HELP!! I NEED IDEAS FOR AN ESSAY ON THE 1950's?

Question

HELP!! I NEED IDEAS FOR AN ESSAY ON THE 1950's?
IM SUPPOSED TO WRITE 3 ESSAYS ON ANYTHING OR ANY EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN THE 1950'S. I ALREADY DID ONE ESSAY ON:

1) ELVIS PRESLY: INTRODUCED NEW MUSIC, STYLE, INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY....

BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ON MY 2 OTHER ESSAYS!?

I HAVE SOME IDEAS: FEMMENISIM, DISCRIMINATION...


CAN YOU PLZ HELP ME!!

Answer 1

interesting essays, i used to love to write essays i always got A's and B's.


i got a good one in 1953 the first issue of playboy came out. u can do that and its effects on conservative america. that would be an interesting one.

Answer 2

How about an essay on advertisement for women in the 1950s or the influence of the door-to-door saleman? Female culture in the home during the 1950s was an insane time of change.

I've also heard of essays done on the projective inventions that were supposed to happen in the year 2000 from all the different World's Fairs (like flying cars and pop-up ovens).

You could also do one on the baby boom, the airline-jet age, or the atomic age.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954. the court decision that struck down Plessy v. Ferguson and outlawed racial segregation in education. Much more important than Elvis.

If you want to write on music, write about how Carl Perkins sold more records than Elvis and won a Cadillac promised by Sam Phillips.

Answer 4

How about the effects of the "baby boom"?

Television began to replace radio as the main media event.

The Cold War was a major world wide influence in the 1950's.

Good luck with your essays.

Answer 5

You could do one on different kinds of dancing back in the 50's, the whole bebop thing came from swing. If you like getting into the music then looking at the dancing might be fun too. Talk about what musicians influnced the music and the different styles. People danced less provocativly back then, I think that's cool.

Answer 6

Cold War
Effect of Sputnik on the United States space program
Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights movement
Effect of television on society
McCarthyism
How the baby boom after WWII created a youth culture

Answer 7

http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm

World Peace Day, celebrated every August 6,
was created in honor of Sadako Sasaki, whose
legacy began with her death in 1955 from leukemia
caused by radiation after the bombing of Hiroshima.

Each year, so many children gather at her memorial statue to release paper cranes as a prayer for world peace, that the cranes form a huge streamlike cloud as they float to the ground.
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http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm

"The Sadako Story"

"The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of [its] connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943. Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. As she grew up, Sadako was a strong, courageous and athletic girl. In 1955, at age 11, while practicing for a big race, she became dizzy and fell to the ground. Sadako was diagnosed with Leukemia, "the atom bomb" disease.

"Sadako's best friend told her of an old Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that the gods would grant her a wish to get well so that she could run again. She started to work on the paper cranes and completed over 1000 before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of twelve.

[see website link for photograph of Sadako at 12 Years
old in 1955]

"The point is that she never gave up. She continued to make paper cranes until she died. Inspired by her courage and strength, Sadako's friends and classmates put together a book of her letters and published it. They began to dream of building a monument to Sadako and all of the children killed by the atom bomb. Young people all over Japan helped collect money for the project.

"In 1958, a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park. The children also made a wish which is inscribed at the bottom of the statue and reads:

'This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world'.

Today, people all over the world fold paper cranes and send them to Sadako's monument in Hiroshima."

http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm

Answer 8

I was a teenager in the fifties. We wore long, tight skirts and dresses with crinoline underskirts.
Rock and Roll came to stay. Pop music, apart from black R&B and rock, was awful. TV was black and white.
We didn't have to lock our doors (in England).
In America they wore bobby socks and penny loafers and jeans with the cuffs rolled up. They had sock-hops at school.
People didn't use the "F" word, and sex before marriage was frowned upon.
We managed to survive without cell phones, styrofoam cups, personal computers, and many of the things kids take for granted and can't live without today.
That's all I care to remember. It was a dismal time.

Answer 9

"The lengthy shadow of the bomb". This became the age even as the atomic bomb became huge information. The Russians stole our bomb secrets and techniques. the films were all about vast monsters created by the bomb. Bomb shelters grew to develop into customary. And the McCarthy era got here about because human beings were in this type of state of worry.

Answer 10

You did Elvis what about Rock and roll, Korean War.