This is so much to learn as a young boy, especially with having to learn the locations of streets. I was surprised to hear that telegraph boys had to attend trade school, but it definitely makes sense knowing everything that they have to learn and do. It really is a specialty filled with many different details, along with a lot of physical labor.

Why would autumn have more students than in the summer?

This is really important! I never knew about telegraph boys before this class, and didn't know all that went into telegraph messages. It is something that I'm glad I learned since telegraph boys did a great service, and it's important to appreciate the history of communication and how it changed to something so much easier today. It's important to know stuff like this, to not take technology today for granted!

This is something I didn't even think of, up until this point. Without the technology of today, it was all memory. Today we have GPS, but back then they didn't so it had to all be memory. This shows how amazing the telegraph boys were that they could memorize a city's streets in order to do their job.

It's so interesting to see how much work went into delivering a message in the past, when today we can just send a text and a message is delivered. This shows how difficult messaging was in the past, and that today's convenience of sending a message is something we take for granted!

This is interesting to me, because I see a connection to today. Mail carriers sometimes are tracked to make sure they're not going off route for anything. My dad was a mail carrier, and use to come home everyday for his lunch, but once they started tracking, he couldn't anymore. I can see the connection between the pressure for efficiency between the telegraph boys of the past and mail carriers of today.

This is crazy to me, that even doing such a small and quick thing that can benefit and protect you is considered a waste of time. It also shows the immense pressure placed on these boys.

This is really interesting to think about. I think that Nick at Nite reruns was the most accessible growing up, and kids weren't looking up other shows from the 1950's, even though there was a lot of other television that didn't just focus on a family sitcom. I think that this narrows our view, and doesn't teach us completely about the 1950's since it just focuses on the white middle-class perspective.

This is a really interesting truth. I didn't realize how much American media was in different countries until I took a Global Media class. For example it's interesting to see how well known Marvel is in different countries. The US doesn't really get much of media from different countries popping up. Because of this, different countries learn about the US, but we don't actually get to learn about different cultures.

It's so interesting to see how much what is on the television can affect our own lives. This helps to show the importance of the content that is put out, since looking at past history like this, we can see the effects of content.

This is a very scary reality. It's crazy to believe that events that obviously happened can be silenced out of history. This reminds me of the last reading where it talked about how it's important to see different perspective of history. Some countries might leave out certain history, or tell an event a different way, so it's important to understand and acknowledge different perspectives when it comes to history.

This is an important connection to make, broadcasting and history both deal with whose stories are told and how they're told, so it's important to remember that it's multi-faceted while engaging.

This is so interesting to think about. Something like TV isn't just TV, we're also an important aspect in its history. This shows an interesting unity, and shows that we are bigger than ourselves.

This is true. People don't always embrace change right away. There can be fear and worry surrounding something new. It's important to acknowledge this while looking back at history, since it helps us to further understand human behavior.

This is something that I see in a lot of modern books. There's this miscommunication trope that causes drama. It's interesting to see that this trope of miscommunication goes back in history and other media.

This is a true thing about history. People have to be able to look at the past with open eyes, and connect it to their lives. Henry can't do this, so he is ignorant and hurts the people around him.

I feel like this is really important and true. History depends on the lens of who tells it, and it's important to acknowledge that one point-of-view isn't all there is. History is multi-dimensional and it's important to study different views of it, and broaden our own perspective. This is also a skill that can help us in our everyday lives by encouraging us to seek out different accounts and point-of-views!

I think that this is a really good way to say this! History allows us to understand more about humans and our society!

What would be an example of a number of factors?

This is really interesting, and not something that I really thought of before. We can read fictional media and see decisions made and think that it's a dumb decision, and that people wouldn't actually do it. When we read history about actual people, we know that these decisions are actual decisions that people made, and can try and compare what we would've done in the situations to someone's real life morals.

This is a good point, change can take place over a long time and it's important to take the in account and examine our history to better understand that change.

This is a really good point! Things that happened in the past can be necessary for us to understand our society. We might not be going something currently, but if we went through it in the past, we can use that to help us understand more, and possibly prepare for the future.

I feel like this is true, a lot of times in school we aren't told why we're learning something, and just to study it, but I think that it is important to tell people why they should know something. It's important that people learn why history is important, so that they feel motivated to actually learn it.