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    What Is Cultural Identity

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    Cultural Identity is a person’s background or history‚ it also has a lot to do with the religion you belong to‚ and has a lot to do with your nationality and ethnicity ‚it could also be how someone refers to another person‚ or how you are referred to by others. A person’s traditions and religion can determine who a person is‚ how they act‚ and even how they may be treated during life‚ basically a person’s “cultural identity”. A person’s culture is very specific‚ from what language they speak‚ their

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    Reputation Thesis

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    Hashib‚ 1 All of the good or bad choices we made as a teenager and adult have had a role in shaping who we are today. It is easier to ruin a reputation than to get a good reputation. During Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s judicial hearing committee session‚ Anita Hill accused the Justice of sexually harassing her in front of television and the committee. Clarence Thomas denied the false accusation. To make matters worse‚ Senator Alan Simpson quoted the followed lines from Othello:

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    Affluence of the 1950s

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    AfTo what extent does the affluence of the 1950s account for the Conservative election victories of 1955 and 1959? Hannah van Teutem. The affluence of Britain in the 1950s was a large reason as to why the Conservative Party gained victory in both the 1955 and 1959 election. Nevertheless‚ there were other factors which also had an impact on the success of the party. For example‚ there were the different issues with the weaknesses and the strengths of the Conservative party. Following this‚ there

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    Actress Marilyn Monroe was known for many things during her life‚ one of them being the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbol of the 1950s. She was a much admired international star by other woman and desired by men with her sexy voice‚ hourglass figure‚ and short blonde hair; despite her insecurities regarding her acting performances‚ Monroe suffered from pre-performance anxiety that sometimes made her unequipped to perform and was often the root cause of her legendary tardiness on films

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    Asch Conformity

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    Social conformity is a kind of social influence on human beings that changes their behavior or in order to fit in with others in a group. Throughout the history‚ social scientists have done plenty of experiments related to social conformity. In the 1950s‚ a psychologist called Solomon Asch conducted the well-known Asch conformity experiments‚ demonstrating the impact of social pressure on individual behavior. Participants were told that they were in an experiment on vision. With a group of other

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    Solomon Asch conducted an experiment titled the ‘Asch Conformity Study‚’ in which he psychologically tested the certain conditions in which the judgement of an individual is affected by others. Asch used a lab experiment to study conformity; male students were selected to participate in a ‘vision test’ in Swarthmore College‚ in Pennsylvania. Asch used pairs of cards‚ and on one pair‚ three vertical lines of differing lengths were drawn‚ called the ‘Comparison’ lines. On the other pair‚ there was

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    Music Through The Decades

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    beliefs of a new generation‚ and has since influenced a wide range of genres‚ from folk to disco to hip-hop. The musical stylings that have accompanied the socialcultural‚ and political developments of the late 20th and early 21st centuries form the subjects of these entertaining and informative volumes. 1920’s – 1940’s In the mid-1920’s‚ jazz was being played in dance halls‚ roadhouses‚ and radios all over the country. Radios and phonograph records were bringing jazz to locations so remote

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    ENG 101 Reading Response #2 What We Really Miss About the 1950s Stephanie Coontz Stephanie Coontz‚ the author of “What We Really Miss about the 1950s‚” delivers a polemical analysis of what was really going on during that period of time. Coontz claims that it could be misleading to have nostalgia for the 1950s and subtly suggests that readers think about the ways in which the 1950s led to the 60’s‚ 70’s and 80’s. Using strong and logical facts‚ she reaches out to an older/mature audience

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    Cleopatra and Reputation

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    which it is written due to society’s limitations on social and political views at the time. Armed with previously overlooked historical detail and contemporary research‚ as cited in the bibliography‚ the author is able to offer an updated analysis of the legend of Cleopatra. I recognised Dr Fletcher’s discovery of previously neglected detail as being worthy evidence of how the creation of myths and the power of propaganda are used to create a reputation. AUTHORITY: The authority of a history book is

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    The 1920’s a regressive era When most people think of the 1920’s they think of a roaring and unrestricted economy‚ and a booming cultural golden age; however‚ this could not be father from the truth. Even though the economy was prosperous and the women had finally gained their suffrage‚ the 20’s were far from progressive. Racially blacks made little progress and white supremacists gained power‚ politically the government became self absorbed and corrupt‚ and economically while prosperous was

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