Migrants of mixed-race origin - like Leila in The Final Passage‚ inherently suffered against racist attitudes in 1950’s Britain. In Black‚ white or mixed race? It is noted that: ‘mixed-bloods’ were seen as anomalies‚ demonstrably neither one race not another and as such they tended to arouse discomfort.’ This distaste for racial mixing was reflected in the derogatory names given by white people to those of mixed parentage such as ‘mulatto’ the Portuguese word for ‘mule’. The latter resulted in
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McCarthyism‚ Civil Rights and the Vietnam War all put in to place a chain of events that have made our country what it is today. This paper will review a few of the social‚ economic and political events between 1950 through 1990 that had a powerful impact on the American people and their decade. 1950’s Cold War Ideology‚ McCarthyism and Eisenhower’s politics Cold War ideology crystallized after the end of World War II. During this war the US had alliances with Britain and Russia. Postwar the US was
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How do you assess the impact of commercial television upon the British Broadcasting System from the 1950’s until the present day? To help answer this question‚ it would be beneficial to begin by summarising the history of Broadcasting from the 1920’s up to the 1950’s. This will help generate an understanding and make more clear‚ whether there was a change in the British Broadcasting System after the launch of the first commercial television channel in Britain. This history will contain‚ in short
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referred to the interpretive approach followed in the Jaga v Dönges‚ a notorious case from the 1950s. In this essay‚ I argue that the recent comments by the Constitutional Court about the case clearly show that the Jaga judgment is no longer relevant to the interpretation of statutes after the democratic transformation. The facts of the Jaga case The Jaga case was a notorious case which occurred in the early 1950’s. Jaga being the accused in this case‚ as he was caught selling unwrought gold which is
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During the 1950s and 1960s‚ the Civil Rights Movement was a battle by African Americans in hopes to achieve the same rights that whites have. A few major events in the fight for civil rights included the Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education case‚ the Montgomery bus boycott and the 1964 Rights Trial. By the end of the 1960s‚ some white Americans‚ even had the courage of joining in the fight with them. No political or social movement of the twentieth century has had as dramatic of an effect‚ ever
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There are obvious differences between the de Vitoria’s arguments and the 1950s U.S. Supreme Court decision. They collide with each other in their attitudes and approaches in dealing with Indians. After being assigned by the Spanish king to address the right of the Spanish in the New world‚ de Vitoria delivered the lecture entitle “On the Indians Lately Discovered” in 1532. In the lecture‚ he emphasized that the Indians had natural rights as land owners in managing their lands. He also noted that
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idea of segregation in America. All of the children were courageous enough to have very mean things yelled at them including acid thrown in their faces‚ yet all but one live today. The Jim Crow laws were a huge part of the act of segregation in the 1950’s. The Jim Crow laws were put in place for many reasons. The laws were put in place after the Civil War‚ 1861-1865‚ to restrict the rights of African Americans and keep them separated from Whites (“Jim Crow Laws” Gale). Some
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HIST101-1401B-04 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Phase 2 Individual Project Professor Mary Cluff 3/3/2014 On June 17 1972 a security guard named Frank Wills had alerted authorities that there was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate. The Watergate is a complex which has offices‚ hotel‚ and apartments. Five men were arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex. They were found with cash‚ and electronic surveillance equipment. The
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The Struggle for African American Equality: 1915-1950 Many blacks in the south were exposed to very harsh situations on the physical and mental levels after the reconstruction era. Racial discrimination and the Jim Crow Laws put pressure on the blacks to stay away from whites as much as they can. After World War 1 boll weevil infestations devastated many cotton farms and their workers dreams of supporting their families. One Georgia man said he left the south because of his "desire to escape harsh
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Actress Marilyn Monroe was known for many things during her life‚ one of them being the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbol of the 1950’s. She was a much admired international star by other woman and desired by men with her sexy voice‚ hourglass figure‚ and short blonde hair; despite her insecurities regarding her acting performances‚ Monroe suffered from pre-performance anxiety that sometimes made her unequipped to perform and was often the root cause of her legendary tardiness on films
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