I asked for some help, but so far this is what I have.
Instructions:
- Paragraph #1: Introduction (Your issue’s background and rhetorical situation, leading to an open-ended statement or question about your claim)
- Paragraph #2: Position #1 (A summary, incorporating at least one scholarly source, of a position in the debate)
- Paragraph #3: Position #2 (A summary, incorporating at least one scholarly source, of a second position in the debate)
- Paragraph #4: Conclusion (Wrap up the main idea of the paper and describe its significance)
My Essay:
Modern culture went down like the Titanic in the late 1990s. Things that were very special became unpopular as the 2000s crept around the corner. Culture can be found significant in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the Late Boomers were born and went through childhood. Adulthood for Baby Boomers can be seen as the 1980s and early 1990s. Children of Early Boomers did not experience much love and are now grown up with culture sunk like the Titanic. We should try to touch base on this issue.
According to Gordon, a big influential factor of even the 1960s was concentrated from England (no page numbers specified in the ebook.) This is an important issue because even today England has released a lot of its feelings via the U.S. For example, the Beetles became popular in the 1960s, and even today kids are still dazed over them, in some way they can't seem to handle, as of yet. Gordon also accredits the U.S. to folk music and mentions the strikingly acclaimed city of New Orleans. These are all obvious suggestions as to the sentiment Gordon has concerning the 1960s. Then, he ends the chapter on music with references to popular icons in classical music, like the late Pavarotti. So, Europe and music are important factors into what gave people the expectations they had of people who were born by the beginnng of the 1960s.
Schwartz says something big that changed the world in the 1990s was in the 1980s when computers were coming out (15.) The 1990s are also known for the Cold War being fought off (64,) and war with the Middle East seemed to come to permeate the atmosphere. Terrorism was another political term of the 2000s because of 9/11 in 2001. George Bush Jr. often spoke into the mid-2000s of our children coming home. Schwartz also posted a picture of the Spice Girls for the chapter on 1997 (309,) which was a big year as it was when modern PCs with the internet hit, which looked more like the TV screen than a calculator or old Pac Man game. The kids from the 1980s and 1990s were happily sent off to have their own lives via work (404,) if all went well, or to follow our dreams in college or from childhood and for some the ability to do "anything you set your mind to." So, there is an obvious descent of culture, like we had conflicts to represent our heyday and a sending off in bittersweet-ness, in accordance to what our lives were like.
There are things in life that are important that are affected in important times, all people being important too. One thing is Europe in the face of racism in the US and the musical skills had by the US and obviously certain countries in Europe, even as early as the 1960s, which shaped the world as Baby Boomers grew up then. The 1980s kindled interest in computers and the online world, and the 1990s itself was a war between culture clashes and the stress of technology. The end was that Baby Boomers grew up and lost responsibility and that people who grew up in the 1990s were hopefully sent off with well wishes as they entered independence and adulthood. The experience of going through the 1990s was a tumultuous sequence of entertainment and the comforts and glorification of technology, which mainly ended up leading to bittersweet-ness and nostalgia from the past.
References:
Gordon, Dee. The Little Book of the 1960s. No Location, No Publisher, 2011.
Schwartz, Richard Alan. The 1990s. New York, Facts on File, 2008.