Thursday, January 9, 2014

The American Family in Television

Jason Liska

The American Family in Television


Leave it to Beaver-  The TV show leave it to beaver is very different from today generation of a family. The moms are stay at home mom and take care of the family. The dad does all of the work and provides for the family. One of the issues the family has to deal with that the mom loses her voice before she had to sing on Christmas. They over come it by putting a remedy around her neck and not talking and it worked. That family was like the modern day normal family back then.

Brady Bunch- The Brady Bunch is about a very big family who doesn't have a lot of money. They all live together and do a lot of family activities. Once again the dad provides while the mom stays at home and takes care of the house. The family does come across a couple problems like the daughter gets arrested for hiding narcotics from the police and gets caught. Another problem was the father and the son get into arguments all the time an d the family is getting tired of it. The son decided to move out and start to live on his own. This family is different from today's families because today's families generally don't have that many children. Also the women work and help provide like the men of the house.

Modern Family- The show, modern family, is how the world is today. The family are all different. There are gay couples that adopt children. There is also an older man who marries a young beautiful women. That is like today people marry whoever they want and don't have to live up to standards. They have issues like any other modern family. For example, Phil doesn't take good care of the kids and is not a bright guy.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Life and Accomplishments of Harry S. Truman

Jason Liska                                                                                                                   October 8
U.S. History                                                                                                                     Period 6

Category 1

A. Born: May 8, 1884; Died: in 1972
B. April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
C. Democrat
Category 2
A. Lamar, Missouri
B. 
C.

Category 3

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B.
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Category 4

Growing up Harry  S. Truman was not born into a wealthy family. His parents were hard working farmers and the father was also a livestock dealer and a road overseer(supervisor). He had a brother John Vivian and a sister Mary Jane. He went to the university of Missouri -Kansas state university but did not get a degree because his family was to poor to afford college.

Category 5

" Life Before the Presidency"

Before Harry became president he was going to attend west point but couldn't because his family was too poor. So he attended a business college in Kansas City for a semester. He then became a clerk at a bank. Then he left his job as a clerk and helped out on the family farm.

Category 6

"Life and accomplishments as President"

His vice president was Henry Wallace. His secretary of state was Edward R Stettinus. His secretary of defense was James V Forrestal.

Category 7

At 7:09 P.M. on April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman, the Vice President of the United States, was elevated by the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Presidency of the United States. He lacked a month of being 61 years old, and he had been Vice President for only 83 days when Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone administered the oath in the White House Cabinet Room.
It was the third time since 1900 that a President had died in office, but it was the first wartime accession. For Truman, a hitherto minor national figure with a pedestrian background as a Senator from Missouri, the awesome moment came without his having intimate knowledge of the nation's tremendously intricate war and foreign policies. These he had to become acquainted with and to deal with instantly, for on him alone, a former haberdasher and politician of unspectacular scale, devolved the Executive power of one of the world's mightiest nations.
"But now the lightning had struck, and events beyond anyone's control had taken command," Truman wrote later.
These events, over which he presided and on which he placed his indelible imprint, were among the most momentous in national and world history, for they took place in the shadow and the hope of the Atomic Age, whose beginning coincided with Truman's accession. And during his eight years in office, the outlines of the cold war were fashioned.
In war-ravaged Europe in those years, Truman and the United States established peace and held back Soviet expansion and built economic and political stability through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the Mideast he recognized the State of Israel. In the Far East the President imposed peace and constitutional democracy on the Japanese enemy, tried valiantly to save China from Communism and chose to wage war in Korea to halt aggression. In the United States, Truman led the nation's conversion from war to peace, while maintaining a stable and prosperous economy.

Category 8

"Domestic Policies" 

Truman's domestic policies as president took far less of his time, and proved far less successful, than his foreign policies. Here also he dealt with three major issues: administration of the modern American presidency, a legislative program known as the Fair Deal, and Republican accusations of internal subversion and corruption. He managed well with two of these domestic matters.

Category 9
"Foreign Policy Accomplishments"

The Truman Doctrine was the first in a succession of containment moves by the United States, followed by economic restoration of Western Europe through The Marshall Plan and military containment by the creation of NATO in 1949. In Truman's words, it became "the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." Using a framing rhetoric that continues to have resonance today, Truman reasoned that because these "totalitarian regimes" coerced "free peoples," they represented a threat to international peace and the national security of the United States. 

Category 10


Harry S Truman did both good and bad thing as president. The good was he officaily ended segregation in the U.S. military and declaring there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." The bad was he supported and funded the return of Vietnam to France after World War II. He sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group to Vietnam. He used the Smith Act bad.

Monday, October 14, 2013

Blog #2

What does 9/11 mean to you? How do you think 9/11 has affected America politically and socially? What are our biggest challenges and best changes? How does life continue to evolve and change as a result of 9/11 and how, perhaps, do you think life in America would be different if it never happened? Did "102 Minutes that Changed America" influence your outlook on 9/11? (Blog #2 Topic)

9/11 means a lot to me. It means a lot because it affected the whole country and innocent humans were killed for no purpose. It brought America closer as a whole during Biggest challenge left is security and preventing future attacks on America. Its doesn't have as much effect on the normal person like me compared to a person from New York because i'm also young and didn't have to live through it.

Blog #3

In Blog # 3 you will focus on three things: 1) Your outlook on sociological theory, 2)Your feelings on authority, 3) Experimentation as a lesson.  

1) Thinking about the three theories of sociological perspective, discuss in length which theory best applies to your way of thinking about human behavior and our society. Think about how you view events that happen, conversations that occur between friends and enemies, authority figures, etc. 

2) React to the Milgram Experiment. Do you feel that people will obey authority under any circumstances  if it is indeed legal authority or do people's consciences override their ability to follows authoritative demands. Please explain. 

3) React to society today: discuss the problems, issues or concerns that you as an individual have about society today.  Propose 1 way in which you think social problems, such as your example, could be changed or improved upon. How do you think we could teach future generations to work towards positive change in the 21st century?

1)I think of the Symbolic Interactism of the most common human behavior in our society. In our school there are a lot of groups that if one person does it the whole group will do it. Also some people join in to fit in also if there less popular then others.

2)I don't know what experiment you are talking about.

3)One of the major problems of today's society is peer pressure. They have to have a course to teach people how to say no. Its to common that kids to drugs and alcohol not because they want to but because there forced to. 

Blog # 1

As you write your introductory blog, I would like you to think about and discuss the following:
1) What are my goals as a student at New Milford HS this year?
2) Discuss 1-2 positive things that you will continue to do as you move through your 2nd/3rd/4th year at NMHS
3) Discuss 1-2 things that you will work on as either a student or as an individual this year
4) Describe one reason that you are looking forward to this class
5) Lastly, tell us about who ______________________ is!

1) My goals are to bring my GPA up and get into to a good college.
2)stay behaving because i use to get in trouble all the time.
3)I want to work on my grades because i would get really good grades then one marking period i would slack off.
4) i am looking forward to this class because human behavior is interesting and i want to learn how to tell if people are lieing and things of that nature.
5)i dont know what to put for this question.