World War 2 Letter

Dear Henry,

We all miss you here, and wish that you are doing well so soon you can come back home. Mom says that she loves you very much and misses her big cheese. It's been a while since I last heard from you; last I heard you were stationed in Hawaii. How I wish you are here to see how things are things are changing.

I got a job at a factory, can you believe that? At first I could not believe it either. There are posters everywhere encouraging women to join the workforce encouraging us to work. “We can Do It” they say to us it look like they spoke to every women in the world because now we all working. Can you imagine that? Rosie the Riveter has showed women that we are not just stay at home women and clean, we are strong working women that deserve respect and any job we want. Now that all the men are at war after the Pearl Harbor attacks we are left here in charge and becoming head of the houses, our kids rely on Times are changing for the better, the United States is changing. Women have even had the chance to be apart of the Army, here they created what’s called the Women’s Army Corps. At first we all thought that it was a temporary place where they can shove a broad make them work auxiliary roles, but as if July it became a permanent branch to the ARMY.

Well I hope my talk can distract you a bit from everything you are going through over there, wherever you are. I know that you been stationed in Hawaii when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen, I read stories of how people could only saw dust around them, how they could hear the guns going off for so much time. So if you survived that then you can get through this, there is word that we are winning the war. Everyone hopes this to be true.

Your Sister

Ruth

Basic info

1. who you are & how you decided

I am going to be a woman at work in America. I chose this because I think I can put a lot of emotion and though into it.

2. research! including specific links and the major topics, people, & info in your letter.

During ww2 the Women's Army Corps became part of the regular army after the war ended

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3. an overview of the tone & ideas of your letter.

The overview of my letter will talking about how I'm really excited about the woman's power its gaining during the war and that I'm just hoping it will stay the same after the war ends and the men come back

Semester Two. Blog #14

1. What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2?
WW1:
Nine million died on battlefield.
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand was last straw and set off the War.
Reason that US entered the war was because Germany send a letter to Mexico offering them to join their side.
116,000 soldiers of US army died in a short period of seven months
WW2:
The treaty of Versailles and thanks to the great depression caused WW2.
Hitler was involved with WW1.

2. What do you hope to learn about these wars?
I would just like to learn how this wars connect to us today. How can this have shaped our economy? Also just like a quick overview of both wars, just to refresh my mind, I have short term memory loss so I forgot some key points of the main points.

3. How/Why are these wars important today? How do they impact and/or inform our world today? hint: think about alliances, democracies around the world, cultures, international institutions, nuclear (and other) technologies, etc.
The only importance that I can think of is how violent the countries got with each other. They invented weapons that were very threatening, a whole new era of weapons were born.

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Semester TWO, Blog #13 GOW Final Essay

Choose from the following, and write a thoughtful, refined essay that uses a variety of direct evidence to thoroughly answer the prompt.
" Describe how the balance between specific stories about the Joad family and broader description of the migration of Dust Bowl farmers impacts the novel as a whole."

John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, wrote the novel in a very interesting and clever format. At first glance the pattern in his writing wasn’t as obvious as many readers wanted, but as you take a step back and analysis everything in the first couple of chapters you get to start noticing this pattern about zooming in and out of the story about the Joad family. You get to see the big picture and not just one example of a family which you think has the worst luck. Zoom out chapters depicts everyone’s hardships and struggles dealing with the Great Depression, but providing chapter that specifically talk about the Joads helps the reader to feel more emotionally connected.

The Great Depression rocked the United States by the late 1920’s and most of the 1930’s, banks were closing, people lost their money, dustbowls occurred so people lost their farms too, people were fleeing to California to look for a better life that they had seen advertised in flyers. The Joad family is a perfect example of what families had to go through, from being kicked out of their farm to being starving tricked into buying Jalopies. Chapter 7, a zoomed out chapter, talks about how used car sales man deceived poor families into buying jalopies “Watch the womans’ face. If the women likes it we can screw the old man. Start ‘em on that Cad’. Then you can work em’ down to that ’26 Buick…. Show ‘em that Nash while I get the slow leak pumped up on that ’25 Dodge.” Knowing that the Joads had just bought a ‘car’ and knowing that this must had happen to them really makes you like you were the one that’s been lied and tricked into buying this piece of junk. Trough his book we can not just connect to one family, but to many also, it will be just like multiplying little Joad families by thousand and thousands times so tit think it has a good balance of variety of stories.

Chapter 26 is about people getting really frustrated and standing up for what they believed as a whole, not just one person outside in the picket fence protesting, but in a union. They are tired of being given low wages, unfair treatments, etc... This is the point of the novel when they are in their breaking point and became desperate. But take a look at the zoomed out chapter “In the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” this quote I took form the novel reflect on the entire book, we are all going to get to our breaking point from having this madness in our hearts.

Being able to connect to one family but also knowing that there were so many others in the same situation is very tricky, but thanks to John Steinbeck format of writing he made it possible. He had the just the right amount of zoom in and zoom out chapters that it didn’t made one more important.

Semester TWO, Blog #11

Write an open letter to a particular leader (or leading group of people) in which you outline specific advice to improve the American/Californian/local/other economy.

Dear Obama,
America through my eyes is a place where people come to to have a better life, but recently it has not been the same story. The problem right now is not health care, you got to go straight for the problem, the effects of the growing job losses. Creating more jobs are key to this economy, in a way I think it can be like a domino effect in a way, if you fix one of the main problem then the rest will slowly start to improve.

And if this means to borrow money then be my guest, slowly but surely it will be pay back. This doesn't necessarily mean that I want you to have the same mind set that Hoover had, just that you have to do some last adjustments in the end. This probably will take some years but please whatever you do, make it fast.

Semester TWO, Blog #10

Do you believe that the Grapes of Wrath successfully establishes sympathy for the plight of Dust Bowl farmers? Why or why not?

In my opinion Grapes of Wrath shows all the hardships and struggles that Dust Bowl farmers went through. In the chapter when two little kids are just staring at a piece of candy and their dad tells them that theirs no money and can't buy it I can really relate because I seen, in especially my little sister when we go to the store and she wants toys and my mom says no because there is no money I can see definitely connection, maybe not as extreme but very similar. But I don't necessarily think that the entire purpose of the book was so people have sympathy on them and just feel so sorry for them. One of the other purpose of the book in my opinion was to show people that mostly everyone was having hard troubles not just the farmers, and wants to teach us a lesson on not repeating history or all of this struggles will again occur but I guess no one listen because I can relate or know of people that experiencing similar situations.

Semester TWO, Blog #9

Reflection on Freedom and Structure

Having so much freedom with the Ampersand writing has been somewhat challenging. It's harder for me to choose a topic because each concept I came up with I feel it is not creative enough, and not really the right idea. But having all the due dates has helped me a lot because I know that if I follow them I will be able to accomplish a revised final draft and will be in good enough quality to be published in Ampersand.