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The chapter called “Introduction” in American Disasters by Steven Biel explains in detail what the book will be about and how each section is going to cover a certain theme. The themes are split into four parts from capital, faith, community, and possibility. I did enjoy how the introduction opened up with talking about the group who went down to find the Titanic shipwreck. The crew explaining how the technology was not up to date and could have imploded if a hairline crack happens to appear. It gives us a vivid picture of what they went through. I also do like how they talk about making history like the Apollo crew did when they landed on the moon but they were able to send shots of the Titanic shipwreck for the first time since it sank.  This is a way of digital history that lives on. They said it was airing on the Discovery Chanel. As in gparker77 post, he explains the way digital history is open to the public for anyone to be able to search history. A new way to have the public engage in history.  gparker77 did a great job covering what digital history is. I do like how his post relates to the introduction of Biel’s book. The Titanic explore team is a part of digital and written history at the same time. Anyone can look up the footage of their exploration and see what many people were able to see when they were watching it on tv on the Discovery Chanel.

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This is a film that is based on a few missionaries that went to the Paraguayan jungle to convert the Guaraní community. I watched this film after looking at the guidelines for this review. While watching the film I was paying close attention to the film to see any evidence of it being historical in a way. The Misson, the film directed by Roland Joffé, is almost historically correct with including what the Jesuits did as missionaries to the Guaraní community. The main character played by Robert de Niro,  was against the missionaries and was actually out hunting and capturing the Guaraní community as “indentured servants” for the Portuguese. He would later become a Jesuit priest and help Guaraní community convert over to Christianity. The film ends like any Hollywood film would end. The Jesuits all fought back and died as martyrs. After the film was over my professor explained that the Jesuits did not, in fact, fight back like they did in the film. Even while watching the film I had my doubts about what really happened with the Jesuits. The action scenes were very Hollywood with Robert de Niro making these makeshift cannons and traps for the enemy. In all, the film did portray the Jesuits in a way many people can accept due to them interacting with real natives from another country (Guaraní community were not involved in the movie as actors due to the massacre that happened in the film). I would recommend this movie to any history buff or anyone that is interest in a film about Jesuits doing mission work.

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After reading Steven Biel’s “Unknown and Unsung,” the chapter brought some light into gender and what the other gender had to say about the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic was a look into Women’s Suffrage. An idea that I did not know was tied to this ships sinking into the ocean.  “The chivalry displayed on the Titanic, which proved to many that women didn’t need the vote and that American society was basically sound, demonstrated precisely the opposite to feminists such as these.” (Biel 311) I found it interesting how Biel is relating the two things in this quote.  The idea that men were being chivalric to help out the women and letting them survive to make the race go on. (Biel) That they were not only saving women and children but also the human race as well at the same time. I see how some feminist might of seen this as a wrong but other cheering and being happy about the men leaving their lives behind and letting the opposite gender survive.  This can be related back to the post zhedrick. zhedrick talks about how the Industrial Revolution and this was talking about the Sufferage Movement as well as the progressive movement.  I do see how this movement was also an impact not only the economic side but also political. Having Women vote int he American elect is a feat that they have been fighting for. Biel was able to relate the Titanic to the rise of women in America.

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In the Roediger article, the theme of the article was revolving around the notion of how immigration is seen. The idea of class is also brought in with having immigration and racism in the center of it. Another theme of the article is who is white. Some of the immigrants were later considered white due to being fair skinned. I big theme or idea is that all immigrants learned the very disrespectful word to call an African American when they first arrived in the United States. People from the start were being taught to dislike African Americans and any dark skin immigrant.

The Coates article is something of an insight of what African Americans experienced in Chicago.  What was interesting in this one was how Clyde Ross explained his personal hardships in the South. How his family was free but not. They were still in some kind of slavery but legal due to not fully being able to own the thing they had. Clyde Ross also goes on to explain how the draft wanted him not in the war but he refused and went anyway. Later he would find a way to live in Chicago but there was a catch. The house he bought was not bought through a bank. Coates then states that during this time, many African Americans were not able to get mortgages and had to buy from a person who set up a contract who bought the house cheaper and up sold it. Coates explains this has been a problem in Chicago and how many people were cheated out of their money. In zhoeffken post on Marx,  zhoeffken writing relates to what was happening to African-Americans in Chicago. This relationship is that people were making money or capital off of people who in the lower class, and during this time people needed to find ways to be able to live out their dreams and some were willing to make money off of that need.

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So the themes tended to revolve around disasters and the idea of what lead up to them. I noticed that in jessicabode post on Setting Fire- “Did the Cow Do It?”, she was able to give a brief well put idea forth in a way that it was easy to understand what her point of the post was. When I was writing the same post, I was trying to figure out what method to write it on, but now from understanding how the posts are meant to be written, it has gotten easier to write and figure out the main points and topic. Yet, while reading justinrod717 post, I was trying to figure out how he was trying to relate his post to the other person he referenced. His idea is well thought out but he could have referenced or commented with a little more emphasis on the other persons work.  In cluna3, post this person was able to write on the reading and then relate it back to another person’s post by reaffirming their own theme.  As I began to dig deeper, I started to notice a trend that started with cluna3 and saw it yet again in sevallos. This person was also figuring out to write out their post and not only referenced another person’s work but add it to their post to bring out their point. My last post I wrote on, it became more clear from doing a few posts, how to incorporate what I wrote in order to relate back to earlier post as did cluna3, sevallos, jessicabode, andjustinrod717. The order I placed them was due to how the first people had enough people to relate their post back to their own and the last two had done post very early on in the semester. I believe that since the semester started, people have been able to read others work in order to have an idea on how they might write their own post.

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Craig Offman wrote the article “A tempest around “Isaac’s Storm,”” he goes on in this article to explain some things he had on his mind about the book. The book was based on a real storm that happened in Galveston, Texas. The book does go a little bit further to explain some aspects of the story to make it more appealing to the reader and draw them closer. As Offman writes in his article, there are a few areas where he questioned the truth about the book. This idea around the two brothers never talking again even as they aged and so on.  Offman, also is giving his personal view on the review he is giving for the book, yet we can not fully take what he says to heart either due to that it is his own view and opinion. We have to see this as just another view we can look into as we make our own decision on the book. In what sanchezron13 said about the storm and its damage does hold true in what Offman also stated in the article on how he explains “Officially it was a 4,” he says. “Having spent two and a half years of intense research on this storm, I’m convinced it was a 5. The bottom line is that no one can know for sure.” (Offman) the book would explain how it was more of a 5 than a 4 due to the amount of damage it caused. I really do like what sanchezron13 had to say about the 5th chapter in the book. It explains what the people went through and how much chaos there must have been. To end this, Offman gives us his view on the book and compares them  “Sebastian Junger’s “The Perfect Storm” and Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” ” (Offman). In other words, he is saying this is sort of a trendy book to read and worth your wild.

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In the book by Steven Biel, American Disasters, There was a chapter that Carl Smith wrote on called Faith and Doubt. This touches base on the fire that broke out in Chicago, but with a story about faith. Some people see that the fire that broke out in Chicago was God punishing the people for living in a very sinful city. With the fire burning Chicago, some of the people saw this as a blessing as stated on page 136. Smith also writes about how some people remained calm and quite as they retreated from their homes being burnt. He goes on to write that the fire did not exclude any class and went after the rich and poor. From reading this I can see this relating back to the earlier pages about God smiting the city and of course he would not exclude anyone from his wrath on the city. But going back to the fire, Smith explains something that caught my eye on page 151. He writes about how the fire brought out the worst in the supposedly good people. So now people are showing their true nature and people are realizing that not even the high-class people are so high and mighty but they too might have a drinking problem or have problems at home. And with what jessicabode wrote on the fire that “Peg Leg”  Sullivan started, you can probably assume many people were going out to drink their sorrows and asking why God must have done this and why was their house affected by this fire.

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The story is about a cow who was being milked by women. Of course, the woman was not going to admit to being at fault. The women had a different tale of what happen on that eventful night, she claimed she was in bed with her husband and she could not have started the fire and there was a witness who came to their side to further back the statement. “Now this story started to spread just like the fire did in Chicago,”   so from this point people were not talking about how the cow was the culprit and the people were innocent. The were also many things that could back up her story with fires that have been going on earlier in the week, the firemen being exhausted from their word, and finally the amount of time the fire took to take over the city. I see a connection from what gparker77 posted on histography. As I was reading this story I had my questions of how and why this fire was significant in Chicago’s history. How is it a cow or the women the center of all of this?  As I finished reading the rest of the article, I started realizing they had accounts from the newspapers and pictures to back up that this was an actual event. Furthermore, they had a full trial on who started the fire and finally at the end we find out it was not the cow or the women but a man named Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan.