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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Does anyone know Li Cunxin or his extraordinary life? He is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer and stockbroker‚ and he also was one of the world’s finest ballet dancer. Mao’s Last Dancer" is a heartwarming autobiography‚ which reflects on the past of Li Cunxin‚ the author‚ who went from living a life of extreme poverty to becoming an international dance performer. For master ballet dancer Li Cunxin the measure of his success‚ that Li recounts his determination‚ perseverance‚ vision‚ courage
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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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Many times as a dancer‚ I find myself thinking about what my body is capable of. “What A Dancer Thinks About”‚ by Doris Humphrey‚ was written around the time period of 1937. This essay describes a dancer’s point of view of dance. Doris was born in Oak Park‚ Illionis‚ in 1915‚ where she studied dance. She became a member at the Denishawn school along with assisting Ruth St. Denis‚ a member of the Humphrey-Weidman Company‚ and creating works of her own. While creating her own works‚ Humphrey became
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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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story and made Alice follow along. Several years later‚ when she was fourteen years old‚ her brothers provided her with the encouragement and resources to get eye surgery. She describes the impact of this surgery in the essay: “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” (emory.edu). In 1961 she left her hometown in Eatonton‚ Georgia to attend Spelman College‚ a predominant school for African American woman in Atlanta‚ on a state scholarship. During the two years she attended Spelman (in 1961) she became
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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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Chicago in the 1900’s were deadly. Open shootings‚ muggings‚ and illegal breweries‚ all started with Mobsters. Most people do not know who Johnny Torrio is‚ but gangsters would not be the same without him. Born in Italy‚ then traveled to New York‚ but his life as a big time gangster started in Chicago. Johnny Torrio lived a rough life. His dad died when he was two years old‚ and his mother brought him to New York. His mother remarried a man who owned a grocery store that was secretly a illegal liquor
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