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Salem Witch Trials World War Ii
1,901 wordsIn The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There is more to the play than the witch trials, though. The Crucible was composed during a time when a similar hysteria was sweeping through America. A virtually unkown senator by the name of Joseph McCarthy was propelled into infamy when while at a speaking engagement at thee Republican Womens Club of Wheeling, West Virginia he charged 205 persons in the U. S. State Department of being...
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Salem Witch Trials Accused Of Witchcraft
1,221 wordsA political cartoon shows a massive stone wall surrounding tall office buildings which bear labels of "Department of Energy, "Defense Department, "National Security Agency, "CIA, " and "FBI. " Outside the wall, which is tagged "Government Secrecy, " a couple huddles in a roofless hut called "Personal Non-Privacy. " At the top of the cartoon is printed "Somehow I feel this is not the way the founders planned it. " Indeed, America's founding fathers most likely did not plan for the United States t...
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Second World War Attempt To Show
1,688 wordsA countrys foreign policy is only partly the result of decisions made by its government: it is mainly imposed by circumstances. Australia, during the last fifty years, has been a country unsure of its place in the world. She has been bouncing from ally to ally, begging for a place under their umbrella of protection, ignoring and denying her place in the Asian region, and struggling to find a foreign policy that is in the best interest of her welfare and security. Australia truly finds herself, p...
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Million In 1950 Baby Boom Time
658 wordsFrom Woodstock to wood stoves to the World Wide Web From Say kids, what time is it? to Up against the wall, NOW From fall-out shelters to Internet service providers From Cant Buy Me Love to IRAs and 401 ks... The nations population increased 19 million in the 1940 s and by 30 million in the 1950 s. This was known as the baby boom and continued until the mid 1960 s. During the 1950 s, school enrolments increased 13 million. Sales of music instruments went from $ 86 million in 1950 to $ 149 millio...
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Percent Per Year 1 2 Billion
1,333 wordsPopulation, term referring to the total human inhabitants of a specified area, such as a city, country, or continent, at a given time. Population study as a discipline is known as demography. It is concerned with the size, composition, and distribution of populations; their patterns of change over time through births, deaths, and migration; and the determinants and consequences of such changes. Population studies yield knowledge important for planning, particularly by governments, in fields such...
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Anti Communist Television Networks
1,246 words... that even having been convicted of a crime (Ellen Schrecker the Age of McCarthyism). The film industry soon started to change as people began to fear losing their job and reputation. The economic hardships befalling Hollywood hit the movie industry hard. The studios were already losing money due to the invention and wide-spread use of the television and many studios were going bankrupt or on their way down that path. Needless to say, the McCarthy controversy didnt sit well with the heads of ...
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Cold War Tensions House Un American Activities Committee
2,073 wordsThe Cold War influenced nearly all aspects of American political and cultural life from 1946 -- when Winston Churchill announced the descent of an Iron Curtain separating the Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellite states from the non-communist West -- to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The influence on the American film industry was deep and long-lasting. Hollywood became a highly visible target of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the late 1940 s and 195...
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One Of The Most Important Cold War
638 wordsThe Nature of the Cold War during the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations In the 1950 s the fear of the cold war was felt in every home throughout America. Genuine fear was the feeling of the public. This fear was partially due to the government s way of informing the public of the threat of a cold war. Many key people in Washington played roles in informing the public of the cold war, but Senator Joseph R. McCarthy did more than any other individual to turn the fear of internal communism into...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
2,747 wordsOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U. S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the las...
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Great Leap Forward Mao
1,476 wordsI. CONTEXT Tibet knew its first famine during 1960 - 62, as a result of the Chinese invasion of 1950. The food shortage occurred because Chinese colonizers settled massively, increasing the population, and because of the changes imposed on Tibetan traditional agriculture by Mao? s? Great Leap Forward. ? Death Roll Accurate estimations and data about Tibetan victims of the Chinese genocide are hard to find, given that China provides biased information. However, associations like? Friends of Tibet...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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World War Ii Turn Of The Century
3,579 wordsComics: In the Beginning The modern comic, as we know it, began in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World on February 17, 1895. The comic, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, was based on the life of Mickey Dugan, an Irish immigrant child in the city. Although the strip had no name, people have dubbed it the Yellow Kid because the nightshirt worn by Mickey Dugan was the projection for an experiment in yellow ink by the newspaper. Eventually the comic came to be known as Hogans Alley. Soon comics were recogn...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
2,548 wordsHistory of the Computer Industry in America America and the Computer Industry Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U. S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-centur...
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38 Th Parallel Korean Peninsula
1,776 wordsMany events make up the entirety of a conflict between opposing forces. More specifically, there can be many different parts to a war. There is not necessarily only one struggle in a war. In the Korean Conflict, the war can be separated into three distinct and equally important stages, each with their own purpose: the North s offensive, the South s offensive, and the stalemate. Examining these three stages will clearly define the objectives of the war. The offensive attack that the North Koreans...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
3,217 wordsMartin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X grew up in different environments. King was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received little schooling and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther King s parents ensured that their child...
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Kim Il Sung 38 Th Parallel
1,263 wordsOrigins of Korean War Korean War started on the 25 th June 1950, but do you know how and why it happened? When someone mentions the Korean War, everyone knows that it was a civil war between the North and the South Korea. But, do you know the origin of how it actually got started? There are lot of things that happened, before the North Koreans decided to cross over the 38 th parallel. Korean civil war was just a small part of the whole war. The war also included more then just Koreans. What peop...
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University Of Texas Lack Of Respect
1,760 wordsHow did the book make you feel and what did you think about as you read it? Were you secure in your feelings or uneasy about them? Explain. While I sat back and read this book feelings in me became more and more evident as I went on in my reading. I am no where near ok with any type of racism and all of the things that happened to John upset me in the deepest fashion. It truly touched me and angered me at the same time. It makes me want to know this wonderful man. To be a relative, to be his fri...
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Punched Card Machines Large Scale Integration
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Existed In The 1950 Dirty Plates Esther
1,304 wordsWomen belong in the kitchen, a colloquial phrase used in many cultures to paste the role of women right smack in their faces. What brought about such a confining and discriminatory conception of women s lives? It may date back to the earliest days of mankind when women gathered berries for supper and cared for the children while the physically powerful men hunted game and brought home the kill. Was the hearth women s place to begin with because they were naturally unfit for the harsh conditions ...
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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,074 wordsThe Korean War was a result of the division of Korea after World War 2. Japan controlled Korea prior to 1945 when the United States and the Soviet Union divided Korea at the 38 th parallel. The US did this in the fear that the Soviet Union would take over Korea. This was the beginning of the split between the north and south. Both the US and the Soviet Union began to build their regimes within their halves to support their interests. By the end of 1946 these regimes of the north and of the south...
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