1967

From the 1970s 56 players were inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball but there are hundreds inductees from all sports that came from the 1970s. The 1970s was a great time for many athletes in their playing days. The 1970s, made it hard for athletes to play due to the press, sports have accommodated many great athletes, and many things that influenced the decade like basketball, football and boxing. In the 1970s, it was harder for people of great athletic ability to play sports due to the…

countless research has been devoted to understanding it (Bartlett, 2011). One cannot talk about play, and it’s importance in childhood, without mentioning Vygotsky. He stated that “play is the leading source of development in the preschool years” (1967, p.6). However, it is not any kind of play that Vygotsky, and other influential developmental theorists such as Piaget and Elkonin, are interested in. Active free play – that is, unstructured, child-driven, physical play (Weisberg, Zosh,…

During their period with Andy Warhol, the band became a significant part in his multimedia spectacle entitled ‘Exploding Plastic Inevitable.’ Simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, it was a series of performances established Warhol between 1966 and 1967. Originally called ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound,’ it played in theaters in Early ’66, which was VU and Nico accompanying a 70-minute long silent black and white film. As the idea evolved, it was advertised as the ‘new…

In 1967, Bernard Bailyn, an American Historian, published his book titled The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Throughout this piece, and specifically in chapter two, Sources and Traditions, Bailyn explores what he believes to be the causes of the Revolution, highlighting the inspirations that guided the Founders as they attempted to break free from British control. At the beginning of this chapter, Bailyn discusses and theorizes many differing sources of Revolutionary inspiration…

The Oxford Dictionary defines education as a process of receiving or giving systematic instruction and acquiring a body of knowledge while being educated. Education in its general definition defines a form of learning that takes place within a person in which knowledge, skills, values, and beliefs are transferred from one to another. However, when most people think of education, they think of a formal environment where information is being transferred from a person of authority, such as a…

community. Reported by Michael Charlton, a non-indigenous man, the film is reflective of the deplorable conditions the Aboriginal community endured during this dishonorable piece of Australian history. Set in 1961, the Box Ridge episode aired prior to the 1967 Referendum and displayed issues with relevance to the laws at the time. The 1960’s were a time where Aborigines had trouble in the job market,…

career” (Goffman, page 32). Tannenbaum’s guidelines established from the dramatization of evil were focused on attacking an assembly of defenders rather than one individual. In 1967, Lemert was the next person to explore self, deviance, and society. He created the idea of societal reaction in 1951 and secondary deviance in 1967. He…

reach parity with the United States. • In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. • The development of an ABM system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating by shooting down incoming missiles. • Johnson therefore called for strategic arms limitations talks (SALT), and in 1967, he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met at…

The ruling to suppress the statements given by Thompson was considered with the case of Garrity v New Jersey (1967) in mind. This particular case sought the protection against coerced confessions under the Fourteenth Amendment which prohibits the use in subsequent criminal proceeding of the confessions obtained from public officers under a threat of removal from…

The native Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia had, since western settlement in 1788, been dispossessed of their natural freedoms and rights. Centuries later, by 1954, the law still discriminated against the indigenous, inhibiting their civil liberties; however, many improvements have occurred which substantially bettered the standards of life as present. Originally, Aborigines were considered savages and fell under the Flora and Fauna Act, but through the reconciliation…