I know that some of those images were probably pretty gruesome. One of the reasons i show that to you is to give you a sense of what that concept, total war means. Dont care what war we are talking about, it is never a simply simply about two armies fighting one another on a battlefield. It is all encompassing. I think the video probably helped to show that. It gives you an opportunity to see, and i think the newsreels and things, images on there, give you an opportunity to see what that was like. What the beginning of world war ii was like in europe, specifically, and of course in japan as well. Remember, the beginning of the semester, i told you guys my mantra. I dont know if you remember. It is all about perspective. That is how i teach. That is how i teach history. That is my mantra when it comes to my own research and scholarships. It is all about perspectives. When i talk to you about that at the beginning of the semester, i used world war ii as an example to illustrate that. We
To turn back the clock. It will be very difficult to completely overcome the devastation that has happened in syria already, but to find a political transition that maintains the syrian state that recogni recognizes there are a bunch of stake holders inside of syria, and hopefully to initiate a ceasefire that wont be perfect, but allows all of the parties to turn on what should be our number one focus, and that is destroying daesh and its allies in the region. And that is going to be a difficult process, a painstaking process, but there is no shortcut to that. [ changing captioners ] my part, that is a hard headed calculation and what is going to be required to get the job done. Do you think he will remain in power a year from now . I think that assad is going to have to leave in order for the country to stop the blood letting and for all the parties involved to be able to move forward in a nonsectarian way. He has lost legitimacy in the large majority of the country, is there a way to
Why we are waiting, i want to go to julie hyman. We are seeing a lot of steep selling in the markets today. Following on the heels of the after the happened fed raised Interest Rates for the first time in a long time. All averages are lower by at least 1 or more. 500, 16 above the 10 day average as we see expiration of futures contracts. Two of the biggest drags individually on the major averages today are disney and apple. Disney, despite the star wars hullabaloo is being downgraded. Company is overpaying for sports rights. Apple his been on downtrend, setting up for a negative month rate there has been analyst commentary that iphone sales may come in worse than estimated. Be is still setting up for a positive week, interestingly enough. It is still higher by 4 10 of a percent on the week, largely because of the run up to the fed Interest Rate increase. I want to mention Something Else we are watching today is crude oil, which has had a wild roller coaster today. Rising as the dollar
Progress, citing diplomacy with iran and cuba and a pacific trade agreement as a major publisher. He also talked about plans for the final year of his presidency. This is just under one hour. President obama good afternoon, everybody. Clearly this is not the most important event taking place in the white house today. There is a screening of star wars for gold star families and children, coming up. So i will try to be relatively succinct. Let me say a few words about the year behind us and the year ahead and then i will take some questions. As i look back on this year, one thing i see is that so much of our study, persistent work over the years is paying off for the American People in big, tangible ways. The early actions to rescue the economy set the stage for the longest streak of private sector growth with 13. 7 million new jobs in that time. And our Unemployment Rate has been cut down to 5 . And most importantly, wages grew faster than in any time since the recovery began. So over t
Of ways. American history tv, we will visit mechanics hall, built in 1877. It is listed in the National Register of historic places. It served as a platform for social and cultural activities, including womens rights rallies. The first Womens Rights Convention happened before the hall open, but afterward, most people came here to speak. Worcester was the central location. If anything happened in worcester, it happened here in the hall. And finally we will look at the collection of physicist robert goddard, best known as modern rocketry. We will look at his papers, diaries, and artifacts. He attributed his first interest in space travel and a career in science to a day in 1899. Side with a saw and a hatchet and he was meant to trim branches off a cherry tree. He climbed the tree. I think he made himself a little ander a little ladder, while he was in the tree, he looked down on the fields around him and he thought how wonderful it would be to build some kind theevice that could leave ea