1930s+and+now

== EQ: Is life better now or then? [|data base] you must utilize at least two primary and two secondary sources. General guidelines: Pick two topics that you will research. Find four things from the 19th Century about each topic. == = = == Find a primary source example for each. Compare and contrast them with the 21st Century Come to a conclusion on whether life was better in the 19th Century or the 21st Century   Over the summer between fifth and sixth grade I went across the United States for 45 days and I visited the fallowing states Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and, Massachusetts. As you can see I traveled a lot in my 32 foot long Tiffin allegro motor home. Statistics say that 30 % of Americans own travelers insurance, this number continues to climb. Could you imagine a life were you never travel or vacation only stay in one place your whole entire life?  In the 1830s vacationing was an unknown concept. If you worked as a farmer then you had no time to go on an extensive vacation and factory workers had no allotted vacation time. The only time that one may go on a vacation was to go on a nuptial journey (their version of a homey moon) for a week or so then usually never traveled again. The only time a child may leave his or her town is if they went to go for Thanksgiving a popular time for weddings "Thanksgiving was a traditional and popular time for weddings. The wedding ceremony was most often preformed at home and fancy foods were usually served to the guests after the ceremony. Wedding Cake was often served for this occasion. A fruited spice cake, it was labor intensive and the ingredients were expensive, but it remained a tradition until the 1960s."http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=1104   == =  on my cross country trip a used all sorts of communication tools to call and send things home. in 1830s there would be no cell pnones email or fedex so how did they communicate most communication happened by word of mouth. " It fell to his son-in-law, Bradford Baylies, to communicate the news to the rest of the family" http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=1029 even deaths were communicated to the rest of the world by mouth so as you could imagine most things were not communicated well my mother says that she often called on the house phone but had no email or cellular devices to use and sometimes sent letters. now we almost never send letters to people =

=** Topic... **=


 * Example 1**

//no vacations// communication


 * Example 2**

//nuptial journey//


 * Example 3**

//holidays//


 * Example 4**

//no alloted vaca time//


 * Conclusion**