Life In The 50's

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

The 1950s and the 1960s had many similarities, though they had many differences as well. Their similarities and differences include: the politics, the economy, the society, and the culture of both decades. In the 1950s, North Korea moved into South Korea and began a civil war between the two parallel countries. The reason for this dispute was the border lines as well as guerrilla fighting in the South, which created a greater tension on the issue. The reason why the U.S entered the Korean War was so that the Soviet Union would not gain another nation and, in turn, more power. Like the 50s, our country was also at war with another country in the 60s. This time, the U.S was at war with Vietnam. The U.S entered the war because the

Life today is very fast-paced. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere and will push you out of the way to get there, like it's some kind of race. In our personal lives, we have our cell phones, and maybe a home phone, scheduled play dates for our kids, microwaves, satellite TV, home security systems that don't involve dogs, solar landscape lighting, automatic underground sprinkler systems for our lawns, and compact fluorescent lights to replace the incandescent bulbs that waste energy. In the business world, you have meetings that you can attend by using a video phone, PowerPoint presentations to help you get your point across at the meetings you can't get out of, instant messaging to speak to clients and other businesses around the

Somebody once said, “Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything but to feel a few things twice.” Many people have written and communicated about memories and aspirations, while others are good and others are negative. Stephanie Coontz discus of the “myth” of the 1950s in her essay, “What We Really Miss about the 1950s.” Coontz has an extensive background in social and family issues and has written numerous books and also has engaged extensively on television. In the essay, she combines both her experience to create the ‘idealist’ perspective of the 1950s. The essay discusses the positives and negatives of the 1950s while the role the family played including the misconception that 1950s were good. The aim of the essay is to evaluate, discuss logos, ethos and pathos about Coontz essay.

Historians tend to portray the 1950’s as a decade of prosperity, conformity, and consensus, and the 1960’s as a decade of turbulence, protest, and disillusionment. Do you agree or disagree with this view? Show evidence to support your argument.

Jason is described as very smart. His knowledge extends from the military to how to build something in a new way. One example is the snow-kart, which also shows how determined he is. He spent many hours trying to make the kart work, and he always had new ideas for it. When Pete decided to use it one day, Jason was hesitant to let him use it. He did not want to risk Pete’s life because he knew the kart was not quite finished. Another person the author characterizes as smart is Scotty. He knew a lot about the “nor’easter” when it was mentioned on the radio. He also proved to be correct when he suggested where to put the fire. Of his friends, he is the most athletic. Scotty is only a sophomore and he is on the basketball team already. The last way Scotty was characterized was as brave and loyal. He was willing to risk his life for his friend, even though he was already likely dead. Both of the people that I evaluated have great

Hirshi and Gottfredson also say that criminals have disciplinary problems during childhood, i.e. Gary’s father. That is one distinct trait Gary possesses. Hirshi and Gottfredson also say that the traits a criminal has during adolescence and adulthood include: analogous behaviors such as drinking, doing drugs, and promiscuity, and poor social outcome such as a bad education, bad relationships, and difficulty with jobs. Gary once again possesses all of those characteristics. Despite the fact that Gary had a high IQ and an affinity for drawing, he couldn’t succeed more socially. He frequently skipped school at age 12 to go drinking and dropped out of school at age 14. Because of Gary’s impulsiveness, he spent most of his life in jail. His offenses ranged from murder to con scams. Gary killed people he didn’t know at all for what would seem like no reason. All of the offenses ended in Gary being sentenced to the death penalty.

The age of change was coming upon America in a big way leading to political movement an advancement of technology. The country at this time was recovering from War II and the great depression which crippled America’s economy and weakened the working class in the US. Change was need in the economy and the social structure of America was in need of better leaders to take charge and restore order and balance back to society. Thus giving the name of the 50’s the booming area, a chance for America to be known for the land of opportunity. The model for 1950’s was better structure for the modern family and brings the working class status back to economical market. The demand for growth in the economy is needed to spark innovation in the poorly out come from job loss to safety nets need to run a stable economy in the

shows during the decade was "Leave it to Beaver" which depicted a perfect 1950's family. Other popular television shows were "The $64,000 Question" and "Gunsmoke".

The 1950s was a time of progression from the previous decades and a time of fear for the same previous decades due to past experiences. The 1950s also was not sunshine and happiness, there were numerous issues and problems that affected life during that particular decade. Life in the 1950s would be something that I would enjoy due to the way things were for teenagers and how little care there was for numerous issues, but I would not have enjoyed it due to issues that I don’t feel comfortable with such as sexism, racism, and many other things. During the 50s, there was numerous of new advances being made in the medical field, technology, and many other areas. The polio vaccine came during the decade, tvs became more popular, radio did too, and automobiles became more efficient and better.

We are going to start with Gary Paulsen. He is a street kid, who lives on his own. He works with a few other people at a bowling alley. Gary often gets attacked by a group of thugs lead by a boy named Happy. They often try to steal the money that Gary earns by working hard at the bowling alley. The street-boy hardly managed to get through it until he met Dirk-but more to that later. Paulsen is a very hardworking boy, and he seems to be a survivor, since he managed to live with Happy and his thugs attacking him all these months. Based on the fact that he lives

There are many quality that Booker T. Washington has and I don’t. For example he’s determined,

Two non-physical traits of Terry fox is that he is very determined and brave. Terry demonstrates his determination on page 45, chapter six, during his interview with Winston’s father. He states that he had started wheelchair basketball after he had amputated his leg. He also says that he had pushed himself harder than he should have and that he played until his hands started to bleed. This shows how Terry did not give up and that he tried to reach his limits in wheelchair basketball. If Terry was not determined at all he would have gave up or at least would not have pushed himself so hard that his hands would start to hurt and bleed. Furthermore, Terry had practiced his run for nearly fourteen months running over three thousand miles. He added

An award-winning writer and internationally recognized expert on the family, Stephanie Coontz, in her article, “What We Really Miss About The 1950’s,” states that “In a poll by the Knight-Ridder News Agency, more Americans chose the 1950’s than any single decade as the best time for children to grow up.” However, Coontz has her own view of the 1950s, and she illustrates her own opinions about this decade using strong and logical facts. While the nostalgia of the 1950s is vastly strong in some people, some fail to notice the negativity and the reality of it.

I think Fezzik had such good sportsmaship because he was raised too fight when he was around 6 so his parents taught him. He has a soft personality because he was young so he didn't want too fight but he was forced too. So he did the next best thing and fought with sportsmanship because it was more civil and less cruel. He was at a stage in his life were he would try too be mean like a teenager and retained that sportsmanship as he grew older and never evolved too somone cruel because he wasn't grown up with more kids trying too act cool and fit in and so on.