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    Question #1 Chicanos have gone through a lot and specifically thought out the 1970’s. The Chicano movement in the 1970’s can be described as powerful, political, and history changing. It was just not the adults who struggled, the Chicano youth took a part too. For instance, the youth were struggling with identity, equal education, and just plain discrimination. Chicano youth struggle with identity because when they are in the United States they are pressured into giving in into the dominant…

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    This article focuses on the the 1970s blaxploitation film Blacula and how “its mixture of genres contains the possibility for a double-edged critique”(Hefner). The main motivation for this article was to draw focus to the idea of blackness in contrast with “heteronormative patriarchal whiteness” seen throughout this movie and others. Many of the claims the Hefner made about the stereotypes black and whites portrayed in these films had some truth to them, but the language he chose to explain his…

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    Health Awareness In 1970's

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    A growing importance of health awareness is one of the indisputable indicators for a nation which lead to the introduction of the term health literacy in America during 1970’s.1 It deals with empowering the public to meet one’s demands as well as their family and community’s in understanding the various aspects of health, the factors influencing them and knowing corrective measures to be taken in overcoming them.2 An individual with an adequate level of health literacy will have the ability…

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    Many Americans believe that the Kent State incident in 1970 was the turning point during the Vietnam War. Anti-war protest towards the beginning of the war began as non-violent protest but slowly became violent. The Kent State incident was a protest gone violent to bring back American troops from Vietnam. No one knows exactly why the guardsmen shot some believe it was a sniper some guardsmen claim to have heard other guardsmen shoot so they shot too. In the article titled (PUT IN FOOTNOTE)“THE…

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    1970 Oil Crisis Case Study

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    Introduction In 1970, industrialized countries entered a period of structural crisis caused by disproportions in the development of certain spheres and sectors of the economy. The crisis caused the loose of capital from industries with rising costs, forcing them to seek ways to modernize them. Especially acute situation was created in energy-intensive and material-intensive industries, for example, metallurgy. Since the middle of 1970', there were several structural crises and the…

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    Bayh-Dole Act 1970

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    Furthermore, most university technology transfer officerswho have different motivations from individual researchers-are not focused on increasing public access to public-sector inventions. A recent study found that "university technology transfer activities continue to be predominately patent-centric and revenue-driven with a single-minded focus on generating licensing income and obtaining reimbursement for legal expenses." Current Bayh-Dole patenting and licensing practices have thus been…

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    During the early 1970’s, the world was undergoing a radically quick change. Social groups and human rights activists were propped up and inspired across the world. Almost instantaneously human rights became a predominant ideology that influenced political systems in America, Latin America, and the Soviet Union and its Satellite Nations. Many human rights activists sought to establish sovereign nation states that strayed away from colonial rule, therefore resulting in the rights for citizenship.…

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    “In the 1970s, many young white middle-class adults who had become comfortable with the experience of sampling new drugs based on their favorable experience with marijuana tried powder cocaine. Cocaine use was considered chic while it was associated with rockstars and stock brokers. When these users began to experience significant rates of dependence in the 1970s, they helped drive the dramatic expansion of private and public sector chemical dependency treatment facilities in the 1970s and…

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    One way hip hop evolved is the diversity of the styles. At the beginning hip hop in the 1970’s was mostly composed of DJs that mix songs and samples together to make a new music. DJs such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Caz and Afrika Bambaataa, were big artist during the 1970’s era. “ They began to develop in the South Bronx area of New york city focusing on emceeing and breakbeats (A sample of a syncopated drum beat, that is repeated to form a rhythm)...DJ Kool Herc Known as…

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    the 1970s the 1970s was a time of change. america was at war with vietnam. nixon was corrupting the us . and the protesting was worst than ever .america could not take the war Nixon Nixon was the president of the us during the vietnam war. he filled people with false hope. saying things like he is the cure of america ,he will change the war and stop the riots.but everybody voted for him for one thing.he promised to stop the leftist organization and the antiwar protests.…

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