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Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

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 ...

Lawsuits Have Changed How Schools are Funded

money because they do not have it. These schools and districts are severely limited in what they can do to provide a quality educa...

1950s Women's Roles

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

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...

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 ...

REBT by Ellis

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

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

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 ...

McCarthyism and the Red Scare

The writer discusses McCarthyism and its part in the Red Scare in America in the 1950s. There are three sources listed in the bibl...

Fashion of the Fifties

provocative clothing was acceptable. For perhaps the first time ever, people dressed to reflect what they were feeling. In doing ...

Generational Effects of Rock and Roll Music

to understanding the cultural changes it brought. The 1960s was a decade defined by race relations. Thus, it is interesting to not...

The 1950s

with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...

Discontent and Domesticity

their children for the world (May). This was then their own contribution to the workplace and to the national effort (May)....

Advertising Changes Since the Fifties

items (such as a car) "on time" (i.e., on credit) was a growing trend; department stores and some other retailers offered credit t...

Films A Place in the Sun, Double Indemnity, Suspicion and the Interaction Between Money, Love, and Murder

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

Contemporary Applications of the Deliberative Nursing Theory of Jean Orlando

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria and Existentialism

typical abused prostitute. Her boyfriend treats her badly and in fact the films opening shocks as he throws her into the water whe...

1950s' 'Perfect Wife'

want for themselves. Linda personifies this in that she has a small garden that she has attempted to grow. The money for the seeds...

Economic Impact of Taxes

that total taxes, which means both state and local, increased over the years: they averaged 24.7 percent of the GDP in the 1950s, ...

Overview of On the Beach

that a the protagonist will meet his or her demise, and adventure novels too often will show men and women risking their lives in ...

Looking at 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook'

was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...

New Generations from the 1870s through the 1960s

ideals of the generation before (Flexner and Soukhanov, 2002, 1997). The generations raised in the 1870s to 1890s, 1920s to 1940s,...

Post Fifties' Equality and Women

to bring in sources that address the womens movement (a social phenomenon of the 1970s), as well as other sources that more accur...

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

History of the United Kingdom Police Force

the criminal groups. In addition, the mutually antagonistic attitude which divides the police from the sub-cultural groups f...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...