the Hard Times Even during the “Hard Times” and wartime‚ people still needed to be entertained to pass the time and find enjoyment. The people of the 1930’s were no exception. They enjoyed many kinds of entertainment especially if they could do them inexpensively. Some of their favorite pass-times were film‚ radio and print. Film of the 1930’s was labeled “The Golden Age of Hollywood.” Movies were being made with sound and color‚ new genres included gangster‚ musicals‚ news reporting‚ historical
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that host a diverse range of ethnicities‚ such as America. However‚ if we were to take ourselves just a couple of centuries back‚ to the 1800’s‚ we would find that the view on prejudice‚ especially towards the darker skinned races‚ was unfortunately‚ significantly different. The Negro people were treated harshly during those times and up until the 1960’s were diminished by racist attitudes and beliefs in America. They were treated like second-rate citizens‚ innocent victims of racial prejudice‚
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Spanning Two Decade’s: The 50’s to the 60’s Similar? Or Distinctly different? "The postwar years are remembered as a time of affluence‚ consumerism‚ conformity‚ and stability‚ a time when American enjoyed an optimistic faith in progress and technology."(Heretta‚ pg.779) These words best describe the decade that Americas experienced in the 1950’s. It was age of dad’s always-right attitude and a culture that was family centered. The standard of living for American’s was the best in the world. The
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The Forever changing Events of the 1950’s -1990’s Throughout the last fifty years there are many events that significantly shaped who we are today and changed America’s future greatly. Throughout these decades the American experience has greatly varied. There were several wars such as the Cold War‚ Vietnam War‚ and the Gulf War all which took its own toll on the American people and their economy. The civil rights movement‚ protest‚ and demonstrations throughout the decades
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our minds conjure up images of slave ships‚ racism‚ and most of all‚ what exactly caused Americans to start using slaves. The settlers needed clearing the newly founded country. By the time the first slaves arrived in the 1600’s‚ small plantations and farms had sprung up across the thirteen colonies and beyond‚ especially in the southern colonies. The cheapest and easiest option turned out to be slavery‚ but what exactly nudged slavery to its height in the 1700’s? In spite of all the other factors
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Entry 1 I am John Grant. I’ve never had a journal before‚ but I feel like I need to document this hard and dangerous journey I am about to go on. Yesterday I was eating with my wife Mary and my three children Degory 15‚ Wrestling 13‚ and Florence 4. Then I heard a knock on the door‚ I answered well dressed man and he said he was a farmer from the southern part of Missouri. He offered me $900 for my house‚ my land in a bit of my farming equipment. I was overwhelmed by the amount of happily
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During the 1950’s America had not yet recovered from the devastating effects of World War II and was already thrust into another conflict‚ The Cold War. This war of espionage and fear between the United States and Russia created a hatred of communism and Communists in America. Events like The Second Red Scare‚ known as McCarthyism created a panic that anyone could be a communist. McCarthyism led to false accusations of communism onto other people without any evidence to support their claim. People
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Diary entry 1 One of the things that I had to do in the Hitler Youth was burn books. I did not even want to burn the books‚ but I had to if I didn’t want to blow my cover. The book burning was unnecessary. Why do you need to burn something that has nothing to do with you? They burnt those books because they didn’t say what the Nazi’s wanted them to say. The best books in the world burnt because the Nazi’s don’t want people to think differently. The whole thing angered me. I was fuming inside‚ but
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June‚ 1541 A bunch of Spanish soldiers knocked on my little hut’s door to tell me about Hernando de Soto’s new expedition to the place called La Florida to get riches beyond any others and hundreds of slaves. If I go‚ I could be able to move back in with you‚ have an adventure‚ and be able to pay for our food. I had no other option but to join the soldier. I walked on a bay where there was a tall man‚ compared to me‚ and he talked about the task of what we are about to do. He was very generous and
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and page 162-163 from The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea (The Sailor)‚ respectively‚ demonstrate the recurring conflict throughout the novel between the traditional views and modernity. The first passage (lines 1-23) is at the end of chapter five of the first section‚ Summer‚ in which Noboru performs some kind of ceremonial surgery on a stray kitten to prove his strength of manhood in the audience of the group of nihilistic boys. In the second passage (lines 24-40) from chapter six of the
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