Documentary Reflections 1

Dr. Michio Kaku Visions of the Future - The Quantum Revolution Documentary | HD

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GpV3SKa6Q


   Dr. Michio Kaku is probably one of the most interesting man alive. Some of his colleagues would even call him the modern-day Albert Eisenstein. He published many of books and streams about everything and anything science on youtube. I wanted to watch this documentary to a better basis for what Quantum Theory is.

   In our world, you cannot just appear and disappear like how atom's cannot appear and disappear neither. But in the realm of Quantum world, you can be at one spot and another at the same time. This provides the mathematical description of much of the particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. It combines Quatum Mechanics with Relativity. These behaviors were first examined by Albert Einstein, who himself when insane from the thought.

   Its really all complex and very, very confusing stuff. The documentary did give prime examples how this has been engineer to help out civilization.

Magnetic Fields:
   Scientist have figured out a way to magnetize ceramic's to make stronger metals. A result of the fusion of the gaseous carbon and protons charged ceramic creates a magnetic field. The ceramic piece is collaborated to have the same magnetic field as gravity so once, you put the a magnet over the ceramic piece it hoovers. Like as if it's in an anti-gravity tunnel and continuously spinning because of the charged ion's from the cold gaseous carbon. The cold carbon atoms are bonded to the ceramic piece in room temperature gives off heat in magnetic waves giving us anti-gravity. This idea of Quantum Mechanics are currently being used in Japan bullet trains to sustain low energy costs.

   He goes off on like 8-10 other theory behind Quantum Mechanics and out is better our world and how we should would together as one society instead of fighting over nature resources that are becoming more and more deplete.

Segregating, Ingratiating.

Segregating, Ingratiating: 

Vanport received constant attention throughout its sort lifespan. Vanport's tenants willingly knew that they would be succeeding in a mixed culture society. At its peak, the population was around 42,000 (which is about the same size as Tigard). Vanport became a safe haven to those who were trying to escape racial prejudice.   

Before Vanport was built, Oregon was home to few African Americans - only 2,600 in 1940. But Vanport was a promising land to those of color with great pay to anyone who wanted it and expanding housing. During, this era people were getting hung just for their skin color. 

And this city did exist in Oregon, one of the largest Klan states. We had riots and marches down Portland streets and avenues. How could these two things in harmony? 

The truth of the matter is that it Vanport was not the Portland we see today. The citizens of Vanport were not openly in mixed colored groups but they still had this sense of being a community. From the documentary I watched on OPB; they interviewed kids who attended the first integrated schooling program, "The children of Vanport who grow up together didn't see a difference in color". He goes on to say, "A Southern boy who was picking on a black boy on the school playground. But a white neighbor boy interfered and told the Southern boy that that's not tolerated here."

Vanport was a mere stepping stone that helped innovate an early movement towards Civil Right's in the Pacific Northwest. By the end of 1943, the African American population in Oregon's doubled to 6,000. 

Early Challenges

Early Vanport: 

   In its short history, from 1942 to 1948, Vanport was the nation’s largest wartime housing development, a site for social innovation and the scene of one of Oregon’s major disasters. 

(Google screenshot of where Vanport would be present day.) 

   Between 1940 and 1943, defense employment in the Portland and Vancouver area rose rapidly from a few thousand to 140,000 people to aid U.S. Maritime Commission's orders. The Kaiser Company shipyards accounted for 110,000 of the total. The influx in population drastically shaped and molded racial and ethical tolerance in the Pacific Northwest. 

   In response, Edgar Kaiser worked with U.S. Maritime Commission to secure funding for a massive housing project. The commission formally approved the project on August 18, 1942.

   Portlanders were not pleased about the new construction. They believed that this would start a racial outrage in the community considering that the population of 90% white. During the time, history perceived Oregon as an anti-foreign and anti-black legislation. Board members of the new Housing Authority of Portland (HAP) was left in the dark about the project, but they agreed to take over management of the project. 

(The legend shows how HAP segregated the African-American residents in Vanport.)  

   I consider Vanport as an early civil rights experiment considering some of the following:

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 which states that all people of Japanese ancestry would be placed in interment camps (California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona). There are thousands of firsthand records saying that these Japanese citizens were stripped of their documentation and treated like POW. 
•    The KKK recently disassembled in 1940's but smaller charter remains with 30,000 people strong. In the 1922, the Klan focused on transcending their power further in political parties. Klanmen throughout the state were elected in local and county offices. 

 This allowed the amount of African-American's into Oregon double in a course of a three days. As the average Oregonian was hearing more information "Project Kaiservile" (nickname), they sought out for retaliation in many waves. 

    

Misc. Gallery

The Vanport Flood of 1948 also flooded Jantzen Beach Amusement Park to the north of  Hayden Island.

Vanport housing was composed of 14-unit apartment buildings. They were two-story boxes with one-story wings, built on wooden foundations-a challenge in a swampy site. (Circa 1947.) (Oregon Historical Society, 78694.)

The Godfather of Vanport

Henry John Kaiser (Founding Father) - 

   I guess, one of the people that you can blame Oregon's early Progressive movement is Henry John Kaiser.  Henry J. Kaiser was an  American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. His character development as a person was motivating in itself. For example: He worked as an apprentice photographer early in life, and was running the studio by the age of twenty. In 1906, he used his savings to move to Washington at the age of 24 for a hope opening a construction company. He would never known what was lie ahead for him. 

   Henry Kaiser shrived for a decade to pursue his goals. The paving company was established in 1914 in Seattle, Washington. The company drastically expanded  in 1927, when the firm received a $20-million contract to build roads in Cuba. 

1. Sprout Brook, NY 
2. Permanenate
3. Motors
4. Family Foundation
5. Shipyard ( WWII > Liberty Ships) 

links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanport_City,_Oregon
• vimeo.com/851414
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser
• http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/vanport-1942-1948
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_State_University
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvqf4ZRLxDQ
• http://www.oregonlive.com/century/1920_intro.html
• http://www.biography.com/people/henry-j-kaiser-9359665
• http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=419C6376-F5D3-411B-1319F7210FB9FB94
• http://www.ohs.org/the-oregon-history-project/biographies/Henry-J-Kaiser.cfm
• http://knowyourcity.org/2012/03/01/oregon-history-comics-interview-with-nicole-georges/
• http://www.opb.org/news/series/ourtown/our-town-vanport/
• http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/floods

VANPORT, OREGON & 1920's

VANPORT, OREGON: 

(Trolley Map of Portland in 1943) 

        I recently just watch a documentary about Vanport City, Oregon that features on Oregon Public Broadcast
(OPB). The city of Vanport was a constructed city of public housing between North Portland and the Columbia River. Vanport city sparked my interest considering that I'm a native Oregonian and I had no idea this city even existed. There were to many questions left unanswered. During my research, I found out the  influential power that this shipyard city had in the 1940's was one of the most progressive reasons for the Portland culture and set a tone for the Pacific Northwest or also known as "Portlandia". 

Here is the documentary I watched if anyone wanted to check it out :

(It's only 15 minutes long)  

1920's-1940's:  

        The city of Portland today as we know it is a friendly place where an average person could spark up an interesting conversation with seemingly anyone. But Portland was not always like this. During the Progressive Era in the 1920's, Ku Klux Klan regalia were common sights in Oregon. The first Klan organizer arrived in Oregon from California and the South in early 1921. Historians estimate that the national Klan attracted more than two million member during the 1920s, and by 1923 Oregon Klan leaders claimed 35,0000 members in more than sixty local chapters and provisional Klans. There were Klans for women, children, and bikers.

I believe is worth a thousand word and this photograph is a prime example. This photograph was published by the Portland Telegram on August 2, 1921, after local reporters were summoned to the Multnomah Hotel in Portland. The room is full of some of the most influential men in the Portland, including the mayor, chief of police and several Senators. The person in the center of the photograph was "King Kleagle" Luther I. Powell. Powell who called the "mysterious" meeting in order to rebuttal the recent negative press against the KKK's illegal activities and to document the supposed collaboration of the Klan members and city officials in retaining "law and order". 

 I found first hand accounts from the children of Vanport thrived in their cohesive community with mixed cultures  By listening to these speakers, I have gained a better aspect of how their society was comparison to modern day. 

(* "Vanport City", name derived from Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon*)