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coach ever, possibly the best team sport coach ever. Every basketball fan knows how successful he was at UCLA, but he started his coaching career in college in 1946 with Indiana State Teachers College (now Indiana State University). He coached through 1948 and helped lead his team to the Indiana Intercollegiate Conference title in 1947 and an invitation to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball National Tournament in Kansas City. He refused the invitation, however, because the…

Apartheid, a system of racial segregation, took over South Africa from 1948 until 1994. After the National Party gained power in 1948, the predominantly white government implemented laws to segregate the blacks from the whites. Under this system, majority of the black citizens of South Africa were forced to live separate from whites and the contact between the two races became restricted. Although the novel takes place in Post-Apartheid South Africa, the effects of the system are still present…

Loew’s Incorporated. Again, during that time, they controlled the development, production, and distribution of films which lead to the studio system. The Paramount decision, stemming from the United States Supreme Court Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948 (United States vs. Paramount Pictures), defined how studios could no longer hold financial interests or own theaters. Another historical event also saw its beginnings during the 1930’s and 1940’s where American entertainers were denied employment…

and North Koreans pushed the USA and South Koreans back to its current border, the 38th Parallel. The Korean War ended on July 27, 1953. After the end of World War II, South Korea was founded in August 1945 and North Korea was founded September 1948. In 1948, South Korea began competing in the Summer and Winter Olympics even though North and South Korea were still at war…

action packed, sometimes informative and often comical, commercials. Ford Motor Company has certainly followed suit as their early advertising took on the form of infomercial-type full page ads. This is clearly revealed in a print ad published in 1948, You can look now It’s the ’49 FORD, as it provides an extensive descriptions of the new and exciting details about their “NEW” product. Today, although Ford still uses print ads, their commercials are often much more entertaining,…

The publication of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 signified an opportunity to prosper for the nations involved. Thomas Jefferson articulated the relationship between the government and its people as one that should “care [for] human life and happiness, and not their destruction, for it is the first and only object of a good government” (“Thomas Jefferson”). All human beings, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, or any other discriminatory category are equally…

any visionary system of political or social perfection” (“Utopia”). Dystopia is an “imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror” (“Dystopia”). George Orwell published 1984 in 1948 and he was inspired to write this book as a warning against Nazism and Stalinism. He was trying to prove a point about what was going in this world. In the book, 1984 has many literary devices including satire and irony. In reality, the society is…

In the following essay I will claim that the Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the central themes in Middle East politics since 1948. The creation of the state of Israel and subsequent claims of territory has been the cause of many wars in the region. The displacement of the Palestinian population has caused resentment among the Palestinians and aggravated neighbouring states that were the recipients of the displaced populace. Backing by the imperial power of the United States of America…

THE PLACE OF ANTONIONI IN NEO-REALISM ITALIAN CINEMA Introduction The Italian neorealism is a film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors for secondary and sometimes primary roles which lasted from about 1943 to 1952. According to Piepergerdes (2007) assert that the “emerging out of the ashes of Fascism, Italian Neorealist films were inexorably tied to the social, political, and economic…

Hero's journey paper - Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest political powers that the world will ever know that spent his entire life fighting for racial equality throughout the world and was eventually successful with what he believed in, however he had a few problems along the way. Because of his want to do good in the world and make it a better place where each person is not judged on their race, I believe that he is a hero. My definition of a hero is, a person that fights for…