Vroom!Rrrrrrrrr!POP! No way i'm actually here! Have you ever wanted to go back in time to enjoy a vacation you never got to go on or to see a certain concert with your friends but your parents didn't let you go, well If I time traveled I would go to 1950’s when girls wore poodle skirts, guys wore leather jackets and rock and roll was taking over the world.
The reason I would go back to the 1950’s is because of the movie “Grease” one of the most popular and well loved musicals in the history of time. When I first saw Grease with my mom I instantly loved it. Not only is Grease one of my favorite movies it’s also my moms and I would love to go back to that time because I would love to wear the cute poodle skirts and wear my hair as the girls
Stephanie Coontz's essay `What we really miss about the 1950's' is an essay that talks about a poll taken in 1996 by the Knight-Ridder news agency that more Americans preferred 1950's as the best decade for children to grow up. Coontz doesn't believe that it is a decade for people to remember fondly about, except for financial reasons and better communication within families. Coontz doesn't believe in it as the best decade because of the votes, the 50's only won by nine percent, and especially not by African Americans. Examples from family and financial issues in the 50's that makes it better than other decades from 20's to 80's. She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken `literally' because from 50's there were changes in values that caused racism, sexism discrimination against women. Even though the 50's were good, it didn't lead to a better 60, 70, and 80.
Hey there grandson! I’ve noticed a lot of unusual and crazy event taking place in our society, and most of these events can be confusing to understand. I am writing you to insure that when you get older and go through society as an American citizen, you can fully understand the nation that you came from and form an economic and political opinion about your nation. And what better way to give you advice about your future than to reflect on part of our nation’s past.
Music in the 1950’s was a lot different than it is now. The things I will be showing you are the Political events, what was popular, and the influence 1950’s music had on this decade
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of production, it was the age of destruction, it was the epoch of nativism, it was the epoch of racism, it was the season of skepticism, it was the season of anti-communism, it was the spring of gain, it was the winter of loss – in short, it was the 1920's. Indeed, the decade of the 1920s was a truly “roaring” and prosperous time, but at the same time, it was a period of chaos and conflict. The events that happened during this decade influenced the world as we know it today. More importantly, the thought that the 1920’s was an era of major change in the United States, both positive and negative, is indeed fascinating and it deserves thorough examination.
In Alabama between 1932 and 2003 many things have changed. The book "To Kill A Mockingbird",was set in the 1930's.I can see many changes in the culture and the general way of life.
A family has always been expected to be a loving and caring environment with support and communication, but this sometimes does not come naturally to soon to be parents. Some get caught up specifically in bad things, perhaps their upbringings are to blame or maybe the individual could take all of the responsibility. When a society chooses what is to be socially acceptable, that limits relatives to only one kind of family and the object becomes destroying all other kinds. The 1950s was a time when technology wasn’t a big distraction from loved ones. Joyin Shih feels her true self being targeted by others, even her own family, in attempt to destroy her true self in her article, “Chyna and Me”. Alex Williams may also be missing the 1950s an article by Stephanie Coontz called “What We Really Miss About The 1950s” because he finds that families may not be as caring as they used to be in fact he argues that families are becoming more isolated than ever in his article “Quality Time, Redefined”. Good gives people a lot of frustration, more the division than the “good” because not all families coming from different cultures, different religions, and different ideas can fit into one mold that is called “acceptable”. The more connected individuals are to the Internet the fewer individuals are connected to each other. Technology should not be the biggest tool of communication in a family.
The 1950s seemed like a perfect decade. The rise of suburbs outside cities led to an expansion of the middle class, thus allowing more Americans to enjoy the luxuries of life. The rise of these suburbs also allowed the middle class to buy houses with land that used to only be owned by more wealthy inhabitants. Towns like Levittown-one of the first suburbs- were divided in such a way that every house looked the same (“Family Structures”). Any imperfections were looked upon as unfavorable to the community as a whole. Due to these values, people today think of the 1950s as a clean cut and model decade. This is a simplistic perception because underneath the surface, events that took place outside the United States actually had a direct effect on our own country’s history. The rise of Communism in Russia struck fear into the hearts of the American people because it seemed to challenge their supposedly superior way of life.
The 1920’s otherwise known as the roaring twenties was the era of prohibition outlawing alcohol and the era of gangsters like al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly. If it wasn’t for the outlawing of alcohol I would probably be out of work dirt poor. I would be back on my farm in Tennessee where I grew up shoveling cow shit and arguing with my drunk of a dad every night. The first chance Kelly gave me to go back to Chicago with him I took, taking full advantage of the gang life.
The Fifties were a good time to be a white middle class American These years brought an UN-thought of prosperity and confidence to Americans who barely remembered the Great Depression. Popular music of the early fifties mirrored the life of mainstream America: bland predictable and reassuring. Which didn't seem bad after the depre...
I’m tired of living in a world where everything feels like a competition like who has the nicest car, the most money, or the nicest clothes. I want to go to a time period that changed the view of America. I want to go to a time when everyone was carefree and were too busy dancing to worry about that others thought about themselves. I want to go to a time where people did risky and daring things and got away with it. If I had a ticket to go anywhere, I would go back to the 1920s.
An interesting thing about the 1920’s was that when women began straying from the older generation’s styles and attitude, they become very interested in nudism, sex and petting parties. They also established modern day dating after they decided that they did not like the idea of courting anymore. Also, instead of trying to look older than they really were, women tried their best to look younger and prepubescent using dresses that did not show off curves and were practically completely straight.
...teryears where the whiskey and rum flowed everywhere like the rhymes. If it wasn’t for Blues and Jazz, names like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald and Rolling Stones who would be just names and not icons.
...the 1920’s hopefully in the next decade we will repeat the American dream of the 1940’s.
Abstract What made the era of the Roaring Twenties so “roaring?” Perhaps it was the Prohibition Act, and the unhappy citizens who protest and broke the Amendment more times than one. Maybe it was the organized crime that became a large ordeal after the Prohibition. Or could it have been the era of “The New Woman?” Although there were many more improvements and setbacks to the 1920’s in the United States, these are a select few that had large impacts on it as well.
A plethora of institutional and cultural shifts saw New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s start to become more permissive and liberal in its attitudes towards sex. From the advent of the contraceptive Pill and its eager reception early on, to the birth of New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Society and subsequent political and social shifts surrounding homophobia, the two decades served as a pivotal time in sparking a change in language, discourse, narratives and ideology surrounding sexuality in New Zealand. Most pertinent were the changes within the state, medicine, and the law that caused multiple changes within society towards more liberal cultural attitudes, at an interactional level. In this essay I will argue that three things caused an attitudinal