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has changed drastically over the decades. In the 1950s for example, many Americans had just returned from combat during World War ...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Comparing the 50s and the 80s

This essay contrasts and compares various aspects of the 1950s American society to that of the 1980s. Five pages in length, five s...

120 Years of American History

interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Its Life Parallels

In nine pages this paper analyzes the life parallels between the society of the 1950s and as the play reflected the life of playwr...

'Beat Generation' Writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady

In eighteen pages this paper examines the American 'Beat Generation' literary movement popular during the 1950s in a consideration...

1973 Film Time Period Setting of American Graffiti

In five pages this paper examines how the 1950s are represented in the drive-in, 'hot rods,' and early rock and roll music feature...

Fences by August Wilson 2

Troy and his son Cory. August Wilson establishes an impression of the 53-year-old Troy Maxson early in Act I, writing that he ...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

Motown and Berry Gordy

Vegara, and "Urban Crisis" by Thomas Sugrue. Berry Gordy and Motown Berry Gordy is considered to be the father of Motown. "In ...

Rock 'N Roll's History

In five pages this rock 'n roll history dates back to the 1950s and considers important contributions by Elvis Presley, Berry Gord...

Fashion During the 1950s Fashion

they were originally called the Atome. Association with the atom bomb did not seem very appropriate, hence the quick name change....

The 'Traditional Family' That Never Was by Wren Walker

how men of the 1950s entered into marriage for their own gain: to have someone tend to their needs, wants and desires. It is only...

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

American Express Diversity Plan

jobs in his career, he was the director of federal contract compliance during the Carter Administration (Knowledge@Wharton, 2006)....

The Impact of Job Losses in the 1950s

extended families lived under the same roof and shared the costs inherent in it, American families of the 1950s were setting out t...

McCarthyism and Anticommunism

the grip of what can only be called a "Red Scare." People saw Communists behind every tree and were terrified that they were going...

Article Analysis: American Indian Societies

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...

Scott R. Sanders, The Common Life

ties to his community. Examination of Sanders points show that individualism is not the problem. Sanders begins his essay by des...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Regression, and Collectivist Society

The needs of the society come before the needs of the individual, and Rand even suggests that this collective identity would suppo...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...