The word nigga is an anti-black verbal word and still is today in the 21 first cenrty it became a word white people use to describe African American as slaves in the 1970’s it became a good to downgrade African American and sergration‚ does this word offend you today does this word has a different meaning in this millilumen with African Americans today People have not been able to agree on whether there is a difference between both words‚ one thing is very clear – there it’s ridiculous and a double
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the 1970s the D.E.A. focused most of its efforts on other drugs due to an assessment on the extent of drug abuse in the United States and it read‚ “all drugs
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Introduction Overall the 1970s were a strange decade. People were shifting from a time in the 1960s‚ where the rights movement and helping one another was prominent; to a time in the 1970s‚ that trust was lost in the government and the “Me Decade” began‚ to where everyone was concerned with looking out for themselves. The 1970s were filled with huge events that are still prominent and talked about in today’s world‚ including: Watergate‚ the Vietnam War‚ and the Energy Crisis. I want to discuss
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in the 1970´s‚ drug trade was increasing‚ music was evolving and lifestyles were changing. Disco was an upcoming genre for many people‚ and “funky” was becoming a word. Throwing parties every week‚ and hippies were becoming the common man. There were peace rallies‚ and war was in effect. The DEA was cracking down on marijuana use while Pablo Escobar was on solely the rise of becoming an imperialistic drug dealer with a growing empire. There were thirty-eight Presidents throughout the 1970’s‚ but one
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Music from the 1960’s and 1970’s is much different than music of today. Classic rock was started in the 1960’s as a cause of the British invasion‚ which included the discovery of bands such as the Beatles‚ Led Zeppelin‚ and Pink Floyd. The British invasion influenced garage rock which many high school aged boys would participate in. Some examples of garage rock inspired bands are: the Yarbirds‚ the Animals‚ the Rolling Stones‚ the Kinks‚ and the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Also
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processing the information and reasoning. A deficit in reasoning can lead to errors in thinking that influenced the way how people make decisions in life. These errors are called cognitive biases. The term “cognitive bias” was introduced in the early 1970’s by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman‚ which describes how heuristics or mental shortcuts lead to such errors in reasoning (Wilke & Mata‚ 2012‚ p.1). Cognitive biases develop for several reasons. Most common are the errors in memory that can affect
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Between the 1960s into the 1980s‚ a significant increase in the number of violent crimes occurred. During the 1960s the violent crime rate had risen by 126 percent and in the 1970s the rate had increased 64 percent. President Nixon attributed this to the usage of drugs and in 1971 addressed congress with the intent to provide the money to help eliminate drug abuse. With the monetary aid‚ the government created strict policies to crack down on drug abusers‚ policies still in effect today. The
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The 1970s in America highlighted women’s fight for advancement and liberation from their lives formally known as homemakers and caregivers. Although women had the right to vote for over fifty years‚ the Equal Rights Amendment had still not passed since it had been introduced to congress in 1923. With the inequality still widespread‚ it came as no surprise women were still fighting for their equality in all aspects of their lives. Many women in this time turned to newspapers and magazines for the
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is still looked down upon‚ and women are still not treated equal in the workforce. Understanding what started the “revolution” will be the highlight of this essay. The shift in morals and values towards freedom of sexuality arose in the early 1960’s where sex became more socially accepted‚ women wanted freedom and more to their lives than simply being a homemaker‚ and homosexuality wanted to be an accepted way of living. This of course brought many aspects of morality to light and much concern was
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In the 1960s‚ Milgram‚ then a professor at Yale‚ recruited ordinary people through a newspaper ad offering them money to help in a project purporting to improve human memory. In Milgrams experiment two people come into the laboratory where they are told they will be taking part in a study of memory and learning. Milgram was interested in how people obey under authoritative circumstances‚ using "fake" settings to test obedience. Under any given circumstance people tend to obey authority differently
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