After the Great War ended‚ the 1920s became a roar of changes. Everything from mass consumption to flappers to immigration. The Ku Klux Klan‚ or KKK‚ reached its height in the 1920s‚ with a strong 5 million members. These members believed in a white Anglo-Saxon protestant community‚ a form of “pure americanism” (Kennedy 730). On the other side of things‚ the Harlem Renaissance was outpouring African-American art and culture‚ forming a sense of pride among the African-American community (Kennedy 750)
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For this week’s assignment‚ I chose Marcos Souza’s review (Unit 3) of “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd” by Ana Menendez. I really liked his take on the story. It is detailed‚ and like him‚ I can also identify with the story. Marcos’ summary is spot-on because like he said “many things are similar to what I experience living in a foreign country” (Marcos Souza‚ 2016‚ para 5)”. When you first immigrate to a foreign country‚ the culture shock is the first adjustment to go through and like the characters
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and the recent sweater craze has started a new trend at holiday parties. The characters in the movie wear ugly sweaters on Christmas Eve‚ and they have a plan to make their Christmas Eve a memorable night. A Bit of Nostalgia The ugly sweater trend comes with a bit of nostalgia. Christmas sweaters were popular gifts in the 1980’s. Once again‚ retail stores the racks in the retail stores are packed with reindeer elf sweaters. Many people are tapping into their creativity and making their own ugly
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The sixth passage in “On Going Home” by Joan Didion‚ gave me feeling of nostalgia. I could feel the longing and sincerity of the author’s love and want for her child. I could feel how the mother wants nothing but the best for her child but is unsure if she can offer the best due to how it is “different now”. In the passage Joan writes‚ “...would like to pledge her a picnic on a river with fried chicken and her hair uncombed…” (4) The fact that Didion is imagining things that she later understands
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windows. I could hear the crickets and their very soothing sounds to my ears‚ leaving me to reflect in utter peace. Sometimes‚ i go here every evening to have a moment to myself‚ taking pleasure in the serenity and hushed noises down the street. Nostalgia comes across my thoughts as I wonder of what it would have been like with Scout and Jem’s mother around. If only the children and I‚ especially Scout so that she could get a clear picture of her could see her one last time. As I paint her in my head
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Scopes Monkey Trial Toriano Mcafee His/125 Rona Stuart Scopes Monkey Trial Is teaching evolution to children a negative thing? In 1925‚ there was a trial that took place that has been questioned whether or not the trial was real or staged made to look real. The name of the famous American case is The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes‚ which had become commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. A high school teacher‚ known as John Scopes
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Dyke Hard is a celebratory pastiche of multiple B-movies and genre films‚ exploiting their tropes and clichés in a wild LGBT party of a film. Inspired in part by the work of John Waters‚ it gives a nod to a dynamic and creative underground of the pre-digital past – a time when political incorrectness and trash rhymed with transgression and carried real meaning and clout. Though "trash as trash can" is the film’s credo‚ these concepts have lost most of their impact today; their milder forms have been
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tanks over the very people that the terrorists fight to liberate from oppression‚ further fueling the fire of hatred that burns for us and what we stand for. Whether the U.S. is seen as a liberator‚ freeing the people from oppressive Fundamentalists‚ or the Fundamentalists are seen as Freedom Fighters liberating the people from an occupying force‚ the reason for the conflict is irrelevant. This article is meant only to bring about discussion as to how to end it. The fact is that we are currently fighting
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four young girls who I believe were faking it to gain attention or political gain for their parents. Puritans‚ called fundamentalists‚ followed the Bible to the T and anything outside of the Bible was considered unheard of. This is where I believe the witch accusations started. They disliked anyone who didn’t act the way the fundamentalists considered normal or they didn’t go to church were accused of being a witch. In addition‚ church attendance was down dramatically and so the
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people. A new way of thinking called Modernism emerged in which people took a slightly more critical look at the Bible. It was these people who claimed to believe in the theory of evolution as opposed to the seven-day Creation story of Genesis. Fundamentalists‚ on the other hand‚ denounced this as blasphemy. These traditionalists took the word of the Bible as exact and literal. Nowhere was the conflict between these two parties more highlighted than in the Scopes Trial in Tennessee. John Scopes‚
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