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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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Tension Between The Traditionalists Traditionalists And The Modernists Scopes
456 wordsDuring the 1920 s there was much tension between the traditionalists and the modernists. The best example of this conflict was that of the Scopes trial and the changes in the lifestyles and values of the American youth. In both cases the traditionalists and the The first example of the tension between the traditionalists and the modernists was the unfriendly fire from the fundamentalists on the new science and progressive education in the 1920 s. These old time religionists believed that the tea...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Daisy And Gatsby
1,403 wordsThe modern age began in 1915 and ended around the year 1946. During that time American Literature changed in many ways. A lot of the changes were due to the impact of World War I. To truly appreciate literature written during this era you must understand the Before World War I began the mood of the American society was confident and optimistic, but when hundreds of thousands of the Americans and Europeans lost their lives this outlook on life was shattered. People began to see a need for change,...
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Itchy And Scratchy Inter Textual
2,096 words... itchy Land. In order that they will be able to find their car again they make a point of parking in the 'Itchy Lot'. The camera then zooms out to reveal what must be millions of cars parked in the huge 'Itchy Lot'. Were it not for this film technique the comedy would have been lost as we would have seen them park among a million other cars from the start. These film and televisual techniques lead us on to the inter textual and self references in The Simpsons. The show often makes references ...
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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes
2,097 wordsKnowledge of contemporary British poetry is of great importance when it comes to understanding the reigning trends of England. The 1970 s saw a fair amount of polemic concerning the discontinuities of the national "traditions, " most of it concerned with poetry, all of it vulnerable to a blunt totalizing which demonstrated the triumphant ability of "nation" to organize literary study and judgment -- as it does still, perhaps more than ever. It remains the case twenty years later that there is a ...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quot Ll
3,206 wordsTo think of something romantically is to think of it naively, in a positive light, away from the view of the majority. Percy Bysshe Shelley has many romantic themes in his plays. Educated at Eton College, he went on to the University of Oxford only to be expelled after one year after publishing an inappropriate collection of poems. He then worked on writing full-time, and moved to Italy shortly before his death in a boating accident off the shore of Leghorn. He wrote many pieces, and his writing...
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Emile Durkheim Michel Foucault
4,310 wordsThis paper is an attempt to do something that is probably not a good idea. I am going to try and take the ideas of some of the most prominent postmodern Sociological thinkers and mesh them together in some sort of coherent format. The purpose of this paper is to provide a starting place for people interested in postmodern Sociological thought. There really is no one all-encompassing postmodern theory, or a group of like-minded postmodern theorists. In fact this notion is antithetical to much of ...
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Highly Developed Industrial Revolution
765 wordsAlan Cat (CPO # 119) History 262 History of Civilization II Professor Jim Halverson May 12, 2000 FINAL EXAM The modern era began with the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century and accelerated through the first half of the twentieth century. Although this span of time included many dissenting voices, in general it could be described as an Age of Scientific Reason. The premodern classicists of Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages, of course, developed reason, to dizzying heights. Science had its or...
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Late Nineteenth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,078 wordsRealism and Naturalism in 20 th Century American Fiction American people and the authors among them were left disillusioned by the effects that World War I had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as modernism. The influence of 19 th Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American life and people was evident in post World War I modernism...
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