The article I read is‚ “The Art of Savage Discovery: How to Blame the Victim”‚ by Ryan William (1976). His book dives into how society has shaped our views on lower classes and how we’ve become accustomed to blaming people for their struggles. According to William‚ “victim blaming is cloaked in kindness and concern‚ and bears all the trappings and statistical furbelows of scientism” (p. 6). In other words‚ William states that when one “victim-blames”‚ it isn’t because they’re being prejudice‚ they
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Cultural and Social Change in the 1960’s The 1960’s in America was a decade characterized by evolving social issues and a rapid growth of many subcultures and culture in general. As their world changed around them and different issues presented themselves‚ people looked for areas of exppression in which their voices could be heard. This led to an explosion in all forms of art and literature. Areas like music changed in such dramatic ways as to rebel against past sounds and styles while civil
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civil rights laws. The Civil Rights struggle that heated up to its climax in the 1960’s was neither a simple nor wanted task by any means. Many Presidents tried taking on the civil rights movement starting with Harry S. Truman. Truman was not for racial equality among blacks and often said so‚ but he wanted fairness and equality before the law (Patterson 378-382). Once Truman got the ball rolling for the first time since Abraham Lincoln‚ Truman pushed for a Civil Rights bill and the movement quickly
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Challenges of Homosexuals in the 1960’s Abstract Every day homosexuals face challenges that heterosexuals do not. These challenges include people giving them looks when they are walking down the street while holding hands with a person of the same sex. They also face challenges in being accepted as a true family‚ this is because in many states same sex marriage is deemed illegal. Over the decades people have become more adjusted to homosexuals in society. In the movie “If Walls Could Talk
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Imagine that you are an African American living in the south during the 1960’s. During this time segregation would have been a daily problem for you. Segregation is when people are separated based on things like gender‚ race‚ or skin color. In the United States‚ from the end of the Civil War until 1964‚ people were separated by race. For example‚ white and black people could not attend the same schools‚ go to the same pools‚ movie theaters‚ or restaurants together and they could not use the same
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INDUS WATER TREATY OF 1960 by William H. Thompson [February 2013] The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) of 1960 is an example of a mutually beneficial conflict or‚ as Kriesberg and Dayton would define it‚ a constructive conflict. Born of the dissolution of the British Crown Colony of India in 1947‚ the treaty recognized the mutual needs of India and Pakistan‚ and the necessity of ensuring continuing access to the waters of the Indus River System for both nations. Although the
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The Election of 1960 The United States presidential election of 1960‚ also known as the first modern election‚ made a significant mark in history. The election was held during a very important time‚ the Civil Rights Movement. This election John Fitzgerald Kennedy‚ Democratic presidential candidate‚ changed the way candidates campaigned. Kennedy’s campaigning skills outshined Nixon’s. He used every type of media coverage to get the word out that he was running. Also‚ Joe Kennedy‚ John F. Kennedy’s
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point during the 1960’s. The looming communist threat that the people of the time had been so fixated on was at an all time high. While America would go into another war in asia for reasons most people wouldn’t understand. In the home front civil unrest had reached its boiling point as many of the status quos of race would be challenged. Trailing behind the fight on equality on race would be a fight for the equality of gender. But what would fuel the rise of women’s rights in the 1960’s? If we were
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Our culture has been changed so much because of television. The 1960s were changed by the genres that made television popular‚ what the people liked about it so much‚ and how Tv became a booming buisness. Tv genres are the deciding choice of if people watch television. Westerns were a big part of the early sixties‚ but did not survive through the end (nypl.org). Another big show that made its debut is Sesame Street (Thepeoplehistory 1960s). These shows are proof of how what people watched on tv affected
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After Spade’s discovery of Mr. Gutman and his trailing gunman‚ Wilbert. He was given orders to see Gutman by his little pawn. As Wilbert took him upstairs inside the hotel and outside Gutman’s room‚ Spade disarmed the two guns from his trench coat. They head inside into the room and told Gutman‚ such a rookie gunman should be running around with these‚ he’ll end up hurting himself. Gutman laughed‚ then apologized for their last interaction and told him about the origins of the Maltese Falcon and
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