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America, this is president Franklin here, and I have a question for you. Are you tired of feeling you have to hide your money under your matresses, breadboxes and cookie jars, because you can't trust your own banks? Well, I have the solution for you. I have spent hours upon hours thinking of a way to fix the problem we have with our bank system. So, I have decided to close banks and reopen the one's I feel we can trust. During this thought process I created a new agency, I call the FDIC. "The Federal Deposit Insureance Corporation." It is an independent agency. It was created by the congress and I, to help you maintain public confidence and stability in the banks of our nations financial systems. So,you can feel safe putting your money in our hands. The FDIC will be a leader that promotes sound policies to you, the public. By addressing any risks while still staying true to their word. By carrying out insurance, supervisory, consumer protection and it's reivership management duties. It's way of fufilling this promise is to insure deposits, examine and supervise financial instatutions for safety and consumer protection, and lastly manage reveiverships for the you and the rest of the American People. This program is spectacular, because unlike most, we have created this program to have values and standards they live up to. The FDIC has integrity, competence, teamwork, effectiveness, accountability, and most important of all fairness so you can trust us with your money. America, I urge you, to choose the FDIC for your money's "safe haven." For years, and years to come. media type="file" key="audio for history.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * __FDIC - What it is, the importance of it, and what it will do for America.__**

Works Cited "About the FDIC." //FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation//. The FDIC, 5 Apr. 2009. Web. 17 Dec. 2009. .

__**The importance of victory gardens and the use of propaganda during World War 2.**__

====The use of propaganda during World War 2 encouraged many families to plant what became known as victory gardens, which helped keep the spirit of the American people alive as well as providing some relief for the war efforts. In this essay, you will learn of how the smallest idea to help the war efforts became our nations way of coming together and getting out of a terrible rut, we know as the Great Depression.==== ====During World War 2, the importance of victory gardens was higher than ever. As the war started, our soldiers needed supplies. They needed food, and materials to build what they needed and could use in the war. They needed our help to do this. People were working less because so many were off into fighting war and extra food was needed to feed the troops, and the food we used to get from trading was an unreliable source at tat time because of the war. Also, most ships were used for war efforts and not the transportation of goods.So as a part of the war efforts, the government urged the rationing of food. So they rationed meats, cheese, bread, sugar, butter,eggs, milk, coffee and canned goods! They also rationed rubber, metals, and paper. But, there was one problem, we needed a practical way to do so. Thus victory gardens.Due to the families back home having to ration so much, of the little they had, victory gardens came about. People planted their own vegetables and fruits just to do it, because it was what they had to do. Families were encouraged to can their own vegetables to save commercial canned goods for the troops.So, in 1943, families bought 315,000 pressure cookers, compared to 66,000 in 1942. The government and businesses urged people to make gardening a family and community effort. This was important to everyone because our soldiers needed help.==== ====As for propaganda, it has been a human activity as far back as any reliable source can go back to, because it gets the attention of the American people and, it works. Posters were made to help continue the war effort, and it worked! Magazines interviewed people and wrote encouraging everyone to keep up the war effort. This was important because we needed a way to get the attention of everyone. Our men fighting for our country needed help and we needed to get everyone on board with helping out. So, we could bring our men home safe. With this in brought to the attention of the Americans left at home while others were at sea fighting for our country, this made wives and families go out and work. Women got the nickname of "Rosies" because they were now, working women. Women operated street cars, buses, cranes, and tractors. The were police officers, taxi drivers, and lawyers. They went to help with medics, and worked in medicine, they even had people become bandage rollers that were sent to be reused again and again for the wounded soldiers! Propaganda was key to getting the American people involved and helping being our men home, safe.==== ====So, by providing a practical way to produce food and help the war effort, and a way to bring the nations attention to a problem, propaganda and victory gardens became about. Bringing our nation out of the Great Depression. This is how the use of propaganda and what became known as victory gardens helped keep the spirit of the American people alive, as well as providing some relief for the war efforts.====

Curran, Jason. "World War Two Propaganda" __Philidelphia Website Design.__

2009. 23 December 2009 <[]>

Reinhardt, Claudia. "Victory Gardens During World War Two" __Ganzel Group__.

23 December 2009.<[]>