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Love Lucy Movie Stars
915 wordsWhat do you think of when you hear the words, 1950 s fashion? I am sure each and everyone in this room has an image that comes to mind. For me, I visualize the traditional poodle skirt, white crew socks and black and white saddle shoes. In the 50 s, times were changing. This was the era when television was exploding onto the scene. Television brought the fashion world into our living rooms, with show like, Leave it to Beaver, Ossie and Harriet, and the infamous I love Lucy. The television moms o...
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Advances In Technology Medical Advances
361 wordsAdvances in technology have brought on many changes, These include. Color televisions, in the fifties there were only black and white televisions. Also typewriters have been replaced with computers and word processors, furthermore the invention of mobile telephones, and telephones has a made a major difference in communications. Another major change in communications and business is the invention of the Internet. Other major technological differences between the 1950 s and 1990 s are knew and ad...
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Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes
642 wordsThere are many different illnesses that have plagued people in the past, present, and will continue on into the future. Most illnesses are physical, but there are also many that are mental. Depression is found to be one of the most common mental illnesses known to man. Depression breaks down ones emotions to the point where nothing makes them happy and they feel life is worthless. By reading Sylvia Plath by Carol King Barnard, one can see how dramatically change when they allow depression to con...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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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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Taming Of The Shrew Broadway Musical
1,610 wordsChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate is successful in many aspects as an appropriation of the Shakespearian play The Taming of the Shrew. These include: the transmission of Kiss Me Kate from the live Broadway musical to the film version; and the clear portrayal of th...
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Examination Of Ufo Cult Groups
797 wordsOn June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying over the Cascades when he reported seeing "nine shiny objects in a chain-like formation speeding by at some 1600 miles per hour" (Ellwood 393). Arnold compared what he saw to a saucer skipping across water. This characterization led the media to adopt the concept of "flying saucer." Arnold's report was quickly followed by many other sightings reported from various places around the country. The introduction of this phenomenon into society brought...
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Modern Relevancy Of Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
594 wordsImagine walking into a room and being surrounded by televisions on all four walls. You look to the left as a train approaches and watches as it passes you from one side of the room to the other. This is the type of entertainment available to the people in Fahrenheit 451. The society in that book is more similar to our society than the time that Bradbury wrote the book. Apparently, the most obvious similarity is the technology. Mildred, Montags wife, always had both ears plugged with electronic b...
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Elderly Care In Foreign Countries
883 wordsWhen you think of growing old you think of spending time with family and friends, traveling and feeling financially secure to be able to retire. Unfortunately in todays society the elderly is beginning to wonder if they will be able to retire, if social security will be available to them, if their families will be able to care for them or will some of them be forced to live in a retirement home. These hopes and fears are realized to all elderly people, weather they live in the United States or i...
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Greenwich Village Theater History And Its Part 1
1,681 wordsGreenwich Village Theater History and its Effects Introduction It has often been suggested that Greenwich Village needs to be discussed within a context of lifestyle rather then any other. This suggestion is perfectly understandable, given the fact that this part of New York is strongly associated with the rise of avant-garde art and theater, in the second part of twentieth century. There were objective reasons why Greenwich Village has always been attracting creative people. Even at the time be...
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Part Of American Falsely Accused
1,510 wordsSenator Joseph McCarthy (1) The history of twentieth century contains numerous examples of Communists actively striving to undermine socio-political stability in capitalist countries, by assassinating their political opponents, engaging in economic sabotage and sponsoring international terrorism. However, there are also many examples of governmental officials in Western countries being able to effectively deal with Communist infiltrators, while preventing them from destroying society's integrity...
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World War Ii Beat Generation
912 wordsBorn To the Beat What better way is there to capture history or to sum up a generation of thought, than through literature? To look back into the past to see what events took place and what the mood of the people was, people look to literature. It displays the lifestyles of the time and an intimate peek into the lives of the past. The Beat Generation captures the attitude of kids that had lived through World War II and their perspective on everything from politics to personal philosophy. But the...
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First Person Narration Sexual Behavior
651 wordsInsight on Necrophilia (1999) The author Barbara Gowdy has succeeded in We so Seldom Look on Love to arouse our curiosity through a romanticized depiction of what most would consider a sin, necrophilia. It is most probable that society in the nineteen fifties influenced the style and choice of characters to explore such delicate and obscure behavior. Barbara Gowdy proved herself to be very clever by opening a passage through the soul of a young woman, in order to humanize the inexplicable lust f...
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Form Of Music Style Of Writing
1,180 wordsThe Relationship of Jazz Music and Jack Kerouac There is a distinct relationship between jazz music and the Beat Generation, particularly Jack Kerouac. The writings of the beat generation were often influenced by the different styles of jazz. One certain style of jazz known as bop and bebop were the most influential of all forms on the beat generation. They were an improvised form of jazz that has been traced back to originating in Harlem in the early forties and fifties. A harmonically and rhyt...
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Long Term Care Peace Of Mind
775 wordsLong Term Care LTC Introduction The product I selected is Long Term Care Insurance (LTC). Long-term care insurance is for the protection of individual and family investments. Customers always assume insurance is going to be expensive when it come to protecting your financial security. In this case it s worth the investment once you know what you can loose. LTC insurance is marketed to individuals as a planning tool. It s the type of insurance you hope you never have to use. This insurance is sim...
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Past Their Fifties Extend Life Elderly
368 wordsThroughout the years medical technology has increased tremendously. We have been able to transplant organs, increase the birth survival rate, and we are even able to clone animals. We are now able to live longer that ever before, trying to elude the inevitability of death. But, because of this quest consequences have arisen. In this essay I will demonstrate why I believe that physician should not use medical treatments to merely extend the life of an elderly person who is past the age of 85. Fir...
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Changed Dramatically Thirty Years
474 wordsTimes Have Changed Times have changed dramatically in the past thirty years. The style of living, the sizes of families, and education have all changed dramatically. During the fifties, sixties, and most of the early seventies teenagers were thinking about going off to war or starting a family. Very few teenagers coming out of high school were thinking about college. Slowly as times started to change, more and more people were going off to college. Today at the end of the nineties, very few peop...
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Opposing Sides Eating Disorders
1,350 wordsCeleste Yarbrough English 1100 12: 00 ARW 6 December 2000 Problems with the Media There has been an ongoing dispute concerning the medias perception of how people are supposed to look. It seems that every year, the expectations of looking thin becomes harder and harder to meet. I know this from a personal experience of my own. A few years ago, I would look in magazines and see girls wearing size one or size two clothes. By look at this at least once every month, I started to feel that I was inad...
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Streetcar Named Desire Common Ground
992 wordsStreet Car Named Desire Essay Our lives are consumed by the past. The past of what we once did, what we once accomplished, and what we once could call our own. As we look back on these past memories we seldom realize the impact these events have on our present lives. The loss of a past love mars are future relationships, the loss of our family influences the choices we make today, and the loss of our dignity can confuse the life we live in the present. These losses or deaths require healing from...
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Atlantic Ocean Wasn T
487 wordsBoeing 700 By: Jack Richards The Boeing 700 s are very capable of handling duties in the commercial and military world. The Boeing 700 s are capable of handling many tasks in the commercial and military world. With the introduction of the 707 in the late fifties to the most recent 777 in the early nineties the, 700 s have dominated the commercial world for five decades. They are a line of aircraft that are capable of handling many roles from basic civilian transport to various military needs. Th...
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