Cinderella Man

       While the movie Cinderella Man takes place in the Great Depression, it’s more about James Braddock and how he overcame his struggle with the hardships. The movie is heartfelt and you feel more of a connection with James Braddock than focusing on the Great Depression time era. While it does show us how it was hard during that time period, it shows more of James Braddock and his fairytale ending. 

James Braddock had a string of bad luck in this time of his life. First being hit with the stock market crash, losing most of his money that way, breaking his hand, which lead to having his boxing license revoked. While the Great Depression went on, so did James Braddock, who worked hours upon hours at the docks just to put food on the table for his family. Cinderella had to do much of the same thing. While Cinderella had the support of few, James still had a fan base, friends, children, and his wife to help him. During the movie, you see James struggle constantly with sending his children away and having to live with not being able to support the household. While he made a promise to his kids, his wife goes being his back and sends them away. James mans up and goes out and asks for help from his fellow coworkers which can hurt a mans pride in these situations. These things that James does to help is family is what makes this movie more of a fairytale then spreading facts about the time period. 

The movie captures your attention by the story of James Braddock but not about the time period. The Great Depression is more of background noise than anything else. If this would have happened in the 1940s or 1950s it wouldn't have been been as big of a deal. While touching on the subject of hardships, the director chose to show more of the story of James since that’s what the purpose of the movie is about. If the movie focused more on the Great Depression and how hard it was for James to take control of his life again, it most likely wouldn’t have been as successful.

Successful movies a lot of the time have action in it, even if its stretching the truth. Cinderella Man did end up doing that to one of its characters.

While making the story about James Braddock and his “Cinderella ending” they had to make some of the characters less appealing and more aggressive. Max Baer was one of the victims that fell into the category. To make the story more of a Cinderella, they had to make someone the antagonist. While the Great Depression was already a main problem, they needed a human. Max Baer, probably a nice guy, was portrayed as a heartless, egotistical man, who was out for blood. The director did this for the sake of the movie. This makes James Braddock a weak guy compared to Max. Max Baer was only doing the same this as James Braddock, he was just more aggressive in his style of fighting and that made him an easy target to become the bad guy. They also made the Star of David, on Max's shorts, less noticeable because Jews are more prone to fall victim to being called weak and they could;t have Max being that. They needed Max to be mean and cruel so James could have the spotlight of being the weak one and being the underdog. Cinderella has her evil stepmom and stepsisters, James had to have his own, which was Max. And it wouldn’t be a Cinderella story without having a fairy god mother, which was James’s manager, Joe. He got James the fight and he believed in him. Joe made James Braddock into Cinderella. 

While James Braddock got his fairytale ending, it wasn't just at the expense of losing a job, it was his life. Without becoming Cinderella in a sense, who knows what would have happened to both him and his family. He fought for control over his life and he won. James Braddock in this movie, teaches everyone that you just have to keep trying and fighting until you win. If you give up, like James Braddock could have done after he broke his hand, he wouldn’t have gone on to win the Heavyweight Championship and defeat Max Baer. The things that James goes onto do makes this story Cinderella and keeps inspiring people to fight for want. 

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute trip

   I learned a lot about the 16th street baptist church in greater detail than what I knew before the field trip. I also learned more about the KKK and the children's march as well. It's much more realistic and springing how bad it was. I felt much more emotional than what I did when I just read from a page in the text book to actually seeing video and all the other things in the museum. It didn't change my perspective on it, just that it was much more upsetting because of what when on and how violent it was. The value of seeing this is person makes it more real and you can connect much more with it instead of just seeing it on a screen or a piece of paper. You can touch and stand where stuff happened and it draws more connection to what is going on and makes you remember better. You can read stuff that happened 50 years ago but you when you get to be there it's a much better experience. I felt that if we wouldn't have had the snow days and had been stressed out that it would have been much more fun and relaxing(as much as it can be with it having the history that it does) but it was a fun trip

Changing in the Medical Fields

    If we were still in the era for people to claim that they were professional doctors, we would be a train wreck. Mortality rates would be sky high, birth rates would be very low. They would be cutting people up for the fun of it and then they would get the money and run. Due to people faking to being doctors, they had to come up with something to weed out the fakes and the real doctors. One way they did that was to make the American Medical Association, also known as the AMA, an actual thing and enforce what they brought to the table.

    Founded in 1847, the AMA, was a very helpful thing. People who were fakes, were put to the test to see how well they could fake it, and the real doctors were able to keep going and get a license. Without the license, doctors weren't able to have their own practice or work under anyone else. When someone was sick they wanted someone they could trust with their life and not have to worry about fakes. To put people's mind to ease, they created the AMA, which in turn gave the people what they wanted, which was security. The AMA was able to create the code of medical ethics. The code of medical ethics was something doctors had to have in order to get their license. In the code of medical ethics there were three components; professional education, professional training, and professional conduct. There were other steps that they had to take before they could even get to the code of medical ethics.

     In May of 1846, there was a national convention held for everyone. In that meeting there was standard code of ethics developed, the adoption of courses for premedical education, and the creation of the AMA. The educational standards were that they had to have a "liberal education in arts and science, a certificate of completion before medical college , and a MD degree that covered 3 years of study, including 2 6-month lecture sessions, 3 months devoted to dissection, and a minimum of one 6-month session of hospital attendance".(According to nlm.nih.gov) In 1852, they had a revision, "medical schools had to provide 16 week course of instruction that included anatomy, medicine, surgery, midwifery, and chemistry. Graduates had to be atlas 21 years of age, students had to complete a minimum of 3 years of study, 2 years of which are under an acceptable practitioner"(According to nlm.nih.gov)

      The government was feeling pressure from people because the people of America were very unsure of if people they were getting help from was helpful and who they say they were. "The US congress acted to outlaw certain industrial payments or other inducements to physicians. [...] the response to those covered by professional societies, industry, and governments."(According to nlm.nih.gov).

      The roles of persuasion, communication, and collaboration were very clear in this situation. The persuasion came from the people convincing everyone that the american medical association was needing to be founded. Communication was people telling everyone about the american medical association and the government being informed about everything. Then lastly collaboration was used because they had to come together and create a system for people to use to get their license.

      During this process of learning about the coming about of sorting fake and real doctors out I learned what the process was then and how it has changed so much overtime. I found the sources were harder to find for this project as well. Overall this project was harder but I learned about things I didn't know before then.

the ama's logo

the old ama building















a piece of paper from the ama

talking about the founder of the ama

new ama building

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history.page?

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history/ama-history-timeline.page?

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001936.htm

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3765103?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22944/

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history/history-ama-ethics.page

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

If I were to analyze a political cartoon right now I would start by looking over the cartoon, distinguish the person, look at the captions and try to think about what has happened with the people or things that were in the cartoon.

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In the guide it says to describe what we see, what you notice at first, notice what people/objects that are shown, what words are drawn, how would this look different if it was photo, what do you see that might refer to another piece of art, what is in the picture that would be a symbol, what other details do you see?

Spanish Misrule

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Stanford

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/online/virtualcivics/Sp-Am.%20War%20Documents_files/image016.jpg

Speech

Walking into this class at the beginning of the year, I had the mindset of every typical teenager, “This class is gonna be boring” or “Why do we need to learn this? They’re all dead anyway.” As the first week went on I was shocked to find out that one of our first project was to watch the movies, “12 Years a Slave” and “Glory” unlike every other class we had where it was review. 

My favorite and the most pleasantly surprised part was how horses were such a big part of the Native American culture. If horses wouldn’t have played such a part of the Natives lives then they wouldn’t be a part of the American Culture. As a quote from my paper, “  Indians bred the most well known horses known to date in America.” If they wouldn’t have bred those horses, there would be no entertainment containing horses such as rodeos or Kentucky Derbies. The one thing I was unpleasantly surprised with the United States was how they treated the Industrial Workers. The higher ups could have gone about cutting wages and laying off workers differently but they didn’t. Instead they cut some workers pay and raised the rent up to 25%, that’s bound to put anyone out on the streets if they weren’t financially stable before that. 

In 10 years from now, I will probably still remember the horrid and vivid images from “12 Years a Slave”. I won’t forget house Solomon was treated as property and I won’t ever understand why someone would treat him badly and others treat him okay, or how Soloman had respect for the man who held him captive. In his journal he praises William Ford, “There never was a more kind, noble, candid Christian man than William Ford.” Along with slavery came Racism. Racism is something that Americans still continue to struggle with. The Huffington's Post has an article titled, “More White Americans Believe in Racism than Ghosts”. So many people believe in ghosts but more people believe that racism is real. Racism has been one of the many problems America has struggled with and they will continue to struggle with it for many years to come. 

If I were to name the time era for 1865-1920 I would name it “The Migration”. During that time period more than 25 million people immigrated to the United States. This helped the time period out a lot because they were able to recruit workers in the industry. And even though they were sent out in hard work areas, they were able to say that they worked and lived in America. 

Having history in our schedule at school may seem pointless and boring at first glance but then you come to find out the good aspects of your country and the bad aspects and you learn how the people before us built the country to what we are to this day. It makes it more interesting to learn about when you think about how we could’ve been a totally different country if it weren’t for certain people. 

Thinking About Success

 I think that with hard work, skill, opportunity, and luck that you would be successful in the economy. Being successful in a job or anything comes with hard work. If you don't have the will to work, or you want to do it lazily then you won't have success. Skill is also important, even if you don't have skill in the start of your job, if you keep working hard you will gain your skill. Having opportunities in the job world means that you can get further faster in your job. If a good job opportunity arises then you would jump on it and you might get it if you have the will to work hard, and the skill that comes with working hard. Lastly to be the most successful is luck. To be lucky means that you just happen to be at the right place at the right time, it doesn't mean that you're going to continue with your lucky streak.

In today's reading I found that Zara, the Spanish store, is so successful because they are able to make sharp turns in the fashion industry to keep up with people's demands. Every week they make two trips to the stores and put new stuff out. They spend money to make money. They bought 14 new machines that work around the clock to keep up with cutting fabric and dyeing items. H&M, which is similar to Zara, sends out only 2 seasons and sub seasons within the seasons. They have people set up to check what consumers are wanting, similar to Zara which makes them successful with their customers. Being caught up to what is the latest trend is what keeps these companies alive. I do not like shopping there because of their unreliability of the outfit, in my opinion their clothing is a few time wear and be done with it. They do keep up with the trends and people like how quick they are to get on their feet and run with the newest idea of what's next. They're one step ahead of big names like Belk, Dillards or similar to them.