1970s

1970 Sports The first video game ever created was called Pong and created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. The greatest game Pong was played exactly like tennis, but instead of having to play against a person you can play against the CPU if you wanted(Oxford). Many fantastic inventions were made in the 1970s but by far one of the greats is cellphone which were ivented in 1973 which helped people all around the country or the world contact each other with a push of a button and revolutionized the…

There were two main responses to the violence against women, was women's refuges, rape crisis centres. Before the 1970 there was little public discussion or knowledge about rape and domestic violence. Several Christchurch women groups set up women refuges in 1974, they had only intended to house homeless women but the number of women and children fleeing domestic partners…

There are two types of eugenics, negative and positive in the 1970s to the present. Negative eugenics comes with incentives, coercions, and compulsions in order to convince society that they should participate in eugenics. Negative eugenics is defined by Galton as a way to limit the fertility of the ‘undesirables’, such as the lower intelligent, the psychopaths, and the diseased. Positive eugenics insists that parts of society that have higher intelligence with a good personality, highly…

found, treatments for many other diseases have been and medical technology has come a long way. Every decade, new advancements are made, and some are better than others, but they all shape the lives of many people in many different ways. In the 1970s, two life changing surgeries took place. They both occurred in 1972 and they were the world’s first toe-to-thumb…

To a large extent, detente did little to stabilise international relations during the 1970s. Despite an initial period of cooperation between the superpowers, detente failed to stop the eventual buildup of tensions between Moscow and Washington DC. However, detente did not fail completely; some advances towards international stability were made during the 1970s. First of all, detente did little to stabilise international relations since it failed to achieve any significant progress towards…

Introduction My interests in 1970s fashion lead me to interview my mother, Cynthia Cartwright (Cindy) who was a teenager during this period. The 1970s were a time of protesting and fighting for equal rights for women, African Americans, Native Americans, gays and lesbians. Nevertheless, the 1970s were also a time of media influences, like music, television, and magazines. Media was an influence that reached Cindy. An African American teenage girl from St. Louis, Missouri, with not many examples…

invented? At age 31, Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire ever at the time, having a networth of $12.9 billion. The 1970’s was a very popular time for new upcomings and new technologies. Bill Gates starting Microsoft, the beginning of VCR’s, Tom Persky inventing the floppy disk, and the pocket calculator was just the beginning of the new technologies to come. Technology in the 1970’s was just the beginning to the uproar of many new exciting experiments and new technologies to come. The…

In the 1970s and 1980s women achieved a considerable advancement in obtaining various careers. For example, the 1970s in the United States, there was a beginning of an important period of social changes in women’s issues. The result was a phenomenon known as the women`s movement. A wide variety of civil rights organizations and groups were influenced by the success of the civil rights movement for racial equality and other progressive currents rushing the nation during the 1960s and the 1970s.…

This picture appears to present an image of a typical day in the life of a family in the 1970’s. The children are playing outside in the fresh air, under the watchful eyes of their parents. This scenario seems preferable to children sitting inside playing video games on their computer, but sometimes danger lurks in the background and those living life in the forefront are oblivious to it. In this image, a mother and father are standing in front of their home. Their home is modest, but well…

Marriage During the 1970’s continuation of the women’s movement made a huge change in the lives of women. The movement sent the message that there were alternative options for women besides the normal option of being a wife and a mother. Whether a woman considers herself a “feminist” or not, at the time, it created new opportunities for women to venture into other roles, than the more traditional roles of wife and mother. It opened up new educational, occupational, and legal options for women…