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MIRACLE
MIRACLE HOMEWORK QUESTIONS
1.
WHAT PLAN DOES HERB HAVE TO BEAT THE SOVIETS?
2.
WHY DOES HERB THINK ALL STAR TEAMS FAIL?
3.
WHAT REASONS DOES HERB GIVE FOR PICKING HIS TEAM AFTER ONE
DAY TO WALTER?
4.
WHAT DO YOU THINK HERB IS TRYING TO DO WHEN HE SAYS, “I’LL BE
YOUR COACH, NOT YOUR FRIEND”?
5.
WHAT DO YOU THINK BROOKS MEANS WHEN HE SAYS, “WE’RE NOT
LOOKING FOR THE BEST PLAYERS; WE’RE LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT
ONES”?
6.
WHAT HAPPENED IN ’76 BETWEEN OC AND MCCLANAHAN?
7.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH SO MANY GUYS FROM MINNESOTA AND
BOSTON?
8.
WHY DOES JIM CRAIG REFUSE TO TAKE HERB’S TEST?
9.
WHY IS HERB SO HARD ON THE GUYS ACCORDING TO DOC?
10.
WHAT DOES PATTY THINK HERB IS CHASING?
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11.
WE MAY NOT BE THE BEST TEAM, BUT WE WILL BE THE BEST
__________ TEAM.
12.
WHAT DOES CRAIG THINK ABOUT HERB’S PUSHING THE GUYS?
13.
WHY DO YOU THINK HERB WORKS THE GUYS SO HARD AFTER THE
GAME AGAINST NORWAY?
14.
DO YOU THINK THIS REALLY HAPPENED?
15.
WHAT HAPPENS – TO MAKE IT END?
16.
WHAT DOES HERB SAY THE WAY IS BEST TO BEAT THE RUSSIANS?
17.
WHAT IS ON THE TV THAT PATTI MAKES HERB LOOK AT?
18.
WHY DO YOU THINK HERB BROUGHT IN ANOTHER PLAYER RIGHT
BEFORE THE FINAL CUTS?
19.
WHAT HAPPENED TO HERB IN 1960?
20.
WHY DOES HERB SEND THE EXTRA PLAYER (TIM H) HOME?
21.
WHAT IS THE MESSAGE OF CARTER’S SPEECH WHILE HERB IS DRIVING
IN THE CAR?
22.
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SCENE WHEN
HERB GETS HOME AND HE READS THE NOTE FROM KELLY?
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23.
WHO IS THE LAST PLAYER TO GET CUT?
24.
WHY DO YOU THINK HERB SCHEDULES THE GAME AGAINST RUSSIA
RIGHT BEFORE THE OLYMPICS?
25.
WHAT IS THE SCORE OF THAT GAME?
26.
WHO GETS HURT?
27.
WHAT IS THE RESULT OF THE GAME AGAINST SWEDEN?
28.
WHAT WAS THE SCORE AGAINST CZECH, THE 2ND BEST TEAM IN THE
WORLD?
29.
USA VS. NORWAY – WHY WON’T HERB LET ANY OF THE PLAYERS TALK
TO THE PRESS?
30.
WHO DOES THE USA PLAY IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS?
31.
WHO SCORES FIRST?
32.
WHO SCORES THE FINAL GOAL FOR THE U.S.?
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Synopsis
From Walt Disney Pictures comes MIRACLE, an inspiring family drama that combines hockey
and history in retelling the story of one of sports’ all-time greatest upsets. In 1980, amidst the
tense political climate of the Cold War, Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) took over as coach of the
U.S. Olympic hockey team. With the help of affable assistant coach Craig Patrick (Noah
Emmerich), Brooks selected a group of twenty amateur hockey players who faced the daunting
task of bringing respectability to their country’s floundering program. While Brooks was well
aware that his team lacked the talent and experience of the team from Russia, he nonetheless
devoted his energy to realizing his lifelong dream: to coach a team to Olympic gold.
Stepping into the gaudy wardrobe of the legendary Brooks (who was a consult film and died in
an automobile accident just after production wrapped), Russell gives one of his finest
performances to date. Surrounded by a cast of unknown young actors, Russell captures the
complexities of a man who dared to dream the impossible. Director Gavin O’Connor and
screenwriter Eric Guggenheim deftly balance the game itself with the larger political
implications the game inspired, celebrating a truly miraculous moment in time.
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1970’S INTERVIEW PAPER GUIDELINES
1. You are to work by yourself. On page 6-7 in your packet, you will pick 3
topics.
2. You will write a one-paragraph explanation of how each event
negatively impacted the United States during the 1970’s.
3. You will interview someone from the 1970’s and ask them 3 questions
about TWO of the 3 events you are writing about, with an emphasis on
the negative impact of the event on Americans.
4. This is due Monday, Dec. 2nd.
POSSIBLE TOPICS
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END OF THE VIETNAM WAR
- INVASION OF CAMBODIA
- FALL OF U.S. EMBASSY IN SAIGON
ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
- RALLY ON WASHINGTON D.C. (1970’S)
COLD WAR – U.S. VS. U.S.S.R.
- ARMS RACE & NUCLEAR TESTING
WATERGATE SCANDAL
- RESIGNATION OF RICHARD NIXON
WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT
- EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
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LOVE’S CANAL
- POLLUTION
THREE MILE ISLAND
- NUCLEAR ENERGY DISASTER
IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
GAS SHORTAGE OF THE 1970’S
- IRANIAN OIL EMBARGO
GERALD FORD’S PRESIDENCY
- INFLATION
JIMMY CARTER’S PRESIDENCY
- RECESSION
TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES
- NASA PROGRAMS CUT
- TEST TUBE BABY
- VIDEO GAMES & COMPUTERS
SOCIAL ISSUES
- DISCO
- STREAKING
- ELVIS DIES
’72 OLYMPIC BASKETBALL
- U.S.A. VS. U.S.S.R.
- CONTROVERSIAL GAME
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End of the Vietnam War
Kent State Massacre: On May 4, l970 members
of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent
State University demonstrators, killing four and
wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the
shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a
nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of
colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top
aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings
had a direct impact on national politics. In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the
shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration.
Beyond the direct effects of the May 4th, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep
political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
Invasion of Cambodia: On April 30th of 1970, President Richard Nixon declared to a television
audience that the American military troops, accompanied by the South Vietnamese People's Army, were
to invade Cambodia. The invasion was under the pretext of disrupting the North Vietnamese supply
lines. They also invaded in order to bomb and destroy the Viet Cong base camps that were backing up
the other operations in South Vietnam. Although Nixon officially declared the invasion in April, there
had been air raids in Cambodia for the past year, without the American Citizens' knowledge. Basically,
Nixon had been ordering bombings Cambodia for months before actually declaring an Invasion. The
image of Nixon appeared not only on television sets all over the world, but in the New York Times and
on the cover of Time magazine. Nixon had promised "Vietnamization", and many of the citizens felt
failed by the President they trusted. The relief that the soldiers may have been coming home quickly
fled the minds of all of their waiting families. All the people of America became filled with anger and
shock. As a result, protests both peaceful and violent erupted across the country. This reaction was
significant in the Vietnam War conflict, because it marked the beginning of the large disagreement
between the American Citizens and the Military arrangements that Nixon declared.
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Fall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon: On January 31,
1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong
guerillas attacks the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. The soldiers
seized the embassy and held it for six hours until an
assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on
the building's roof and routed the Viet Cong. The Tet
Offensive was planned as a massive, simultaneous attack
on the major cities and provincial capitals of South Vietnam. It was scheduled to take place during Tet,
the Vietnamese lunar New Year celebration, which was traditionally a time of decreased fighting.
Anti-war Protests
Rally on Washington D.C.: With the recent
deaths at Kent State still sending shock waves all over
the country, over 100,000 protesters converged on
Washington D.C. and held the largest Anti-War protest
rally yet. For the most part it was a peaceful rally. It was
during this rally that President Nixon snuck out of the
White House at five in the morning for a much
publicized mingle with the crowd. Our recent turn of
events in Cambodia made protesting the war an almost daily occurrence, with demonstrations going on
all over the country.
Cold War – U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.
Arms Race & Nuclear Testing: Leads and lags in an arms race against a background of a
hegemonic struggle characterized the Cold War, but the deterrent effect of weapons of mass
destruction made “now or never” calculations much less tempting for the superpowers of the nuclear
age. The arms competition between the United States and the Soviet Union did not fit an actionreaction model very well. For domestic political and economic reasons, the United States was slow to
rearm in the late 1940s even as it perceived hegemonic ambitions on the part of the Soviets. After the
United States did greatly increase its nuclear and conventional arms during the Korean War, the Soviet
leadership for its own domestic reasons made only a partial response. When from the mid-1960s the
Soviets undertook the most massive peacetime military buildup in history, the United States chose to
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disengage somewhat from the race. Not until after 1979 did it reassess its posture. The new qualitative
improvements embodied in the last American arms spurt of the Cold War made Soviet military leaders
nervous and helps explain why they were willing in the mid-1980s to accept the new ideas promoted by
Mikhail Gorbachev in hopes of raising the technological level of Soviet society. The arms race that had
produced the greatest anxiety among contemporaries ended in the most astonishing political
settlement of the past century.
Watergate Scandal
Resignation of Richard Nixon: Early in the
morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were
arrested inside the office of the Democratic National
Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building
in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The
prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s
reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret
documents. While historians are not sure whether Nixon knew about the Watergate espionage
operation before it happened, he took steps to cover it up afterwards, raising “hush money” for the
burglars, trying to stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from investigating the crime, destroying
evidence and firing uncooperative staff members. In August 1974, after his role in the Watergate
conspiracy had finally come to light, the president resigned. His successor, Gerald Ford, immediately
pardoned Nixon for all the crimes he “committed or may have committed” while in office. Although
Nixon was never prosecuted, the Watergate scandal changed American politics forever, leading many
Americans to question their leadership and think more critically about the presidency.
Women’s Liberation Movement
Equal Rights Amendment: The feminist
movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on
dismantling workplace inequality, such as denial of
access to better jobs and salary inequity, via antidiscrimination laws. In 1964, Representative Howard
Smith of Virginia proposed to add a prohibition on
gender discrimination into the Civil Rights Act that
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was under consideration. He was greeted by laughter from the other Congressmen, but with leadership
from Representative Martha Griffiths of Michigan, the law passed with the amendment intact. However,
it quickly became clear that the newly established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would
not enforce the law's protection of women workers, and so a group of feminists including Betty Friedan
decided to found an organization that would fight gender discrimination through the courts and
legislatures. In the summer of 1966, they launched the National Organization for Women (NOW), which
went on to lobby Congress for pro-equality laws and assist women seeking legal aid as they battled
workplace discrimination in the courts.
Love Canal
Pollution: In April of 1978 the New York
Department of Health Commissioner, Robert Whalen,
declared the Love Canal area a threat to human health
and ordered the fencing of the area near the actual old
landfill site. In August, the Health Commissioner
declared a health emergency at the Love Canal, closed
the 99th Street School, and recommended temporary
evacuation of pregnant women and young children from the first two rings of houses around the site.
Within a week, Governor Hugh Carey announced the intended purchase of all "Ring 1" houses (later
expanded to 238 houses in Rings 1 and 2). President Jimmy Carter simultaneously announced the
allocation of federal funds and ordered the Federal Disaster Assistance Agency to assist the City of
Niagara Falls to remedy the Love Canal site.
Three Mile Island
Nuclear Energy Disaster: March 28, 1979 – the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in
eastern Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown, triggering the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history,
“although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public.
Iranian Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took
approximately seventy Americans captive. This terrorist act triggered the most profound crisis of the
Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted
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444 days. President Carter applied economic pressure by halting oil imports from Iran and freezing
Iranian assets in the United States. At the same time, he began several diplomatic initiatives to free the
hostages, all of which proved fruitless. On Apr. 24, 1980, the United States attempted a rescue mission
that failed. After three of eight helicopters were damaged in a sandstorm, the operation was aborted;
eight persons were killed during the evacuation. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the
action, resigned after the mission's failure. In 1980, the death of the shah in Egypt and the invasion of
Iran by Iraq made the Iranians more receptive to resolving the hostage crisis. In the United States, failure
to resolve the crisis contributed to Ronald Reagan's defeat of Carter in the presidential election. After
the election, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began. On Jan. 20,
1981, the day of President Reagan's inauguration, the United States released almost $8 billion in Iranian
assets and the hostages were freed after 444 days in Iranian detention; the agreement gave Iran
immunity from lawsuits arising from the incident.
Gas Shortage of the 1970s
Iranian Oil Embargo: By the early 1970s,
American oil consumption–in the form of gasoline and
other products–was rising even as domestic oil
production was declining, leading to an increasing
dependence on oil imported from abroad. Despite this,
Americans worried little about a dwindling supply or a
spike in prices, and were encouraged in this attitude by
policymakers in Washington, who believed that Arab oil
exporters couldn’t afford to lose the revenue from the U.S. market. These assumptions were demolished
in 1973, when an oil embargo imposed by members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OAPEC) led to fuel shortages and sky-high prices throughout much of the decade.
Gerald Ford’s Presidency
Stagflation: During the 1970s, America's economy experienced a growth in both unemployment
and inflation. The rise in unemployment resulted largely from increased foreign competition that slowed
economic growth and job creation, and from a larger American workforce- baby-boomers- looking for
work. Economists coined the term "stagflation", to describe this unprecedented situation. Ford believed
that, "Our inflation, our public enemy number one, will unless whipped, destroy our country, out homes,
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our liberties, our property and finally our national pride as surely as will any well-armed wartime
energy." At first, Ford's economic team advised him to attack the inflation problem. Whereas Nixon had
implemented wage and price controls in an attempt to manage inflation, Ford, in October 1974,
proposed a tax hike and asked for a reduction in federal spending.
Jimmy Carter’s Presidency
The deepest and longest-lasting recession the United States has experienced since then began in
1980, when Jimmy Carter was president (the gross domestic product dropped 9.6 percent in the second
quarter of that year) and did not end until fourth-quarter 1982, almost two years into the Reagan
presidency. There were positive quarters during this almost three-year period, resulting in what is
known as a double-dip recession, but GDP did not return to the 1979 level until well into 2003.
Unemployment peaked at 10.6 percent in the fall of 1982.
Technological Issues
NASA Programs Cut: NASA's annual budget, which had reached $5 billion in the mid-1960s and
stood at almost $4 billion in 1969, was reduced to $3.7 billion in 1970 and just over $3 billion in 1974.
The cuts in the NASA budget had a considerable impact on the agency. Grandiose space programs were
eschewed in favor of more modest and, from the public's point of view, practical programs. Thus, of the
programs suggested in 1969 by the NASA's Space Task Group, only the development of the Space
Shuttle was approved, in 1972. And the approved Space Shuttle project was a more economical and
scaled down version than the one originally envisioned by NASA. Funds appropriated for research and
development were reduced, not only because of cuts in the overall NASA budget but also because an
increasing share of NASA funds went for administrative operations. In 1969 almost $3.4 billion was
appropriated for research and development. In 1974 the figure fell to a low of $2.2 billion, rising again to
slightly over $3 billion in 1978.
Test Tube Baby: On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first
successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain. Though the technology
that made her conception possible was heralded as a triumph in medicine and
science, it also caused many to consider the possibilities of future ill-use.
Video Games & Computers: The foundation of technological
advancements we see today was laid long back in the 1970s. It was the
beginning of a new era in computer development as well as space exploration.
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The car industry was learning from its mistakes, while inventions like microwave ovens and cassette
tapes reached unprecedented heights. The decades of 1950s and 1960s saw frequent face-offs between
those who supported technological development and those who were opposed to it. However, it was
the '70s decade that witnessed the convergence of technology and commerce. Computers, cars, space
exploration are only few of the numerous technologies which developed and improved tremendously in
these 10 years. Some of the notable inventions of this decade are the microprocessor chip, personal
computer, cellular mobile phone and the e-mail.
Social Issues
Disco: Seventies Disco was born on Valentine's Day 1970, when
David Manusco opened The Loft in New York City, and it rapidly faded in
1980. When the Disco movement peaked in 1978-79, the demographic was
predominantly white, heterosexual, urban and suburban middle class. But it
didn't begin that way. For the first eight years, Disco was an underground
movement. Then the film Saturday Night Fever (December 1977) helped
turn the simmering subculture into a mainstream fad, resulting is a 30-fold
increase in disco clubs. There wasn't one definitive disco demographic. The
seventies saw the emergence of today's pluralism, where individual variety
of interests and tastes surpasses mass trends and fads. Thus several
different populations were attracted to the disco scene.
Streaking: In the 1960s and 1970s, streaking became a popular way to express dissent during
protests and demonstrations. However, it didn't get its name until 1973 when the term was coined
when a Washington, D.C., news station reporter was watching a mass nude run at the University of
Maryland. As the more than 500 participants passed the pay phone where he was standing, he said,
"They are streaking past me right now." The following day, the Associated Press picked up the
expression as well. Prior to this event, "streaking" was known as "going quickly."
Elvis dies: The manner in which the major television
networks handled the news of Elvis' death illustrated his
enormous popularity and the tremendous impact he had on
America, something few realized until he was gone. Data
from the television-ratings service Arbitron revealed that
on the day Elvis died, there was a huge increase in the
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number of televisions tuned to evening news programs. Even though Elvis never performed in Europe,
countries from all over the world sent reporters to Memphis. The press coverage in foreign newspapers
and on European television was almost as extensive as the reporting in the United States. Everywhere in
the world, people lamented the loss of an irreplaceable entertainer.
1972 Olympic Basketball
There were three seconds left on the clock. Collins needed
to make one free throw to tie and two to put the US ahead. He
sunk them both. The American supporters in the stands jumped
joyously, repeatedly, almost victoriously. The comeback looked
complete. It wasn't. Not by a long chalk. The Soviets, who had
tried to take a time-out in between Collins' free throws – a ploy
the Americans maintain to this day was not allowed – restarted
and, with their officials agitating on the sidelines, were finally awarded a time-out with one second
remaining. Again the game appeared over. But then Dr William Jones, the British secretary of Fiba,
intervened – something the US team maintain he had no authority to do – and ordered the clock to be
reset to 0:03 and the game restarted. Play resumed, the buzzer sounded as a Soviet long pass went
awol, and again the Americans jumped and whooped and hollered. They believed they had won their
seventh straight Olympic title. But as the clock was in the process of being reset when play resumed, the
floor had to be cleared again and the three seconds reinstated. The Americans, frustrated at the farce,
considered pulling out. "People say, 'Why didn't you leave?'" says Collins. "We were told that if left we
would forfeit so we were pushed out on the court." Finally the game got under way again. But the
Americans, their emotions meleed by everything that had gone on and fearful of conceding a technical
foul, had no pressure on Ivan Edeshko on the inbound line. His Hail Mary pass was caught by Alexander
Belov, who brushed off Jim Forbes and Joyce and sunk a lay-up before running back to his team-mates,
arms aloft like a track athlete who has just crossed the finishing line, before starting the mother of all
bundles. This time the result was final, despite the best efforts of the Americans, who quickly appealed.
Unfortunately, the jury was loaded: of the five people on it, three were from Communist countries. The
representatives from Cuba, Poland and the USSR all voted Soviet, and the US appeal was rejected 3-2.
The Americans were convinced they had been stiffed. The US team now had a choice: suck up their
frustrations and accept silver, or storm off in the mother of all funks. They chose the latter, and for the
first time in Olympic history, a spot on the podium was left deserted; a set of medals unclaimed.
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