Question

Television programs in the 1950s often

A. did not allow commercial advertising.

B. dealt with real-life problems, such as illness, alcoholism, and depression.

C. gave equal air time to African American and other minority characters and stories.

D. idealized families centered around the father as breadwinner and the mother as homemaker.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I want to say D

Answer 3

Television in the 50s just as it does now presented the popular mythology of the day. It "idealized" families no more and no less than families are "idealized" on the TV today. For example, in both cases problems are readily solved in 30 minutes or less (including commercial breaks) by just talking about things, a hug or two, maybe blaming some ill-defined "Them" that confused you as to your true loyalties.

Television never deals in "real life" problems, such as alcoholism, illness or depression, because those real-life problems have no simple solutions, like joining AA, finding the right doctor or "accepting" death, or finding the right pill. Real-life problems are problems by definition because they aren't easily souble or understandable. They are by definition unsuited to TV programs, which are a source of amusement and distraction. TV by definition presents what we wish the world were like, because it makes us feel better. If TV were remorselessly realistic, it would be depressing and pointless, because we already get as much of real life as we want in....well, our real lives. Duh.

Nevertheless, each succeeding generation of TV producers -- and the media and academic elites who fawn on them -- presents itself as being much more "real" (as well as more just, unprejudiced, et cetera) than the past, because TV also depends on seeming perpetually new and fresh and evolving. TV exists to sell products -- commercials pay for everything -- so in order to get people to tune in once they're used to what you're offering, you need to continually present youself as being new and fresh and innovative, even when you're anything but. So TV perpetuates the endless fraud that it is continually getting newer, more just, and more real. The actual truth is that it just shifts the butt of its jokes and the objects of its prejudice around -- once it was black men, now it's white men, once it was wives, now it's husbands, once children were the screw-ups rescued by their parents, now it's more often the parents are screw-ups rescued by their children. They hope you don't notice this.

Answer 4

AmAZING response @Dusty

Answer 5

Thank you kegan(:

Answer 6

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Answer 7

thanks

Answer 8

Which industry division decreased the most between 1947 and 1957?

A. manufacturing

B. other production

C. wholesale/retail trade

D. other services

Answer 9

Other services decreased the most. If i remember correctly those were war years so production manufacturing and wholesale/retail were all needed during those years

Answer 10

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Answer 11

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Answer 12

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

A. by forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws

B. by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity

C. by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

D. by strengthening respect for the law

Answer 13

B
Prohibition made people hate laws.
Forcing Farmer has nothing to do with prohibition mainly, at least not organized crime
Police did enforce the laws more. but organized crime was still around.

Answer 14

Why did Americans enjoy escapist films in the 1930s?

A. Movies provided relief from the everyday problems of the Great Depression.

B. Many films such as Public Enemy reflected the public’s distrust of big business and government.

C. People were bored with radio entertainment.

D. Escapist films reflected the world in a realistic way.

Answer 15

This was during the Great depression (horrible time in american history.) People were very poor and unemployed. Escapist films were good for morale because they provide an escape during this time.
A is the answer because it deffinately relieved people during this age.

Answer 16

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Answer 17

NP

Answer 18

Which of the following is a reason for communist victory in China?

A. The communists refused to feed the people.

B. The Nationalists were reluctant to fight.

C. The United States sent U.S. troops to aid the Nationalists.

D. Mao Zedong fled the mainland.

Answer 19

A

Answer 20

Which of the following made the scale of suburban growth possible?

A. travel and tourism

B. high-interest loans

C. interstate highways

D. multinational corporations

Answer 21

I want to say C
Multinational Corps means nothing here high interest loans and travel and tourism have nothing to do with suburbs either

Answer 22

Interventionists claimed that the United States could avoid war if it

A. sent aid to Britain.

B. refused aid to Britain.

C. sent aid to all nations at war.

D. refused aid to any nation at war.

Answer 23

i think answer is A

Answer 24

Nope....it is refuse aid to all nations at war...if a nation at war with another nation saw america aiding their enemy then they would attack american aid ships....ergo sinking of the Lusitania