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    School Life in the 1950's

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    School Life in the 1950’s School Life in the 1950’s was harder than today because the facilities were few and inadequate. Teachers were stricter and corporal punishment was still in use. They had fewer subjects and wealth‚ discrimination‚ sexism and racism meant they could only do certain subjects. After World War 2 there was a baby boom and as a result in the 1950’s schools were quickly filling up as the children enrolled. The enrolments increased as much as 30% over the ‘baby-boomers’ decade. In

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    1950's Fashion Trends

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    The 1950`s was an amazing time to decade and an exciting time in the U.S. This time period had an immense economic surge in U.S. This 1950`s decade was thrilling because of new fashion styles‚ less crimes and the booming music. The fashion was exaggerating in the 1970`s because of the new fashion styles that were coming out. The new fashion styles were booming (source 1‚ paragraph 1). The styles wa used to be a common standard of looks(source 1‚ paragraph 5). Some of the larges styles were going

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    Book Review of The Harlem Renaissance by Antonio Ragland 4/25/2010 In the book entitled "Harlem Renaissance" by Nathan Irvin Huggins a story is told about the time period before World War I and the following years in which a "Black Metropolis" was created unlike the world had ever seen. It was the largest and by far the most important black community in the world. It brought together black intellectuals from all over the world to this new "Black Mecca" with dreams of prosperity and change. Their

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    In the poem “Harlem ( A Dream Deferred)” by Langston Hughes‚ he talks about dreams. Dreams that society has‚ dreams that he has. Not a dream that you have while your sleeping but a dream that you have and want to pursue. He addresses the questions of what happens when a persons dreams are destroyed. The author uses a lot of visual‚ descriptive language to try and show that nothing good can come from not achieving your dreams. For example he compares not realizing a dream to the stench of rotten

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    Economics By the 1950s people were beginning to realize that the economy affects every person individually‚ whether they have a salary of fifty cents to ten million dollars. The security of our jobs and how much we earn doing them‚ the cost of the goods we buy‚ the price we pay to borrow money‚ and the interest we get by saving it are all directly related to the health of the economy. And in the 1950s the American economy was the strongest in the world. In the 1950s people were receiving

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    Cultural Identity By Ansu Overstreet AkA Awesome‚ Cool‚ Brilliant and any other synonyms of these qualities Originally known as the New Negro Movement‚ the Harlem Renaissance was a period of immense social activity and great innovations among artist and writers. The movement’s name is derived from its origin; Harlem New York. At this time Harlem became the Mecca to which scholars‚ writers‚ musicians and photographers traveled. African American migration to the northern states played a major role in

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    What becomes of deferred dreams: “Harlem” In “Harlem‚” by Langston Hughes‚ the speaker wants the reader to consider the dangers of postponing their dreams. Through similes of imagery‚ he emphasizes the importance to consider dreams to be as real as flesh and vital as food. “Harlem” is a free verse poem consisting of eleven lines‚ which are broken into four stanzas. In the first stanza‚ the speaker offers a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” which has infinite many answers. In stanzas

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    The Environmental Reflection of Truth In the poems Harlem “A Dream Deferred” and Theme for English B by the poet Langston Hughes‚ uses descriptive physical concrete metaphors to convey the themes of longing for an identity as a whole amongst his peers and acknowledgement as an American. Although race and ethnicity has played an integral role of separation and segregation‚ the speaker’s tone empathetically questions ones will of wanting to achieve a pestering dream‚ as well as calling to the attention

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    The Harlem Renaissance‚ originally known as the New Negro Movement‚ was a literally and intellectually upbringing that fostered a new identity for black culture. It was a movement through which African American sought to embrace their culture and heritage through music‚ art‚ writing‚ and thinking in American Life. The Renaissance Movement was significant due to African American influential writers‚ introduction to Jazz music‚ and the recognition of the intellectual contributions among black Americans

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    the early 1920’s‚ African Americans were a great part of a cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. "The New Negro Movement"‚ later known as "The Harlem Renaissance" was an unexpected outburst of creative activity among African-Americans occurred in all fields of art… it caught the country by surprise. The migration of African Americans from the South brought them to Harlem‚ a New York area. The Harlem Renaissance brought out a lot of musical talent. Singers‚ musicians‚ writers‚ shopkeepers

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