Similarities Between The American In The 70s And 80s

American society today has been shaped by years past. After the Second World War, U.S. inhabitants dedicated their lives and time to shape and improve America’s culture to the way it is today. Through the decades of the 1950s and today, the society has changed through scientific and technological advances. On the other hand, aspects of the culture have not changed because its citizens have yet to advance in those areas.

Into –, subculture, refer to quote • Fashion, specifically between the 1950s and 1980s, played an extremely essential role in the construction of people’s identities and was often or not a way of expressing somebody’s personality and perhaps their current feelings. • Subcultures, especially post world war two, formed as individuals felt as though they were not part of the mainstream, consensual society. Fashion and style was very important to these subcultures as their alternative or quirky sense of style allowed them to be set apart from everybody else. • As time went on these stereotypical styles evoked certain ideologies and their fashion sense provided ‘outsiders’ with almost a ‘shortcut to meaning’ (Richard Dyer, 1979) of what the subcultures stood for, what their values were, and

Overall the 1950s and today are very similar in some ways, but also very different in others. With a 67-year different the 1950s has changed but also things have stayed the same. Since the 1950s, some similarities are discrimination, teen interest and problems with North Korea. Some differences since the 1950s is the average poverty rate, average unemployment rate and the average income for families in the United States.

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

    The 1980’s was a time of prosperity throughout America. From the Calendar that went from January 1st to December 31st to the increase of jobs. This decade was full of good changes socially, economically, and politically.

Many people inaccurately assess the 1950s and 1960s. Historians, in particular, tend to describe the 1950s as a decade of prosperity and the 1960s as one of turbulence. According to most, peace and harmony defined the 50s while violence and protest conjured the 60s. This isn't true because controversy existed in the fifties, many achievements occurred in the sixties, and both decades had its political ups and downs. With all the criticism surrounding it, the 1960s remains one of the most controversial decades in American history.

The 1920s and 1950s both starts out different and ends on different circumstances. The 1920s started out with a wrongful lawsuit and ended with and economic shutdown. The 1950s started out with fighting in wars against communism and ended with and economic growth. Both eras were a lesson for society. The 1920s and 1950s has many differences and similarities between each other.

Serial killers are everywhere. Though eminent during the 1980s, there are now less in the real world and more scattered throughout popular culture. These killers have turned into cultural icons, constantly being referenced throughout favorite television shows and movies. Regardless, the average person is ignorant to this fact; this is just the problem. People are quick to blame these movies and television shows, saying that the vehement and at times macabre scenarios depicted are why we even have dangerous people on this earth. By contrast, this argument, that the increased exposure of violence in pop culture is contributing to real life serial killers, is absurd, and it is actually popular culture being born and influenced by these diabolical kings.

For many people in the United States, the late 1970s were a distraught time. Events such as the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War had weakened Americans’ confidence in their government and fellow citizens. Many Americans embraced a new conservatism in social, economic, and political life during the 1980s, marked by the policies of President Ronald Reagan. The decade of the 80s is remembered for its materialism and consumerism, the rise of the “yuppie,” an outbreak of blockbuster movies, and the rise of cable networks which launched the careers of many iconic artists.

Question 1: For many Americans, the 1960s began with JFK's "Age of Camelot," an era that seemed to exude confidence in American institutions. Yet, by the early 1970s, those expectations and attitudes seemed to be replaced by a sense of bitterness and cynicism. Discuss and analyze the causes and consequences of this profound attitudinal shift.

American had been isolationist in keeping the affairs to itself. When the policy of Good Samaritan did not work out as America failed to keep the harmony between Europe countries, it became substantial that external concerns are devastating. Any idea of movement to stop the tyranny in Europe was even opposed strongly as a retaliation response to the failure. Nonetheless, the long tradition of isolationism finally ended when the World War II disrupted. The relinquishment of isolationism can be marked down by the popularity of Henry Luce, around February 1941, who was the founder and editor of Life and Time magazine. As an ardent enthusiast of the intervention in Europe against Hitler, Luce fancied the idea that America has had the most prowess compared to other countries and made it a point that the responsibility to that power should began to be shouldered by America. However he anticipated that they, Americans, should employ their influence on the world: he advised that the US to be a force of good. Global free enterprising, feeding and clothing the world, and spreading the archetypes of egalitarianism, equality, autonomy and fairness were what he believed should be insured by America to other countries. Luce also wrote to his readers that as America was still an isolationist, the influence of American culture was not bound to only their continent but to the whole world such as American jazz, movies, music and products.

The seventies is often seen as a lost decade, merged between the optimistic sixties and the opportunistic eighties. Bruce J. Schulman argues, in his book titled, “The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture”, that this period ignores changes brought by the 1970s. This period brought changes in the economy, shifts in culture, politics, race, family and religious values. The United States faced many transformations that helped shape our country to this day. Schulman begins to explain his thesis, “The Seventies transformed American economic and cultural life as much as, if not more than, the revolutions in manners and morals of the 1920s and the 1960s.” The information that I will present will summarize the changes that affected the United

In 1974, director Tobe Hooper revolutionized horror with his film “inspired by a true story,” THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Almost immediately after the film’s release, rumors began to circulate that there was an actual chainsaw wielding madman living with his deranged family in the town of Poth, Texas. The inspired events were also said to have taken place on August 18th, 1973. However, a quick check of that date reveals that the film had just wrapped four days’ prior, making it fairly difficult to base a film on an actual event that had yet to occur. Despite this, there was an actual skin-wearing maniac that was the film’s inspiration.

The era of the 1990’s was an explosive time in American history both figuratively and literally. In the 90’s there was an extreme variety of different failures and also advances in technology. We as a nation had new advancements in space travel, our military and the way of life preparing for the turn of the century. As a country we didn’t know what the new millennium had to bring for us, but we were ready. Most significantly changing America though was from our creativeness that took place, the fear we had, and our militaristic ways.

In the novels, Americanah by Adichie and 1984 by Orwell, the relation between men and women in both novel depends on the freedom, which reflects both societies differently.