Falk (2013), in his book, Twelve Inventions Which Changed America: The Influence of Technology on American Culture, states that in the American aspect, the technological breakthroughs over the years have offered numerous solutions to some of the earlier challenges that presented. ... In the earlier years, the telephone was simpler and less sophisticated. ... In fact, the invention of the military drone has been so significant that it has been adopted by the Central Intelligence Agency in the Middle East War (Winston, 2008). This is an invention that has kept America safe to this day and age. ....

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The early progressives were people who believed that the problems society could best be addressed by providing good education, a safe environment, and an efficient workplace. ... Progressivism appealed to middle and lower class Americans who felt helpless against industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and John D. ... At the same time, over 1.7 million children under age sixteen worked in factories or fields. Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. Progressives h...

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With rampant fights and wars and strict capital punishments, death was very visible and accepted natural process to life, and people learned from an early age to prepare for their own demise, making the dying process less mysterious and accepted. ... As observed by Kubler-Ross, "in simple terms, in our unconscious mind we can only be killed; it is inconceivable to die of a natural cause or of old age."" ... In addition, perhaps it is the parent who is not ready to accept death and all symptoms relating to death, including aging, the most obvious indicator. ... With the quality of their life...

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This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. ... Each family was a middle-class family and all financially secure. ... The Wonder Years, which debuted on January 31, 1988, exhibited the best portraiture of a middle-class family in distinction to the 1960s. ... Kevin's, the teen-aged hero, growing pains mirrored those of America itself. ... The families seen on television today are the diametric opposite of those seen in the early 1950s. ...

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This small percentage mainly consisted of children from upper and middle socio economic background. ... While in the 1940's it was mainly white males from high and middle socio economic back grounds the number of females, blacks and Asians accessing higher education has increased tremendously. ... This includes children from the low income and middle class parents. ... From the early 1950's, graduates from the public schools increasingly outperformed the candidates from the private school and with the abandonment of the college board essay entry exams by the three big elite colleges...

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Basic aspects of the brain's visual capacity have been shown to be innate, such as a newborn baby's ability to recognize the structure of a face, but most are learned during the visual stimulation received during early development" (Haughton 230). History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korh...

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Most middle-class families attempted to adhere to the so-called Victorian sexual ideals of the day. ... In other words, a new ideology of sexual restraint became prevalent among middle-class Americans. ... This fluctuation of the mass-produced goods fostered a shift in middle-class values. ... In the early 1910s, espousing artificial means of birth control remained controversial. ... Economic affluence gave the middle class more leisure time and more money to spend on consumer goods, luxury items, and entertainment. ...

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To compound our naturally competitive natures, Americans often impose various forms of contest into everyday life from a very early age. Whether its identifying the "gifted" children in middle school, or placing students on "slow" academic tracks in high school, our society has permanently institutionalized inequality. ...

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These finned creations would remain the staple of car design until the early 1960's "Muscle Cars"" would take over. ... This was achieved by adding the styling features once only available to the very wealthy, by creating them as carbon copies and thus making the styling available at a reasonable price to the mass middle class. ... At long last, the hallowed promise of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage " was on the verge of actuality for much of the middle class. ...

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They encouraged reproduction of the "best and the brightest" and discouraged reproduction of the "unfit" -- including criminals, alcoholics, psychotics, the retarded, paupers, and those in poor physical health and envisioned a society that perpetuated white middle and upper class power. ... In 1905, psychologist Alfred Binet developed a measure of "mental age" to help steer elementary students to academic or vocational tracks. ... The theories once touted in the early days of the Eugenics movement are clearly laid to rest just by this one discovery. ... Scientists, religious leaders, polit...

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My nephew goes to a suburban, mostly white, primarily middle-class and affluent school that teaches largely to tests while valuing less and less the language of a child's inner world. ... I cannot speak very much to my own early past views as a younger man, say up to the age of 24, on people who are disabled or many other subcultures because my own thinking then on the subject was undefined and nebulous. ... Multiculturalism in America gained ground after WWII with the influx of refugees from Europe and very rapidly throughout America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in America. ...

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Individuals can face these roadblocks early on in life, possibly as early as elementary school, and all of these challenges make it difficult to reach identity and self-understanding. ... Further supporting the idea that society's expectations and social stigmas complicate a person's search for identity, the poem by Mary Oliver, Morning, talks about a woman who falls victim to the social standards of women her age and the sense of loneliness and longing she feels because of it. ... Whether the woman in the poem is truly in her old age is unknown, but from the text, the reader gets a ...

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The Late 19the and Early 20th Century America began to deal with the inequities and lack of justice for mean of African decent in the 1800s. ... The Middle of the 20th Century By the midpoint of the 20th century America still did not truly realize the intent and fruition of equal rights for all. ... The late 1950s and early 60s there was a television in over 70% of homes in America. ... In the early part of his administration, Nixon and his administration, authorized flexible goals and timelines to correct under-utilization of minorities by federal contractors, in 1971 the order was amended to...

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Catherine Brekus, in her overview of religious history in the nineteenth century, asserts that revivals were, "a crucial part of American nation-building, [as] a religious response to the political upheavals of the early national period.... Even though America had the highest literacy rate in the world in the early 1800's, the country had no statewide system of free, public elementary schools. ... Very few children continued schooling after the age of ten. ... " Public Education united the country as schools were now open to the poor, the middle class, and the rich. ...

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An-Mei faced social destruction and family's discrimination at an early age which also allowed her to conform to a male-dominating culture and choose not to voice her emotions or opinion of her own mother. ... I absorbed what I needed to assimilate into the society and incorporated my class, age, nationality and religion to complete my identity. ... From an early age, women are taught not to question elders, and this training of obedience is also vivid in the movie through Ying-Ying's character. ... Lena's marriage consists of equality as they "split everything down the mid...

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There are examples, starting in the middle of the paper, of how political correctness can be harmful. ... Political correctness is a term used to describe the attempts to minimize offenses against racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, age and disabled groups. ... The origin of political correctness is still debatable, although some scholars have traced it back to the early Marxist ideology that emerged in the Soviet Union around the early 1900s (Lind, 2000). ... According to Lind, political correctness sprung out of the Marxist ideology, which engulfed Russia in the early 1900s. ...

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Imani Perry asserts that the spoken word of African-American music has its origins in Africa and survived the middle passage to the Western Hemisphere (Perry, 2004). ... The emergence of Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets in the early 70s, as well as other prominent black poets of the time period, propelled the Black power movement forward with an aggression and eloquence America had not yet experienced. ... African American youth stand at ground zero for issues of race, nation, gender, age and sexuality (Collins, 2006). ... When racial socialization is done correctly young people learn early ...

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In the article "Television Viewing and Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse,"" the authors Peterson and Moore state " . . . viewing [sexually explicit material] will increase the possibility of sexual behavior by defining contexts in which it might be appropriate and providing scripts for how it develops."" ... Age, gender, educational background, race, parent's income and occupation, as well as family size are examples of the personal characteristics that support the make up of attitudes for a teen. ... A suburban white middle class girl will most likely not watch and relate to the pli...

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When I asked an officer why he was not stopping this mob-like scene, he instantly responded with, "how can I stop you from celebrating the life of one of our own," referring to the police officer whom the Tsarnaev's shot and killed earlier that day. ...

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Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use of capital punishment for serious offenses such as murder. ... In America, Asia Africa and the Middle East most countries still hold on to the death penalty for certain crimes and use it at their will. ...

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As mentioned earlier, The United States is a highly religious country. ... Like any person through the course of their life, Jefferson's personal opinions on religion changed as he aged, but "through all the changes in the evolution of Jefferson's faith, there was at least one point of consistency, a devotion to the ideal of religious liberty."15 Jefferson's conceptualization of God leaned more towards a Natural philosophy with a Christian background. ...

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