The Jazz Age Jazz. The style of music that just makes you want to dance. The blues‚ a kind of music that makes you want to cry. The 20’s were famous for great jazz and blues entertainers such as Louis Armstrong‚ Bessie Smith‚ and George Gershwin. The most famous of all though is Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington playing at the Cotton Club. The Duke as he is also known as is a Jazz legend. Ellington is a pianist‚ a composer and a bandleader. The Duke started playing professionally at the age of 17
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popular music -- blues‚ jazz‚ and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain‚ much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music‚ Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock groups helped create in the 1960s a milieu that emphasized youth‚ exuberance‚ and innovation not only in music but
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GOTHIC INTRODUCTION g The origin of gothic subculture Gothic subculture originated in eighteen century‚ where the gothic literature took place. There are a couple samples of the literature of gothic‚ such as the book‚ which wrote by Horace Walpole in year of 1717 and in 1797‚ whilst people actually believed the gothic started‚ when the first single song of Bauhaus in 1979 released‚ which called “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” THE DEFINITION AND SUBGROUP OF GOTHS According to the statement of the sociologist
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When we consider the act of influencing people to act against their own wills‚ it is natural to describe the physical. One may think of the gravity of a firearm‚ or of any threat of physical violence. While surely and realistically these concrete powers are involved in strong-arming another person or group of people‚ some of the most powerful forces at work do not exist as obviously as we expect them to. Although we may not been acutely aware of the very real‚ the ever-shifting‚ and the forceful
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It became more interested in making its own profits than trying to regulating the world economy. The U.S. stock market was just as important as the world economy. Short-term investors borrowed money in the 1920s to pay for stocks on credit. If the stock price went up‚ they could repay the money. If the price went down‚ they didn’t make enough profit to repay the bank. If this happened‚ the bank would lose money. Stock prices wouldn’t go down as long as people
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As we have already hit the mental and physical aspects of the people. Now we walked into how they messed up the economy by their plan called “Buying on Margin.” Buying on margin was the engine for the stock market in the 1920’s. It helped fuel people to start investing and purchasing stocks. People felt this was some sort of cheat code to help solve their financial problems. To them it was like‚ figuring out how to time travel and erase World War I. It was known as a “Buy now‚ Pay later” concept
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Throughout the 1920s and ‘30s Urban populations augmented greatly in Cities (rather than living on farms)‚ affecting jobs‚ transportation‚ housing which have many positives effects during this time‚ but also many negative effects changing life during this time period. During the 1920s urbanization was becoming about impacting lives of many citizens and noncitizens living in America. For the first time more people were living in cities than farms‚ especially immigrants. When immigrants were coming
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bibliography to back up their resources and quotes throughout their writing and explanations on how those resources supports their paper. As well as the support throughout the essay‚ it explains how the crime rate in Chicago went up when prohibition in the 1920’s started and several different main events and people that caused the crime rate to increase. http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties The roaring twenties article on this website shows the different aspects during the roaring twenties such
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The most important cultural battle fought in the 1920’s would have been the battle over the Prohibition. The Prohibition was the constitutional ban on the production‚ consumption‚ and sale of alcohol. This ban was put into place in 1920 and lasted for 13 years. At the core of this battle was whether to keep it around or to do away with it all together. There were several different groups on either side of this opposition each of which had their own agenda and reason for believing the way they did
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SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my audience of the subculture of the mob. THESIS STATEMENT: I stand before you today to not only explain to you how the mob profits‚ but the men that knew how to work this system to its potential‚ and the impact of the mob today. The Mob INTRODUCTION I. “God seemed to be having a hard time killing him‚ and he’d be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals.” – Mario Puzo on Don Corleone in ‘The Godfather saga’. II. I stand before you today to
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