1950s

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2015. Computer programming has been valuable since the 1950’s to modern times. As technology is advancing each year, more and more computer programmers perform their duties of writing codes to create program software. They must unscramble these codes in order to get the best results; otherwise they must check for errors and try to regulate them. Programmers also work jointly with software developers, and in any…

The movie Fences is the movie based on the play, directed by August Wilson. This is about the life of the African American main character’s family story during the 1950s. The one of the main characters, Troy, is the person who is negative about his race by his childhood. When he is playing baseball, he receives mistreatment from the team because he is black. So he has the negative point about the society. As his childhood, he disagrees his son, Cory, to play football because of his experience.…

The era of the 1950s, was an iconic era in american history. The american dream of freedom, self empowerment, and success was growing. After WW2, the soldiers returned and the generation of baby boomers began. The baby Boomer generation was born between mid 1950 's to mid 1960s, this was also the time where the Happy Homemakers were born. Women who stayed home and looked after the children while her husband provided. Family became a national priority, and women were taught that a happy marriage…

Karl from the “welcome committee” letting the Youngers know that they are not welcomed because of the color of their skin. I just cannot imagine what the Youngers felt like in that moment. Though A Raisin in the Sun is fictional, during the early 1950s African Americans really did face discrimination within the housing market. According to Charles M. Lamb the author of Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960, “Federal public housing policy, long characterized by racial…

creativity stems from Guilford’s (1950) work. Although it, marginally, infers a relationship between gender and creativity, there is evidence to the contrary, such as Goldsmith and Matherly (1998) and Henderson (2003). Creativity is the ability to exhibit creative behaviour to a noteworthy degree (Guilford, 1950). Guildford identified several key principles of creativity (fluency and flexibility). Fluency is a measure based on the number of ideas (Guildford, 1950). Frequency is the rate of…

their undoing. Problems only worsened between Truman and MacArthur in the Korean War. As commander in chief of the Pacific theater in World War II, MacArthur gained praise from the American public as he was charismatic and personable (). From 1945 to 1950, MacArthur was the surrogate emperor of Japan, often ignoring instruction from Washington on occupation policy (Oxford -…

The 1950s-1960s will be remembered as one of the most significant time periods in American history due to calls of action by leaders, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan, the calls for action by these very influential leaders sought for unification of America as a whole by giving equal rights to minorities such as African-Americans and…

Canada in 1950s – a respecter of human rights “A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer,” said Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher (Seneca, Moral Essays, Vol.3, 1935). Intentions of an event are usually more important than results in determining the righteousness of the event because one has control over the intentions but not the outcomes. Action done out of philanthropic purpose is justified even though the result unexpectedly hurts others’…

During the 1950s, the invention rate was higher than ever and everything was in the Americans favor far as money, jobs, educational opportunities and more leisure time. Air conditioning, electric heating, television, interstate highways systems, pornography, and automobile…

Albert Vinicio Báez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/; November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister. Baez grew up in Brooklyn and considered becoming a minister before turning to mathematics and physics. He made important contributions to the early development of X-ray microscopes and later…