Happy+Days

Answer this essential question by developing a discussion between two sets of people describing the positives and negatives of life in the 50s. Use one color to identify the positive aspects and another color to identify negative aspects. You should include at least five (5) major aspects explained on each side of the discussion.Each aspect should be described with detail. Make sure you spice up your discussion with __some snappy 50s lingo__ . You'll be in fat city and have it made in the shade if you try your best, dig?

 EXAMPLE POSITIVE NEGATIVE

That's the word from the bird! And we have more entertainment because of the new fangled television. We can watch quiz shows, family shows, and keep up with rock and roll on American Bandstand . And we can buy television stuff in the stores. Like my cool Davy Crockett hat?

It sure is boss. But you want to know something that isn't? The poverty that is plaguing many in our nation. The economy may be booming, but farmers and farmworkers are suffering in rural areas, as are coal miners. And I sure wouldn't want to live in the inner cities - those ghettos are becomoing islands of poverty, mostly for minorities .

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[|__The Cold War at Home__]  / [|__The Economy Booms__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> / <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__The Sky is the Limit__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> / <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Boom-Time for Babies and Houses__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s pretty boss with all of these new television shows these days.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Radioactive television shows, sitcoms with stereo typical mothers and fathers who worked. Such as “ I love Lucy and Father Knows best.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All the new sounds and movies coming out are razzing my berries. Some of the most famous people are coming into this Era like Elvis, Willie Mays and Marilyn Monroe.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oh sit on it! I’m not trying to be a wet rag, but what about the Soviets sending the Sputnik I, their satellite into space. Clydes these days are so freaked out with the red scare, they’ve made bomb shelters in their backyards!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am so cranked about all of the new cars and interstates that are popping up everywhere. All of this entertainment fractured me.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Righto! You keep talking about this, but what about the poverty popping up in the cities! Ghettos everywhere are where the minorities are living. Rural areas aren’t thriving as they used to! Small towns are being bypassed with interstates growing everywhere!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The new medicines really made me cast an eyeball towards the doctors who are cookin’ with all of the new medical advances.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I dig that. What’s this social conformity people are talking about? All this talk of conformity is helping the American Dream, and its replacing individuality.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I dig all of the new technology increases! it’s crazy cool to have all of these new inventions replace the old stuff we have.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cut the gas! You think America is cook cookin’! You’re forgetting about the Korean War! Do you even know where Korea is? Thousands of our men are dying out there...

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t be a paper shaker and you dont know the word from the bird about the troops.