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- 361: The Great Gatsby: Death of the American Dream
- The Great Gatsby: Death of the American Dream In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells of the death of the "American Dream." Nick Carraway, a young, seemingly pure man from the west, decides to journey to New York to make his money on the stocks and bonds market. In New York, he is met with a story of love, lust, adultery and murder. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel telling of the death American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its illusionary goals. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed ...
- 362: For the White Man, Of the White Man, and By the White Man
- For the White Man, Of the White Man, and By the White Man The American Revolution was a glorious war fought to free the American colonies from the British rule. Although we won that war, there were still many people who were not free from our rule. One people in general were the black slaves. The black people had ...
- 363: Assassination Of Martin Luther
- ... also with the help of the state's speedy ratification of the constitution. Another nickname for Delaware is the Blue Hen State for the pet gamecocks carried as mascots by a Delaware regiment during the American Revolution. 9 Florida Florida's official nickname is the Sunshine State, for its many sunny days. Other nicknames are the Orange State, the Peninsula State the Alligator State, the Southernmost State, and the Everglades State for ... s seal, flag, flower, and tree. 20 Maryland The popular nickname for Maryland is the Old Line State, supposedly suggested by Gen. George Washington in admiration for the performance of the Maryland troops during the American Revolution. Anther nickname Free State is used to honor Maryland s long tradition of freedom, especially religious freedom. 21 Massachusetts It is nicknamed the bay state for the early settlement on Cape cod bay. ...
- 364: China 2
- ... production in many fields again approached the level of the late 1950s. The third five-year plan began in 1966, but both agricultural and industrial production were severely curtailed by the effects of the Cultural Revolution; a fourth five-year plan was introduced in 1971 as the economy began its recovery. After eliminating the vestiges of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, China's leaders decided to move at a faster pace on all economic fronts to make up for the loss suffered in the preceding ten years. A fifth five-year program began in ... agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology required high levels of training. Such educational programs by necessity had to be based on theoretical and formal skills more than on political attitudes and the spirit of revolution. After the revolution every thing changed in China. The stability of social values and structure where the highest achievement for the Chinese philosophy. These values where already deep in the Chinese culture; however, they ...
- 365: A New World Power
- A New World Power The Spanish-American War fought in 1898 and World War I fought in 1914 helped recognize the US as a powerful nation. In the Spanish-American War, the US fought Spain in Cuba over the territories of Cuba and the Philippines. In World War I, the Triple alliance fought the Triple Entente in Europe. Both US President McKinley (president during the Spanish-American War) and President Wilson (president during WWI) tried to keep the US neutral during these wars by passing treaties. Two wars caused by different problems resulted in events which shaped the US into a ...
- 366: Sociology 2
- ... of the process of companionship (pg.396, Ambercrombie,Hill,Turner), is a discipline, which is not exclusively independent in and of its self, yet borrows from many other disciplines such as: history, geography, and anthropology. American sociology is fundamentally analytical and empirical; it proposes to examine the way of life of individuals in the societies prefers to explain institutions and structures in terms of the behavior of individuals and the goals ... and the emergence of classlessness. In various writings, Marx predicts that capitalism must inevitably end with a clash between the bourgeoisie in which the proletariat finally wins the class war. They will win through a revolution, which does away with class division and private property, as we know them. After the victory of the proletariat, Marx asserts, human beings will live in a truly classless society. One of the reasons why ... to do with Marx s insistence that the proletariat must lead the war against class, which is essentially a war against the bourgeoisie. Perhaps a better way of understanding Marxism, and updating the idea of revolution for the 21st Century, would be to speak of revolution as something the Middle Class and Working Class must fight together. A classless society can only be achieved when both the middle-class and ...
- 367: Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations Speech and Yezierska’s The Bread Givers
- ... creates her own particular tenacity for her needs, A New World identity of persistence —“rags to riches.” The Bread Givers was written in a time when Jewish immigration to New York was booming. The Russian Revolution and WWI both created a hostile environment for European Jews. In America, however, it was difficult for them to find their “niche” due to their struggle between New World idealism and Old World tradition. Not ... five herring that earned me twenty five cents. It lifted me in the air, my happiness. I couldn’t help it. It began dancing under my feet” (22). This sensation, a taste of the bettering American spirit, fires Sara to continue her defense against her father and dream about what she wants. The struggle between modernism and tradition is not the only struggle in the book. There is a large portion ... eyes sized me up!…And yet, it said more plainly than words, ‘From where do you come? How did you get in here?’”(214). She is a sore thumb, an outsider striving to be an American. The view this book holds on the immigrant ideal of the American Dream and American’s response to them is indirectly addressed in Woodrow Wilson’s 1919 speech, “League of Nations.” It is in ...
- 368: The Nation Takes Shape
- ... as the way, The Nation Takes Shape. Cunliff first talks about the origin and growth of partisan politics. In doing so, he outlines the process by which the constitution was to be interpreted by the American people. The vagueness of the document led to disputes between various factions of people who interpreted it in different ways. The initial split happened around 1790 when the first bank of the United States was ... the right to seek out an end, not expressed in the constitution but consistent with its ideals, in where the means are constitutional. This in effect was the beginning of the party splits in the American government. The second evolutionary process that Cunliffe mentions is the view of America among the world from both our s and the European prospective. While America was drafting its constitution, so much was going on in Europe that America was of little interest to them. In a time when all of Europe was shaken by the French Revolution and the assignation of Napoleon Bonaparte to power in France, America was nothing more than a minor distraction to most European countries. Since the United States had a small military, it did not want ...
- 369: George Washington: Summoned By A Country; One Man Stood Strong
- ... s troops and the French and the Indian ended in a disaterious defeat for Washington. The indians decided to fight with the winners, the French. As Callahan states “ The future commander-in-chief of the American Army in the Revolution ended his first major military effort in ignominious disaster.” Washington was forced to sign a letter of surrender. It was a small victory for the French, but the starting point of the French and Indian ... officials authority, George was fast changing his opinion of England, English military, and English command. Washington, as Braddock's aid, Fleming states: was arriving at the first faint realization that he was not English, but American. It is hard for us to appreciate this awakening, now. But in the Virginia of Washington's youth, England was “home”-the repository of good education, fine furniture and clothes, naval and military genuis. ...
- 370: William Penn And The Quakers
- ... and commercial society. Philadelphia became the metropolis of the British colonies and a center of intellectual and commercial life. Germans Thousands of Germans were also attracted to the colony and, by the time of the Revolution, comprised a third of the population. The volume of German immigration increased after 1727, coming largely from the Rhineland. The Pennsylvania Germans settled most heavily in the interior counties of Northampton, Berks, Lancaster and Lehigh ... industry transformed this region into a rich farming country, contributing greatly to the expanding prosperity of the province. Scotch-Irish Another important immigrant group was the Scotch-Irish, who migrated from about 1717 until the Revolution in a series of waves caused by hardships in Ireland. They were primarily frontiersmen, pushing first into the Cumberland Valley region and then farther into central and western Pennsylvania. They, with immigrants from old Scotland ... course during the provincial era. There was a natural conflict between the proprietary and popular elements in the government which began under Penn and grew stronger under his successors. As a result of the English Revolution of 1688 which overthrew King James II, Penn was deprived of his province from 1692 until 1694. A popular party led by David Lloyd demanded greater powers for the Assembly, and in 1696 Markham' ...
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