1957

The 1950s and 1960s were times of social, federal, and scientific change for the United States. The Civil Rights movement gained a ground it never had before. Citizens discovered voice and took advantage of this newfound freedom to the streets through peaceful protest. Despite this domestic struggle for justice, the United States faced a foreign enemy: the Soviet Union. The Cold War was brewing throughout the decade, but America found comfort in their superior mentality. That is, until the…

Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was created on October 1, 1958 (Launching NASA). On October 4, 1957 the soviet union sent out an artificial satellite called Sputnik and because of this, the US saw it fit to create their own space program to compete with the Soviet Union. Before NASA was created, the NRL conducted the first american satellite program called project Vanguard. In 1957, because suitable satellite-launching facilities were not available, NRL constructed the first complete…

Wake Up Little Susie A popular song in its time “Wake Up Little Susie” became a number one hit on October 14, 1957 for the Everly Brothers. A song that sang about the kind of nightmare only two teenagers in love could wake up to having fallen asleep together at the movies and having to face angry parents and curious friends. The Everly Brothers were favorites for they harmonious singing and doo-wop style. Their first big hit was “Bye Bye Love” but it didn’t make it to number one. I don’t know…

According to Bowles and Kaplan, “on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, a 23-inch-diameter, 183-pound ball containing a radio transmitter, into space” (Bowles and Kaplan, 2012, paragraph 7). The Sputnik I was known as the first artificial satellite. It was involved in the orbit and the Earth. It was also a part of the Soviet Union. The first person reached satellite in 1957. The size of the satellite was not very large. The Sputnik traveled above the Earth’s surface. According…

Based on Jung’s personality theory, people are conceived with predispositions due to the racial and cultural history of their ancestors (Hall & Gardner, 1957). These inclinations help in guiding future behaviors and are altered based on different experiences that a person may encounter. Therefore, people are born as wholes or at least partially complete with regards to their personality, yet this wholeness is something that an individual has to work on for the duration of their life since it…

Jaguar C-Type, then in 1955, 1956 and 1957 with the Jaguar D-Type. The famous race was then left for many years, until in the mid-1980s Tom Walkinshaw 's TWR team started designing and preparing Jaguar V12-engined sports prototypes for European sportscar races. The team started winning regularly from 1987, and with increased factory backing the team won Le Mans in 1988 and 1990. Jaguar Sport: * Jaguar C-Type (1951-1953) * Jaguar D-Type (1954-1957) * Jaguar E-Type/Jaguar…

arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to vacate her seat in the white section of the bus. This event would lead toward the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr.. On the 9th of September, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On September 3, 1957 Governor…

12 Angry men The screenplay takes place in New York and was written by Reginald Rose. There is two versions of 12 Angry men, 1957 and 1997. The author’s intent of the screenplay is prejudice. It’s a prejudice screenplay because in the 1957 version there was only 12 white jurors and out of the 11 men they chose guilty and one juror chose not guilty. This shows that people can have a different perspective of how they see the things. In the 1997 version there were different races like the boy that…

World War II, training on the base soon came to a halt. From December of 1945 to December of 1957, the base exchanged hands between various military organizations, including the Air Materiel Command, Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command (Alexander and Arrington 1963, 332-333). Most of the activity at Wendover Air Base during those years included bomb and munitions-testing. On December 31, 1957, the base was decommissioned, with a short period of reactivation in 1961 (Alexander and…

On January 5, 1957, President Eisenhower announced to Congress that any legitimate government could request economic aid or military intervention from the military if it felt threatened by armed aggression from another country. Specifically the Eisenhower Doctrine, was…