Assignment: Portfolio Assignment

Part 1

1. What potential fears might veterans have in returning home from war? What potential challenges might they confront in reintegrating into society?

2. What cultural values do you suppose television reflected during the 1950s? What cultural values does television programming reflect today?

3. Why do you suppose rock music functioned as an outlet for teenagers during the 1950s? What did it represent to them?

Part 2

1. How important is the civil rights movement in America today? What has this movement changed over the years?

2. How has Martin Luther King's dream been realized in America today? What types of discrimination still exist in our society today?

Part 3

1. How does the counterculture movement of the 1960s still influence society today? Or does it?

Part 4

1. How did new computer technology change American culture? How did it influence individual lives?

2. What short and long term impact do you think 9/11 had on the United States? How has it impacted you?