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'Roaring Twenties' and Fabulous Flapper Fashions

In five pages this paper examines the significance of 1920s' flapper fashions and the freedom they represented. There are 5 sourc...

Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana 2

In a shorter paper variation the arguments that no evidence against legalization of marijuana is solid and the outlawing its use i...

'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...

Harlem's Musical Renaissance Reflected in Josephine Baker and Diana Ross

areas. From this interest was born a period of history known as the Harlem Renaissance, an era of affluence for African American ...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

Biographical and Career Profile of Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper examines the life and writing career of Langston Hughes which during the Harlem Renaissance of t...

The Effect of Prohibition on the Roaring 20s

Indeed, the impact Prohibition has had on social change, both then and now, is nothing short of monumental. Its existence forced ...

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....

1920s' and U.S. Immigration

In five pages this paper examines the 1920s' immigrant arrival in the U.S. and the American resentment regarding this influx. Fou...

Denver Art Museum's Lakota Man's Necklace

In five pages this paper analyzes this 1920s' art piece in a consideration of composition including repetition, symmetry, and colo...

Reasons for the German Holocaust

as the rise of the Nazi party will help to shed light on this topic. II. The Social Climate in the 1920s and 1930s Du...

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 ...

1920' American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the 1920s' American Dream is presented in The Great Gatsby by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s and Economic Activity

In four pages the economy of the United States during this time period is examined in terms of the many differences that existed b...

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...

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...

Bubbles in Asset Pricing

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

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 "...

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...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

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...

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,...

'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...