...How far do you agree that the impact of the Second World War was the main reason why the position of African Americans improved in the years 194555? Before WW2, it could be considered that AfroAmericans had no position in society. This was evident especially in the Southern States where white supremacy emerged amongst the dominant white class. Many Southern Politicians were members of the Klu Klux Klan and so they often tried to disregard any Supreme Court Rulings that were created. In this essay it will be argued that it was the Second World War which was the main reason why the Position of African Americans improved in the years 19451955. However, there are other factors that have to be taken into consideration such as the Presidential Influence and the Supreme Court Rulings. The impact of WW2 was important in securing better position for AfroAmericans as more people realised their significance of their work in the army. As a result it became apparent of the reforms that were required. President Truman took over from President Roosevelt. He was significant even though he was a racist at a young age and supported white supremacy. When he took over as President he felt he had a moral obligation to fight segregation. He established the President’s Committee on Civil Rights in 1947 and commissioned them to make a report examining the experiences of ethnic minorities It highlighted the problems facing African Americans and how to make America a more just ...
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...Keith Thorkildson Fall 2013 Humanities The Impact of WW1 and Freudian theories on Western Societies The twentieth century was a huge turning point for the entire world. Europeans were experiencing something that had never happened in their lifetimes before. Early in the twentieth century WW1 breaks out in Europe and a new way of looking at the human mind emerges. These events and people would really change cultures around the world. Beliefs in the Enlightenment would never be the same and modern day societies are still influenced at what was achieved and destroyed during this time. I am going to highlight the life of Sigmund Freud’s and how his theories impacted how we look at the human mind today. Then I will go over World War 1 and how it completely changed cultures of the west. Finally I will explain how WW1 and Sigmund Freud connected and changed western societies forever. Sigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, Moravia in 1856. There is not a lot of information on Sigmund Freud’s early life because he chose to keep it out of the public’s eye. “Little is known of Freud’s early life as he twice destroyed his personal paper, once in 1885 and again in 1907” (Psychologist, World). His personal papers were closely guarded in Sigmund Freud’s archives and only available to Ernest Jones his official biographer. Freud published countless theories that created a lot of controversy in his time and still in our modern world today. Sigmund published many works but most of them if not...
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...up to 50% of volunteers were unfit and in Manchester, 8,000 out of the 11,000 who volunteered for the army were rejected as they were physically unsuitable. The public's poor health hindered recruitment for the Boer War alarmed the government. This forced them to respond by establishing the inter-department Committee on Physical Deterioration; which highlighted nutrition as an indicator of the public's health. Subsequently, free school meals were offered to the less affluent and routine examinations of school children’s health began in 1907. Also, a report conducted by the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1909 recommended that the Local Government Board should possess greater authority in regulating medical institutions, demonstrating how the Second Boer War transformed the...
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...There has been an abundance of injustices suffered by the original owners of our land which still continue to this day but since WW2, which occurred from 1939-1945, Indigenous Recognition has been one of the rapidly changing important issues in Australian society. Although there has been a shift towards recognition, which has helped to shape this nation into a more diverse and accepting nation, we have still not come far enough to Recognition. Indigenous Recognition is defined as having a voice to parliament, treaties and truth telling in history. Before WW2, Indigenous people were not spoken about, their recognition was minimal, and most Australians did not fully understand the horrific events they had endured. Our contemporary nation has...
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...questions. Where relevant, think which reading and /or video would illustrate your answer. Why is the family important to study? How have its functions changed and why? The family is important to study because it is the primary agent for socialization. It is the first unit that teaches the rules of society to children. One of the two social entities recognized universally, the other is religion. The function of family has changed over time because it has shifted from an extended family to more of a nuclear family. The functions of a family: Protection, affection, procreation, production, education transfer of status. What are the three important differences between family systems in East Asia and the United States? Explain each. 1. Confucian values- places emphasis on loyalty and obedience to the group and its leader, where the United states has individualism 2. Gender Inequality- In east asia there is a patrinlean and multi-generational system, with the inheritence rights traveling down the male line, where in united states its bi-lateral and emphasis is placed on nuclear family. 3. Demographic Transition- Change from high fertility high mortality to a low fertility and mortality rates causing an aging population. Same in US but there is more immigration to the US which helps keep it more age balanced. How did the Japanese religious tradition view women? What roles were available to them? Confucian values states that women were inferior to...
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...WW2 The Second World War was the most deadly and the most awful war in history. The Second World War began in 1939 and ended six years later in year 1945. The war included more than 30 countries like for example Britain, Germany, Russia and later the USA. This global war had its impact on the world today, and in this essay, I am going to argue that it is important to learn about The Second World War. First of all, learning about Second World War can help us to understand better what they did wrong and why they did it, so we can avoid any conflicts leading to war again. In The Second World War Hitler ruled Germany and controlled a lot of Europe. However, how did he get so much power and influence in the world? First of all Hitler claimed a bit...
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...1992 did not have many rights employers had all the power when it came to labour rights and trade unions were still trying to gain recognition from employers and the government. The New deal was the most important turning point in the developments of trade union and labour rights although other turning points need to be mentioned such 1890s, WW2 or the 1960 I believe the new deal was the most important turning point. During the depression the new deal policies of Franklin.D.Rossevelt did have a huge impact on labour and trade union rights in the USA for example the national industry recovery act which was passed on the 16th June 1933 which aimed to ask companies to cooperate and employ agreed codes of practice about issues about production levels, wage rates, working hours and trade union rights. Although this act gave rights to workers some big companies such as the Ford companies refused to sign this and the NRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935. More importantly the Wagner Act of 1935 was the most important new deal policy given to the workers as this was the first time Trade unions were allowed to exist and also the Wagner act gave workers the right to collectively bargain through their own chosen representatives. This brought a change as since 1865 as then workers had little rights and trade unions were not allowed to exist. It was after the right for trade unions to exist that the Congress of Industrial organisations was set up in 1937 they had a big impact on labour...
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...Ignorance has lead to some of the world’s most devastating events in history; the Holocaust, World War I, and the Twin Tower attack on the eleventh of September 2001. Consequently, Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury has multiple examples of destruction and how it was caused because of a uniform society. The society in Fahrenheit 451 is constructing itself to lead to a horrific event because citizens are having ignorance towards books and individually as well as ideas. Therefore, individuality is worth fighting for otherwise, the ignorance will lead to prejudice and destruction, which is currently shown in several characters, demonstrating the importance of individuality. Individuality impacts innovation, maintains our identity it’s vital...
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...the documentary on the descendants of many high commanding officers under Adolf Hitler during WW2 and the period of Nazi dominance, I was astounded at the level of guilt that the surviving members carried with them during their day to day lives. Before watching this video, not once had I ever even considered the fact that family members of the Nazi high command were around today, let alone the guilt that inevitably follows them. As I listened and watched the descendants share their experience, I noticed many different methods were used to cope with the horror that a family member from a generation or two ago carried out on an entire group of people. A few of those methods included, moving to a different country, changing their...
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...How accurate is it to say that the status of black people in the USA changed very little in the years 1945-55? I agree that the status of black people in the United States had little change in these years. There were things such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, President Truman actions and the Supreme Court rulings (due to the NAACP actions), that did have some change to their lifestyles. However there were things such as Plessy vs. Ferguson (segregation in public transport), cases that did not improve their quality of life. There was more de jure change than de facto change, which is actually the most significant point, as a law itself meant nothing without its execution. Harry S Truman was a democrat and held presidential office in the years 1945-53. He was the first sympathetic president to civil rights. He understood that there were social developments in place and the black population began to have a voice through such organizations as NAACP. Black American soldiers, who came back from the WW2 were given the chance to have a college education. President Truman indeed helped change the lives of black people within the US. Just after the war he got involved in civil rights because he was moved the racial attacks that veterans were still receiving. Truman established the "To secure these rights" report in 1947 which highlighted that their equal rights were not equal at all and segregation was a huge problem. Knowing this, Truman tried to do as much as he could...
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...In her survey of female writers in chapter four, she attributed to Aphra Behn the emergence of female writers. She was the one “who earned them the right to speak their minds” (Room 72) establishing her as an early example of writing as a profession for women. Woolf, then, marks the emergence of several Victorian women novel writers. Woolf highlights their problem with anger and the impact it had on some of them. Woolf praises Jane Austen for writing “without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching.”(Room 74) On the contrary, she criticizes Charlotte Bronte although she appears more talented than Austen. Bronte’s anger of her positions as a woman, Woolf comments, “will never get her genius expressed whole and entire" and in consequence “it was...
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...THE ZERO MARGINAL COST SOCIETY "To live well, we must work well" - folk wisdom. The capitalist model is practically not working. The collapse does not occur in one day, but it happens on a daily basis with local and some periodically stepped collapse. The standard of living of citizens' continuously and steadily getting worse, this is the social significance of the global crisis. Why the number of dissatisfied with the life is growing? The authorities are accusing the people: “you are guilty and don’t work well”. People are accusing authorities: “all of you are stealing our national wealth”. Both sides are right. Why do people and authorities -"do not want" to change and what will stimulate them to start “wanting"? We are living in a dangerous time, when: • Outdated socio-economic norms and government institutions are losing legitimacy (dying), informal (including illegal ones) rules are accepted; • Authorities are stealing and squandering, lives with outdated economic dogmas, protects outdated socio-economic rules and loses trust "the people" (for example, the latest scandal with excessive tax benefits in Luxembourg for international corporations) • Implemented ideology of distracting entertainment and consumption; • Dissatisfaction with the level of people’s life and authority actions are turning people into apathy, "universal" values are washed out, the quality of labor is falling; • Strengthens sprouts (beginnings)...
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...Dystopia Regrettably it is at this point that we find a gradual switchover from Utopia to Dystopia - societies whose planning is far from ideal, and which all too often come to grief. As a concept, Dystopia emerges at the end of the long Eighteenth Century, possibly as a result of social upheaval and the long wars. it comes to the fore towards the end of the Nineteenth Century with gloomy forebodings as to the impact of industrialisation. Some go for a mechanical paradise. Others foresee a world order where things have got beyond repair - and that's not just the machines. Jack London in The Iron Heel (1908)sees the collapse of the American republic between 1912 and 1932 with the rise of 'The Oligarchy' (though he also thinks that international worker solidarity will avert a world war in 1913). Dystopia is highly pessimistic in tone. It traces what happens when things go wrong, either in an ideal world which has gone into crisis or decline, or else is a portrayal of of a world where society has collapsed at some time in the past. It is form of writing with a moral - and a warning. The irony is that reality can be stranger than fiction. The finale of The Mission is a case in point. The humanitarian goals of the Jesuit Fathers ironically contained the seeds of destruction for the Missions. The presence not only of rational Indians, but Christianised ones who were highly skilled proved to be too much of a temptation for the bandeirantes, slavers who came across from Brazil and...
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...not, it can be a rather confusing word The protection of values we hold dear. We search for it, we pursue it, we achieve it, we deny it to others. * what is to be secured? Is it the security of states? Or individuals? * What is the actual threat that we’re facing? Primarily to be dealing with military threats, or are there other types of threats we are facing. Essentially contested concept A concept that ‘inevitably’ involves endless disputes about their proper uses on the part of their users – Walter Gallie There can be ambiguity (one persons freedom-fighter is the other’s terrorist). A concept that is debated in its essence. We can think about a lot of situations in which ones security is the other’s INsecurity. So, how we go about studying a matter for which we are not able to find a definition? We rather think of it a label, as people calling some things security, in order to call for measures, then we suddenly realize it is important: WHO is...
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...1 GCSE HISTORY GERMANY 1918-1939 REVISION This awesome booklet has been designed to help you get exam-ready. It contains the ‘essential’, need-to-know points for the Germany unit, plus useful revision boosters and guidance on answering exam questions. Remember, getting your exam technique sorted is a must if you’re going to succeed in the exam - it’s just as important as knowing your stuff! CONTENTS....There are 4 sections to this booklet. 3 Hitler overcomes his opposition 1 The rise and fall of the Weimar Republic 1918 1929 1933 1934 2 The rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis 1939 4 The Nazi dictatorship 1 The rise and fall of the Weimar Republic 1918-33 Introduction If, just for fun, we were to make a graph showing the fortunes of the Weimar Republic, it would probably look like this…. B A Phase A 1918-23: The WR suffers from a few major teething problems, and struggles to survive. C Phase B 1924-28: ‘The Golden Twenties’. Things are on the up for the WR, as it recovers from its earlier problems. But beneath the surface, there are still weaknesses. Phase C 1929-1933: With the Wall St. Crash and the Great Depression, the WR comes ‘crashing’ down! Of course, during each phase, the Nazis were experiencing their own political rollercoaster ride. Broadly speaking, whenever the WR was enjoying success, the Nazis were not, and vice versa. More about that later. What was the Weimar Republic and why was it set up? A lot...
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