Film Research Project: Blog Post 2

this picture is a picture of a 1957 Friden STW-10 mechanical calculator. this was the calculators that all the men and women used at NASA and during this time.



this is a picture of katherine g. johnson at work in NASA, featured across from her is a celestial training device, each NASA worker had one of them at their desks just like the 1957 Friden STW-10 mechanical calculator.



this image is a picture of the IBM machine in NASA, this machine was supposed to put a lot of human computers out of a job, but instead the human computers worked on/for the IBM machine. dorothy vaughan became the supervisor for this machine and taught a lot of women how to use it.



this image is a picture of the staff of the supersonic pressure tunnel in 1950s. actually pictured in the very bottom right is mary jackson, one of the main characters and a hidden figure of NASA's space program.


this image is a picture of the very famous col. john glenn, pictured next to his shuttle the friendship 7. this is the shuttle that katherine, mary and dorothy all worked on.


this image is a picture of the famous ride that jfk took with john glenn after the successful trajectory of the friendship 7. this was the "homecoming ride".


this image is a picture of the real katherine g. johnson, a little older, receiving the presidential medal of freedom from the president. she received this medal for all the work she did for NASA.

this image is a very famous image of katherine g. johnson at her desk at NASA.

Film Research Project: Blog Post 1

guest list:

• katherine g. johnson
• mary jackson
• dorothy vaughan
• robert c. gilruth
• john glenn
• ted skopinski
• margot lee shetterly
• theodore melfi

guest list explained:

with the movie Hidden Figures, the women katherine, mary and dorothy were not only the main characters but were the women that helped the Friendship 7 become the first manned space ship to orbit the earth. this is why i invited: katherine g. johnson (the best human computer in NASA), mary jackson (america's and NASA's first woman to become an engineer) and dorothy vaughan (one of the smartest minds at NASA). these women were the backbone of NASA and my honored guests. robert c. gilruth was the head of the space task group, where katherine worked as the human computer. he gave katherine a chance when nobody else would. john glenn is another big part of the launch of Friendship 7, well because he was in the shuttle! he was another person to not look the other way at the african american women that worked at NASA. ted skopinski was a big part of katherine's climb, because he was one that kept pushing her down. he didn't like and didn't respec katherine like most of the men and women during the 1960s. with segregation happening during this movie, all the african american women were ridiculed while they were working at NASA and everywhere else. margot lee shetterly is the author to the book Hidden Figures, the movie was based off of the book that she wrote. she researched, interviewed the women/men and worked extremely hard to create this book to reveal the women behind NASA. lastly, theodore melfi is the director of the movie Hidden Figures, he created an excellent movie that portrayed african american's lives during segregation. he did a great job making the movie/script/cast. i think he would have great insight on why he made the actors do certain things.

Radios in the 1930s

welcome back my history fans!! today we are learning about radios. my part of the assignment was how is the technology different from the radios we have today. with radio technology now and then, the detection of communication schedules remain almost the same between then and now both consisting of electromagnetic waves travelling through the air.

the differences in radios between then and now:

• then
• they used to be about 4 feet tall
• really no differences
• now
• can be handheld
• tooks very different
• easier to tune
• easier to receive connections
• you can connect your phones to them

 

picture of a 1930 radio

picture of a 2017 radio

thanks for reading!!

xoxo ellie

WWI Poster Analysis

welcome back history fanatics!! today i am analyzing a couple of WWI propaganda posters. but first i need to answer a few questions.

1. to me, the word propaganda means a type of way to mislead the reader and have a very biased opinion over a certain subject

2. propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

3. for the propaganda posters i will be analyzing include posters 1, 2, & 4.

poster 1:
with this poster it is very striking to me whether me being female or just my emotions but, this poster is very intense with the mother reaching out to her sons while holding babies. the dark cast over this poster shows how distraught the mother feels and what emotion the poster is trying to convey: sadness and heart brokenness. the feelings that the artist is trying to make people feel sad and very sad for this mother that is losing her babies. the artist is trying to make people feel empathy for this mother and since no one wants this for anyone then they will feel very persuaded to buy more liberty bonds.

poster 2:
this poster again shows another women looking heartbroken that her family member is overseas fighting for us. this poster portrays many different images of the american flag blending into the ocean while she is pointing across the ocean and holding her hand towards you to put money in. with the bright red cross behind the women makes you think, she is christian, i am christian so i need to buy more liberty bonds. this artist is trying to make people feel bad that while those soldiers are fighting overseas for our safety/protection, we are sitting at home safe not doing anything to help them and buying liberty bonds will help the soldiers.

poster 4:
in this poster it is talking about when all the immigrants first came over to america for the "american dream", i mean the poster literally says "remember your first thrill of american liberty?". i mean it is literally guilting the people who read this poster to buy liberty bonds because you know the thrill of american liberty. the artist made the immigrants looking scared/excited to be coming on a boat, passing the statue of liberty so that they know they are in america. the artist wants the immigrants to feel bad that they were allowed to stay in america and that they need to do "your duty" to buy more liberty bonds. i mean the artist deliberately puts "your duty" in massive print and in a dark color to guilt the observer into buying more liberty bonds.

um to be honest i don't think it's right for the government to be using our money to persuade us to use more of our money to buy stuff for the government. i think it's a little twisted to be honest.

since it was our first world war, it was very scary to go across the sea, where we haven't been before, so the government thought that if they had more money for support, then we wouldn't have to worry about falling hard on the grounds of war, more like we fall onto a nice cushion of liberty bonds.

my posters


thanks for reading!!
xoxo ellie

20th century Imperialism in Hawaii

welcome back history lovers!! today i am writing about how imperialism in the 20th century affected the Hawaiians. In the film Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, Eddie and his family are native Hawaiians that obviously inhabit Hawaii. When Eddie was getting older, he started noticing more and more white people everywhere! They were on his beach, surfing his waves and he was not too happy about it. But he could not do anything about it, there were "whites only" signs only restaurants he used to eat at and now white people actually living on the island. This film lets us see imperialism by having a real person/primary source speak freely about what it was like having someone take over your country. Clyde Aikau, Eddie's younger brother, spoke on this subject and brought him to tears. Seeing this reaction really shows the cause and effect that imperialism has on the original inhabitants, it really opens your eyes to the other side of the story.


picture showing imperialism


thanks for reading!!

xoxo ellie