Hey there! I'm writing an ethnography paper about American Dreams fans for my English class. I was wondering if any of you have anything to say that I could use... It's basically about why it is that we like the show so much, focusing on the correlation between the sixties and today. Any comments/reviews would be much appreciated! THANKS!!!

C'mon guys, you all know you wanna help out!!! :crazy: PUH-LEASE! The paper's due on friday!

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Thanks so much! This is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. You're awesome!!! (Please note any information from any posts I use in the paper will be properly cited per MLA guidelines.)

I began watching when it premiered I believe it was September 29th 2002....I like it cause I like learning all over again about what happen back then and i like seeing what kinda drama the castmembers face in their everyday life and not just what issues went on back then.....

I like seeing the girls dancing on Bandstand and I got into alot of the 60's music.....I like seeing the day The nation faced Beatles mania and etecetra.Mel :)

I think the correlation between the 1960s and today is amazing. Just look:

AD: Vietnam conflict before the 1960s.
Today: The mid-east conflict in the 1990s.

AD: Kennedy assassination in 1963. (Some call it the end of innocence.)
Today: September 11th - similar event, end of innocence.

AD: Rising conflict in Vietnam. (Turns into a major war.)
Today: Rising conflict in Iraq/Afghanistan. (Turns into a major war.)

AD: Many protests against the Vietnam war.
Today: Many protests against the Iraq war.

Thanks so much everyone! Keep them coming! You all are so helpful!:)

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Thanks so much everyone! Keep them coming! You all are so helpful!:) You're welcome Ad fans have no problem helping you.....I hope everyone at school enjoys your paper......Mel :)

I've been hooked since the very begining. I grew up in the 60's and 70's and love to see the nostalgia from that era. To me, it was a simpler time, but still complicated now that I look at it in hindsight. To see the history of music, politics,religion,etc from that era on a TV show instead of reality TV is refreshing to me.

Thought you'd like to read this post of mine from another board.
good luc with your paper. My daughter is writting one also.


About AD:
As I watch each episode, I am left with my mouth hanging open, with a fast beating heart. This is because I experience the realizm of the social setting of the sixities. I have personnaly known characters like each of the ones created on AD. As I rememeber:... Joyce was a dead ringer for Meg, Camella's friend was the clone of Roxan, ... etc.

I was just entering the teens then. I was there. I KNOW these people. This show(AD), my friend, is as REAL as it gets. Both the values of the characters and of society are right on the money. I remember the attitudes about sex, the races, the war, long hair, short dresses, being alone with a boy, the USSR, the dream of space, the panic about being beaten by the USSR to the moon, .......

Since the sixties, the world entered an intense frantic period of change. What is now, was not what I saw (and felt) as a boy. If you want to know where we are now, I urge you to watch, (no... study!) AD. Most every meaningful detail is accurate. When you know where we came from, only then will you know where we are going.

I have every song etched in my heart. My childern are amazed when I mouth the words to every song.

As an old man, who will never ever be young again, for one hour a week, I am a teenage boy again. For reasons that are so complex, reaching back through too many experiences to possible explain to you, there has yet to be an episode that has failed to put at small tear drop in the corner of my eye.

So, please watch AD,.. and in doing so, share with me a glimps of that which I had, and that which I have lost.

Born in 1948

I started watching it from the first episode, with my mom, during my senior year of high school. No matter how busy we both were, it was the one time of week that we ALWAYS sat down together and watched a show without phone interruptions, or anything else. Even now that I went away to college, we still call each other during every commercial break of the show to talk about it. I like it because it's a show that an entire family can enjoy togther. Her and my dad tell me more about the stuff that the Pryors/Walkers are going through, because they were alive for it. Plus, I LOVE 60s music (especially British Invasion stuff!!) so it's neat to get to hear so many of my favorite songs on a TV Show :) Also, I'm really close with my family, so any family show makes me extra emotional :)

Thank you all so much! You've all been so helpful, and have given me some really great material for my paper. I am so greatful! The paper's due tomorrow and I have been working really hard on it. I'm so close! Thanks again for all your help! I love you all!

I began watching American Dreams when it premiered. Actually, my dad wanted to watch it and I watched it too. He didn't like it but I did, so I still watch it. It really interests me because since I was born in 1988 I didn't get to experience the war in Vietnam, and I love the challenges the family/ies have to go through. I like how they all stick up for themselves and...I just love it! :)

Thanks to all of you fro your input! i turned the paper in friday, so don't worry about sending any more stuff if you don't really want to. i'm really proud of the paper, so thanks for helping me out! i'll let you all know what grade i get! :rolleyes:

I hope you do well on your paper.

I really hope you do well on your paper too Good luck.Mel :)

thanks, me too! :crazy: