Blog post #3 Dinner

To drink, coffee will be served something that Hoover notoriously banned agents at the bureau from drnking after 8:15. 

For the main course, baked ham will be cooked and served with deviled eggs and collared greens. Something his mother would always feed him and tell him not to worry about gaining weight because it was solid weight.

For dessert, angel food cake and chocolate cream pie will be served, as Hoover had to give these two foods up to stay in shabe and keep his weightdown while he was in the bureau.

Blog post 1, Guest list

Dear guests,

         I would like to cordially invite you to remember the late J. Edgar Hoover. While he may have been a controversial man, I think we can all agree he lived a very interesting, secreive life. I have decided 6 select members of society as well as Clyde Tolson, and Helen Gandy. Tolson and Gandy have agreed to answer all of your questions, up to their disclosure of course. You 6 people have speculated upon Hoover and his life, and I know you all are just dieing to know who he really was. Please RSVP and get further information at johndoe@yahoo.com Thank you all and I hopoe all of you will be in attendance.

Guest #1: Helen Gandy- The secretaryof J.Edgar Hoover from 1918-1972, one of the few people to know about him and his scretive way of life, destroyed his personal and confidential files after Hoover's death, testified about what Hoover told her to wrote to MLK.

Guest #2 Clyde Tolson- Associate director of the FBI from 1930-1972, was Hoover's right hand man, alleged life partner of  J.Edgar Hoover, knew of Hoover's blatant lies and exaggeration of stories about arrests and crime.

Guest #3 Richard Hack- Author of Puppet Master: The secret life of J.Edgar Hoover, knowledgable of Hoover, has differing opinions than public eye.

Guest #4 Clint Eastwood- Director of the 2011 J.Edgar movie.

Guest #5 Anonymous student author of Cal Berkley/Emma Goldman article, would like to find out about what they thought about J.Edgar and his disdain for communists

Guest #6 David J.Garrow, author of Atlantic article about MLK/Hoover relationship.

Guest #7 Leonardo Dicaprio- played J.Edgar Hoover in latest J.Edgar movie (2011), how did getting into Edgar's mind feel for him, did he feel a personal connection?

Guest #8 L.Patrick Gray, he was the first long serving director after Hoover, what was it like operating after him?

USA WW1 Navy poster campaigns

Propaganda is when the government takes information and displays it throughan exaggerated viewpoint in order to garner backing from their citizens.
Dictionary.com defines propaganda as "information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help orharm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc."
The image on left shows the United States displaying a navy shipman smiling before he leaves to go on the ship as you can tell by his luggage. The government is showing the navy as a kind of vacation and provides an overall happy image with all the warm colors being used in the background. The artist is trying to show that the navy is not a stressful thing, but a place to be happy and to get a new leash on life. The artist is targeting an audience of young men probably late teens to launch themselves into a career. The second image  shows men firing large anti-aircraft like guns with one firing in the background, possibly trying to appeal to the younger crown with the coolness of these guns, but with this image it is not the image itself that is advertising but the text. The Learn...Guns section shows how theyr'e trying to appeal to people and to let people enjoy themselves by working with the"big guns". The artist much like the last one is trying to appeal to they younger crowd or even the poor who need to learn a trade and the artist shows how they can start/further their career by helping the navy. In the last image, this one is the first to use American patriotism to their advantage, showing an angel soaring through the sky holding an American flag as if to say even if they die in the navy, they live on through America. Showing a Navy sailor advertising to an average man about helping America. The artist is trying to get people to make history by joining the navy and adhering to the patriotic side of people. Unlike the other two, this poster is not targeting a specific audience, just any able-bodied American man. 
While I may not like that the federal government used/uses tax dollars to promote propaganda, I would much rather them do this than to take a chance in living in tyranny. During WW1 it was neccesary for the government to make these posters to sway the opinion about the war and try to get men to join the war effort.

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau Test

The film Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau shows how imperialism can affect the territories that are being taken over by larger countries by providing jobs, and giving this territory a newfound exposure to its culture. In the film it showed Eddie Aikau becoming a lifeguard for the bay he lived near as tourists had started to flood in mostly from the mainland United States. Then, this exposure from all the tourists gave an outlook on surfing to the entire world, causing a massive rise in popularity, and the Eddie Aikau invitational got participants from all over the globe. Lastly, imperialism was the one of the main reasons, the Hawaiins reconstructed the ancient Tahiti canoe as they wanted to prove to everyone that was learning their history and culture that their ancestors were not some happy-go-lucky guys and were actually very smart.

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

How I think to do it
Step 1. Look for identifying traits to see who's in the cartoon, i.e. Trump's hair
Step 2. Look for symbols that could possibly stand for something
Step 3. Check for sarcasm or something similar

How Loc.gov says to analyze political cartoons
It says to look for symbols, exaggerations in physical characteristics, irony, labeling, and analogies.

I basically had the same thing as LOC.gov besides labeling and analogies, so after reviewing this guide I will continue to look at cartoons the same as I always have, but look for labeling and analogies

Examples of political cartoons:

Cuban Conflict

This Spanish Cartoon displays Uncle Sam as a monstrous troll taking Cuba without warning because Uncle Sam needs control and believes they need to help other countries and lead their way












This cartoon about the Phillipine conflict shows how America despite the best effors of the Phillipines have literally put their foot down and will not be moving any time soon, even though they are not wanted.

Phillipine conflict

American Imperialism

This cartoon shows a Hawaiian native holding hands with a Cuban native, embracing the new thought of becoming independent as shown in the bottom text but really they're just being turned over from one nation to  becoming American as shown by the flags that they are carrying.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it became illegal to segregation in public places, and became illegal for an employer not to employ someone due to their race,sex,color,religion, or national origin.

I think that some of these behaviors still take place today with job opportunities, but it can be really hard to identify, if there really is racism or discrimination and the only people that now this are the ones that are giving out the jobs. Segregation in public places isn't really a racist thing and when it does happen, it is normally just because people are more likely to be friends or relate to someone that is similar to themselves.

I do not think there is much to pass these issues as laws have been passed to for the most part stop them and these laws have worked as well as one could expect.

The movie about the protests where children were being arrested and gunned down by fire hoses was very eye-opening  about the history of Alabama as the last time civil rights was even addressed in school in the United States was a tiny bit 3 years ago in 8th grade and before that 5th grade. It was inspring to see so many people collaborate and stand up for what they believe in, and take the risk of being beaten, jailed, or even killed just so they could stand up for what they believe in

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Source Used:
History.com
Wikipedia

Progressivism/Factory Fires

Today I looked up,"factory fires" in a newspaper archive. I found many results but ultimately decided upon a smaller story by the Brooklyn Eagle rather than a story by one of the large newspaper like the New York Times or The Sun. The Brooklyn Eagle talked about the Diamond Candy factory being caught on fire and dwarfed in flames. Upon inspection of the building, the owners Celia and Edward Diamond were found to be in strict violation of the fire code that had been installed after the Triangle Fire. 12 people lost their lives in the Diamond Candy factory fire, but the losses could have been much, much worse. The Brooklyn Eagle claims that an employee that was walking to the factory saw the fire and ran in and saved up to 75 distressed women, the fire marshall says that these women owe that man their lives. In court Celia Diamond plead guilty to second-degree attempted manslaughter, but had not yet been sentence, as I continuedd to search for what happened to her the only website with results claims that her and her husband were arrested for criminal negligence and homicide, but the source was not very credible. I found another article by the Brooklyn Eagle published in 1917 5 days after the original article. The case made it to the Supreme Court where Justice Callaghan suspended Celia's sentence due to her being "ruined financially, physically, and mentally".