This was shared with our section during Hist 109. Interestingly some of the stanzas are different, so maybe these new stanzas were added by fans of the song or these were simply omitted by the authors of Modern Problems. For your easy reference you can find this primary source on Page 4.

Today in between classes I decided to sit at a new spot on campus, facing Hepner Hall. I took a picture and sent it to one of my good friends who is going to transfer here next year. She expressed how she couldn’t wait to be an aztec and I figured I would continue to brag about how great SDSU truly is. I remembered how Professor Blum mentioned how we were the first to have a Women’s Studies Program so I took my free time to find a little more about it and ended up informing and hacking one of my good friends.

This picture shows my friends and I channeling our inner 1920’s flapper. The 1920’s was an important time for the evolving of “acceptable” behavior for women. Flappers were the first group of women to push the social boundaries by wearing short skirts, cutting their hair, smoking cigarettes, and empowering women to express themselves. (Christine O’Donnell Section 1)

This weekend was a very special weekend for my family and me. For the first time in my family’s history, all four generations, from great-grandparents to great-grandchildren were able to gather in San Diego for a weekend full of fun and relaxation.  Seeing all of my family in one gathering made me realize how we as descendants of our elders are living history of the life experiences and decisions that our family before us has made.  Whether some experiences were made accidentally or on purpose, there were made.  We are a mold of what our ancestors raised us to become and that, is living history.

During the weekend I spent some time at my friend’s house where we relaxed listening to old records in her bedroom. Her record player caught my attention since I have noticed that they are becoming more and more popular today. The phonograph was invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877. Emile Berliner invented the first record. The first commercially available stereo recordings were produced in 1957. Such a cool history is becoming more popular in today’s music playing culture.

So on my way home from class one day, i was listening to my ipod, and the song that plays is “kenji” by Fort Minor. The songs lyrics tell the story of a Japanese-American family’s experience in the U.S. during the events of World War II. Namely Pearl Harbor, the Internment of the Japanese into camps by the U.S., similarly to Germany and the Jews, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Within the song, there are voice inserts by people who either experienced what had happened during that time or have family who have experienced it, the singer’s (Mike Shinoda) own family being one of them. I found it interesting that in a 4 minute song, we can get a glimpse as to what had happened from a Japanese-American standpoint.

-Nick Thips-

This semester I am taking a Women’s Studies 101 class. This past week we were required to watch a movie called Iron Jawed Angels. It is an HBO movie that takes place during the first wave of feminism, specifically in America, in which women fought for the right to vote. The movie revolves around characters such as Alice Paul, played by Hilary Swank, Lucy Burns, played by Frances O’Connor, Ruza Wenclawska, played by Vera Farmiga, and Ida Wells-Barnett, played by Adilah Barnes. It displays how Alice Paul and other suffragists protested for a Constitutional Amendment. These women were harassed, mostly be men as depicted in the movie, as they marched and stood in protest. The movie also shows how the suffragists were put in jail and mistreated after being charged with “obstructing traffic” because they stood on the street in protest. By the end of the movie, all 216 suffragists are released from jail and on August 18, 1920 the 19th Amendment is passed by Congress.

In the video, all of imprisoned women start a hunger strike where they don’t eat as a form of protest. As a result, Alice Paul, played by Hilary Swank, is horrifically and repeatedly force fed.

I was at work and found a  really old penny, which I subsequently lost, but I thought it would be cool to find some random pennies and link them to historical events, like pac-man.

In lecture professor Blum talked about how we get history from data, and as I was reading from the HIST book this week it was amazing to see events and time frames that I have been able to witness and be a part of. I was able to put onto my own timeline an event that has been the root of many recent changes in our country. Sep. 11th, 2001, I am able to go back to that morning and remember sitting with my dad on the couch in the living room with all his employees. Although we are haunted by history we are also the ones haunting history.