... , was born in St Louis, on September 26, 1888 and died on January 4, 1965. Elliot was born into an upper class Missouri family. Though he spent his childhood in Missouri, his work contains very few signs of St. Louis. After studying at Harvard University, Elliot moved ... consistent throughout the poem. However, some literary critics regard Elliot's usage of allusions and French and German vernacular as weaknesses which prohibit the average reader from interpreting the poem (Sheridan, 574). Despite these criticisms, the poem still endures as one of Elliot's most read works. ... despair t...

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... in Poland, $2,730 in Czechoslovakia, and $4,340 in East Germany in 1975. Between 1950 and 1960 Hungary's NMP increased at an average annual rate of 4.9 percent; during this period industrial production grew about 6.8 percent annually and agricultural production only about 1.6 percent. From 1960 to ... this period industrial production grew about 6.8 percent annually and agricultural production only about 1.6 percent. From 1960 to 1974 the NMP grew at an average yearly rate of 5.8 percent; the respective figures for industry and agriculture were 6.9 percent and 1.2 percent. The share of H...

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... other instances, the South benefited far less. The state run IRI helped rescue many large industries during the depression and Italy's decline in gross national produce was lower than the average for the rest of Europe. Government reductions in the working day to share employment were crucial and Italy's rise in unemployment was again lower than that of other countries in ... the marshes was one of several helpful policies that provided opportunity for more yield, and helped improve health. Overall Mussolini's policies largely favoured the employers and larger landowners, ignoring the a...

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... lands. He incorporated and celebrated a nostalgic, mythic, ideal past within the themes of the park, and first introduced Disneyland by bringing it into the home of the 1950s family with his weekly television series by the same name. Historian Warren Susman stressed the importance of Disneyland as an American cultural achievement, an "extraordinary effort to create a collective representation ... referred to as their "Fifth Freedom." As many Americans felt more pressure to conform in their working lives, collecting and creating served as "spiritual compensation," and promoted individual...

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... teenagers their taste grew more expensive, instead of cheap little toys they wanted cameras, TV sets, and phonographs which were more expensive than the average toy. Teenagers were costly to parents at the time, spending currency on big appetites, on trying to look their best, the massive entertainment ... in the city. Cars were a way to express themselves with different colors and new models being annually introduced. Everyone who had started a family lived in a similar suburban community and went to similar jobs with similar schedules creating a conformist state. Conformity is the peri...

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... promote the new social ideal. The television programs and advertisements my mother grew up watching as a child of the fifties all focused on promoting the housewife as the epitome of family happiness. Many of the developing television situation comedies acted as deterrents depicted the problems resulting from a wife's desire to work outside the home. The best example of this comes from ... poured herself into the housewife mold, having her first child two years later. It would be eight years before she had her next child, but she remained faithful to her family, resigning herself to the...

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... regarded as inferior to men both physically and intellectually. Many of the feminist issues varied from access to employment, education and child care, to equality in the workplace, changing family roles and the need for equal political representation. The Macquarie Dictionary defines feminism as "advocacy of equal rights and opportunities for women, especially the extension of their activities into ... post war period represented an all-time low for the feminist history. Characterized by suburbanization, consumerism, and the baby boom, the 1950s composed a domestic decade. Mass culture...

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... may be seen to provide external reason for hostilities, due to the massive damage committed by the somewhat deranged gorilla. 3) Once mobilisation begun, the recruiting offices were swamped, with an average of 33,000 men per day volunteering in September 1914, and this did not really fall until July 1915, as source D confirms, there being barely sufficient space for them to ... explain the general context of censorship during the war. The lack of information even about the nature of the soldiers injury makes the postcard into a mockery, basically only telling the family that he was not ...

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... 1960s. This compared with 4.6% for the Federal Republic of Germany and 4.3% for the United States in the period from 1960 to 1972. And it was well above twice Japan's own average prewar growth rate of about 4% a year. "It is generally agreed that the rapid expansion of Japan's economy from the late 1950s through the 1960s was powered by the vigorous ... influence of geographical and physical adversity. For example: "in order to pursue wet paddy rice farming, the village communities of pre-industrial Japan had to be bound together, and family connections cemented this social and economic...

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... live off of the populace. For a long time, the mayor of Vienna was an anti-Semite. In Eastern Europe, Jews were openly hated and discriminated against in a way that the average Western European Jewish person could not even begin to imagine. In Western Europe, Jews became educated and often owned lands and businesses like the Rothschild banking ... family. In Eastern Europe, Jews were allowed to own no land and were forced to live in the western-most part of the Russian Empire known as the Pale. The Tsarist ... ...

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... is found also that PTSD can be present in traumatic events such as: rape, severe beating or physical assault, serious accident or injury, shooting or stabbing, sudden, unexpected death of family member or friend, child's life-threatening illness, witness to killing or serious injury, and natural disaster. It is said that up to 70 percent of adults will experience a traumatic event ... into this psychological disorder is what is making it a new disease. All factors of traumatic events are now incorporated in this disorder. The symptoms and treatments of war veterans and average Americans...

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... States, unlike some similar actions in the 20s. Another recurring theme touched upon by WarGames is society's fear of the communist party in general. In an intriguing scene the Lightman's family dog, named Bo, tips over the trash can and starts sifting through it. While referred to as Bo in the film, dog's full name is listed as "Bolsh" in the ... weighed heavily on the minds of all Americans at the time. Concurrently, society was still on a broad hunt for communist informers and was willing to accuse even David Lightman, an average American teenager whose only desire was to play video ...

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