enormous changes which totally transformed its economy‚ society and politics. Most particularly was the large influx of Chinese refugees to this region. With effective governance and the hard work of its people‚ Hong Kong prospered during the 1950¡¦s and 1960¡¦s and ultimately retained its prosperity up until the city¡¦s reunification by China in 1997. When Hong Kong finally ceded to the Britain in 1943‚ the region had relied heavily on the entrepot trade. However‚ Hong Kong‚ prior to this‚ was subjected
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The anti-war movement of the late 1960s is often credited as having positive outcomes such as 18-year-olds being granted the right to vote and the end of the draft‚ and is glorified for its role in bringing people together along with shaping activism to this day. However‚ as with any movement‚ there are unintended consequences‚ which have shaped important events and values within American society in the decades since the war and at present. This paper will explore some of these unintended consequences
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civilizations describing how they do things‚ their values‚ and beliefs. Dance had an enormous impact during America during the 1960’s through the 1990’s. Many different types of dance were being introduced during these times because of all of the quick fads people were going through. In the end dance has shaped the personality of American culture forever. Starting with the 1960’s America was going through the adolescent kids from the baby boomers. These kids tended to be very outgoing and were not
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During the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s‚ china underwent many drastic changes. The leader of the chinese communist party was Mao Zedong‚ a powerful man who believed that the peasant class represented the best of chinese society. The text “china’s cultural revolution is better.” This is about how people in the cultural revolution treated theirself. Centuries of resentment often led to violence‚ and peasants sometimes attacked people from higher classes. I chose this reason because it
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The events that occurred in Newark during the 1960’s should definitely be referred to as a riot. During the time the African Americans connoted wild‚ uncontrolled‚ criminal behavior. On the other hand they did have the aim to try to affect the government actions and policy‚ but they did it in an uncontrolled way. Using the word “rebellion” suggests that the African Americans had a clear cut reason to behave the way they did‚ without a justifiable cause. The government of Newark failed to incorporate
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The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew rapidly in the late 1960’s. Students’ activism movements protesting the Vietnam War gave rise to this and following Supreme Court’s case Oregon vs. Mitchell‚ it was widely believed that a new amendment to the constitution should to be drafted. The amendment was quickly proposed on March 23rd‚ 1971 and ratified by 42 states on July 1st‚ 1971(laws.com). The Twenty Sixth amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the states and federal
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to forbid’‚ ‘Take your desires for realities!’‚ Don’t negotiate with the bosses‚ get rid of them!’‚ ‘Under the paving stones‚ the beach!’. What do such graffiti as these tell you about the zeitgeist – the spirit of the times – in France in the late 1960s? The graffiti of Paris in May‚ 1968‚ such as the slogans above‚ articulated the revolutionary zeitgeist: a profound disaffection with the delimited offerings and exclusionary‚ authoritarian nature of society under The Fifth Republic. Slogans interweaved
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1950-1960’s where the times when people were fighting for their civil rights. This was in the past but their actions have shaped the future for a new generation were people of any color have the ability to do as they please. Sadly not everyone was moved by their actions and so racial profiling still lingers. How are the people of today fighting back? One of the big instances of racial profiling was towards couch Rodrick Rhodes. He’s played in Kentucky before‚ he represented them and played for
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intellectual standpoint and is attained only through the drive to change the view of an entire global society on the roles of a class of citizens that still ranks second to the male patriarchy‚ which is exactly what feminism in the 1960s and 1970s was trying to prove. The 1960s and 1970s were a period of evolution for American society; the country was recovering from the turmoil of the war in Vietnam and was still combatting antiwar sentiments. This instability proved to be the ideal
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During the 1950s and 1960s‚ many African Americans were treated with discrimination and racial segregation due to the “Jim Crow” Laws which segregated blacks from being at certain places with white people (Civil Rights Movement). This inequality angered many African Americans as they began to protest for their civil rights and equality‚ turning it into the Civil Rights Movement. The fight for freedom was a long and rough journey‚ but they were able to put an end to segregation in public places and
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