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    Fast food restaurants started to change farming and food distribution as early as the 1950’s. Dick and Mac McDonald were the first to revolutionize the drive up restaurants when they redeveloped their BBQ joint into the type of McDonalds we know today that serves burgers and fries.(Ganzel) Others soon caught on to what the McDonalds brothers had going‚ and fast food restaurants started opening up everywhere. The first Kentucky Fried Chicken opened in 1952. By 1954 Burger King opened and became the

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    After the surge in demand for training that occurred throughout the early part of the 20th century‚ there was a change in focus post-war. The economic and social changes that occurred from 1950-1989 had a significant effect on the direction on Learning and Development. From the end of the war to the end of the 80s there was a noticeable focus on youth training schemes‚ with many of the programmes developed during this time laying the groundwork for the training schemes on offer today. Following the

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    The Rock music era affected society in more negative ways than positive ones. Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950’s. It gained its origins from rhythm and blues‚ jazz and rock and roll. The exact date of the birth of Rock music is difficult to determine .It was said that no one planned the Internet‚ but it was conceived and then it took over the world. The same can be said for Rock music (Dister‚ 19). Few would dispute that rock music owes most of it

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    will help push what the demand. When some groups get what they wanted it pushes others to push for what they what. This creates a country of citizens demanding changes n the United States. Changes will be made to make this country stronger. In the 1950s the United States economy was doing well. The war is over and the increase in electronics like the tv helps drive the economy. As it says in the 25th reading TVs were much less expensive than before. Technology has improved as well as the amount of

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    Obesity is often defined as having an excessive amount of fat that affects one’s health. In the 1950’s‚ the history of fast food started to boom and as cities and countries started expanding‚ populations began to increase. Long ago‚ tourist cities became more popular and news was spread around to find cheap inexpensive food. In 1916‚ the first hamburger joint was opened up in Wichita‚ Kansas known as White Castle. As the fast food industry started to become more popular‚ waitresses started delivering

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    page: Share: On this page Word Browser Advertisement (Bad banner? Please let us know) Harlem Renaissance‚ term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s‚ mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from the rural agricultural South to the urban industrial North (1914–18)‚ many who came to New York settled in Harlem‚ as did a good number of black New Yorkers moved from other areas of the city. Meanwhile

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    Introduction The 1950s were a time of conformity. The country had just gotten over WWII and the people of America were willing to believe and actively pursue anything political figures declared the social norm. A group of writers who rejected any American middle-class conformist values started a rebellious movement against such assimilation. The Beat Generation expressed their ideas of individuality through works of literature influenced by drugs‚ sexual experimentation‚ Buddhism‚ and jazz (Belgrad

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    In the 1950s and 1960s there lived the idea “Separate but Equal”. This idea made it seem like it was just to segregate african americans from the rest of the U.S. The blacks used to idea of non-violence to solve this problem‚ even though the whites only used Violence and bullets. One of the first non-violent acts carried out by the African Americans was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was caused because there was heavy segregation on buses‚ where all blacks had to sit at the back the whole time

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    The Harlem Renaissance and personal experiences‚ being main inspirations‚ motivated Hughes to take new and creative approaches such as folk and jazz poetry. Langston Hughes was a voice that got across the unfair treatment and limited opportunities that many African Americans experienced throughout their lifetime. The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which African Americans prospered with great achievements. The process of these achievements involved variety and the will to be experimental. Langston

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    Slave Culture and the Harlem Renaissance: Finding a Home in Modernism For years scholars have noted the importance in history of the African- Americans from the time of the Atlantic slave trade‚ even up to current culture and entertainment. As prominent as the slave trade is taught within the schools and the education systems‚ there has been little noted in the history classes about the art and literature of that time period for African-Americans. However‚ in spite of the little we know of the

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