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1950’s Youth Culture
Number of Words: 1778 / Number of Pages: 7
... women are. Longer dresses and dressier shirts were their style. The ‘Beatnik’ generation was forming out of Grenitch village in Manhattan which the style was more of a depressing look. They wore mostly black or darker colors. I watched a movie called ‘The Wanderers’ to try to take a look at how they dressed and the portrayal was what I just described.
The type of children that the fifties brought out was a common question I asked everyone I surveyed, and to tell you the truth they were not all that much help. There were the popular crowd who were ‘Greaser’ types. The Greaser boys were the bad b ...
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Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990’s
Number of Words: 2150 / Number of Pages: 8
... who once intended to be a psychologist, of a story in McCall’s in December 1949 called "A Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and she doesn’t want to go home. But, pitying her poor mother typing away all by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her guilty secret tha ...
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The Need For An Official Language
Number of Words: 614 / Number of Pages: 3
... between them and the outside. Later on, different kinds of
small groups will be formed. Different gruops will have conflict since they
don't share the same culture, habit and language. The harmony of the whole
society is going to break. Development and growth of our society will slow
down, and everyone have to suffer from it. To avoid this, communication is
needed to eliminate the conflict and misunderstanding. This means we need
to have a proper language that everyone can learn and use. English is the
best choice since most people know it. So it is necessary to make English
as the official ...
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Car Accidents And The Elderly
Number of Words: 675 / Number of Pages: 3
... and injury than the mid-aged drivers”(Thrive Online. News Poll. 1999 ).
When the elderly adjust their driving habits, they consider the risks they face, but not the external risks they impose on others when they drive. If the elderly are forced to adjust their driving habits further to offset the external risks of their driving, their risk of crash and injury would be reduced and society as a whole would be better off.
“As we age, our eyesight begins to fail; our reflexes begin to slow; and we don’t gauge speed or distance quite as well. All of those factors increase our likelihood of getting int ...
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Existentialism
Number of Words: 545 / Number of Pages: 2
... in 1940 but managed to escape, and
become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular
playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus
accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote
his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus
was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain,
only to have it roll back down again. For Camus, this related heavily to
everyday life, and he saw Sisyphus an "absurd" hero, with a pointless
existance. Camus felt that it was necessary to wonde ...
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Psychological And Biological Slavery
Number of Words: 1659 / Number of Pages: 7
... held by his drunken, abusive father, Pap. Pap is illiterate and oppressive and threatens to Huck that he will "take some of these frills out o' you before I'm done with you" (20) because he suspects Huck of putting on airs and thinking he's better then his father. Pap treats Huck very badly, but since he is Huck's father, Huck figures there is nothing he can do. This is evident when Pap first comes back and demands money from Huck so he can get whiskey, "Say how much you got in your pocket? I want it." "I hain't got only a dollar, and I want that to--" "It don't make no difference what you want ...
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The First Impression
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... man who was on a quest to find
himself decided to do a trek across the United States. When he reached the
state of Arizona, he met up with a man in ragged clothes, messy hair and in
need of a bath. Still, the young man started up a conversation and found
this hobo to be very intellectual and pleasant man despite his appearance.
As night approached each went and sought shelter for the night, but before
they departed the hobo said "You think I'm a bum, am I right?" Being
truthful the young man replied "Yes."
"I am really a millionaire," the hobo confessed, "I dress and live this way
because I want to ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 938 / Number of Pages: 4
... those who lack . They say states that have the death penalty have it because of their high crime rate, not because they have the death penalty. During the temporary suspension on from 1972-1776, researchers gathered murder statistics across the country. Researcher Karl Spence of Texas A&M University came up with these statistics: In 1960, there were 56 executions in the USA and 9,140 murders. By 1964, when there were only 15 executions, the number of murders had risen to 9,250. In 1969, there were no executions and 14,590 murders. In 1975, the number of murders grew to 20,510.
Another heated ...
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Body Modifications
Number of Words: 2977 / Number of Pages: 11
... senior in High School, in fact he had just turned eighteen. Dillon decided to get a tattoo. He spent countless hours deciding on the design he wanted. Then, he visited some of the local tattoo parlors. He wanted to check the atmosphere and cleanliness of each environment. Finally he came to a place where he felt secure and satisfied with the artist’s work. Dillon spent the next few days deciding if this was what he really wanted. Taking into consideration that the tattoo would be everlasting, he carefully decided upon where he wanted it placed. Less than a week later he returned to the parlor, ...
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For The White Man, Of The White Man, And By The White Man
Number of Words: 1025 / Number of Pages: 4
... Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"(Primus 295).
Thomas Jefferson, having slaves himself, recognized the fact that he could
not free the slaves himself in that document. It was difficult enough
for him to get the Declaration approved by all of the colonies in itself.
In fact the last man to sign the Declaration of Independence did not do so
until the year 1778. The slaves were kept in ignorance of any knowledge
which might have led to their freedom. Laws forbade reading and writing
for slaves. They also forbade anyone to teach a slave to read. To keep
the sla ...
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