Historical materialism

Fitzgerald summed this idea up well in The Great Gatsby by saying, “Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry” (57). Even if one didn’t have the means to have the best of everything, it was still expected of them. Myrtle was enraged when she found out her husband didn’t wear his own suit to his wedding. “He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in…and the man came after it one day when he was out…I gave it to him and then I lay…

Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003. Print. Thesis: Studies of the Civil Rights Movement that have treated religious self-understanding do not examine the role of an African American religious worldview and gendered; particularly Black women’s, interaction with Black religious traditions and institutions and with U.S. social life. Substantive Questions: 1.) Would the Civils Right Movement been as successful without…

Characterisation Characterisation is a literary device that is used in literature to introduce and explain the details about a certain character in a story. In book The Great Gatsby, the main characterisation revolves around the social status of the characters. The major character of the book, Jay Gatsby, is evidently wealthy, but he does not come from or belong to the upper stratum of the society. The author used the dialogue and appearance of Gatsby to reflect on his wealth and social statues…

demographics on popular culture after WWII, along with how national and culture identity, especially the Australian identity, is influenced by popular culture. We want to develop students’ cooperation, communication, negotiation, presentation, and historical thinking skills throughout the unit. We focused on the AUSVels level 10 standards for Humanities, Music, and English learning areas and make sure that the intended standards are scaffolded via assessment task or learning activities (ACARA,…

Democracy, freedom and equal opportunity have long been the ideologies associated with the American mindset, and as a result, the United States came to be recognized as one of the few countries in the world where anyone who worked hard enough could become successful and therefore fulfill the American Dream. However, through The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald confronts this sanguine mentality. That which defines success in the 1920s, the time during which Fitzgerald’s novel is set, is…

popular ones was the Woodstock Music Festival in August 1969 which is arguably the most influential musical event that spread the message of peace towards the close of the decade. In the reading, Remembering the Dangers of Rock and Roll:Toward a Historical Narrative of the Rock Festival, “Woodstock concerned peace and love (in obvious opposition of the Vietnam War) and heady experiences” (Schowalter pg 90). Alexander Hopkins mentions in his journal, “Billed as the ‘Three days of peace and…

Few subjects are more complex yet more applicable to the sociological betterment of mankind than economic health. For our purposes, economics refers to the provision of the material well-being of a society (Heilbroner, 1993, p. 1); and such a concern cannot be dismissed outright, say exclusively in favor of our ethical or philosophical underpinnings because basic human needs emanate from that which is provided through the business of finance and business, or perhaps more suitable, commerce and…

Laureta Stevenson Dr. Kyong Yoon CULT 101-001 Oct. 17th, 2016 Reinvention through Urbanization Nothing exists in a vacuum. You can’t invent something out of nothing, as can be applied to historical events. In two different articles, Inventing Opera as art in nineteenth-century Manchester and The Invention of the English Christmas, both written by John Storey, he explains a re-invention of a societal event (rather than the titles word of an invention). Both of the two subjects Storey is…

Evaluate how challenges to certainty are shaped by and reflected in the ways texts in this elective experiment with language and form. Textual dynamic texts convey the stark departure from established ideologies such as humanism, capitalism and the notion of progress following the events of World War II that induced a loss of faith in humanity and science. Composers experimented with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through…

Chapter 03: Be Contextual (with focus on Culture) (Note: need more positives) Expand Your Horizon: Culture is a part of our every day existence. Culture, like someone said, is the water the fish swims in; it is something we see around us but we are not aware of it or the impact it leaves on our lives. However, culture is not imperceptible. Young people do have their own specific culture. The Church has usually shied away from talking about it, because they feel that culture is evil and a…