My grandfather, Ron Krieger, was born January 1st, 1949. HIs father’s name was Paul Krieger and his mom’s name was Alice Feltz. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Not shortly after he was born his family moved Indiana where he lived most of his childhood. He attended Purdue University, but ended up dropping out eventually. Then not later after that, he moved to Pennsylvania. He met his wife Nadine where they lived in New Oxford and had my Dad and Aunt April Krieger. After a couple years after my dad moved out, he moved to Lake Meade in East Berlin where he currently lives today.
My grandfather displays both eulogy and resume virtues. Resume virtues are virtues that you bring to like the marketplace and how you present yourself.…show more content… More and more families ended up moving from rural areas to cities and then to suburban areas. In the most extreme case, Florida’s population increased by 79%. Before the 50’s, America was on the way of becoming a motorized society, but with World War II it slowed down that process. So the 50’s was the automobile revolution. “During the Fifties, though, the number of cars in the US nearly doubled from 39 million to 74 million. By 1960, 80% of American families had at least one car and 15% had two or more.” (Shmoop) With the automobile revolution, the Interstate highway system came along in 1956. Before the highway system it once took a military convoy two months to cross the U.S. due to little to no existent roads according to Eisenhower. “It was a monumental undertaking to build 41,000 miles of four-lane roads. The nationwide construction project, which involved building more than 16,000 entrance ramps and 55,000 bridges, would not be fully completed until the early 1990s.” (Shmoop) Religion was also a big increase during society in the 50’s. At the start in 1950, only 49% of people were members of the church, but by 1960 that number increased to 69%. In 1954, Eisenhower signed a bill that added “one nation under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. Two years later, Congress made the national motto of the United States “In God We Trust”. The thoughts on religion changed and people looked to it…show more content… The impact the television had on the culture was tremendous. In the 30’s and 40’s, the television wasn’t in many homes but by the 50’s, there was television present in 90% of homes. Television became very popular and allowed people to not have to go out to cinemas or concert halls to enjoy entertainment. The first shows appealed to the wealthy, but as more and more people got television, shows started to appeal to the middle class family. They wanted to watch shows that they could relate to them and the actors were similar. “Television probably reflected rather than influenced its audience. The majority of Americans were not interested in social ferment during the decade. They wanted to see people on television who were like them—or like what they hoped to be.”(Shmoop) Also, in the 50’s rock n’ roll came about from the Eisenhower Era. “In the mid-1950s, black and white music blended into a robust new hybrid. (The same thing had happened in the 1920s, resulting in the jazz age.) Rock drew on the culture of alienation as well as the increased buying power and sense of identity of the nation's young people.” (Shmoop) One of the biggest junctures for rock n’ roll history was in 1956 when Elvis dropped “Heartbreak Hotel”, his first big hit. Rock n’ roll was then blamed for causing rebellion within
