Impact Of 1950 On Today

When I read “What We Really Miss About the 1950’s”, Stephanie Coontz provides many data and reports to support the positive side and negative sides of the 1950’s. On my first impression, the 1950’s sounded a pretty good era. People just get through the World War II. Many young men came back home or just build their new home.After so many years, American people can do everything at once again. However,every coin has two sides.Some heavy things such as racism, woman’s rights,and McCarthyism. I have to ask myself a question “ Do we really miss those old days?”. Or more specific, “why some time we said those old days are good?”. I do want to argue which era is the best. I just want to focus on why sometime people said old days are better and we

Out of some of the most turbulent times in history have come the greatest ages of success and prosperity. The 1920’s and 1950’s are two eras that exemplify the spirit of triumph and wealth. In both decades, a nation thrilled by the victorious conclusion of war and the return of their loved ones from war entered into an age of capitalism and materialism, bolstering the economy and with it national pride. Some of features most common to the 20’s and 50’s were consumerism and the accompanying optimistic mindset, the extent to which new ideas entered society, and discrimination in terms of both sexism and racism.

World War II had just ended. Women that were working because their husbands were out fighting in the war came back home when the war ended. The 1940’s ended and it was time for a new decade. The 1950’s were looked as a state of mind or a way of living instead of another time in American history. The 1950’s were the most influential decade in American history because the civil rights act began, fashion was completely new and trendy there were more much advancement in entertainment and medicine, and suburban life was much more functional than any other decade in America.

Throughout the course of History, media has evolved and changed generations. People from all around the world are interested and involved with the media, whether it is from a newspaper, a radio station, or television. With the advancement of technology, it is easier than ever to access the media. The major element in the relationship between the era of 1950 and today 's lifestyle is conforming. Each time period people would do as they see from their surroundings. In the 1950’s they conformed yet they lived simply and happily. Today 's population coordinated their living by copying the media but they 're still unhappy because there 's more to expect the day after. We are bombarded with images that give off the message that to be thin is to be beautiful, to reveal skin is to make you noticeable or that having money would makes you apart of higher society.

The 1920’s were a very important era in America for better or worse. There were many issues in relation to race and how people of different ethnic groups were treated. African American had a cultural rejuvenation that being the Harlem Renaissance. The advent of the Ford Model T change the way how people traveled. Many may say an era like the 1950’s were highly comparable. Race related issues were on a decline as America as whole sought to be more accepting and the oppressed started to speak out on it. While some may argue that the 1920’s and the 1950’s were similar time periods, you can say they were different due to how the way minority ethnic groups were treated and the new consumerist lifestyles of people in the 1950’s. I believe that

There are many discontinuities and continuities between 1930-1950 and 1950-1980 so this is very difficult to determine to whether continuities or discontinuities are more important between these periods. Noting that one might easily argue otherwise, I would like to claim that the discontinuities outweigh the continuities between these two periods for several reasons. First of all, despite some similarities in the protectionism, the DP government followed a more agriculture-oriented and liberal economic policy than that of the RPP governments of 1930s. On the other hand, although the main economic policy followed in 1930s governments and governments between 1960-1980 was import substituting industrialization, while the former one followed the

For many years there has been a discussion about the best decade and the best era in the United States of America. People are convincing each other that twenties were the Golden Age or 1990’s were the most influencing but there is no clear and nationwide agreement in that case. In fact, according to different authors and publishers there was no year that actually resolved all problems in the United States. From some people’s point of view, however, it is not a matter of which decade end all problems but rather a matter of which decade influenced the most areas of Americans’ lives. Although 1940’s have not resolved all America’s problems, those years did the most to influence contemporary America in areas such as the economic leadership of

There were no time guzzling metal detectors at the airports... or the schools. There were no grouchy warning labels on the records and no ratings necessary on the movies. And TV shows were acceptable to the whole family. Those were the sixties or at least part of it. Some of the 52 million sixties' boomers called it the decade of peace, harmony and love mainly for the movement for peace and the "flower power" attitude. Others, a little more pessimistic, called it the decade of dissatisfaction because of the protests against the war and the race riots in many cities. For the teenagers it was the decade of sweet sounding, good-time rock ‘n' roll…from the Beatles to the Kinks and many more in between. Still for others it was filled with

The cultural shift that occurred between the 1950s and the 1960s is perhaps one of the most contrasting transformations America has seen between decades. While the 1950s are painted as a time of prosperity, patriotism, and tradition, the 1960s is described as a decade of activism, rebellion, and turmoil. As the baby boomer generation transitioned into adulthood, they became loud advocates for their beliefs and notions of freedom. As with any powerful push for change, the backlash was intense. In the case of the 1960s, “the flower children” were forced to witness the deaths of four great leaders of the decade: John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Junior.

The opening of Disneyland also showed me that things are not always what one thought they were. The fifties were also a time of many sporting events, and one sporting event that interested was Brooklyn Dodgers beating the New York Yankees for the first and only time in the World Series(7). I also felt like the fifties were a time of introducing many types of books and that despite being controversial to some people; others loved them, such as Peyton Place. After doing all that research, I have been looking at the fifties differently than I did before doing any

Since the 1950’s the world has come a long way from new and improved technological advances as well as the way people view and treat one another due to skin color or race, however, hate and racism still linger in the world. All over the world, there have been many new technological advances since the 1950’s, some examples are smoke detectors, the internet, laptops, computers, mobile phones, and more. According to the article “More People Have Cellphones Than Toilets, U.N Study Shows”, 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone out of 7 billion people (Wang). Technological advances are always occurring and since the 1950’s there has been a lot of new technologies. The fact that 6 billion people have access to a mobile phone is phenomenal.

The film The General (Keaton 1926) was made during a time when Hollywood and worldwide film-going made a vast expansion. Before the invention of the projector in 1895, those who seeked visual entertainment opted for optical toys, shadow shows, magic lanterns and visual tricks. After this invention and years of experimentation, film had swept across the world, with the 1920’s having some of the greatest impact on its history. The 1920’s was the decade known for “Picture Palaces” or “Movie Palaces”, which were large, elaborately snd classically decorated movie theaters that could fit nearly 2,000 patrons. Genres that had not been very recognized, such as horror and romantic comedies, developed rapidly and successfully, and ended up

The movie Forrest Gump contains multiple significant events that occured in the 1950’s until 1980. In these events Forrest had always played a big role, changing the outcome of whatever he was involved in. Although his role in the film was obviously fictional, it still has factual aspects within each occurrence. Major events that Forrest Gump had an impact on include the Vietnam War, the Watergate Scandal, and Hurricane Carmen. Hurricane Carmen was the most severe tropical storm of the 1974 atlantic hurricane season.

Though these advances that occurred throughout the 1950’s and the 1960’s came periodically, they created foundations for today’s standards of society. Because of this, it most likely led Isaac Asimov to write a novel about a future where these changes altered human patterns. Technology became so enhanced as the first trans-continental telegraphs, microchips, and computer modems were being created during the same time the game Space War was released. With any era there is always some type of war happening, but these years involved the Suez Crisis, the invasion of Egypt by Israel, and Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon explosion. Many new icons like Marilyn Monroe and Martin Luther King Jr. were introducing new standards like equality amongst

Although the 1920s, 1950s and 1960s have been separated by entire generations, the issues people faced had common features. Each era had advances in entertainment and inventions that made life easier. If the 1920s marked the beginning of the radio use, the 1950s and 1960s – were the start and the continuation of the television era. Each era also had literary movements that criticized sedentary, materialistic lifestyle that these inventions helped to promote. Although there were intolerant attitudes in each decade, the overall impact of technological inventions still helped America to develop into a greater