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RCA, Radio Corporation of America, Owen D. Researched by: Givi G. __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.** POST PARAGRAPHS HERE Owen D. Young was an innovative, multitasking, and an industrialist young mind of the nineteen-twenties. Young initially created the company General Electric in 1919 which was a giant movement in the electric appliances production. Young also "at the request of the government, Young created the Radio Corporation of America to combat threatened foreign control of America's struggling radio industry." ( General Electric). He inspired uprises of music and underground building of brand new music on genres such as pop and R&B and so on with decades to come. With the planting of 2 major corporations, Young was on the way to the top, and the music and entertainment industry would change forever, along with appliances and electricity used in the home and public...
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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.
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Radio Corporation of America strung up new inventions with the influence of up and coming technology from General Electric and was the, what we know as "Apple" of 1900's, as well as using old traditional inventions from our countries fore fathers. In the early 1900's there were very few radio companies, none in the United States and the was a war taking place, a world war "By about 1915 there were several radio stations operating in the U.S, but several of them were foreign owned and nearly all were used exclusively for transmitting Morse Code. When the U.S entered World War I, the federal government seized the foreign stations, and later gave them to the U.S companies General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and United Fruit (an international shipping company). These companies set up a new organization in 1919 to run the stations, and called it the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)."(IEEE.ORG). 1929, they invented the first turn table and manufactures millions of phonographs initially invented by Thomas Edison, and changed its name to the Victor Talking Machine. RCA's best invention ever was the first the electronic television system "RCA’s major technical accomplishment in the 1930s was the development of the electronic television system that is still used in many parts of the world today" (IEEE.ORG) which made our culture basically what it is today.

__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="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE Having the newest piece of technology and being the apple industry of it's day, Radio Corporation of America was extremely extensive because of the invention of the first radio station in America and distribution of radios around American households. " KDKA was a huge hit, inspiring other companies to take up broadcasting. In four years there were 600 commercial stations around the country. To keep up with the cost of improving equipment and paying for performers, stations turned to advertisers. In August 1922, the first radio ad, for a real estate developer, was aired in New York City. Networks of local stations developed to share programming and became big business. In 1926, RCA (Radio Corporation of America) formed the first national network, called NBC (National Broadcasting Company). Their first nationwide broadcast was the 1927 Rose Bowl football game from Pasadena. The burgeoning industry made the airwaves so jammed and chaotic that the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927 to assign frequencies to broadcasters." ( PBS.ORG).People were going insane especially the youthful part of society and the adult industry, they loved the fact that they could listen to things like music, important speeches by political leaders, and finally had downtime for relaxation and could entertain themselves freely in the comfort of their own homes along with it's primary founding to help the military and naval forces of the American nation, decades later with the invention of the television, Radio Corporation of America made an even larger shift to entertainment and home comfort and relaxation and was an escape of letting go of all of your feelings locked inside, and lead people to optimism through the greatest depression our nation has ever faced even though the radio fell trough to the highly insane popularity of the television. As for the legacy of the Radio Corporation of America, the company now recieves outstanding achievements in topic along music and "produces and maintains the world’s foremost catalog of historic reissues, an unparalleled compendium of thousands of digitally remastered archival titles representing virtually every musical genre including popular, rock, jazz, blues, R&B, folk, country, gospel, Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks, ethnic, world music, classical, comedy and more." (LAST.FM). "The entry of mass communication into American homes meant, among other things, the development of a mass culture. The same songs were heard across the country, news travelled fast, and heroes like Charles Lindbergh or Joe Louis were, in a new way, accessible to all. Technological refinements in radio continued."(PBS .ORG) Americans now look back on the radio corporation as one of the biggest social impacts because it planted the tree of today's music industry and brought people together because of their similar interests in music and entertainment. Artists have evolved, styles of music have changed, and with the technological advances of today it has made hundreds of artists, moguls, entrepreneur, and made the business mind expand and think " I can do anything" it helped people realize that they did not have to label themselves as a singer, but now as a singer AND producer, entrepreneur (ect.)... it opened doors and expanded the business mind.

Owen D. Young was seen as and innovative genious and great mind society admired him, Ida Tarbell states: "I have found Mr. Young's friends and associates naturally helpful and illuminating "They are many, ranging from his youth in Van Hornesville and his student days at St. Lawrence University and in Boston Law School, from those who were with him in the sixteen years he practiced law in Boston through his nineteen years with the General Electric, up to those who served with him in 1924 and 1929 on the committees of experts handling the German reparations problem. I owe them much and wish here to thank them" ( Tarbell pg. 10) Tarbell states after in her book: __Owen D. Young: A New Type of Industrial Leader__a succssesful business memoir and interviewing Mr. Young to help the young minds of America learn how succeed in business without really trying. Young impacted and influenced the aspiring youth and underground moguls of America Josephine Young Case, Everett Needham Case state this in their biography " He knew he understood the world. He did not doubt himself, his human rightness, his (and others') ability to manipulate the world into rightness." ( Case, Everett pg. 776). Young was along the set up of a new, long line of great 20th century minds, to then hand down the 21st century, he shifted and as Case and Everett said he did not doubt himself, he was confident. With his confidence he obviously was able to endure the changes because of the changes of the hottest new thing to date with decades of new technology to come. Owen's legacy was quite large, his wife was able to give him five healthy and succssesful children who carried on his dreams in his corporation General Electric because he later left RCA although he found and ran it for a few decades. "They took a bold plunge into consumer products and set about through advertising to make GE a household name. Together, they guided GE's transformation from a lusty offspring of America's rapid industrialization into a superbly managed corporation. Meanwhile, at the request of President Woodrow Wilson, Young organized the Radio Corp. of America to pull U.S. patents together and keep them out of foreign hands." (USBHF). This quotes referring to Young and Charles Coffin (who hired Young) Young impacted the 21st century with a big business standpoint, he is a hug example of setting the long road of moguls to come, he managed and tackled more than one position in his jobs from being involved with RCA and finding General Electric and his positions as things like being a Chairman of the Board, executive and along with being an industrialist, and he built the foundation of the American Radio stations that rooted so rapidly. <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="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">POST PARAGRAPHS HERE The beginning of World War One was the main contributor to the creation of RCA, a German Physicist Heinrich found Radio Waves, the Germans were not on good terms with Europeans and The United States, the United States took immediate charges to industrialize this product as soon as possible " By 1922 RCA was manufacturing radios that produced sound superior in clarity and amplification to the old crystal set and earphones mounted in wooden cabinets" (CUMO). The forces behind were obviously the other companies trying to have the same electronics being sold "In the 1950s, RCA continued the military and defense work in which it had been heavily engaged during World War II. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the company became involved with both satellite technology and the space program." (MBC) the success of the television later destroyed the radio ratings, yet the Radio Corporation of America was a key component in the making of the television so the company did not go on a downward spiral yet later with the rise of up and coming new pieces of technology "By 1986 RCA was so weak that its rival (and former co-owner) GE bought the company and dismantled it, selling off most of its parts, including the RCA name and the consumer electronics business. Today, the RCA name is owned by Thomson, a French company, while the German conglomerate, Bertelsmann, owns the RCA record division." (IEEE). Given the information provided I would place the Radio Corporation of America under the **Event-Making Hero** stanza because the society or social movement going on was much more supportive or influential of the situation, RCA caused a fork in the road because of it's selling of radios because it was basically a revolution in technology, later causing a revolution between parents and children because adults thought their music was raunchy but children thought they did not understand paving the way for a social divide.

The government was a key component in pushing Owen Young to get Owen to where he was with RCA "In 1919, at the request of the government, Young created the Radio Corporation of America to combat threatened foreign control of America's struggling radio industry. He served as RCA's board chairman until 1929."(General Electric). Yet along with his age, Young later resigned " The GE Board of Directors elected him president of the company in 1922. Later in 1922 Young succeeded Coffin as chairman of the board of General Electric while Gerard Swope was appointed president of the company. They remained in these roles until 1939, when they both asked for retirement." (General Electric). Young was also involved with his other company -//General Electric- "//International problems beyond those of GE and RCA took much of his time in the 1920s." ( Case & Case). I would place Mr. Young under **Event Making Hero** in our continuum because his position was handed to him by another man so anyone could have had his position, yet he did lead a major social movement being involved with RCA. <span style="background-color: #7dff00; color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px;">POST WORKS CITED HERE Case & Josephine Case ." //godine//. Black Sparrow Books, n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. <http://www.godine.com/isbn.asp?isbn=0879233605>. || Past Leaders." //General Electric//. General Electric, 27 Jan. 2012. Web. 1 Feb. 2012. <http://www.ge.com/company/history/bios/owen_young.html>. //communications//. N.p., 1 Feb. 2012. Web. 4 Feb. 2012. <http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=nationalbroa>. ||
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<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;">✓<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> 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 <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">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;">✓<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;"> 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.