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    which she talked about ordinary everyday affairs‚ giving them a specific dark climate fueled by the second bottom. A short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" was written in such climate. Oates addressed the problem of growing up in the 1960s. For many people this period seemed to be bliss‚ but for others it was a period full of doubts and dilemmas. The main character of this story‚

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    a face-to-face conversation‚ not a video call. With a local face-to-face interview‚ I can observe a person’s body language and make better eye contact‚ while also having the practical flexibility regarding time zones and distance. While the late 1960s in the US did not just consist of hippies‚ drugs and protests‚ these aspects have shaped common perceptions of that particular time period. I especially wanted to explore a perspective that differed from the anti-authoritarian

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    Alternative Dispute Resolution Mr. Joe Brown v Abel Security Company Business Law 415 Patricia A. Jones 1 Alternative Dispute Resolution Mr. Joe Brown was interviewed by Supervisor McGrath and hired as a security officer with Abel Security Company‚ on Thursday‚ 16 August‚ 2007. Supervisor McGrath verbally discussed the Post Order and the uniform policy with Mr. Brown. Supervisor McGrath informed his was the cost for the uniform cap and uniform

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    starting in June 2013. On 19 June 2013 satellites captured images of smoke from illegal wildfires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra blowing east toward southern Malaysia and Singapore‚ causing thick clouds of haze in the region. As stated by a local Indonesian official‚ the source of the haze might be a 3‚000 hectare peat land in Bengkalis Regency‚ Riau Province‚ which was set ablaze by an unknown party on 9 June. As many as 187 hotspots were picked up by satellites on 18 June 2013‚ down to 85

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    Dudley Randall’s Ballad of Birmingham gives a poetic account of the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963. The poem was written in ballad form to convey the mood of the mother to her daughter. The author also gives a graphic account of what the 1960’s were like. Irony played a part also in the ballad showing the church as the warzone and the freedom march as the safer place to be. Writing the poem in ballad form gave a sense of mood to each paragraph. The poem starts out with an eager little

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    The 60s of Fashion Mary Quant once stated “ I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn’t like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted” (“Brainyquote”). Back in the 1960s designers thought the clothes that people had to wear was to boring so they wanted to make their own designer clothes. Mod fashion was a type of a style that was very huge in the 60s because of designers‚ colors‚ and it changed the fashion world. Mod fashion was huge in the 60s because of

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    The sixties are remarkably different from other decades in American history. This period means different things to different people. To some people‚ it could be described as the most turbulent in the American history. Many others regarded it as well as the period that ushered in social change in the country. It is not only in America that the sixties brought a lot of transformation‚ it brought about social change in various parts of the world. This period is very significant in America because it

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    The 1960s in America is remembered both as a decade of youth in revolt and a boiling point for racial tensions that had been brewing since the country’s founding. While the New Left pushed the definition of freedom beyond anything previously imagined‚ the Civil Rights Movement sought to gain for African Americans the same freedoms that had been the status quo for the nation’s white citizens for decades. The 1950s had been a decade hell-bent on various societal characteristics: conformity‚ financial

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    Hair Spray In The 1950s

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    all‚ and fashions reflected this. Hair spray‚ made of liquid plastics and vinyl that harden when they are sprayed on the hair to form a kind of shell that keeps the hair from falling out of its style‚ became very popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Styles were crisp and clean‚ and hairstyles were held in place with aerosol hair spray. Aerosol sprays‚ substances dispensed from a pressurized can‚ had been developed for use with insecticides during World War II‚ and they were quickly adopted by

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