Great Leap Forward

was enduring the biggest financial crisis in its history after the Wall Street crash in 1929 which caused the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment was hovering around twenty percent and as Long points out the income gap between most Americans and the rich of the country was extremely high. With his speech, Long tries to point out this income gap to the American…

The Female Characters in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel. The author employs a narrator, Nick Carraway, to allow insight into the upper class society of New York during the early 1920s. Socially, women enjoyed enormous changes during this era as hemlines shortened replacing long skirts and corsets, hair was bobbed to resemble a more masculine style, and women attained the right to vote. Women, predictably, responded in a variety of ways to these…

With the Great Gatsby, the common view of the American dream is achieved through many of the main characters in the story. One of its important factors to the relation, is the valley of ashes. ‘A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and…

Power of Determination In his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck illustrates the struggle between the working class and the upper class through the discrimination between the migrants and the landowners. Landowners maintain control through violence; they treat migrant workers without humanity. Migrant families, often referred as “Okies,” are starving, while food is wasted by the wealthy. In the novel, many migrants lose their homes, jobs and life savings, forcing them to move and leave…

strength of the body and keeping its control. This technique was in efforts to develop and maintain flexibility in the spine and hips, specifically in a seated position. “Lamentation” was created in response to the grief, sorrow and anger during the Great Depression. This piece was simplistic but spoke so much through the use of her body and facial expressions. The video features an interview Graham had in 1976, following the “Lamentation” performed by Peggy Lyman.…

The Great Depression officially started on October 29, 1929 after the stock market crash, and the Great Recession started in 2008 after the government pushed buying houses onto people. The Great Depression and Great Recession has almost seven decades between them, so some people would never think they would be similar. They might even say the President has learned from the Great Depression, so the economy will never get like that again. The economy almost did in the Great Recession. When…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald touches on several themes, but the one of most importance is the one relating the to the pursuit of the American Dream. The American dream was defined as the ideal lifestyle. If you lived the American dream you had wealth or fame, a steady job, a family, and a grand house. It seemed as though, if you were living the American dream, you were living a life of unbroken happiness. America was thriving in the 1920’s. People could afford to look the American…

Humans are complex mammals within the animal kingdom. Although humans have some common similarities to other animals from the realm; humans have key features within themselves that differentiate them from the common chimpanzee. One main characteristic that humans have over other animals is their control and expression of emotions. Human emotions are far more complex in comparison to animal emotions. Both humans and animals are capable of experiencing the feeling of joy but have different methods…

dream is the distorted idea that everyone is capable of achieving success through hard work and determination and pertaining to the pursuit of happiness. This idealized dream is commonly unattained by many people who rise to face the challenge. In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how the wealthy and famous Jay Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. Ignited with motivation and passion, ambition leads Gatsby to become blind to his surroundings and develops a tunneled vision…

This poster’s targets are any age of all American citizens. These targets can divided in three categories. First one is young women, who were convinced that they play the important roles for the success of the war by many propagandas (Cornell, 28). The woman who was in this poster wore clothes like Rosie the Riveter, which is symbol of going help out war. During WWII, women feel responsibility through many posters, not only for the aspect of working, but also for the aspect of funds for war.…