Sentences with phrase «great social upheaval»

This array of objects gives the exhibition an intimate quality, revealing much about how women — and men — lived their lives during a time of great social upheaval and artistic innovation

Such great social upheaval allows for the strange and unusual to emerge and a time of intense emotions can, to the writer of fiction, provide ample fodder for a compelling story, especially one concerning criminal acts and issues of guilt and innocence.

Great social upheaval and dislocation accompanied this transformation.

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The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

The Kauai children, like other Americans of their generation, were born just in time to experience the great demographic upheavals and the ambitious social programs of the 1960s.

A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unease) have caused us all to feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present taking place in the world.

Others suggest the social and economic upheaval of the Great Recession may have had a big impact on learning, especially for eighth - graders.

Gustav explains: «Here we have three decades, which have seen great upheavals at all levels — political, social and cultural — that have changed the country and its people forever... Shirley experiences and reflects all this as a committed and emancipated actress with left - leaning politics.