Competitors

Karl's Thesis Statement: 

The discovery of the Greenhouse Effect was a revolutionary turning point. Originally discovered and experimented in 1856, Eunice Newton Foote became the start of what is now a world-wide issue and topic. Since then, there has been countless of inventions such as solar panels, Climate Change movements, and future plans preventing Greenhouse Gases because of Foote’s work, further proving her results impactful. 

Claire and Marnie's Thesis Statement: 

In 1347, the Black Death (also known as the Bubonic Plague) devastatingly struck Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa and is now known worldwide for being one of the worst pandemics in history. The Black Death was a deadly disease rooted from the Yersiniaceae bacteria family. Countries in Europe like the United Kingdom, France, and Italy were greatly affected. This was a major turning point in history because the plague devastated the world socially and economically.

Lillian and Nanami's Thesis Statement: 

In February 1900, George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York, introduced the Kodak Brownie Camera to the market at the price of one dollar. The Brownie Camera became a household name and its success created a turning point in photography, which spread the use of cameras beyond the upper class and popularized taking snapshots. The simplicity and portability of this basic box camera made it popular with the youth, so these iconic advertisements were the first to be created with a target audience of children, ensuring that the nation’s future of photography lay in good hands. 

Connor and Alfred's Thesis Statement: 

In December 17,1903, The Wright Brothers changed the world’s way forever. They Invented the airplane that allowed for faster transportation and an overall a better way of moving/transporting daily goods. This way of transportation is way faster than ships because it would take months to travel to other countries. This invention became as it allowed for people to get to places in hours compared to when before airplanes it might have taken months or maybe even years to travel across the world. 

Kellen's Thesis Statement: 

Cells are the most basic unit of life that help you to function and act like building blocks that make up living things. Before we knew that they existed, people thought that disease was a curse of god or demons. They thought life was spontaneously born from abiotic material. These theories were popular explanations of such situations until we decided to take a closer look at things. During 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke created an improved version of the microscope. He used it to look at a slice of cork and observed for the first time in human history, individual plant cells. The discovery of cells was an important turning point in history that not only changed the way that we lived our lives, but how we viewed living organisms. 

Dari and Emily's Thesis Statement: 

On January 17, 1893, the Hawaiian Monarchy was unlawfully overthrown by a group of foreigners who called thmselves the Committee of Safety, whose ultimate goal was to annex Hawaii to the United States with the desire to gain more political power to help their own businesses. The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy stands as a significant turning point in Hawaiian history as the change of power marks the end of indigenous government in the Hawaiian islands. This event not only marks the destruction of an archaic monarchy but also highlights the complexity of foreign intervention, such as the United States supporting the overthrow, that has changedd Hawaii ever since. The events leading up to the overthrow and the overthrow itself has set the tone for a series of political and social changes that continue to live throughout the Hawaiian islands to this day.

 Andrew's Thesis Statement:

During the video game crash of 1983, the market value of the gaming industry declined from a high of $3.2 billion to $100 million by 1985 due to the oversaturation of low-quality games made by the leading game console company at the time, Atari Corporation. At the same time, Nintendo, an established and successful Japanese toy and game company, was taking a steady approach to entering the home console market during a time of skepticism about the future of video games. When they released the Nintendo Entertainment System in the Fall of 1985, with a core business philosophy of advancing the industry, they rebounded the market with a higher-quality product, setting forth a path for video games to become the highest-grossing form of entertainment in the decades following. 

Scarlet and Miya's Thesis Statement: 

At the end of the 18th century, Guglielmo Marconi invented the digital modulation of Hertzian waves. This created a social and technological turning point in the history of long range communication. Marconi's inventions of the first wireless telegraph and its adaptation for radio communication allowed people from all locations and walks of life to receive and transmit information to each other in real time, thus changing the landscape of human communication forever. 

Katelyn's Thesis Statement: 

In the 1960 women wanted to vote to be able to do more work outside the home because men worked outside the house and the women did shopping and housework. Women didn’t have any outside working jobs and their pay was 3,300 dollars per year while men made 5,400 per year. The jobs for women in 1960 were mainly teaching and nursing. At some point women got tired of staying inside the home and only inside so they decided to vote for their rights of having more jobs and having an equal pay just like the men. It lead us to today where gender equality is a smaller problem now and every gender can work any job getting same pay and being able to do more freely. 

Aran's Thesis Statement: 

In 1869, the first synthetic polymer was invented as an alternative to ivory. 38 years later, in 1907, the first plastic was invented. This was groundbreaking because up until this point things like metal, ivory, wood, and tortoiseshell were used to make everyday objects, but plastic replaced them. The invention of plastic was a turning point in history because not only did it become a staple and everyday necessity of our everyday life, it also is quite dangerous to our planet and us. 

Kristin's Thesis Statement: 

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat and moving to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, when black citizens heard of this, they refused to ride the city buses as a protest against the racial segregation on buses. Since the number of people riding city buses decreased, the profit that the city made off of buses decreased. As a result of the money loss, the U.S. supreme court ruled that bus segregation was forbidden. This was a big turning point since this was one of the first major events that later led on to the civil rights movement. 

Hugo's Thesis Statement: 

On September 11th, 2001 was a horrific day for many, four commercial planes were hijacked by an islamic group by the name of Al-Qaeda which was led by Osama bin Laden. That day, the pentagon and the world trade center were targeted as the planes crashed into them. The world was shocked and terrorized many others, this attack impacted the USA. This is a turning point because now after the attacks, more security started in airports and even a war started against Afghanistan all because of 9/11.

Jayden and Maxwell's Thesis Statement: 

In 1796, the first vaccine was created by Dr. Edward Jenner. This was a major turning point in medicine, and is one of the most successful inventions for public health. Vaccines helped eradicate diseases, prevented millions of deaths, and greatly reduced the spread of diseases. 

Jenner did this since he noticed milkmaids with cowpox did not get infected with smallpox. He tested this idea with a boy named James Phipps by giving him cowpox. A few months later, James was given smallpox, however it didn’t affect him. Jenner’s idea worked! ​​​​​​​

At the time, the common method for immunization was variolation. It was done by exposing someone to a sore from another person with the disease, like smallpox. It was usually effective, but a person could risk getting a severe infection with the disease. There was also a risk of the sore being contaminated with other diseases. Now, vaccines help prevent a huge amount of different viruses. 

Allison and  Alyssa's Thesis Statement: 

In August of 1896, a single discovery became the start of one of the most frantic gold rushes in history, the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush was also the last gold rush in history. Kiesh (Skookum Jim Mason), George Carmac, Shaaw Tláa (Kate Carmac), and Káa Goox (Dawson Charlie), made the first discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory. The gold was discovered at Rabbit Creek which was later renamed the Bonanza Creek. As word spread, thousands of people traveled the long and treacherous journey to Dawson City in the Yukon Territory in hopes of uncovering gold and becoming rich. This discovery led to the thousands of deaths of animals and humans alike. It also affected the population of cities around the area such as Seattle. The gold rush sped up the development of the Yukon Territory and started the establishment of Dawson City. Overall, the Klondike Gold Rush affected the economy and ecosystem.

Nathan and Evan's Thesis Statement: 

Although there are many opinions about the creation of the nuclear bomb, many would agree that the nuclear bomb was a paramount turning point of mankind. Because the nuclear bomb had ended World War 2, many people have supported the actions of the United States, but eventually, the people in the world have come to realize that the US have just created a pathway to complete human extinction. Once the bomb had been released on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this completely altered the future into the atomic age, where the nature of conflict between countries and the fear of global warfare had changed into something more than just a nuclear bomb; but the life of all the humans on earth. 

Noble and Cyrus' Thesis Statement: 

When A regional manager in the Dallas (Texas) branch suggested the idea of the first drive through for McDonald's in 1975, he revolutionized the fast food industry, forever changing the way they worked. Soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona were not allowed to be seen in public in uniforms, but the convenience and speed of being able to access a drive through benefited both them and the business. McDonald's had unknowingly created an irreversible turning point in the history of fast food that changed the industry forever and made it what it is today - a staple in American cuisine.