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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To begin with‚ the The Italian Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance were differentiated in culture but had the same idea. This essay will show you how similar they really were. In both‚ everyone wanted to know more about culture and creativity. They were all trying to get more information on part of what they already knew.When you want to learn more‚ what do you do? You look for it. Back the‚ most people were strugling finding curiosity so the world almost lost a lot of information during the dark
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For a country that supposedly places such a high premium on individualism‚ America possesses an unusual infatuation with the family‚ one that stretches all the way back to the 1950s. Experiencing a blindness typically found only in teenagers‚ the America of that time perceived a flawless family unit and fell instantly in love. Like all besotted creatures‚ it quickly began to weave fancies about itself and the object of its attraction‚ stories about how everything was and always had been perfect between
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Foreign and Domestic Affairs and the Dual Realities of the 1950s One of the key strategic plans of the President Harry Truman’s administration is encapsulated in the National Security Council (NSC) 20/4 of November 1948 and NSC 68 of April 1950‚ among others‚ stressing the containment of Soviet Union from controlling Eurasian territories‚ an approach which President Dwight Eisenhower continued using his own methods. During Eisenhower’s 1952 presidential campaign‚ he strongly attacked Truman’s national
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The Harlem Children’s Zone is changing the cycle of generational poverty and helping children beat the odds. It is one of the most ambitious social experiments in our time according to The New York Times. The project uses a holistic approach to rebuilding the community by keeping the children on track from birth through college and to the job market. (Symbolic Interactionist - A basic premise is that a condition must be defined or recognized as a social problem for it to be a social problem.)
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more (Stewart E. Tolnay‚ 2003). According to a recent study‚ the Great Migration created the suburbs and ghettos since there were limits on where black people could and could not live (Ryan O’Hare‚ 2016). In addition‚ the Great Migration led into the Harlem Renaissance. This was a time of music‚ literature‚ and art. It significantly impacted how the world viewed black culture. As a result‚ The Great Migration momentously influenced the culture of America by creating
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Traditional Women means not-so Traditional Families In the 1950’s‚ families were stereotyped to be “compassionate” and their primary focus was on their family. Today however‚ people believe that the “traditional family” from the 50’s is only a thing of the past. Women have dramatically changed in the past sixty years and are becoming more and more independent. This change is why our families are no longer traditional. In the 1950s‚ with a male-breadwinner and a female housemaker‚ parents were
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Back in the 1950’s - 1970’s‚ there were a lot more stereotypes in the world. In the article by Jessica McBirney‚ Emmett Till decided to visit his uncle in Chicago. He was dared to flirt with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant‚ and then she harassed him and threatened to kill him. Then‚ her husband had abducted him‚ and abused him and pushed him into the water where he laid there dead. In the novel That was Then‚ This is Now by S.E. Hinton‚ a black girl walked in a drugstore‚ and the white kids were
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Women’s Fashion in the 1950s The 1950s post-World War II era‚ were a time of fashion evolution. Advances in textile technology subsequent to the war gave way to new fabrics such as spandex and easy-care finishes that suited suburban lifestyle for women in the 1950s. The 1940s boxy structure look with square shoulders and short skirts were replaced by Christian Dior’s “New Look” silhouette‚ which also gave way to an unfitted‚ structural look in the later 1950s. After years of military and civilian
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The 1950s and 1960s were a thrilling ride for Americans as the United States teetered on the brink of nuclear war and was in the middle of several key social movements. Americans were tired of the hypocritical beliefs that had previously been held in the United States and fought against these beliefs in full force. The civil rights movement‚ women’s movement‚ and the counterculture all fought for their rights to be acknowledged and were determined to have their voices heard by rebelling against the
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