2020-2021 Topic Examples
Written Communication
1. Sequoyah: (He establishes a writing system for the Cherokee) 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin 3. Yellow Journalism and the Spanish-American War 4. Olive Branch Petition and the Declaration of Independence 5. The Federalist Papers: Supporting the Constitution 6. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Spoken Communication 1. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fireside chats. 2. Adolf Hitler and his manipulative speaking 3. Steve Biko’s speeches and his time with South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s. 4. Lane Seminary Debates 5. William McKinley and the Front Porch Campaign Inventions in Communication 1. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s, making it easier to mass-produce the written word. 2. The radio in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. 3. The Election of 1960: Radio v Television 4. The Building of the Transiberian Railroad in Russia 5. Benjamin Franklin and the Establishment of the American Postal Service Public Gatherings that changed History 1. Booker T Washington coming to dinner at the White House 2. The Declaration of Sentiments address given at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention 3. Constitutional Convention of 1787 4. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington |
Communication Through Art and Music
1. Radio’s role in promoting jazz in the 1920s. 2. The Music of the 1960: The Message of the Civil RIghts 3. The photography of Margaret Bourke-White-Pioneering Women Photographer who worked in Cleveland in the 1920s Communication During War 1. Cher Ami: (A carrier pigeon who saved an entire battalion in WWI) 2. Joseph Goerbells and the ministry of propaganda 3. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 4. Zimmerman Telegram: America's entrance into WWI 5. Cuban Missile Crisis and Hotline Communication and Understanding in Faith: 1. John Elliot’s Native American Bible Translations 2. Jim Elliot:Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached Acua Indians 3. St. Jerome’s translation of the Bible into Latin 4. David Livingstone and his missionary journeys to Africa 5. William Wilberforce Crusade to end Slave Trade in England 6. Martin Luther and his 95 theses 7. Jonathon Edwards and or George Whitefield Opening Hearts for the Great Awakening |
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NAZI PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP
Once they succeeded in ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media. (Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Once they succeeded in ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media. (Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Cher AmiCher Ami was a registered Black Check cock carrier pigeon, one of 600 birds owned and flown by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I. He delivered twelve important messages within the American sector at Verdun; on his last mission, October 4, 1918, he was shot through the breast and leg by enemy fire but still managed to return to his loft with a message capsule dangling from the wounded leg. The message Cher Ami carried was from Major Charles S. Whittlesey's "Lost Battalion" of the Seventy-seventy Infantry Division that had been isolated from other American forces. The message brought about the relief of the 194 battalion survivors, and they were safe behind American lines shortly after the message was received.
For his heroic service, Cher Ami was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with palm. He was returned to the United States and died at Fort Monmouth, N.J. on June 13, 1919, as a result of his wounds. Cher Ami was later inducted into the Racing Pigeon Hall of Fame in 1931, and received a gold medal from the Organized Bodies of American Pigeon Fanciers in recognition of his extraordinary service during World War I -National Museum of American History |
John Eliot’s Native American Bible TranslationsEliot is best known for his work in producing the Algonquian Bible (also referred to as the Eliot Bible)—a translation of both the Old and New Testaments into the Algonquian language. In the Protestant tradition, Eliot believed that in order to Christianize Native Americans he needed to provide them with a Bible translated into their own language.
Though he did not create them alone, Eliot is also credited with authoring several other Algonquian-language texts. In endeavoring to preach to the natives in their own language and provide them with primers and catechisms, Eliot worked with several natives whom he employed as his interpreters, including Cockenoe, John Sassamon, and Job Nesuton. Through his work with these native interpreters, Eliot was able to preach his first sermon in Algonquian by 1646. Eliot would also go on to publish Indian primers and catechisms and his magnum opus, the Algonquian Bible, with the help of his interpreters and another Native American, James Printer, a Nipmuc working at the Cambridge Press -The Project of the American Algonquian Society |
Hotline established between Washington and Moscow
On August 30, 1963, John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow. The “hotline” was designed to facilitate communication between the president and Soviet premier. The establishment of the hotline to the Kremlin came in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the U.S. and U.S.S.R had come dangerously close to all-out nuclear war. Kennedy’s administration had discovered that the Soviets had planted missiles capable of launching nuclear warheads into the U.S. on the island of Cuba. The highly tense diplomatic exchange that followed was plagued by delays caused by slow and tedious communication systems. Encrypted messages had to be relayed by telegraph or radioed between the Kremlin and the Pentagon. Although Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to resolve the crisis peacefully and had both signed a nuclear test-ban treaty on August 5, 1963, fears of future “misunderstandings” led to the installation of an improved communications system
-History.com
On August 30, 1963, John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow. The “hotline” was designed to facilitate communication between the president and Soviet premier. The establishment of the hotline to the Kremlin came in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the U.S. and U.S.S.R had come dangerously close to all-out nuclear war. Kennedy’s administration had discovered that the Soviets had planted missiles capable of launching nuclear warheads into the U.S. on the island of Cuba. The highly tense diplomatic exchange that followed was plagued by delays caused by slow and tedious communication systems. Encrypted messages had to be relayed by telegraph or radioed between the Kremlin and the Pentagon. Although Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to resolve the crisis peacefully and had both signed a nuclear test-ban treaty on August 5, 1963, fears of future “misunderstandings” led to the installation of an improved communications system
-History.com
Margaret Bourke-White: Female Photographer in the 1920s
Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City in 1904, and grew up in rural New Jersey. She went on to study science and art at multiple universities in the United States from 1921 to 1927, then began a successful run as an industrial photographer, making notable images of factories and skyscrapers in the late 1920s. By 1929, she began working for magazine publishers, joining both Fortune and, later, LIFE. She spent years traveling the world, covering major events from World War II to the partition of India and Pakistan, the Korean War, and much more. Bourke-White held numerous “firsts” in her professional life—she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry, she was the first female staff photographer for LIFE magazine and made its first cover photo, and she was the first woman allowed to work in combat zones in World War II. Gathered here, a small collection of the thousands of remarkable images she made over a lifetime—Margaret Bourke-White passed away in 1971, at age 67, from Parkinson's disease.
-The Atlantic
Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City in 1904, and grew up in rural New Jersey. She went on to study science and art at multiple universities in the United States from 1921 to 1927, then began a successful run as an industrial photographer, making notable images of factories and skyscrapers in the late 1920s. By 1929, she began working for magazine publishers, joining both Fortune and, later, LIFE. She spent years traveling the world, covering major events from World War II to the partition of India and Pakistan, the Korean War, and much more. Bourke-White held numerous “firsts” in her professional life—she was the first foreign photographer allowed to take pictures of Soviet industry, she was the first female staff photographer for LIFE magazine and made its first cover photo, and she was the first woman allowed to work in combat zones in World War II. Gathered here, a small collection of the thousands of remarkable images she made over a lifetime—Margaret Bourke-White passed away in 1971, at age 67, from Parkinson's disease.
-The Atlantic
The Election of 1960: First Televised DebateSeptember 26, 1960 is the day that changed part of the modern political landscape, when a Vice President and a Senator took part in the first nationally televised presidential debate. The Vice President was Richard M. Nixon and the U.S. Senator was John F. Kennedy. Their first televised debate shifted how presidential campaigns were conducted, as the power of television took elections into American’s living rooms. The debate was watched live by 70 million Americans and it made politics an electronic spectator sport. It also gave many potential voters their first chance to see actual presidential candidates in a live environment, as potential leaders. -National Constitution Center
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Finding Understanding in the Middle EastFrom June of 1947 to August of 1949, Bunche worked on the most important assignment of his career – the confrontation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. He was first appointed as assistant to the UN Special Committee on Palestine, then as principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission, which was charged with carrying out the partition approved by the UN General Assembly. In early 1948 when this plan was dropped and fighting between Arabs and Israelis became especially severe, the UN appointed Count Folke Bernadotte as mediator and Ralph Bunche as his chief aide. Four months later, on September 17, 1948, Count Bernadotte was assassinated, and Bunche was named acting UN mediator on Palestine. After eleven months of virtually ceaseless negotiating, Bunche obtained signatures on armistice agreements between Israel and the Arab States.
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Martin Luther Posts His 95 Theses
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Written Communication: The Power of the Pen
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Opening Communication Across Social Barriers: Booker T Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited African-American educator Booker T. Washington, who had become close to the president, to dine with his family at the White House. Several other presidents had invited African-Americans to meetings at the White House, but never to a meal. And in 1901, segregation was law. News of the dinner between a former slave and the president of the United States became a national sensation. The subject of inflammatory articles and cartoons, it shifted the national conversation around race at the time. Inviting a black man to dinner crossed a social boundary "African-Americans were invited to meet in offices. They built the White House. They worked for the various presidents. But they were never, ever invited to sit down at the president's table. And when that happened, the outrage was just unbelievable. ... " 'Dining,' and I put it in quotation marks, was really a code word for social equality. And the feeling was, certainly in the South, that if you invited a man to sit at your table, you were actually inviting him to woo your daughter. He should feel perfectly comfortable asking your daughter to marry him. And so that's really the primary reason why people were so offended. It just shouldn't happen in 1901 that a black man would be able to ... have that entree into your family." -NPR.org |