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On The Waterfront And High Noon
1,337 wordsMuch that characterised Hollywood in the 1950 s can be described as paradoxical and ambiguous due to anti-communist hysteria and the blacklist. How accurate is this statement in relation to two films of the 1950 s? A lot has been made of the suggested subtexts present in High Noon and On the Waterfront, that they reflect the experiences of Carl Foreman (the writer of High Noon) and Elia Kazan with the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Foreman has openly assented to this, and Kazan has a...
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Brave New World Products And Services
1,564 words... Armed with big ideas and little cash, a man named Henry Ford set out in 1903 to make the automobile accessible to every American. Ford Motor started a manufacturing revolution with its mass production assembly lines in the early 1900 s. Almost a hundred years later, his company is one of the largest companies in the world and is the second largest automotive company when ranked by annual sales (Ford Today and Tomorrow). Not only do I consider Ford one of the most innovative companies due to ...
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O J Simpson Merchant Of Venice
2,352 wordsThe Role of Prejudice In The Merchant of Venice This paper discusses the subject of prejudice in the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice. I. Introduction William Shakespeare's satirical comedy, The Merchant of Venice, believed to have been written in 1596 was an examination of hatred and greed. The premise deals with the antagonistic relationship between Shylock, a Jewish money-lender and Antonio, the Christian merchant, who is as generous as Shylock is greedy, particularly with his...
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Moral And Ethical Morals And Ethics
3,794 wordsMarilyn Manson: Pushing the 1 st Amendment Marilyn Manson is a name that has been a thorn in the side of society as a moral and ethical issue for the parents and kids of the generation? X? . He is one of the most controversial artists in the world today, one who chooses to express himself in a way that provokes in the most extreme methods possible. His methods are bizarre and shunned by most of society, as it cannot fathom what he is trying to accomplish. However, further research into his life ...
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Compton Eighteenth Amendment
1,901 wordsCauses and Effects Of the Prohibition Since at least the turn of the century, reformers had been denouncing alcohol as a danger to society as well as to the human body. The true feeling behind this thought was that the use of alcohol was due to the influence of the city. The first American colonists started out with the belief that city life was wicked and evil, whereas country and village life were good (Sinclair 10). Later, during the war, the idea of prohibition was a way of keeping the count...
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Role In Society Invisible Man
585 wordsThis novel is a record of a Negros journey through contemporary America in search of success, companionship, but most importantly himself. This so called Invisible Man gives voice to the feelings of many black Americans that they were not seen by American society. Blacks were not integrated into the American mainstream and therefore not seen. This, making the Invisibility of this man evident, particularly through his italicized wording, where he often questions who he is and his role in society....
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Eating Disorders Disordered Eating
2,323 wordsIt almost everywhere you look. Pictures running rapid on magazine covers, advertisements, billboards: everywhere. Standing in the line at the grocery store, flipping through a magazine, or just glancing at the advertisements on television. It is quite evident by looking at the emaciated pictures of young women and surprisingly men too, what the media considers as the ideal figure. This perception society has created, plays a major part in our countries obsession with thinness and extreme dieting...
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National Security Council World War Ii
3,258 wordsLess than a year after the end of World War II, the great wartime leader of Britain, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. After receiving an honorary degree and being introduced by President Harry Truman, he delivered a historic speech. Churchill said, ? It is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that l...
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Jerry Springer Talk Shows
999 wordsRaping Morality? : The Effect of Talk Shows on American Society You are too hot to be a mom! You took my man! These are just some of the topics one would run across while watching Jenny Jones, Jerry Springer, or one of the many other daytime talk shows otherwise known as dysfunction forums. Fortunately, these shows are not representative of our society as a whole. Rather, they represent the underbelly. Talk shows do not accurately reflect our society, but affect it adversely by making immoral si...
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Turn Of The Century Blues Singers
2,174 wordsConcepts of the Blues Most of what we hear today, in essence, probably developed from the blues. The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia or depression since the Elizabethan era. To have the blues meant that you had a depressed mood or felt things that werent going your way. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term the blues. The earlier (almost entirely Negro) history of the blues musical tradition is traced through oral tradition as far bac...
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Houghton Mifflin Company Washington D C
1,805 wordsAfter WWII why did the economy prosper and what role did consumerism play in the 1950 s? After WWII many economists predicted a recession in the American economy. It is easy to do so when at the peak of post war unemployment in March 1946 2. 7 million searched for work. In 1945 people were laid off from their jobs. However, in 1945 the US entered one of its longest, steadiest, periods of growth and prosperity (Norton 829). How could this be? With many new developments affecting the United States...
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African American Men Racial And Ethnic
1,378 wordsA Sociological Critique of Spike Lees Jungle Fever Liana R. Prieto (April 1998) Spike Lee? s Jungle Fever is not a unique cultural production, but a reflection of splintered aspects of real life. It depicts relationships between African-Americans and Italian-Americans centering on one interracial relationship. The film is as much a critique of urban life in New York City as an examination of interracial relationships. It presents a bleak picture of city life full of stereotypes where no racial g...
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Black And White Melting Pot
1,460 wordsCulture Clash is a story of two families from different backgrounds, culture trying to live in harmony. They are trying their hardest to understand each others customs and traditions. One of the family is your typical middle class American family, Ellen and Ben Matthews, owners of a home, a small business, two cars and three kids. The other family are refugees from Vietnam. Kim and Quang, Vietnamese newly weds in their 20 s fleeing their own country with Kim's two sisters, Lan and Minh. This boo...
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Domestic Violence Violent Acts
1,721 wordsDomestic Violence in America Introduction: Today in American society we have many social ills. Perhaps one of the most upsetting, at least to me personally, is domestic violence. Domestic violence can come in many shapes and forms and affects many different people. Reasons vary for spousal / child abuse, but none are justified. Police / community programs have recently had a more pro-active role in domestic violence, but that is not a solution to our problem at large. On the micro level, the ult...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Huck
882 wordsYou Don? t Know Me? In Chapter 1 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck spoke for Mark Twain when he made the statement, ? You don? t know about meet that ain? t no matter. ? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was not a sequel to his other adventure stories but a literary statement questioning how civilized our American society really was. Twain was not a racist but a realist. The perception of racism in the novel should be attributed to the historical setting and the effect it had on its c...
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Ideal Woman American Society
646 wordsAmerican women of today can never be too thin or too pretty. In most cases thin compares beauty, so the present ideal is a thin, fit, radiantly healthy, young woman. In magazines stuffed with models and advertisements, billboards on the highway, and actresses on TV, the message of what women should look like is everywhere. The decided presence of these images in effect shapes the image of women today. It s very unfortunate that the media influences American society to the point that it defines t...
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Secretary Of Labor Put In Place
2,428 wordsAnalysis of the Red Scare " The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. " -Kipling, The Recessional Mr. Kipling was wrong. War does not always end with the last cry on the battlefield. World War I certainly did not. After the war formally ended on November 18, 1918, there was an ideological war still going on in the US. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia and caused, among many other things, what would be known as the Red Scare, which began in 1919 ...
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Eating Disorders Quot Ideal
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Bear Arms Concealed Carry
2,102 wordsCertainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 19...
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Langston Hughes Hughes Langston
1,159 wordsLangston Hughes: Poetry to the People I had been a writer who wrote mostly because, when I felt bad, writing kept me from feeling worse; it out my inner emotions into exterior form, and gave me an outlet for words that never came in conversation. -Langston Hughes During his lifetime as the poet laureate of Harlem, Langston Hughes also worked as a journalist, dramatist, and childrens author his poems, which tell of the joys and miseries of the ordinary black man in America, have been widely trans...
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