... such as schizophrenia or manic depression. Giving somebody an overall score for their genetic traits became increasingly difficult as more and more things were measured and added to the compiled score. Because of the varying scoring techniques, eugenics was an exceedingly questionable science (Eugenics Movement Archive). It is still questioned to this day whether eugenics is just a form of subjective racism ... or if it is incorrupt enough to earn a label of science. During World War II, eugenics overtook America in a social and political metamorphosis. During the first phases of the Am...

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... money began to replace morality in national politics. The transformation of landscape and cityscape projected people into new material surroundings causing a metamorphosis of personal values, political ideas, and group identities (Fink xv). Massive production and the new factory system altered the character of the originally agriculturally oriented society into a consumer culture. Americans ... began to have time off from work, spending it enjoying sports, shopping, dancing, and music (Fink 325). Historians exalted, "a collapsing older social divisions based on region, ethnicity, class,...

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... money began to replace morality in national politics. The transformation of landscape and cityscape projected people into new material surroundings causing a metamorphosis of personal values, political ideas, and group identities (Fink xv). Massive production and the new factory system altered the character of the originally agriculturally oriented society into a consumer culture. Americans ... began to have time off from work, spending it enjoying sports, shopping, dancing, and music (Fink 325). Historians exalted, "a collapsing older social divisions based on region, ethnicity, class,...

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... or Don, to whom obedience and loyalty are owed. Strangers, especially those in positions of power in state or church, are not to be trusted. All problems are resolved within the family, which must be kept strong. Its prestige, honor, wealth, and power have to be defended and strengthened, sometimes through alliances with more distant kin. Throughout history these strong families ... country seemed already to have an established pattern for achieving wealth and power by unethical means. Many of America's great fortunes, those of the Astor's, the Vanderbilt's, the Gould's, the Rockefeller...

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