Perhaps one of the things that most characterize the 1950's society was the strong element of conservatism and anticommunist feeling. ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create central marketing areas or shopping malls. ... People carrying small transistor radios listened to music, which could be heard in any location because it was now portable. ... Even after Congress added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" to the nations currency, real spirituality seemed to be disappearing from ...

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What is most jarring about this war on sex is that America is literally dubbed the home of the free and yet the decisions of individuals to abstain or engage in sexual contact is one of the most mainstream forms of debate, and all for the comfort of a small but loud individuals. ... What Surprised Me Most One of the most shocking things that I learned while reading America's war on sex was a theme that saturated the entire book, that the culture surrounding sex is very negative. ... What is truly the most sad about this type of education is that those who eventually do end up having sex w...

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Families are affiliated with a certain church in their community and use the church greatly and widely for many things. ... The country's probably most well-known motto "In God We Trust" can be found on every dollar bill2. ... 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 philosoph...

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History succeeds when it tells us how things really were, and it reminds us that the only access we have to that past is through the imagination of a contemporary person. ... They wanted to justify the ways of God to man and vice versa. ... Besides these tragedies, other things influenced the historiographical terrain to shift. ...

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