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War in Africa

starvation (Philips). While this African nation is at peace today, the causes of this conflict, that is, "ethnic rivalry and mist...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

Music as a Reflection of Society

2008). The fact that controversial songs or literature emerge is something that in fact is not only a reflection of the problems s...

Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

General Electric Profitability Case

available. Even using this index, the company used it differently in that the ratio was different for each department. The standar...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Draft Dodging During Vietnam

there were young boys dying in the jungles of Vietnam (Stone, 472). Hence, many people did not favor the acts of the young people....

Cinematic Influences of 1960s' Society

the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...

New Generations from the 1870s through the 1960s

ideals of the generation before (Flexner and Soukhanov, 2002, 1997). The generations raised in the 1870s to 1890s, 1920s to 1940s,...

Radicalism in California

university began to clamp down on student activists. When we consider this, it is very strange. Universities are places where you...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Ubik: the social and political culture of the 1960s

than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...

Reaction Paper on a Case Study

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

Issues in Black Studies

site of cultural heritage (Hoechsmnn, 2002). In other words, by reclaiming ones past,and ones history as well as cultural roots, ...

1960s' Avant Garde Movement

was enacted during the mid-1980s (PG). Things began to become freer during the 1960s, particularly in America, as expressed by the...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

Popular Culture and American Pop Art

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

A Sociological Analysis of the Role of Malcolm X

at a speaking engagement ("Biography of Malcolm X," 2007). Of course, the 1960s were tumultuous times. Yet, prior to his demise, h...

1960s and 1980s Social Life in America

the Vietnam War is that which involves technology. Never before had people possessed televisions that brought a war into living ro...

1960s' Industrialism

reasonable existence (Rogers PG). As with most other societies that are unevenly split among social class, Americas working class...

Books and Films Reflecting British Realism

an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...

Hippies: 1960s and Today

They could be simply irresponsible people who were looking for something exciting and fun. There were hippies who simply did not...

'No Smoking' Policy For Portsmouth, NH

but has not instigated any cause for concern toward those nonsmokers who must inhale the expelled pollutants of smokers. From air...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

Banned in East German

GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...

Mario Savio and the FSM

This research paper is in two sections. The first section briefly describes the Free Speech Movement (FSM) and the social protests...

TwoTypes of Therapeutic Interventions

There is confusion when someone talks about cognitive therapy or behavioral therapy alone because since the 1960s, these have give...

Self-Concept Maintenance

Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...