the tone in their voice and everything. If anything was different it was actually the stories people would talk about. Which is what I expected, i don't think anyone could have the same story.

Immigration

Well as you know throughout history there has been tons f people who have immigrated. You have the Chinese that came in the mid 1800's.

 Modernization and population growth forced many Germans from their respective family businesses. Also, modernization made immigrating more convenient and faster with inventions such as the steam boat and steam train. Many Germans took long, complicated, but cheap routes through Great Britain by way of train and boat to get to the United States. Most of the Germans that migrated lived on the countryside. Only about two fifths lived in cities with more then 25,000 People. Around the 1870 the German born farmers made up one third of the agriculture business in the region. Most of them immigrated because of the Civil unrest, and unemployment. "Most German immigrants were Protestants, with Lutheranism by far the most denomination; perhaps a third of German immigrants were Catholics, and around 250,000 were Jewish. With the Lutheran community in the United States there was considerable friction. Nineteenth-century German Lutheran immigrants found that the existing German Lutheran churches in the US had developed into what, to them, were unwelcome tendencies. Most had been Americanized enough so that English was used for all or part of their services"

The American Dream

The American Dream is for everything to be as perfect as it can be. In the movie Pleasantville everything was perfect and people had the same routine everyday. For example: The father would always comes home and say "Honey, I'm home" And then when he went to the kitchen she had dinner made for him already and everything. Also in the movie there weren't any other races other then Caucasian. They also didn't do anything sexual in the movie. Everything was literally perfect. In the movie the American Dream is the same for every single person. They all lived the same life and would have the same daily routines and stuff. The American Dream is hard to define because it's just not reality. Everything that happened in the movie could not happen in the real world at all. It's just not realistic. Part of the American Dream does exist though like, I know of some families that one of their parents would come home and dinner would be ready and everything. I know some of my friends parents don't allow them to watch Television in the morning and stuff like that. But some people's American Dreams are completely different. I know some people who want to be have all the money in the world and just be rich. That's their American Dream. So when you look at TV shows such as MTV cribs and stuff like that some people are actually living their dream and have fancy cars and live in a mansion and stuff like that. With the economy being as bad as it is some people can't afford to live the American Dream or anything like that. My American Dream would be for our whole world to just be at peace with and for everyone to get along. There wouldn't be any such thing as racism or bullying or anything like that. Anything someone could do or say to put someone down wouldn't exist at all. People dying every second wouldn't happen either.  I would also have A million dollars to live off of! That's my American Dream.

Movments (Learning)

A movement is when a group of people set their minds to do something together to change something looking for a certain outcome. They often focus on social issues and stuff like that. My movement is important in History for many reasons. The definition of Imperialism is "The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies." With that being the definition a lot of people would go out and extend the power and rules of what they had to follow. In more simple words it's basically people liked to bend the rules and try and get away with certain stuff. Basically a lot of Nations were pushing outward and trying to be above the government, wanting more wealth and resources and stuff like that. A lot of countries thought Imperialism would work but in the long run and short run it didn't turn out to favor them at all, because when they got their independence they had a hard time dealing with it. If there's anything that I would want to learn more about is what was going through their head when they thought this would work. Like if I could talk to someone from back in the day that lived in that time period I would ask them how they felt and what was going through their mind and etc.