The 1970’s for WV were extremely eventful as there was the Kanawha County textbook controversy, Marshall University’ s Football team plane crash, The Buffalo Creek disaster of 1972. There were several components that affected the daily experience of people living in WV, components such
Germana Zenaida Ramirez lost the battle with her illness at age 85 and went home to be with the Lord on September 11, 2017. She was born to Lazaro Ramirez and Petra Valles on august 27,1932 in Zacatecas, Mexico. She endured the loss of 2 brothers, 3 sisters and had to say goodbye to two of her own sons, Jose Luis Luna and Adrian Luna. She was a single mother to 11 children and yet she remained a humble, strong, hardworking woman. She is survived by her daughters: Maria Isabel Cuevas, Gloria Gongora, Maria Del Refugio Rojas, Maria Luisa Parra, Maria de La Luz Luna and her sons: Pedro Luna, Zeferino Luna, Martin Luna, Juan Luna.
In Stephanie Coontz article title "What We Really Miss About The 1950s" Sourced by the book "Rereading America" she seeks to provide insight and critical analysis into why the 1950s are so highly esteemed today and why they are so missed. Coontz sees herself as being well equipped as well as suitably verse in the elements that configure the 1900s. She even goes as far as to use a personal experience from her life during that time to give the reader a deeper understanding into the societal norms that made up the 1950s. It is quickly made evident that Coontz takes her work serious and personal. In Coontz's analysis she used a multitude of factors surrounding the struggles as well as the triumphs experienced in the 50s and in doing so she gives a wide range
There have been many exciting decades in the United States so far despite the youth of the country. It is quite common to hear someone from today refer to different decades of the 1900’s. Whether if it is somebody talking about 80’s music or referring to 90’s fashion, it is clear that there is much that makes up a decade and that is what it really sticks with people. The 60’s was one of those well-known decades, filled with many different people, events, and ideas. The second edition of the book From Camelot to Kent State by Joan Morrison and Robert K. Morrison is an excellent piece of literature that captures and expresses what was going on in the 60’s and the people who lived through it.
Felicia Carmelly’ suffering and her subsequent devotion highlights her constant love and dedication for her culture and religion. Her memoir, “Across The Rivers of Memory,” focuses on all the aspects of her personal life: from spending her adolescent years in a beautifully constructed and pampered childhood to the deprivation of basic human needs, and then further leading her to growing up as a strong, independent woman. Born in 1931 in the town of Vatra Dornei (Dorna), Bukovina, which was part of eastern Romania into a Jewish family, Felicia Carmelly, formerly known as Felicia Steigman, was the only daughter of her parents. In fact, she was the only granddaughter and niece to her grandparents and, aunts and uncles, respectively. Carmelly was raised in a Jewish household where their life revolved around their strong devotion to religion and culture.
In the book, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, James N. Gregory attempts to change readers perspective of stereotypes created by artist during the Great Depression, such as those created by John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath and Dorthea Lange’s photograph of the “Migrant Mother”. In his book, Gregory “takes us back to the dust bowl migration” to reveal that there is more to Oklahoman, Arkansan, Texan, and Missourian immigrants than economic hardship. He focuses on regionalism, and an “Okie” subculture that was created due to the high rate of migration to California. Gregory sets out to prove that they also had a mass effect on Californian culture and social patterns. Using extremely efficient primary
Bruce Watson wrote this book in order to give in detail the story of the savage season of 1964 that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy. The authors purpose is to share the horrific stories of this summer and tell anyone who will listen what these people really went through. “...forever democrats with a small d, and forever touched by this single season of their youth. But, first they had to survive Freedom Summer. ”(14)
Experiencing the irrational side of the human psyche vicariously continuously thrills Shirley Jackson’s readers, making it timeless. In 1959, Jackson’s novel “The Haunting of Hill House” portrays a doctor attempting to document the supernatural. The unlikely protagonist, Eleanor Vance, is continuously evolving from a child to a woman throughout her stay at Hill House. A closer examination at her transformation reveals that her traumatic childhood plays a key role in the house’s effect on her social growth.
The 1960s is known for the major moments that shaped history -- civil rights, Vietnam, the assassinations of Kennedy and King. But the decade was also full of smaller events that also indicated change was in the wind. Remember Liz 'n Dick? Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's tempestuous marriage(s) gave us celebrity media coverage on steroids -- and we're still living with the aftermath (Think <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/04/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-married-73-days/index.html">Kim and Kanye </a>or <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/showbiz/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-by-the-sea/index.html">Brad and Angie</a>). Click through the gallery for lesser known '60s moments that still
2 It is essential to go back to the fifties to be able to understand the sixties historically and sociologically. The fifties brought relief since the Depression and war were over, and now “science was mobilized by industry, and capital was channeled by government as never before.” 3 This new affluence gave the United States the ability to create suburbia and conform to moving in. This affected the sixties because conformity resulted in people rebelling.
El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico, the streets near the cemeteries are filled with decorations of papel picado, flowers, candy Calaveras, and parades. It is believed that the spirit of the dead visit their families on October 31 leave on November 2. In order to celebrate, the families make altars and place ofrendas of food such as pan de muertos baked in shapes of skulls and figures, candles, incense, yellow marigolds known as cempazuchitl (also spelled zempasuchil) and most importantly a photo of the departed soul are placed on the altar.
In the early 1960s, race had become the biggest issue in the South. Many African Americans were being sprayed down with water hoses just because of the color of their skin. Many bombings had taken place, one in particular, the 16th Street Baptist Church. The church was bombed, ultimately because the church was home to African Americans. This society was no longer about right and wrong, but had turned into hatred for the opposite race.
Only a third of the one million migrants to California during the Great Depression fled the dust storms in the Midwest, and only half of those were farmers; yet the popular myth of the hungry, poor and dispossessed farmer who only wanted a piece of land to call his own continues to dominate. In this cultural history, Shindo, who teaches history at Louisiana State University, examines the impact of the myth and the reality of Dust Bowl migrants. The four major artists treated here are Dorothea Lange, whose photographs collected in Migrant Mother (1936) symbolized all Depression hopelessness; Woody Guthrie, whose Dust Bowl ballads were informed by his own experiences as an Okie migrant; John Steinbeck, whose novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) generalized human suffering; and John Ford, who adapted that novel to film the next year.
The trip to California was inspired by some flyers that Pa Joad received one day. The Joads heard that California was in need of a larger work force, they then began dreaming of an amazing land where they prospered together as a family. But once the Joads arrived in California they realised it is not as stunning and lucrative as advertised. By the time the Joads had arrived, the job market had deplete due to the rush of migration to California, therefore Pa Joad was unable to find a lucrative job to support his family. The Joad family bounced around poverty camps, known as hoovervilles, and fought to keep food on the table.
Similarly explainable, are the adverse effects inspired by America’s push for conformity and consumerism following 1945. Regarding these years, historical statistics suggest a triumphant American atmosphere due to a victorious war outcome and economic affluence, but these positives quickly turned to negatives for certain societal sectors. Most notably, the unit that would grow to be labeled as the Beatniks. Within this crew, alongside Burroughs, was fellow writer Jack Kerouac. Kerouac’s most publicized text, On the Road, has been saluted as the quintessential novel of the 1950s and is beneficial in the fact that it conveys something that the aforementioned historical statistics cannot, emotion.
