YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Decade of the 1950s in American History
Essays 571 - 600
unparalleled heights on the DOW as it did back then. There was also a perceptible shift from the production of goods toward the s...
such as Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1976) who catered primarily to the Parisian aristocracy (Bourque et al, 1986). However, even Vion...
educational setting in recent years including the focus on the role of the educator, the need for accuracy in testing, and the int...
years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....
interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...
independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...
of the white people. The history focuses on how the nation was founded, the Civil War, how the Depression affected people, the Wor...
to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...
this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...
they were always taken advantage of in one regard or another. The native inhabitants of this country at the time of...
the varied cultures of the Native American that has developed over time symbolizes "oppression and the pervasiveness of racist pra...
the hopes of finding work (The United States Of America, Part Five, 2007). "As immigration exploded, urban populations surged from...
good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
he claimed "it was morning in America," and he introduced us to the trickle down theory involving economics (which promised that p...
that is largely what the period was about. The episode first discusses Brown v. Board of Education and then moves on to talk about...
do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...
faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...
put the machine in his place. But the machine has not always been kind to man. In fact, labor unions came into being almost as so...
anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...
create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...
of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...
and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...
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...
reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...
was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...
Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...
and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....
facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...