The Goold Ol' Days

For the following project you will be asked to look back and in some cases, compare the year 1957 to the present 2007, some 50 years later. Look at the following below and answer the  following querstion. You may work with a partner and may have to visit several sites to get all of the information. Some of the questins can not be found in any book or website but are answers you come up with based on the information you find. Good LUck and have fun.

1. Compare the following prices and tell me percentage increases.

A. A gallon of gas

B. A gallon milk   

C. A loaf of bread

D. A pair of blue jeans

E. A new car

F. A new house

G. A movie ticket

H. A pair of shoes

I. A hair cut

J. A dinner out

K. A motel/hotel room

2. Find a sigh which show styles and answer the following:

How do clothing styles differ today? Compare men's and women's and children's.

3. What about hair styles?

4. Sayings that were popular then and 5 sayings that are popular now.

5. Three major Domestic issues of the time. Three major domestic issues of today.

6. Biggest Foreign Issue.

7. Name two mail, two female and two child TV stars.

8. Five inventions of both decades.

9. Biggest technological breakthrough for both decades.

10. Five popular songs from any stule of music, both then and now.

11. Biggest scandal. Find one in government and business if you can.

12. Top three things people did for entertainment. Name one with the family.

13. Great Sports Teams of both eras: Football, basketball, baseball, hockey

14. Great players in the same sport.

Summarize what your dound to be the biggest three differences.

• The greatest similarities.

• What are the most unique thing that your learned from this porject?

• What has changed the most?

• What has changed the least?

• If the is the electronic age (Computers, Cell phones, etc.....) What do you think will be the next frontier to be explored in history? Why?