... life, characterized by new technology that enabled Americans to kick back and enjoy all life had to offer. During the 1920's, the United States started off on a joyride in an "era of wonderful nonsense" (World Book Encyclopedia p.114). Americans felt lighthearted and optimistic after WWI. New advances in technology were invented like the "Model T" and canned foods. People spent ... and crime increased. The federal government found it almost impossible to enforce prohibition, mainly because society had such a strong opposition towards it. The Jazz Age was a golden period in American litera...

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... the most famous and influential American writers of the 1900's" (World Book Encyclopedia 180). While another author considered, " Hemingay a master of terse, direct expressions. Hemingway the 1954 Nobel Laureate in Literature, had a profound stylistic impact upon most of the major authors who followed him, even though his own output was not huge" (Shuman, R. Blaird 897). An author noted, "Although he is ... , poems, and reminiscence."(Henderson, F. Andrea). Wilson's Review says, "That he should thus go back to his art, after a period of artistic denovalization, and give it a large scope,...

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• Grade Level: High School

... United States. It was at this time that he became a heavy drinker because of his time by himself on the boat. In 1954 Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. After winning he began to travel again. While traveling in Africa in the 1950's he was involved in two separate plane accidents that left him in poor mental health for ... the rest of his life. On his journey he became more and more paranoid and tended to forget things often. He was suicidal and had electric shock treatments for his depression and strange behavior. On July 2, 1961 at the age of 60, Ernest Miller Heming...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School