Growing Up In A Land Called Honalee

Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273857

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Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee by Joel P. Rhodes Pdf

This study examines how the multiple social, cultural, and political changes between John Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 and the end of American involvement in Vietnam in 1973 manifested themselves in the lives of preadolescent American children. Because the preadolescent years are, according to the child development researchers, the most formative, Joel P. Rhodes focuses on the cohort born between 1956 and 1970 who have never been quantitatively defined as a generation, but whose preadolescent world was nonetheless quite distinct from that of the “baby boomers.” Rhodes examines how this group understood the historical forces of the 1960s as children, and how they made meaning of these forces based on their developmental age. He is concerned not only with the immediate imprint of the 1960s on their young lives, but with how their perspective on the era influenced them as adults.

Author : Susan Eckelmann Berghel,Sara Fieldston,Paul M. Renfro
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820356631

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Growing Up America by Susan Eckelmann Berghel,Sara Fieldston,Paul M. Renfro Pdf

Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Archives
ISBN : PURD:32754085179145

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Prologue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820356297

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The Vietnam War in American Childhood by Joel P. Rhodes Pdf

A sort of nebulous sad thing happening forever and ever : childhood socialization to the Vietnam War -- Why couldn't I fight in a nice, simpler war? : comic books and Mad magazine -- Who bombed Santa's workshop? : militarizing play with commercial war toys -- One of the most agonizing years of my life : knowing someone in Vietnam -- Mom tried to make it for us like he wasn't even gone : father separation and reunion -- God bless dad wherever you are : POW/MIA -- How come the flags around town aren't flying at half-mast? : Gold Star children -- Yes, I am My Lai, but My Lai is better than Viet Cong! : Vietnamese adoptees and Amerasians.

Author : Rob Goldberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478027102

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Radical Play by Rob Goldberg Pdf

In Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to oppose the sale of war toys during the Vietnam War to the founding of the company Shindana Toys by Black Power movement activists and the efforts of feminist groups to promote and produce nonsexist and racially diverse toys, Goldberg returns readers to a defining moment in the history of childhood when politics, parenting, and purchasing converged. Goldberg traces not only how movement activists brought their progressive politics to the playroom by enlisting toys in the era’s culture wars but also how the children’s culture industry navigated the explosive politics and turmoil of the time in creative and socially conscious ways. Outlining how toys shaped and were shaped by radical visions, Goldberg locates the moment Americans first came to understand the world of toys—from Barbie to G.I. Joe—as much more than child’s play.

Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440876301

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The 1960s Cultural Revolution by Joel P. Rhodes Pdf

This book uses evidence-based primary source analysis to provide students with the historical perspective necessary to think critically about the romantic memories, stubborn stereotypes, misperceptions, deliberate falsehoods, distorted myths, and old grudges that distort our popular perceptions of the 1960s. Twenty-first century Americans routinely use the 1960s as a metaphor, a sort of convenient shorthand, for the cultural wars—that continuous clash over differing values, beliefs, attitudes, and lifestyles—still bitterly polarizing the nation. Therefore, understanding the 1960s cultural revolution is critical to understanding ourselves. What this book contributes to that conversation is needed historical perspective with evidence-based primary source analysis. Ten chapters shed light on ordinarily overlooked aspects of the period, challenge stubborn misconceptions, and explore the enduring legacy of the 1960s. Primary source material—both written and visual—is drawn from archival holdings, newspapers, published proceedings, oral histories, and memoirs in order to present a balanced, accessible examination of mistaken beliefs and the historical truths.

Author : Sandra L Bobbitt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483474168

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Love Comes to All of Us: A Book of Short Stories and Poetry by Sandra L Bobbitt Pdf

In a collection of four short stories and poems, Sandra L. Bobbitt explores how love can come along after loss at any age. Roxie and Rex are two widowed seniors. She is a former music professor. He is a former rodeo rider. When they meet, they quickly fall in love. But can they overcome their initial insecurities to live happily-ever-after on his Arizona ranch? After Julie and Sam meet unexpectedly, they realize they have undeniable chemistry. But can their relationship survive living in two separate cities? After a litter of kittens is orphaned, a kind mother and daughter take them to a shelter where they eventually discover the joy of being adopted. Charlie is battling Alzheimer's disease and has no idea a caregiver is about to become an unexpected gift with an unknown purpose. Within a moving conclusion to her compilation, Bobbitt provides a loving, poetic tribute to her late husband. Love Comes to All of Us shares short stories and poems that celebrate love in all its greatest forms.

Author : John Klopfer,Cynthia Klopfer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546229643

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Flight of the Soul by John Klopfer,Cynthia Klopfer Pdf

Unknown to them shadows surround Jack and Tiffanys world. Secrets that they felt were safely locked away suddenly rise to the surface. Tiffanys world shatters when her husbands plane crashes in the desert of Mexico while on a business trip. Her journey takes her through loss and the dark abyss of betrayal, anger and forgiveness. Jacks life flashes before his eyes as he struggles to find redemption after taking his wife for granted, being drawn into a sultry affair that will have lasting consequences. Both walk through their darkest nightmare and what they discover will change their lives forever. The Flight of the Soul is reminiscent of William P. Youngs The Shack with lessons in wisdom and forgiveness.

Author : Peter Yarrow,Lenny Lipton
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402747829

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Puff, the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow,Lenny Lipton Pdf

The adventures of a boy and his dragon friend are recounted in this classic song from the 1960s.

Author : Kurteous Kitsch,Dr Kurteous Kitsch
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781450203869

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The Yin Yang of Yo Yos by Kurteous Kitsch,Dr Kurteous Kitsch Pdf

Do you ever feel that life is like a Yo Yo? Have you ever thought about searching for the meaning of life as a game . Do you see life as a opportunity to express your Individuality? Do you feel somewhere out there a Divine Creator is keeping an eye on you ? This Creator laughs when you do, cries when you do and even feels like it is on the same journey. The Ying Yang Of Yo Yos will enable you to see life in a way that could be just that simple truth you may be looking for.

Author : Joel P. Rhodes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820356129

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The Vietnam War in American Childhood by Joel P. Rhodes Pdf

For American children raised exclusively in wartime—that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia—and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience. Walter Cronkite was the voice of the conflict, and grim, nightly statistics the most recognizable feature. But as involvement grew, Vietnam affected numerous changes in child life, comparable to the childhood impact of previous conflicts—chiefly the Civil War and World War II—whose intensity and duration also dominated American culture. In this protracted struggle that took on the look of permanence from a child’s perspective, adult lives were increasingly militarized, leaving few preadolescents totally insulated. Over the years 1965 to 1973, the vast majority of American children integrated at least some elements of the war into their own routines. Parents, in turn, shaped their children’s perspectives on Vietnam, while the more politicized mothers and fathers exposed them to the bitter polarization the war engendered. The fighting only became truly real insomuch as service in Vietnam called away older community members or was driven home literally when families shared hardships surrounding separation from cousins, brothers, and fathers. In seeing the Vietnam War through the eyes of preadolescent Americans, Joel P. Rhodes suggests broader developmental implications from being socialized to the political and ethical ambiguity of Vietnam. Youth during World War II retained with clarity into adulthood many of the proscriptive patriotic messages about U.S. rightness, why we fight, heroism, or sacrifice. In contrast, Vietnam tended to breed childhood ambivalence, but not necessarily of the hawk and dove kind. This unique perspective on Vietnam continues to complicate adult notions of militarism and warfare, while generally lowering expectations of American leadership and the presidency.

Author : Josephine Chia
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789811432569

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Goodbye My Kampong! by Josephine Chia Pdf

Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965. Kampong life in Singapore did not end in 1965 with her independence. In Josephine Chia’s new collection of non-fiction stories, the phasing out of attap-thatched villages, the largest mass movement in Singapore, is set against the backdrop of significant national events. Weaving personal tribulations—her teenage angst—and the experiences of villagers from her kampong, Josephine skilfully parallels the hopes and challenges of a toddling nation going through the throes of industrialisation and rapid changes from 1966 to 1975. These delightful, real-life stories, sprinkled with snippets of her Peranakan culture, reveal the joie-de-vivre of gotong royong or community spirit, despite impoverished conditions, in the last days of kampong life.

Author : Maggie O’Brien
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483458366

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The Once and Future Queen by Maggie O’Brien Pdf

""No popular culture. No gossip. Loved it."" -Clare Stephenson ""l like the history in this book"" -Michael Nally We spend a summer with an unlikely collection of strangers for whom, for whatever reason, the past is important; but it is more important than they imagine. The strands of their lives unexpectedly interweave. Each is a piece of a living jig-saw. They eventually put us in the picture. These extraordinary, ordinary people share with us a world where life's casual and inexplicable mysteries are discussed and accepted as commonplace. O'Brien explores themes of life, death, belief in a warm-hearted and easy style that is both beguiling and funny. Her undemanding intellect brings 'ologies and 'osophies out to play. There is an unworldly, fascinating mischief afoot here. You can't help but think out of the box.

Author : Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw,Fikile Nxumalo,Laurie Kocher,Enid Elliot,Alejandra Sanchez
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442609426

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Journeys by Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw,Fikile Nxumalo,Laurie Kocher,Enid Elliot,Alejandra Sanchez Pdf

Inspired by the idea of documentation as a valuable tool for making learning visible, pedagogical narration offers an opportunity to move beyond checklists and quick answers to a more complex understanding of how children learn, and how teachers might facilitate and support that learning in innovative ways. The authors use stories they collected during a collaborative study to offer a range of possibilities for alternative childhood pedagogies. Cutting edge, yet practical; detailed in its analysis, yet inspiring, this book is a boon to the field of early childhood and primary education studies.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Billboard Adult Contemporary Number-one Singles by Wikipedia contributors Pdf