Question for people who know wot it was like back in 1950 or 60!!!!?

Question

this is for my homework project and pls i need to answer for the following questions!!!
1. How life was different from then to now?
2.How was school?
3. what country did it happen in?
4. What did women do all day?
5. What did men had to do all day?
6.Was getting a job hard?
7.What was your job and what were the skills needed?
8.How did u survive?
9.Was is it hard caring for your children?
10.How harsh were people in your country compared to now?

Thankyou that's all the questions i need to know i would really appreciate all the help!!!

Answer 1

In North America:

1. The clothes were better (see Marilyn Monroe movies); the wars were different though McCarthyism witchhunts were disturbingly similar to the Busher's politics today; jazz singers were MUCH better, popular music generally was much better, much more sophistociated, people had better manners generally and there was dancing in a way that allowed people to talk quietly and intimately with one another. Of course, bad marriages stayed together longer, which is hardly cheerful news. There were more customs and codes of behavior to rely on. This was good and bad, depending on which gender and color you were.

2. Public education probably received better funding so there may have been better school buildings and supplies, again depending on which color you were. This was the time of the famous Brown v. Board of Education case http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html which went
before the U.S. Supreme Court presided over by inimitable Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall, who made us all want to be lawyers just so that we could maybe stand near him and imbibe the wisdom. Corporal punishment in the form of a strap was an effective threat against misbehavior in those days, but it must have been hell for kids with learning disabilities or frailties of any kind. They simply were not welcome in public education.

3. Time is measured the same way all over the world but Prof. Stephen Hawking is a better authority on this. More about Hawking and his book on time here: http://pokerpulse.com/news/viewtopic.php?t=1349.

4. Lots of women worked but rarely in jobs beyond the traditional nursing, teaching, cleaning, cooking and pink ghetto positions in offices. Must have been a shock, too, because women ran things during the war when the boys were overseas fighting. For more on women in this period, see Betty Friedan's classic text, The Feminine Mystique.

5. Men did what they've always done to carve out a living and an empire of some kind and occasionally give some woman -either a mother or a wife - a hard time, but back then, they also had to be at least modestly good dancers and smoother talkers. Of course, jobs very often even then were for life. It was not uncommon to start at the bottom and rise through the ranks of the company over time. 'Downsizing' and overnight layoffs were not as pervasive. Or maybe we didn't accept it as easily as we do today. The fifties, too, weren't a long way from the Great Depression of the '30s, when people had to fight very, very hard for a decent wage. More on unions in California during the Depression in Woody Guthrie folk songs and in the novels of John Steinbeck, most notably a highly readable thing called The Grapes of Wrath for which the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

6. See items 5. and 6.

7. My mother was a telephone operator, which meant shiftwork and big, heavy headsets and talking all day, which was hell on the voice. Frequent throat infections. But it was a good job a woman could get with no more than a high school education. This was in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. But there was a lot of competition for the jobs, especially among the British war brides the boys brought home with them after the war. And for many reasons, all things British were greatly admired in Canada - much more so than anything homegrown - and most especially more than someone French-Canadian as my mother is - even if they spoke both French and English fluently as many Canadians do now. Ironically, French Immersion programs in public schools are now hotly contested. Parents often line up for days outside a school to ensure their children get a place.

8. Mother survived mostly by marrying father, who was a lawyer but not a very noisy one so there wasn't much money for a long time. Then he joined the public service (working for the government) and the money improved but we had to leave the wild and wonderful west coast to live in the capital, a cold, mean little place with a mean, little black river through it and too much winter. Mean little black trees that turn red for five minutes in October over tough, copper-colored rock hills.

9. Mother cared for us occasionally, I suppose, but mostly she became the embodiment of the 'feminine mystique' Betty Friedan described in her book - living for her man, waiting on him hand and foot, which caused him to ignore her considerably as it would anyone in similar circumstances. Slavery is an unnatural condition for both the slaveholder and the slave.

10. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/index.html?no_cookie signed into law not that long ago (about 20 years ago) does its best to protect citizens from the various injuries human beings like to inflict on one another, so it's a much more tolerant culture today. But I know that our Immigration Department lies to people overseas about what they can expect when they come here and they are disappointed. Celebrated doctors from Eastern Europe, the part of the world that pretty much invented education, for instance, scratch hard in Canada to find work as beauticians because they can't obtain accreditation in their professions here. Genius engineers from India end up driving cabs for the same reason. It's criminal.

That's probably way more than you need or want. Good luck and happy reading. Don't take my word for it.

Answer 2

Well, sonny boy, I ken hep you'al. But whoever lumped the 50's and 60's together, needs a civics lesson. They were worlds apart. 50s
1. Life was not any different, circumstances were.
2. School sucked, and the teachers were ugly
3. Oklahoma (size wise, it could be a country)
4. Most women, stayed at home and raised the kids, some worked in offices, usually as secretaries, or receptionists
5. Most men worked some type of manual labor, 8 to 10 hour days
6. trying to find a good job was hard, but there was a war going on (Korean War), so lots of jobs.
7. Skills needed on most jobs, were show up on time and work hard.
8. Most people lived ok,but had less. One t.v., one car, had chicken on sunday. No fast food restaurants (pre-McDonalds)
9. Very few trips to the doctor, (no Insurance). No free lunches or breakfasts at school. One Winter coat. Kids are kids, not much difference.
10. People were much more friendly, and interested in the neighbors. They watched out for one another, and helped out when help was needed.


60's
1. Sixties had there own trials. Beatels, Hippies, free love, Woodstock. Vietnam.
2. School sucked and the teachers were ugly, and stupid (not all)
3.Oklahoma, U.S.A.
4. Stayed home and raised the kids, a lot more worked (same type jobs)
5.Most young guys were in Vietnam (War) or at least in the army. We had the draft back then. (when you were 18, you had to register as a possible war fighter. Men still worked any job they could get.
6. Not for me, but for a lot of guys.
7. I worked in a printing company, IO could hand set type, and run several machines.
8. Everthing was more costly than the 50's, but you made more money.
9. Probably harder because of movie influence, hippy influence, etc.
10. A lot of young boys went to serve their country in Vietnam, and when they came back. The ones that didn't go spit on them, threw blood on them, called them baby killers, Blamed them for the war, instead of the communists that they were fighting.

Answer 3

In the UK:-

1. Life was much more gray and controlled. The ruling classes still thought the Union Flag flew over the Empire. Holidays were taken in the UK by all expect a very rich few. Few families had cars and travelled everywhere by public transport, including the still dense network of railways - it was said nowhere was further than 10 miles from a railway station. Food was mainly bland and boring - there had not been the explosion in ethnic food and there was no tradition of eating out amongst most classes of people. Television was black and white and there were only 2 stations which broadcast a few schools programmes during the day and an hour of children's programmes around tea time, with entertainment limited to roughly 7.30pm to 11.00pm.

2. Children were divided at age 11 by the 11plus examination. A few (like me) went to 'grammar schools' which were designed to make office workers of us with a very favoured few going on to higher education. The school was a forcing place for public examinations The rest went to 'secondary modern' schools designed to fit boys for factory jobs or to become builders. plumbers etc., whilst girls were taught to sew and cook In order to become good housewives. From my perspective, the way were educated was far more boring than you experience today. No projects. all learning by heart, no course work taken into account for exam purposes etc.

3. Not sure what you mean by this.

4. Few women worked outside the home. The cooked, washed, shopped, sewed, etc., for the family.

5. Work.

6. No, it was a time of full employment, and people were actively encouraged to immigrate from the Commonwealth to fill jobs that native Brits were unwilling to do, like cleaning, working unsocial hours on buses etc.

7. I was still at school.

8. By my parents feeding and clothing me!

9. I had none

10. Yes, I think the country was harsher then than now. Gays were still prosecuted, women were still seen as second class citizens, life generally was harder. But, as against that, I was able, as a child, to play in the street without fear of being knocked over or of paedophiles. On the other hand, again, if I had been abused by my parents, or had my mother been knocked about by my father (neither of which things actually happend) there was no where to turn to. Society did not think it should interfere in domesticc matters.

This state of affairs continued until the early or mid 1960s

Answer 4

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Answer 5

1960'S KIDS WOULD GET SPANKED RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS,OR RIGHT OUT SIDE OF THE CLASSROOM ,YOU COULD HEAR it;the licks from the paddle.Very quite in class room and lunch room they were very strict about that.Teacher shook the heck out of me once for getting up to trim my pencil during a test,girls had to wear dresses only,no shorts or pants allowed.teachers acted like they didn't;t really care about the kids,they seem to care more now, they smile more.Kids played outside all the time and liked it,bikes ,wagons,skates an skate boards ;climbing trees.hopscotch;catch lightning bugs at night while your family sit on front porch talking ,fond good memories their.lots of men I knew worked in the coal mines and mothers stayed home taking care of home and children,cooked from scratch,no microwaves then,TV,not many stations,no DVDs had record players,people played board games like checkers; kids had their barbies not as many as today and.their jacks ,pick up sticks,edge a sketch;bubble blower,and I KNOW THOSE HERSHEY BARS WERE BIGGER BACK THEN ,they have shrunk through the years !!oh !and those cherry anzas and bananzas icecream on a stick sure wish the'd come back'ha ha.