http://rburensteinq4historybm.weebly.com/That is a link to my website, you can also get there by clicking the primary source below
My
point of divergence was a decision that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made.
He knew that he was sick, so instead of focusing on ending the war as
quickly as possible, he decided to work on the second bill of rights. He
kept this secret so that the citizens of the united states would think
he was doing the best for the nation by ending the war. As a result of
this, 2012 has much less problems. Our economy is great, we are third in
the world for education, and employment never dips under the rates it
was at when the bill was passed. This is all because the second bill of
rights helped the citizens of the united states with all of these
issues.
I liked being able to choose my own topic for a
project. There was a lot of freedom, and I was able to look at something
I was interested in. Even though I chose my own topic, there was still a
lot of challenging work. Sometimes it was hard to find resources that I
could use to know what would happen in the future if this point in time
would change. It was also hard to find a topic that could be altered by
history, and have some impact on the United States now. It took a lot
of work, but I was eventually able to settle on a topic that I found
interesting, and could effect American history a lot. The most
interesting thing about my topic was the fact that it might have been
possible. I had not heard about a plan for the second bill of rights
before, and I really liked thinking about how the world would be
different if it had been made.
What if it had been made? The
choice that FDR made to focus on the war, and not start creating the
second bill of rights could have impacted our country greatly. It could
have prolonged the war, but in the end made out country a lot better.
The choice that he made effected our whole country. There are also
millions of other choices that could have effected history, and we have
no idea how much they would change the world had they been made
differently. The choice that FDR made surely wasn't his own. It took him
and some other people to decide what would be better for the country at
that point, and they chose to focus un the war. There is no saying how
much their decision, or any other has effected the world. Some decisions
may hold no weight in the world, so that if they were changed nothing
would be different, while others could look like not important
decisions, but really change the world completely.
My project
could have been improved if the created primary sources were more
interesting or creative. There could have been a video element to them,
or something more exciting than a news article, and 2 dimensional things
that can easily be printed out. I would also change my website a little
to make it better looking, and possibly have more creative elements. If
I could do this project over again, I would like to choose another
point around the same time as the one I chose. This would help me see
which one was more important to society, and why. If I chose the same
topic, then I would make different primary sources as I mentioned above,
and change my website or have a different form of presentation, like a
magazine.
