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    Video 5 – Civil Rights; Discrimination; Disabilities & Employment American law strongly protects certain categories of persons from discriminatory treatment in employment and as guests. These laws apply to virtually all hospitality businesses. The laws derive from different origins‚ but the basic issue is that discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race‚ color‚ religion‚ national origin‚ gender and disability. For employment only‚ there may not be discrimination based upon age for persons

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    The Civil Right Movement of the 1960s and 70s in America against racism gave rise to disability rights. Disability rights groups argued that the problem lay with way society respond to people with disabilities. Disability group took actions against institutional discrimination‚ poor access‚ social environments and inequalities. In 1945‚ many disabled people were killed. Also many people were isolated and sterilised. The Disability Employment Act‚ (1944)‚ is to provide shelter‚ employment and jobs

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    employee-employer relationships. The concept of equal employment opportunity has come a long way since the 1960s. Current and future business professionals continue the efforts in the workforce. An organization such as the Marriott‚ respect the Civil Rights Act which first passed in 1964. the. Marriott adheres in prohibiting the discrimination act on the basis of race‚ national origin‚ color‚ gender‚ or religion. In 1991‚ the act was amended again and now provides solutions for the complaining party

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    The Sixties In all of American history‚ one decade‚ the 1960s‚ would prove to challenge “the norm” on many fronts‚ the likes of which hasn’t been seen since. Woodstock‚ the Civil Rights Movement‚ the Sexual Revolution‚ the Space Race‚ and the Vietnam War were all iconic moments in American history that grace the pages of children’s history books still today. With so many moving parts in the political and cultural atmosphere‚ it is hard to digest the impact of these movements in only a seven-hour

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    The Sixties: A Social Revolution? The period between 1959 and 1975 was a time of great social and moral change throughout Britain. The most significant change involved the emergence of a new youth culture. In my day‚ the population had consisted of only two age groups‚ children and adults. This meant you were either too young to work and therefore went to school‚ or you were at work earning money and handling the responsibilities of an adult. …”the nation’s youth were already different to

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    conversions of non-believers. In addition to a religious movement‚ other reform movements such as temperance‚ abolition‚ and women’s rights also grew in antebellum America. The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order. The abolition movement fought to abolish slavery in the United States. The women’s rights movement grew from female abolitionists who realized

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    Utopian communities[edit] New Harmony as envisioned by Owen Utopian socialism was the US’s first Socialist movement. Utopians attempted to develop model socialist societies to demonstrate the virtues of their brand of beliefs. Most Utopian socialist ideas originated in Europe‚ but the US was most often the site for the experiments themselves. Many Utopian experiments occurred in the 19th century as part of this movement‚ including Brook Farm‚ the New Harmony‚ the Shakers‚ the Amana Colonies

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    Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. The ’60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil‚ there were some positive results: the civil rights revolution‚ John F. Kennedy’s bold vision of a new frontier‚ and the breathtaking advances in space‚ helped bring about progress and prosperity. However‚ much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements‚ political assassinations‚ and ghetto riots excited American

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    time guzzling metal detectors at the airports... or the schools. There were no grouchy warning labels on the records and no ratings necessary on the movies. And TV shows were acceptable to the whole family. Those were the sixties or at least part of it. Some of the 52 million sixties’ boomers called it the decade of peace‚ harmony and love mainly for the movement for peace and the "flower power" attitude. Others‚ a little more pessimistic‚ called it the decade of dissatisfaction because of the protests

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    their respective names that correlate to impactful events of the times- “The Dirty Thirties”‚ “The Roaring Twenties”‚ “The Fabulous Fifties”‚ and... “The Sixties”? The 1960s are typically just called “The Sixties”‚ but because of the television’s impact on America’s views on politics‚ protest‚ and even war‚ one might call the 1960s the “Surging Sixties”. Many TV shows covered various issues of the 1960s that both directly and indirectly influenced American’s opinions about current events. The options

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