The world as we know it is about to end. You are going to write an article about the ONE event that is most important and needs to be preserved in a specially made time capsule. Your article can only be about one thing. You will need to answer the 5 Ws in your article and make sure that you have plenty of supporting details. Make sure that your article has at least five paragraphs or more if needed.
The most important event in the history of the world? Why, that must be the Big Bang, of course! Or perhaps man’s discovery of fire, or the discovery of the method of procreation – surely that must be it! No. All great moments in history, surely, but none compare to the singular most influential accomplishment of human hands: sliced bread.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a reason that people say revolutionary discoveries and events can be classified as “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” This is because the invention of sliced bread is the most important event in the history of the world. Otto Frederick Rohwedder, the most revolutionary inventor of all time, created a prototype of a bread-slicing machine in 1912; fate found that the world was not ready to handle such a creation, however, and the machine was destroyed in a fire. It was not until 1928 that Rohwedder’s bread-slicing machine was used commercially. On June 6th, a Missouri baking company SLICED BREAD to sell, making sliced bread for the masses and marking a day in history that should never been forgotten.
Why is this event so prominent in our world’s history? To address this question, you must first ask yourself: What is better than sliced bread? Nothing, that’s what. Without sliced bread, millions upon millions of people would struggle to make sandwiches with mediocre slabs of dough, and picnics across America would be filled with egg salads and sandwich-less heartache. Would man have discovered the magnificent combination of peanut butter and jelly on his own? Would bolonga and sliced of ham have a real place in the world? These are only a few examples of the magic of sliced bread.
Sliced bread brings joy to America’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner tables. What about toast? What about the other creations that sliced bread bring with it, like rolls of peanut butter and jelly or other delicious inserts? Breakfast places would be plain, and butter would fail to have a place in northern breakfast plates (I say northern because at least the southerners can have buttered grits, which are another great creation altogether). Condiments like mayonnaise and ketchup would be sore and less-used, knives would never have the joy of cutting through slices – such travesties are unthinkable.
In 1943, there was a ban on beloved slice bread as a way of addressing the wartime effort and cutting down on bread’s priciness. Shortly after, however, a distressed housewife made her plea that told of her struggles to slice her own bread and deliver a speedy breakfast to her husband and children. The ban was rescinded two months after it was enacted because America could not handle not having its sliced bread, for which I personally can blame no one. After all, this is sliced bread about which we’re talking.
I say much about America, but what of the rest of the world? Sliced bread has a place in the hearts of citizens of every nation. Sliced bread is a way for many cultures to express themselves – some cultures have thicker slices, some thinner; many cultures have different sandwich delicacies that can only effectively be enjoyed with that country’s own variation of sliced bread.
With all of this evidence in favor of my assertion, I ask you: What event in the history of the world could ever be more important than that of sliced bread?
Kaylee Tuggle, **
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Sarah Brown,(:
ReplyDeleteWorld War II
Life as we know it will be forever ended. Life on earth will soon come to a stop. Scientists however have created a specially made time capsule. I plan to share what I believe to be the most important event in history, World War II. This affected many people’s lives. This way, the memory of this event could live on forever, even though the people who lived through it won’t.
I believe that this is the most important event that occurred in the world, because it was the downfall of most countries. The end of the Sister wars left nearly every country involved in it, so unstable that it was a major struggle to recover from it. But that’s the beauty of this war. It brought some the strongest countries to their knees. Just to show countries that were truly strong to begin with, rise again.
World War II began in September 1st 1939, with the invasion of Poland. Within that week, Great Britain and France were driven to declare war against the war. Over the next six years, the conflict had taken more lives in the world than any previous war. Let’s not underestimate the amount of land and property destroyed in the war. This war soon came to an end in 1945.
After Hitler’s diabolical mass plan of a “Final Solution”, also known as the holocaust, of the 45 million people killed. About 6 million were Jews. I feel like this really impacted everyone’s morals of being prejudice. Hitler killed these people, not because of who they were. Or even what they had done, but because of their ethnicity and religion.
This World War, also took place at the same time of the Great Depression. The Country that had thought to have been the Land of Opportunities had lost most of any opportunity they had left through this hardship. I fell like this is the most important event in time, because it affected everyone, maybe some less than others. Things like indoor plumbing, didn’t affect third world countries. And I feel like the most important event that had ever taken place should have an effect on the world. Like World War II.
Sarah Tucker
ReplyDeleteThe greatest event in the history of all the world and people of existed can by summed down to one single invention: the invention of indoor plumbing. An obvious conclusion to make of course, because how often has everyone thought to himself whilst doing their "business” on the porcelain throne that this must be what truly being fortunate feels like. One could not even manage to imagine a world without indoor plumbing.
The very fathers of culture and philosophy, the Greeks, had a wide-range of knowledge and insight. They possessed the skills of astronomy and beauty. It is no surprise that these masters of all elements of science and art would create the most meaningful of all inventions, indoor plumbing. These wise men who invented democracy knew the vital need for indoor plumbing. They saw the struggles of people squatting like animals and created something truly revolutionary.
Picture a home with all the dressings. Picture the white picket fence, picture the healthy green lawn. Now walk inside. There, inside, is a matching quaint decor and a nice matching quaint little family. You are simply visiting and when the time comes to empty your bladder, there in the place of what would normally be a bathroom with indoor plumbing, is a primitive dirt floor that still reeks from previously excreted excrement. Disgusting, no?
Thankfully we were saved this unfortunate travesty and now, whenever we feel the need come, we can safely deposit such things in a clean environment, an environment filled with wonderful things like reader’s digests, soft fluffy rugs, and padded cushioning for our rear-end. If this isn’t the pure concentrated image of heaven then I don’t want to go.
Point blank, the true most important thing in this world is indoor plumbing and will always be indoor plumbing or have some heavenly being strike me dead as I type.
The most important event in the world? Well im pretty sure we all have our different opionion on what the most inportant event in the world is but i have to stick with saying the most important event in the world would have to be the assassination of my role model who gave up his life for the freedom of others.
ReplyDeleteThe most important event in the world to me I would have to say is the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr was born Junuary 15, 1929. Martin Luther King Jr was born and raised in Atlanta Goergia. Martin went to segregated schools his whole life and graduated from high school when he was 15 years old. He graduated from Morehouse college which was extremly black back then in 1948. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania he was awarded a B.D. in 1951. He enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, where he went for a doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. Martin had a very educated life but it was not his education that im very proud or that really had him assassinated.
Martin Luther KIng Jr was a very stong beliver in Racial equality. After he got out of high school he fought very hard for african american freedom and equality. He believed that your skin color should not determine your life for you determine your life. He said you can not help what you are born like and how your born should not affect the life style you have or how you should live. So Martin Luther King decided to fight for this. He decided to change what the Unites States had belived for so long, but instead of fight violent he fought with love, kindness, and brains. He set up peace ralleys where African Americans and some whites who supoorted it came and walked on the street with signs preaching what they had to say. They rode buses and refused to get up when a white man told them to move. Martin Luther King and the poeple who fought by his side where the toughest people alive, for they where attacked and beaten, maled by dogs, sprayed with water hoes and the lsit just keeps growing, but he fought. He fought for what was right and believed in non violence.
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr gave an incridable speech that went down in history, It was called "I have a Dream Speech" to an estimated of 250,000 people. It started out a march to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington then lead to him giving his amazing speech about over coming inequality. The year to come he won the Noble Peace Prize for all the work that he had done, but he didnt stop. Martin Luther King Jr wasnt going to stop till there was equality. He fought peacefully for the next 4 years to come until one day one fatal accident happened. At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot was heard. Martin Luther King Jr who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis tennessea layed sprawled on the balcony's floor with a hole around his neck and jaw. When people heard this violence broke out around the whites and the black. African Americans where fighting becuase they had lost a great leader and whites where fighting because the African Americans came and attacked them. Later on you learn that a man named James Earl Ray was convicted of shooting Martin Luther King Jr. Apperently he was a civil right actavist who did not agree with equality, so he decided to kill Martin Luther King Jr to stop the chances of equality comming about.
Martin Luther King did not survive this fatel attack, but he set many hopes for people to come. He gave his life up for the rights of other. Finally African Americans did get there rights and where allowed into schools and librays and resturants and use the same water fountant. Martin Luther King Died for other people and to make this world a better place that is why he is my role model and his death is the most iportant event in history to me.
Lillith <3
Life as we know on Earth has been abruptly shaken. News says the world will soon end. Here
ReplyDeleteI have what I believe to be the most important event in history. I write this in hope of saving a little aspect of humanity, once were gone. The event I am leaving with you is the knowledge of how woman earned their right to vote and to be seen as equals to men. Now let me share the journey of how women gained their rights.
Through out American history women have been seen as less than equals to men. Women have been treated like men`s property, they were considered house keepers and mothers and deal with all other domestic duties. They were to be seen not heard. It started to change in 1869 when Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman`s Suffrage Association. Their goal was to obtain voting rights for the women through a constitutional amendment. Women fought for this right to not just be seen but also heard.
Before 1890 there were two different groups campaigning for women`s rights to vote. Before they decided to merge they were rivals. In 1890 the National Women Suffrage Association merged with the American Women Suffrage. By the two merging together they formed the Nation American Women Suffrage Association. After that they began to campaign state by state to obtain the voting rights of women. There first success was made in 1869 when the territory of Wyoming gave the right for women to vote. Many men were displeased when women began to gain the right to vote.
The ultimate goal of the National Federal Women Suffrage Association was for women in every state to be able to have the right to vote. The only way that this goal could be achieved would be through the passage of an amendment to the United States Constitution. By 1919, the National Federal Women Suffrage Association had the Susan B. Anthony Amendment ready to be passed by the House and Senate. In 1920, the 19th amendment became official in the Constitution. It was signed into law and gave the right for women to vote in every state in the United States. Because these women stood up for their equality to men, now women today have the right to vote and other freedoms.
If you have read this, it means humanity has come to an end. I’ve shared what I consider to be an important historical event that occurred in the history of the United States of America. I hope to have shown you the importance of treating each other as equals. Everyone should be treated the same no matter what.
Elizabeth Michaels
I'm sitting and pondering. What is the most important event in the history of the world? Maybe cake, or tea. But no, my dear friends. It shall be the invention of the cell phone.
ReplyDeleteSO much can be said about this. It a telephone that is portable. It can also allow you to send messages back and forth through text. It's like a telegraph... but cooler! It also doesn't take as long as a telegraph, seeing as how it takes only seconds for the sendee to receive it!
So Doctor Martin Cooper invented this amazing contraption. He invented the technology that allows us to use the cell phone when he was the Director of Research and Development at Motorola. Dr. Martin Cooper is also known as the first person to make a call on a cell phone. His revolutionary call took place in April,1973 in New York.
The cell phone may have been invented by Dr. Martin Cooper; however, in order to completely understand the invention of the cell phone, you actually have to go back to the year 1947. It was then that the technology that makes cell phones possible was invented. Known as hexagonal cells for mobile phone base stations, cell phones were invented. Hence the name CELL phone. :)
Cell phones have changed the way that the world sees itself. We are allowed to send messages and call people without using a telegraph or being in the comfort of our homes. We can talk anywhere we feel like. That is why i think this is the most important event in history.
Grace Elizabeth Squirt McLean
The world is about to die and we can only save one article. So I was trying to figure out what is one thing worth remembering? I was trying to think what is one thing I would care to remember? And then it hit me! The one thing I am pretty positive that everyone uses on a daily basis, soap.
ReplyDeleteSoap was invented by a genius I'd like to call Michel Eugene Chevreul. He was a French chemist who made soap from fats, glycerin and fatty acids in 1811.But the soap we use today was invented in a very weird way. A man that worked at Ivory, went to work like any normal day. He forgot to turn off the soap mixer while at lunch, and to much air went into the batch of soap. Fearing he would get in trouble for his mistake, the soap maker kept the mistake a secret and packaged and shipped the air-filled soap to customers around the country. Soon customers were asking for more soap that floats. When company officials found out what happened, they turned it into one of the company’s most successful products, Ivory Soap. It's interesting to see how a mistake became such a great invention.
But soap has been said to be around for more years then that. The Babylonians are the first civilization in the recorded history to use ‘soaps’. It was around 2800 BC but their documents don’t give us a detailed enough picture to figure out what it was used for.. Also an Egyptian medical document of 1500 BC was found that, talks of a soap-like substance which was used for washing. The soap the Egyptians used was more like a paste and less like a solid object.
Now the name for soap originated from the Romans. Soap received its name from a mountain called Mount Sapo, whose ash was had some magical cleansing powers, according to Roman legends. As the Roman Empire grew, along with it were raised bathing houses. Soaps were common in those bathing houses. Then soap was a simple gel made from wood ashes and clay.
The reason I think soap is so important and worth remembering is because it helps us stay clean. Without soap we would only have water which wouldn't be much help on its own. I mean soap I think is like the starting ground for all other cleaning supplies we use today. Honestly I don't think shampoo, conditioner, all household cleaning supplies,would have been thought of as early as they did without soap being invented. I mean the reasons why soap is so important could go on for awhile.
But all I am trying to say is, that if one thing should be remembered I think it should be the history of the soap. To answer your question on what I think is the most important day? Well I think it is the day soap was invented. This might sound silly, but just imagine a day without soap and maybe this idea wont sound so out there.