RJA #10a: Annotated Bibliography, Part 1

Blaine Underberg Pvt. 1st Class U.S. Army

I interviewed a friend of mine from High School who I was not exactly very close with. He went into the army around 8 and a half months ago and he was stationed in Kuwait. I wanted to ask him about how he felt beofre and after he entered the army. Blaine did not enter the army after High School becase thats what he wanted or because someone in his family was in the army but because he was ordered by the courts to either spend time in the army or a year in jail. He had a nice job in wyoming before but he still said the mistake he made to go to jail might have been a blessing in disguise. Not only did he stay out of jail but he also said he changed a lifestyle that was taking him the wrong way. Which was a revelation for me on a part of my paper because I am not debating whether it is good to be in the army or not but is war something that is good or bad for the economy. This was a situation that saved the government money on sending another person to jail for an extended amount of time and maybe it could have become worse so in this case I believe that it was not only great for him but something that made him into a better person who said he even feels like going back to school and building a future for himself.

Vangiezen, Robert and Schwenk, Albert E. "Compensation from before World War I through the Great Depression" Bureau of Labor Staatistics. 30 January 2003. Web

The time leading up to World War II America had already been a part of more ups and downs that most people thing. There were many small recessions in the early part of the century that are are majorly looked over becasue of the Great Depression. This article is talking about all those times and how the economy began to boom before the stock market collapse then the rise of the economy back up after World War II began and ended. As the article went on there was a great graph on the unemployment rate before the war to 1942 and how the rate rose steadily peaked then dropped drastically in 1939. The Union memebership rates also began to rise drastically thanks to the new deal that was instituted. This article albeit just for one war it shows great detail in the economic side of the wartime.

http://vietnamwar3.tripod.com/id1.html 2006. Web.

This site is a general facts article about Vietnam but when I began to read deeper I found a lot of information about what imports and exports were being effected or created becuase of the war. Just becuase trades were becoming more accesible does not mean that was something was good becuase we lost a lot of our imports from people we were fighting against and their allies. It had a lot of information on the war itself which is not very helpful discussion but in this instance it was very relevant. Also this talked about the effects the war and location of the war had on our soldiers. This is not necessairly a site that I will use much for my paper but it was definately one that I enjoyed breaking down becuase it had all the elements to make it a difficult article to look at.