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Modernism And The Great Gatsby
2,005 wordsTo understand modern literature, one must develop a sense of the structured and ordered lifestyle prior to modern culture. Before the era of modernism, lifestyles were systematically organized through standard traditions. When World War I started, Americans felt the impact of modernism at its strongest with men going off to battle and women working in factories. Lifestyles were beginning to divert from family traditions. People started to abandon their traditional values and adapt to the challen...
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Smokers And Non Smokers Cigarette Advertisements
1,090 wordsThe effect of cigarette and tobacco advertising on modern youth is vastly overrated. While both political and health activists insist otherwise, todays adolescence choose their habits, addictions, and desires ultimately out of their own free will. Increased opportunity for advertising within todays society undeniably leaves todays youth more susceptible to many forms of psychological manipulation. Teen-agers are now living in a society guided by unprecedented and highly unreliable sources of mas...
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Gas Stations Soviet Union
1,226 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 's was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 's were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From t...
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Thought And Action Bi Polar
5,650 words... the philosopher Paul Feyerbands did. He became paralyzed and had to finish his autobiography from an unfortunate bed-ridden state. Other writers become paralysed with the thought of using the first person: a serious dilemma for an autobiographer. I, too, was reticent to use the first person for the first two decades as I toyed initially with this autobiography. But eventually I found a voice, a voice I was comfortable with. I also found a format that attempted to create what I think is a hap...
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Smokers And Non Smokers Cigarette Advertisements
1,052 wordsThe effect of cigarette and tobacco advertising on modern youth is vastly overrated. While both political and health activists insist otherwise, today? s adolescence choose their habits, addictions, and desires ultimately out of their own free will. Increased opportunity for advertising within today? s society undeniably leaves today? s youth more susceptible to many forms of psychological manipulation. Teen-agers are now living in a society guided by unprecedented and highly unreliable sources ...
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Gas Stations Space Race
1,242 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950 s was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940 s were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From this p...
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Lowest Common Denominator Public School System
1,424 wordsThe purpose of our modern education: The delicate tools necessary for our intellectual workshop are achieved by schooling. I suspect that our best tools are realized rather automatically, but if there is to be outside influence, then, best it is done early, as the human mind matures all too rapidly. Children are not consumed with anxiety to learn anything; least of all has it ever crossed their minds that they must learn English. How shall we teach it to them, when the few of us who have begun t...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Pursuit Of The American Dream
2,055 wordsTo understand modern literature, one must develop a sense of the structured and ordered lifestyle prior to modern culture. Before the era of modernism, lifestyles were systematically organized through standard traditions. When World War I started, Americans felt the impact of modernism at its strongest with men going off to battle and women working in factories. Lifestyles were beginning to divert from family traditions. People started to abandon their traditional values and adapt to the challen...
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