...The New Negro Despite all the adversities faced by African Americans, one was still proud to be labeled a Negro. During the 1900’s African Americans had gained courage to fight back against those oppressors who attacked and proclaimed pride in his race. This great boldness stems from previous achievements made by African Americans throughout history. Such events lead Blacks to continue prosper by participating in the First World War and migrating to different parts of the North and Midwest, bringing with them a new sense of culture that would leave an everlasting impact. The “New Negro’s”, during and after the First World War, was considered self-confident as they no longer accepted black inferiority. Blacks’ participation in the Civil War, lasting from 1861-1865, resulted in African Americans having a sense of pride that one has never felt before. Now seemingly having an identity, they carried that courage to fight in the First World War. Blacks’ participated by “…distinguishing themselves as soldiers in France and as members of an international community of people of African descent, or African Diaspora. Blacks’ were skeptic about this war as it was proclaimed to be “a war to make the world safe for democracy”. African Americans were divided on whether to fight and support a war effort to assure equality for a nation while they still faced undemocratic experiences of segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. Blacks’ looked for anti-lynching legislation, an end to...
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...Throughout the 1920’s jazz music was a defining aspect of American culture; it also had a huge effect on society.. People of the time saw either playing or listening to jazz as a way to feel free or even escape from their daily lives. With the social changes going on in the 20’s, like the parties and the way people behaved, jazz fit right in with the changing times. Many jazz enthusiasts will argue that you are born with a love of jazz (Jazz History: The Standards). Like Louis Armstrong once said, "if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know" (Music with Ease > Jazz Quotes). In conjunction with the roaring twenties, jazz made it to the top and became widely known across the United States, and even some parts of Britain, making it a worldwide movement. It came very popular with people who wanted to get away from their normal lives and escape into the swing of jazz. Novelist F Scott...
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...crew time and energy to produce a movie with its various components? Or how much money it is spent to get movie essentials such as cameras, microphone, and computers, to only produce one movie? Producing even one film takes a great deal of thinking, energy, time, and money. Despite these costs, the film industry has been profitable since the 1920’s. This period was an era of dramatic social, historical, and political change. The stock market crashed and prohibition altered U.S history, but film theaters and studios were not initially affected by the crash market....
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...“Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” (Adams 214) The Modern Day American Dream- Has it Changed? The American Dream has long been the ideal that every American has an equal opportunity to achieve success and fortune through hard work, regardless of origin or ethnicity. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby story of success, primarily represented through his possessions such as his mansion, demonstrates how the American Dream during the 1920’s is similar to the American Dream of today because origin remains irrelevant and possessions represent success. The key component of the American Dream is that it is achievable regardless of origin, motives,...
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...The early 1920’s was a time of prosperity, , new ideas, and new beliefs. The end of the first world war was a mark of change, and one of these new ideas and changes that came along was the want for gender equality and the right for women’s vote or suffrage. During the world war women were in charge of many jobs men once had, as they were all out at war, after the war ended and men went back to their regular jobs, many people felt they hadn’t received enough recognition for their roles and were therefore angered (Women in the Roaring Twenties).. After many years of protesting for the right to vote, women finally received their right to vote on August 18, 1920 with the nineteenth amendment (History.com Staff). Having a voice in government was...
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...The 1920s are a time known for cockamaime parties, flappers, and roaring jazz music. Although the decade seems like a collection of rowdy social festivities, grander complications lied at the surface. Author and Harvard American History professor, Joshua Zeitz underlines the conjuncture between innovation and tradition in his essay The Roaring Twenties. Although major religious conflicts erupted, giving the conservatives a win, the 1920’s were a decade of liberalism because of backlash from government control and advancements in media A major disagreement between church and education was the John Scopes trial (aka the monkey trial.) In 1925, the Butler Act was passed to end the teaching of anything that goes against biblical teachings. That same year, John Scopes was challenged by peers to violate the anti-evolution law and teach Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his class. A Duke University Article, by Christopher Armstrong and Grant Wacker, entitled The Scopes Trial states that “Resistance grew especially acute when such conservatives saw their sons and daughters going off to college and, faced with teachings that contradicted their parents' beliefs, seemed to lose their faith entirely.” This reveals the parent’s conservative fears of a radically different America where there would be diversity amongst religions. Adding on to conservative victory, Zeitz claims that the conservatives were nowhere near close to being beat. Zeits states in his essay that after their court...
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...1800’s there was a movement called the Women's Rights Movement, this movement changed the lives of women. To begin, before the Women's Rights Movement women didn't have equal rights as do men, they weren't able to file for divorce,be educated or legally own land (“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). Since, the Women's Rights Movement took place on a hot muggy day of July.13.1848, this movement happened because of one house wife named Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She is the reason women's lives are so different today. She's the reason women have freedom(“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). Lastly, when this movement was over women got their rights and today are now able to vote, own land, file for divorce and custody battles(“History Of Women's Rights Movement”). If...
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...Roaring Twenties 9/9/2011 The Roaring Twenties After World War I there were significant changes that developed socially, economically, and politically. Americans put the war behind them and the roaring twenties became a very exciting time and change was evident. The roaring twenties brought social change for women and youths, while, new technology helped to create a new economic boom. However, the change in politics would unite Americans that was looking for positive changes. Even though most Americans felt modernism was best for America they were meet with opposition from the traditionalist. The roaring twenties opened the door for women who began to enter the work force, gained the right to vote, and a freer lifestyle. In 1920 the 19th amendment passed which grants suffrage to women. Other social changes for women included the way they thought, dressed, and danced. Women began to wear shorter hair, shorter dresses, and some were known as flappers. Whereas, women had many social changes so did the younger generation (U.S History, Para 1). Moreover, the roaring twenties brought tremendous change to society as a whole. With the emergence of modern radio programs and motion pictures they entertained and influence the younger generation. As the new generation began to change there was a clash of values. Values changed from traditional to modern. As more motion pictures were made that depicted a more modern dress, thoughts, and style the younger generation formulated...
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...What is Jazz? Some people will tell you that jazz is a style of music that originated from African-Americans here in America and was adopted by white people over the years. Other people will tell you that jazz is the heart and soul of Blues music and a spinoff of Ragtime and a way of loosely expressing yourself through music. Both of these interpretations are correct, but by dictionary definition, jazz is music originating from New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through the various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. Jazz music is all of this and yet so much more. In order to play jazz, you have to take something and tweak it to make it your own. The biggest difference between jazz piano and regular classic piano is simply the style in which you play it. With classic piano, you stick to the rhythms and notes that are written on the pages. The music goes almost perfectly with the score and there is no room for relaxation between notes. With jazz piano however, you move with the music. Within the rhythms, you get to swing to your own style. Jazz piano is much more lose and free. Also with jazz, a lot of the times, you improvise the music meaning that it’s not written down and the player comes up with the notes and...
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...month-long celebration of Black Americans has been around for almost a hundred years and helps with many current issues in the Black community. The celebration of Black History Month improves representation of Black accomplishments, recognizes achievements and successes rather than crimes and offenses, and brings awareness to lesser known Black History. Representation and false representation of Black Americans is highlighted by Black History Month. Bernard Grant, PhD, states “Black representation is still lacking today, though this has improved in some areas over the last few years. In the 1920’s, however, very few media outlets, corporations, and universities included Black Americans.” This introduces the fact of less representation for Black Americans compared to that of White Americans....
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...Priest, Bishop, Arch-Bishop, Cardinal and Pope (Tiernan, Morley, Foley 2006,p12). Many other organisations have adopted this form including the Dublin Fire Brigade and from this we have fire-fighters, sub-officers, station officers, district officers, third officers, assistant chief fire officers and chief fire officer. Historically management was operated on a trial and error basis, prior to the industrial revolution the lack of efficient transport and communications restricted the expansion of most businesses and stifled the development of management within industry. “Management is tasks. Management is a discipline. But management is also people. Every achievement of management is the achievement of a manager. Every failure is a failure of a manager.” ( Drucker 1997, p.14) The Industrial Revolution In the middle of the 1700’s, a new revolution gripped the world, the Industrial Revolution, as it now called by historians, changed the ways by how the world produced its goods. It also changed society from being mainly...
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...University, Zelda Sayre. School played a very important role in his life, Fitzgerald failed at sports but was a excellent daydreamer. During 1911-1913 he attended Newman School, A Catholic Prep School in New Jersey where he met father Sigourney Fay, who encourage his ambitious for personal distinction and achievement. (Bruccoli) Fitzgerald was excellent in school until he made it to college. As a member of the 1917 Princeton Class, Fitzgerald often neglected studies and often wrote scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club. While on academic probation and unlikely to graduate he joined the army in 1917. Convinced that he would die in war he rapidly wrote the novel, The Romatic Egotisc, it was rejected. (Broccoli) After that book was rejected, fitgerald did not give up he begin writing his first novel, This Side of Paradise. On April 3rd 1920, having just published his first novel This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre. This Side of Paradise became a istant success. But the apex of his career came with the Novel The Great Gatsby. (Anderson) Fitzgeral was uncommonly gifted as awriter. Not only was he apart of the crazy, wonderful era of the 1920’s he help name it the Jazz Age Era....
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...Women in Psychology Susan Hall University of Phoenix PSY 310 Lillian Filpot May 03, 2012 Women in Psychology Nebraska native Leta Stetter Hollingworth was an amazing woman who met the challenges of her time head-on employing intelligence, common sense, observation, and scientific method. Throughout her career the thread of continuity for her pursuits was the subject of variability (Benjamin & Shields, 1886-1993). Commencing her career with a degree in literature and a teaching certificate, Leta detoured into the fields of sociology and psychology finding the additional degrees necessary tools for change. Leta was an early 20th century feminist psychologist and advocate for women’s rights. By 1911, her determination and use of scientific method yielded proof that women were equal to men in terms of their intellectual capabilities. She sought equality for clinical psychologists doggedly determined to construct a framework of professional practice standards. Application of the standards raised the practice to a level considered suitable for inclusion in the American Psychological Association during World War 1. Leta was a gifted and prolific writer who produced her own text books, generated scores of journal articles and wrote poetry. She loved her husband, Harry, and their devotion to each other is chronicled in the biography he wrote (Hollingworth, 1943). Beginnings Leta Settor Hollingworth was born on the plains of Nebraska on May 25, 1886. The rushing of...
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...hard work, determination, and initiative. Certainly, nowadays, the American Dream has more than one definition. For some of those who have come into the United States legally and illegally from third world countries, it means different things, one of which is a haven from poverty and starvation where they can be cared for freely. While some work and become independent, some people do not perceive "the American Dream" as being defined by working; instead, "the American Dream" is one of a benevolent government which takes care of the person his/her entire life through various federal programs. However, this latter idea has not yet become part of the canon of American literature. In the 1920's, the American Dream became materialized and one's character had less to do with success and the achievement of the dream. As a satire against this elevation of material success as the defining term of the American Dream, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his seminal novel, The Great Gatsby in which he portrays a morally corrupt wealthy class in the Eastern United States. They are "careless people" (as the narrator Nick Carraway remarks) in a restless and driving society that have tainted values--Daisy marries Tom Buchanan because he gives her a $350,000 pearl necklace--taking what they can get unscrupulously and discarding anyone who does not serve their purposes of social or financial advancement. In a similar fashion, Arthur Miller's tragedy, Death of a Salesman(1949) depicts a man driven by the...
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...Within the last century there have been a number of breakthroughs when talking about how the media is passed from one individual to another. Not so long ago people were largely dependent on the wired device; being tethered to their homes for the flow of news, entertainment, and communication. In the late 1800’s and very early 1900’s roughly 80 percent of the population in America lived in rural areas; by the 1920’s and 30’s there was a majority of the population that moved inward to the urban development’s where the future of economic opportunities was to enticing to pass on. With the boom of industry and development there was a need for faster communication, a way to get the information to the masses. For many years the people relied on the newspaper and word of mouth for their news until the inception of the radio and television which brought information streaming 24 hours a day seven days a week into the viewer’s or listener’s home.. The largest achievement for televised news would be launch of cable television (US) and satellites strictly for streaming this type of medium, pushing information about everyone to everyone; with the only draw-back of not being instantaneous. There had been little change to what and how the news product was delivered to the world’s society. The media machine turned and churned this way unaltered, existing comfortably until the introduction of the internet. The sometimes deadly tool used to feed news around the world uncensored and rarely unbiased...
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