Food in the 70s

The 1970s had many types of foods. There were A&W Rootbear floats, bat juice, big moon cookies and more. Burger king was popular at the time, there shakes, burgers and more. Candies and sweets were popular also. They had weird names like Bat juice and Doo Dads. They food in the 70s is a bit similar but we have upgraded to new things. They had foods that were able to put in the microwave. The people in the 70s used frozen packages to eat. They also had box packages. We can see that there is no big difference in the foods in the 70s to the foods today. Food is food and we eat it!

Historical Events Jones Town

• Jones Town Massecre
• Important poeople involved was Congressman Ryan
• November 18, 1978
• Where:Port Kaituma, Guyana
• It all started when Ryan was visitin Jones Town few hours later Don Sly grabbed Ryan while wielding a knife. The trasctor and trailer driven by the Twin Otter shooters.
• After Ryan being attacked the Otters Twin go to aircraft to get Ryan who was parting to Georgestown. Then Larry Layton(Cessna attack) was bordered in that plain and injured Monica Bagby, and Vernon Gosney, tried to kill Dale Parks whom disarmed him. At Port Kaituma passengers boarded larger twin otter,then tractor comes neasr by and starts shooting.
• 912 followers of Jim Jones died by shooters others were forced to drink poison 280 children were killed
• According to an affidavit dated June 15, 1978 one-time Temple member and Jonestown resident Deborah Layton stated that "conditions had become so bad that half of Jonestown was ill with severe diarrhea and high fevers." But despite this they "were required to work in the fields from 7 AM to 6 PM six days per week and on Sunday from 7 AM to 2 PM" and the "food was woefully inadequate." Ms. Layton advised that "Rev. Jones claimed that he was the reincarnation of...Lenin, Jesus Christ ,and had divine powers." And further stated that Jones also "appeared deluded by a paranoid vision of the world. He would not sleep for days at a time and talk[ed] compulsively about the conspiracies against him." The compound "was swarming with armed guards [and] no one was permitted to leave unless on a special assignment," Layton said. Jim Jones warned "that the time was not far off when it would become necessary for his followers to die by their own hands," she added. A so-called "White Night" or "state of emergency" was often declared at the compound and within this context mass suicide was rehearsed.

Historical Figure Henry Kissinger

• Henry kissinger


• May 27, 1923


• Born in Fuerth ,Germany


• He was th 56th Secetary of State of the United States from 1973-1977. An Assistant to the U.S President for National Security . He came to the U.S in 1938, and was naturalised a U.S citizen on June 19, 1943. He married Ann Fleisher in 1949 ,and then divorced in 1964. They had two children named Elizabeth and David Kissisger. Later he remarried Nancy Maginnes in 1974.


• Received the BA Degree Summa Cum Laude at Harvard College in 1950 and MA and PhD degrees at Harvard University in 1952 and 1954.


• He served as Study Director, Nuclear Weaponds and Foreing Policy, U.S Army Intelligence Corps, captain Millitary Intelligence Reserve
• Wrote many books and articles on U.S foreing policy, international affairs, and diplomatic history.
• Awards: Nobel Peace, Presidental Medal of Freedom, Hope Award, Medal of Liberty

Literary Figure Sam Shephard

Name: Sam Shepard Rogers
BirthDate:November 5, 1943
BirthPlace:Fort Sherida, Illinois

Besides being considered one of the best Americans greatest living playwrights, haned Sam Shepard. Which is an achived actor, director, screen writer, and musician. samuel Shepard Rogers IV on Noovember 5, 1943 in Font Sherida, Illinois. Shepard was the oldest of three children, his family moved a llot before setting in Duarte, California, Located outside of pasadena, where his childhood experiences informed themes that mark much of his later playwriting. where he lived he said Duarte was a "weird accumulation of things, a strange kind of melting pot". Shepard's father was an alcaholic; and Shepard was often the target of his father's anger. In high school he began acting and writing poetry, and he also worked as a stable hand at a horse ranch in Chico from 1958-1960.

Shepard was thinking of becoming a veterinarian, he studied agriculture at Mount Anthony. Junior Collage for a year. Then he joined a traveling theater group, named the Bishop's Compang Repertory Players he joined them and left home. He toured with them during 1962-1963, he moved to New York City and worked as a bus boy at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village. He married actress O-Lan Jones Dark on Nov. 5,1969, with whom he had one son named Jesse Mojo Shepard and divorced in 1984.

• 1971 he wrote THE TOOTH OF CRIME, BLUE BICTH, LITTLE OCEAN

Computers

• In the last few decades computers made huge differences in helping to make the world more accessible to the general population. In the 1970's , few people had no idea what their computer technology would lead to. In 1970's the popularity of computers was just beginning to take hold. As a result, several companies were expanding and improving on computer technology to increase the income potential and by making personal home computers more accessible and fun to use for everyone.


• The Tandy corporation technology was one of the computer technology leading company in the 1970's. The most popular computer by then as the TRS-80. Within its first year being in the market, over 55,000 consumers had bought the Tandy TRS-80 to use in their homes or offices. In 1981 the TRS-80 was discontinued.


• In 1977 the Apple Company introduced their Apple II model. Many believed this model was going to be the beginning of the personal computer revolution because it was the first most successful computer systems in the United States.

Norman Mailer

• Norman Mailer


• January 31, 1923 - November 10, 2007


• He was an American novelist


• Norman Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National book award once.


• In 1955, Norman Mailer with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf published The Village Voice.


• In 2005, he won the medal for distinguished contribution to American letters from the National Book Foundation.


• Norman Mailer was born into a Jewish family. His dad was a south African-born accountant, and his mom ran a housekeeping and nursing agency.


• Mailer entered Harvard University in 1939 where he studied aeronautical engineering. In Harvard he became interested in writing and publishing his first story at age 18. After graduating in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S Army. In World War II he wasn't involved much in the combat and completed his service as a cook, but the experience there made him write a book called The Naked and the Dead


• In 1977, Henry Abbott had read about Mailers work on The Executioner's song and wrote to Mailer to enlighten the author about Abbott's conditions and his time behind bars.


• In 1971 he had a daughter named Maggie with Carol Stevens whom he married later in 1980. They got divorced two days after their wedding.

Nixon going to China

During the 70s President Nixon went to China. Nixon's priority was to gain an honorable Peace in Vietnam. He also made America's relationships with China and the Soviet Union better. In 1972 President Nixon who had risen in politics as a strong anti-communist visited communist China. By Nixon going to China, he was take advantage of the decade-long rift between China and the Soviet Union. China had said that the Soviet Union was being too soft in its policies against the west.

Nixon wanted to have the Chinese on our side for when they negotiated with the Russians. China and the United States made important agreements. The two nations agreed that neither of them would try to dominate the Pacific and that both would cooperate in settling disputes peacefully. They also agreed to participate in scientific and cultural exchanges as well as to reunite Taiwan with the Mainland.

Space Exploration

By the time the 1960s was over the United States had made two successful manned lunar landings. Some Americans were losing interest in going into space because they had accomplished a goal from President Kennedy. They were also spending a lot of money to go to outer space. Moon landings continued through 1972.they almost lost Apollo 13 astronauts in April 1970.

Apollo 20 was cancelled but they carried out Apollo-Soyuz Test Projects on July 1975. Many projects that the NASA had planned for the 70s were being cancelled. The US and Solvent were having unmanned missions and having lunar launches. China entered the space race in the 1970. Japan launched for the first time in 1972.

Kurt Vonnegut

• November 11, 1922- April 11, 2007


• Indianapolis, IN


• Kurt Vonnegut was an American author. He was known for his outspoken political opinions. He wrote essays, articles, and short stories. Lots of Vonnegut's work has now been translated into t.v shows or films.


• A fun fact was that he elevated himself above the est of humanity.


• Kurt Vonnegut attended Shortridge high school, where he wrote for the schools paper. After high school, he enrolled in New York's Cornell University. He got a major in biochemistry but then ended up leaving Cornell to join the U.S. army in 1942.


• In 1970 Vonnegut began teaching creative writing at Harvard University.


• Vonnegut's work are: SLAUGHTER HOUSE-FIVE (1972), BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), GALAPAGOS (1985), BLUEBEARD (1987), HOCUS POCUS (1990), TIMEQUAKE (1997).

Gloria Marie Steinem

• March 25, 1934


• Toledo, Ohio


• Gloria Steinem is an American feminist icon. She is a journalist and a social and political activist. She became an important political leader of the women's rights movment of the 1960's and 1970's.


• Steinem attended Waite High School in Toledo, but she graduated from Western High School om Washington, D.C. After she graduated she attended Smith College.


• Gloria Steinem got her carrer in journalism. she wrote for help! She was impolyed as a playboy bunny at the new York Playboy club. Then she began doing special edition for the New York Magazine.

Richard Nixon

• January 9, 1913-April 22, 1994


• Yorba Linda, California


• Richard Nixon was the 36Th vice-president of the united states. He was a senator from California.


• Oneof Richard Nixon's important work he did when he was president, was to go to china.


• One of Nixon's bad achievement was the Watergate. That's what made him resign as the president of the united states. This was so bad because he was involved and he had offered to pay for the people that broke in the Watergate for their silence.


• Richard was and wasn't a significant person. Hewas the president of the united states. he was the first president to go to china and work things out. The only thing that he did that was bad was the whole Watergate conflict. The Watergate was the thing that messed up his career and being president.

Foods of the 1970s

What average people eat in all times and places depends upon who they are (religious/ethnic heritage), where they live (urban centers, rural outposts) and how much money they have (wealthy folks had more choices). American chefs in the 1970s got to choose between classic French and fresh innovation. When New Southwest Cuisine spliced into the kitchen our American culinary map exploded into delicious fragments of provocative taste.
Most home cooks did not have this luxury of choice. Economic challenges of the 1970s went beyond the even/odd days at gas pumps. They also visited butcher counters in local supermarkets. Period cookbooks are imperfect barometers of actual plates served to real people. At best, they accurately report the collective vision of what average, middle class-people "should be" eating. For that reason they are worth examining. If you interview anybody who ate their way through the 1970s you are likely to find their meal recollections were pretty different from the following recommendations. People eat what's in the house. If the primary cook has time to cook traditional time-consuming recipes then so dines the rest of these house. Most folks through the ages valued food economy & prep time.
Since World War II, and especially since the 1970s, shifts in eating patterns have greatly accelerated. World War II played a key role in making the American diet more cosmopolitan. Overseas service introduced soldiers to a variety of foreign cuisines, while population movements at home exposed to a wider variety of American food ways. The post-war expansion of international trade also made American diets more diverse, making fresh fruits and vegetables available year round.

Historical Figure-Ayaotollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini was born in September 24, 1902. He was a religious leader and dictator of Iran in 1979. In 1962, the monarch of Iran passed a bill that allowed municipal officials in the country to take their oaths of office on whatever Holy Scripture they preferred. The move offended Khomeini and other Islamic fundamentalists, who considered the Koran to be the only appropriate swearing mechanism. While the United States has a blase attitude toward protests and boycotts, the monarchy in Iran was less flexible. The order was rescinded, and suddenly Khomeini was a force to be reckoned with. The fallout from the swearing issue led to widespread unrest, as the secular monarchy struggled to contain the strong fundamentalist population. In November 1979, a group of student radicals overran the U.S. embassy and took everyone inside hostage, with Khomeini's support, in retaliation for the U.S. agreeing to shelter the Shah. The crisis lasted for more than a year, paralyzing Jimmy Carter's presidency and eventually contributing greatly to his loss toRonald Reagan in the 1980 election. After the Shah died, the hostages were released on Jan. 20, 1981, the day of Reagan's inauguration.
Khomeini himself died of prostate in June 1989. Although the man died, the revolution lived on.
Doubtless he would have been disappointed by Iran's expression of sympathy to the United States on September 11, and he probably would have been infuriated by the fact that Iran is currently trying to patch up relations with the U.S. in order to avoid being the next target of George W. Bush's wrath.