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Good Morning!!!! 1.NVC 2.HOT ROC: Peace, Prosperity, and Progress 3.Conformity vs. Non-comformity Essential Question: Should the 1950’s be remembered as
Good Morning!!!! 1.NVC 2.HOT ROC: Peace, Prosperity, and
Progress 3.Conformity vs. Non-comformity Essential Question: Should
the 1950s be remembered as a time of peace, prosperity, and
progress for America? Homework: Work on research project, OUTLINE
DUE MONDAY!
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HOT ROC: Peace, Prosperity, and Progress Should the 1950s be
remembered as a time of peace, prosperity, and progress for
America?
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Rise of Suburbia Post-WWII Trends Men: GI Bill of Rights helps
former soldiers receive financial aid for college and job training
Women: pushed out of jobs and back into the home by returning GIs
Suburbia: middle class family communities outside of the
cities
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The Good Wife's Guide From a 1950s Home Economics high school
textbook Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to
have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way
of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are
concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home
and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed
when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair
and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary
people. Be happy and a little more interesting for him. His boring
day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
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Peace, Prosperity, and Progress?
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Analyze the video:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mGTLrI8rxQ&feature=related This
song was written in 1962. What does this say about how some people
viewed the lifestyle of the 1950s-1960s What is conformity? How is
conformity perceived as positive and how can it be perceived as
negative?
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Critics of Cold War Culture Levittown, PA Many Americans
critical of Suburbia Saw it as a wasteland of conformity and
materialism packaged villages that have become the dormitory of a
new generation of organization men. They are not workers in the
usual sense of the word. These people do not only work for the
organization. They belong to it as well. The Organization Man, by
William Whyte
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Rebelling Against Conformity Most rebellion takes place in the
arts Abstract Expressionism: art emphasizes emotion, objects
unrecognizable Beat Movement: poets and writers promote non-
conformity Reject all forms of convention (jobs, hygiene, religion)
stream of consciousness writing often seen as obscene or
offensive
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The Howl by Allen Ginsberg I saw the best minds of my
generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for
an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who
poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the
supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops
of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven
under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs
illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars
of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy &
publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull who cowered in
unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets
and listening to the Terror through the wall who got busted in
their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of
marijuana for New York, who ate fire in paint hotels or drank
turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos
night after night with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares,
alcohol and cock and endless balls, incomparable blind streets of
shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping towards poles of
Canada & Paterson, illuminating all the motionless world of
Time between
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Rebellious Youth Culture Youth Culture: teenage rebellion
against conformity New violent comic books drive parents crazy Rock
and Roll: music greatest symbol of youth rebellion
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