HW7

Historian 1:

Although most Victorians (men, women, and children) worked long and hard jobs that required physical labor but there were “laws to regulate hours, wages, safety, job security, and working conditions.” (Sally 41) Laws against trade union was developed and “allowed labor to make some significant improvements, especially in working hours and wages.” (Sally 41) Workers had Sunday off and “short Saturday” in which workers are dismissed during mid-afternoon.

Sally, Mitchell. Dialy Life In Victorian England. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press., 1996. 41. Print.

Historian 2:

The fast-developing conditions of the 19^th century increased the opportunities for “men on the make”. Employers make their workers work under harsh conditions, “to indulge in such abuses as payment of wages” and “exploit cruelly” (Kitson Clark 91). The author described the relationship between employer and employee as “the small master and the man who worked at his elbow.” (Kitson Clark 91)

Kitson Clark, G. The Making of Victorian England. CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS: Harvard University Press., 1962. 92. Print.

HW8

“Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.”

AGREES:

P1: Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders when it resulted huge impact on the American society.

P2: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) fromed in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leader to use nonviolent resistance to achieve social and political goals became a powerful tactic in the struggle of civil rights and created a strong backbone for civil rights fighters.

• Therefore, non-violent reisistnace was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.

DISAGREE:

P1: Non violent resistance to injustice was a bad startegy for southern civil rights fighter when it causes negative impacts on the American society.

P2: Freedom Rides (1961) a civil rights protests in which blacks and whites rode inerstate buses together to test whether soutern states were complying with the Supreme Court ruling agaisnt segregation on interstate transport. Black passengers on the Freedom Ride, where beaten and thrown firebombs to while riding the bus

• Therefore, non violent resistance to injustice was a bad strategy for southern civil rights leaders.

Book Search

1) The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886 (Chapter 3: Workers by Hand)

http://www.questiaschool.com/read/35631622?title=The%20Mid-Victorian%20Generation,%201846-1886

2) Daily Life in Victorian England (Section:Working Life)

http://www.questiaschool.com/read/57191534?title=Daily%20Life%20in%20Victorian%20England

3) The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: The politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900

http://www.questiaschool.com/read/114703490

4) The Making of Victorian England (Section: pg. 90~ )

http://www.questiaschool.com/read/97553704?title=The%20Making%20of%20Victorian%20England

REPAIR

“How real was the threat of Communist spies within the USA?”

P1: Communist spies threat are real in the US when their actions are proven active with evidence.

P2: The US government (HUAC) is often using McCarthyism; which is the “practice of publicly accusing someone of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges.”

• Therefore, communist spies are not real in the United States

"Is it fair to say that the anxiety caused in the US due to nuclear threat, was useful and 'healthy?' (Security of the nation . . . = its health).

P1: It is fair to say anxiety due to nuclear threat is useful and healthy in the US when the government let their citizens feel secure.

P2: The Duck-and-Cover drills for children and the Defense shelters made people believe that the government has ways to protect them from massive destruction (Atomic Bomb).

• Therefore, is it fair to say that anxiety due to nuclear threat is useful and healthy.

Sem2.HW6

What arguments could be made FOR and AGAINST this statment: "America's poor, in the mid 20th century, were mostly responsible for their own problems."

FOR:

There were no suitable environment and opportunities for the elderly and disabled to work, therefore they can't help being poor.

Working Poor- Poor people worked, but wages were too low to lift them out of poverty

Poverty line was developed much later. This means that people in poverty did not recieve any care until late 1900s. Public were unaware of the situation, and no one was trying to help until they realized poverty became a massive problem.

Also, because the economy is on it's turning point and flourhing the government did not give much care to the people who are suffering from poverty.

Against:

Misfortune, when the poor move into the urban areas looking for manufacturing jobs; opportunies relocated into the suburban areas.

Large immigration; different race; therefore creates racism. Although the government encouraged people living below poverty line to move into the city but they were having difficulties adaptating to the environment and conditions. This increased poverty rate.

Sem2.HW5

Q for 40.2: "How real was the threat of Communist spies within the USA?"

The threat of Communist spies within the USA was not very real because there was no solid evidence. For example, McCarthyism, it is the “practice of publicly accusing someone of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges. As the passage mentioned, this happens often; the government (HUAC) found communist spies within the United State, but had no confirmed information about them.

On the other hand, it is quit real due to the Rosenberg Trail. Two spies for the USSR were sentenced to death. Julius Rosenberg was charged with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet. Even though there were a lot of protests, he was still executed. He became the first death of spying during Cold War.

Q for 40.3: "Is it fair to say that the anxiety caused in the US due to nuclear threat, was useful and 'healthy?' (Security of the nation . . . = its health).

It is fair to say that the anxiety caused in the US was healthy because it made people believe that their government has ways to protect them from massive destruction (Atomic Bomb). For example, the duck-and-cover drills for children and the defense shelters.

Moreover, atomic power was uprising. There were atomic-powered cars, ships, airplanes, and power plants. This provokes the economy. People were making a lot of money from this new energy or “title”.

Sem2.HW4

"How does the CIA's activities in Iran show that the US behaves undemocratically in its foreign policy?"

CIA’s activities in Iran show that the United States behaves undemocratically in its foreign policy by being crafty in their operations. CIA set up propaganda campaign to control Iran’s press and public and they also sent out fear to eliminate Mohammed Mossadeq’s supporters. A democratic leader will not interfere with people’s opinion, not to mention spreading propaganda all across Iran.

Another example that shows US behave undemocratically is Roosevelt commissioned a royal decree dismissing Mossadeq and made General Zahedi the prime minister. Even though this operation did not turn out the way US wanted it because supporters for Mossadeq revolt, but it is very undemocratic for US to overthrow a country’s prime minister without the process of voting and selection.