Personal Narrative: A 1940 Floor Radio

The entertainment of the 1940s consisted of Hollywood, radio personalities and the musicians, all in the benefit of the country in the war. By the 1940s radio had become a mass medium, meaning that the radio was a device that had a mass audience.

A very popular consumer item was the phonograph. It was first invented in 1877 but it was so expensive it took a while for the homes in america to get ahold of it , by the time of the 1920’s 7 million homes had their hands on one but they were still pretty expensive. The phonograph was a music recorder and to the people of america it was important because that's where most of their music came from either that other radio. It was referred to by many names like “talking machine” or “music machines” or its proper word “phonograph”. The most popular phonograph was called the “victor victrola”. Its inventors were Thomas Edison, Emile Berliner,Eldridge R. Johnson. The newer version of the phonograph that was produced in the 1920’s didn’t have

My parents sometimes got the notion that they knew everything in my life. They constantly advised me to eat my vegetables, do my homework, and put the toilet seat down after going to the bathroom. Yet, I

A lot of children grow up without a parent in my case I didn’t really have either. When I was fifteen years old my mom and I were in a different place than where we are now. At the time she was working two jobs and was always gone. My sisters and I took care of ourselves. We learned how to be very independent, self-efficient, and responsible. There was this specific situation when she was dating this guy, and she gave my sisters and I a choice to either move in with her boyfriend and her or live on our own. My older sister and I decided to leave and live elsewhere. In this specific situation my actions disobeyed authority, but didn’t go against my own morals because I did it for all the right reasons for myself at the time.

After the First World War, many people were looking forward to good times. The 1920’s presented people with this time of fast-paced fun and adventure. Entertainment was the foremost part of everyday life during the 1920’s. Radio introduced a whole new practice of entertainment to people’s everyday lives. Likewise, through the utilization of the radio, people were able to experience a new medium to entertain themselves. Furthermore, the radio changed the face of society’s culture through its widespread use. In addition, radios provided people with a new, effective and efficient means of communication. Radio was a fundamental aspect in people’s lives during the 1920’s as it provided many people with news and entertainment in their

There were sales men going door to door trying to sell merchandise and parents would decline trying to show teach their kids about responsibility and how you shouldn’t always buy things you think you want but to buy things you need like food, water, shelter. It is a key that parents teach there kids responsibility when there older so that they learn how to maintain not only their money but there life. One of the main quotes that grabbed my attention was “They chew their food a little dreamily as, with her back straight and her voice carefully polite , she says No, thank you, Im sorry, and the man goes away”(435). This quote shows me

At the age of 13 my parents decided that I was old enough to catch the train into the city. When my brother reached this age my parents were more reluctant in allowing him the same privilege, according to them I was more mature so they trusted that I would be responsible. However, this opinion differed to other things we did when growing up such as going to parties and going out at nigh. My parents were hesitant and were always reluctant to let me go especially when I first started asking. At parties I was sent off with

The radio when it was invented by Guglielmo Marconi in 1913 people were unsure of it until it makes a bigger impact in the 1920s it became an American pastime, it majorly helped the rapid growth women getting out of their normal work roles, bringing music sports and politics into the home lives of many Americans, and the brining of many new radio stations.

In Longing and Belonging, written by Allison Pugh, the author interviews a multitude of families. Her goal was to analyze childhood consumer culture, and the various factors involved. The book states, “Sometimes parents decline to take part in children’s consumer culture.” This opposes the normative behavior of parents in the developed world, who wish to construct an ideal social environment for their children. The parents who had the self-discipline to know when to say no to their child, ended up having a disciplined child.

Radio broadcasting left a major social impact on Americans. It delivered news, advertising, and entertainment to the American household. The radio allowed Americans from across the United States to be up to date on the latest political news, sports, and radio shows. Companies used the radio to spread their product to the American living room. The radio left the greatest impact on society for the variety of content it contained and how popular it was.

Everyone remembers fighting with their parents at some point in their life, whether as a young child who wants a toy or as a teenager who isn’t allowed to go out. It’s normal to want to challenge authority when growing up, because it helps young people to make their own decisions and become individuals. Teenagers rely on few close friends and the last people expected to be confidants are their parents.

My build of the pipe xylophone started with a trip to the hardware store, which involved picking up two 8 foot lengths of 2 inch PVC piping and a single 8 foot length of 2x4. I then took these parts back to my workshop, and started cutting the PVC pipe to approximate length, according to a spreadsheet I found online, then tuning the pipes using Ableton Live’s integrated tuning plugin, to achieve a pitch that correlated to notes on a scale (C4-C5). After I had 8 lengths of PVC pipe that produced the desired notes, I began to mount them onto a piece of 2x4 that I had cut to length in order to fit all 8 lengths of PVC on to it. Each section of PVC is mounted to the 2x4 with a single 1 ½ inch conduit mount.

Face it, the generation gap these days is more like a canyon. People working together with large age gaps from 40’s to 20’s. Like a mother working with her daughter! But for me it created an environment of fun and learning vice versa. The 20’s learning from the past experiences of the 40’s, and the 40’s trying to keep up with the modern type of attitude from the 20’s. And it is true! The world never stops, we were young once and we’ll be old the next. My King Fahad Armed forces Hospital NICU buddies are proof of that, as you can see from the photos. Most of my colleagues at work were young, but even though I am one of the oldest, I am still more energetic than them at work. And they idolize me for that, they made me their mentor and

Have you ever wasted money in hopes of winning something that you have never received? I have done this once about five years ago; what happened was my family and my cousins once went on a cruise ship for a nice vacation. Since it was vacation, the adults didn't want to deal with us all the time, so they often let us have free reign. There were many activities available to us on the cruise, one of them being an arcade. Before we did anything, our parents gave us a limit to how much money we could spend there. Since I was just a kid at the time, all the games and prizes available brainwashed me. For one game, called BarberCut Lite, one of the prizes available was a Nintendo 3DS, and we really wanted a Nintendo 3DS.

The radio is one of the most influential pieces of technology ever invented. From political debates to Taylor Swift’s latest hit, with the help of the radio, society stays informed on a plethora of topics. Freddie Mercury wasn’t lying when he said, “and everything I had to know, I learned it on my radio.” In almost every country in the world, there is at least one radio station used to broadcast news to it’s people. Since the creation of the FM radio, it has been used to reach out to people over a certain area and keep them informed about the society they live in. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the radio played a very important role in history; it was a tool used during World War II by America, Great Britain, and Nazi Germany. By sending