Granddaughters Sled:

In this society people were thought to be useless as they got older but they never realized the impact of one person. One small thing can make a huge difference in the world. They underestimated the knowledge of the elderly people they only cared for their ability to make a living. No one paid any attention to their knowledge and wisdom and would have left him to die but he saved all their lives in the end. With out him they all would have starved to death. There has to be problems in the world in order to learn a lesson. That one man changed the people of that towns mind.

Water Fountains:

Segregation and racism are just wrong. Were all people and no one is better than any one else. Segregation of water fountains, bathrooms, restaurants, etc. is not right, for people to think that they are better than others and judge people on their skin color, were all the same. Blacks worked hard to be equal and to stop segregation. Segregation was finally illegal but people continued to be racist. Racism is still continued today years and years after it was banned. But whats the point of racism I can't see any difference between me and them, there skin color. It's like saying you don't like apples because there red, like judging a book by it's cover. You don't know anything about these people and yet you judge them.

separate entrances:

Segregation is like in middle school and high school when people look different or do things that other people aren't used to so they think they are weird. People will bully and make fun of these people just because they are different. They never get to know these people they just judge. It is what they did with the blacks, they were different so they didn't like them. I also think that maybe they just got a little cocky and since they could boss these people around they did. When the blacks tried to change this some were put in jail or killed, is it really right to kill someone because they wanted to be equal. The things that the blacks didn't to rebel mostly never hurt anybody, the tried more hands off approaches, they never turned to physical violence.

Rosewood Massacre:

Events like this were unnecessary. They had absolutely no proof that the man had done anything to the woman and for all they knew it just could have been a setup. The man they killed could have been innocent. Blacks were often lynched and killed for no reason and most of the time they were framed or random accusations were made. Some whites got together and went around hunting innocent blacks that had done nothing and burnt down the whole town. They did this and it was all unnecessary, life would have been much easier if they just got along with the blacks.

Simon Wiesenthal:

I like that he had taken action against the Germans and tried to help. The holocaust is another unnecessary thing just like racism against the blacks. Hitler had no reason to kill all these people. The concentration camps were horrible. The conditions were terrible, the people were treated badly, they weren't given enough food, hygiene was not even thought about, the work was hard and outrageous, and much more. When the camps got too full they would start to burn people alive or if they were sick or injured they were burned alive. They were people just like everyone else and yet they were treated like dirt, they didn't care.

Cultural background of the times:

It seems like much of the movies of this time period were comedy. During the 1930s is when the Great Depression was occurring. During this time people needed something to cheer them up because the economic problem had such a huge impact on their life. These comedies were just the thing to cheer them up. People didn't want to watch serious movies. They needed something to make them laugh and get their minds off of things.

Field pic:

The work that they had to do was hard and time consuming. Just seeing this one picture you can see that it must be terrible for your back. Doing so much field work is very tiring and you could seriously hurt yourself. They have to work a lot with there hands which could also cause health problems. You can see that it is very sunny out and hot. Working out there is not enjoyable in any way and caused lots of problems.

Dorothea Lange Tent pic:

For anyone to have to live in conditions like that is horrible. The people look malnourished and dirty. There is barely any space in that tent and what happens when a storm comes along. They barely have any shelter and it would be very dangerous out in a storm. Not only that but it can destroy everything that they have. The woman had to young children and a little baby and in conditions like that then can easily get sick or the parents get sick and if they were to die, they would be off on their own and they would have a very long chance of surviving too. For anyone to have to live like this, it's bad, the people look so sad. Its definitely not a way of life they wanted to choose.

Dorothea Lange:

This migrant family had it hard off because of their failed crop but during the Depression people couldn't afford anything and there was no jobs available. They are starving and have nothing left. They just sold their tent for food and now they have no shelter. But this woman has seven children and she doesn't have anything much less to sell. She looks so sad and worn out. This woman is only 32 and she looks twice that, this is all because of poor health and hard work which causes a lot of stress. I would hate to live like this but it is hard to stop things like this from happening.

We Cater to White Trade:

Not allowing someone to eat at a restaurant if they are not white is not right. The restaurants, bathrooms, schools, etc. were not made equal between whites and blacks. This is wrong because everybody should be treated equal. Laws said that segregation could exist as long as the segregated places were equal and they weren't. No one was able to get this changed for a very long time though many like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others tried.