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Women were being told to go back to some of those more traditional roles. All of those things, including the arrival of television and Major League Baseball on television helped to bring about an end to the allamerican girls professional baseball league. If we look at the impact of africanamericans, women, japaneseamericans, any other group you could possibly think of, if we start to pick that apart, if we start to look at their actual role in winning the war, in surviving the war in some cases, we start to see a more full picture of what life was like for people involved in the war and those who were involved, even on the periphery. When we started this conversation today, this discussion today, we talked about the fact that total war, that war was this completely allconsuming thing, that it was not just about two ar ms. Shooting at one another. We started to think about that and what that meant and how can we further understand world war ii if we bring all these pieces and parts toge
Visit an Old Law School of mind he saw weak Democratic Party so he saw some opportunities there. He started the construction of this will house in 1901. He and mary would drive way out of the country on a buggy. They fell in of of the house so they bought acres to build this house. Construction were finished in 1903. It is 11,000 square feet. Mrs. Bryans budget was 10,000. It is a beautiful house. The main level of the home is used for entertaining and political events and receptions. They would host a number of World Leaders World Leaders would come here and all kinds of political leaders and the most prominent being Woodrow Wilson coming out here when hes trying to give bryan support in the 1912 convention. There were a lot of People International and National Leaders would come and stop by to see bryan in this home. Right now we are in the lower level is the main activity where the family took place. We are in the office area right now. Thats where bryan and mary had their office an
Hard enough and tries hard enough and makes good decisions hes guaranteed to succeed. So hes always chastising himself for being too rash and making bad decisions. Here he is almost a new years eve kind of resolution determined to cultivate habits of determination, energy and industry, feel that i am in a bad situation and must use my utmost effort to keep ahead. So to him people are failing because there are Larger Forces at work. He ends this entry with saw land lady and told her i was not able to pay the rent. Something that i think if anybodys ever been in that position, particularly with two young children, you know thats not a very good situation to be in. Henry george is shaped a little bit by his own personal background but hes also shaped by the troubling duality of the gilded age. Gilded age is a great metaphor, right . A great term. Mark twain coins the term. It suggests that on one hand, things look golden. It is a golden age. And it is an amazing age of technology, of Weal
Implications for our society. So lets begin. Lets talk about who this guy, henry george was. He was born in 1839 to a middle class, lower middleclass family. What lot of people think because he wrote this book on poverty that he must have grown up in poverty. He actually experienced poverty in his middle years, fairly extreme. So henry george was not a very good student, and he left school about the seventh grade. His father steered him into a trade, where he would learn the craft of typesetting, which was a very important trade and a great opportunity. So george flourished, but he was very ambitious, he headed out to california. He hopes to make it big, but he has this idea that hes destined for something great. Really experiencing povrt full on, and often. He would succeed at something, and then fail, but the good things is the printing of trade always guaranteed him something, so he went from the typesetting room to doing a bit of spot write and editing, and eventually became a very