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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 ...

Creative Essay About the Harlem Renaissance

In five pages this paper features the 1920s' 'Harlem Renaissance' in a creative essay describing a young black girl who dreams to ...

Harlem Renaissance and White Literary Movements

This was not necessarily the case, but the self-assertion required for such a huge segment of a population to pick up and move cha...

Consumer Behavior Changes and Marketing Implications

In thirty three pages consumer behavior since the 1920s is examined along with the implications changes had upon marketing with Wo...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

U.S. Presence in Haiti

This 6 page paper discusses the U.S. involvement in Haiti during the 1920s and 1930s. The writer examines such issues as the reaso...

Power Rise of Adolf Hitler

In six pages Hitler's power rise and the economic conditions that paved its way during the 1920s and '30s are discussed. Five sou...

1920s' Soviet Cinema

In eight pages this research paper analyzes cinema in the Soviet Union during the 1920s in a consideration of the aesthetic approa...

Consumerism, Excess, and 'The Roaring Twenties'

The 1920s and the excesses associated with rampant consumerism are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages. Five source...

Suburbs and Their Development

the country, the expanse of the suburban communities has resulted in concern both for the capacity to meet the needs of the suburb...

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday and the Jazz Age

In two pages this paper examines how the 1920s' Jazz Age was portrayed in this 1931 text. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Partying and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In 5 pages this paper examines the 1920s' significance of the party as represented in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Th...

1920s and 1930s Jazz Music

In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...

Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...

Reflections of an Era in 'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

1920s' Culture

The 1920s saw the real advent of the moving picture, as well as the very first flight across the Atlantic Ocean (James Madison Col...

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

Social Commentary About The Gold Rush of Charlie Chaplin

in utter poverty and so always created characters that seemed to reflect that social class in society. One author notes, "Because ...

US Economy Prior to the Great Depression

The world had survived the First World War, and women had entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time. They reveled ...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

Bubbles in Asset Pricing

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

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Immigration During the 1920s

took on the low-wage jobs possessed by many Americans, and because such immigration seemed to threaten the United States. ...

1920s’ Berlin, German Expressionism, and the Architecture and Lighting in Orson Welles’ Film The Trial

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...

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 "...

1980s America

1920s, evangelists like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson were recruiting members almost solely on the basis of their person...

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...