America ’s Most Significant Events Jennifer Blaxon 135 9/25/2011 Gary Grimm America ’s Most Significant Events Introduction This paper will address each important event of a decade‚ starting from the 1950’s throughout the 1990’s. These are the events I feel were most significant to America at that time‚ and also helped to shape the America we live in today. Understanding each event and its purpose will lead to having a better
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The 1960s Sports Many people say that the 1960’s sports were so exciting and interesting! I will tell you how that statement is true in this essay. The first super bowl happened in the 1960’s but football wasn’t the most popular sport. The most popular sport in the 1960’s was baseball. The Green Bay Packers smash the Kansas City Chiefs in the first super bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs were going against the Green Bay Packers in the first super bowl. “The Green Bay Packers were heavily favored to
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from meeting in 1953; so any civil rights campaign could only be lead by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) (King 36). Thus‚ Birmingham had a fast growing reputation as one of the South ’s most fiercely nonintegrated cities (Birmingham Civil Rights Institute). "Birmingham is the most thoroughly segregated city in America‚" was the verdict of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the SCLC began the Birmingham demonstrations (King 53). These were a series of protests carried out by Birmingham
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Women’s Movement long ago (Imbornoni). Over the next 100 years‚ many women played a part in supporting equal treatment for women‚ most notably leading to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution‚ which allowed women the right to vote. But when the “Women’s Movement‚” is referred to‚ one would most likely think about the strides taken during the 1960’s for equal treatment of women. The sixties started off with a bang for women‚ as the Food and Drug Administration approved birth
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/nokia-microsoft-smartphone-apple-samsung-android-galaxy-apple/4934674 The company‚ which remains the world’s number two mobile phone maker behind Samsung but is outside of the top five in a smartphone market dominated by the likes of Apple and Samsung‚ has described the deal as "the best path forward". The company also announced the immediate departure of chief executive Stephen Elop‚ to be replaced in the interim by Risto Siilasmaa‚ Nokia’s chairman. Of
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The decades of the 50’s‚ 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s had many significant events that shaped America into the nation that it is today. The events of these decades shaped the United States into the nation that it is today consist of the Cold War‚ the Vietnam War‚ the Watergate Scandal‚ Reaganomics‚ and the end of the Cold War. 1950’s – Cold War After World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two new superpowers and as archrivals. The United States wanted to keep the Soviet
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The nineteen sixties were an extraordinary decade with significant developments in politics‚ music‚ art‚ science‚ and more that influenced life in the United States and the rest of the world for generations to come. Some of the major political events of this decade include the cold war and the space race with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) to put man on the moon‚ the start of the Vietnam War (1965)‚ and the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. On the economic side
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The first event that began every women’s movement rights act in the country was the world’s first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls‚ NY on July 19-20‚ 1848. This convention instilled hope in women all over the country to fight or equality in the work force‚ education‚ pay‚ and rights. (49) Because of the first convention leading women to fight for what should righfully be theirs‚ places soon fell in line to accept women accordingly. In 1855 the University of Iowa became the first
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A CENTURY OF CHANGE The Twentieth Century was a time of great social‚ political‚ economic and cultural change and conflict. The impact of these events on people can be seen in popular culture. It not only reflected the thoughts and feelings of many but helped shape how they responded to these changes and conflicts. During each decade popular culture played a significant part in motivating large numbers of people to act for and achieve change. Popular culture in the 1960’s‚ e.g. Sex‚ Drugs‚ Rock
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Introduction During the 1960’s‚ there was a significant disparity between the amount of minority and female representation in the workforce versus the amount in the American population. In an attempt to correct this disparity‚ President John F. Kennedy enacts Executive Order 10925 which causes for an aggressive hiring of minorities by the federal government (Chrisman‚ 2013). Consequently‚ over-time‚ the civil rights movement as well as current laws and Supreme Court decisions greatly expand the
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