1967

By the end of 1967, the number of US troops fighting in Vietnam had gone up to 500,000. It has been estimated that by 1967 the power of bombs dropped on Vietnamese territory by the US exceeded that of the bombs dropped all over Europe during the entire period of the Second World War. The US war in Vietnam was the most…

“Loving” by Jeff Nichols portrays the rigorous challenge of interracial marriage in America 1967. A moral dilemma of the film shown is if marriage should be legally permitted regardless of race. Marriage should be legally permitted no matter the race based on rulings made by the Supreme Court case, Loving’s v. Virginia. Utilitarianism strongly supports happiness for the greatest majority, therefore miscegenation is right. John Rawls’ social contract theory presents the principles of peace among…

Maximus Enterprises In 1967, the legal wranglings were finally settled, and Epstein launched Maximus Enterprises Ltd., (now that Stramsact and Seltaeb were dissolved) to try to capitalize on the merchandising boom, but by this time the interest of many corporations had wilted following the Seltaeb debacle. Also at this time, Lennon had enraged part of the American fan-base with his suggestion that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." Epstein was well aware that his own contract was up…

house and the plaintiff said no. Before the defendant signed the sales agreement, he inquired again if there were termites in the house and if an inspection was necessary, the agent restated that there were no termites in the home. On February 21, 1967, the two parties entered into a real estate agreement and the defendant paid $2,000 dollars as a deposit. This was the…

amyloids. The advent of various staining methods formulated basic techniques, which have been used since then, to stain various kinds of biological and non-biological amyloids (Bennhold, 1922; Divry, 1927; Missmahl and Hartwig, 1953; Saeed and Fine, 1967; Wagner,…

Guess who’s coming to Dinner directed by Stanley Kramer addresses many sociological areas throughout its 108 minute run time (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)). Three main areas that were apparent throughout this movie were Deviance, Social Stratification, and Race & Ethnicity. Deviance is defined as “the recognized violation of cultural norms” (Macionis). Deviances in society help to establish social control, attempts made by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behaviors, which comes…

Labour governments between 1964 to 1970. The liberal domestic reforms were led by the competent home secretary, Roy Jenkins, through his backing, the Labour governments passed important liberalising laws; such as the Abortion Act in 1967, the Sexual offences Act 1967 (allowing homosexual activities between males in private) and also the abolition of the death penalty in 1969. This ushered in what some conservatives would claim a “permissive society”. However I do not agree…

The struggles and discrimination of the ATSI peoples was made evident to her during her childhood and she went on to co-found an organisation which supported their rights, making many public and private speeches. Bandler played a vital part in the 1967 referendum and has been acknowledged for her contribution with many awards. Bandler is in no doubt one of the most important civil rights activists of ATSI rights in Australia. Even from a young age Bandler was aware of the discrimination that…

everyone in the other group is the exact same. Every Soc thinks a Greaser is someone that has long hair loaded with hair grease and has an empty-handed family (S.E. Hinton 1967). On the other hand, Greasers think of a Soc as somebody who has excessive money, Mustangs, Corvairs, Madras shirts, and has all the breaks in life (S.E. Hinton 1967). We simply just insert into our brains that everyone in the group is just like that one person. It’s not like if we see one red apple, we think all apples…

Labov and Waletzky's (1967&1997) view, the complicating action contains the main body of the narrative constructed by narrative clauses and serves the aim of delivering a series of events. As Labov and Waletzky (1997) maintained, it is often difficult to locate the exact end of the complicating action without relying on semantic criteria. The end of the complicating action often coincides with the resolution part. 2.2.5.4. Evaluation According to Labov and Waletzky (1967&1997), the…