Political Climate of the 1950's

 Elia Kazan

HUAC was established in 1937 by a man named Martin Dies. Dies was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan and therefore had their support behind him in these investigations. HUAC was established to investigate un-American and subversive activities. In 1947 HUAC began to investigate people of Hollywood. 41 people were interviewed by HUAC in September 1947 and during the interviews they gave names of people who were supposedly holding left-wing views. People who held left-wing views were said to believe in communism. Elia Kazan was one of the people who gave names. The reason he gave names of people with left wing views was that he was afraid that he would go to prison. If people did not give names they would be added to the blacklist. The blacklist was a list of people with left-wing views and if people were on the blacklist it made it virtually impossible for them to get a job in Hollywood. HUAC was on a "witch-hunt" in the 1950's of the Hollywood community.

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Puritan Plain Style

The green leaves of summer

Have turned to red yellow and orange.

To everything there is a beginning and an end.

These leaves represent our lives

They are here one minute and gone the next

Therefore daily we need to do the right thing and love one another. 

This will give us a chance of being with God in Heaven for eternity. 

They All Played A Part

Squanto was a key person in the success of the Pilgrims who came from England on the Mayflower. Squanto did various things that kept the Pilgrims alive. First Squanto was an interpreter for the colony. Squanto had been in England before and while he was in England he learned the English language. Squanto helped the Pilgrims talk to Massasoit who was the chief of the Wampanoag. The Wampanoag was the tribe that lived around Plymouth. Second, Squanto helped the Pilgrims with food in the New World. Squanto taught them how to plant things such as maize. Squanto also taught the Pilgrims how to fish and hunt for food. In my opinion, if the Pilgrims did not have Squanto it would have been very hard for them to survive in the New World. Squanto was very valuable to the Pilgrims. He also played a key role in their success in the New World. 

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Journals of Discovery

This was a picture that I found on the Internet when i searched the First Thanksgiving. It shows the Pilgrims and Indians eating together in harmony. There are foods such as pumpkins, corn, squash, and wheat. Most of the food that is shown in the picture would be accurate. In Of Plymouth Plantation the food that Squanto helped the Pilgrims to hunt or catch was turkey, venison, and fish. Squanto also taught the Pilgrims about Indian corn. Never in Of Plymouth Plantation did it talk about squash and pumpkins but these could have been used just not mentioned. This picture shows the Natives eating with the Pilgrims. It does not talk about this in Of Plymouth Plantation. Indians were only mentioned a few times in the journal. The Pilgrims made peace with the Indians but the only Indian that they came in contact with on a daily basis was Squanto and he was with them everyday until he died. 

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Native American Culture

In class we watched a video about the Cahokia mounds in Saint Louis, Missouri. This video was very interesting to me. The mounds are large in size and must have taken a lot of work. All of this work was done by human labor. This seems like it should have taken a long time but in reality it did not take the Native Americans that long. The mounds were used as burials or places for ceremonies. The mounds show that the Native Americans were very intelligent. The mounds also showed that the Native Americans knew how to work with the land. In the video the man talked about how the Native Americans used different types of soil on different parts of the mounds. That shows their knowledge of the Earth. Overall the video was very interesting and the mounds are magnificent works done by the Native Americans.

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