1950s

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a famous museum that is located in Cleveland, Ohio. This museum teaches, engages, and inspires through the power of rock and roll. The museum was opened to celebrate rock music because it became so popular in the 1950s. People pass the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland every day without knowing it is an important historical landmark in Ohio. In the polls, Cleveland was ranked first for where the Hall of Fame museum should be located. Building the museum…

Good Night and Good Luck directed by George Clooney was a dramatic film which was based off of real events that occurred during the 1950’s. During this period in America, McCarthyism was in full effect. McCarthyism itself was making accusations of disloyalty and began when senator Joseph R. McCarthy exposed communists in the United States which is also known as the “Red Scare”. The film shows the differences between the senator and a CBS television journalist named Edward R. Murrow, what also…

Today adolescents are maturing faster than in the 1950s and 1960s. Society is more accepting today of premarital sex, premarital pregnancy, and parenting. Years ago, women wanted to wait until marriage to have intercourse and decisions about parenting was to happen after marriage. Today most women have sex before they turn 21. There is many types of birth control for adolescents, and today relationships that involve intercourse has risen since the 1950s. I have to wonder if this is because the…

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry about a close-knit family trying to reach each of their own goals in life. The family consists of Lena Younger (Mama), her children Beneatha and Walter Lee Younger, Walter’s wife Ruth, and their son, Travis. They all live in a run down apartment in the South Side of Chicago. Mama gets an insurance check of $10,000 upon her husband’s death. Each family member has an idea of what to do with the money once they finally get it. Walter Lee wants to…

People of different sizes, shapes, colors, and backgrounds come from all over the world to achieve the American Dream. “The American Dream is the ideal that the government should protect each person's opportunity to pursue their own idea of happiness” (Amadeo). The Declaration of Independence protects the American Dream by saying “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are…

McCarthy, led a campaign, known as McCarthyism, in the early 1950s against alleged communists in the United States government, who he claimed were the reason the United States was losing the Cold War. Even though most of these government officials had no real connection to the Communist Party, they were blacklisted. This showed that McCarthy was successful in his attempt to persuade the American people. This speech was delivered on February 12, 1950, to a Republican women’s club in Wheeling,…

in and dealt with the restricting McCarthy era, using his unique writing style, and his knowledge on the Salem witch trials, Miller delivers the brutal truth on the difficulties faced by the American people during the 1950’s. Beginning in the 1940’s and continuing through the 1950’s, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States began intensifying as the Russian Communists became a larger threat. As the Communists were signified by the bright red Soviet flag, they were often…

Our world sees the rights of women rising significantly since the 1950s, which it has, but that doesn’t mean that there still isn’t more that women go through and judged for that needs to be addressed and given into thought. During the 1950s women were seen to be married and mothers and stay home being a housewife as their life career just as Esther, in the Bell Jar, observes a gap between what society says she should experience and what she does experience, and the sad thing is the same mindset…

Felicia Vega May 10, 2015 MUS 210 Final The Birth of Rock & Roll The 1950s for the music industry is a best known for the birth of rock & roll. During this time period the United States was just recovering from times of drastic change, the great depression and war. It was only destined that such a legendary genre of music would emerge. Rock and roll first emerged primarily of combinations most familiar with African Americans, such as blues, boogie woogie, jazz, jump blues and gospel. Typical…

During the 1950’s, technology advancements allowed the average household to afford a television set. This causes a social change where people would stay at home to be informed about the world around them through television rather than going out and reading to obtain information. The Pedestrian 1950’s context shaped its construction to show these social attitudes through the use the protagonist, Mr Mead…