Short Answers Exploring The 1960s
Short answer:
Answer both topics (150-200 words)
Imagine it is July 20, 1969 and you are watching the moon landing live on national television with a close friend of yours. Your friend asks you two sincere questions:
Topic 1: Why did we go through all of the trouble of landing on the moon in the first place?
Topic 2: Why didn’t we use the money we spent going to the moon on improving the conditions of poor people here in the United States?
Do some independent internet research on NASA and the US space program. Reference your findings from that research in your responses
Short answer:
Answer both topics (150-200 words)
Topic 1: Based upon an A through F scale, what grade would you give to the Johnson Administration’s “Great Society” initiatives? Defend your response.
Topic 2 How much faith do you have that Social Security and Medicare will be there when it is your turn to receive these benefits? Explain.
Short answer:
Be sure to complete all questions to earn points.
- Some of the programs that were institutionalized in the 1960s included social welfare programs. What do you think was the intent of social welfare programs in the United States?
- What are the benefits of federal and state social welfare programs today?
- What are the drawbacks?
- What experiences have you, or someone you know, had with a social welfare program?
- Have we become a country of “entitlement,” whereby we feel that we are “entitled” as citizens to government assistance in times of need?
