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    Politics : The 1950s is a great choice for those interested in politics. The 1950s was a great period for political achievements and upsets. For example during the 1950s McCarthyism was just starting to flourish. Another major political event was when President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated his running opponent Adlai E. Stevenson for President of the United States of America. Economics: The 1950s was a very elaborate time where the majority of Americans achieved prosperity previously never known

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    was an organisation with an aim of spreading communism throughout the world. Communism really was a threat to Australians in the 1950s‚ the events of the Korean War‚ different alliances being formed‚ the banning of the Communist party of Australia (CPA) and the Petrov affair all tell us that communism could spread to Australia. Australia responded to the threat of communism by joining the Korean war in 1950‚ Australia joined the Korean war to prevent fighting communism in Australia‚ so they fought

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    Family Life In The 1950's

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    Within the 1950s the prevalent family was a two parent family‚ both mother and father. In this duration separate families were unprecedented proximately as in the event that it was illicit to be discrete. It felt this way since the way society was‚ numerous didn’t require the mortification of being dissevered and mainly women were perplexed to induce disunited. You were anticipated to induce hitched and remain hitched no matter how hopeless life was for you‚ since separate was an ignominiously. Back

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    Racism Racism has always been strong in America‚ but in the 1950s there was more to be concerned about. There were laws for African Americans that would make them not as equal as whites. African Americans were only allowed to use their own bathrooms‚ school’s‚ water fountains‚ hospitals and busses. Racism in the 1950s was far aggressive with segregation and violence from today. Many African Americans lost family members during this time period. Many were adults but there were still children.

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    Cult Films and the 1950's

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    1950s 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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    As humans‚ we often have a propensity to think that we will automatically have long‚ fulfilling relationships with little to no effort‚ and quickly. This is obviously not true; Americans alone have a divorce rate of up to 50%. The problem with this situation is that it tends to result 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

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    the race‚ but because of what people infer from the lyrics. Two articles that I have read‚ definitely helped impact my opinion of what should be done with music and race. In the reading “Racial Rhetoric and Cultural Frames” the main idea throughout this essay are all about the different frames of music. Specifically whether or not lyrics to different songs are harmful or are not harmful. In the article “What are Rappers Really Saying about the Police?” the main idea is about how the idea that rap music

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    Define 1950 S Stuff

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    Defines 1950s Stuff     Conglomerates­​  a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in  unrelated industries     Franchises­​  a company that offers similar products or services in many locations‚ also it is  the right that is sold to an individual entrepreneur to open a business using the parent  company’s name and the system that the parent company developed.     Social conformity­ ​ large franchises that standardise the American public    The baby boom­​  WWII soldiers coming home to their families and reproducing

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    experienced it in their lives. Some might even say they’ve molded their existence around it. However‚ while we are all familiar with love‚ the situations in which we encounter it are so diverse that the definition has become unique to the individual person. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” does an amazing job of forcing the reader to wonder what this feeling really means to them. What starts out as a normal conversation between four friends almost turns into a harsh debate on the elusive

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    stylists‚ ever compelled to ‘improve’ on last year’s model‚ gave streamlining a bad name.” (Hodges‚ Coad‚ Stone‚ Sparke‚ Aldersey-Williams‚ The New Design Source Book‚ 1992‚ p.158) Discuss in relationship to the ‘innovation’ in household designs of the 1950s‚ how do these designs compare to similar examples of today? Do designers today feel “compelled to improve on last years model? “American corporate designers were learned in Modernist theory‚ but nevertheless found bulbous aerodynamic bodyshells

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