Candice Hillegas
Roseanne Milazzo
English Composition 1
16 February 2011
Rough Draft
The Differences of Two Era’s
(1960-1990)
I have chosen to enlighten my audience about the vast differences between the era of the 1960’s and the 1990’s. Furthermore I have decided on these specific times because I grew up listening to my grandmother telling stories of her adult life in the 1960’s, and I found myself wishing I were there too. The 1990’s was a completely different decade. I grew up in the 90’s and plan to provide the differences in music, fashion, and political events.
Music, in what my grandmother called the hippie age, was very instrumental. Singers, such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin were very talented with the guitar. Other musical geniuses of an instrumental time were the Beatles. The Beatles could play all types of instruments that varied from the banjo, bass, guitar, drums, and John Lennon’s harmonica. Groovy people of the 60’s did not have to know the words to the songs; as long as the band was playing and the instruments were vibrating their hearts, they could feel the music. Now the 90’s music was a separate issue completely. Boy bands were at an all time high in those days. N’sync and New Kids on the Block were the teenage craze and they sang words of poetry that touched our young souls instead of playing instruments. These young, shinny, good looking, heartthrobs sang about puppy love and broken hearts. They did not have to play instruments as long as they stood in a line on the front of the stage we felt their every word.
The fashion of my grandmother’s time, the 60’s, was all about showing off your legs, mini skirts and knee high boots. I have family pictures of my father and my aunts and uncles with my grandmother in the late 60’s; she has on a yellow mini skirt, flower print shirt and white knee high boots. Men liked to where short sleeved, button down shirts and Chuck Taylor sneakers. Another huge style was...