HW4.2

"Who is to blame for America's trend toward high divorce rates, starting in the 1970s?"

The middle-age men are responsible for America’s trend toward high divorce rate.

In the 1970s, it is clear that women are treated unequally throughout their lives in the society. As men had the opportunity to work freely, women are locked in the house, forced to be housewives.
As in previous eras young women would have married middle or lower-class men of roughly their own age and started families, they now became prey for the middle-age wealthy men with “Jennifer Fever” (Schweikart). And the whole situation trend toward high divorce rate.
Moreover, middle-age men tend to “use” the no-fault divorce in order to get away with their wives so they could marry young girls. Feminist had unwittingly given the middle-age men a remarkable gift, pushing as they had for the no-fault divorce. Due to that, middle-age women were abandoned by a lot of middle-age men which leads to the high divorce rate.
"Popular TV shows from the 1970s show that a 'woman's place' in society at that time meant change in divorce laws were needed." Edith, a character in “All in the Family”, was the "put-upon wife," often bemoaning her husband's behavior or comments (Wikipedia), which shows that middle-age men treated their wives anyway they desired, deservedly; middle-age men would marry a younger wife as they got bored with the old wife. For all, the divorce law is considered to be changed until it provides middle-age women a better advantage.

HW4.1

Document C
Questions for understanding
1. “Mr. Dash” is Sam Dash, an attorney for the Senate Watergate Committee. What does he hope to discover, overall from his questions of Mr. Kalmbach?
- What was the secret conversation between Mr. Dean and Mr. Kalmbach about raising funds for the seven defendants?
- Did or did not Mr. Kalmbach accepted the assignment.
2. Why do you suppose Mr. Dash makes Mr. Kalmbach recount his trip from the West Coast to Washington, DC?
- Because he wanted to know whether Mr. Kalmbach was telling the truth and any extra details while his trip to Washington, DC.(Like the phone call)
Questions for exam practice
3. What is the message of Doc C?
- Mr. Dash wants the government to know that Mr. John Dean did involve the Watergate act and at the same time, committed crimes yet had kept it a secret from others.
4. What is the significance of the “$50,000 - $100,000”?
- It stands for the amount of money for funding for legal defense for the defendant and for the support for their families and also connects to Mr. Stans.
5. What is one value of this document for the historian investigating whether men working for President Nixon broke the law or not?
- Mr. Kalmbach(who worked in the white house) did supported the Watergate act, in other word, committed crimes which leads up to the president due to their relationship for working in the White House together.
6. Is that value based on origin or purpose?
- Purpose

Document F
Questions for understanding
1. “Q.” is a lawyer, working for the House Judiciary Committee. What does he hope to discover, overall from his questions of Mr. Hunt?
- To know that whether Mr. Hunt was involved in the Watergate.
- The details of the conversation between Mr. Hunt and Mr. O’ Brein.
2. Why do you suppose the attorney for the HJC keeps pushing Hunt about his use of the word “seamy”?
- Because he wanted the evidence of Mr. Hunt’s commitment to be clear that he went against the law for getting involved in the Watergate act.
Questions for exam practice
1. What’s the message of Document F?
- Q wanted the government to know that Mr. Hunt was involved in the crime, also, that seamy things were committed for the Whitehouse.
2. What is the significance of term “package”?
- In the package, there was $75,000, which means that the money was sent to him from Mr. John Dean and connected the whole event to the Whitehouse.
3. What is the significance of the phrase, “you only had a certain number of days to get your affairs in order.”?
- It means that Mr. Hunt’s commitment in the Watergates was already blown and had to attend the affairs to show how and what he involved.