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Lesson- The Great Society Task 1 1.) According to President Johnson, why, in 1964, were not yet a "A Great Society? Three places in our society, the cities, the countryside, and the classrooms, faced problems that need to be solved.

2.) With which of the following position's on today's society would President likely agree? If we are to achieve a Great Society, we have to make progress in making sure that all Americans share in the wealth our society produces

3.) Which of the following statements best connects Johnson's Great Society to President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal?  The Great Society sought like to the New Deal to improve the lives of Americans facing economic hardship

Lesson- The Great Society Task 2

**passed ** || **Which Great Society goal of President Johnson does this law support? Explain. ** || Voting Rights Act of 1965 || Outlawed literacy tests and provided for federal supervision of elections in states where less than 50% of eligible voters could vote. ||
 * **Area of Concern ** || **Main Problems ** ||
 * **Cities (urban areas) ** || Clean up our major cities ||
 * **Countryside ** || Water, food, and the air we breathe is polluted ||
 * **Classrooms ** || Expand every child’s mind ||
 * **Legislation and year **
 * **1. ****Medicare ** || Provided hospital and low-cost medical insurance for most Americans age 65 and older. ||
 * **2.** <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Medicaid, 1965 || <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Provided low-cost health insurance for poor Americans of any age who could not afford private health insurance ||
 * **3.**

<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">A. Suggested law or policy and explanation: - Tree destruction act of 2010: Cutting excessive amounts of trees will not be tolerated. By cutting down trees, our lifestyle will change, preventing us from breathing good-clean air. When cutting down trees, y’all will not be able to cut over 2 acres of land. <span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">

<span style="font-family: 'ArialMT','sans-serif'; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">B. Suggested law or policy and explanation: - Book amending act of 2010: This will conclude in the new era academic process. Every 5-10 years, schools will be required to purchase new books so that students will be updated with the best up to date resources.


 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">A note on Betty Friedan By **<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8.5pt;">Hugo Schwyzer

As everyone has been saying, the icons of another era are fast leaving us. The latest, of course, is Betty Friedan, who died Saturday at 85. Almost everyone in the feminist blogosphere has written about her passing, and there is much that is good and interesting to read.

I wrote yesterday that I had mixed feelings about Friedan's legacy. On the one hand, there is no question that she deserves tremendous credit for helping launch the revival of the feminist movement in the 1960s, first with her extraordinary book //__Feminine Mystique of 1963__// and then with her pivotal role in founding the National Organization for Women [NOW] three years later. It's impossible to imagine the modern feminist movement without her. As so many others have said, Friedan gave voice to an entire generation of women who had been told the greatest of lies, the lie that says that happiness is ultimately only found in a life lived for husbands and children. She exposed that lie beautifully, and helped millions of American women realize "Wait, I'm not the only one who feels this way." Plenty of women of my mother's generation still remember how amazed they were when they first read the Feminine Mystique, and realized that what they had thought of as their own personal dissatisfaction was, in fact, almost universally experienced. But even in a time of tributes and accolades, we can't forget the "lavender menace", a term that Friedan infamously coined in 1969. Friedan, like a number of conservative feminists, saw her movement as calling for a reconfiguring of heterosexual relationships along more egalitarian lines. But throughout her life, she seemed bewildered by those women who shared her political commitments but did not share her romantic interest in men. Rather than build feminist solidarity between women with a different orientation and heterosexual women, Friedan sought to purge NOW of those women who did not share her orientation. She feared for the future of the movement, but she also -- according to those who knew her -- seemed genuinely and persistently unnerved by women different than her. Friedan also quarreled with most of the later leaders of the feminist movement, like Gloria Steinem and Patricia Ireland. Her 1981 manifesto, The Second Stage, was a startling statement of essentialism (the notion that women are, biologically speaking, more inclined to be nurturing and relational than men). A long excerpt from that book is [|here]. She wanted the movement to de-emphasize relationship issues; for fear that they were inflaming the right. She wrote: ... the sexual politics that distorted the sense of priorities of the women's movement during the 1970's made it easy for the so-called Moral Majority to lump E.R.A. with homosexual rights and abortion into one explosive package of licentious, family-threatening behavior.

To be fair, it was written right after the election of Ronald Reagan, and Friedan was trying to reconfigure her movement to be successful in a more conservative era. From a political standpoint, she made some wise suggestions, but she also managed to alienate an exceptional number of young feminists, particularly those who did not share her color, her affluence, and her sexual identity.

In the end, I can't help but think about the death just ten months ago of Andrea Dworkin, another -- very different -- icon of the feminist movement. Dworkin, like Friedan, quarreled with and horrified a number of erstwhile allies. Indeed, Andrea was almost a mirror image of Betty Friedan: almost everything Friedan embraced, Andrea rejected. Dworkin was so eager to include the marginalized and the wounded that she frightened folks with her powerful rhetoric ; Friedan was so eager not to frighten Middle America that she tried, time and again, to purge the feminist movement of its more radical voices. In different but oddly similar ways, both women ended up on the outs with most of the contemporary leadership of the women's movement. And yet the feminist movement was better for their work, their writing, and, perhaps, even their passionate, devoted and often curmudgeonly criticism from the sidelines

Feminist Movement <span style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> In 1963, ** Betty Friedan ** published a book called **// The Feminine Mystique //** that identified "the problem that has no name." Amid all the demands to prepare breakfast, to drive their children to activities, and to entertain guests, Friedan had the courage to ask: "Is this all there is?" "Is this really all a woman is capable of doing?" In short, the problem was that many women did not like the traditional role society prescribed for them. Friedan's book struck a nerve. Within three years of the publication of her book, a new feminist movement was born, the likes of which had been absent since the suffrage movement. In 1966, Friedan, and others formed an activist group called the ** National Organization for Women **. NOW was dedicated to the "full participation of women in mainstream American society." <span style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> They demanded equal pay for equal work and pressured the government to support and enforce legislation that prohibited gender discrimination. When Congress debated that landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination in employment on account of race, conservative Congressmen added gender to the bill, thinking that the inclusion of women would kill the act. When this strategy backfired and the measure was signed into law, groups such as NOW became dedicated to its enforcement. <span style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> Like the antiwar and civil rights movements, feminism developed a radical faction by the end of the decade. Women held "consciousness raising" sessions where groups of females shared experiences that often led to their feelings of enduring a common plight. In 1968, radical women demonstrated outside the Miss America Pageant outside Atlantic City by crowning a live sheep. ** "Freedom trash cans" ** were built where women could throw all symbols of female oppression including false eyelashes, hair curlers, bras, girdles, and high-heeled shoes. The media labeled them bra burners, although no bras were actually burned. The word ** "sexism" ** entered the American vocabulary, as women became categorized as a target group for discrimination. Single and married women adopted the title **// Ms. //** as an alternative to //Miss// or //Mrs.// to avoid changing their identities based upon their relationships with men. In 1972, ** Gloria Steinem ** founded a feminist magazine of that name. <span style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> Authors such as the feminist ** Germaine Greer ** impelled many women to confront social, political, and economic barriers. In 1960, women comprised less than 40 percent of the nation's undergraduate classes, and far fewer women were candidates for advanced degrees. Despite voting for four decades, there were only 19 women serving in the Congress in 1961. For every dollar that was earned by an American male, each working American female earned 59¢. By raising a collective consciousness, changes began to occur. By 1980, women constituted a majority of American undergraduates. <span style="background: white; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"> As more and more women chose careers over housework, marriages were delayed to a later age and the birthrate plummeted. Economic independence led many dissatisfied women to dissolve unhappy marriages, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate.