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When people think about 1945 they think of wars won and new technology that makes our lives easier today. However, there was a popular culture or movement that boomed throughout the United States and is still popular in today’s culture; tattoos. Tattoos have been around for centuries with the earliest known man Otzi who was predicted to live around 300 B.C. and he had tattoos still inked to what’s left of Otzi. However, tattoos had different meanings throughout the years and change meanings to…

The Britain leaving the European Union after 43 years’ membership, there are a lot of reasons that let Britain took this decision. One of them is refugees, further fixing internal problems which are jobs, health care, Education and that opening the door to other countries to think about leaving the E.U like Sweden, France, and Greece even though they have a crisis in their economy for the same reason (refuges) (First of all, Greece won 't go down. We 're talking about a country that is capable…

Coney Island, now often unnoticed by the public, was not only created for amusement but to make a major social change that had recently occurred easier. The famous amusement parks heyday coincided with a critical period in American History, when the nation came of age as an urban-industrial society. This new age came with major cultural, economic, and social changes that its citizens were having a hard time adjusting. Genteel reformers decided to attempt to control the growing population to…

showman takes place in New York city and tells the story of P.T. Barnum who grew up as a poor boy and one day founded a circus with very bizarre attractions. He brought up the concept of entertainment even though the show was made with a lot of fake sideshows. Moreover, he had all the support of his wife, who was a childhood love, and his two daughters. There were many conflicts through the movie and they were all very well developed once the scenes and movie progression didn’t fail to amaze…

In present day, tattoos are popular among many different social groups in North American society. Yet, different groups opt for different images and placement on the body. An info-graphic done by the National Post in 2013 boasts that 23% of Americans and 21% of Canadians have at least one tattoo (Faille & Edmiston, 2013). This means that one out of every five people in North America has a tattoo. Moreover, the info-graphic also depicts the findings from a 2006 study conducted by the Journal of…

The feature film called, Network (1976), directed by Sidney Lumet is the story of a fictional television news host called Howard Beale. The film is pure satire and it portrays how much of an impact the media has, especially television. Howard Beale was a news anchorman on UBS for a long time and was fired that would be effective in two weeks. He announced on live television he would be retiring from the show because of poor ratings and was going to kill himself on live television a week from…

The Help Understanding of context of the civil rights in 1960 America influenced me to respond the events and character from the novel The Help in a better way than if I didn’t know the context. The Help is set in Jackson Mississippi and explores the growing friendship between the privileged white lady Mrs Skeeter and the two maids Aibileen and Minny. The novel is written by Kathryn Sockett and uses the context of the setting to drives character development and conflict between the whites and…

Police officers killed at least 37% of unarmed african americans in 2015, more than any other nationality, despite african americans being only 13% of the United States population. Only nine of the 102 cases concerning with police brutality resulted in officers being charged with crime. Police Officers should go to jail for their crime for their actions such as brutal abuse, murder and/or racial profiling. Police brutality is a serious cause in the United States that most of the community is…

What defines leisure time may differ from person to person and also from community to community. A person may prefer Broadway as their relaxation, while some else relaxes by watching car races. Whatever the choice one makes, America has a myriad of variety for societies to escape from day to day life. This was not always the case in America. Up until the early nineteenth century, America was strictly guided by certain values. American culture at this time felt a formal set of leisure activities…

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 16, 1866. He grew up in the Odessa, Russia. Growing up he was able to enjoy music and learned to play the piano and the cello. He also took art lessons, where his love for colors began. Both music and colors would have a impact on his art later in life. Kandinsky went to college and became a law teacher in order to fulfill his parents wishes. When he was thirty, he decided to change careers and become a full time…