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1950s Women's Roles

to their social and political benefit. Womens portrayal in Theodore Roethkes "I Knew a Woman" reflects the difference betw...

Hubbert's Peak

(The Coming Global Oil Crisis 2003). Some Middle Eastern countries said their oil peaked in 1970, which allowed OPEC to create an ...

General Electric Profitability Case

available. Even using this index, the company used it differently in that the ratio was different for each department. The standar...

Comparisons Between Violent and Nonviolent Civil Rights Protests

2006). Most blacks in Montgomery at that time relied upon public transportation to travel to their jobs, but were forced by law t...

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...

REBT by Ellis

Ellis joined cognitive therapy with behavioral therapy and introduced it as Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy in the mid-1950s. ...

Going to the Movies: Then and Now

In the 1950s, the film industry had begun to recognize the importance of marketing strategies and methods to bring viewers into...

Women on TV, Then and Now

comedic formula that this was never going to happen. Nevertheless, Lucy and Ricky were happily married, more or less, and offered ...

Affirmative Action And Structural Inequality

education than Blacks. A rash of laws that came about beginning in the 1950s addressed the issues of discrimination and equal opp...

General Motors Collapse

management (Trumbull, 2009). The company, however, has gone steadily downhill for many years. Consider their average annual operat...

Historical Context of 'The Caine Mutiny'

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

A History of Racism in the Motion Picture Industry

This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...

US Labor Unions in the Future

more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...

Welfare Consumerism and Family Authority

active in the workplace and as such have more authority as a result of this economic freedom. There is also the increased...

Feminist Perspective of The World Split Open by Rosen

In fact, the idea that women were dubbed "useful" should be frightening. While of course things have been good for women and tod...

Japanese Wives Role Annotated Bibliography

4. Izuhara, M. (2000). Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society. Burlington, VT: Ashegate Publishing. This analy...

'No Smoking' Policy For Portsmouth, NH

but has not instigated any cause for concern toward those nonsmokers who must inhale the expelled pollutants of smokers. From air...

Population Trends of Germany

"for the most arduous forms of shift work in the car, steel and mining industries" which made it impossible for them to participat...

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

Women and China’s Population Policies

the people were going to be able to sustain themselves independently in the nation. "Between 1953 and 1964, barely ten years, the ...

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...

Discussion About Unions

When unions were first established and for decades later into the early to mid-1950s, they provided fairer wages, safer working co...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

Lincoln And Sumner: Equality

the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...

1950s-1990s

that communism could destroy the United States if allowed to get into the nation. While there were many who were fearful of this ...

Federalism, Elitism & Pluralism

a result of such exclusion was meant to maintain complete control over all the respective districts political and economic decisio...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

McCarthyism and Anti-Communist Action During the 1950s

becomes apparent that the coverage of the matter was varied, but there was seemingly a government preference. After all, people in...

POLITICAL EVENTS: 1950S-1990S

Senator Joseph McCarthy began his communist witch hunt, trying to root out the "evil red influence" from everything ranging from g...