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Every day Americans use some form of technology, whether it be our computers or our cars. Technology is used every single day without an extra thought given to it. It is never thought about the innovations that allow the computers to do what they do. Americans don’t think about the decade that made an impact on technology. The 1970s had its effect on technology. In addition to having the best people wanted more than the best. The U.S. Navy pushed for newer and greater technology, engineering…

held politicians accountable for a variety of reasons. Today, with the growth of media there are more issues of accountability arising but one issue that is very important in U.S. history is a case known as the Pentagon Papers. This case occurred in 1971 when the New York Times released documents from the Vietnam war accusing former President Nixon and his Administration. The Pentagon Papers were a series of papers that were a classified Defense Department research from the United States…

like race predisposed infants to death in this particular period. Several studies has examined the extent to which infant mortality rate differences are related to race. The result suggested that there is a gap between black and white infants. From 1971 to 1988, the mortality rate for black infants declined much more slowly than the decline for white infants (Marian et al, 1998). On the other hand, infant deaths occurring during the first week of life declined, which was initially the most…

In 1970, the Beatles break up, and a Palestinian group hijacks five planes. In 1971, the London Bridge is brought to the US and the UK changes their currency system to decimal systems for currency. In 1972, the Watergate scandal begins and pocket calculators are introduced. Also in this year, Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals. In 1973, the Sears Tower is built and the US pulls out of Vietnam. In 1974, the Terracotta Army is discovered in China and Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects. In 1975, the…

On January 12th 1962, the US Air force launched Operation Ranch Hand. This operation called for the use of over 19 million gallons of Agent Orange to be dumped on to the forests in Vietnam to expose the Viet Cong soldiers below. Not only did vast amounts of foliage die, but the chemical lead to birth defects, cancer, and skin rashes for soldiers and civilians who came in contact with it. Operation Ranch Hand Initiated.) Many still argue today that Agent Orange was not linked to these health…

What is going on? In 2018 our society is ran by a corrupt racist Donald Trump billionaire and the police killing young black men like ,Michael Brown, Tamir rice and Trayvon Martin. These are the same issues Marvin Gaye called out in 1971 in his iconic song What is going on? “Marvin starts the song by saying Mother, mother There's too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.” When this song was…

stages of Operation Ranch Hand recalled the Air Force Commander never implementing the remarking of planes, because he thought it didn't make sense to change them. (Buckingham 1982) The United States and Ali countries sprayed Agent Orange from 1961-1971. Spraying 21 million of gallons defoliant over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos causing destroy much of the plant life. This intentional defoliation caused destruction of the jungle canopies and crop land. The destruction affected the enemy in more…

Chapter 19 deals with various movements that were taking place within the United States. The most influential and visible movements in the United States during the mid-20th century include the modern feminist movement, prison movements, and Native American movements. All of these movements, led by oppressed populations, left a distinctive imprint on the United States’ course of development and shaping of its policy towards discrimination. As mentioned above, the first major social movement…

intellectual leadership” and secondly, hegemony is “relations of dominant and dominated classes” (p.4). Gramsci refrains Weber’s “institutional ideology” because institutions are the ways of controlling society by bourgeois (p. 4). According to Gramsci (1971), state contains “civil society” within itself and hegemony settled in state “as political hegemony” (p. 5). It means that state refers to both “civil and political societies”. Moreover, state as a tool of dominant class and they use state…

¬Diana Paredes 10/09/2015 SW 500D Personal Views of Social Justice My conception of social justice is founded on the belief that humans are interdependent social creatures whose individual prosperity is dependent on solidarity. As conscientious social beings that depend on one another to survive, we have the unique ability to love and to manifest our love for one another through the exercise of moral values which reinforce our accountability to one another. Injustice arises when we act against…