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    Over the past 45 years‚ the British Invasion had a huge impact on American culture including music and art. The original members of the Beatles were John Lennon‚ Paul McCartney‚ George Harrison‚ and Pete Best. This greatest band had their small beginning‚ it started on October 9‚ 1940‚ John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool‚ England. He was raised by his aunt Mimi after his parents got a divorce. He formed his first band in 1956 known as “The Quarrymen”. He soon met Paul through one of his friends

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    the best jazz musicians‚ amazing trading routs‚ the greatest pizza‚ and a amazing place to have a drink. Until 1920‚ when Prohibition had hit and had forever tainted the history of Chicago. The forbidding of alcohol had caused mayhem throughout the city‚ which resulted in the nickname “the most corrupt city” in the whole United States. Overtime‚ the blame for corrupting Chicago in the 1920s was forever

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    Years later‚ other factors would contribute to the death of movie palace culture‚ but none would strike the decisive blow that the Great Depression did. By 1932‚ the Great Depression dropped movie attendance from 110 million attendees annually to 60 million attendees‚ and of the 18‚715 theaters in America‚ 3‚200 had already closed and 4‚568 were about to close (Melnick 96). Large scale theaters and palaces that had been picked up in the aforementioned merger and vertical integration suffered as

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    history‚ goods and ideas have been spread due to cultural diffusion‚ trade‚ and travel. During their Golden Ages‚ Greece and Rome were very prosperous in the areas of writing‚ art‚ architecture‚ and their law systems. Due to the preservation of their cultures by the Byzantine Empire‚ the law systems started by the Greeks and the Romans have impacted the world greatly. During the Atlantic Slave Trade‚ Europeans would capture and enslave Africans‚ forcing them to complete manual labor in the Americas. In

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    Eli Whitney has had more impact on American Society and culture than any other person in history for the three following reasons. For instance Eli Whitney was born into a small family who farmed for life. Education was always a must for Eli‚ he attended school most of his child life eventually ending up at Yale college and graduating just a few years later. As Eli entered the real world he realized that his passion was inventing and mechanics. After a few years of struggling he finally

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    the 1910s and World War I. With the reintroduction of the car‚ the youth rebelled against their parents and standards previously created. Other minorities also began to change. The women of the 1920s wanted more rights‚ which they received when Congress amended 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. When women gained the right to vote‚ they had more freedom than ever. Another aspect people do not think about in the Roaring Twenties was the innovation of the radio. The radio connected the disillusioned

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    How did the events of the 1930’s impact African Americans prospects? Charlie Wilson The 1930’s was a time of great struggle in the USA. The New York stock market crashed in 1929 and triggered a spiral of economic depression‚ which hit African Americans hard. The Great Depression had a huge impact on African Americans. The Great Depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers. But as usual‚ African Americans suffered worse‚ pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before

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    Alphonse Capone one infamous American Gangster during the 1920s .Al capone was a gangster during the prohibition era the boss of the chicago outfit‚ he was in operations of bootlegging‚ prostitution‚ and other organized crimes.Capone early life was not related to what he was going to grow up too‚capone was a criminal and payed the consequences. Capone was the fourth from a nine immigrant family who came to the us for a better living from italy‚ he was born January 17‚ 1899‚ Brooklyn‚ New York City

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    In the 1890’s a famous psychology experiment was conducted by Ivan Pavlov which demonstrated classical conditioning in dogs. According to The Free Dictionary‚ classical conditioning is‚ “a learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral stimulus together with another stimulus that already elicits the response.” Around the 1920s‚ famous psychologist John B. Watson along with a graduate student

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    The halo effect was initially portrayed in the 1920s by psychologist Edward Thorndike. It is a sort of cognitive bias in which an observer’s general impression of a person influences how we feel and think about that substance’s character. Also‚ it works in both positive and negative direction. For instance‚ if we like one aspect of something‚ we will have a positive predisposition toward it‚ and vice versa to if we dislike‚ we will have a negative predisposition. In addition‚ the halo effect may

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