Essays Tagged: "forties"

Middle Class Black's Burden

ng to succeedToday in America there are many who assume that racism does not exist as it did in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Racism today is not as dangerous as it once was, but that does not me ...

(3 pages) 103 0 4.2 May/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Regulating the internet, who's in charge?

The internet was started by the military in the late forties, and has since grown to an incrediblylarge and complex web, which will no doubt effect all o ...

(8 pages) 205 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Huntington's Disease

as Huntington's chorea is a geneticdisorder that usually shows up in someone in their thirties and forties,destroys the mind and body and leads to insanity and death within ten totwenty years. The di ...

(4 pages) 88 1 2.6 Jul/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Marriage and How It Has Changed

he same old familiar pattern. To see how much has changed; I am going to look at the shift from the forties, to the sixties, to today. In 1968, less than a year after the famous Summer of Love, as the ...

(4 pages) 143 1 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

An expository essay on American censorship (Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan)

ship: Let It BeMusic censorship has been a major problem affecting America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a peak during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the radical hippie m ...

(3 pages) 92 1 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

"The catcher in the rye" - JD Salinger.

vania and in his hometown New York City. It covers the forty-eight hour period in the late nineteen forties in which Holden got kicked out of his school and was returning to New York. Holden was a con ...

(4 pages) 32 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.

art and literary, we can always find those virtuosos, though might not have been famous until their forties or fifties, were showing their brilliance as early as in their early years, say tens or twen ...

(2 pages) 60 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Expository Writing (Tell about the greatest gift you have ever received-fictitious/humor)

day in the hood of Compton, I was making my usual pass by the corner store to purchase a couple of forties. On the sidewalk opposite of the street, I noticed an extremely attractive woman about 5'5" ...

(3 pages) 40 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Reading response - "Ode to an Orange"

"Ode to an Orange" by Larry Woiwode took place in the winter of 1940s. It was "the winters of the forties" which I felt was very important in setting the background. It was a time of war, rationing ...

(2 pages) 49 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Song of Solomon - which characters were a help and which characters were a hidrance to the main character.

is the coming-of-age story of Milkman, an African American man who grows up in Michigan during the forties, fifties, and sixties. Milkman goes on a search for gold, but ends up finding his heritage a ...

(4 pages) 67 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

1984

ciety, which in these characters stands.Winston Smith, the protagonist, is a quiet man in his early forties. He is somehow smart and depressed. He was intelligent in some way, but at the same time not ...

(4 pages) 30 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Transition to Middle Adulthood

oling (2004), middle age is a termused to describe the period of latter twenties, into thirties and forties, and leading into late fifties. This period is characterized by increased competence, maturi ...

(4 pages) 258 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Society in modern drama

and era, I see a resemblance in the way Williams and Osborne reflected the American society of the forties and the English society of the fifties. The way I'll analyze the influence of society in eac ... lecting a realistic image of what was happening in the United States and in England during the late forties and mid fifties. The two plays may be considered as accurate pictures of the late 1940s and ...

(17 pages) 79 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Buses: Part 4

few rows behind me. The group consisted of a couple of guys my age and a short blonde woman in her forties. Through out the ride they were very loud, and kept making tons of sex jokes. I didn't see a ...

(8 pages) 31 0 3.9 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Swimming

d kickboards on our way to the pool. Nighttime temperatures in coastal California dip into the high forties, but our pool is artificially warmed to seventy-nine degrees; the temperature differential p ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry, from view of confederate spy logbook

settled in over four states, he fathered twenty children. Brown filled for bankruptcy in his early forties. He was even stupid enough to give land to fugitive slaves. In 1851 he established the leagu ...

(2 pages) 32 0 0.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Portrayal of old Hollywood in The Last Tycoon

could still be successful in Hollywood. The Last Tycoon portrays old Hollywood in the mid-nineteen forties through the character portrayals, the loving relationships between characters, and the hate ...

(7 pages) 20 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

White Teeth - comment ;marriage: Archie and Clara's, Clarissa and Richard's

ldren seemingly are not physically nor mentally effected by there work. Joyce Chalfen is around her forties and Clarissa Dalloway is around her fifties.Joyce Chalfen is a gardener and writer, she desc ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Arteriosclerosis

at might start in childhood. In some people, this disease occurs very quickly in their thirties and forties. In others it doesn't become threatening to their health until they reach about fifty or six ...

(1 pages) 14 0 1.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Morning Time.

ping only to grab a pull-buoy and a kick-board. Coastal California cools down overnight to the high forties. The pool is artificially warmed to seventy-nine degrees, and the clash in temperatures crea ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing