Semester Deux, Blog Seven

Newspaper writer in my parents generation:
TV has just come out, but my dad doesn't have one because he is poor, near homeless, and lives in Australia. So a newspaper is probably what he reads to have a good time, and what his dad reads to look for jobs to support his family.

As a newspaper writer you are giving the people probably around 90% of the news they know of. You are constantly looking for new storys, breaking news, but at the same time you could relax and just find any news—because people probably havent heard of it yet. What is in the news you ask? Well whatever you want it to be, but you're really just looking for anything to spark peoples attention. As for a concern, you would maybe be concerned of televisions being created because they will have news on them and people will stop needing to read your newspaper, but that worry might not come until much later—i'm not totally sure.

Newspaper writer in my grandparents generation:
My grandfather is a teenage boy growing up in Brooklyn, he is #1 in his class, but education isn't interesting to him and he is looking for something else to do. As a newspaper writer in the 1930's, you're probably trying to write about things that will interest poor people, and people interested in war, I am assuming. Because the great depression happened not to long ago, and things were still antsy after the win of The Great War.

My grandfather probably looked at an advertisement in a newspaper when he decided not to go to college and join the Marines. Only to become one of the best Center fielders the Marines baseball team has ever seen. Journalists are still looking for storys, or really anything interesting because all people have for current events are newpapers, and the radio as well, but what dad in the 30's didn't watch his wife make him a cup of coffee and breakfast while he read the morning paper—oh thats right, none of them!

Honors:

In my opinion, racism was born in 1498, when Christopher Columbus landed the Santa Maria in North America and discovered Native Americans—also known as “Indians”. Possibly the first racial word ever uttered was when Native Americans were wrongly call Indians, and the term has stuck. Since then racism has grown up quite a bit. In the year 1790 the slave trade, a large part of racism, had started. The British were shipping one slave vessel every other day from Africa to Europe. This started African American racism. Blacks in American were stated as lesser than white and forced to drink out of different water fountains, use different restrooms, and act like they were not on the same level. In the early 1960’s something called the civil rights movement, which some consider the death to slavery, in America at least. A man named Martin Luther King Junior protested against slavery, and with the backing of a whole nation, slavery was nearly abolished. It still lives on in some areas, in some forms, but it is something we will hopefully never see again.