Discussion

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date Module 4 Discussion 1 When you are born in 1945, you are growing up in a society where everyone has experienced a war or lost someone in the war. My time was when the words "Baby Boomers" became widely used. This was the era in the United States covering the years of 1946 to 1964 when the USA was characterized by a considerable baby increase, which created the most significant generation up to that point. Our generation spent the war times in a post-war economic boom, suburbanization, and new culture formed by, for example, the lax of gender roles and the appearance of youth culture. It was the time when the infant boom population grew up in the turbulent times when the civil rights movement, women's struggle for liberation, and anti-Vietnam war procession were happening (Scott Corbett et al., 2021, pp. 784-785, 819-820). In the privacy of our calm and cosy suburb, I knew the simple pleasures of childhood and witnessed the world changing rapidly from my backyard. The 50s brought a sense of stability and a better future, with families like mine trying to achieve the American Dream. My parents, like most of their generation, chose the traditional roles. My father remained the leading provider, and my mother raised our family. This conformity dictated the pace of our days, ranging from having dinner as a family around the table to going to the local park on Sundays. However, in this peaceful-looking environment, the stories of dissatisfaction and longing for something else began to spread for a world beyond the borders of the conventions. Life from the last days of the war to the end of the 1980s was like a rollercoaster ride. During my a...