YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1920s and 1930s
Essays 61 - 90
The 1920s and the excesses associated with rampant consumerism are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages. Five source...
Indeed, the impact Prohibition has had on social change, both then and now, is nothing short of monumental. Its existence forced ...
it forced people into the underground and made them imbibe with fear always looming over their heads. After Prohibition was repea...
by the river while the wealthier classes lived uptown. By 1890, massive immigration resulted in over 71% of New Yorkers being eith...
is lives in the swanky neighborhood of town while Myrtle lives in closer proximity to the billboard noted above. Gatsby is acknow...
in the sixties all the way back to that earlier decade noting: "The 1920s marked...
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...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
generator" which "holds in itself the essence of sensation" (Le Corbusier, 1924, p. 8). For Le Corbusier, the idea that the plan "...
1920s, evangelists like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were recruiting members almost solely on the basis of their person...
Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...
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...
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...
reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...
fair market value. One author states that economists are not in agreement with what causes bubbles; Federal Reserve Chairma...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
From this artistic liberation emerged the avant-garde movement, which delighted in breaking the rules through unrestrained experim...
In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
In seven pages this paper examines the contributions gossip pioneer Walter Winchell made to US society from the 1920s through the ...
Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...
the orators, spokesmen and ambassadors of chiefs (Mead 29). In the formal village assembly, each "matai" has his place and repres...
quite radically since the 1920s. These changes are evident in such personal aspects of our lives such as family life and religiou...
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...
the League of Nations, dubbed as "Wilsons folly," cast a long shadow, and with a strong and unified party in place, thanks to the ...
time these individuals and their groups began to organize to the point where they became politically active and engaged in the soc...
ideals of the generation before (Flexner and Soukhanov, 2002, 1997). The generations raised in the 1870s to 1890s, 1920s to 1940s,...
PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...
lived nearby. Rationale for Hoover Dam The benefits that a dam on the Colorado River could bring to the southwestern United...
for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...
a small volume of "old," classic recipes from early in the 20th century, updated to take advantage of electric ovens with thermost...