As rationing had ended, the percentage of Americans living below the poverty line fell dramatically and soldiers returned home with the dream of a house and car of one's own. It is at this important juncture that cars and culture collide. ... "However, after the end of World War II, production levels quickly reached those of 1940, as American factories that had been converted for war quickly converted back. ... In 1955, Chrysler added fins on its quarter panels, and in 1957, when Ford finally gave in, all of the Detroit big three had fins. However, tail fins would see their demise at the ...

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We as a population might have been stuck with the technology of the 1930's. ... At Approximately the same time the government terminated the rocket project World War II was coming to an end. The Soviets had captured Germany; and seized the technology, physicists, and engineers, who had been working on the rocket project and later forced to work for the Russians (Neal 39). ... When America was just starting their own space program Russia was well into theirs. ... Kennedy announced to America that we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. ...

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" I intend to start by looking at the root of the idea and how its history manages to evoke passionate responses of American Nationalism in the transition period between the end of World War One and the Cold War. ... For this we may start all the way back at the founding of the nation. ... They state that differences in the Constitution "have led many to conclude that there is something different about Americans and their vision of government that is reflected in their very different Constitution.... "17 Interestingly however, in Mila Versteeg and Emily Zakin's essay they d...

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The genesis of the Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York based - Gilded Age rich. ... Criticisms of this theory suggest that people at the top mislead the American public, which means that people with greater information have more power. ... (Holland 1998 ) Corporate Oligopoly and the TNC During the 1970's, the US transnational corporations had revenue...

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