I have to interview someone who is 75 years or older as of today for my college history class. Question 1: Tell me everything you can recall about the events surrounding the end of World War II. Question 2: How do you think the world was different after WWII from before? What was worse? What was better? Question 3: What was it like to be living during the Cold War? How did it personally affect you? How did it affect your society? Question 4: What were the good things and bad things about living in the 1950s? How about the 1960s? Which do you think was the better decade for you and why? Question 5: What do you think of when you think of "modern art?" How do you feel about it? What do you think it was trying to say or convey? Question 6: What was the scariest memory you recall from this time? It can be related to WWII or the Cold War. Question 7: What was your family life like? Were your parents political, were you stricken by poverty, did you have to work as a teenager to help your family make ends meet, did you maintain a garden in your backyard to help put food on the table? Any life experiences you want to add in would be great; like examples from your life growing up!
I'm afraid not too many people are that old on this forum and I'm not certain they are willing to do someone's homework. I'll leave your post, you never know, but it would be safer to ask a neighbour. Good luck.
Question six....Getting hit by a bus may have been the scariest moment no? Question seven....Are all US vetrans from poverty stricken families then?
Oh, man. Here we go again. We will NOT help you with homework. Do your own research. Go to a VA hospital or go to a VFW. Ask your questions there. Let us know what you find out there.
Really I was born in '45 and can't help. Go to the VFW, VA Hospital, or American Legion Hall. You will find someone only to glad to tell. Ask me about another time and perhaps I can say something. Really tempted to talk about the 60's.
I think we should all talk about the sixtees....Biak, did you get the cute girl in the end or did she become a hippy and now advertises American Express Card? We really need to know...I see a movie coming....
Urgh, If or Where I got the cute girl is best left unsaid. As for her eventual future happenstance, I believe after traveling the country in a VW 'hippie van' for a few years and after a stint as a Prosecutor for LA County, she became a Vice-President at Bank of America in the late 80's Lost Knight, Temptation is not always a 'bad' thing and (if one is capable of remembering the 60's) excellent cognitive therapy can be attained by relating one's experiences. Especially those of the psychedelic persuasion.
I suffered terrible deprivations at school in the late 60s/early 70s. There were no computers so I had to actually go out and find things out for myself rather than sit on my backside and let others do it for me. Also I was forced to utter such phrases as 'Excuse me' and 'Please'. Alll this has left deep scars.
Martin, come on mate...I know for a fact you had a super 8mm projector, a spectrum prism for converting black and white tv into colour when you looked thru it, a dual reel tape recorder with a green thing that lit when you spoke really loud, and a slide rule. What more do you need? Oh and wimpy's.
