If I read this in school in the late 1800s I would think that Indians were always up to no good and were very violent. But if I read this today I would think otherwise.
Monday, October 26, 2015
US History Classwork: Textbook Research
In this classwork I were researching the word savage and savagery. Mariam-Webster defines savage as "not domesticated or under human control" and "lacking the restraints normal to civilized human beings." I then searched up the word "savages" in the textbook archive and found some interesting descriptions of Indians. They were always referred to as savages and nothing else. The textbook made it sound like Indians were easily provoked to violence and were a disease to western expansion. The best example I found was when the textbook said that the wilderness was "infested by savages"
If I read this in school in the late 1800s I would think that Indians were always up to no good and were very violent. But if I read this today I would think otherwise.
If I read this in school in the late 1800s I would think that Indians were always up to no good and were very violent. But if I read this today I would think otherwise.
Monday, October 19, 2015
USH Newspapers
In an article in The Douglass Independent there was a story about Indians in San Antonio. It says that some Indians are driving off local livestock and killing everybody in sight. This article seems to bash local Indians by saying that they are just a bunch of savages running around.
There are a lot of stories and articles on the first page. There are sections for national news, regional news, and world news. The front page ads are conveniently pushed over to the far right and all the news is to the left. The front page is mostly factual. In the later pages the opinion based articles are found. Compared to a modern newspaper, the news articles are short and concise, and the articles aren't from the day that a certain event happened. I personally like this newspaper more than a modern one.
August 21, 1880
Dear Phillip,
Did you hear about the railroad incident on August 12th? Truly horrific. One of the train's cylinders exploded and released boiling water into one of the cars. It sounds like the people who were injured were hurt very badly or killed. And in San Antonio, there were a bunch of Indians who were driving off local cattle and killing people along the trail! And in Little Rock some Indians ravaged a mail coach and killed the passengers. It sounds like Indians are the main cause of violence in the news. But I must be generalizing, there are good and bad Indians. We only hear about the bad in the news.
Here's another crazy story. A man named Tom Beckett was searching for his wife in Jacksonville and he broke into his mother-in-law's house and it led to a shootout with the police. Stories like this have me concerned with our countries morals. The weirdest story by far is about a robbery in Denver. The man robbing the bank used a sandbag instead of a gun! Isn't that wild?
It seems that today's news is mostly tragedy. Is that the case for the news up in Boston? But on a happier note, I read today that the United States is exporting more silver than we are importing. Must be a good thing for a port city like Boston. I also heard that a prospector in a Mexican village outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico struck gold! Very unlikely for a poor Mexican village. Such a crazy world we live in today!
5 articles
choose 5 more
other articles
Your's truly,
William Joiner
There are a lot of stories and articles on the first page. There are sections for national news, regional news, and world news. The front page ads are conveniently pushed over to the far right and all the news is to the left. The front page is mostly factual. In the later pages the opinion based articles are found. Compared to a modern newspaper, the news articles are short and concise, and the articles aren't from the day that a certain event happened. I personally like this newspaper more than a modern one.
August 21, 1880
Dear Phillip,
Did you hear about the railroad incident on August 12th? Truly horrific. One of the train's cylinders exploded and released boiling water into one of the cars. It sounds like the people who were injured were hurt very badly or killed. And in San Antonio, there were a bunch of Indians who were driving off local cattle and killing people along the trail! And in Little Rock some Indians ravaged a mail coach and killed the passengers. It sounds like Indians are the main cause of violence in the news. But I must be generalizing, there are good and bad Indians. We only hear about the bad in the news.
Here's another crazy story. A man named Tom Beckett was searching for his wife in Jacksonville and he broke into his mother-in-law's house and it led to a shootout with the police. Stories like this have me concerned with our countries morals. The weirdest story by far is about a robbery in Denver. The man robbing the bank used a sandbag instead of a gun! Isn't that wild?
It seems that today's news is mostly tragedy. Is that the case for the news up in Boston? But on a happier note, I read today that the United States is exporting more silver than we are importing. Must be a good thing for a port city like Boston. I also heard that a prospector in a Mexican village outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico struck gold! Very unlikely for a poor Mexican village. Such a crazy world we live in today!
5 articles
choose 5 more
other articles
Your's truly,
William Joiner
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Deep thought
"Our use of social media for news is selective and intentional so that we may tend to remain interested only in things we're already interested in. On the other hand professional news outlet like newspapers expose readers to information on a broad range of topics. This helps me to see what other people are interested it or think is important."
-Mrs. Lawson
-Mrs. Lawson
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Newspaper History
3. Merriam-Webster defines the word newspaper as "a set of large sheets of paper that have news stories,
information about local events, advertisements, etc., and that are folded
together and sold every day or every week"
4. The first newspaper publication was in Strasbourg Germany in 1605.
5. The oldest publication in the Thirteen Colonies was The Boston News-Letter in 1704. The first New-England Courant was published in 1721. The first newspaper publication after America was an actual country was The Boston Chronicle in 1768.
6. In The Wall Street Journal the first headline is "Dell to Buy EMC for $67 Billion". There is an article about terrorism in Libya below the first article. Above the articles is information about stocks and currency. Other things that receive attention throughout the newspaper include labor, foreign affairs in the U.S., terrorism, economics, buisness, world news, stocks, sports, and politics
7. Wikipedia says that a newspaper of record is "a major newspaper that has a large circulation and whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered professional and typically authoritative." The New York times is the newspaper of record in the United States. The Times is considered the other newspaper of record in the U.S.
8. For daily news, I think that newspapers still have an edge over social media. Newspapers have a big bolded headline to catch your attention with the full article below. And it has enough articles in it to keep up with major news. When reading a newspaper you almost always have to read the whole article to get the news, but this is not the case with social media. Social media like Twitter has a shorter headline and the full article linked if you choose to read it. Social media also tells what the article talks about in its headline. Twitter also has constant updates to either get news fast, or read on the go. Sometimes an account will post some articles that they did not put in the newspaper. In short, newspapers have more in depth news and social media is fast paced news. It comes down to personal preference for which one you read.
4. The first newspaper publication was in Strasbourg Germany in 1605.
5. The oldest publication in the Thirteen Colonies was The Boston News-Letter in 1704. The first New-England Courant was published in 1721. The first newspaper publication after America was an actual country was The Boston Chronicle in 1768.
6. In The Wall Street Journal the first headline is "Dell to Buy EMC for $67 Billion". There is an article about terrorism in Libya below the first article. Above the articles is information about stocks and currency. Other things that receive attention throughout the newspaper include labor, foreign affairs in the U.S., terrorism, economics, buisness, world news, stocks, sports, and politics
7. Wikipedia says that a newspaper of record is "a major newspaper that has a large circulation and whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered professional and typically authoritative." The New York times is the newspaper of record in the United States. The Times is considered the other newspaper of record in the U.S.
8. For daily news, I think that newspapers still have an edge over social media. Newspapers have a big bolded headline to catch your attention with the full article below. And it has enough articles in it to keep up with major news. When reading a newspaper you almost always have to read the whole article to get the news, but this is not the case with social media. Social media like Twitter has a shorter headline and the full article linked if you choose to read it. Social media also tells what the article talks about in its headline. Twitter also has constant updates to either get news fast, or read on the go. Sometimes an account will post some articles that they did not put in the newspaper. In short, newspapers have more in depth news and social media is fast paced news. It comes down to personal preference for which one you read.
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