Created
by Danny Wirt and Alex Johnson.
The recent events that have occurred on Wall
Street have sparked an interest in Alex and I. Both Alex and I were fascinated
around the entire idea and so we decided to take up the challenge of
looking back and investigating the history of Wall Streets protests. The
ideas behind the protests, the reasons that they happened, the reasons why Wall
Street was such a hot destination for protestors were all things that caught
our attention and our eagerness for learning. Since the theme of this years
National History Day was revolution, reaction, and reform, we felt as though
using Wall Street was the perfect topic to use for the theme. Through the long
history of Wall Street, there have been many revolutions, which has resulted in
reaction and thus reform.
After
finding our topic, we both branched out and studied a lot about Wall Street. We
studied the history of it, we studied documents, and compared past protests to
later ones. We watched videos and documentaries on Wall Street. We really
wanted to make sure that we fully understood the diversity and complexity of
Wall Street. We found that Wall Street is more then just a place where people
go to trade stock.
After
we finished researching as much as we could we decided to meet together and
share our ideas together. We used our collaborative research to create a
published piece of work. After much thought we decided that a website would be
most effective at displaying what we have learned. We split up the tabs in the
website according to the century that the protests occurred. We decided to
include a timeline page with a very useful map that we found. It allows the
viewer to go to different locations where protesters occurred and read a little
bit about them and also see the year that they occurred. It was a nice useful
and interactive feature for the viewer.
Revolution,
a radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially
one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence. Reaction, action in
response to some influence, event, etc. Reform, to change to a better state,
form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc. These three
terms are simply the way Wall Street works. Perhaps something happens and the
people want change. This creates a revolution, in which a reaction is only
inevitable, and thus when the reaction gets noticed there is reform, a change.
Wall Street is a place where stock is traded, money is gained, and is
essentially, a spotlight for the United States.
