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    The Perfect Family

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    Bibliography: 1. Soto Gary‚ “Looking for work”‚ 1995. 2. Coontz Stephanie‚ “What we really miss about the 1950s”.

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    nothing back at home. Because of his war experiences‚ he believes in a higher responsibility to the world at large. He has a hard time‚ even though he still seems to live quite a comfortable life and never outright rejects his father ’s money‚ with materialism: ’I felt wrong to be alive‚ to open the bank-book‚ to drive the new car‚ to see the new refrigerator....Otherwise what you have is really loot‚ and there ’s blood on it. ’ (Act One) He also has a different view of the business than Joe does. He

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    Chapter 5- Big Hairy Audacious Goals Chapter 5 discusses a visionary company characteristic of taking risk and “setting super goals” as a hallmark for success. It starts off with Boeing’s pursuit of the commercial airline market in the 1950’s‚ which was underdeveloped and needing a major player for jet aircrafts. Unlike its rival Douglas Aircraft‚ who avoided entering the commercial market‚ Boeing took a gamble and developed a prototype for the commercial airliners used today. This chapter

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    hour-a-day years glued to the tube (‚ 2006).” But what effect is this made believe world of violence‚ sex‚ and rudimentary behavior having on our society? (Summary) Television has been around since the 1930’s though it did not really catch on until the 1950’s. In fact the number of television sets in America alone increased by millions in the first twenty years. Television has been seen as the most effective way of reaching out and influencing the most individuals at any point. Television has had a

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    Outline the arguments for and against life after death? Questions of life after death have intrigued the dawn of mankind for millennia. This is one of the fundamental questions that none of us escapes. At some point in every person’s life‚ they must come to grips with a universal principle - all living things inevitably will die. Even in the brilliant and celebratory moment of our conception‚ we are already cloaked in the mantle of bodily death‚ and we know it. Although much in life has changed

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    unsurprising as William James states that “the moment one tries to define what habit is‚ one is led to the fundamental properties of matter”. A drive for repetition must result in matter. Thus does this mean that a neurological tick must result in materialism as a form of Capitalism? Despite the narrator’s insistent need to see something in order to believe in it‚ he never sees the money he was afforded in the settlement. In fact‚ when he pictures it in his head he imagines the number rather than the

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    Celebrities in the 50s

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    Elvis Presley was only one of the big names of the 1950s‚ though probably one of the most recognizable. In the ‘50s television was gaining popularity and sitting down to watch T.V. was a family bonding experience. Celebrities were put on a very high pedestal‚ even more so than today’s celebrities. People like James Dean‚ Marilyn Monroe‚ and John Wayne were treated like royalty. In the 1950s musicians‚ movie stars‚ and T.V. stars were some of the most important people in America. Musicians in the

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    the span of years the song is covering—1959 to 1970—as the "10 years we’ve been on our own" of the third verse. It is across this decade that the American cultural landscape changed radically‚ passing from the relative optimism and conformity of the 1950s and early 1960s to the rejection of these values by the various political and social movements of the mid and late 1960s. American Pie appears to chronicle the course of rock ’n’ roll‚ it is not‚ as is sometimes suggested‚ a mere catalogue of musical

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    The customs and traditions in 1950s were different to the ones we have these days. In the fifties the family had to be perfect‚ as Stephanie Coontz said in What We Really Miss About the 1950s “It is the belief that the 1950s provided a more family-friendly economic and social environment‚ an easier climate in which to keep kids on the straight and narrow‚ and above all‚ a greater

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    Women in 1900s

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    was from $8000-$11000. During the 1950s‚ the automobile industry saw growth and change‚ particularly in its design departments. Car companies catered to young buyers’ tastes as well as their fantasies. Auto dealers sold record 58 million cars. Women tend to use the Station Wagons‚ which allow more space for grocery shopping and carry the kids to school. Although conglomerates existed before World War II‚ they became increasingly popular during the late 1950s. Conglomerates are corporations consisting

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