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Second World War Fashion and Social Trends

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

'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...

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...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

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. ...

'Man of Law's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research pape considers the era of Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval literary customs in this comparative examinati...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Society and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...

Setting in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages this research paper focuses upon the author's use of setting in this short story and how it mirrors the progressive ...

Comparative Analysis of Homeward Bound American Families in the Cold War Era and Major Problems in American History Since 1945

This paper explores the concepts and themes featured in these texts in a comparative analysis consisting of four pages. Two sourc...

Progressive Movement and Theodore Roosevelt

attitude toward life and patriotism and the meaning of things, as I had never dreamed men had. ...so strong was this young Rooseve...

Proposed Reforms to America's Tax System

a new system is necessary, its been difficult to get people to agree on what, exactly, that system should be. There have been prop...

An Analysis and Synopsis of Gaines Short Story, The Sky is Gray

enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Effects of the Global Economy on the US Economy

growth of the global economy" (Levy 130). Levy (2005) reviews several theories of international trade, including "David Ricardos ...

Board Games During the Depression Era

(Game history, 2001). He began by "drawing squares on a piece of tile, and adding colors to those squares with whatever paint he c...

Comparative Analysis of 'Lamia' by John Keats and 'Triumph of Life' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Women Viewed During the Enlightenment Era

nature. De Gouges (2003) looks at the same natural world and challenges Enlightenment philosophers to give her an example in natur...

Cold War Intelligence and Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky

writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...

Americans Held Captive in Foreign Lands

the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...

The So-Called Ongoing Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

a part of Iraq, yet Kuwait had systematically encroached on Iraqi territory, while also deliberately stealing Iraqi oil from the R...

Gender Roles During the Medieval Era

In seven pages this paper examines what influenced gender role interpretations during the Medieval period with the political power...

Overview of Flintknapping During the Prehistoric Era

In fifteen pages this paper defines flintknapping and discusses the tools used for making these prehistorical tools such as scrape...

US Constitution and its Widespread Influence

In six pages this paper discusses how the US Constitution has influenced American life, meaning, and political theory. Seven sour...

Comparative Analysis of the Roman Way of Life with Contemporary Society

In five pages this paper compares the Roman society of the past with today's society in terms of government organization such as t...

Botticelli, Humanism and Renaissance Art

for aesthetic as well a religious purposes, and expressed the mythological subjects favored by the humanists, who enjoyed their hi...

1960s to 1980d' Sexual Revolution in America

In seven pages the US sexual revolution and its impact upon American life and society are discussed. Seven sources are cited in t...

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...