Coontz believes it is not a good decade for people to remember there was change in values that caused racism, sexism, and discrimination against women. Viewers today would not turn to sitcoms to compare their lives to the sitcoms. For example, the viewers do not want to be a teenage single father living at home with parents with no education as in the show “Raising Hope.” People watch sitcoms now for entertainment. In the 1950s sitcoms the mother stayed at home to look after the children and the father was the one off to work to financially support the family. As shown in sitcoms, “gender roles became much more predictable, orderly and settled in the 1950s” (Coontz 31).
After Idella dies, Miss. Daisy decides to take care of her own house and cook her own meals, rather than hiring a new maid because she has Hoke to assist her. As Hoke and Miss. Daisy continue on with their friendship for twenty-five years, Hoke finds Miss. Daisy one morning distressed and showing signs of dementia.
Media Essay Discuss how the film Rock-A-Bye Baby highlights the prevailing social attitudes of the late 1950’s. Explain how the film both supports and challenges these attitudes. The film Rock-A-Bye Baby directed by Frank Tashlin, depicts several social values of the 1950’s. In 1958, people believed that only married couples should have children, and that males were incapable of staying at home and looking after children, as they were expected to go out and work. It was a woman’s job to care for the child, as she were assumed to have natural maternal instincts, as well as training at school.
I believe that this had a great impacted the society, mostly women. This was because women back in the 1800’s were only considered to be house wives, looking after the children, cooking for the family and cleaning their houses. Many women didn’t have the opportunity to do everything or even have everything that Marie did. Many of them couldn’t even go to school because they had to stay home to help their mothers with the house. After she made that comet discovery she gave hope to all women and showed them that they can do whatever they want even if only men have done it before.
Women realizes that without work and salary had make them lost their confidence as an individual to pursuing a professional job because they don’t know their worth anymore. For example, the author state, “a Time magazine cover story on “The Case for Staying Home” and a “60 Minutes” segment devoted to a group of former mega-achievers who were, as the anchor Lesley Stahl put it, “giving up money, success and big futures” to be home with their children. (Warner, 2013) Women thought that by staying home will solve the relationship issues and that women will be recognized as a good mother, but O’Donnel’s experience proved this to be wrong. Women who are working, they value their self more and put their self in front of a lot of things like marriage and manage work related. Also woman is more in control of the relationship and income give woman freedom, power and confidence.
Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,”(245) which shows that her teacher is against persecution. Later on, Scout over hears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was being convicted because colored people were getting too “high” and “mighty.” That subject has Scout’s head roaming around thinking how hypocritical her teacher was being. Scout’s view against her father were also changing. Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them.
Miranda steps up and takes care her mom and two brothers. As a teenager it may seem hard to take care of your family. Her mom and her two brothers get really sick and shes the only one who can help out the her family. She has to clean the laundry by hand and clean the bed pans out. She does this all on her own.
As tension grew extremely fast between white America and the leaders and people of the black communities America was an ugly place to be. The Civil Rights movement sparked up anger out of black people that led to non-violent protest and blacks basically saying, “We can’t take this anymore”, and then actually doing something about it. Their desire for better living was clear during this movement and housing projects such as Pruitt-Igoe at the time seemed to be exactly what the African American race was looking for. So people jumped at the chance to be apart of it due to our situation with movements going
Having a dad as a lawyer is hard enough, but when Atticus, the kids dad, is assigned to defend a black man, it exposes them to a world they didn’t know existed. When people have been exposed to racial tensions, they lose their innocence. Innocence lost, prejudicsm, and standing up for what you believe in are all main key points to the main topic of racial tensions. Although during these day and ages, kids innocence is normally lost during the “tween” year, it was not normal in the ‘30s for kids to lose innocence around the ages of 13-18.
The quote also illustrates how racial prejudice oppresses people into staying in their current social status. The quote shows how racial prejudice leads to most, if not all of the Younger family’s problems. The Younger family lives during an oppressive era during the civil rights movement. Despite many generations of hard work and perseverance, the Younger family still faces many of the issues that they faced many years ago. Racial prejudice is a limiting quality that demoralizes people.