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- 2801: Status Quo And Change In The Late 1800’s To Early 1900’s
- ... sweeter. Politically, the United States was transformed by the Civil War into a nation of people with a view of themselves as having a special destiny. Lincoln in his Gettysburg address began to develop the “American dream”, which included justice, and freedom. This became a dream of people to expand the country, and create wealth and opportunity. America changed from an isolationist country wary of “foreign entanglements” to a world power willing to take on and defeat Spain in the Spanish-American war. From a nation of small towns and cities and small farms, America became an industrial colossus, with ship-building, rails, steel mills and factories, with a rate of growth that began to attract laborers ... all areas of the country. Journeys that took weeks or months could now be accomplished in days. And the nation was “westering and westering”. With the opening of the West, the final element in the “American dream” was added. Free land in a free state. Anyone could move. They could rediscover themselves beyond the mountains. Roads would follow. Then automobiles. Even as new towns (like Ontario Oregon, a rail refueling ...
- 2802: Pigeon Feather
- ... merely saying that, on a ship crossing of the Atlantic, there was "blackjack with the Rhodes Scholars and deck tennis with the Fulbrights." Yet he is not a pennon bearer for a new generation of American writers. The sense you got when you first read F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway or William Faulkner that -- like it or not -- American literature was off in new directions, shattering matrixes of the past, does not rise from Mr. Updike's pages. Rather, he has the calm assurance of a man at work in a familiar field to ... almost exclusively about the life of a young man from the small Pennsylvania town he usually calls Olinger that seems very like the Shillington, Pa., that John Updike remembers from his own boyhood. Like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. The epigraphs of his first book, which is dedicated to his parents, have to do ...
- 2803: The History Of Jazz
- ... was played in the early 20th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician was the ... Bop featured many-noted solos and unusual, quickly changing harmonies. The opposite of cool jazz was hard bop, which was played in the Eastern cities. Hard bop was vigorous and energetic and emphasized the Afro-American basis of jazz. The 1950s also brought forth composers who were not considered either bop or hard bop creators. The traditional forms of jazz songs were abandoned by Lewis, Nichols, and George Russell, who wrote ... countries were inspired to draw on their individual musical heritages to create new kinds of jazz. The most popular result of this trend to variety has been fusion music, which joins jazz, rock, and Latin-American rhythms. The concert on Wednesday night was pretty monotonous, my passion is for dance music and hard ,uplifting beats,such as rap, rock, and house. I did enter the auditorium with an open mind, ...
- 2804: J.D. Salinger
- J.D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger, known as J.D., is an American short story writer and novelist. He was born on January 1, 1919 and is still alive at the age of 81. J.D. Salinger was born and raised in Manhattan. He went to prep school ... loneliness and symbolism (Jones). Some critics feel his writing was inappropriate because of the topics he wrote about. The main characters were considered misfits of society. The characters generally did not fit in with traditional American culture. They could not adjust to the real world. However, Salinger’s most successful stories are the ones about people who could not adjust. The super-intelligent humans who had to choose between the American culture at that time and the moral world, or choose between the "phony" real world and the morally "pure" world. Salinger creates these misfits, as heroes who do not fit into society. They struggle ...
- 2805: The Beatles
- ... Submarine As the group matured, their creativity began to rely more on the effects and manipulations that they were able to produce in the studio. The Beatles agreed to end their touring career after an American tour of large halls that they failed to fill. It was around this time, that John Lennon began to search for himself. He began using any means that he thought might help him connect. This ... more balanced as Lennon began writing more cogent songs, and collaborating on a song-by-song basis with McCartney. Their songs varied from a slow ballad in McCartney's "Blackbird" to the bizarre and intriguing "Revolution #9) by Lennon. Yet McCartney was needed to control Lennon when he recorded the original version of "Sexie Sadie" with the verse: You little twat Who the fuck do you think you are Who the ...
- 2806: The Evolution of the First Amendment
- ... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.(encyclopedia) The inhabitants of the North American colonies did not have a legal right to express opposition to the British government that ruled them. Nonetheless, throughout the late 1700s, these early Americans did voice their discontent with the crown. For example they ... the Supreme Court recognized the right of the students to protest the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands. In 1989 and again in 1990, the Court upheld the right of an individual to burn the American flag in public as an expression of disagreement with government policies.(Eldidge,19) Other examples of protected expression include images in works of art, slogans or statements on T-shirts, "fashion statements that incorporate symbols ... say, the first Amendment rights of all of us are in danger of being violated. But when all people are allowed to express their views and ideas, the principles of democracy and liberty are enhanced. American democracy should mean more than the right to picket when you are really upset or pissed at the system and to vote every four years in elections devoid of content or context. Change will ...
- 2807: Componants Of Life
- ... case, then a lot of Americans would appear to be unhealthy, chemically treated, commercially raised slabs of animal flesh. While that is not a particularly pleasant thought, it is nonetheless a description of the typical American omnivore who survives on the consumption of Big Mac’s and greasy French fries. It is true, and what have the average Americans done about this problem? Asked for seconds and tell themselves that they ... daily benefits, because only 9% of adults eat a balanced diet (Sinai). Many people can’t or don’t Ching 2 even eat some meals during the day due to their busy schedules. The typical American diet is well below what it should be. A study by the National Food Consumption Survey reported only 3% of the population ate the recommended number of servings from the four food groups. Only 12 ... forget it and live our drained out lives depressed, out of money, over stressed, and tired. While it seems that everyone from grandmothers to our government has good advice about how to eat well, The American Dietetic Association is urging people to take charge of their own nutrition destiny. The ADA shows that when it comes to nutrition, there is no such thing as a “one-size-fits-all” approach. ...
- 2808: Egyptain Foreign Policy In Reg
- ... revolutionary overthrow of the government. In 1949 nine of the Free Officers formed the Committee of the Free officers’ Movement and in 1950 Nasser was elected chairman. In 1952, the Free Officers Movement led a revolution in Egypt and took power, under the newly formed Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) , with Muhammad Naguib as president and commander in Chief. Almost all leader in the RCC were soldiers, many who had fought in ... and severed diplomatic relations. Egypt was expelled from the Arab League, which it was instrumental in founding, and from other Arab institutions. Saudi Arabia withdrew the funds it had promised for Egypt's purchase of American fighter aircraft. In the West, where Sadat was extolled as a hero and a champion of peace, the Arab rejection of the Camp David Accords is often confused with the rejection of peace. The basis ...
- 2809: Moby Dick 2
- ... complete more works until his death in 1891. B. Herman Melville lived in a time period that would have a great effect on his writings. For instance, America during that time was witnessing the Industrial Revolution and felt that his country was slipping away from its founding fathers ideals. His feelings and thoughts towards his society of that day more than likely played an important role in his novels. Furthermore, Melville ... This conflict is probably representative of a classic man against nature type of feud that is always very intense and engaging. Another conflict is the one between Ahab and Queequeg concerning Pip, the little African-American boy who joins the crew on their doomed voyage. Ahab denies Pip any respect, while Queequeg is a lot more supportive and defendant of the boy. This action conflict aids the story in giving Queequeg ...
- 2810: Robert Frost
- ... immediately successful. A Boy's Will was accepted by a London publisher and brought out in 1913, followed a year later by North of Boston. Favorable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic resulted in American publication of the books by Henry Holt and Company, Frost's primary American publisher, and in the establishing of Frost's transatlantic reputation. As part of his determined efforts on his own behalf, Frost had called on several prominent literary figures soon after his arrival in England. One of these was Ezra Pound, who wrote the first American review of Frost's verse for Harriet Munroe's Poetry magazine. (Though he disliked Pound, Frost was later instrumental in obtaining Pound's release from long confinement in a Washington, D.C., mental hospital.) ...
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