Sears+Roebuck,+Alvah+C.+Roebuck,+home+appliances,+retail+stores

Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ Sears Roebuck, Alvah C. Roebuck, home appliances, retail stores Researched by Taylor N.
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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.** Originally Sears was a watch company founded by Richard Sears, Alvah Roebuck was hired there to repair watches. Richard Sears sold the watch company then teamed up with Roebuck and found a new mail- order corperation named Sears, Roebuck and Company. Sears later went on to write the famous Sears catalouge which offered a range of merchandise at low prices. The company also offered free shipping through the USPS, this helped Sears reach even the most isolated portions of the country. This also aided farmers and people who lived in rural parts of the country because the items werent so expensive. Robert Wood saw that the automobile industry began opening retail stores near suburbs to make them more readily available to people, Wood saw this as an opportunity and opened the first Sears retail store in Chicago. Soon after Retail store sales were greater than those of mail- order sales. Sears brought everything the American family needed to one place, from home appliances to toys, and at a cheap price. This made it very affordable for farmers who werent rich and couldnt afford nice things. The catolouge made it easier for the farmers way out in the middle of no were able to get what they needed. This made it so they wouldnt have to go all the way to the store, and possibly be disapointed when they got there because Sears did't have what they wanted.

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 * Support the ideas in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of three  credible sources.
 * Select only signed  sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px;">Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points.

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<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Sears, Roebuck and Co. was the leader of the mail- order business and retailing business. Sears helped shape a nation dependent on retail stores. Using the Railroad system, Sears was able to ship a variety of goods at low prices to rural areas away from the larger towns and cities. Sears was able to offer increasingly more items to the catolouge which was very popular, and at a low price for families tight on cash. The depression of 1890 was a key time for Sears when most business's still had much too expensive items for the average American, Sears offered it at a much lower price and quickly outsold every other business. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">After claiming its place as one of the top mail- order retailers, Sears began making its way to the suburban neighborhoods. Sears opened its first department store in 1925, in chicago, these stores were successful but not nearly as much as the mail- order triumphs due to other department stores. Sears made it very easy for people to buy items either in-store or through the catalogue, and they offered help through salespersons if there were any questions. Sears also started offering credit for people who couldn't simply buy an item right off the bat. Sears continued it's success up up until it was outsold by Wal-Mart which became a multi-national business.

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<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">At a time when the majority of Americans were working class, one company rose above the rest. That company was Sears, Roebuck and Co.. Sears made it possible for the lower and middle class to afford the basic necessities they needed to get on in their lives, Sears let people buy items on credit so they didn't have to pay it off, Sears offered free shipping and other perks to get people to buy their items. Having a majority of the population need what you have and be able to afford it helped Sears become so successful, the poor and middle class didn't want anything expensive and luxurious, what they wanted was something that would be cheap and last long, and Sears offered just that. With the credit option though, the poor/middle class were able to purchase something they couldn't before and this appealed to them. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: left;">Richard Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck saw what America needed, they revolutionized the sales game. Along with free shipping offered with the mail- order and buying items on credit, Sears had its signature catalog, which everyone raved about. This thick catalog showed Sears's whole inventory from automobiles to home appliances. If that wasn't enough, people could go to a sears department store. Retail and department stores made it easy for Americans to go check out and inspect the particular item they were purchasing, they didn't need to wait till the item arrived to see if it was what it was all cracked up to be. If people weren't physically able to get to the store and lived in rural areas Sears made sure that it reached you through the railroad system, the perk with that was free shipping. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">[] http://history.salempress.com/doi/full/10.3331/AmBF_1372?prevSearch=sears%2Broebuck&searchHistoryKey=&queryHash=84402faf86a424d8b0ba19d1ba24297b

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<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">" **<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Sears, Roebuck and Company. **<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">" //<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Encyclopædia Britannica //<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">. //<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition //<span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">. <span style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <span class="articleUrl" style="background-color: #ebebeb; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10px;">< [] >.

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Schmeltzer, John C. "Sears, Roebuck and Co." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">World Book Advanced //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">. World Book, 2012. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Burchett, Michael H. "Sears, Roebuck and Company." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Historical Encyclopedia of American Business <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">. Ed. Richard L. Wilson. 3 vols. Salem Press, 2009. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Salem History <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,'Trebuchet MS',Tahoma,sans-serif; text-align: left;">[]

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum;  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.