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    Baseball In The 1940's

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    was major league baseball like in the 1940’s? Integration was a controversial issue in the 1940’s. Many of the major league teams were interested to know more about integration which impacted many factors. The impact of black players on the field was significant. They were brought over from the Negro leagues an aggressive style of play. Black players soon established themselves as major league stars. The impact that black baseball players had in the 1940’s was powerful because it sparked the end of

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    Fashion In The 1900's

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    for religion‚ etc. Back in the 1900’s your fashion statement meant something‚ with the new millennium‚ it’s a competition with name brand labels‚ and who can afford to wear what. Now-a-days clothes have been highly favored‚ back then it was a necessity. Clothes were needed to cover your body‚ and they played a major role in everyday needs. Today’s clothes are used at popularity and most due high like what’s common and looks better or “the style.” In the 1920’s fashion wardrobe was mainly

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    Micah Briggs HSTV 440 Essay 1 Please discuss the social‚ political‚ and economic conditions of the 1950s; which lead to the social upheaval of the 1960’s. In the 1950s the United States was marked by economic growth and an increase in manufacturing and home construction due to the post WWII economic boom. The Cold War also began during this time frame and brought with it many conflicts that helped create the proliferation of a politically conservative environment throughout the country

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    Ulysses S. Grant

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    History essay: Ulysses S Grant Hiram Ulysses Grant was born April 27‚ 1822 in the state of Ohio. Grant was born to an average working family who moved to Georgetown Ohio shortly after Grant’s birth. At the age of 17 Grant did not want to follow his father’s footsteps and carry on the family leather business‚ Grant’s father had his son join into the United States Military Academy at West Point. Grants birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant‚ upon registering in the United States Military Academy there

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    Assess the roles of key individuals and public protest in the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA from the 1950s to the 1960’s. The role of key individuals and public protest was essential to the success of the civil rights movement in the USA during the 1950s and 60’s. Key individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King stimulated the ideas that began the Civil Rights Movement and the public protests. Significant protests during the civil Rights Movement include‚ the Montgomery

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    Prohibition In The 1920's

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    Annotated Bibliography With the war on drugs presently being waged in the United States what sort of out come can be presumed based on the outcome of the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s? By being able to determine or predict outcomes based on the closely related prohibition in the 1920’s we could possibly save lives from the war that is raging in many of our backyards. In my research I was looking for articles from the 1920’s and present day that were closely related to try to draw ties between

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    1930's Essay

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    Essay on the 1930’s The 1930’s was a rebuilding year for the United States of America. America was going thru a rough time in the 1930’s. For example America was in the great depression and war was going on in Europe‚ although America wasn’t involved in the war it would be inevitable for them to stay out of the war. The president that would be elected is Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ he would be the president to help us get out of the Great Depression; the United States went thru what is called the Dust

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    Gangs In The 1800's

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    When the word “gang” is mentioned the first thought that comes to mind is a person wearing baggy clothes‚ a bandana across the forehead and tattoos all over the body. That is a stereotype. Obviously back when gangs were first initiated in the 1800’s they did not dress like that. Not all gangs are associated with colors‚ signs or names. A gang is defined as a group of criminals or a number of people forming a group (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). In fact the word “gang” actually originated from

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    Women In The 50's

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    women have been represented within magazines. From the stereotypical housewife magazines from the 1950s and 60’s‚ through the evolution of women as a sex symbol in magazines primarily made for men‚ and how women throughout time more often than not have been viewed as a ‘thing’ presented to the world to be looked at and objectified. In my dissertation I intend to write about how women since the 1950s have been put into stereotypical boxes created by other people‚ objectified and made into a mean

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    Media in the 1800's

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    America had the most media‚ the cheapest media‚ and the freest media by the 1840’s. Communication through the media was vital to America in the early 1800’s because‚ as a democratic nation‚ the people needed to be well informed about their system of government. Following the American Revolution‚ the United States stayed from their traditional English ideas involving the relationship between the state and the people. Unlike Great Britain’s selective press and seditious libel laws‚ information and

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