Compare and Contrast
America: Then and Now
America, through out the hundreds of years, has changed exponentially. It went from being colonies from Great Britain to now being one of the most developed countries in the world. There are so many people who have changed and developed our country into the wonderful country it is today. There are many similarities in America in the 1940's and America now. But there is also so many differences.
In the 1940's-1960's, The United States was very segregated. People of color were often not allowed to work and they were looked down upon. "Red lining," the act of not allowing people of color to live in certain neighborhoods, made sure that our society was very segregated. Now in America, there is no racism or segregation. We are one nation and have equal rights. Right now, the United States is going through a war with Iraq and Afganistan. In the 1940's WW2 was going on. Though WW2 was a much larger war then our wars right now, it still is proof that not everything has changed between then and now. There were presidents in both the 1940's and now. There was JFK and LBJ, and now we have President Obama. In the 1940's, America would never have predicted a black president to be in the white house! But many things have changed.
Back in time, America had a Democracy ran society. This remains today. Though now president candidates want to make government smaller and keep government from running too much of our lives. But earlier in history, we were eager to gain government support. Still today we have medicare, medicaid, and Job Corps, this was developed in the 1960's. We still have run elections by "Popular Sovereignty" This has not changed in society. On the other-side, religion doesn't have very much to do with Presidential candidacy. When John F. Kennedy ran for presidency, he was the first president candidate to ever be from a different religion other then protestant christianity. Kennedy was catholic. Now we have a man, Mitt Romney, running for president. He is LDS and this is indeed a change in american history.
America has changed in numerous ways. But many things remain. America will continually change and one can never predict what will remain. We can simply only learn from our past in order to prevent it happening again. As they say, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."
