1925

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, 1925) symbolism and metaphors are used frequently. It can be argued that Fitzgerald incorporates these elements into the very core of the novel to such a degree that it takes many re-reads of the book for the average reader to gain a full appreciation of the intrinsic subtextual nuance and complexity of Fitzgerald's work, almost to the point of unintentional circumlocution — at least to the contemporary, 21st-century reader. Examining the book…

Have you ever wanted to be remembered as having a legacy so great there was an award named after you in your honor? This is the type of influence Langston Hughes and his writings had on people. In 1925 Hughes rose to fame with his most well-known and famous poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, which he wrote when he was just a teen. In addition to that, Hughes had much success in his career as a poet. Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes had a rough life growing up with…

the two sources I will be examining which is the film Inherit the Wind, directed by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee debuted in 1960 as well as the Scopes Trial also known as The Monkey Trial that took place in the state of Tennessee on July 21st 1925. Thirty-five years passed since the original trial nevertheless the story line fictionalizes the Scopes Trial adds many aspects of drama in conflict. The directors emphasized the film is not history yet individuals are more likely to watch…

Although there was an alliance, the fact that Mao was working closely in the NP provoked his own party. He returned to his home, Shaoshan, for a rest from 1924 to 1925. While there, he saw peasant demonstrations that were occurring because of the shooting of Chinese by foreign police in Shanghai (May and June of 1925). He then realized the revolutionary potential of peasants. Before this, even though he came from a family of peasants, his view of peasants was the traditional Chinese…

extremist beliefs and bigotry. At one point had peaked 4 million members back in the 1920’s and more people backing up the beliefs. With cone-headed white robes as their signature style. Leading into may movements such as the march on Washington in 1925 with more than 50 thousand members. But now today has a minuscule 3000 members and is still declining. With it used to be a giant organization less than a century ago, it is now slowly losing members due to different types of beliefs and its…

Later he moved to California, where his uncle lived, and they signed a contract with Margaret Winkler, a cartoon distributer from New York. Later he changed the studio name to Walt Disney Studio. Walt met Lillian Bounds; they got married on July 13, 1925. They have two daughters, Diane Disney Miller and Sharon Mae Disney. Walter Elias Disney…

Epidemic Eradicator A young mother sits in a hospital room at three in the morning. The room is quiet except for the murmur of voices down the hall, the beeping of monitors and the almost inaudible whir of the air conditioning. She sighs and looks at the little bed next to her chair. Her month old son lays there, IV lines and ventilation systems keeping him alive. This was the third time in his short life that he had alarmed Code Blue during his lengthy hospital stay. The mother had contracted…

believe that evolution has happened because it may contradicts their holy beliefs and because no one has seen it happen. Evolution is a theory or a fact only to the extent that people are willing to accept it a theory or a fact. The Scopes Trial in 1925 sheds some light on the attitudes that people once had towards evolution. Many decades ago, evolution was a very sensitive subject that was not allowed in the classrooms. The high school biology teacher John Scopes was “charged with illegally…

the trial. For one, the setting is the same because they couldn’t change the place of the trial. “Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. The two weeks that the Scopes Trial was around, the town of Dayton was a festival. The trial took place during the hottest days of July." (2008, Linder). People were filling into the small town to see the one of the greatest trials of history. On July 10, 1925, 1,000 people (300 standing) jammed into the Rhea County Courthouse to see it unfold. Two police officers were…

When lined up in a row, the skulls of a chimpanzee, neanderthal, and homo sapien contain the same basic structure with variations in the cranium, maxilla, and mandible. John Scopes, a Tennessee substitute teacher, was placed on trial in 1925 for violating the Butler Act. He taught that theory of evolution, that man is descended from the primate family. This was illegal in Tennessee because the Butler Act state anything that denied the story of Creationism forbidden to be taught in public…