The World’s Population is increasing‚ but not evenly all over the world Aim: To find how the average line of latitude for the world’s largest cities has changed since 1950. Hypothesis: In the earlier years‚ the cities with the highest populations will be in HICs because these countries would have been the most developed‚ and these countries would have also been in the ‘rich north’. Introduction: As the world continues to develop‚ populations continue to increase as well. However‚ the
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The United States during the 1950s can be characterized by mass conformity. The nation was unified through the vast prosperity of the economic boom that resulted from WWII. The post-war period featured a nation of citizens sharing similar accomplishments‚ ideals‚ and lifestyles. The nation was comprised of myriad families cut from the same cookie-cutter shape. Few chose to challenge the demands of the conformed society. Among the opponents of society were youth and Civil Rights activists‚ who
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of society. Oates shows us the intertwined lives of three high school students and the paths taken to free themselves of the entrapment of their uncomfortable 1950s conventional lifestyles. Barbara “Sunny” Burhman is known as the popular too good to be true Christian girl in the story. She was everything the perfect‚ all American 1950’s girl was supposed to be. In the beginning of the story she is referred to as ‘Sunny’ because her 6th grade teacher suggested calling her this because of her
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government not be communist‚ in 1949 it was still not prepared to commit militarily to preventing that outcome. North Korea attacks: June 24‚ 1950 Both Korean governments had been adamant about reunifying the peninsula‚ and the Soviet-supported DPRK saw an opportunity to do so with a swift strike. Truman’s response to the Korean invasion: June 25-30‚ 1950 The United States viewed the attack on the South as evidence that communism would actively challenge the free world and revised its security
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earliest of those being the Colossus. * The Colossus was developed to decrypt secret German codes during the war. * used vacuum tubes and paper tape and could perform a number of Boolean (e.g. true/false‚ yes/no) logical operations. * 1950’s: The First Commercial Computers * The J. Lyons Company‚ which was a British catering firm‚ invested heavily in some of these early computers. In 1951‚ LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) became the first computer to run a regular routine office
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History Assignment term 1‚ Mrs Bergin‚ Charlie Phillips The Australian Governments response to the threat of communism during the 1950s and 1960s included many defferent methods. Some of the more important respones where actions such as signing the ANZUS and SEATO treaties and committing troops to overseas battles. The Prime Minster in charge was Robert Menzies‚ and was Prime Minister from 1949 through to 1966. He was very against communism and wanted to change laws about communism in australia
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Pleasantville shows the view of a perfect world that was set during the 1950s this world was idolized by David Parker and was his get away from the real world‚ this world was not as perfect as David realized. Pleasantville was the utopia that David thought it was pleasantville had much of the problems and changes that the 1950s had. Pleasantville being set around a time period that had so much disarray and great movements. Pleasantville illusion of perfect was shattered when David and his sister
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were a journalist sent to investigate cultural context in the play Sive. Discuss your findings.’ The cultural content in which the events of J.B Keane’s play ‘Sive’ are played out is an interesting one‚ which takes us back to the Ireland of the 1950’s. The play is set in a small rural farming community in a remote corner of co. Kerry. The world portrayed in this text is a cry far from modern Ireland today. Firstly I will discuss the poverty portrayed in the play Sive as it is strongly shown
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endurance for a few years of withstanding capacity with improved earnings. During late 1940s master card was introduced and during 1950s diners card usage was brought to the forefront and wide usage of credit cards began later in 1950 onwards. Diner’s card was amongst the top most companies in the world after it emerged successful since its establishment in 1950. There were territorial restrictions that problem has been solved these days and credit cards are acceptable throughout the world.
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wife staying home all day caring for the house‚ cooking‚ and caring for the children‚ while the man is hard at work in order to earn a dollar‚ and is rewarded by coming home to a cooked meal and a loving family. This stereotype was developed in the 1950s; however‚ there were women who held jobs. "30 percent of married women held jobs" and "working wives outnumbered bachelor girls two to one" (302). Because of the booming economy and a "large number of job opportunities"‚ women have decided to come
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