How Daily Life Has Changed In Thorton Wilder's Our Town

Compared to the days that people live now, the human thinking process of how they should live their lives has changed a lot. In the older generations kids would get up bright and early in the morning and they would go and do chores. They would chop wood, haul milk, throw out the newspaper, and go to church. “Naturally, out in the country-all around- there’ve been lights on for some time, what with milkin’s and so on. But town people sleep late” (Wilder 6). The aspects of life back then were almost set in stone. “Here comes Howie Newsome, deliverin’ the milk” (Wilder 10). Kids would marry young and have big families to help support the parents later on

Have you ever thought that even the littlest things in life can make the biggest difference? One of the themes of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is people never fully appreciate the wonders of daily life. People take everything for granted and don’t really realize how the little things in life actually make a huge impact on your life. Wilder shows examples of the little things in life many times in each of the acts throughout the play. Our Town is about a young couple who falls in love and ends up spending their life together. The young couple overlooks the small but important things in life. Throughout Our Town, Wilder informs us about how all people don’t appreciate the little things in life that actually make a huge difference.

Schools have changed remarkably since they were first introduced centuries ago. Continue reading in order to find out how the past has shaped education, as we know it. There are six main eras or time periods in which important things occurred for the American School System, The colonial era, The growth of public schooling, The progressive era, the segregation and Integration era, the 1960s-1970s, and the 1980- present era.

     Some say that people never change. They may be right, but no one really knows. What people do know is that every living person has one thing in common, something that will never change. Everyone will die, there’s no way around it. Every “new” and “old” generation will succumb to the same ghastly fate. The differences in the “old” generation and “new” generation sometimes collide in life. The contrast between generations in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is similar to the contrast in the generations today. The “baby boomer” generation is the old fashioned generation preoccupied with hospitality and tradition, where as, “generation x” is the new generation, preoccupied with knowledge and intellect.

The first reason of how technology has changed is books. In today’s time, books seem to be outdated. Now days, most people do not go to the library to check out books, we can buy it and read it on our Nooks and our Kindles. Instead of looking up what words mean in the dictionary, we just search for the definition on our phones.

Over the past (almost) hundred years, society and education have both changed drastically. Typically, the things that have happened in history, such as wars, technological advances, and changes in culture, changed education as a result. Some of these changes include popular culture in the 1920s, economic factors in the 1930s, military intervention in the 1940s, Sputnik in the 1950s, and racial issues in the 1960s. One theme of education is that it has gradually become more important over the years. Before high school diplomas could be rare, and today most high school graduates go to college in the United States.

The non-fictional book, “The Lost Children of Wilder; The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care” written by a reporter of The New York Times Nina Berstein, is an inspiring story about the lack of proper funding and placement of children in the foster care system in New York City from before 1972 to today. This book in specifics focus ' on an attorney and child advocate Marcia Lowery who respectfully stood up to the entire foster care system of New York City using the face of then, thirteen year old Shirley Wilder and her soon born son Lamont Wilder.

Education over the years has changed drastically. Between the push for schools in the time of colonial American and the school reform starting in 1830, schools began to drastically improve over time. Both of these events from different time periods positively impacted areas of education, changing our world for the better. These impacts can still be felt in school systems today across the country.

Have you ever thought about what people back in the day read in their spare time since we all just immediately get on our phones? I compared and contrasted the August 2015 Time magazine, and the June 4th 1864 edition of Harper’s Weekly. I have come to the realization that when people say times have changed, they are not kidding. It is crazy to read in between the lines and see how Americans lived over 150 years ago. The way things are placed and discussed are very different in both Harper’s Weekly and Time Magazine, but the two are similar in some ways also.

As educators, it is fair to say, we are in the midst of unparalleled change. Technology and globalisation has

Time changes everything. As time goes on even the everyday things in our life change. There are the obvious things like technology, transportation, and cooking. However, unmaterialistic things in our life change as well. Such as the way people date and the way people view dating. It really has changed drastically from generation to generation. For example, someone using 2000’s dating techniques would have had serious trouble dating in the 1950’s. There are many factors that have led to this change, such as communication and the view of women by society.

In 2016, it’s nice to have all the food we want and be able to turn a dial to warm up or cool down our homes in seconds. Not to mention just being able to sit down on a nice couch and turn on whatever you want on television. Also, if you are a gamer you may like 2016, but if you like being outside it may be hard to get people together to go play out in the woods. Not only will it be hard to play outside, but unlike Tom and his friends, we interact on a screen, not face to face. In 1876 you wake up, eat breakfast, go to school ,if you are Tom you take a swim, then you come home and play with your friends. They don’t sit down on the couch, turn on the television and eat potato chips. In 1876, a few downsides are the fact that you can’t just go to the cabinet and eat what you want, and also on Sundays you must wear your Sunday best. Even though these times were different they still have many things in common, people talk, just in different ways, people still go out and enjoy nature, but now not as much. All in all, we have it better in 2016 but 1876 sounds like it would be more fun as a

1900 Versus 2000      I think that we take for granted the things that we have today. Just look at all of the innovations in technology and quality of living over the last 100 years. Back in the year 1900, things went crazy. All sorts of new inventions were coming out all of the time, and people were becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams. In my opinion, the past 100 years have left us in a completely different world.

The education systems are radically changing due to the fact that "previous material and techniques believed to be successful were no longer effective. The importance of education in modern society led to a sense of depression about the need to provide a good education. This need is supported by Reisner, Petry, & Armigage (1990),who regarded tutoring and mentoring as highly relevant methods of intervention that addressed national, state, and local priorities" (Lloyd 50). The age of the computer is an example of this. You can no longer do just about anything without a computer. If school districts don't have access to computers then their students are left behind.

Technology has changed education for the better. People have so much knowledge at their fingertips when they can access