HW4.4

WEALTHY MIDDLE AGED MEN AND FEMINISTS WHO PUSHED FOR NO FAULT DIVORCE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH DIVORCE RATES

Wealthy middle aged men are partially responsible for high divorce rates because of their 'me' attitudes. According to Tom Wolfe, 'wife shucking' became 'normal behavior' during the 70s. When famous men left their wives for younger women, (e.g. Eugene McCarthy) it went largely unnoticed. This behavior contributed to high divorce rates.

Feminists who fought for no-fault divorce are partially responsible for the high divorce rate. According to Schweikart, feminists gave men 'a remarkable gift, pushing as they had for no-fault divorce', leading to new laws that allowed easy, 'inexpensive divorces'. This contributed to skyrocketing divorce rates, with 1.1 million in 1979.

Popular 70s TV shows show that society was changing and therefore feminists didn't have to push for no-fault divorce, which contributed to high divorce rates. In All In The Family, Gloria is portrayed as an educated, liberal woman with a job, and refutes her conservative father's sexist protests with "times have changed." This indicates that attitudes towards women in the 70s were already changing, making new divorce laws unnecessary.

HW4.3

WEALTHY MIDDLE AGED MEN AND FEMINISTS WHO PUSHED FOR NO FAULT DIVORCE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH DIVORCE RATES

Wealthy middle aged men are partially responsible for high divorce rates because of their 'me' attitudes. They often left their current wives for younger, more attractive women, leaving their ex-wives to fend for themselves. This irresponsible and reckless behavior ("Jennifer Fever") led to higher divorce rates.

Feminists who fought for no-fault divorce are partially responsible for the high divorce rate. Their advocacy of this policy caused divorce laws to change in the early 70s that allowed inexpensive, easy divorces. People could now obtain divorces without legal problems, causing divorce rates to skyrocket (1.1 million in 1979.)

HW4.2

"Who is to blame for America's trend toward high divorce rates, starting in the 1970s?"

The trend toward high divorce rates can be attributed to the actions of wealthy middle-aged men as well as the feminists who fought for no-fault divorce.

Middle-aged men who had the typical "Me" attitude of the 70s contributed to high divorce rates. They often left their current wives for younger, more attractive women, leaving their ex-wives to fend for themselves. This irresponsible and reckless behavior ("Jennifer Fever") resulted in the high divorce rate.

Also, men's inability to understand the 'problem that has no name' contributed to higher divorce rates. Women were delegated to the role of housewife, or stereotypically female jobs, and were expected to remain content. Naturally, women were dissatisfied with their restricted lives, and therefore this lead to higher divorce rates.

Feminists who fought for no-fault divorce are partially responsible for the high divorce rate. The passage of this law meant that men and women who were dissatisfied with their marriage now had an easy way out. Because of this, divorce rates rose greatly.

HW4.1

1. “Mr. Dash” is Sam Dash, an attorney for the Senate Watergate Committee. What does he hope to discover, overall from his questions of Mr. Kalmbach?

He is trying to see if the Watergate defendants received bribes from Nixon's people, in exchange for keeping quiet about this and past criminal activities.

2. Why do you suppose Mr. Dash makes Mr. Kalmbach recount his trip from the West Coast to Washington, DC?

Possibly to keep Kalmbach honest, and later his statements can be checked to make sure that all the times and dates are accurate and true.

3. What is the message of Doc C?

The intended audience of doc c was the senate, the message Dash was trying to convey to themwas that Nixon's people were undoubtedly paying off the burglars involved in Watergate in order for them to keep quiet about it.

4. What is the significance of the “$50,000 - $100,000”?

It is significant because $100000 is an extremely large amount of money and this could mean that it definitely could not have just been money for 'legal fees' and others but rather to bribe people with.

5. What is one value of this document for the historian investigating whether men working for President Nixon broke the law or not?

One value is that since it is an actual transcript of a hearing where the man who supplied the money could have his say on the matter, and he was under oath, so one could assume that he is telling the truth, or at least not blatantly lying about it.

6. Is that value based on origin or purpose?

Origin.

HW8

“Non-violent resistance to injustice was a good strategy for southern civil rights leaders.”

Non-violent resistance was a good strategy, evidenced by sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee in 1960. Businesses lost money, and they eventually gave in to integration. Nashville eventually became the first major southern city to integrate its public systems on May 10, 1960. This shows that non-violent resistance was effective.

Non-violent resistance was an ineffective strategy, as demonstrated during Freedom Summer in 1964. It was an attempt to help black voters in Mississippi, but instead there were widespread beatings, shootings, and bombings, most of which went largely unpunished. Therefore, non-violent resistance was not a good strategy.

HW7

To what extent can the members of the Hitler Youth be blamed for their actions during WWII?

The amount of blame and responsibility that HJ members have should be determined on an individual basis: it largely depends on their age, their hierarchal position in the organization, and also the total amount of criminal activity they engaged in and the extent of these activities.

Kater, Michael. Hitler Youth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

The members of the Hitler Youth should not be blamed for their actions. The guilt lies with the higher commands, specifically the SS, who exploited their enthusiasm and indoctrinated them with Nazi ideals. Remper calls them "a generation of misguided idealists."

Gerhard Rempel, Hitler's Children The Hitler Youth and the SS (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1989) 262, Questia, Web, 2 Mar. 2010.

Sem2.HW6

"America's poor, in the mid 20th century, were mostly responsible for their own problems."

An argument against this would be congress passing the Housing Act of 1949 which was intended to solve the housing problems in inner-city slums. Instead, the homes of hundreds of thousands were bulldozed and not enough new apartments were built. This law caused problems for America's poor.

An argument against this would be the growth of agribusiness, or where agricultural products were produced by large corporations. Small farmers could not compete, and as a result, thousands of poor rural whites and blacks lost their jobs and sank into deeper poverty.

An argument for this statement is that the American Indians didn't take the opportunities given to them from the Voluntary Relocation Program in the 50s and 60s. They were provided with help for finding jobs and housing, but many could not adapt to city life, resulting in further poverty.