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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. How does Bryson depict the 1950s? What examples of conformity are used by Bryson to explain the 1905s?. To what extent did the decade of the 1950s deserve its reputation as one of consensus and conformity?. Support Conformity?.

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

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  1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid • How does Bryson depict the 1950s? • What examples of conformity are used by Bryson to explain the 1905s?

  2. To what extent did the decade of the 1950s deserve its reputation as one of consensus and conformity? Support Conformity? Challenge Conformity? Directions: You should be beginning this exercise with a t-chart. One side of the T-chart should be elements of the 1950s that support conformity. On the other side of the should be a list of information that challenges the idea of 1950s conformity. As you go through the slides and listen to the information, include additional information and details that either support or challenge conformity. You will be turning this in, so make sure to take good notes!

  3. Prosperity! • High Government Spending • Industrial Damage • Consumer Demand • GI Bill of Rights • Baby Making

  4. Corporate America • Corporate Life • Shift from manual labor to mental labor • Consolidation of American business • Image: conformity in the workplace

  5. Women Return Home • Women’s Place in the Home • Cult of domesticity • Document B– • “A Word to the Wives” • Document Directions: • Watch the video “A Word to the Wives” (Hint: if it doesn’t work use one of the links below the video) • Use the video as a document to help you answer the essential question, by adding information to your chart (please cite doc. B).

  6. Another symbol…Suburbanization • Document Directions: • Watch the video “Little Boxes” • Really this is just a song, you have to listen, but don’t need to watch. • Use the video as a document to help you answer the essential question, by adding information to your chart (please cite doc. C). Document: B “Little Boxes” – How does suburban America illustrate 1950s conformity?

  7. If you can’t access the song… • Below are lyrics to the song “Little Boxes” if you have trouble accessing the video Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

  8. Search for Community • American focus on social skills because of suburbanization • Dr. David Reisman • American religious revival

  9. The American Automobile and Highways… • Video – America’s Century • (You are going back to class and watching this video)

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