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    Harlem Brewing Company is Black Owned and Growing Fast Celeste Beatty hopes that WalMart can do for her beer what they did for Patti LaBelle’s pies. Beatty is the owner of The Harlem Brewing Company‚ a black-owned brewing company that has been serving the people of the local area for 15 years. The business‚ which started as a small brewery run out of her apartment‚ will take a giant leap forward when it hits Walmart’s shelves in 39 locations throughout New York. Just look for names like Sugar

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    The Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is a non-profit organization that seeks to break the cycle of generational poverty in Central Harlem by providing children with the resources to gain a range of skills and opportunities. The two multiservice charter schools known as Promise Academies were also created in partnership with HCZ. Through its cradle-to-career program children are to be supported in multiple aspects of life from the moment they are born until they graduate from college. The Zone uses this

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    The term slasher refers to a subgenre of movies and a category of monster. These kinds of movies started becoming popular back in the 1950’s and the movie Psycho became one of the most commonly referred to for this genre of movies. This movie is most well-known for “the shower scene”‚ which accurately portrays the trend of victims as helpless‚ beautiful‚ and without much clothing. Even though the violence in this famous scene was well hidden‚ it is said that even today it has the chilling effect

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    Context In 1950’s America‚ the equality of man envisioned by the Declaration of Independence was far from a reality. People of color — blacks‚ Hispanics‚ Asians — were discriminated against in many ways‚ both overt and covert. The 1950s were a turbulent time in America‚ when racial barriers began to come down due to Supreme Court decisions‚ like Brown v. Board of Education; and due to an increase in the activism of blacks‚ fighting for equal rights. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ a Baptist minister

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    “Minorities experienced racism in suburbia in the 1950’s.”(Kruse) Through the postwar‚ government started developing on highways‚ housing‚ and others so on. FHA (Federal Housing Administration) started to build big‚ nice houses in outside of the city area. Which is now called “Suburbia”. The main idea of suburbia was having bigger house without lots of money‚ better social community and nice neighborhood.“Better housing and jobs‚ cheap consumer credit‚ safe and healthy neighborhoods

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    keep South Vietnam contained from Communism—since it ended in complete failure. Over half a million Americans ended up losing their lives‚ many adolescent Vietnamese were killed‚ and the efforts of our troops appeared to be in vain. However‚ in the 1950s‚ there is no way that a lasting outcome such as this could have been foreseen—and‚ at first‚ support pointed in favor of the Vietnam War. To begin‚ at the time‚ war seemed to be the most appropriate measure to take‚ especially while under such dire

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    Gender Roles In The 1950's

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    Society has always tried to standardize people. Events in the 1950s demonstrated this in their idea of gender roles. Women were obligated to stay home. The percentage of women going to college dropped considerably in the 50s. The gender roles were emphasized through television. For example‚ “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”. Magazines‚ books‚ and music also reiterated the submissive wife. At the same time‚ men were expected to be bold‚ to hold jobs in factories or management. Men there were

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    Life and Thought in American Literature: 1865-Present Discussion: Romanticism & Realism * All writing is always and already a political act. * All writing is an attempt to persuade or move the reader to see or believe in a point of view or to act the way the writer wants you to. To change the reader’s reality. * Who is the writer? * Who is the audience? * A grocery list is a political act is because it is written to persuade you to ignore all other items in the grocery

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    1902–1967 Langston Hughes was first recognized as an important literary figure during the 1920s‚ a period known as the "Harlem Renaissance" because of the number of emerging black writers. Du Bose Heyward wrote in theNew York Herald Tribune in 1926: "Langston Hughes‚ although only twenty-four years old‚ is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . . It is‚ however‚ as an individual poet‚ not as a member of a new and interesting literary

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    Esi Central Rules 1950

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    THE EMPLOYEES’ STATE INSURANCE (CENTRAL) RULES‚ 1950 MINISTRY OF LABOUR NOTIFICATION New Delhi‚ the 22nd June‚ 1950 S.R.O. 212. — In exercise of the powers conferred by section 95 of the Employees’ State Insurance Act‚ 1948 (XXXIV of 1948)‚ the Central Government is pleased to make the following rules‚ the same having been previously published as required by sub-section (1) of the said section‚ namely : — RULES CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title and extent. — (1) These Rules

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