My only love sprung from my only hate

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. Juliet (Act 1, Scene 5) ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2) Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. ” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

POST WAR BOOM

• By the summer of 1946, about 10 million men and women had been released from the armed forces. • American society began to settle down to rebuild their lives.

GI Bill • To help ease veterans’ return to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, or the GI Bill of Rights, in 1944.

• In addition to encouraging veterans to get an education by paying part of their tuition, the GI Bill guaranteed them a year’s worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting. • It also offered low-interest, federally guaranteed loans. • Millions of young families used these benefits to buy homes and farms or to establish businesses.

Lots of Changes in the 1950 s • Creation of the suburbs • Population grows-baby boom • Roles within the home…changing • Economy goes up and down • Social unrest within the country grows • Creation of conglomerates and franchises a major corporation that owns a number • Conformity of smaller companies in unrelated businesses.

Even More Changes: • Dr. Jonas Salk invented the vaccine for polio, the disease that crippled FDR • Increase in the number of women who started working outside of the home…causes tension at home I Love Lucy

Bell Ringer for 1 -23 -20 What were things that stood out to you while watching the I Love Lucy episode? For example gender roles, similarities/differences to 2020, etc. (If you were absent yesterday, put that as your answer)

I Love Lucy • Yes sir • Smoking • Writing Checks • Earners (husbands) and Spenders (wives) • Clueless to what the other does • Sanitation (food, band aid) • Women not being smart

President Eisenhower • President Eisenhower’s style of governing differed from that of the Democrats. • His approach, which he called “dynamic conservatism, ” was also known as “Modern Republicanism. ”

• He called for government to be “conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings.

• Eisenhower followed a middle-ofthe-road course and avoided many controversial issues, but he could not completely sidestep a persistent domestic issue civil rights that gained national attention due to court rulings and acts of civil disobedience in the mid-1950 s.

• The most significant judicial action occurred in 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that public schools must be racially integrated.

Car Mania • The Interstate Highway Act, which President Eisenhower signed in 1956, authorized the building of a nationwide highway network 41, 000 miles of expressways. • The new roads, in turn, encouraged the development of new suburbs farther from the cities.

Interstate Highway Systems • As the automobile industry boomed, it stimulated production and provided jobs in other areas, such as drive-in movies, restaurants, and shopping malls. • Yet cars also created new problems for both society and the environment. • Noise and exhaust polluted the air.

Route 66 • U. S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U. S. Highway System.

Pop Culture • Rise of the Television-known as the Golden Age of Television…I LOVE LUCY • Stereotypes on TV, strong fathers, women taking care of the home, cowboys…only portraying WHITE AMERICA • Rock ‘n’ Roll

Rock ‘n’ Roll • Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley paved the way for the iconic music of this era Elvis on the Ed Sullivan show

1950 s Collage Requirements • Must have a minimum of 10 pictures • Color • Neat-stop freaking out if you don’t think you can draw • Use anything I have talked to you about or shown you • Yes you can print off pictures or do this on the computer, but you must do a rough draft so I can see that you used your time in class • Must put a tiny description either under each picture on number on the back • EXTRA INFO SHEET

Closer for 1 -23 -20 Are people’s values and actions influenced by the culture that surrounds them?

Bell Ringer for 1 -29 -20 What roles were women expected to play in the 1950 s?

Consumerism Rises in the 1950 s because • Advertising • Prosperous post-war economy • Planned Obsolescence – a new marketing strategy where the production of consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so required replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the us of nondurable materials. Buy now, pay later!!

1956 Interstate Highway Act Helped to increase suburbanization

Suburbia…is it really all that? Oftentimes, people criticized it because it lacked diversity, remember everything we have talked about up to this point has emphasized white America

Beat Movement • The beat movement expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers. • The word beat originally meant “weary” but came to refer as well to a musical beat. • The messages of the beat movement in literature, and of rock n’ roll in music, clashed with the tidy suburban view of life and set the stage for the counterculture that would burst forth in the late 1960 s.

• Followers of this movement, called beats or beatniks, lived nonconformist lives. • They tended to shun regular work and sought a higher consciousness through Zen Buddhism, music, and, sometimes, drugs.

• Many beat poets and writers believed in imposing as little structure as possible on their artistic works, which often had a free, open form. • They read their poetry aloud in coffeehouses and other gathering places.

White Flight • In the 1950 s, millions of middle-class white Americans left the cities for the suburbs, taking with them precious economic resources and isolating themselves from other races and classes. • At the same time, the rural poor migrated to the inner cities.

• While poverty grew rapidly in the decaying inner cities, many suburban Americans remained unaware of it. • Some even refused to believe that poverty could exist in the richest, most powerful nation on earth.

• One proposed solution to the housing problem in inner cities was urban renewal. • The National Housing Act of 1949 was passed to provide “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family. ”

• This act called for tearing down rundown neighborhoods and constructing low-income housing. • Later, the nation’s leaders would create a new cabinet position, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), to aid in improving conditions in the inner city.

Urban Renewal-tearing down and replacing of buildings in run-down inner-city neighborhoods

The unfairness and social unrest within the country is now starting to become more apparent.

Social Unrest, Conformity v. Nonconformity

Closer for 1 -29 -20 What would happen if the gender roles of the 1950 s were expected to make a comeback in 2020?