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    Is teenage life now‚ a continuation or a change in that of the 1950’s-1960’s? By: Alex Teenagers have behaved in similar patterns for decades. Whether teens have changed their behaviour and habits from the 50’s and 60’s to now‚ or they simply continued their patterns‚ is a questionable subject. In my opinion‚ teenage life right now is just a continuation of teenage life in the 50’s and 60’s. This is a fact because: teens still have similar styles‚ teens still face the same problems‚ and their

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    The Harlem represented a lot especially for African American songwriters‚ it meant they got to show their real pain‚ grow because of the new opportunities and get their voices heard. Bessie Smith’s music represented what was happening in her life at the moment. She really put her feelings into her music. She felt much sorrow which she expressed through her soulful Blues. One of her songs titled St. Louis Blues was popular for a reason. It showed her real pain. St. Louis Blues was composed by W. C

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    Summary on Father Damien of Molokai¡¦s Life Who was Father Damien? „« Father Damien was formally known as Joseph de Veuster „« He was born on January 3rd 1840 „« Damien was born to a farming couple on Tremeloo Belgium. „« He attended college at Brine-le-Comte. „« He entered the congregation of the sacred Hearts of Jesus. „« He Became a Picpus Brother on October the 7th 1860. „« Damien followed his brothers dream‚ now his as well and went into a mission aboard „« On the 19th of march 1864‚ he

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    New York City 1950’s Life in the 1950’s in New York was very different to the way people live today in the city. A number of things have changed to make the lifestyles and everyday life different from past generations. The transportation‚ tourist attraction‚ cost of general products and just technology in general. Transportation especially‚ has changed drastically. In the 1950’s trolleys‚ public buses and subways were common ways to get from place to place. Automobiles were common during this time

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    Times in the 1920`s were not always the easiest‚ there were times when people had to walk to places‚ farmers used horses to transport goods‚ which could take hours or even days to get to the destination. All this was the life of people in the 1920`s until a man by the name of Henry Ford made an affordable option an automobile. This helped everyone in the world from farmers to the workers in industries‚ everyone benefited from this and the world became a different place with this invention. Automobiles

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    Throughout the 1930’s many people in the United States had to suffer though a Great Depression that caused many Americans to lose many things‚ starting from their jobs to even their own pride in themselves. How ever this was different for the people who lived in the south‚ the southern people were not only just affected by the Great Depression they were also affected by heavy racism and strongly enforced Jim Crow laws. With the enforced Jim Crow laws‚ these laws heavily restricted the life of a colored

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    A film titled‚ Life in Sacramento-1950’s‚ used propaganda to persuade people to move to Sacramento after World World War II. The film imagined Sacramento as metropolis for jobs‚ housing‚ life‚ and work. Sacramento was also promoted as a progressive and community oriented town with a great night and day life. This was targeted a white audience because of the characters depicted in the show were predominately white living in the suburbs. This propaganda promoted an imaginary of a great place for specific

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    year because I was terrified. My life would be different in the 1920’s as of then because in middle school was around when technology was coming out i we were in the 1920’s we would not have as big as technology we were beginning to have. All though the 1920’s was known as the roaring twenties and was when technology was becoming bigger but not as it was when i was in the eighth grade. In the eighth grade was better cell phones‚ computers‚ wifi and more. In the 1920’s the things that were better technology

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    The decade and life of an American before the 1920’s was built on stead fast “rural-based values” and “individualism”‚ but when Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry with mass production; that started the beginning of a consumer good revolution (1). More and more Americans were buying various consumer goods to make their life a little easier. It gave them more time for leisure. What weren’t foreseen were the major issues that came with urbanization and great distance between the lower

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    the village may have felt the exact same way. Another reason why I feel that she is admired by the people of the village in Africa is because she came from a whole different world in America. She went from T.V.’s‚ hamburgers‚ chicken‚ escalators‚ etc.‚ to a village mud hut where life is so tough that the most you will afford to eat is the ground millet or boiled meat. Some days you would not get nothing to eat at all. Also you would have to carry buckets of water for miles on your head back to

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