1960s Essays and Term Papers

McDonald’s Americanizing Europe

At one of several concerts in Europe by the American rock sensation Bruce Springsteen, 30,000 enraptured youths wear jeans and T-shirts bearing the names of American universities, states, and products. At their feet are thousands of empty Coca-Cola bottles. Springsteen addresses the crowd in ...

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How do Orwell and Atwood experiment with dystopian ingredients to reflect the developing fears of modern societies?

How do Orwell and Atwood experiment with dystopian ingredients to reflect the developing fears of modern societies? In 1984 (George Orwell) and The Handmaids Tale (Margaret Atwood) it is possible to illustrate, through examination of the author’s experimentation of dystopian ingredients, social ...

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Gulag

The term "GULAG" is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era. Since the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The ...

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Malcolm X

It is tempting to speculate how the radical politics of the 1960s might have played out had Malcolm X not been assassinated on February 21, 1965. The campaigns for civil rights, for the liberation of people of color domestically and internationally, against the war in Vietnam and other instances of ...

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Volkswagen

1904 - 1936: The Dream of the Volkswagen Talk about a "Volkswagen" began in Germany in 1904. Engineers were already of the opinion that the future of the automobile industry lay in the mass production of inexpensive small cars. Pioneering developments in America, where a mass market for ...

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Labeling Theory In Criminology and Policy Making

An Analysis of the Implications of Labeling Theory for the Discipline of Criminology and for Policy-Making Purposes The labeling process of bygone centuries left a mark on the poor that has never completely disappeared. People still speak of the 'poor but honest,' and what this phrase expresses ...

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Yves Saint Laurent

Erin Zhang FMD 456 Historic Perspectives Fashion Dr. Marie Botkin 08 November 2019 Research Report Yves Saint Laurent, beginning as the young protégé assistant of Christian Dior, truly revolutionized the way of women's dress in the 1960s. Becoming the youngest couturier in the world at ...

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Nelson Mandela

Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela is born in a small village in the Transkei province in the Eastern Cape of South Africa on July 18, 1918. He was in a tribe called The Madiba, his tribal clan, is part of the Thembu people. His family has royal connections; his great-grandfather was a King and ...

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A Wild Sheep Chase

Boku, thirty years old, is in many respects an average middle-class citizen who, free from excessive financial worries, enjoys the kind of independence his status bestows. A product of 1960’s, he takes endless pleasure in smoking, drinking, and eating in bars, cafes, and restaurants. He dresses ...

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Medical Uses Of Marijuana

For several decades, researchers have sought to determine whether marijuana has legitimate medical uses, and narcotics control agencies have discouraged them from finding out. Now a new round of federally funded research may provide some answers-or will it? The latest skirmish between scientists ...

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Mexico

Southward from its 1,500 mile long border with the United States lies the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. A country with slightly more than 750,000 square miles in area, has a vast array of mineral resources, limited agricultural land, and a rapidly growing population. These factors are the basis for ...

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Mother Teresa

was a wonderful woman and a great influence on the world today. She was born in 1910 in Macedonia with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born into a family of deeply religious Catholics. Agnes felt she got the calling to work for God at the young age of fourteen. She joined the Loreto order ...

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Fusion 2

Fusion reactions are inhibited by the electrical repulsive force that acts between two positively charged nuclei. For fusion to occur, the two nuclei must approach each other at high speed to overcome the electrical repulsion and attain a sufficiently small separation (less than one-trillionth of ...

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Modern American History

American history, though nowhere near as epic as the history of Europe, is wrought with its own heroes and legendary personalities. The three most important span political, economic, and social borders. In its 300 years, the United States has not seen finer heroes than Benjamin Franklin, Alan ...

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Cholera: Virulence, Origin, And Pandemics

Merriam Webster’s Tenth Edition College Dictionary describes virulence as the rapid course, severity, or malignancy of a disease or infection caused by a microorganism [pathogen] to overcome body defenses of the host. Ewald (1) looks at virulence in two spectrums depending upon mortality rates ...

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Dementia

is an organic brain syndrome which results in global cognitive impairments. can occur as a result of a variety of neurological diseases. Some of the more well known dementing diseases include Alzheimer's disease (AD), multi-infarct (MID), and Huntington's disease (HD). Throughout this essay ...

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Unity Amid Diversity

The 1950’s and 1960’s was a dawning of a new age. Many changes were occurring within America’s society. Segregation was prominent with the passing of Plessy vs. Ferguson, however, the Jim Crow laws of the south were being challenged. Negroes in the south wanted equality and justice. The nation was ...

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Environmentalism In The Sixtie

s In the late 1960s to 1970s, Americans realized that industry was doing serious damage to air, water, and the earth itself, the most essential natural resources. The whole awareness of the damage being done to the environment stemmed out from the energy crisis of the 1970s. The energy crisis ...

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Atomic Structure

The concept of the atom has existed since the 5th century BC, but it was not until the beginning of the 19th century that this concept was developed into a scientific theory. Almost as soon as the modern atomic theory was established, it was discovered that atoms were not the basic building blocks ...

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey later became known as and one of the greatest entertainers of his generation. American singers - Bing Crosby and Billie Holiday, influenced . Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced ...

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