This division caused for a group of people who could not communicate with words, so the drums and banjo were " the most important instruments during this time." ... These songs, "took its most significant features from the calls, cries, and hollers of field slaves and from spirituals." ... The Blues was more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular in the South. ... It was this combination of Ragtime and Blues, which caused Jazz to be extremely popular in the 1920's. ... In the 1950s there was a major shift form instrumental being the most popular music t...

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Although at times they waged wars that would temporarily halt the European colonization, for the most part their voice in North America was forever muzzled. ... One of the most surprising facts about hygiene in the colonial society was the lack of oral care. ... Hunting was a very popular pastime in colonial America. ... One of the most important traditions that settlers brought from their native countries was courtship and marriage. ... Most of the time, they didn't. ...

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As break dancing became popular, crews like Rock Steady became world famous. ... To Wiggles surprise, breakin' became popular again, only a few short years later. ... I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. ...

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Most notably heard in the American colonies was Patrick Henry's cries of "No taxation without representation,"" citing grievances with the economic info structure Britain enforced. ... As a result, he, the able orator, was able to gain the popular support, maintaining the home front war effort. ... He then went on, and with the popular support, was named president of the United States, where he set precedence still existent today, economically, politically, and socially. ... Without question, the most overblown out of proportion event leading to the war, was that of the Boston Massacre...

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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). ... "Gay men's revenge" is predicated upon a popular mode of double seduction: the selling of male bodies to both heterosexual women and gay men. ... There was a time in America when skin bleaching was so popular that it had its meaning to it. ...

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Politics will continue to play the most significant role in how this shift takes place. ... According to Faith Popcorn, a popular trends analyst, "food, family, love, and vanity will drive Baby Boomer consumer behavior in 2003, and some of the most basic human needs and emotions will have the biggest impact on the domestic consumer marketplace; a year of primal passions,"" (2003). ...

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David Haynes in the essay "Chinese Ribs" states, "In the meantime the great blessing we all have is that, according to scientists, our most enduring memories are taste and smell" (Haynes 122). ... Nabisco and Kraft companies have always produced very good products, but I would like to believe the Oreo has to be the most popular and desirable. ...

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He also showed the dilemma between the Hero and villain who most likely had the same morals, dreams, and ethic code which guided them together along their journey. Musicals were a popular genre of film because of its bright colors and point of sophistication. ... Continuing through the 1950's and early 1960's, Musicals served as a popular genre to the public as well as successful. ... Comedy films were another popular genre however struggled after the war due to its social ambiance during the cold war era. ...

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However, when most people think of diners, other things such as the food, the business or the employees take precedent over its architecture. ... Diners were getting larger and more popular everywhere in the country. ... Although the 50s saw a try at new designs for diners, most were either being copied or slightly modified enough to make a simple change, but not enough to go along with the changing times the post-war America brought to the table. ...

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The compulsive or pathological gambler affects society most. ... Different forms of gambling, such as lotteries, remained popular until 1890, when U.S. jurisdiction made lotteries and all other forms of gambling illegal by direct prohibition.4 Gambling had become more and more a low life thing to do. ... The operation made a lot of money, most from cheating. ... As long as a casino remains popular, it will make money. ... Lotteries also end up hurting the people who need help most. ...

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Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face when it interrupts school or other plans. ... For the most part, when one sees teenagers raising children, we often think that the teen has been raped or is too mature for their age. ... Most people who are put into foster homes do not come from parents of strong guidance, because indeed they lost their children. ... Most of these pregnancies are unintended. ... Richard Smith, a Washtenaw Community College student, states, "The American popular culture glorifies sex and ignores responsibility. ...

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This conduct to which government official's are to maintain become the utmost important as it shall eliminate most of the corruption within the United States of Americas government as well as create a better society for the American public to flourish in. ... The society today is most scared to the first form of corruption which was mentioned is power misconduct. ... This is typically what the media enjoys the most on reporting. Looking at the Clinton case, most of America knows this famous scandal involving Monica Lewinsky. ... It's a sweeping proposal that would reshape the rules ...

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Most middle-class families attempted to adhere to the so-called Victorian sexual ideals of the day. ... Because of this presumption, most middle-class Americans saw women as the moral guardians of the home, charged with controlling the lustful natures of male family members. ... Contrary to the popular mythology, however, the Sexual Revolution did not really begin with the birth control pill because the trend of the revolution can be traced back to the end of World War I. ...

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Plantations brought in black slaves from Africa to provide most of the labor required for growing the crop. ... Even though an antislavery minority existed in the South, most Southerners found slavery to be highly profitable and in time came to consider it a positive good. ... rganized as a state, they could decide by popular vote whether to permit slavery to continue. ... However, Lincoln received less than 40 per cent of the popular vote, almost none of which came from the South. ...

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The country's probably most well-known motto "In God We Trust" can be found on every dollar bill2. ... This shared sentiment meant "it becomes the duty of each to endeavor to maintain that form which they think most useful and agreeable to themselves, most likely to preserve order and decency in their public worship."13 If this kind of institution were allowed to be created in the new sovereign, United States, then order and decency in public policy would be in jeopardy. ...

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People who are interested in seeing the detailed Mannahatta Project maps in 3D may do so by visiting themannahattaproject.org and plug in an address in Manhattan to see what it would have most likely looked like before the Dutch West India Company bought Mannahatta from the Lenapes in the early seventeenth century and settled New York6. ... According to historians it was a popular place for picnics and relaxation. ... These tenements were run by slum lords who packed as many people into a room as they could and charged more rent than most of those people could reasonably afford. ...

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If women were any bit of educated, they would be educated through homeschooling and their teacher would most likely be a male. ... The systematic provision of learning techniques to most children, such as literacy, has been a development of the last 150 or 200 years, or even last 50 years in some countries. ... Hale, as a successful and popular editor, was respected for middle-class women in matters of fashion, cooking, literature, and morality. ... Like most girls of the era, she received a limited education from family members and what she could teach herself. ...

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I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ... Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. ... Most writers spent at least some time in Harlem, others like Langston Hughes or Claude McKay, described the New York ghetto life in their short stories; it simply provided a various number of setting for their stories. ... - a brilliant teamwork of some of the most popular writers of the Renaissance In the period ...

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In most pre-industrial societies these rituals are the keys to determining the social hierarchy of the community. ... Through my Internet research and use of such sources as interviews, articles found in periodicals, and books on popular culture, I have discovered quite a range of circumstances which lead individuals to mark their bodies in contemporary rites of passage. ... BODY MODIFICATION AND COMMEMORATION The most obvious use of body modification in rites of passage is to mark the body with a permanent reminder of an important event or stage in an individuals life. ...

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It became increasingly popular, especially in America, as a form of self-expression. ... To these people, their intuition, as well as other's, is the most important quality and life skill one can have. ... Although this may be the most challenging part of one's transformation, it is said not to be a suicidal feeling. ...

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Marcus writes: The songs of country music, and most deeply, its even, narrow sound, had to subject the children to the heartbreak of their parents: the father who couldn't feed his family, the wife who lost her husband to a honky-tonk angel or a bottle, the family that lost everything to a suicide or a farm spinning off into one more bad year. ... Gaye was one of Motown's most consistent hit-makers, and ironically was partly responsible for the end of the Motown sound of the 1960s with his 1971 album entitled What's Going On? ... Even after he became popular, he rec...

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For the most part, they are the same theories that address violence in our society: social learning theory, exchange theory, and violence in the media. ... In homes where positive behavior is not the norm, exposure to violence through popular culture may have a more profound impact. Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogate parents, social service, or law-enforcement agencies ( Ross, 2012). ... Teachers encourage friendliness and including isolated ...

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Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the accounts of the past are related orally, and many cultures have produced intricate and sophisticated oral histories. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

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The most popular Apollo mission was Apollo eleven, where Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked the moon. ... During the crisis of the mission one popular quote was said, "Houston, we have a problem." ...

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