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Francis Scott Key F Scott Fitzgerald
1,285 wordsMany authors in American have worked to shape the history that is America through their portrayal of their age. F. Scott Fitzgerald used his writing to shape America during the post-Great War America and into the Great Depression. Through his influential works, Fitzgerald defined the turbulent 1920 s as the Jazz Age, reflecting his life into those works that are still today seen as defining pieces of American history. Fitzgeralds life was reflected in his work, making his name synonymous with th...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key
3,563 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. This rare ability, along with his rhetorical brilliance, has established Fitzgerald as one of the major novelists and story writers of the twentieth century. The source of Fitzgerald? s talent remains a mystery. Edward Fitzgerald, his father, came from tired, old stock with roots in Maryland. Edward Fitzgerald? s great-great-grandfather was the brother of Francis Scott Key? s grandfather, and if Scott Fitzgerald claimed a closer relatio...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key
1,372 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy, and suffered great personal anguish because of these driving forces. I have chosen to write a term paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald. The goal of this presentation is to show F. Scott...
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Star Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key
636 wordsFort Fort Mchenry Fort McHenry Fort McHenry was an American military installation built on a peninsula in Baltimore harbor in 1799. During the War of 1812 it was attack, September 13 - 14, 1814 by a British fleet, an attack that inspired Francis Scott Key, a prisoner aboard a British ship, to write the Star- Spangled Banner. Later, Fort McHenry was used as a storage depot and military prison, Fort McHenry was established as a national park in 1925. It was re-designated a national monument and hi...
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Francis Scott Key Zelda Sayre
3,057 wordsThe Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby was the crowning achievement of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He received his education by attending St. Paul Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton University. In 1923 he married Zelda Sayre and they divided their time among New York, Paris, the Rivera, and Rome, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle, which included Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. After his achievement with his novel The Great Gatsby...
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