1950 births

Some friends never change, and others do; but it’s the friends that change us that matter. Some memories never leave us, and some are as easily forgotten as the last time we blinked. The summer of 2010 holds some of my most painful and fun memories and it is surely a time that changed me and all of my friends. My friend Michael now knows that he changed that summer, but what he does not know is just how much he changed all of us. Like most summers do, it all started at the end of school, the last day in fact. All of my friends and myself had been invited to go to Alan’s house to swim in the creek and ride around on the Gator. The group consisted of Alan, Patrick, Randy, Michael, Josh, and myself. Like every other time that we had all went to Alan’s, we drove the Gator about 4 miles down the gravel road (we used to walk) to Union Ford creek. We swam for hours in the baking May sun. Once it was about 5 O’clock (since school got out at 12:30 that day), we all piled inside the 3-seater Gator to make the drive back to the house to start the fire. Three of us sat in the front while the other three rode in the bed. Alan, who was driving, Josh and Randy sat in the front while Michael, Patrick, and I enjoyed the bumpy ride in the back. About halfway back to the house we come to the hill that we loved to drive as fast as we could down. Patrick and I sat down and held on while Michael, who was always the daredevil of the group, stood up and held on to the roll-cage. We screamed down…

Of all the critical analysis over the 1950’s we discussed in class, I believe Michael Dwyer’s article “Fixing the Fifties” and Stephanie Coontz’s “The way we never were” truly identifies why we view “the fifties” with such adoration. Of course this era so cherished and praised as the ideal time in America, is nothing more that a mythological veil. This obscured reflection has falsely projected a time of complete happiness, low social and economic distress, and even posterized what one should…

In Chopin’s story “Desiree’s Baby”, Desiree and her husband, Armand, are ecstatic when she gives birth to a child. Later on Armand starts acting distant because he believes that she and her child are mixed. He suggest her to leave to her mother's home. Desiree then disappears and walks the opposite direction of her mother’s home, with the child in her arms. In Dahl’s story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, a detective's wife, named Mary, is in shock after the devastating news that her husband is leaving…

About the 1950’s In the article Coontz talks about what people miss about the 1950s, she likewise expresses that numerous Americans in 1950s tried to set the record straight with respect to positive and negative actions that were connected with the decade. Accordingly, she starts to clarify the fact that it was a good time for children that grew up at that time. Also, at that time marriages, jobs, birth rate and education were at an all-time high during this era known as the post war economic…

The 1960s was a time where people started to think more individually. Instead of the government deciding the public’s opinion, people started thinking for themselves and changing the country through society itself. In the 1950s, conformism was caused by the wide spread fear of communism. People dressed the same way, acted the same way and were terrified to go against social norms. They blindly accepted laws and governmental policies. People in the 60s were no longer willing to conform to the…

What is Success? Introduction: Dictionary definition of Success Happiness is different for everybody so is success. What defines a person’s success has changed over the years and continues to change for years to come. Success in the early 1900s Describe ancestor’s picture rickety, old home Having a farm, home, family, and butchered pigs was good enough What success was fifty years ago Family over education Fame and money weren’t important Success in the 1950s Baby boom after…

As World War II ended and the start of the Cold War began, the 1950s was a time that our country was feeling the victory that it had just achieved and the prosperity that had resulted. Industry production was booming, consumer goods had found a new popularity, suburbs were emerging, and the growth of growth of the southwest was visible. In Rebel Without a Cause, the themes of the 1950s were shown greatly throughout. Rebel Without a Cause is about a troubled teen, Jim Stark, who’s family moves…

Fashion During the 1950s The 1950s was a year full of many events. For example, there was the Civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was when the African Americans were trying to achieve equality between the African Americans and the whites. Another major event during the civil war was the cold war. The cold war was strong tension between the United States and the Soviet union (a state in Eurasia that lasted from 1922-1991). All of these events had an effect on the fashion. Throughout…

The early postwar period was regarded as the golden age of American family, however the decade beginning 1950 is considered by many as a period of dullness, period filled with fear and of an orthodox culture. This may be true in many respects however also the fact is that the period World War II brought many far-reaching changes in the life of American life. The general standard of living increased, people mobility and role of women in society also increased simultaneously. During this period,…

Cheaper by the dozen, is about the life of Frank B. Gilbreth and his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, written by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and his sister Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Mr. Gilberth, is a person obsessed in time saving and improving efficiency mechanisms. His wife, Lillian is a psychiatrist who is pioneer in the field. The most spellbinding piece of this story is that Frank and Lillian have twelve children, six boys and six girls. The story delves profound into the childhood of the…