The 1960’s was a decade that holds a lot of history. For one lady that decade will always be remembered. Phyllis Juneanne Kokoropoulos was born August 12, 1942. Starting with childhood Kokoropoulos was born in Berchlick, Kentucky. The only child of George and Nancy Cook. They moved her from Kentucky to Ohio when she was 10 years old. She grew up raising chickens and helping her daddy in his garden. Kokoropoulos went to Colonial White High School where she met Terry Meyers. They fell in love and got married at 16, and had her first baby Ricky at 17. Terry worked and she was a stay at home mother. Kokoropoulos had their first baby girl Robin shortly after. Still being a stay at home mother and loving that she got to spend so much time with her babies, she could not ask for a better life. Just as she thought that her whole life was perfect and nothing …show more content…
They fought the disease together, she never left his side. While battling cancer he also had a heart attack and had to have a pacemaker put in. After 3 long years of battling cancer, the cancer got the best of him and he past away. Kokoropoulos was devastated. The two of them did everything together, down to watching T.V. They were real soul mates and her better half was taken from her. This many years later and she still gets emotional talking about him, and has nothing but good things to say. Kokoropoulos now loves spending time with her 4 children, 3 step children, 15 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren. She said “family is my entire life, I just could not live without them”. She also spends time watching the “Home Shopping Network”, collecting butterflies, and playing with her two dogs Alex and Maggie. Kokoropoulos has been very active in Genealogy, she loves finding out more about her family and making her family tree bigger. “Family is everything somebody needs to live a long and happy life, without family you have
When she was a little girl her father was struck by lightening while working in the field. He died. Her mother tried to farm after that, but it didn't work out. Her mother remarried to a man. The family moved to Memphis to live with the man their mother married, their stepfather. He already had a wife. She also lived in Memphis. They weren't divorced, but he said they were.
What do Betty from "Pleasantville," June from "Leave it to Beaver," and Donna Reed from "The Donna Reed Show" all have in common? They all represent the image of the perfect housewife in the 1950s. They represent women who gladly cooked, cleaned, dressed in pearls and wore high heals while waiting for their all-knowing husbands to come home. They represent women who can only find fulfillment in male domination and nurturing maternal love. Tillie Olsen, as a single mother with four children (204), provides readers with another view of women. Through the representation of the narrator in I Stand Here Ironing, Olsen contradicts the image of the 50s ideal woman, a happy housewife and a perfect mother.
Quilting bees were occasions for women to gather bringing discarded scraps of material, which they masterfully transformed, into works of art. The bee was also a social gathering where women told tales, exchanged ideas, and encouraged one another. Lucille Clifton's collection of poetry entitled Quilting continues the wonderful tradition by skillfully bringing together poems that entertain, inform, and encourage. Two of Clifton's poems, "eve's version" and "a woman who loves," are excellent examples of the quilting process where material is re-worked to reveal a perspective that is female. The poem, "eve's version" defies the negative issues that have arisen from the Christian tradition of the fall of mankind. The present female condition is addressed in the poem, "a woman who loves." Women have been blatantly marginalized in our society and a reading of these Clifton works offers a description of how feminist power has been subverted to construct the inequality of power that is entrenched in our patriarchal culture.
Contention (Introduction): At the beginning of the 1950's women faced the expectation that they must become a housewife. Towards the end of the 1960’s, women started to believe that
During the 1960’s young adults began to challenge traditional social norms through new forms of self-expression and opinion. New organizations arose to provide a platform for social change and the realization of new agendas to include the fight for free speech and the breakdown of segregation. Throughout the 1960’s more than 70,000 participated activism throughout thirteen states (Anderson 47). Over the course of the sixties many activist organizations fought side by side for their rights as a full American citizen.
Stephanie Coontz's essay `What we really miss about the 1950's' is an essay that talks about a poll taken in 1996 by the Knight-Ridder news agency that more Americans preferred 1950's as the best decade for children to grow up. Coontz doesn't believe that it is a decade for people to remember fondly about, except for financial reasons and better communication within families. Coontz doesn't believe in it as the best decade because of the votes, the 50's only won by nine percent, and especially not by African Americans. Examples from family and financial issues in the 50's that makes it better than other decades from 20's to 80's. She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken `literally' because from 50's there were changes in values that caused racism, sexism discrimination against women. Even though the 50's were good, it didn't lead to a better 60, 70, and 80.
The causes of the Progressive Era can be good and can be bad.The causes of the Progressive Era is the Bribery and corruption in politics and political machines. It resulted to very poor working conditions and poor living conditions. They had discrimination against women.They also had a rise of crime in the cities during the urbanization in America, and child labor and the need for improved education.
During the year, she traveled to Amsterdam to take a break from where she grew up. She took interest in becoming a marine biologist and considered selecting that as her career path, but after hearing from her boyfriend Zach back in Canada that his career as a musician was taking off, she booked the next flight back home to support him on his journey. The two of them bought a home in Winnipeg to return to when they were not on the road promoting Zach’s brilliant work. In the year 2025, the couple married and had a beautiful daughter named
On April 20th, our class and many other classes from American Indian Public Charter School II walked to the library to listen in a meeting room to two exceptional female teachers. Not only teachers, these two women were the author, Kate Schatz, and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl of the book, Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
She said the pain of separation was enormous when her children were young. Her adult children, who were interviewed agreed that it was painful during that time. But, as they became older they gained more insights and understood their mother’s commitment. This part of her life impacted me on a personal level, for I am a mother of two young teenage boys, I am an activist and a full-time college student with the hopes of becoming an attorney and to continue to make a difference in my community. Witnessing her passion and how she dealt with the personal struggles provided me with a much-needed boost to stay focus on my
Norma Rae is an Oscar award winning film from 1979. The movie takes place in a rural southern town where talk of union is taboo. However, a union rep, Reuben, comes into town and shakes things up. The film follows Norma Rae, a worker at the local textile mill as she and Reuben push together to unionize the workers.
Women's rights and civil rights have always been an extremely important part of United States history. Even though the Civil War abolished slavery, and the ratification of the 19th amendment finally allowed women to be able to vote, both groups were still discriminated against and oppressed in many ways. Because of the spark of second wave feminism, and because of the peak in the Civil Rights Movement, the 1960’s is thought of as one of the most pivotal time periods in American history. During this time, women were very unhappy with their lives as housewives, and they wished for more job and work opportunities. While most women had it hard throughout the 1960’s, black women had the most difficult of times. Not only were they discriminated against
The 1950s was a time when American life seemed to be in an ideal model for what family should be. People were portrayed as being happy and content with their lives by the meadia. Women and children were seen as being kind and courteous to the other members of society while when the day ended they were all there to support the man of the house. All of this was just a mirage for what was happening under the surface in the minds of everyone during that time as seen through the women, children, and men of this time struggled to fit into the mold that society had made for them.
Veterans: When the laws for veterans were passed, they lived a better life where they got jobs, had low interest loans on houses and free education. That made the veterans strong financially and be able to stand on their feet again.
At seventeen she married and had three children with her first husband Ben Rogers, a gas station attendant and part-time musician. Their only choice they was to live with her mother; Ben’s pay just was not enough. After eleven years of...