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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keep South Vietnam contained from Communism—since it ended in complete failure. Over half a million Americans ended up losing their lives‚ many adolescent Vietnamese were killed‚ and the efforts of our troops appeared to be in vain. However‚ in the 1950s‚ there is no way that a lasting outcome such as this could have been foreseen—and‚ at first‚ support pointed in favor of the Vietnam War. To begin‚ at the time‚ war seemed to be the most appropriate measure to take‚ especially while under such dire
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Military Psychology Military psychology is a broad market of psychology in which virtually any and all subfields of psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an
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Clinical Psychology Gabriela Alvarez Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology is one of the most prominent specialty areas in psychology today. Clinical psychology focuses and strives to understand‚ assess and treat psychological and behavioral problems and disorders (Plante‚ 2010). According to Bedi (2012)‚ “Clinical psychology is a broad approach to human problems . . . with regard to numerous populations.” Furthermore‚ analyzing the methods in which the human psyche interacts with
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Evaluate critically the impact of socio-cultural factors that have influenced the growth and development of association football from 1850 to today. The 1850’s saw drastic changes to most of Britain‚ the major change being the huge increase in urbanisation which was key to the development of association football. This was because the people of the urbanising areas ended up being in small spaces for the sheer number of people there was. This was only enhanced by the movement of rural-urban migration
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Society has always tried to standardize people. Events in the 1950s demonstrated this in their idea of gender roles. Women were obligated to stay home. The percentage of women going to college dropped considerably in the 50s. The gender roles were emphasized through television. For example‚ “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”. Magazines‚ books‚ and music also reiterated the submissive wife. At the same time‚ men were expected to be bold‚ to hold jobs in factories or management. Men there were
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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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