1962

Pigs Invasion, The United States was faced with the Cuban Missile Crisis.3 The Cuban missile crisis is arguably the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and is the closest the U.S. came to having a full fledged nuclear battle.3 In October of 1962 an agreement was made by Fidel Castro of Cuba and Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR. It placed nuclear missiles in Cuba as a defense tactic to prevent a future invasion of the country. The conflict was able to come to a resolution when the Soviet…

inventory. Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers originally developed the assessment with the first version of MBTI Manual published in 1962 (Kaler, 2007). The MBTI is designed to assess an individual’s preferences of one’s own perception and judgment with the belief that different vocations favored different personality orientations (Myers, 1962). According to Pittenger (1993), the instrument consists a series of either 93 or 88 questions, the current North American English version and…

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee and the 1962 movie, had many differences in the ways they were shown to us in the book and movie. One of the ways, is that most of the movie is told in the point of view of Jem unlike the book which is narrated by Scout. The other is about how Mrs. Dubose role in the book and movie are completely different, because in the movie she is just some crazy old lady that the kids would walk by. Also In the book, she used to show how atticus discipled his kids. These…

Manchurian Candidate (1962), it presented an opportunity to update this classic political thriller into modern times. Producing a remake also presents the risk of losing the original message altogether. Both films begin with an American soldier who is essentially brainwashed into becoming an assassin utilized by his own political family, more specifically his mother, to infiltrate the presidency of America. Behind the brainwashing is the most feared villains of the time, communists in 1962…

demarcation between science and Pseudo-science was an idea of falsifiability. Popper stated “One can sum up all this by saying that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability” (Popper, K. 1962). Popper’s view on scientific methods includes the proposal of theories or conjectures and attempting falsifications of these conjectures. Popper stated that scientists can formulate conjectures based on observations of the empirical data.…

of music. Before he rose to stardom he was a songwriter writing for singer Connie Francis. His first million seller came in 1958 “Splish Splash”. This was followed by a string of hits such as “Dream Lover”, “Mack the Knife”, and “Beyond the Sea”. In 1962 Darrin won a Golden Globe award for his first movie “Come September” in which he performed with his first wife Sandra Dee. Darrin began having health problems which stemmed from his childhood when he got sick with rheumatic fever and tragically…

as a band. From there, The Beatles’ fame did grow tremendously. They tried finding several recording studios, and eventually landed Parlophone. By the end of 1962, The Beatles made the UK charts with their single “Love Me Single.” From there, more and more of their hits were making the charts (“History of The Beatles”). Unfortunately, in 1962, The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, fired Pete Best as their drummer. The recording studio they had landed made the decision that Best did not fit in…

expressions, take another’s perspective, pass a conservation task etc. Cognitive development describes the growth of cognitive abilities and capacities from birth to old age (Colman, 2009). Jean Piaget’s four stages cognitive-developmental theory (Piaget, 1962) is widely regarded as the most detailed explanation of child development (Carlson et al., 2004). This essay will assess the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s theory and compare these to other cognitive development theories namely the…

Green, 2008). Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, officially became the first human to orbit around the Earth on April 12th, 1961. This gave American’s a glimpse into how far ahead the USSR still was in comparison to their own. So on September 12th, 1962 President John F. Kennedy gave his famous and heart-felt speech expressing America’s intentions to go to the moon before the decade was out stating: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: The Life of a Gay Man in 1962 In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, the author writes a story about patients of a medical institution in the 1960s and the journey of the lives of a group of men who are considered to be crazy. In part I of the novel, McMurphy has a discussion with the patients of the institution and tries to convince them that they have to stand up to Nurse Ratched because she manipulates them. Afterwords, Dale Harding…