The 1920’s and 1980’s are similar in many ways. Their similarities are social‚ economical‚ and political. Some of the similarities between the decades are Prohibition and the War on Drugs‚ the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and 1987‚ and the influence of music on society. Prohibition was passed as the 18th amendment‚ that importing‚ exporting‚ transporting‚ and manufacturing of alcohol was to be put to an end. Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead‚ it added to the problems that it intended
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"The struggle for women’s rights‚ and the task of creating a new United Nations‚ able to promote peace and the values which nurture and sustain it‚ are one and the same. Today more than ever the cause of women is the cause of all humanity." Secretary General Boutros BoutrosGhali Iraq continues to show discrimination against women’s rights and gender bias by creating a bill that would lower the age of marriage for girls from age thirteen to age nine.
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Background Information on 1920’s and 1930’s America 1. What was the Great War‚ how did it begin‚ and how long did it last? Which countries were involved? World War I‚ also known as the Great War‚ was fought between 1914 and 1918‚ and it set the stage for politics‚ culture‚ and economics in the twentieth century. Serbia and other Balkan states gained their independence in 1878 after nearly five hundred years of Ottoman rule. Nations from both alliances wanted to increase their influence over the
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gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day‚ the Offspring‚ etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast and from Great Britain (the Ramones‚ the Clash‚ etc.). The Sex Pistols’ "Liar" and Blink182’s "What’s My Age Again?" demonstrates how conditions — social‚ political‚ and physical — are reflected in the nature of the music produced by these punk bands. The Sex Pistols emerged in the late seventies as one of the first politically charged punk
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Understanding the Darkness “Cathedral” teaches a closed minded man that you don’t have to see things to understand them. The narrator is the man in the story that has this life changing experience that opened him up to a whole new world of understanding. This helps the reader to go inside the main characters mind and see his point of view. The overwhelming theme of this story is the conversion of the narrator from a man who sees the world in a basic way to a man who understands the deeper meaning
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101 Pan ’s Labyrinth Analysis The content of film may be thoroughly analyzed by exploring its ideas‚ symbols‚ and stories. It is very common to see mythological influences in film. The Spanish film Pan’s Labyrinth‚ directed Guillermo Del Toro‚ uses several themes and aspects of mythology to help enhance the movie. Guillermo Del Torro is a famous Mexican director known for movies such as Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil ’s Backbone)‚ Hellboy‚ and of course‚ El Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan ’s Labyrinth)
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contrapposto. If you examine the sculpture of David‚ you can see that the body is placing all of its weight onto the right leg‚ while the left leg stays relaxed. This causes the body’s hips and shoulders to rest at opposite angles‚ giving it a slight s-curve to the entire torso. The way the body is positioned gives it a natural and almost human stance. Thus‚ contrapposto was considered the perfect pose for the human figure and is continued to be widely employed in sculpture. If you examine David‚ you
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George Eliot Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880)‚ better known by her pen name George Eliot‚ was an English novelist‚ journalist and translator‚ and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels‚ including Adam Bede (1859)‚ The Mill on the Floss (1860)‚ Silas Marne (1861)‚ Middle march (1871–72)‚ and Daniel Dander (1876)‚ most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight
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What is T. S. Eliot’s View on Historical Sense in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."? Eliot writes about "historical sense" in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." He writes that the historical sense "involves a perception‚ not only of the pastness of the past‚ but of its presence" and it is "a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and the temporal together‚ is what makes a writer traditional." In this essay‚ Eliot does not describe "traditional" as old-fashioned
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Imagery with Symbolism The story The Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a story of transformation of a human character’s life from depression and carelessness to belief and diversity. A cathedral is a symbol of faith‚ conversion‚ creativity and strength and is therefore a substantial component of Carver’s story. The process of drawing it becomes the climax of the story when the author uses intense imagery to describe the workings of the drawing that the husband is creating. Imagery and symbolism are greatly
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