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This was a movie about a environmental movement during the 20th century. The movie goes on to tell how how the seventies were a time when people were beginning to realize the impact they were making on the earth. They began to see that something needed to change. The movie shows how people did everything they could to try and change how we use different things. The movie showed how people can come together to try and solve a bigger problem that is effecting how the world is.

"Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.

http://earthjustice.org/features/air-pollution-starts-a-movement

This article talks about how a man in California was noticing the air pollution around his neighborhood and county. He soon quit his job and picked up a Earth-justice problem, as he called it. He began by creating groups and raising awereness of the air polltuion and what is going on around them. He met with doctors to see how peoples lungs were doing and found some faults in data. In just a short amount of time he is very pleased with his progress with his new campaign. 


http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/save-the-whales-35th-anniversary/blog/25978/

The save the whales movement. In 1975 a man started to notice that the whales were dying out and it was cruel to them. He initiated the "Save the Whales" movement that later turned into a international ban on whale killing. Although today, Greenpeace (the Save the Whales Orginization) Is sad to see that Obama may overturn the Whale ban, and they are legitimizing Japan’s “scientific” slaughter in the Southern Ocean. 

Catch me If You Can report

The book Catch me If You Can is an autobiography of Frank Abagnale. Abagnale tells the story of how he cashed 2.5 million worth of bad checks by impersonating important people ranging from doctors, teachers, and attorneys. He is noted to be one of the most successful con-artists of the time, which was very impressive for the short amount of time he was in the business. He quickly was one of the most looked at con artists, who everyone who was involved in that business wanted to know what his tricks where and how he made his 2.5 million.


      After years of cashing in fake checks and impersonating professionals Frank Abagnale was caught by the FBI, who were chasing and tracking almost every move of his. He was caught while living in France, where he started his sentence. He served 5 years in france before being transported to France then Sweeden for two, six month periods. He finished his sentence of in the U.S. with a 4 year sentence. The book and Frank Abagnale are both significant to this time period because money was precious and everyone wanted it. The great depression taught people that money was a scarce resource and needed to be kept safely. Abagnale was only after the money, he would get it any way he could.

Later when Frank was put into jail the officers there quickly found a good job for him, something he was very talented at. His job was to review and inspect checks to see if they have been forged or are fake. He soon became on of the best at his job finding over hundreds of fake checks, some even using the same tricks he used.



   In 2002 Steven Spielberg directed the award winning film "Catch Me IF You Can". Which starred Leonardo Dicaprio as Abagnale and Tom Hanks as Hanratty.


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