The Great Depression wore raw the nerves of the people, and our true strength was shown. ... The Great Depression had an immense impact on American life. ... His life is a mixture of accomplishment and defeat, and has thereby been dubbed the "greatest successful failure" of American literature. ... Steinbeck eventually won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, although many question whether he truly deserved it or not. ... It was an era of true American spirit, as Jim Casy said, "Maybe all men got one big soul ever"body's a part of," which tells of the Great Depression, people coming to...

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John Keats was a respected English writer from the Romantic Era, specifically known for his poetry. ... Literature from the Romantic Era emphasizes originality and a love for nature. ... Self-examination, psychology, depression and sadness were all emphasized as well. ... Romantic literature is often characterized by death and the feelings and emotions that the writer is dealing with. ... John Keats, along with several others from the Romantic era, assisted in creating new possibilities and standards for literature that has continued to grow in the world even today....

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In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. ... After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. ... First the massive stock market crash during 1920, which then lead to the second major event, The Great Depression. ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ...

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Each era in America has brought on change and challenged the traditional way of doing things. ... The extreme example of these types of laws when congress passed the Compstock Act, which prohibited the mailing of obscene literature, this law was used to prevent the distribution of birth control information and contraceptives through the mail. ... During this time a different type of women emerged, the flapper, these women threw out the old ways of the Victorian era. ... During the Great Depression, the United States went in to a period of isolationism. ... To conclude, theses eras have brough...

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Hootch was supplied by Dutch Schultz (one of the best known New York mobsters of the prohibition era).and Al Capone. ... The decade was a wonderful one for all of the arts and literature in America. ... The nation stayed in this depression through the end of the twenties and most of the thirties. ...

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In literature, attractiveness often indicates the admirable protagonist, while ugliness symbolizes an abominable antagonist. ... Patients who are not satisfied with the results experience periods of depression, isolation and anger towards their doctors. ... Many people go under the knife as a way of enhancing self-esteem or overcoming mental issues such as depression. ... This shows that the introduction of cosmetic surgery marks the beginning of a new era. ... This new era revolves around the idea that beauty is only present in a single face or body type. ...

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Hughes' and Robinson's works qualify as poetry because their writings are an emotion found in all cultures and eras that found words to express themselves and, according to Robert Frost, therefore qualify as poetry. ... Poetry is an advanced form of literature that allows the reader not only to see the experience but also to become involved in that experience through the emotions and words used. ... These works qualify to be poems because they express, in words, this universal emotion of depression that allows the reader to, "experience the experience....

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It is the Great Depression when only the necessities were valuable leaving Elisa's talent worthless. ... The entrapment continues in "To Set Our House in Order" when Grandmother MacLeod is trapped by the Great Depression. ... As you read these two stories be grateful that your mother, grandmother, sister, or daughter do not live in an era like the Great Depression....

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Her parents were two of the most noted freethinkers of the Enlightenment era. ... Mary fell into a deep depression that was barely relieved with the birth of her only surviving child, Percy Florence in 1819. ... They studied classical and European literature, Greek, Latin, Italian, music, art, and ambitious writing. ... After Percy's death, Mary's life was full of hardship and depression as she struggled to take care of herself and her child. ...

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Thomas is a poet known greatly for his indulgence in his love for poetry and literature. ... Dylan's interest in poetry and literature was sparked at an early age, and by high school Dylan was editing for his school newspaper. ... Thomas began to spend much of his time exploring the streets, pubs, and alleys of the depression-ridden seaport town in which he lived. ... Even though other authors of the Romantic era played with ideas of this sort, Thomas proposed them in such a way that he was much more highly regarded for his criticism because it was made more appealing to his readers. ...

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A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... With art by the James Van der Zee and Aaron Douglas, Harlem became the focal point for a vibrant new life of the mind and spirit of the "New Negro" in those exciting days between World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression. ... The Harlem Renaissance changed forever the dynamics of ...

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Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from 1815 to 1825, as first described by the Boston Columbian Centinel on July 12, 1817. The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. ... But by 1820 a longer era...

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With that, the anxiety was collectively heard and felt with its louder voice and remembered to define an era. ... The whole idea and feeling of uncertainty provoked a revolution in the world of art and literature as well. ... This new way of literature also changed the way screenplays were written, and movies and theatre evolved from that point. ... America's "age of anxiety" was more collectively felt after the Great Depression of 1929, which concluded a decade of partying in avoidance of the inability to deal with uncertainty. ... I couldn't tell whether America made the movemen...

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Everyone was in depression because of the war, but this was used to cheer people up. ... The term "African American Literature" is understood by most as Sub-Saharan (East and West) Africa. The primary source of language for this literature is European not Africa, which is also known as radical anomaly. African participants in colonial administrations in Africa began producing written works of literature in European languages. ... This was a big era, in which African Americans celebrated their culture and enjoyed the unique experience of being looked up at. ...

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Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. ... His efforts to debunk race-based myths of the inherent intellectual, social, and spiritual inferiority of African-Americans that emerged in the post Reconstruction era are thought to ...

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Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. ... In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the n...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... Jazz was an influential addition to music during this era. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....

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Shelley received astounding education in science, literature, and philosophy from her father (Discovering Authors 3). ... After the death of her children, Shelley fell into a depression, and mourned them for over a year because they never lived to adulthood. ... All of the deaths in the novel shatter Victor, and leave him in a period of depression and sadness. Other than her family member's deaths, Shelley also considered the new change in her era, comprising of new thoughts in science and technology. ... The concentration of emotion, adventure, and imagination during the Romantic Era l...

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The strength of Charlotte Brontë's position as a feminist in literature is open to interpretation, but the impact she left was certainly a solid one. Liberation was a limited blessing for women in the Victorian era. ... To be selfish as a female of the Victorian era is not necessarily a terrible thing, a point expressed in Elizabeth Gaskell's biography: "A woman who revealed an independent spirit was rare, if non-existence during Charlotte Brontë's time. ... Rochester is a collapse of will, proving that a woman of the Victorian era inevitably required a man to ...

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Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature he was still viewed as a Revolutionary and a voice for the African American. Smethurst refers to this with the following statement: "This division of Hughes's work into three basic modes can be seen as a reflection of the relative weakness of the Left within the broader African American community in the early 1930s at the same time that the political, cultural, and economic impact of the Gre...

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was the beginning of a new era of English literature. ... The frown symbolizes Romeo's depression after Rosaline's rejection, and the smile that replaces it when Romeo meets Juliet. ... As the symbol as simple as nature could be analyzed and discovered as it holds the deepest meaning in literature....

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Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (the 1920s) Introduction Mass Production: the result was the creation of a New America, on e in which individualism was sacrificed to conformity as a part of the price to be paid for a new era of abundance. The 1920s, often seen as a time of escape and frivolity before the onset of the Depression, actually marked a beginning , a time when the American people learned to adapt to life in the city, when they decided (wisely or not) to center their existence on the automobile, and when they rejected their rural past while still longing for the old va...

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This era is especially interesting because women were still treated as second-class citizens. ... Her husband, "a physician of high standing " (Gilman 55), has diagnosed her as having a "temporary nervous depression " a slight hysterical tendency " (Gilman 55). ...

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In addition to the Homestead Act, there was the realization on the part of informed people that the era of well-watered, free land was drawing to a close. A warning had been given in 1880 by the Director of the Census that the era of free land was closing (Horn 130). ...

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Born during the Romanic Era in literature, Poe managed shock readers of his time and the modern readers, with terrifying, gruesome plots. ... Poe eventually left for Richmond, Virginia where he suffered from bouts of depression and madness. ... "He is important in the history of American literature and culture because he developed short fiction and was influential in making American literature more philosophical. ...

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