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American Society and Italian Immigration's Impact

Charm, 2004). Parents needed their children to help farm and/or work in the family business, and so the idea of education was see...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

Bubbles in Asset Pricing

fair market value. One author states that economists are not in agreement with what causes bubbles; Federal Reserve Chairma...

'The Old Guard' versus 1920 Avant Garde Music

From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...

1920s' Culture

The 1920s saw the real advent of the moving picture, as well as the very first flight across the Atlantic Ocean (James Madison Col...

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 ...

US Economy Prior to the Great Depression

The world had survived the First World War, and women had entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time. They reveled ...

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 ...

“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...

Harlem Renaissance

on the east and Convent Avenue on the west" ("Songs of the soul" SR1). During the 1920s, a "star-studded group of poet, writer, mu...

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...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

The Klan and its Beginnings

Registry, 2006)! Obviously, the Klan had considerable influence over the politics of the day. It effected the election of many o...

1920s’ Berlin, German Expressionism, and the Architecture and Lighting in Orson Welles’ Film The Trial

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...

Harlem Renaissance Artists and the Influence Exerted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...

Culture Study and Anthropology

competitive, and prone to violence with high rates of homicide, assault and rape (1983). According to Freeman (1983), Meads conc...

Comparing and Contrasting Argentina and Brazil

The writer compares and contrasts Argentina and Brazil during the period from the 1880s to the 1920s, concentrating on economic de...

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...

Comparative Analysis of the US Progressive Era and American Life During the 1920s

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the changes that occurred between the Progressive Era and the 1920s in the United ...

U.S. Presence in Haiti

This 6 page paper discusses the U.S. involvement in Haiti during the 1920s and 1930s. The writer examines such issues as the reaso...

Power Rise of Adolf Hitler

In six pages Hitler's power rise and the economic conditions that paved its way during the 1920s and '30s are discussed. Five sou...

1920s' Soviet Cinema

In eight pages this research paper analyzes cinema in the Soviet Union during the 1920s in a consideration of the aesthetic approa...

75 Year Old New York Woman Interviewed

In ten pages this paper presents an interview with a New York woman that spans her life from the early 1920s to 1979 and includes ...

'Roaring Twenties' and Fabulous Flapper Fashions

In five pages this paper examines the significance of 1920s' flapper fashions and the freedom they represented. There are 5 sourc...

Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana 2

In a shorter paper variation the arguments that no evidence against legalization of marijuana is solid and the outlawing its use i...

'Passing' and the Harlem Renaissance

hiding ones true race be significant? Two points must be made in order to answer this question. First, the literature of the Harl...

Harlem's Musical Renaissance Reflected in Josephine Baker and Diana Ross

areas. From this interest was born a period of history known as the Harlem Renaissance, an era of affluence for African American ...