U.S. Patent laws and how its related to progressvism

Engine Patent 

            Patent laws were first invented in 1790. These laws allowed people to claim their inventions so that other people could not steal them. Before patent laws when people came up with ideas there would be problems with people stealing their them. Say a poor homeless man were to come up with a brilliant idea for a new way to build houses that made them a lot more stable and affordable. Before patents this man with the idea would gain nothing for coming up with the idea, because the man is homeless and has no resources so he could not do anything with this idea. Someone who did have enough resources would come along and make a lot of money off this idea and claim it was there. Since the homeless man did not get anything from coming up with his idea, he does not care about coming up with new ways to improving things, because they will just get stolen.
          Pantent laws started to give people incentives to improve the world. Even if you were a homeless and came up with an idea then you would be rewarded for it. Once the idea was patented you would be able to sell the patent to someone who wanted to use your idea.

Revolver Patent 

         News papers loved talking about patents. They would first give credit to who ever came up with the idea, then they would say what was patented. After saying what was patented and by who, they would then give a short description of the new invention. For example while describing the patent for the fire engine, the Salem Register talked about how the new engine made by Mr. Elijah Ormsee was better than the English Pump engine because it is made of a simple infrastructure, it has no the machinery other than a crank and a screw making it a whole lot more reliable and affordable. Like in this disruption of the fire engine, the description would often say how the new invention was better than the idea it was supposed to replace. In the Salem Register it talked about a new improved saw mill. The news paper talked about how the saw mill would reduce the amount of labor needed and the cost of the saw mills. It also talked about how it would saw in a fraction of the time the old saw mills would take. Some of the articles would just say it fixes these problems in the old invention, and others would just flat out say that the new invention is better in all ways than the old one. Most of these descriptions were basically an advertisement for the new invention.

Patent for legos 

        The news papers led to rise in the number of patents because it helped spread other peoples new ideas and got many people thinking about ways to improve the world. Some of the patents were very simple. Mr. Jefferson patented the art of carrying fish on ice to market. The first patent was in 1790. Samuel found a better way to produce pot and pearl ashes. Both of these patents show that it is possible to patent pretty much anything.






Sources:

     http://www.infoweb.newsbank.com

     "Love's Patent Lamp"-Norwich Courier - Connecticut, Norwich, January 02, 1799 

     "New Patent Fire Engine" -Federal Observer - New Hampshire, Portsmouth, January 31, 1799

      "The Improved Saw-Mill"-Salem Register - Massachusetts, Salem, August 02, 1802 

      "Mr. Jefferson's patent, for the discovery of the art of carrying fish to market in ice..."-Trenton Federalist - New Jersey, Trenton, September 13, 1802

         "A patent has been obtained for a machine reaping corn in general..."-Daily Advertiser - New York, New York, November 02, 1799

       Samuel Hopkins's Patent for Producing Pot and Pearl Ashes-Salem Gazette - Massachusetts, Salem, November 23, 1790

          "Hopkins's patent for making pot and pearl ash."-United States Chronicle - Rhode Island, Providence, December 30, 1790

Reflection on Second Semester

I have become more and more confident in my reading ability and my ability to comprehend what I am reading. I have also learned how to analyze what I am reading faster. I would still like to be able to improve my comprehension so i am able to do the harder reading questions confidently. I would also like to keep improving my ability to analyze movies.

Progress

1.How would you define “progress”?

Progress is moving forward toward a goal or through time. 

2.What period in time is referred to as the Progressive Era? Why? 

The progressive era was from the 1890s to the 1920s. It was called the Progressive era because of all social and political reform during this time period. 

3.What types of issues and actions, and achievements are associated with the Progressive Era? (Minimum:  5-6)  (You can also use your text for research)

-race 

-immigration

-work safety

-poverty 

-population control

-rise in crime

-drug abuse and alcoholism 

4.Progressives had lots of goals. Analyze the list you've made and determine:  What do progressive reforms seem to have in common?

All progressive reforms seem to try to make to world a safer, and fair place. They all try to solve a problem or argument. 

5.Evaluate the major goals of Progressives and sort them into these 4 categories: (Or make your own categories or ranking system), such as best to worst.

1. Essential goals worth striving for/ Necessary changes
2. Good Goals – not strictly necessary but could really improve life
3. Strange Goal
4. Not a good idea

2. immigration
1. work safety
1. poverty 
3. population control
1. rise in crime
2. drug abuse and alcoholism 

1. race
Sources:

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/powerpoint/Social_Issues.ppt.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/progressive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=11

Thinking about the future

1. What predictions about the future were people making 100 years ago? 50 years ago? (Find 3-4 articles or discussions to look over.)

-Solar powered house

-Space exploration 

-americans would be taller 

-tanks

-ready to cook meals 

-telephones that can call around the world 

-police would have x-rays 

- Flying Machines 

-Movable Houses 

-Airships 

-undersea ships 

-good weather machine 

-roofed city 

-ship railway

-theatre 

-moving sidewalk 

2. Determine if the list is a “wish list” – as in, these are the things one might hope for in the future, or more a warning. 

I think many of the predictions are things people would want to happen, but i also think that there are some predictions that focused more on what will happen than what they want to happen. 

3. Which predictions seem to have come true? Which turned out to be bizarre, off-track, or still out of reach?

Ones that came true are. 

-Solar powered house

-Space exploration 

-americans would be taller 

-tanks

-ready to cook meals 

-telephones that can call around the world 

- Flying Machines 

-Movable Houses 

-Airships 

-undersea ships 

Some of the bizarre ones are the good weather machine, the roofed city, and the ship railway.

4. Can you identify any trends or patterns in these predictions? What concerns or achievements do they seem focused on?  For example, do people in general seem to be anticipating a better world? 

Many of the advancements in the future focus on ways to make life better and solving problems. They focus on problems like having to do a lot of work, walk far, and not having good weather and have inventions that would solve them. People in general do seem to be anticipating a better world.

5. It is your turn to predict a future world.  What do you see?  

-wifi all-around the world 

-holograms 

-wireless and contactless charging

-no more lab tops, only tablets

-activity monitoring clothing 

-HUD contacts 

-hover board, one that actually flies 

-much faster downloading speed

- storage relying on cloud storage a whole lot more 

-lightsabers 

-no more paper

-no more paper books 

-hand held laser guns and rail guns 

-ways to stop hurricanes 

-marijuana will be legal

-gravity controlling technology 

-robot doctors for checkups 

6. How much control over the future do we actually have? As individuals? As groups?/Government?

I think we have a lot of control over the future, the future is controlled by anything or anyone if they decide to change it or try to. 

sources:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-world-will-be-wonderful-in-the-year-2000-110060404/?no-ist

 (Links to an external site.)http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16444966

 (Links to an external site.)http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/ladies-home-journal-publishes-28-predictions.html

 (Links to an external site.)http://mentalfloss.com/article/57835/12-predictions-year-2000-19th-century-german-chocolate-company

 (Links to an external site.)http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/isaac-asimovs-1964-predictions-about-2014.html

 (Links to an external site.)http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/

 (Links to an external site.)http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/robert-heinlein-imagines-the-year-2000.html

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How do you analyze a political cartoon

       After looking at the Library of Congresses Cartoon Analysis Guide . I learned that i should first identify what type of persuasive technique the author is using. Then i should ask these questions. What issue is this cartoon about? What opinion is it trying to convey?

Philippine war cartoon 

This cartoon shows  the Greedy US merchants and traders going into Philippines because the US is holding the door open for them.

Philippine Purchase

This political cartoon is about how America bought the Philippines from Spain and how the US is trying to control them from so far away and it is not working and how Spain is walking off with 20 million dollars. 

American as a Empire

This political cartoon is about how America has acquired many new territories and is trying to control them, but is not doing so successfully. It also shows how many of the new territories are like babies, therefore needing help from the US.

Eddie Aikau

1.Eddie Aikau tries to preserve the culture of Hawaii and surfing.
2. This films angle showed how the Americans and other non Hawaiians came to Hawaii and took over it and disregarded Hawaiian culture, and it shows how Eddie help unite everyone with surfing.
3. Since this film was made by ESPN it focused more on surfing as a sport and not as much on the historical parts of Eddies story. The film makers most likely assumed the people watching this documentary were interested in surfing and wanted to see surfing.
4. If this film had been made by the history channel then it would have most likely focused more on history and no have talked about how Eddie was such a great big wave surfer, and all of the competitions.

Phrenology bust research

Today I observed people researching a Phrenology bust. They first made their observations, then they started researching on their computer. They started of using search terms such as " Phrenology and Phrenology Bust." Then they went on to start researching the years they were made. One person in my group rescued all of the writing on the Bust, while the other person researched how to tell if it was a real Phrenology bust. We learned that these are no longer in use and that the one we were observing was not real, but a replica. Provenance- the place of origin or the earliest know history of something.