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1950’s Youth Culture
Number of words: 1778 - Number of pages: 7.... southern accent. The females were not as revealing as the modern 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. The .....
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RACISM TODAY
Number of words: 1186 - Number of pages: 5.... is a "hidden" racism, or a
racism not easily detected (Piazza 78). "Racism is still strongly
prevalent in today's society" (Gudorf 3).
The three different basic forms of racism, open racism, violent
racism, and covert racism all express forms of hatred towards distinct
ethnic groups (Bender 47). These basic forms of racism, although
different in form, all have the same main purpose, to promote racism. Open
racism expresses freedom of racial thought and speech. Open racists
promote their views through strictly persuasionary tactics. This form of
racism is allowed in our society be .....
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Is There Romance Left?
Number of words: 883 - Number of pages: 4.... from the one that is destined to fail
from the start. These observations have come from watching my friends, my
own experience, and the movies and books that I have read.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I am a firm believer in lightning
or bells sounding when you meet the “right one”. My ex-boyfriend and I
started dating when I was fourteen years old. At that time, I felt that no
one would ever like me and that I was destined to go through life as an
spinster. I had asked him for a ride home from a club meeting that we both
were in. He agreed and we got in the car to go t .....
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Gender Roles In Men And Women
Number of words: 987 - Number of pages: 4.... example of how that family or a member of a family influences a lot in the gender behavior of a person is the little Dorothy, who is discriminated in the use of guns by her Uncle Bo in Gun Crazy. Although Dorothy knows that she should not use guns because her mother and aunt do no do it, she is still want to fire a gun. However, her desires are repressed by the males of her family (Allison 288). The family is first source of prejudice about gender role.
Trough the years, a human being has the psychological need to a role identity. Since an early age, children are looking for their role ident .....
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Why Kids Join Neo-Nazi Gangs
Number of words: 1274 - Number of pages: 5.... their shaved scab and bomber jacket evoking images of a powerful and forbidden gang, this would quickly draw a crowd. Following a carefully drafted plan, he and his comrades burred those coons pnespects deeper into the en-Nazi scene. This group drank, Siam, hunted and shoplifted. For contact sport, they would attack leftists Jewish memorials or the foreigners, depending on personal taste. the leader of the group has prowled police and journalists with unique insights into Germany's ultra night. His comrades are one of the decade's most chilling manifestation of European tribalism, a growin .....
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The Positive Aspects Of Fraternities
Number of words: 367 - Number of pages: 2.... to all who are apart of it. This is all important to the personoining
because it eiil only help the to better themselves by growin into he fraternity.
With all these commitments and traditions, or rituals, one could see
that fraternity life has a lot behind it and the members take it very seriously.
Though at times the fraternity becomes very social and yes alcohol may be
consumed, is not , however, the focus of the fraternity. Fraternities offer
numerous benefits and building blocks for developing an independent and
successful life with many close friends. such as paticip .....
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Blind Conformity: Malcolm X
Number of words: 709 - Number of pages: 3.... that
is bought on by blind conformity. Changing one's self to look or behave like
another because it is more desired by the public is due to a disregarding of one'
s self-claimed morals and values, an over emphasis of the media and outside
opinions, and an insecurity which most of us unfortunately have.
In My First Conk, Malcolm X assured that black people were being
brainwashed to believe that they actually were inferior to white people, thus
they conked their hair. They were, essentially, giving up what they were
fighting for as far as civil rights- the right to be who they were an .....
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Personal Values In Today's Society
Number of words: 1256 - Number of pages: 5.... anyone with an anniversary coming up? Could that be the
intention?
If I want to enjoy work I had better listen to the lite fm 93.9.,
and for lunch I can run out to Arby's for 99 cent roast beef sandwiches,
but only for a limited time. And if those roast beef sandwiches get me
sick I can go to Osco and get some medicine twenty-four hours a day. All
of these ads just came rapid fire. Is this playing upon my need for
instant gratification? Are the advertisers trying to get me to hurry?
I have to go see a Jeep dealer so I can outrun a bull in heat, but
I better be careful if I get it to d .....
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Time For Americans To Be A Family
Number of words: 694 - Number of pages: 3.... one moment the reference is to blacks, and the next to
African-Americans, when they are referring to the same group of people.
I'm not knocking what people want to call themselves, it's the mixed messages
I'm getting and the inaccuracy of the terminology that frustrates me.
Look around and you will see there is the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the Black Muslims, and African-Americans.
All of these terms are used to refer to members of one group of people. Is it
any wonder I'm confused?
I have particular problems with the term African-American, a misnom .....
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The Beat Poets And Movement
Number of words: 1395 - Number of pages: 6.... One of the most important contributions to contemporary verse was to take poetry out of the classrooms and into non-academic setting-coffee houses, jazz clubs, large public auditoriums and even athletic stadiums. Poetry is more popular and more read than anytime in history, not only spoken poetry but also sung poetry of a high order. "The literature, coordinated by pop music, with a way of dressing, with a way of life, it something that has influenced the youth of the world not only in Western countries but Eastern countries as well. (www.charm.net)"
Music has been influenced greatly by Bea .....
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