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American self-making and self-help - Coggle Diagram
American self-making and self-help
Religion
People
John Winthrop - Puritan who wrote a model of christin charity, which advocated for predestination, and compared humanity to be a “city on a hill” meaning society should look up to them and be an example not only for others, but because it is their duty and it would insult God not to.
Documents
New England Primer
Bible (huge influencer to religion within the western world)
Government
People
Thomas Paine - Advocated for Intependence from the British with his article called common sense. He did no tbelieve it to be logical to have Britian Govern the western world when separated by an ocean and gave a comnparison on a smaller country not governming a larger country,
Fredrick Douglass- Former slave who was a strong advocate for abloitionism. He was. an influential speaker who wanted to end the acts of slavery.
Benjamin Franklin - A founding father who contributed towards all three documents that advocated for Americas dependance towards Britain.
Documents
Constitituon - Document written by the founding fathers who wrote how the United States should be Governed
Judicial Branch
Federal courts enjoy the sole power to interpret the law, determine the constitutionality of the law, and apply it to individual cases. The courts, like Congress, can compel the production of evidence and testimony through the use of a subpoena.
Legistlative Branch
The legislative branch is made up of the House and Senate, known collectively as the Congress. Among other powers, the legislative branch makes all laws, declares war, regulates interstate and foreign commerce and controls taxing and spending policies.
Executive Branch
The executive branch consists of the President, his or her advisors and various departments and agencies. This branch is responsible for enforcing the laws of the land.
Declaration of independence
The Declaration of Independence states three basic ideas: (1) God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; (2) the main business of government is to protect these rights; (3) if a government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt and to set up a new government.
Education
People
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Inventor of the autobiography, the idea that reading on someone else’s success rubs off. He sets himself up to be a model of American success
Henry Ford
As with most famous people, Henry Ford was complex and had traits and took actions that were laudatory as well as troublesome. The most controversial and least admirable aspect of Ford’s career was his descent into anti-Semitism. Convinced that “bankers” and “the Jews” were responsible for a whole range of things he didn’t like, from the world war to short skirts to jazz music, Ford used his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, to carry on an active anti-Semitic campaign. Between 1920 and 1922 a series of articles denounced all things Jewish. While officially apologizing for the articles in 1927, Ford’s anti-Jewish sentiments ran deep. Seen within the context of the times, they demonstrate the sharp realities and tensions that emerge in societies undergoing profound cultural, economic and political change.
Documents
New England Primer (how children were educated and had heavy puritan views "The Idle fool was whipt in school"
Court cases
Brown v Board - supreme casee that deemed racial segregation between children in schools was unconstitutional
Enlightenment
Enllightenment is improving human condition
People
Thomas Paine - Advocated for Intependence from the British with his article called common sense. He did no tbelieve it to be logical to have Britian Govern the western world when separated by an ocean and gave a comnparison on a smaller country not governming a larger country
Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
Henry David Thoreau - advocate of transcendentalism, or the belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature, making a virtue of self-reliance
Documents
A Tale Tell Heart (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who "thinks" rationally about chopping a man and hiding him in the walls of his house but confesses to his sins when the police show up because of anxiety) -
“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night.”
The Raven (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who is grieving over his dead wife when a raven walks in and repeativly says "neveremore" and the mans frustration grows, this story symbolizes how loss of loved ones never fully goes away and is coped with) - "“Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
Society
People
Theodore Rosivelt - The American Boy - “But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life.” Theodore Roosevelt talks about the change in what is consitered to be a good boy now and how they are more emphasized in activities successful as sports.
Andrew Carnigie
The Gospel of Wealth asserts that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth. Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them. Weathly men such as himself were role models for society and responsible for upholding underclasses.
Jacob Riss and how the other half lives -How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class.
Fredrick Windslow Taylor-
Principle of Scientific Management -
In this, he proposed that by optimizing and simplifying jobs, productivity would increase. He also advanced the idea that workers and managers needed to cooperate with one another.
Allan Ginsberg, "Howl" -
Allan Ginsberg writes a poem called Howl which was highly controversial at the time and delt with censorship. The poem talks about modern society's way of consuming someone and supressing their individuality and creativity.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,... "
Documents
Women's Right's
People
Betty Freidan - Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, she wrote about the problem that has no name which adresses the American housewife and how they feel about their career. It is a social norm for women to accept thier life as being a stay at home mom, which some are fine with, but others want more.
Phyllis Schlafly, “What’s Wrong with Equal Rights for Women” (1972) Phyllis Stewart Schlafly was an American attorney, conservative activist, author, and anti-feminist spokesperson for the national conservative movement. She wrote on what's wrong with equal rights for women and argued that women's rights were already protected under the Constitution and that the ERA would undermine the family. She wanted women to be thankful for the right's they haven now.
Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” (1983) Invoking Lorde, I use the "master's tools" as a metaphor for conventional theoretical and methodological approaches and "dismantle the master's house" as a metaphor for intersectional structures and systems of oppression that created and sustain health inequity in U.S. Black communities.
Raph Martin's "life in the new suberbia" - Martin states that as life became harsher within the cities, and industrialists continued to mass produce affordable housing on the outskirts of urban areas, middle class families began to flood into these "cookie-cutter" communities. He advocates for women by saying they are invisible labor. ""your wife busy in the kitchen making another fancy dessert, the crying of a brand new baby..."
Dorthy Parker writes on "the waltz" which goes over society's standards at the time. In the story a man approaches her and asks to dance, she wants to say no and doesn't dance with him but society pressures her into dancing with the man.
Racism
People
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) First black poet in English., she had a trial to prove she wrote her own poems (she wrote on hypocrisy on slavery being hypocacy if all men are created equal) . Her ability to write proves she is an equal. This is why the poems were so important "
Booker T Washington - Emphasised that the African American Community to use resources they have to battle oppression. Instead of advocating for policy, use what you have and befriend your neighbor. He felt as if the black community should focus on edjucation. (First black person to get PHD from Harvard
William du Bois - Major sociological figure, he wanted to fix the inequality in education, specifically in the African American communities. He looked at how black families had their budget and why funding had to go to particular places. he used facts to demonstrate history that blacks have spend money on versus wealthy Latin Americans.
Martin Luther King JR - Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He wrote a letter from Birmingham jail after getting put in their for a peaceful protest. "“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God." Dr. King was a strong advocate for peaceful protest and freedom can be obtained if you speak up about it. He was a political icon.
Malcom X - Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. Malcom X differed from king in his approach towards freedom. He was an advocate for using violence if voices weren't heard. He famously said "If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her."
Court Cases
Brown v Board - supreme casee that deemed racial segregation between children in schools was unconstitutional
