e Crisis Watergate was during the 1970’s when five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic Party to mess with what was going on during the election. By the five men messing with the information‚ these events lead to Richard Nixon becoming the President of the United States and for there to be a massive crisis in the 1970’s. During the break-in that happened‚ the 5 men decided that they would tamper with the information with the election and make sure that Nixon would be president again
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the 1970s the D.E.A. focused most of its efforts on other drugs due to an assessment on the extent of drug abuse in the United States and it read‚ “all drugs
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1970s Music Critically acclaimed pop singer‚ Adele‚ is inspiring to citizens throughout the United States‚ as well as the world‚ but she is also inspired herself‚ by other artist from her childhood (Hajdu). These artists included Bob Dylan‚ Louis Armstrong‚ and Nina Simone; Nina being responsible for much of the style Adele puts into her music. Nina Simone started her career in the 1950s‚ with her first recording in 1957. Bob Dylan released his first album four years after Simone released hers
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Introduction Overall the 1970s were a strange decade. People were shifting from a time in the 1960s‚ where the rights movement and helping one another was prominent; to a time in the 1970s‚ that trust was lost in the government and the “Me Decade” began‚ to where everyone was concerned with looking out for themselves. The 1970s were filled with huge events that are still prominent and talked about in today’s world‚ including: Watergate‚ the Vietnam War‚ and the Energy Crisis. I want to discuss
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Focus Question: Outline the changes in influence‚ style and broadcasting of music in Australia during the 1970s. Australian perspectives on immigration‚ war‚ sexual morality‚ the role of women and the environment were undergoing radical change. In 1974‚ the White Australia Policy was scrapped. And throughout the decade‚ women won the right to equal pay and maternity leave and Indigenous peoples made progress on land rights. In 1972‚ Australian troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and in 1975‚ the
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why this paper will be different than if I was writing about the 1960’s or the 1980’s. The political climate of the 1970’s actually turns out to be quiet interesting. It is interesting to hear about the Vietnam War and about the Watergate scandal that went on. It is also interesting to see just how the public was changing at this time. These are the things that make studying the 1970’s so fascinating. There were many different political and social outcomes that came from the war in Vietnam. Some
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3. The anti-poverty policies: Participation‚ empowerment and co-responsibility During 1970´s and 1980´s the anti-poverty policies were mainly characterized by the entrance of the private sector as a social services provider. Certainly the trend of flexibilization of labour and the de-regulation policies‚ created new issues related with the enhancement of the informal sector‚ the contributive social welfare systems‚ and increasing levels of poverty. During the 1990´s the anti-poverty programmes
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thought or identified with politics and politicians concerning themselves or their cliques. Whereas before the 1960’s the general consensus was to vote accordingly as to what was for the good of the nation as a whole. The reason historians blame the 1970’s for this type of self-centeredness is that there was not a fundamental common ground for the entire American population to focus on to bring it together. This type of thinking became known as identity politics because of the divisions that were created
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The World was changed in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of the millions of technological developments that took place. Political events that occurred during the generation of 1970s-1980s have affected the way things happen duringbig roof the foreclosures‚ different politically because of all the attacks‚ and very different socially because of all the new technological advances. Politically‚ many things have changed. Of course there are still attacks that are going on in the world‚ but the attacks
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A Man Named Dave‚ by Dave Pelzer is the story of hope and eventual love and how a child called “It” finally found himself as a man free at last‚ after early childhood experiences as the son of a brutal‚ alcoholic mother. When his father is dying of cancer‚ Dave attempts to reestablish contact with him‚ he spends innumerable hours with his father‚ trying to disentangle in his mind the broken family relationships. Much later‚ after his mother’s death‚ Dave realizes that his mother’s maniac actions
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