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Consumerism, Excess, and 'The Roaring Twenties'

The 1920s and the excesses associated with rampant consumerism are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages. Five source...

Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...

1920s' and U.S. Immigration

In five pages this paper examines the 1920s' immigrant arrival in the U.S. and the American resentment regarding this influx. Fou...

Denver Art Museum's Lakota Man's Necklace

In five pages this paper analyzes this 1920s' art piece in a consideration of composition including repetition, symmetry, and colo...

Reasons for the German Holocaust

as the rise of the Nazi party will help to shed light on this topic. II. The Social Climate in the 1920s and 1930s Du...

American Business and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In five pages this paper discusses 1920s' America and the middle class's business practices as represented by the protagonist of...

1920s' Harlem Renaissance

In six pages this paper examines the 1920s' Harlem Renaissance in a consideration of the African American music, art, and literatu...

Suburbs and Their Development

the country, the expanse of the suburban communities has resulted in concern both for the capacity to meet the needs of the suburb...

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday and the Jazz Age

In two pages this paper examines how the 1920s' Jazz Age was portrayed in this 1931 text. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Partying and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...

Biographical and Career Profile of Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper examines the life and writing career of Langston Hughes which during the Harlem Renaissance of t...

An Examination of 'Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Society and the Influence of Gangsters

In six pages America during the 1920s and 1930s is examined in terms of the social perceptions of real life and fictional gangster...

America of the 1920s' and Swimsuit Importance

paychecks on in May, makes a statement, serves a purpose and also serves as evidence of a changing society. The 1920s was a time o...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Tensions of Gender and Race

In 5 pages this paper examines how Forster portrays 1920s colonization of India through the race and gender tensions of his novel....

Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s and Economic Activity

In four pages the economy of the United States during this time period is examined in terms of the many differences that existed b...

Life and Contributions of American Gossip Journalist Walter Winchell

In seven pages this paper examines the contributions gossip pioneer Walter Winchell made to US society from the 1920s through the ...

The Effect of Prohibition on the Roaring 20s

Indeed, the impact Prohibition has had on social change, both then and now, is nothing short of monumental. Its existence forced ...

Rickshaw Beijing by David Strand

time these individuals and their groups began to organize to the point where they became politically active and engaged in the soc...

'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot' by Ernest Hemingway

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

1920s' American Republican Party

the League of Nations, dubbed as "Wilsons folly," cast a long shadow, and with a strong and unified party in place, thanks to the ...

1920s' Sexual Revolution in America

in the sixties all the way back to that earlier decade noting: "The 1920s marked...

New Generations from the 1870s through the 1960s

ideals of the generation before (Flexner and Soukhanov, 2002, 1997). The generations raised in the 1870s to 1890s, 1920s to 1940s,...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Modernist and Postmodernist Architectural Theories of Le Corbusier and Robert Venturi

generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

the orators, spokesmen and ambassadors of chiefs (Mead 29). In the formal village assembly, each "matai" has his place and repres...

Interviewing My Grandmother and Contemplating Time Changes

quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...

Women's Independence and 1920s' America

it forced people into the underground and made them imbibe with fear always looming over their heads. After Prohibition was repea...