This article was about a study done on school lunch practices in typical schools. Some of the results were shocking‚ while others were what was expected. I wasn’t sure if in the 1950’s schools served lunch‚ but I came to find out that a lot of schools did. Sanitary efforts in the 1950s compared to now were very low and not monitored as much as today. Many insanitary practices were reported. The most prominent thing found was contaminated food. Many children were getting sick of things such as
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1950s- This decade saw the US expand its containment policy to involvement in conflicts with Soviet proxy forces. Communist forces in North Korea would invade South Korea. This started the active phase of the US blocking Soviet communist expansion. The 1950s also saw a vast increase in the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Successes of the communists in developing nuclear weapons had led to increases in funding for the US nuclear program. Advancements‚ such as the hydrogen bomb‚ and increase in
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the 1950s served as somewhat of a “kickstarter” for how the U.S. as a nation became what it is today. This decade’s society is about the massive changes that were made to the country and how its citizens operated together. Major events took place in this society and changed things that can still be seen today‚ such as transportation‚ rights for all citizens‚ and the population expansion to even the outermost areas of the nation. Influential American figures that fueled these changes in 1950s society
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1950’s Over past nine weeks we’ve embarked on a journey spanning seven decades of cult films and also received a brief education of our not so distant past. We’ve seen the outrageous‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly‚ the weirdly dramatic‚ and the just plain weird of the last seven decades of cult films and how in the end somehow find away to incorporate a piece of American culture at the time. However‚ by far the most intriguing decade to me would have to be the nineteen fifties. There are many reasons
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Comparison of Advertising Techniques of American TV Commercials of the 1950s and Today The 1950s in America were the “Golden Age of Television” (‘The Golden Age of Television’‚ 2009). After the Second World War ended‚ all the money people had saved over the last four years was just waiting to be spent. The result was 50 million television sets by 1960 in the United States (Miller and Novak‚ 1977‚ p.344). The 1950s were a decade of economic optimism which resulted in greater materialism
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Events in the 1950s up to around the end of the 2000s have affected and still continue to take effect on the United States in modern times. There are so many events between the 1950s and 2010 that are ample enough to meet the criteria to be put under this category‚ but like in most great‚ or in this case under average yet attempting the best‚ works one must choose from the many to a select few. In this circumstance out of the many events that have happened between the 1950s and 2010 that would be
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The Good Life- America in the 1950s After the end of the World War II‚ the United States of America experienced a lot of boom in its economy. It is estimated that the period of the 1950s is when the US economy grew in more than double its original gross domestic value of $200 billion to over $500 billion. The economy general developed by 37% amid the 1950s. Toward the end of the decade‚ the Middle American family had 30% more acquiring power than during the starting. The expansion‚ which had wreaked
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The 1950’s was a time of rock-and-roll and poodle skirts. Although‚ it wasn’t all fun and games. Global events such as the treaty with Japan‚ the bus boycott‚ and the Korean War occurred during the 1950’s era. Sputnik was also launched in this period‚ along with the invention of the color television and remote control. Plus‚ a vaccine for polio was created. Film stars and some musicians were big the time‚ too. Don’t forget‚ the ‘50’s had its’ own style of clothing. On September 1‚ 1939‚ the start
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The Fifties was a time of the nuclear family‚ "I Love Lucy"‚ and things like the hula hoop. People dressed the same‚ talked the same‚ and acted the same. It was also a time of the Red Scare and Korean War. The government used fear tactics and were mostly unquestioned. When addressing the Fifties more often then not will you hear that it was a time of Conformity. The majority of the fifties was a time of cultural and social conformity with small deviants popping up every once in a while. The majority
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in a stigma against divorced people‚ and focuses unnecessarily on divorced women. Divorced women get the house‚ they get the car‚ they get the kids. Divorced women get‚ get‚ get‚ while their male counterparts do nothing but lose‚ lose‚ lose. In the 1950’s‚ however‚ their roles were reversed‚ with the sympathy still in favor of the male members of the household. Men got everything in a divorce: the house‚ car‚ kids‚ money‚ and everyone’s sympathy. A divorced woman
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