It's a silly project lacking in any real scholarly merit. She could easily interview some folks who actually lived during the fifites, but then again she would not get all of this attention.
I'm excited for her for all the things she's learning, but I agree, this doesn't have much scholarly merit. I've done some living history - 1860's homesteading - and it's great fun!
That's what I was thinking, too. What's the point??
Disagree. It could pinpoint parts of mod-tech that are essentially worthless. E.G. IMHO, TV wrecks lives mentally and physically. I made a great effort and have banned it from my home.
Keep the computer. Use it better.
Cell Phone?
High Fructose Corn Syrup: Permeates our food chain. Bad. Average American up 20 lbs(!) from 1950's. Heart disease. High Cholesterol.
My guess: as much as 30% of mod tech might be crap and probably harmful. 30% is probably of some benefit 40% of it is interesting, but hardly vital.
Modern Education: A kid finishing high school in 1950 was ready to be a citizen. A 22 year-old college graduate of today tends to be a worthless toad with no life skills, who cannot find his way to the state capital with a map, because (a) they cannot use a map and (b) do not know the name of the state capital.
Go to your public library. Get a Reader's Digest from 1950. Go to Wal-Mart, buy last month's. Read'em both. Note the difference. The 1950's Reader's Digest was aimed at the then 8th grade reading level. Stop some local HS kid in the mall and have him read it to you. He won't be able to. Sorry.
Shopping Malls: A disaster for America.
It's a silly project lacking in any real scholarly merit.
Agree. Has no scholarly merit. Is very interesting. But that is the difference between a 1950's Masters's Thesis, and 2007.
YOu're no fun...