Fashion Trends Change after World War II During World War II‚ fashion was bland. Women wore clothing‚ such as military jumpsuits‚ that signified war and the military. There were many laws and restrictions against women’s fashion during these times; women’s silhouettes‚ their lengths of garments‚ their garment colors‚ and the fabrication usage. Wool and nylon were mostly for garments and other casual clothing because the textiles were needed for those in the war. The laws against fashion were
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Life After Combat Imagine being away from the things you loved and the people you cared about for months at a time. When you finally come back to those people and things it feels like life has taken on new meaning and the things you loved and the people you cared for just doesn’t feel the same as it used to. It’s like everyone lived in a different reality than the one you knew. Add to that‚ most people who watch the events of war and conflict on a television do not translate it into a reality. The
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costs for everything affected many families financially‚ including mine. Trying to cover all necessary costs to survive seemed to be difficult as the years passed by. Inequality becomes a problem when ‚what we consider middle class‚ families are severely struggling just to survive. Many of us are unaware of the reality of how money is distributed in the United States.
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Bankrupt Rapper Not Really Broke After All Curtis James Jackson III‚ better known as 50 Cent‚ has been in the news a lot over the last year because of is bankruptcy. When 50 Cent filed his Chapter 11 last June he claimed that he owed nearly $50 million‚ just enough to offset his assets but not enough to pay the $7 million judgment against him in favor of rival Rick Ross’s ex‚ Lastonia Leviston. He said he certainly could not afford the $17 million award to his ex-business partners who sued him
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It’s a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ The Jungle‚ gives a heart breaking portrayal of the hardships faced by the countless poverty stricken foreign laborers in the slaughter houses of Chicago. In the early 1900’s‚ strikes‚ riots‚ labor unions‚ and new political parties arose across the country. The government‚ with its laissez-faire attitude‚ allowed business to consolidate into trusts‚ and with lack of competition‚ into powerful monopolies. These multi-million dollar monopolies were
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some that are described in the late 1940s thru the 1950’s. Did the role of characters like June Cleaver just appear? Who said that women must stay at home with dinner ready and a pie in the oven for her family? Where did these standards come from? After WWII‚ Gender roles were challenged‚ ideals were changed and standards were questioned. Could the war be a cause for these changes? This paper will evaluate men and women’s roles‚ ideals and standards
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Animal Farm is an allegorical fable of the workers revolt and the rise to power of the communist party in the former Soviet Union shortly after World War I and in particular the rise to supremacy of Joseph Stalin‚ as told in the form of a story of the farm animals of Manor Farm who overthrow the drunken farmer Jones and seize control of the farm for themselves. In this allegory‚ farmer Jones represents the Russian aristocracy and the animals represent the peasants‚ working class‚ and some elements
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* Flat tax in other countries In a distinct development‚ former communist counties are leading a global tax reform revolution. For instance‚ Estonia was the first country which adopts a flat tax. The tax rate was a 26 percent in 1994‚ started after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Latvia and Lithuania followed shortly after Estonia using flat tax system in the mid-1990s. Latvia picked a 25 percent rate and Lithuania chose a 33 percent rate. Russia’s government discovered the benefit about the flax
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"The Right Stuff"- Might Be the Wrong Stuff After All David Suzuki’s essay "The Right Stuff" provides an interesting look at the need for sex education in high schools. Suzuki’s main assertion is the sex education needs to be taught in high school because it is not properly covered anywhere else and students will because interested in science class should sex education be taught first. Suzuki argues that impressions formed in high school are ones that last longer than at any other time in life
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post-war years were depicted as an era of social stability of secure functioning institutions‚ full employment‚ benign welfare state and trusted systems of expert knowledge.’ How far do you agree with this claim as an accurate picture of the UK after the Second World War? Did things change towards the end of the twentieth century? The question requires a two part answer. First‚ do I agree with the claim regarding the immediate post war years‚ and second‚ was there a change towards the end of the twentieth
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