1957

Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case that segregation of America’s public schools was unconstitutional. However, mobs prevented the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. On September 2, 1957, Governor Orval Faubus announced that he would call in the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the African-American students’ entry to Central High. He claimed that violence and rioting will break out if black students were allowed to enter…

As humans go through life expressing the good and bad to anyone who puts themselves in their sights. One of the opposing eleven jurors stated, “The boy killed his father because kids are disrespectful and ungrateful” (Rose, 1957, Twelve Angry Men) this shows a judgemental, hasty generalization towards all youth. This statement represents no logic and fairness to kids; not all kids are disrespectful and ungrateful, but this one opinion was attempting to persuade the other eleven…

wide range of reasons behind the causes of voter turnout. Anthony Downs’ theories are leading principles in voter turnout field by using rational choice thinking of voters. Downs tries to explain people’s thinking when coming to elections. Downs ' (1957) ‘calculus-of-voting’ model, voters are instrumentally rational. The model is about voters will vote in order to change the outcome of elections only if the costs of voting does not outweigh…

superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union. They tried to up-one another; this grows tensions between them just as the Cold War did. “On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik” (History). This was the beginning of it all. The United States and the Soviet Union had an agreement that between 1957 and 1958 they would not launch anything, that year would be the International Geophysical Year, or (IGY). The Soviet saw this as a chance to get…

tall, when in the film he was a regular sized man. The film showed him as an evil monster, ready to kill victor and anyone who gets in it’s way. Shelley, in her writing, was completely opposite. He was nice, understanding, and caring.(Warner Bros, 1957). The final film was constructed in 1974 called, “Young Frankenstein”. This film surprisingly follows Shelley’s writing and is almost exactly like her novel except when the creature comes to life, in the film, Victor is kind and very loving. When…

that is significantly located in the “deep south”. At the time of the riots and protests in 1957, America was seeing a change in its citizens perspectives and their distaste in the “established” laws of society and the constitution. This was the initial start to the racial protests and demonstrations that led to civil disobedience amongst African Americans. Unfortunately, the amount of racial tensions in, 1957, swayed the public’s opinion and evidently worsened the protests. Luckily, President…

mind, intellectual discord hypothesis predicts that he/she is then profoundly energetic to reestablish a feeling of balance. Various direct components to decrease the state of mind conduct inconsistency were recognized by early scientists Festinger (1957) and Aronson (1968). Cases of those systems are as per the following: • One can change either the discrepant disposition or the conduct keeping in mind the end goal to carry them into consistency with each other; • One can search out new data…

in transportation. African American were putted in the Little Rock Central High School to remove segregation from school in 1957 but governor did not allow the students to come to school so Eisenhower send paratroopers to look for the safety of African American students. Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy in 1957 for the Black civil rights. LGBT were always being discriminated in the society from long history to this days. But they…

Cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) is an uncomfortable feeling created by a situation that involves conflicting behaviors or ideas. In the example given in class (Festinger, L., Riecken, H. W., & Schachter, S., 1956) aliens would come and rescue a group of “Seekers” from a flood on December 21,1954 at midnight. When the aliens did not come, this created cognitive dissonance. They believed that aliens were coming; aliens did not show up. There are five ways to bring back cognitive…

The red guards forced Chairman Mao’s standards as they promoted a large majority of Mao’s Propaganda had the power, to manipulate, dominate, and oppress. In 1956 and into 1957 was a remarkable moment in China, Mao wanted to hear suggestions from China without judgment. On February 27, 1957, his speech “On the Correct Handling of the Contradictions Among the People,” which outlined the future of China that Mao wanted for them. Specifically, in the speech Mao said, “Let a hundred…