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    The 1960s was the most influential era in the American history. POP HISTORY Pop music‚ music of populace‚ originated in the UK and USA. Pop music is not a genre in itself‚ but merely the music targeting mass audiences. The History of popular music was not about social phenomenon‚ music was all that mattered and being least resistant (Gray‚ : 104). There were two types of American pop music. The first one being the angle of concentration‚ focusing on artistic and historical themes. The second

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    Robert Vahrenhold SS310: Exploring the 1960’s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Prof. William Rookstoolii Cold War Assignment During the 1960’s‚ one of the most thing that the American government and the American people had to face was the Cold War. People who grew up during the 1950’s‚ 60’s‚ and 70’s would have talked about the war like it was an everyday thing. But‚ as the years and decades have gone by people have might have a different option and some might not even know or remember what

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    The Conservative Party throughout 1945 to 1960 often acted in such a way to keep colonial change within bounds. Although many recognised by 1945 that the British Empire was headed towards change‚ its colonies were inevitably on the path to full self-government‚ there were a myriad of differing opinions on the optimal pace and character of decolonisation within the empire. After coming to power in 1951‚ Conservatives believed Britain’s power to largely lie in its international prestige; its economy

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    Pursuit of the African American Identity: The American Cinema in 1960 The horror genre in the late 1960’s was booming in the film industry‚ with an abundance of social and racial issues. The majority of the social issues were predicated on the unequivocal civil rights among African Americans and Caucasians. The race of the cast in films began to change over the course of this decade‚ as the number of black actors increased exponentially. The majority of critics and historians in this genre attribute

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    Race Definition Essay

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    Race is an ideology that was created by people of power in order to create social classes. The main objective is to claim that there is no exact definition of race‚ it is a fictional word that was created by social groups in order to have power and a hierarchical system. The concepts of race that have been discussed represent assumptions of what race would look like if it was real. Society has different social groups in which everyone is categorized differently due to their languages‚ culture‚ beliefs

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    The Cross-Race Effect

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    The cross-race bias‚ also called as own-race bias or cross-race effect‚ in recognizing faces is the idea that people can better recognize faces from their own race‚ relative to those of other races. In brief‚ the theory explains how it is easier to focus on individualistic features to differentiate individuals within their own face‚ but not in other-race faces due to lack of familiarity. This is particularly important in evaluating how accurate eyewitness identification is: cross-race effect plays

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    Constructions of Race and Ethnicity Race has always been a significant sociological theme‚ from the founding of the field and the formulation of the "classical" theoretical statements to the present. No society is composed of genetically “pure” people. In spite of this‚ members of society tend to rank themselves into hierarchies based on race with one race assumed to be better than another. Although traditionally in the US the category white has been ranked higher than black or other categories

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    1960-1970 “Fashions fade‚ style is eternal.”  By Yves Saint Laurent (Sibeal Ito FIP) Introduction The 1960’s saw a massive development in fashion in comparison to the long skirts and conservative style of the 50’s. The decade was in the middle of an economic boom and lots of prosperity which led the expansion of fashion. What was also very important about the 60s was that people became unhappy with their governments‚ especially in the US.

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    Race... Real or Fiction?

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    experience‚ I have come to the conclusion that race is a very narrow minded classification of human beings. The primary factors in determining race seem to be biological “surface” or “visible” traits such as skin color‚ hair type and facial features. However normal this may seem in our society‚ it is not without fault. As a culture‚ it seems‚ North Americans have a common desire to classify or compartmentalize just about everything including people. Race is a way that we identify ourselves with each

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    and oppress minorities and black people. The riots in Charlotte‚ North Carolina were rough. It all unfolded when police came to an apartment complex with a warrant for another person‚ when an African American man by the name of Keith Lamont Scott stepped out of his car with a gun. The officers then proceeded

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