This article was about a study done on school lunch practices in typical schools. Some of the results were shocking‚ while others were what was expected. I wasn’t sure if in the 1950’s schools served lunch‚ but I came to find out that a lot of schools did. Sanitary efforts in the 1950s compared to now were very low and not monitored as much as today. Many insanitary practices were reported. The most prominent thing found was contaminated food. Many children were getting sick of things such as
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Childhood Obesity Journal Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic. However many aspects need to be considered in order to help any child who is overweight. Children that are overweight need to be assessed to determine if the weight problem is due to psychological issues‚ or lack of nutrition and physical activity. Once the causing factor is determined the proper steps can be taken to help the child and the family to live a healthy happy life. Growing up I enjoyed home cooked meals‚ and I was
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The Poor Widow Entry #1: My stomach groins from not eating enough the past week. My ragged clothes cling stick to my body from the sticky sweat. I sheepishly make my way through the market‚ looking for any sort of food that I can possibly afford from begging. In my pocket are two copper coins‚ and I plan to use them wisely. People part my way for me as I walk down the dirt road. I see eyes with pity for me‚ and eyes that find disgust in me. I ignore them both‚ as I meticulously search the large
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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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Vastly speaking‚ in today’s world the structure and the process of work and living have seen significant changes that influence our society. Let us imagine that we woke up to a work day in 1950’s and how different it would have been than our work life today. Obviously‚ there would not be technology enthralling our world everywhere around us and not to mention‚ cell phones without which‚ we cannot imagine our life. What has changed and why is the world so addicted to technology? Nowadays‚ we depend
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English 1101 9/21/13 Reading Journal 3: Throughout Henrietta’s treatment there is confusion on whether or not she was discriminated against for being a Negro. Skloot’s dialogue and text implies that she received the same treatment and Johns Hopkins hospital as she would as a white woman‚ although the time period suggests differently. The advancements of modern medicine are substantial since Henrietta underwent her cervical cancer treatment and even since Skloot’s book was published‚ but even
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television during the late 1940s. Studios fought for the declining viewing audiences that still frequented the theater‚ exploiting the advantages of viewing in color on a larger screen as opposed to black and white on a smaller television screen. By the 1950s‚ fifty percent of American feature films were made in color. The
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Journal 1: In the introduction‚ we learn about the nameless narrator who is the chief executive officer of the Salem Custom House. Since there are barely any ships that comes to Salem‚ the narrator spends his time trying to amuse himself. One rainy day he stumbles upon a pile of documents and finds a manuscript with a gold cloth in the shape of a letter A. It is a work written by Jonathan Pue‚ who had an interest in local history and he wrote about the events that happened in the middle of the
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to their traditional vocation in “home making”. Throughout the 1950’s and early 1960’s women were expected to either stay at home or work in underpaid “women’s jobs”. Women’s wages were significantly less in comparison to the wages awarded to men who performed the same task. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court ruled in 1949‚ that a women’s basic wage should be set at 75% of the male rate. This was the practice throughout the 1950’s when there was a large growth in the textiles‚ clothing‚ footwear
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people. One of the worst crimes that has stained Australia’s history would be the “Stolen generation” this disgraceful event caused many social and physical problems for the children who were kidnapped. The policy of assimilation introduced in the 1950’s encouraged aboriginal people to ‘act white‚ think white and even look white’. They used genocide during this time as the white society wanted nothing to do with the aboriginal people and saw them as foreign creatures
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