Fashions and Health... By: Kristen and Rachel
Each topic in our lives has its own impact in the world. It might be a small one, but each living thing affects the lives of others. Genet School made an impact on many lives, but the specific details may not seem very important. But to make up a whole, you must always have fractions, into which they are divided. Genet is divided into many pieces and complicated subjects. In our class we are divided into these same groups. Fashions affected the people going to Genet, as well as the daily life around them. Health, on the other hand, affected the whole world. Each part of our web site is important if we want a complete whole. Our work contributes, to make the web site complete. Fashions for Passion-Dash into the Past Fashions in the 1940's & 1950's may not seem terribly important, but to the people who actually did go to school in that time, it was a popularity contest, and having the right clothes, the right friends and a few lucky guesses, were a big part of popularity. In the 1940's the fashions were much different from today. So & would you be interested in reading the rest of rest of our web page on fashions? In Genet, there were no uniforms, but there was a dress code of the styles (if you were a girl who wore pants you were a social outcast, but you were allowed to go into the school). Girls didn't wear pants or short skirts, but instead they wore long full skirts, loafers (shoes), bobby socks (white), sweater sets (matching sweaters and shirts) and occasionally garter belts with stockings. Girls wore under their sweaters, collar shirts, with the collar out of their sweaters, but they didn't take their sweaters off. The jewelry that they wore was small, stud earrings that were very tasteful, Identification bracelets (had the name of the boy you were dating on it), and rings on chains. Away from school it was hip for girls to wear long jeans, rolled up, with one of your father or boyfriend's shirts, with the tails hanging out. For boys it was cool to wear tight blue jeans, with a white T-shirt with cigarettes rolled up in one of the sleeves, so that both the sleeves were rolled up, and tucked under in a punk-tank-top, with sneaker shoes. Piles of Styles The hairstyles for girls were shoulder length and were curly or wavy, not straight. If you had straight hair, you would make it curly by wetting your hair, twisting a few strands of hair into curlicues, crisscrossing bobby pins on them, and then sleeping with them in. Then in the morning you would let them out. Auburn, red, and blonde were popular hair colors for girls in that time. The most popular hairstyle for boys was: side part, slicked back, looking greasy, with straight hair, not curly.
Early in the 1940's, people would die from sicknesses that today are curable. They had cures for some diseases, but they didn't have the modern cures that scientists have discovered since that time. Aren't we lucky??!! Scientists today have more technology, and are more aware of the serious sicknesses. People today live longer, because we have learned from the mistakes of yesterday.
Polio For Patriots-Polio Spreads Through Returning Soldiers Infantile Paralysis (Polio) was the major disease in the 1940's. This disease crippled people's limbs, and paralyzed their lungs, making them unusable. It was also infectious and spread through the air. This disease affected mostly children, and infants might be diagnosed with it at birth. Though penicillin was invented in 1944, and was claimed a cure-all, it still wouldn't get rid of polio. People with polio were put in a piece of equipment called an iron lung, which supposedly helped people breathe. People who had diseases like polio (and tuberculosis) were sent away to find a cure since they didn't want this contagious disease spreading to more people. Polio was prevalent in returning soldiers of the war, and with people that lived closely together. Though polio happened a lot in this area, there was only one minor case in this school. Thousands of people died from polio until 1956, when Dr. Salk and Dr. Sabin invented a vaccine. Thanks to this vaccine, one of our teachers at this school survived polio, without any harm being done. Today we use that same vaccine on babies to prevent polio. Today, polio is a rare disease in the United States of America. Help In Health with Penicillin Penicillin was discovered by Dr. William Fleming, a Scotsman, in 1944, near the end of World War Two. The only two flaws with this miracle drug was that many people were allergic to it, and died from small infections that penicillin could have cured. The only other flaw was that it didn't cure polio or tuberculosis, which were the real major diseases. Penicillin was so overdosed in the past, that today it is not as effective as some of the more modern drugs. Doctors in the late 1940's, and early 1950's were looked upon with great respect by patients, and other professionals, and were also usually very wealthy. Whereas, nurses were considered by subservient (lesser) and were looked down upon by Doctors, but never patients, who were appreciative to anyone who would help them. They couldn't have their own options, and had to follow the Doctors orders faithfully. Nurses in these days are more familiar with the patients, and have more responsibility than they used to. |
