This blogspot requires an individual response. At this point, you may have an individual response to the question that may be influential in how your group perceive's the integration of history into documentary. Please provide a response per person and identify the group you are in.
Your documentary should provide a connection/link to the Gilded Age in terms of identification of a reformer, their reform and the condition leading to the reform. Identify these 3 facets of interest and how you intend to integrate them seamlessly in your documentary.
Does providing a connection to history strengthen your premise and essential question? Why/Why not?
I think that using history will strenghten our documentary because it will show the audience on how food assistance and other benefits originated. However, the specifically the gilded age won't help us because benefits originated after American adoption of Keynesian economic policy, before World War I.
ReplyDeleteI'm in the Crime group. I think that a connection to history definitively strengthens the question because it gives a scenario where the same situation happened. Ultimately, its gives people something that they're familiar with and it shows how its related to present day. It definitely helps a lot. A connection won't hurt the documentary, it can only help.
ReplyDeleteWe will choose to focus our historical connection to Jane Adams and the Hull House as it pertains directly to our topic of interest, Homelessness in Silicon Valley. By introducing the history behind homes for families under the oppression of urban poverty in this modern era, we will have estabished a credible base to build off of for the rest of the film.
ReplyDeleteIntro/hook-> Hull House history-> "Jane Adam's mission continues today through the people who run establishments such as Innvision, Sacred Heart..." etc
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ReplyDeleteIm in poverty and disabilities.
ReplyDeleteWhen talking about expensive products for the disabled we can bring in the fact that in the gilded age only wealthy families can afford education for their children. It would have cost more if they were disabled.When talking about steve mahon we can bring up the challenges he face and hellen keller's challenges.
Four our documentary we are bridging a connection between the corruption and inactivity of the government during the guided age to its behavior in modern day. By doing so we show how serious this issue is.
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Using historical connections will add a sense of depth to our documentary, the historical aspect of our documentary will aid us in explaining the evolution of healthcare. We can connect the governments first time involving itself in a privatized market to the governments involvement in healthcare.
ReplyDeleteWe might connect to corruption in Grant's presidency for our corruption portion, or we may talk about Jane Addams and the Hull Houses to relate to Food Stamps being passed out same as assistance during the Gilded Age. It may help out our documentary, but it depends on how well we integrate it in a relevant way.
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ReplyDeleteJane Addams and the Hull House providing housing for people relates to our topic on homelessness, and the services she provided can be shown relating to similar services rendered today. Providing a connection to history shows thought and understanding on the subject, but the connection to history might take away some of the attention on the present issue.
I am in the group with Burke and Jacob and our topic is healthcare and how it affects poverty. One reformer I think we could use would be Jane Addams and the Hull House. It was a settlement home located in Chicago that provided shelter and medical attention to those that could not afford either one. This occurred at a time in which the government was not fully regulating healthcare for its citizens. We could contrast that with the conditions today to integrate history into our documentary.
ReplyDeleteI think that connecting history to your questions provides a context to your question and adds more weight to them. It also draws the reader in as well.
The corruption in government links to our topic of poverty in crime through showing how areas of communities that need to be subsidized are not due to corruption leading to crime in certain areas and continuing it in the different areas in society as well as in the government just like during the Gilded Age.
ReplyDeleteOur documentary's link is that we are trying to expose the corruption and lack of activity that our government showed during the Gilded age and is showing now; we want to also push for more funding, awareness, and government support of programs like SNAP, etc. Providing a connection to history strengthens our premise and essential question because it shows that this is not the first time that something like this has happened, and therefore needs to be taken care of before it gets worse.
ReplyDeleteadding a historical connection to the gilded age to healthcare would provide a clear understanding to our audience on how this conflict came to be. A historical connection strengthens our overall argument by showing that this has been a problem for a while.
ReplyDeleteWealthy families were able to send the blind children into private schools but the poor couldn't afford that for their children. Comparison between now and then. Corruption of business, the fact that poverty ruins everyones life and gives them no hope
ReplyDeleteyes, providing a connection to history will help us strengthen our arguments. we are going to compare the gaps between the rich and the poor from now and the gilded age, discuss what the government and the rich were doing to help the poor then and now. We can discuss Carnegie and how he helped the poor, or Jane Addams and her social reforms
ReplyDeleteconnecting our documentary with history does strengthen the meaning of it because it shows how long poverty has gone on for, and shows how it only increases over time. We will be connecting the Food Stamps today, with the people who lived in poverty during the Gilded Age, like Immigrants, who didn't have Food Stamps to apply to at all and how they were able to get food and provide for their families.
ReplyDeleteyes, because it shows how the government is failing compared to reformers during the gilded age. Back then the gap between the rich and the poor was huge, and today it is smaller but rising. It strengthens the idea that we are trying to get across, because it shows facts from history.
ReplyDeletewe are going to use jane adams.
One reformer that we would use would be Jane Addams and the Hull House. The hull house provided shelter and medical help to others that couldn't afford it.
ReplyDeletewe can make a connection to the poor people who came from Europe into the Unites states and that "started" the gap between the rich and the poor, which is eactly what we are working with. We could also potentially talk about the corruption in business and stock watering.
ReplyDeleteSince we are doing poverty in America, we can also look at poverty in the gilded age and how it affected politics. We can take a look at how large the gap was between the rich and poor, and how corrupt the American government was back then
ReplyDeleteYes, because it shows how sports in the gilded age such as baseball and boxing. There was not very many outlets for children getting out of poverty because there was not very many professional sports.
ReplyDeleteIm in a group with Even, Maddyson and Sammy and i think that the question about whether or not the Gilded age Strengthens your documentary is not true. Because it will just seem random and unfitting into the documentary
ReplyDeleteTalking about how sports emerged as an outlet for poor children during the Gilded Age, and how sports have since developed and grown would be beneficial to our project because it would show the lasting impact playing sports has on people.
ReplyDeleteBecause sports aren't a very hot topic during the gilded age, it will be difficult to compare them to today, but we will have to compare the sports as a path out of poverty, and show how modern professional sports have really proven a path out of poverty.
ReplyDeleteI think that a historical connection will definitely enhance the documentary because it will provide the viewer with an analogy that can help the impact of the issue.
ReplyDeleteI would say it neither helps nor hurts our documentary, because we are just going to do a short intro with the history parts before the our present-day documentary intro. We're doing something on the book "How the other half lives" written during the Gilded Age about the wealth gap/economic inequalities back then. It maybe interferes with the emotional impact a little.
ReplyDeletePoor athletes in the gilded age were limited to few options and sports. We'll show how they were different from how they are now.
ReplyDeleteOur group will use examples from the progressive age to compare to the modern age, and discuss the development of sports in the 1850's. Our group will talk about the development of college scholarships and other important professional sports during that day and age.
ReplyDeleteYes, we have a very strong connection to history with How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York by jacob Riis. It relates our theme well to the Gilded age as it talks about the same problem of the gap of wealth between the rich and the poor. i am in a group with Teylir, MadIsun, ans Samentha
ReplyDeleteI'm in the sports group and there isn't much we can do to connect the guilded age to our project, so we decided to use a statistic to show how much modern sports have grown, and how poor children have more of a choice in sports now than they did then.
ReplyDeleteYes, because it provides background on how the problem was even an issue in the old times. My group is doing it on Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives" which was one of the first eye openers on how the poor lives. Most rich were unaware of the unsafe conditions of the less fortunate and this made the general public more aware of the situation.
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ReplyDeleteOne possibility for our project is Lester Frank and his "Dynamic Sociology," intended to reform poverty and politics in the Gilded Age. He can be compared to those making reforms in our current time frame for the same purpose.
Adding this to our documentary solidifies the potential problem by presenting a past case where this same situation was created and changed. It reinforces our notion of the problem and also shows the possibility of solution, which supports our goal in the project.
As much as Great Leader Torrens wants us to make a connection to the gilded age, i do not believe that this will help the documentary at all. That being said, we will probably use information about Detroit starting up into an Industrial city during the Gilded age. How the railroads and meat packing industry brought jobs and population to Detroit.
ReplyDeletethe sudden influx of poor immigrants created a large and desperate workforce that was willing to work for scraps, this dragged down the average pay. we have plenty of footage on this already.
ReplyDeleteI am in the child hunger category and we will connect it with Jane Addams "Hull House" because it is about the homeless and hungry in the Bay Area and how it provides for them as support.
ReplyDeleteI am in a group with Para and strongly believe that incorporating a link between the Gilded Age and modern Detroit would detract from the piece as a whole. We have a very streamlined storyline and if we attempt to tack on any unrelated references to the Gilded Age, will poke holes in our story. However due to the grading process we shall try to describe Detroit during the Gilded age to see when corruption first appeared. Using specific reformers would be counter intuitive, so events as a whole will have to do.
ReplyDeleteWe are connecting Child hunger with Jane Addam's "Hull House". The hull house was there foor imiggrants to learn how to; learn, eat, to debate, anmd to iquire tool sin order to live in America. I dont think it strenghtins our essential questions.
ReplyDeleteWe could connect the recreational activities in the gilded age to the present. I know the poor played baseball and boxing back then, and I could also talk of the inequality and the divide during the era which is like what we have now.
ReplyDeleteI believe that a historical reference would help by providing origin stories and background for our issue, crime/poverty and how they relate. However, I think that it will cut off the overall flow and emotional appeal of our documentary.
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