I learned a lot about the New Deal during the Great Depression and about information technology during that time period. What I did know/learned about the Great Depression was that the stock market crashed and that the unemployment rate was really high. Lots of people didn’t have a job. Also the reading The American Yamp also says that “But just as the song was being recorded in 1929, the stock market reached the apex of its swift climb, crashed, and brought an abrupt end to the seeming prosperity of the Roaring Twenties”. The Great Depression had arrived. In my opinion, the main reason we got out of the Great Depression was because of World War II. I learned more about information technology,from the powerpoint. We also talked during the class discussion about Alan Turing and how he cracked the Enigma code during World War II which contributed to the computer age. I learned that in the 1930’s, IBM was rescued by the Social Security Act. The punch card became the official computing device for the New Deal. As from the article “Fear itself” it says that “Sometimes the connections were relatively benign, like the New Deal’s brief flirtation with quasi-fascist economic planning in 1933”. Which means that Roosevelt started planning the new deal. From wikipedia I also found out that “The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression”. This was a stepping stone that helped the United States of America to get out of the Great Depression. Overall, in spite of the problems brought on during the depression, there was a lot of positive effects that came from the different eras that covered this time period.
I watched the video that was assigned to us called “How Did They Make That?”. It was about Miriam Posner’s framework on how people contribute to a Digital Humanities (DH) project. The DH website that was given to me was Mapping the Republic of Letters. The website has different ways of showing its sources. There are three categories of analysis. For example, there are pictures of famous philosophers among educators and historians. There are website links scattered throughout the website. The website is very organized and digitized. The DH website assigned to me was definitely made web accessible. For example, everything is laid out in an orderly fashioned and it isn’t that complicated to use. There are only four different categories that you need to choose from, so that makes the website easier to understand and accessible to almost everyone. The website has a lot of information that can help people learn about the purpose of the website which is the role letters played in history. The transformations that were added to this website are helpful and very interactive. The way that the website has pictures and different categories displayed makes it easy for people to use it.
“The American Yawp.” THE AMERICAN YAWP, www.americanyawp.com/text/23-the-great-depression/.
Boyle, Kevin. “The President Proposes . . .” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/books/review/fear-itself-by-ira-katznelson.html.
“New Deal.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Aug. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal.
