3/31/09
class
This weeks classes went alright. I learned about World War II and I learned more about winston churchill and FDR.
economic crisis
1. How does a person make money on an investment?
buy low sell high
2. What makes 'cheap credit' mean?means the economy is going well and its easy to get a loan
3. What is 'buying on margin' mean?investors only have to pay ten percent of stocks
4. How is 'speculation' different from 'investment'?people would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck are speculating
and people investing like what they are investing in
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 arent making money and people arent spending money.
When they don’t spend the money the other factories can’t make moneyof the stuff people bought.
7. How did increases in technology contribute to overproduction in the 1920's?
technology allowed them to make more in a certain amount of time then when
they had to do it without technology
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 becausemost people were poor.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the moderneconomy (post-WWI)?
a tariff was an extra tax you have to pay for imported goods.
10. What is 'rugged individualism? Is it real?
11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?
Places where massive amounts of homeless people live
buy low sell high
2. What makes 'cheap credit' mean?means the economy is going well and its easy to get a loan
3. What is 'buying on margin' mean?investors only have to pay ten percent of stocks
4. How is 'speculation' different from 'investment'?people would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck are speculating
and people investing like what they are investing in
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 arent making money and people arent spending money.
When they don’t spend the money the other factories can’t make moneyof the stuff people bought.
7. How did increases in technology contribute to overproduction in the 1920's?
technology allowed them to make more in a certain amount of time then when
they had to do it without technology
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 becausemost people were poor.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the moderneconomy (post-WWI)?
a tariff was an extra tax you have to pay for imported goods.
10. What is 'rugged individualism? Is it real?
11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?
Places where massive amounts of homeless people live
3/30/09
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 moneyof 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 thecompany 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 becausemost people were poor.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the moderneconomy (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?
-
11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?
- Places where massive amounts of homeless people
-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 moneyof 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 thecompany 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 becausemost people were poor.
9. What is a tariff, and why don't they seem to work in the moderneconomy (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?
-
11. What is a Hooverville, and why is it called that?
- Places where massive amounts of homeless people
3/29/09
Class
This weeks classes went well. I learned a lot about japanese internmant camps and other things that happened during WWII.
3/20/09
reagan questions
What are the problems america faces?
Inflation and tax collecting and government
what are Reagan's solutions?
tax cuts and government needs to be reduced
what makes Regan effective here?
funny
It tells that he can use humor when he is getting criticised
strong leader
he became a type of hero
evangellicals
communism is evil
to get them to support him
it doesn't work
yes
Inflation and tax collecting and government
what are Reagan's solutions?
tax cuts and government needs to be reduced
what makes Regan effective here?
funny
It tells that he can use humor when he is getting criticised
strong leader
he became a type of hero
evangellicals
communism is evil
to get them to support him
it doesn't work
yes
3/18/09
Malaise speech
"Malaise" and the American Way of Life
~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.
~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.
2/18/09
TV Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUpkOWSZaOE
This shows how times have changed not only by what the people are wearing but how they talked and how they acted. people wore diff. clothes then they do now. Styles change all the time they go from one extreme to the next. The way they talked they use to say words that no one says now. Peoples additudes also have changed.
This shows how times have changed not only by what the people are wearing but how they talked and how they acted. people wore diff. clothes then they do now. Styles change all the time they go from one extreme to the next. The way they talked they use to say words that no one says now. Peoples additudes also have changed.
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