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    fashion. Leaving‚ I imagined the mall back in the 1950s. The bright colored outfits reminded me of today’s. Even though both the 1950s women fashion and 2016’s women fashion are bold in style‚ there are many similarities and differences in the two year’s fashion senses and their impressions on America’s fashion industry. 1950s and 2016’s women fashion are comparable in many ways. To begin‚ both trends used much of the same materials. In the 1950s‚ nylon had come into fashion. The lightweight‚ durable

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    Social conformity can destroy your health in many ways. It can suppress the immune system and cause stress‚ lead to depression‚ cause emotional deprivation‚ prevent you from making healthy decisions‚ and lead to you doing thoughtless‚ dangerous acts. Although there are only five here‚ there are more physical and emotional consequences of conforming to group expectations due to fear and disapproval. Conforming to a group that’s against or unsure of your beliefs and values you believe in just because

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    Conformity is the most common and pervasive form of social influence‚ this study supports the idea that women conform more than men because women are prone to care more about the views that their peers perceive of them.I think the results supported the hypothesis because the males involved in the study for the majority part had answers that reflected that they did not care for fitting in‚ while on the other hand the majority of women admitted that they did care enough to want to fit in with their

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    across the term‚ witch hunts‚ they have the common propensity to imagine Satanism‚ witches brewing magical potions‚ and the Salem Witch Trials. The McCarthy Witch Hunts usually aren’t the first thing to pop up in their heads. During the late 1950s and early 1960’s while the United States of America was fighting in the Cold War against the Soviet Union with hopes of protecting its sovereignties and freedoms‚ the growing fear of Communism and rising popularity of Anti-Communism threatened both the freedoms

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    as it would be today‚ with several notable exceptions. Back then‚ the transmission of news was slower. State-of-the-art news equipment for live broadcasting didn’t exist. Satellites weren’t around to send video around the world either. The digital age has dramatically impacted the way media process and cover current events. I believe everything regarding news distribution of the event would happen much more quickly and efficiently as news networks

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    The 1950s was a time marked by fear‚ paranoia‚ and persecution‚ where even Hollywood was under scrutiny. Those involved in Hollywood whether it be directing or acting found themselves being censored and limited due to the political events taking place around the world. Within the accounts of Mark Goodson and Arthur Miller‚ they cite the ways in which the anti-communist movement affected television programming and motion pictures during the 1950s. To start‚ Mark Goodson recalls his experiences

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    Influence of Conformity and Obedience Kimberly McCullough PSYCH/555 Social Psychology March 18‚ 2013 Diana Dobier‚ PsyD Influence of Conformity There are three types of influence on a person. These three are conformity‚ obedience and compliance. Conformity and Obedience are very different in many ways. The first purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast conformity and obedience. There has been many studies on the role of social groups in ones decisions. This paper will review

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    Main household Appliances: The appliances found in houses between 20-50 years ago were a primitive version of what we have today. For example; T.V’s when they first came out were huge‚ chunky and were only in black and white. There were vinyl records that were large and required a record player to play. I think technology has stayed within the same concept‚ but has gotten smaller‚ smarter and more efficient. Size of houses: It was not uncommon to have extremely large families in only one bedroom

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    The history of Barbie’s trace back to the 1950s. Dolls have generally changed in size and appearance over the years. Growing up every holiday‚ birthday or Christmas I would want a new doll. My mother was the same way‚ as soon as she found out she was having a daughter she found all her old dolls to pass on. My favorite doll she passed down to me was her Barbie. Barbie dolls were the coolest dolls because they had different hair and different eye colors. Still to this day Barbie’s have been produced

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    inappropriate to have two men or two women show affection to one another in public. Many of these problems were solved in the civil rights movements of the 1950s. Today problems between the blacks

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