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The 1920s introduced many modern conveniences, such as washing machines, and many modern ideas, like buying on credit.

Imagine you are a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, or radio news person assigned to write a topical news story. The role you choose will determine the form of your assignment.

Choose one of the following topics:

• Red Scare
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Volstead Act
• Al Capone
• 19th Amendment to the Constitution
• Scopes Monkey Trial
• Ku Klux Klan
• Buying on credit
• Birth control clinics
• Films and celebrities
• Professional sports: baseball and boxing
• Immigration Act of 1924

Write a 3 to 4 page news story on your chosen topic.

• If you choose the role of newspaper reporter or magazine writer, you must write a news article in the appropriate tone.
•  If you choose the role of radio news person, you must write a broadcast script, which you may also choose to record using AudioAce™.
• Go to http://host7721.mytruvirtual.com/AudioAceHHS/?v=2.
• Refer to the University of Phoenix Material: AudioAce Directions for help.

Choose one of the following companies and include an advertisement for that company to accompany your news story:

•  Ford Motor Company
• RCA
• Coca-Cola
• Sears, Roebuck and Co.
• General Electric
• Maytag
• Hallmark cards
• Hoover
• Cigarettes
• Nabisco

Format references consistent with APA guidelines.

Materials

• Audio Ace Directions

Power point

e a 6- to 10-slide presentation using Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® or another multimedia tool that provides a comprehensive view of the American home front during World War II. Include the following:

• The economic characteristics, such as tax policies, industrial production, employment, and manufacturing
• The political characteristics, such as the evolution of America from isolationism to limited support to full engagement in the war, and how the branches of government worked together to form a cohesive war strategy
• The social characteristics, such as opportunities for women and minorities, internment of Japanese Americans, demographic shifts, leisure activities, and others

Include photographs, maps, quotes, or statistics as appropriate.

Cite your reference sources consistent with APA guidelines.

Present the World War II presentation.

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