Charlie Chaplin

In the film Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times, Charlie does many things to satirize life at the turn of the century. The opening shot in the movie shows a herd of sheep passing through a gate, which sets the scene for the rest of the film. The plot of the film is Charlie working on a typical assembly line of the time, except of course, every thing is exaggerated. The conveyor belt that Charlie works on is going super fast and in reality would be impossible. He mocks the fact that the work that he is doing is so repetitive that when ever he stops he twitches and does not have control of what he is doing.

In the film he goes so crazy doing his repetitive, mindless task that he ends up destroying the factory and ends up going to an insane asylum. The final shot of the film is a joke showing charlie in the wrong place at the wrong time; he ends up getting blamed as the leader of an up-rising and gets arrested... again.

Ferdinand Von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf (Count) von Zeppelin was a German aircraft manufacturer who went on to build the first successful rigid air ship, called the Zeppelin. Count Zeppelin first started his career in Germany building military aircraft for the German army. He got into ballooning when he mover to the United States, to work and learn with Thaddeus S.C. Lowe during the American Civil war. Soon after moving to America, all balloon research was placed off limits to civilians, so Count Zeppelin moved back to Germany. He returned to America for a second time shortly after, in 1869, where he worked with prot. Lowe again to learn all that he could about ballooning.
Count Zeppelin became intrigued by the idea of building a guidable balloon, so from the 1880's onward he focused his energy on creating a design to do so. In 1899 he began construction on the first guidalbe rigid airship, and it was a success.
The public fell in love with the idea of the Zeppelin and began making donations to Count Zeppelin, so he kept building and improving new models of the Zeppelin. In 1909 a Zeppelin was bought by the German military, and in the same year the airships began to be used as a means of transportation for civilians.
Count Von Zeppelin was very successful in his revolutionary creation of the Zeppelin. He died in 1917, luckily not having to wittiness the disastrous crash of the LZ129.

Prohibition in the 20th Century

Prohibition is the banning of drinking, manufacturing, transportation, import, export, and sale of achohol. It was usually religious groups that pushed for prohibition, but there were also many womens groups that strongly agreed with prohibition. Prohibition was a big issue in the late 1800's and early to mid 1900's. In the United States the prohibition movement first started in the 1840's when different religious grounp started to push for prohibition, then the womens rights activists jumped on the band waggon and also pushed for prohibition.
In Canada it was the Government that was pushing for prohibition. In 1898 there was a nation wide vote on prohibition and every country agreed with prohibition except for Quebec, which was %81 against it. The Canadian government decided not to inforce prohibition, but they left it up to each individual provience to decide for them selves. All proviences decided that it was a good idea and did inforce it. About 40 years later every provience realised that the law was uninforceable and they decided to drop the law.

I think that prohibition was a pointless idea because somany people were already liked drinking and were used to drinking regularly. To force millions of people to just stop drinking because the government tells them to, is just pointless.

The Creation of the Zeppelin

The Zeppelin was the first succesful air ship in history. It was created in the early 20th century by a German man named Count Ferdinand Von Zeppelin. He based his desing for his rigid air ship around the previously concived idea of pioneer David Schwartz. Von Zeppelin started his construction of his air ship after the Franco Persian war, when he retired from the military and fully realised the importance of these massive air ships. He pattented his idea on August 31, 1895 and began construction in 1899. The prototype was built in a floating assembly hall on the Bodensee in the Bay of Manzell. It was 128 meters long and was powered by 14.2 hores power engin. The first flight of the very first Zeppelin (LZ1) was on July 2, 1990, it lasted 18 minutsand ended having to land on a lake after the balance machanisim broke. It's 2nd and 3rd (and final) flights were both very succesful, breaking the previous speed reccord, of 3 m/s, set by other airships at 6 m/s. Although the demonstrations were succesful, it was not enough to convience the investors and Von Zeppelin was forcedto close down his company and DISASSEMBLE the Zeppelin to sell for parts.

Although the origional Zeppelin was not overly succesful, more Zeppelins were maunfactured and used in world war 1 as bombers and scouting vehicles by the Germans. They ended up manufacturing eighty-eight ships, sixty of which were destoried... Although the Zepelins were leathal and cutting edge during the war ( breaking speed and distance reccords) they were extremely dangerious because they were just sooo easy to shoot down.

After the war, the Zepelins were used as transportation vehicles in Germany with regular routs to stockholm. They were very succesful in this niche untile the Americans demanded that the Germans give them the two remaining Zeppelins as reparations for the war; when they declinde that the Americans began developing their own rigid airship. The very first American ari ship was a complete failier, not only crashing but killing it's 44 crew-men. This was only considered a set back by the Americans staqndards. They went on to build very succesful airships of their own as well.

The Zeppelin continued to evolve and improve untile on March 4, 1937 when the Germans had no helium to fill the baloon with, so they make the fatil decision to fill it with hydrogen instead. Almost exactly one year later the LZ129 was landing in frount of thousands of people after making a trans atlantic flight, when the hydorgen suddenly exploded. The crash ended up killing 35 of the 97 people on board and will be rembered for ever.

I think that the Zeppelins were the first big steps in flight and were very important to the way we think of air travel and flight. Although the airships were very dangerious and did take many lives, they were a good step in the progression of flight.

The 20th century was full of facinating events and inventions that have revolutionized the way we do things we do today. Without the building blocks set up in the 20th century we would not have been able to creat many of the state of the art things that we have today. There were also many facinating wars and epic battles that must be rembered and learned about in order for our civilization to continue to develope and evolve.