What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

the freeing of slaves by Harriet Tubman is a very important part of my personal history. and it happens in the underground railroad. 

• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

people immigrating to get away from danger and get there freedom.

• Why is it relevant to revisit this now? 

there are still a lot of people that don't know abt this part of history.

• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

• What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

the great butter rebellion took place in Harvard in 1766 harvard was relatively calm at the time it was the first recorded student protest in America. it was written during the american revolutionary crisis

• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

student protests or food protests ,the march for our lives, the walkouts

• Why is it relevant to revisit this now? 

right now there are a lot of rebellions and protests by students against their schools for very important reasons

• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

maybe social media

• What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

there was a lot of revolution stuff happening and the cold war

the movement started in 1960

• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

it is still happening and the abortion laws with the people being put in jail or worse for abortions

• Why is it relevant to revisit this now?  

because it has been brought back up because some people believe having an abortion is the same as murder

• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

i would like to bring 

• What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

This era was an era of change, especially social change. During the 1960s, there were several other movements, including but not limited to the Civil Rights Movement, the Counterculture Movement, and the Anti-war Movement. Overall, the general mood of the era was anger and confusion, but also hope for a better future behind the anger.

• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

An event that relates back to the Stonewall Riots is that the Supreme Court is currently deliberating over whether or not LGBT people are covered underneath the 14th Amendment, which states that people may not be discriminated against on the basis of sex. This was spurred because people are often fired from their jobs for identifying as LGBT.

• Why is it relevant to revisit this now? 

It's relevant to revisit this now because of the events that are happening in this country. The LGBT movement hasn't ended yet, since it's still legal to discriminate against people due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. One example of this is the Transgender Ban, in which transgender people are not allowed to join several different factions of the US Military because of their identity.

• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

I want to bring to the table the fact that, even though violent uprisings can be catalysts for a large movement, violence isn't the answer. Civil unrest and rebellion is glorified in our culture, but I think that people should remember how this can antagonize their cause, and that their actions have consequences.

Stonewall riots

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Stonewall riots began in 1969 in New York City where the police raided Stonewall Inn, a gay bar/club. The raid caused a rising of riots among the people of Greenwich village. The riots lasted about 6 days and outside the bar and thought the neighborhood, the riots served as one of the catalysts for the gay rights movement. 

• In the 1960s and decades before people of the LGBT community ere not welcomed nor treated as equals, In fact, during that time soliciting same-sex relations was illegal in New York 
• Because of theses horrid restricts the LGBT community went to bars or clubs because it was a p[alce where they could openly be themselves without fear. 
• As suspected those clubs that served alcohol were penalized and shut down by the New York liquor authority
• Soon after (1966) those regulations were put to an end but it was still illegal to engage in “gay behavior” - police harassment continued especially around bars/clubs 
• The Stonewall Inn club became very popular as years past and they were considered one of the more progressive of the gay clubs because they allowed drag queens and was one of the few gay bars left that allowed dancing
• Was considered to be a home for many gay runaways and gay youth
• June 28 the police raided the bar and arrested 13 people (even some cross-dressing customers were taken into the bathroom with a female officer to check their sex(which was obviously harassment and traumatic) 
• The community was more than fed up with the discrimination and harassment they faced on a day to day basis they discoed to stay outside the bar together instead of dispersing
• They were aggressively manhandled and the topping point for the riot was when a lesbian woman was hit over the head by an officer and soon after the activists barricaded themselves in the bar
• After many times of others trying to break the barricade, the mod attempted to light it on fire
• Due to that dangerous fire, the barricade was forced to disperse but after that day protests continued around the neighborhood

-correlation to current events: marriage laws, LBGTQIA+ rights movement 

- LGBTQ rights are still being fought for to this day, it was only 2015 that gay marriage became legal in all 50 states. 

I wanted to focus on Bloody Sunday in Russia, and how Russian political history is so messed up.

• What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 
  • It was the start of the 1905 Russian revolution, there were a lot of riots and petitions. This made people want to get rid of the Tsar, because of how poorly the situation was handled.
• What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 
  • Hong Kong 2019 protests. In hong kong, people are trying to change the laws or propose new ones.
• Why is it relevant to revisit this now? 
  • To show how if a government doesn't support its country. That way of the ruling will eventually fall. 
• What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?
  • How Russian history has always been really screwed up. Whether it be the Tsars that ruled way back when to Lenin and the Soviet Union and how everybody is the same but not really. (In the Leningrad Blockade how most people were really hungry but some had the money and influence to get food from the outside. ) Overall how Stalin started ruling with fear, by putting people who opposed him into prisons. Short Democratic period that was introduced to abruptly and everyone rejected it. To now where Putin is ruling and destroying the country. 

Kyle Carpenter was a corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps who threw himself on top of a live grenade in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan,  in November of 2010.  Cpl. Carpenter absorbed the brunt of the blast from the grenade, saving the life of his fellow marine and going above and beyond the call of duty and performed heroic actions without regard for his own life. He suffered 2 ruptured eardrums, 1 collapsed lung, his right arm was shattered and broken in more than 30 different places. Shrapnel was blasted into both of his legs and also caused him to lose vision in his right eye. The blast destroyed much of the lower part of his face and all of his jaw which is now constructed artificially out of plates and skin grafts. He flatlined 3 times during the 5 weeks he was unconscious and had to have brain surgery to remove shrapnel lodged in his brain from the blast. 

Chaotic

The hong kong protests

Because it was a revolution, like the current hong kong protests and riots

The escape from the alamo

What is the overall ambiance, pulse of this era, space, time? 

In the french revolution, 1789

What are some current events that correlate back to this event? 

riots in hong kong

Why is it relevant to revisit this now?
Because its close to whats happening in hong kong.

What "new" aspect or element to the story/plot do you want to bring?

Show Marie's struggles.

The Fall of Saigon marked the end of the 19-year long Vietnam War. As the North seized the capital city of Saigon, a mass evacuation was called in by president Gerald Ford. Helicopters and boats from the US and some other ally countries evacuated over 1,000 US troops and over 7,000 Vietnamese refugees. The tone of this was very tense because the Vietnam War was a very long and deadly war and could have dictated world power depending on who won. Communism was taking the world by storm and the war was very important. When the war ended communism took control of Vietnam. This left thousands of refugees without a place to go. This can still be seen today with thousands of refugees from wars are left without a place to go.