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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...

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...

'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...

Bubbles in Asset Pricing

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

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, ...

1920s' Sexual Revolution in America

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

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 "...

1980s America

1920s, evangelists like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were recruiting members almost solely on the basis of their person...

New York Mob Territory Setting for Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

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...

1920s' Harlem Economy

by the river while the wealthier classes lived uptown. By 1890, massive immigration resulted in over 71% of New Yorkers being eith...

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...

1920s' Prohibition and Its Impact Upon U.S. Crime, Religion, and Economics

reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...

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 ...

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...

'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...

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....

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...

'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 ...

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...

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,...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Some Legal Aspects of Hoover Dam

lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United...

Nazi 'Final Solution'

from the annals of Nazism, very little written evidence of its existence - or why it was even initiated - is available. Scholars c...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...