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Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

Social Commentary About The Gold Rush of Charlie Chaplin

in utter poverty and so always created characters that seemed to reflect that social class in society. One author notes, "Because ...

American Imperialism

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

American Culture in the 1920s

won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Immigration During the 1920s

took on the low-wage jobs possessed by many Americans, and because such immigration seemed to threaten the United States. ...

1920s, 1930s, and Women's Issues Lack of Progress

seats, and more than half of those were filling mid-term vacancies (Harrison, 1997). In state legislatures, women didnt fare much...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

A Conservative or Liberal 1920s?

personal look at the 1920s and the liberal changes taking place. A Decade of Change "The changes wrought in the United States ...

American Prohibition and the Economic Boom of the 1920s

At the turn of the century, dry legislatures had been favoring womens suffrage and also allowed popular referenda in respect to wh...

1920s' and 1990s' Common Determinants of Stock Prices

factors which are carefully examined by economists. All play a role in the overall economics of the country and, indeed, the worl...

1920s' and 1990s' Similarities

feeling that was captured in many parts of the world. The Roaring Twenties was a time of prosperity and celebrations. The 1920s ...

1920s' U.S. Labor Movement

and had existed since about 1900. It had grown quite large over and decade or so and was even able to stage a walk out in 1916. In...

Comparison of Pre First World War Artistic Modernism and 1920s European Modernism

any other international symbol, art strips away the barriers inherent to humanity. Indeed, Picassos Still Life speaks a language ...

The 1920s, When Everything Was for the Taking at a Price

and solidarity that was almost impossible in society at large, increasingly racist and dominated by whites. These clubs and instit...

Technology, Standards of Living, Economic Changes, and the 1920s

South who felt themselves to be in an alien environment. The mass press and available education acted as a stimulus to articulat...

1920s and 1930s Jazz Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...

'Harlem' by Langston Hughes

questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...

Bernini's "David" And "Apollo And Daphne" - Baroque

particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND WESTERN EUROPE

Empire was Romes attempt to revive the Western Roman Empire, which was dissolving and being replaced by independent kingdoms in th...

The Relationship between the Renaissance and Reformation

thinking and a new freedom. Perhaps this gave those who were inclined to change the impetus to do so. Many of the well known peopl...

Women: The Black Plague, the Renaissance and Reformation

feudal system. At the same time it also put the entire population of Westerners in a position where they truly questioned their fa...

'Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance'

is the goddess of earthly love; she goes back at least to the Greeks, who called her Aphrodite. In the second poem, the "King" ref...

The Challenges and Opportunities facing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

information we need in one place. Additional Internet searches provided the information on sections that Great Expectations did ...

The Renaissance Philosophy in Art

evolution of society as the people began to perhaps feel incredibly oppressed by the culture/politics/society around them. The bir...

Lute in Renaissance Music

woodworkers who practiced their craft in northern Italian cities crafted lutes that generally had "six courses and pear shaped bod...

Renaissance Humanism and Michelangelo’s Sculpture of David

and soul. II. Explanation of the Philosophy ? Fundamental Philosophical Tenets Renaissance humanism began as an intellectual m...