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    In the early 1900’s clothes were a status symbol. Fashion was more important than comfort. Fashionable ladies enjoyed the grand occasions surrounding the federation of Australian colonies‚ and later the openings of new federal parliament‚ in Melbourne where royalty was going to be in attendance. Society matrons were lucky that the extravagant magnificent dresses of the Edwardian era coincided with Australians own premier events. Women liked to have a pinched waist‚ a big bust with no cleavage showing

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    04-07-11 Research In the 1960’s there were several types of fashion types like: the Mods‚ the rockers‚ the oh-so-famous hippies‚-the futuristic space age-ers‚ the school girl baby dolls‚ the “Chanel” wearers ‚ and of course the optical art dressers! So as you can see there are LOTS of fashion types that started in the 60’s. Even some looks we still use today‚ only slightly modified. To help you better understand the styles of the 160’s‚ I will break down each type of style for you

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    Between 1938 and 1940‚ the Kindertransport was one of the biggest inventions in Germany. During this time‚ Germany was under invasion by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Children and their families were trying to find the fastest and safest ways to get out of Germany and away from the danger of the Nazis. The Kindertransport was founded and put together by the British Government to bring Jewish children out of Nazi Germany‚ Austria‚ and Czechoslovakia. Jewish organizations inside the Greater German Reich

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    In addressing two of the more significant human rights struggles of the 20th century‚ the Holocaust in the 1940s and the civil rights movement in the 1960’s‚ one finds many similarities between the struggles of both oppressed peoples. In both societies‚ laws inhibited and prohibited many actions and freedoms of Jewish and African Americans‚ respectively. The proactive actions of individuals in the American civil rights movement succeeded in changing laws because of their willingness to disobey

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    Since the era of the industrial revolution‚ advances in technology have led to increases in the amount of particulate matter and pollutants in the air. By the 1940s‚ the air quality in major industrial cities was so polluted that by mid-day the air was so darkened that cars needed to use their headlights since it appeared as though the sky was at dusk. In 1948‚ a smog‚ which is a mixture between smoke and fog‚ settled over a small town near Pittsburgh named Donora. The smog lasted for five days

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    Joyce Borden Balokovic’s (1897-1971) background and education positioned her to be an impactful women’s activist during the 1940s. Growing up in an aristocratic family‚ she was heiress to the Borden family fortune which came from her father‚ Gail Borden‚ the inventor of condensed milk. Joyce had other notable relatives including Robert Borden‚ Canada’s Prime Minister during World War I‚ and Lizzie Borden from the famous Fall River murders. She was born and raised in Chicago and was raised by a dogmatic

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    Progress of a society mainly depends upon the society’s youngsters.They are the one taking oath to assist the whole nation’s boat of dream and hope reach their destined desire and ancor the sea-shore.So‚people might reckon that young people should be expressed properly to their surroundings regardlessly by their own visualization‚skills‚smartness or fashion consciousness.I think‚young people should be as much fashion conscious as by which they could get attraction of their juniors and followers

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    During the 1940s there was genocide in Germany. The genocide is known as the Holocaust and over 6 million people were killed during this time. Adolf Hitler‚ the man who led the Nazi party in Germany‚ utilized multiple different tools to carry out the genocide. He used methods like gas chambers‚ gas trucks‚ death marches‚ and many more to exterminate anybody that the Nazi party considered impure but the most deadly place to be during the Holocaust was a concentration camp. Concentration camps

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    (above) so that I could complete the post. I’m not entirely sure what you would call this style of hat exactly. I know that it resembles a “halo hat”‚ but a true halo hat has a band almost like a huge beret‚ so that’s not it. I’m going to go with “1940s large brim hat”. I became inspired to try this out when I was at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago and saw a hat partially sticking out from under one of the racks. It was covered in dust and looked like it had been kicked all around the store

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    changed from the 1940s dating was more formal. Males had more manners and more the leader in his household. This is one reason why relationship lasted longer in the old days. In today’s time we do more dating which has more sex and the focus is more about ‚sex than growing together with God in the relationships. I believe we should have more courting relationship. Courtship is a publicly visible process with rules and restrictions. More people should do courtship verses

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