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- 231: Evaluation Of The New Deal
- Franklin D. Roosevelt brought the new deal into American life in the early thirties. Its purpose was to overcome the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression. The "forgotten Americans" were the citizens who needed the new deal to benefit their poverty-stricken way of life. These people were the blacks, women, immigrants, and the many people who suffered from the ...
- 232: The Grapes of Wrath
- The Grapes of Wrath In John Ford's film The Grapes of Wrath, the audience travels along with an Oklahoma family that has set out to find wealth and privileges in California during the Great Depression. The film was taken from John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath. The filmakers intentions in putting this novel to screen was to show how the impact of the Great Depression effected the families of that time. The film was taped in a journalistic, documentary-style black and white texture which helped create a strong feeling of poverty and realism to the audience. The ...
- 233: The Great Gatsby: Adults in the Great Gatsby and Adults in the 80s and 90s
- The Great Gatsby: Adults in the Great Gatsby and Adults in the 80s and 90s The young adults in F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby are similar to the adults of the 80's and 90's. They show resemblance by portraying racism, irresponsibility, and corruption. Like the young adults of the 80's and 90's many ...
- 234: The Great Gatsby
- By: Sarah Nealis A Critical Review: The Great Gatsby By: Sarah Nealis The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a universal and timeless literary masterpiece. Fitzgerald writes the novel during his time, about his time, and showing the bitter deterioration of his time. A combination of the 1920s high society lifestyle and the desperate attempts to reach its illusionary goals through wealth and power creates the essence behind The Great Gatsby. Nick Carraway, the narrator, moves to a quaint neighborhood outside of New York City called West Egg; his distant cousin and his former colleague, Daisy and Tom, live in a physically identical district ...
- 235: The Great Gatsby 6
- Conflicts and affairs often reflect the unhappiness and reveal the other sides of person's character, which sometimes lead to depression and the complete change of ones life. F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book The Great Gatsby describes conflicts between many dynamic and round characters which are well chosen and play a big part of the story's theme. One fo the most important characters is Daisy Buchannon who's multiple ...
- 236: Imperialism
- ... of the language barriors or that even possibly that the tribe would not want to be a part of imperialism. I think imperialism caused many problems in later years for Europe, and did not have great or helpful effects. Imperialism was not justified in my opinion. How can it be?? I wouldn't consider people barging into other peoples' property and claiming it as their own, making others change their views ... what other nations began to do. Another reason for building an empire was for competition. Competition aroused the idea of wanting to get to a cerain destination before anyone else could claim it. This caused great expansion and boosted the power of certain nations faster that others. It all depended on how fast people could travel, by foot, to claim the land. These builders, in my opinion, weren't "bad guys ... bettered the quality of their lives. There were many reasons why countries wanted to expand into Asia, Africa, and China to build empires. I think the main reason was competition. During the time of the great expansion into Asian/African countries, european countries were becoming subject to trade tarriffs. These trade tarriff effectively locked out competition in european countries- if France had a huge tarriff, other countries cant compete in ...
- 237: Materialism and Happiness in America: The Gatsby Era and Today
- ... of spiritual values. The acquisition of material has been equated with happiness in this country. This is true today, and it was true during the 1920's, the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. That the majority of Americans believe that wealth and happiness are the same is a result of our market economy that encourages consumption and conditions us to think that we need material possessions to be happy. According to Andrew Bard Schmookler, "Wealth and human fulfillment have become equated in the predominant ideology of liberal society, even though the great spiritual teachers of humanity have all taught otherwise." (17) What happened to Gatsby's generation? The 20's was an age of a consumption ethic that was needed to provide markets for the new commodities ... taught that they need to have all these things that the businesses are trying to sell. It's true that this desire for things is what drives our economy. The free market has given us great blessings, but it has in some ways also put us on the wrong path -- the path to a selfish, unhappy society. Michael Lerner, who worked as a psychotherapist to middle-income Americans notes that " ...
- 238: Alexander The Great
- Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was king of the Macedonians and one of the greatest generals in history. As a student of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, Alexander was embedded with lasting interests in philosophy, politics and warfare. As king, he settled problems by immediate action, making quick decisions and taking great risks. His armies overcame these risks by sheer force and by the ingenious tactics instilled in them by Alexander. He and his armies conquered the Persian Empire, which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to ...
- 239: Kurt Cobain
- ... Cobain A look Into the Life and Career of a Legend; A Proposal Kurt Donald Cobain was the lead singer/songwriter of the band Nirvana, until April 5 1994 when he committed suicide. Troubled by depression, chronic stomach problems, and an addiction to heroin, his ailments in his personal life showed through in his music. His music evolved from the hard "punk" sound of their first album, to the intelligent "tell ... I would not understand the impact of his music or what his words meant to him, and that those songs would pull me through the hardest times in my life. Research Question How did his depression influence his music, and how did it show up in his work? Outline and Source Summary Since the first time I heard Nirvana and their music, it had an impact on my life. Though I ... intend to show how the events of his early life influenced the course his life took, and how it would later be found in his music. Also the actual words from the songs hold a great deal of insight to his life. Also the progression of his first band's, to the final trio that would make history. I have three different kinds of research resources; a book, video, and ...
- 240: Shakespeare's World
- ... Verona, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Richard II. Other than these plays, he also wrote the two long poems, Venus and Adonis, and The Rape of Lucrece. These were the first of Shakespeare's great works, and his experience in writing plays grew with the increasing number of popular plays that he wrote. Many critics have remarked that the work of this period is, as a whole, extremely slight in ... youthful exuberance of imagination, and by the extravagance of language. Shakespeare has characterized his work by the constant use of puns, conceits and other affections. The second period is known as The Period of the Great Comedies and Chronicle Plays (1594-1600). The works of this period are: King John, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV (Parts I and II), The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much ... have noticed that the rime has been largely abandoned for prose and blank verse and that the blank verse itself has lost its stiffness. The third period is usually known as The Period of the Great Tragedies and of the Sombre or Bitter Comedies (1601-07). Julius Caesar, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and ...
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