African-American family who struggle to live in their new home in the all-white community of Levittown. As any veteran with a family during this post-world-war era in America‚ William Myers and his wife Daisy sought the American Dream which was to own a suburban home of their dreams‚ and to most Americans‚ one in Levittown. Later on in the novel‚ Levittown‚ after months of experiencing discrimination‚ the Myers‚ the Wechslers‚ Selma Von Blum (who had a crossed burned on her lawn)‚ and Thomas Colgan of the
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sweeping the floor‚ and washing clothes. She sang happily with a good-hearted smile while doing jobs of a housewife. This suggests she enjoyed doing housework. This also revealed how Snow White’s behavior was shaped by the social assumption of ideal suburban housewife. She also took care of the dwarfs like children. The dwarfs were lack of the skills to take care themselves and the cleaning of the house. Snow white gave each dwarf a goodbye kiss like a mother and children when they left the house to
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Women’s Fashion in the 1950s The 1950s post-World War II era‚ were a time of fashion evolution. Advances in textile technology subsequent to the war gave way to new fabrics such as spandex and easy-care finishes that suited suburban lifestyle for women in the 1950s. The 1940s boxy structure look with square shoulders and short skirts were replaced by Christian Dior’s “New Look” silhouette‚ which also gave way to an unfitted‚ structural look in the later 1950s. After years of military and civilian
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recognisable and everyday with dream-like‚ uncanny aspects. The boisterous‚ haunted house on Cloud Street‚ which gradually‚ painstakingly becomes home to the novel’s two families (the satirically-named Pickles and Lambs) is a believable‚ earthed‚ suburban setting. It is rendered
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to introduce the moral of appearance versus reality. Edward is a very humble and polite human being yet he is detached from the real world. As a result of being concealed in his gothic mansion for so long‚ he yearns for acceptance in the quaint suburban town. As Peg‚ an Avon sales woman is going door to door trying to sell her cosmetics‚ she is shut down by everyone in the neighborhood. As a last resort‚ she looks through her side view mirror and sees the great‚ gothic mansion behind her (Source
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increase sales for the Lumber Company. By borrowing‚ Mr. Clarkson has met the financial needs of the company during the periods of 1993 and 1995 by relying heavily on trade credit. He received the maximum loan in the amount of $400‚000 from the Suburban National Bank to help
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families. The presence of non white families can undermine real state values as written by the federal housing administration. The more non whites there were in certain areas the more they were considered hazardous those areas were redlined and more suburban white areas had mortgages approved. African Americans were left in low income areas and left with again even less opportunities for better lives. An urban renewal act was suppose to help but many homes were destroyed by the renewal and not replaced
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1. Challenges Facing Urban Transportation Cities are locations having a high level of accumulation and concentration of economic activities and are complex spatial structures that are supported by transport systems. The most important transport problems are often related to urban areas and take place when transport systems‚ for a variety of reasons‚ cannot satisfy the numerous requirements of urban mobility. Urban productivity is highly dependent on the efficiency of its transport system to move
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them are harmful‚ because they can collapse anytime. Beside the buildings‚ we should concern of our teaching and learning facilities. We don’t have enough learning media for the students‚ especially for they who live in remote area. They who live in suburban can’t hold teaching and learning process properly since they have no effective media. Moreover‚ in some places the students should struggle to get education. They have to walk for many kilometers to reach their school. They should
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If the world was just fine‚ I would move to another planet and strive for better. Living in a small suburban town with two hard working‚ loving parents and five siblings. Two younger sisters‚ two older brothers‚ and an older sister‚ two kids were from my dad’s side‚ I grew up being the middle child with four children I was in the middle with my sister and with six children I was in the middle with my brother so no matter how you look at it I was stuck in between. This is important because I was always
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