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Africa's Portuguese Counterinsurgents

the gold mines of South Africa (Dana and France 67). Although these laborers were paid, they were successful in keeping very litt...

Society and Sociolinguistics

of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...

Suburban Warriors by McGirr

way to look at things, but there were many people who longed for a return to what was. They took on issues such as birth control a...

Lisa McGirr's Suburban Warriors

force to reckon with. During this period in history, of course, America was enjoying an economic boom that the rest of the w...

1960s' Protests

off students who are volunteers onto bus trips. These bus trips were intended to "test the implementation of new laws prohibiting ...

Psychosocial Behavioral Theory of Erik Erikson Applied to Rosa Parks

how Parks various crises directly associated with each stage were more easily addressed, inevitably elevating her to the next stag...

Education and School Changes Since the 1960s

schools are well integrated with different races. However, it seems that as the decades have gone by and economic divisions have r...

1960s' Social Issues and the Involvement of the American Government

help to support low-income parents with children. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT One of the most notable programs was the involvement of t...

An Analysis and Synopsis of Gaines Short Story, The Sky is Gray

enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...

1960s' Pop Art Culture and Women

as the pop art movement was one that generally focused on objects, abstracts, and commercialism as it involved a consumerist and w...

Political Struggles and Articles by Cowie and Sugrue

the extent to which people can be bigoted and unfair and not even realize it. The building trades, in particular, were riddled wi...

The Life and Career of Union Pioneer A. Phillip Randolph

"color line" as the principal problem of the twentieth century, but rather felt that the principal problems of black Americans wer...

New Peace Movements in the United States

Iraq. Most turn to the Just War theory to prove their point, arguing that Vietnam was not a justified war, and neither is the war ...

Banned in East German

GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

Hippies: 1960s and Today

They could be simply irresponsible people who were looking for something exciting and fun. There were hippies who simply did not...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

Legendary Rock Band Led Zeppelin

In his insightful text, Rock and Roll: A Social History, Paul Friedlander observed, the 1970s were "a time of contradiction" (234)...

U.S. Muslim Families

precedent in relation to establishing official recognition of Islamic religious holidays in American schools. Two major Islamic h...

Minimalist Architecture

styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

'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...

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CEOS OF TODAY AND 1960

"corner office" was the symbol of power - the higher up in the corporate hierarchy a manager moved, the more likely he (and most t...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Draft Dodging During Vietnam

there were young boys dying in the jungles of Vietnam (Stone, 472). Hence, many people did not favor the acts of the young people....

Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

An Art Form with Bite Political Cartoons

peering out at him, are two figures, one of which is clearly Adolf Hitler and the other is presumably the Emperor of Japan. The Ja...

Feeling A Lack of Control Over One's Environment

2001). Later, he placed new dogs with no harnesses in and unharnessed the original dogs and provided an escape. The new dogs look...

Radicalism in California

university began to clamp down on student activists. When we consider this, it is very strange. Universities are places where you...