The NBA of the 70’s greatly differs from what our expectations of today’s league‚ especially when evaluating the background in which the players came from. Recent statistics show that more than 90% of 70’s NBA players came from urban areas‚ but when compared to today’s league only about 34% of black players come from families in financial situations (Keating). The question that needs to be asked when observing these statistics is what happened to the league or basketball in general that subsequently
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1960’s Fashion A fashion trend is a movement where lots of people start to move in the same direction towards a certain hairstyle of style of clothing. The 1960’s went through many different trends and some of them influenced what we wear and the way we style our hair. Most of the clothing that they wore back then was a little more rebellious and eclectic than the clothes we wear now‚ but it wasn’t weird to be dressed like that because everyone did it. The 1960’s fashion was heavily influenced by
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murder mystery remained unsolved. 3. Death due to drug overdose- American actor Wallace Reid (1891-1923) died of drug overdose. Reid was revealed to be a long-term narcotics addict. CREATION OF MPPDA MPPDA – MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION CODE Following the example of a major-league baseball scandal which had whitewashed a national bribery scandal by appointing a conservative federal judge to oversee its operations‚ the frightened Hollywood producers formed a self regulatory trade organization The
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illustrate how each of the following events would affect the price of butter and the quantity of butter bought and sold: a. An increase in the price of margarine. b. An increase in the price of milk. c. A decrease in average income levels. 2). Use Supply and demand curve shifts to illustrate the effect of the following events on the market for apples. Make clear the direction of the change in both price and quantity sold. a. Scientists find that an apple a day does
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Title: Women’s fashion in America during the Seventies. Specific Purpose: For my audience to have a better understanding of Women’s’ American fashion in the 70’s. INTRODUCTION * Attention-getter: Do you ever wonder why fashion becomes fashion or how styles become popular? Coco Chanel‚ a famous fashion designer once stated‚ “Fashion is MADE to become unfashionable.” * Audience Motivation: We all are somehow interested in how we look which may have a lot to do with the clothes we
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in the 1930’s The film industry was a big source of entertainment in the 1930’s. During the Great Depression‚ spending money on entertainment wasn’t reasonable for people. Audiences always looked for "light-hearted screwballs" that would make them forget their troubles for some time (Hollywood and the Film Industry). In the 1930’s‚ Hollywood movie studios were having trouble financing the transition from silent to talking pictures due to the stock market crash 1929. The movie industry was losing
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was a huge impactful social and political change. The 20’s was an age for everything new and exciting. There were many inventions during this time including: automobiles‚ the airplane‚ sliced bread‚ the assembly line‚ and the television. With the new inventions came new actions‚ dancing‚ and dressing. Many traditional standards were rejected. There was a break out of organized crime‚ and citizens ignored the prohibition on alcohol. Women started to gain more rights and disregarded “standards”
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In 1960‚ the United States was on the verge of a major social change. The society of the country had always been more open and fluid than that of most of the nations of the world. However‚ it had been dominated primarily by old-fashioned white males. In the 1960s‚ some groups that had been inhibited or subordinate - Afro-Americans‚ Native Americans‚ women‚ white ethnic descendants of the "new immigration" and Latinos-began to self-affirm more strongly and successfully. Much of the support they received
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Science Timeline In the early 1860’s the French beverage industry was thriving. Pasteur was called upon to tackle some of the problems that were plaguing the industry. The special concern was the spoiling of wine and beer‚ which caused great economic loss and tarnished France’s reputation for fine vintage wines. He noticed that when aged properly‚ the liquid contained little yeast cells. But when the wine turned sour‚ he was a proliferation of bacterial cells which were producing lactic acid
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with a forward velocity of 60 m/s. The oscilloscope record of the deceleration is shown. Determine the approximate velocity of the particle at t = 9 s. [answer: -58 m/s] 2. A car can decelerate at 0.8 ‘g’ on a certain road. Find the total emergency stopping distance measured from the point where the driver first sights the danger for a speed of 100 km/hr. The time taken for the driver to identify the hazard‚ decide on a course of action‚ and apply the brakes is 0.75 s. [Answer: 70 m] 3. An underground
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