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Hostess Baking Company: Never a Full Recovery Hostess Baking Company was founded in 1919 by selling their baked goods in the Continental Baking Co in New York City. Hostess began to succeed in the 1950’s after being exposed on the TV show “Howdy Doody” and has been well known ever since. In 2012, Hostess Baking Company, which is famously known for Twinkies and Wonder Bread filed for bankruptcy. Hostess had already filed for bankruptcy once before this time and had struggled financially for years…

Golden glasses of expensive champagne clink as a lavish party roars in the background of the era of an emerging wealth. The 1920’s: a period in which the world, but the young and reckless America especially, struggled to get a grip on what true success and happiness were. Then, there were neither in the 30’s when the Depression smacked the world with harsh reality.W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge follows a young writer (a character named for himself) and the trials of his social…

I saw the 11/30 showing of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”. It was a play about two World War II veterans named Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who meet sisters Betty and Judy Haynes. The four go to rural Vermont where they run into Bob and Phil’s former commander in WWII, General Waverly, who owns an inn but is struggling financially. The four aim to help the General. The show was at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, a Proscenium theatre. The stagecraft of the play was like most plays I’ve…

When you are pushed to your breaking point, you may turn to two options, seeking help or seeking death. Author Sapphire of Push and F.Scott Fitzgerald of The Great Gatsby do a great job of depicting these breaking points of main characters Precious and Jay, one of whom seeks life and the other death. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of…

Many times, the 1920s are referred to as a roaring and prosperous time in America. The country embodied many societal changes and innovations never seen before. Despite great advances, America faced great problems on the homefront. The events of World War I fueled strong nativism for one’s country and the idea that it was possible to revolt against government. Most notably, Russia faced a revolution of their own. In this revolution, communism took hold and its influence began to spread…

Zenith Shrestha Ms. Boyle American Literature 24 March 2017 White A tale of a tragic love story that reflects on the nature of the American Dream – The Great Gatsby is one of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's few novels. Yet it is one filled with allusions and ideas that ring true in society today. The plot of the Great Gatsby takes place after the end of World War I in 1920s New York, a time filled with jazz, glamour, and partying. Nick Carraway, previously a writer, is tired of his life in the…

Jazmine Jones Gatsby Paper Adv. Eng 11 B6 26 January 2018 The American Dream Characters in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby achieve the American Dream by having the perfect family and love life with their spouse, having a lot of money and material goods, and being wealthy. Towards the end of the novel the main characters become obsessive over this perfect lifestyle. Gatsby’s infatuation for Daisy grows. Nick’s craving for this lavish lifestyle causes him to lose himself. Gatsby’s strive for the…

It was 1920 in New York City, a certain ineffable aura pervaded the musty city air, an aura that would allure dreamers for the decade to follow. The nouveau riche flocked to New York, where they could live out their dreams with other idealists. This sparked what is now known as the Roaring Twenties, a romantic period characterized by its optimism and nonchalance. Concurrently, the city also saw one of the most important movements in African American history: The Harlem Renaissance. This was the…

The Stanley Hotel In the depths of Colorado’s Estes Valley, sits a grand hotel with a history greater than the eye can see from first look. Freelan Oscar Stanley stumbled upon this magnificent site when suffering from consumption. Even though Freelan and his wife Flora were from an East Coast society, they were willing to try and live a life in the valley. They had a private home, but agreed it was too small if they wished to have parties or guests, so they compromised to build a hotel. With its…

In the world of Seahaven the producers and creators did anything to keep Truman in Seahaven. Including newspapers, with the most to the point headlines. Like when Truman showed signs of wanting to leave they came up with a headline that said The Best Place on Earth: Seahaven voted the world’s top town. Truman was trying to leave Seahaven to go find Sylvia in Fiji, who was an actor who tried to tell him the truth and Truman fell in love with her. Someone overheard him or they tapped the phone…