1950s

Revolutionary Road was a book written by Richard Yates, published in 1961. Revolutionary Road takes place in the 1950s and focuses on the two main characters, Frank and April Wheeler and their hopes and dreams for their future lives. Revolutionary Road takes you through the confusing, ups and downs of the Wheelers life, with other characters such as the Campbells, the Wheelers neighbors, and the Givings, the Wheelers real estate agent and her family. In Revolutionary Road you see April and Frank…

At the end of world war two for the first time in 35 years Korea was free of Japanese occupation. Due to the agreements that the Soviet Union signed with America to join the pacific war against Japan the Soviet army stopped at the 38th parallel and the country was split into two, the Soviet Union controlled the North and the Americans controlled the south. With the fall of Fascism and the rise of communism across Europe, the United States and the USSR both strived to prove the superiority of…

The author, Livingstone, used other past literature where experiments were conducted. The experiment consists American and British households with family set and without Family sets from the 1950’s to 1960’s. She did not find any correlation between Television viewing and children’s aggressive behavior but she found that those with Television sets at home were more “ambitious with their values”. Due to the act tfhat producers started to…

pinwheel to scroll through the numbers. The inspiration to create the Brunsviga was to provide the consumers with a powerful machine that can perform advanced level arithmetic while providing portability as well. Around the time of the 1900s to the 1950s, corporations everywhere are striving for competition to see who can create the most optimal calculators for their…

underlying meaning. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a representation of the Red Scare in the 1950s, which greatly affected America and ultimately his career. As a writer, he was accused of communism, and it cost him his career. The United States government in the 1950’s had a complete loss of control. The Red Scare was a time when a small suspicion could lead to the destruction of someone's life. In the 1950’s,…

soldiers for the next 25 years. In the 1950s the US and Soviet Union began to build up their weapons and nuclear bombs to scare each other off, and to stop them from attacking. This was called the “Arms Race.” Eventually, they had so many nuclear weapons that neither could attack each other without being destroyed. This is called “Mutual Assured Destruction.” They also raced to complete space missions to show that they had better technology and scientists. In the 1950s The Soviet Union sent a…

well-documented. In discussing the ways in which Aboriginal people and their white supporters promoted Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights in Australia from the late 1950s through to 1972, this essay will provide a representative rather than comprehensive treatment. It will begin with a brief overview of the state of affairs leading up to the late 1950s. The notion of ‘rights’ as well as the campaigns and strategies employed to advance those rights in regard to Indigenous Australians, as well as…

In Rules of the game, the protagonist, Waverly Jong is eight years old, living in San Francisco Chinatown, around the 1950’s. In the late 1950’s, Chinese-Americans had a harsh life in America due to Chinese immigration laws. Thus, this has a tremendous impact on the way the story is told due to the time, tone and atmosphere in the 1950s. In contrast, in Who’s Irish, the antagonist, Sophie who is three years old, lives in a large urban city in the 1990s. Most of the story takes…

thing in the world," he once said. "To live as a civilized human being, you've got to have something in your head." Fahrenheit 451 might be set later on, however it was impacted when period that it was written in. This novel was published in the 1950's and the reader can see a portion of the issues that the general population of the 50's stressed and felt questionable over. For instance, in this book individuals have quit perusing books. Books in this substitute society have been supplanted by…

With all of the advancements in roads and vehicles, public transportation has received only minor advancements over the past 60 years. The largest change public transportation underwent is the crime rate aboard city buses and subways. During the 1950’s parents trusted public transportation to take their children to and from school or into town every day with no second thoughts. (Ready Roni) Today, public transportation plays a pivotal role in the development and sustainability of crime…