The 60’s: Decade Of Challenge And Change
.... with hair lacquer, combs and curlers to help reach its desired height and body. Girls used to use false hair or even wigs to make their hair look with more volume. The popular styles for women were the “Beehive” and “Bouffant”.
The clothes of the 60s had so much influence in the clothes today. In the 1960 the girls started to use a dress called “chemisier”, with straight skirts or “evasees”. In 1963 the girls shocked the beaches with one swimming costume with two parts. Another scandal in this p .....
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The Watergate Scandal
.... and wire tapping. Four months later they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J. Sercia was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. As it became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee to re-elect the president. (Watergate) Four of these men, that were arrested on the morning of June 17, 1972, came .....
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Black Women And Their Push For Equality For African Americans
.... correct measures necessary in order to ensure equality for African Americans. Some organizations adhered to strictly peaceful protests while others, such as the Panthers pictured above, favored peaceful means of achieving equality unless violence was necessary for defense. The lists of courageous men and women who struggled for equality can be quite long. However, it is obvious that the picture of the Panthers lack the presence of women. This failure to acknowledge women in the Panther picture represents t .....
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John F. Kennedy And Cuba
.... in order to understand each group, they will each be analyzed seperately.
In order to better understand the relationship between JFK, the Cubans and Russians, several important events must be mentioned and discussed. Two of the most important foreign affairs in Kennedy's presidency were the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
During Eisenhower's administration, Cuba was torn apart by revolution. The Cuban dictator, Batista, was an extremely corrupt man. While he was enjoying a luxurious lif .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
.... William Griggs gave his opinion that the girls were the “victims of witchcraft” (“Witch”). There has been discussion as to whether these fits were true in nature, or if the girls were acting. There has also been some discussion as to the possibility that the girls were caught in behavior that they knew they would be punished for, and they chose to make up their ‘illness’ so as not to be punished. When the girls were pressed as to an explanation for their actions, “they identified their tormentors as .....
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Development Of The Civil War
.... people were forced to pay more because of the efforts of northern businessmen. Though most of tariff laws had been changed by the time of the Civil War, the Southern people still remembered how they were treated by the northern people.
In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal Government, centered in Washington D.C., was changing. The Northern and Mid-Western States were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. The Southern States were losing political p .....
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King Philip's War
.... villages were destroyed and one-tenth of the military men were killed. So many men were lost that the casualties were higher in King Philip’s War than in either the American Revolution or Civil War.
The Wampanoag did not get off so very easy either. An English ally killed Metacom and his head was exhibited at Plymouth for twenty years.
As a result of this war, Native Americans never regained power of southeastern New England again. Because of the loss of men, the settlers had to become dependent .....
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A Discussion On The Myth And Failure Of Reconstruction Following The Civil War, And How This Failure Impacted And Changed America
.... at whose expense was the South's economy to be rebuilt? What was to be done with the freed slaves?"(Tindall 451)
"Reconstruction was intended as a device by which the defeated states of the Southern Confederacy would be joined again to the Union, the more than four million black freedmen living within them absorbed politically and economically in a nation reunited by the force of arms, and safeguards provided against any possible renewal of rebellion."(Carter 11)
Reconstruction officially began with .....
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Background And Emergence Of Democracy In The British North American Colonies
.... but they were a start.
The first permanent English settlement was a trading post founded in 1607 at Jamestown in the Old Dominion of Virginia. Virginian colonists had the right, granted to them by The Virginia Company, to elect a colonial legislature, called the House of Burgesses. Since Virginia was the first royal colony, it was only fitting that they should lead the way with the first representative government in the New World. Other lawmaking bodies, not that dissimilar to the House of Bur .....
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Japanese Americans During WWII
.... except those charged with specific acts of disloyalty, however, only enemy aliens had to register, and those considered to be dangerous were interned. This was only a few in number as compared to the many Japanese Americans.
Early U.S. History In Dealing With The Japanese
In 1785 the first American ship, Empress of China, made the long voyage to China. This vessel carried all sorts of beautiful Asian treasures. These treasures brought enormous profits when sold in America. The American consumer .....
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
.... hoped that the invasion might increase Northern war-weariness and lead the North to recognize the independence of the Confederate States of America. In pursuit of this plan, Lee crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains, proceeded up the Shenandoah Valley, and, crossing Maryland, entered Pennsylvania. Upon learning federal troops were north of the Potomac, Lee decided to concentrate his whole army at Gettysburg. On June 30, Confederate troops from General Hill's corps, on their way to Gettysburg, noted federal t .....
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American History Immigration And Discrimination In The 1920's
.... who sought to overturn America's political, economic, and social institutions. Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair tri .....
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Conflicts Between The North And The South
.... South was destroying the Union by trading the cotton for goods with the Europeans and not enough with the North. But there was another side to this, the South said that they would trade with the North if they built more factories to process the cotton. The North bitterly opposed this idea. They felt that it was too risky to build more factories and lose a profit. The North would said that if they, the South, slowed down their cotton crop then there would be enough factories to process the cotton. The So .....
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America's Involvement In World War Two
.... reason was a valid one because it was the American policy to stay neutral in any affairs not having to with them unless American soil was threatened directly. Thus the provisional neutrality act passed the senate by seventy-nine votes to two in 1935. On August 31, Roosevelt signed it into law. In 1936 the law was renewed, and in 1937 a “comprehensive and permanent” neutrality act was passed (Overy 259).
The desire to avoid “foreign entanglements” of all kinds had been an American foreign poli .....
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David Sculptures
.... and famous works of its time. In Verrocchio's David, we see a strong contrast to Donatello's treatment of the same subject. Although both artists choose to portray David as an adolescent, Verrocchio's brave man "appears somewhat older and excludes pride and self-confidence rather than a dreamy gaze of disbelief" (Fichner-Rathus 334). Donatello balanced realistic elements with an idealized Classically inspired torso whereas Verrocchio's goal was absolutely realism in minute details. The sculptures also di .....
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