Ok, I know there are alot of imaginative people on this board, so I was hoping you guys could use your imagination and knowledge of the 20th century to help me out. I have to do a report for a class of mine and it must be on something or someone from the 20th century. It can be a war, a weird happening, a person, or maybe something significant that happened in TV or sports. If you have ANYTHING like this that is an interest to you that I could write about or present to my class, your help would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks to anyone who reponds!




ks

I was born in the 20th century. You can do a report on ME!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :joke:

How about........<thinking, thinking>........... World War 2?

Originally posted by WingsFan
I was born in the 20th century. You can do a report on ME!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :joke:





That's it! I'll do a report on WingsFan. SILLY ME...Wwhy didn't I think of that earlier;)

Now all you have to do is write a book about yourself so I can present it to the teacher...





ks

the '63, '64 blackout of New York for two days!! hehe

Originally posted by Division_Fan_Lisa
the '63, '64 blackout of New York for two days!! hehe
that sounds like fun...

Anyways you should write about when tv was first came out and stuff hehe :tv:

You could write about The Great Depression.

Write about the Nazi's

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever
Write about the Nazi's

o yea!! Thats interesting. I read a book in school, "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, about the nazis and how this girl, AnneMarie is protistant and her best friend is Jewish and they hide her...Its a really gr8 book....Kk, Im rambling!! muaz yall :kiss: ( im a weirdo today :joke: )

Originally posted by Division_Fan_Lisa


o yea!! Thats interesting. I read a book in school, "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, about the nazis and how this girl, AnneMarie is protistant and her best friend is Jewish and they hide her...Its a really gr8 book....Kk, Im rambling!! muaz yall :kiss: ( im a weirdo today :joke: )

I read that book in 6th grade. It's really good!

How about the women's suffrage movement during the early part of the century? Or the first feature film? Or the invention of the Internet?

Originally posted by Division_Fan_Lisa
o yea!! Thats interesting. I read a book in school, "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, about the nazis and how this girl, AnneMarie is protistant and her best friend is Jewish and they hide her...Its a really gr8 book....Kk, Im rambling!! muaz yall :kiss: ( im a weirdo today :joke: )

I read that last year!! One of my favorites!! And Annemarie, her sister died, and then her fiancee Peter was left, and then he dies, and then yeah omg! It must be required for a LOT of schools to be read for 6th grade! :D

My advice to you would be, think of something you would enjoy researching and writing about. I always keep this in mind when I am choosing paper topics. When you are writing a paper that is gonig to require 5+ weeks of research and writing, it had better be on something you find interesting! (Of course I know you probably won't have to spend 5 weeks on yours).

My other advice....try to pick something interesting and unusual, something you think no one else in the class will pick. In my mind, if yours is like the 8th paper a teacher has read on the same topic, she may be getting bored and that's never a good thing.

Hmmm....as for some ideas....luckily I have a book here that lists the "People of the Century"...here's a few:

Emmeline Pankhurst (fought for women's suffrage)
Leo Baekeland (inventor of plastic)
Willis Carrier (inventor of air conditioning)
Margaret Sanger (pioneer in liberating women's sexuality, birth control pioneer)
Alexander Fleming (discovered penicillin)
Robert Goddard ("father of modern rocketry")
Coco Chanel
Louis B. Mayer (MGM movie studio pioneer)
Edwin Hubble (astronomer)
David Sarnoff (TV pioneer, created networks and brought TV to the public)
Leo Burnett (ad man who gave us the Jolly Green Giant, the Pillsbury Doughboy, Tony the Tiger, the Keebler Elves, the Marlboro Man, and Morris the Cat among others)
Bill W. (founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's)
The Leaky Family (famous anthropologists)
Philo Farnsworth (inventor of TV)
William Levitt ("inventor" of suburbia, developed a way of building houses fast so suburbs could flourish)
Lucille Ball
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (first to climb Mount Everest)
Jonas Salk (invented polio vaccine)
Watson and Crick (discovered structure of DNA)
Sam Walton (man behind Wal-Mart and Sam's Club)
Jackie Robinson
Akio Morita (co-founder of Sony)
Margaret Thatcher
Che Guevara
Harvey Milk (first openly gay person elected to political office in US. He was assisinated....the man who killed him tried to use the now-infamous "Twinkie defense")
Jim Hensen
Mohammed Ali
Oprah Winfrey
Tim Berners-Lee (inventer of the World Wide Web)

I included mostly people that had significant contributions, but that most of us wouldn't even recognize the names of. And I threw in a few influential sports and entertainment figures for fun.

Anyway, there's some people you could write about. I think it would be interesting to write about the guy who invented the Web, or the Web in general...I mean really, think about how much it has changed our lives in less than 10 years! Without it I wouldn't even be able to suggest ideas to you! ;)

How about Gloria Steneim, a women's liberation advocate? Or maybe a famous movie star like Marilyn Monroe or Natalie Wood? Sojourner Truth...? Ive done reports over all four of them, and it was fun to look up things on them, they had very interesting lives.

Thanks alot, guys-those were all really good ideas. I've never heard alot of those names you threw out, Botsy-some of those caught my eye and if I can find a book on them...
I have a month to write this paper, but my teacher must know my topic within a few days so...

WingsFan, what was the first motion picture?







ks

Yes, Alex. Always glad to help! I agree with Bootsy. Try to think originally. I think we all have heard about World War II. Perhaps you should look into WWI.

I suggest you research the origin of the computer and the individual(s) who made it all possible.


Also an option: The industrial revolution. How it benefited our world and how it changed our lives.


Or how about you study your roots. Maybe you'll find,for example, your Great Great Grandfather's life story worthy of telling.

I've always been fascinated with the early movie era and the Native Americans.

Find what intrests you, my friend. Then your assignment will be fun. Good luck.

Originally posted by ks


WingsFan, what was the first motion picture?







ks
Darn! I forgot it's name! I believe it was about the American Revolution. I can't be sure,though. And that was only the first feature length film.

What the first movie was depends on your definition. I don't know for sure, but I think The Jazz Singer is was one of the first if not the first motion picture with sound. I do know the first motion picture was shown in France, but it was just random moving pictures, there was no plot.... Also I know Birth of a Nation was a very successful film when is was released in 1915...it was a flagrantly racist pro-KKK film which sparked rioting in many cities. That's not the first movie or anything, but one of the most famous and most successful early movies. (just some random information for ya! :D )

Yes! That's it! Birth of a Nation. I've never seen it but I heard it was the first feature length film. *shrugs* I don't know as much as I like to think sometimes.

The creation, history, evolution, and the current standing of organized labor - labor unions. Or if that's too large of a topic or doesn't explode your interest feelers narrow it down to the evolution and history of women or dhildren in labor. The history of child labor laws, and before there were child labor laws, I think would surprise and interest you greatly.

I was also thinking today... it could be interesting to take a more generalized approach and do a report on one broad topic. For example, you could do a report on technological advances that have changed everyday life in the 20th century. That way, if you couldn't find enough info to do an entire report on the dude who invented TV, you could just lump him in with some other big inventions/discoveries.

Also, as I was sitting in my social movements class, I was thinking maybe you would enjoy doing a social movement. I think someone already mentioned the women's movement (which is actually two-fold, one in the teens and '20s, and one in the '60s, and you could even include the birth control movement in this); kitt mentioned labor unions...the whole organization of labor has involved many social movements over the years; of course there's the civil rights movement; there's the Russian revolution; the revolutions of Eastern Europe of 1989 (brought down the Berlin Wall); the pro-Democracy movement in China in 1989 [as a matter of fact that's what I'm writing my paper about! :D]; etc. etc. etc. The list could go on and on....

As I said before, pick something that interests you....

Let us know what you pick, I'm curious! Good luck!

you could do one about the vietnam war, or equal rights

Originally posted by Division_Fan_Lisa


o yea!! Thats interesting. I read a book in school, "Number The Stars" by Lois Lowry, about the nazis and how this girl, AnneMarie is protistant and her best friend is Jewish and they hide her...Its a really gr8 book....Kk, Im rambling!! muaz yall :kiss: ( im a weirdo today :joke: ) I love that book! ("The Devils's Arthemetic" was a good book also. ;))

Anyway, I think you should write either about TV, as once said, lol. Or about Women's fights for rights! ;)