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//Fahrenheit 451//

History of 1950's

"What Happened in 1950 Inc. Pop Culture, Prices and Events." //Where People, History and Memories Join Together from The People History Site//. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. [].

Biograpghy "Ray Bradbury Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) //**1950** was the start of the fast changes that would be seen in the next 2 decades//
 * 2) the great depression was becoming a faint memory
 * 3) families were moving out to the suburbs
 * 4) kids watched howdy doody on 12 inch black and white TV sets
 * 5) spent Saturday afternoons watching cartoons at Cinema matinees
 * 6) times were gentler with little violence
 * 7) the consumer revolution was about to start in a big way
 * 8) The median family income was $3,300 a year and milk was still delivered to the doorstep
 * 9) Yearly Inflation Rate **USA**//1.09%//
 * 10) Yearly Inflation Rate **UK**//2.8%//
 * 11) Average Cost of new house $8,450.00
 * 12) Average wages per year $3,210.00
 * 13) Cost of a gallon of Gas 18 cents
 * 14) Average Cost of a new car $1,510.00
 * 15) Stromburg Black and White Television $249.95
 * 16) Ball Point Pen 25 cents
 * 17) Samsonite Case $25.00
 * 18) Clock Radio $59.95
 * 19) born this year-Tom Petty [|News And Events From October 20th]
 * 20) Technology U.S. First TV remote control, Zenith Radio's Lazy Bones is marketed
 * 1) 1. Ray Bradbury is an American fantasy and horror author
 * 2) 2. rejects being categorized as a science fiction author
 * 3) 3. claiming that his work is based on the fantastical and unreal
 * 4) 4. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed.
 * 5) 5. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2004
 * 6) 6. one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century
 * 7) 7. born Aug. 22, 1920, Waukegan, Ill., U.S.
 * 8) 8. American author best known for highly imaginative science-fiction short stories and novels that blend social criticism with an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.
 * 9) 9. Bradbury published his first story in 1940
 * 10) 10. soon contributing widely to magazines.
 * 11) 11. His first book of short stories, Dark Carnival (1947)
 * 12) 12. was followed by The Martian Chronicles (1950)
 * 13) 13. Bradbury's other important short-story collections include The Illustrated Man (1951), The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), The October Country (1955), A Medicine for Melancholy (1959),
 * 14) 14. The Machineries of Joy (1964), I Sing the Body Electric! (1969), and Quicker Than the Eye (1996). His novels include Fahrenheit 451 (1953; filmed 1966); Dandelion Wine (1957) and its sequel, Farewell Summer (2006); Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962; filmed 1983);
 * 15) 15. and Death Is a Lonely Business (1985).
 * 16) 16. He wrote stage plays, television scripts, and several screenplays, including Moby Dick (1956; in collaboration with John Huston)
 * 17) 17. In the 1970s Bradbury wrote several volumes of poetry
 * 18) 18. in the 1970s and '80s he concentrated on writing children's stories and crime fiction.
 * 19) 19. His short stories have been published in more than 700 anthologies.
 * 20) 20. In 2007 the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded Bradbury a Special Citation for his distinguished career.

Culture of the 1950

"American Cultural History - 1950-1959." LSC-Kingwood Library. Web. 30 Nov. 2011. .


 * 1) 1. The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives
 * 2) 2. Population: 151,684,000 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census)*
 * 3) 3. Unemployed: 3,288,000
 * 4) 4. Life expectancy: Women 71.1, men 65.6
 * 5) 5. Car Sales: 6,665,800
 * 6) 6. Average Salary: $2,992
 * 7) 7. Labor Force male/female: 5/2
 * 8) 8. Cost of a loaf of bread: $0.14
 * 9) 9. Bomb shelter plans, like the government pamphlet You Can Survive, become widely available
 * 10) 10. 1950 - Pres. Harry Truman ( 'til 1952) approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June.
 * 11) 11. 1953 - Fighting ends in Korea.
 * 12) 12. 1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.
 * 13) 13. America in the 20th Century 1950-1959 is covered in volume 6. Typical of Marshall Cavendish, this encyclopedic set is accessible and gives easy to use background information for this decade. Covers subjects from art to transportation.
 * 14) 14. There was a fresh artistic outlook after World War II
 * 15) 15. Part of the 1950's boom in consumerism included housing
 * 16) 16. People could afford single family dwellings and suburbia was born.
 * 17) 17. Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century History of art in the 20th Century including all art forms and architecture. Chronological by decade.
 * 18) 18. Science Fiction became more popular with the actual possibility of space travel, Ray Bradbury wrote The Martian Chronicles.
 * 19) 19. Spaceships of the 1950's Isaac Asimov wrote I, Robot, and other books about worlds to be discovered.
 * 20) 20. American Drama 1940-1960 A critical history of American drama

Johnston, Amy E. "Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Page 2 - News - Los Angeles - LA Weekly." //Los Angeles News, Events, Restaurants, Music LA Weekly//. 30 May 2007. Web. 29 Nov. 2011. []. 1. Recived a special citations for the first time a writer of science fiction and fantasy has been honored. 2. longtime Los Angeles resident 3. had less to do with the infirmities of age 4. He will soon be turning 87 5. Has lived in Cheviot Hills for more than 50 years 6. He wore his now-standard outfit of a blue dress shirt with a white collar and a jack-o’-lantern tie 7. Belives most people did not understand his literary work from his book 8. It is widely taught in junior high and high schools and is for many students the first time they learn the names Aristotle, Dickens and Tolstoy 9. says it is not a story about government censorship 10. its a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature 11. “Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,” 12. His fear in 1953 that television would kill books has 13. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as “walls” and its actors as “family, 14. wrote the book in the early 1950s 15. book burnings of the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930s 16. became a major symbol of the repression that followed in Nazi Germany 17. He was the creative consultant on the United States Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair 18. Censorship was allowed in the entertainment world, not being considered an expression of free speech

19. Bradbury, who had been nurtured as a child on books

20. The fear that destructive atomic power might fall into the hands of terrorists

21. Bradbury re-creates the atmosphere of fear and repression that prevailed when he was writing the book.