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- 81: Post World War I
- ... National Geographic, and the Literary Digest also became very big during the Twenties. Americans veered away from traditional song and dance and began exploring other types of music such as jazz. The cheerful, light, easy feeling accompanied with jazz music was just an extension of American feelings during the Twenties, joyous and free spirited. Additionally, Americans found many other ways to entertain themselves in the 1920’s. They flocked ... 1930’s, was a nightmarish end to a fairytale era of prosperity and happiness. Many Americans had the privilege to be part of this period, a period known as The Jazz Age.
- 82: Fifth Generation Computers
- ... for an extremely fast computer. Many new computer products that help the memory of a computer have recently hit the market. A few examples of these are Iomega Zip and Jazz drives. These drives can hold either 100 megabytes of 1 gigabyte. These devices are great for transferring information from one computer to another without taking your whole computer with you. Also, there is a new product called the Digital Wallet. This device can hold from 4 gigabytes to 8. This device is much like the zip and jazz drive due to its fast processor and portable capabilities. These products are becoming much more popular and may one day take over the whole hard drive market. Also, included in ...
- 83: Riley King
- ... He worked as a disc jockey at the Memphis radio station WDIA in 1949, where he picked up the stage name "The Beale Street Blues Boy," He was influenced by jazz guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as countless other blues musicians including T-Bone Walker. Among the many songs he eternalized, "The Thrill Is Gone" is perhaps his most enduring, he ... his stage name from Beale Street Blues Boy to "B.B.'' Over the past forty years, King has been called the master of blue using his many styles of gospel, jazz, and blues, which has influenced all blues and rock guitarists. At 66, King remains playing. He does about 300 concert dates annually, and released his first studio album including two ...
- 84: Billy Graham
- ... the Billy Graham's evangelical movement was welcomed into the fifties because the faith that it offered was a rebellion against the norm, not unlike the Beat movement or the jazz music that was springing up around the country. The beatniks, for example, were rebelling against social stereotypes and complacent normalcy. Jazz musicians were rebelling more or less against ordered form and melody in music in order to express emotion, quite often the emotion of pain or hurt. The faith that was ...
- 85: Kerouac
- ... Kerouac to evolve into the creative genius that he became. In San Francisco, California, and Greenwich Village, New York, America s culture was beginning to change during the 1950 s. Jazz, sex, and drugs were eminent throughout both of these cities. The bohemian culture, as well as, Eastern philosophy were also beginning to play a major role in people s lives ... Followers of the Beat movement were known as Beatniks. The Beatniks advocated personal release, purification, and illumination through the heightened sensory awareness that can be induced by sex, drugs, or jazz. Spontaneous prose became a way of life for the Beatniks. They began to live their lives by means of spontaneity. Whenever an idea would come to them they would act ...
- 86: Billy Graham
- ... the Billy Graham's evangelical movement was welcomed into the fifties because the faith that it offered was a rebellion against the norm, not unlike the Beat movement or the jazz music that was springing up around the country. The beatniks, for example, were rebelling against social stereotypes and complacent normalcy. Jazz musicians were rebelling more or less against ordered form and melody in music in order to express emotion, quite often the emotion of pain or hurt. The faith that was ...
- 87: The Great Gatsby - Tom Buchana
- ... diverse individuals which make themselves heard in the book. Tom Buchanan is the one character that the reader loves to hate. He represents the materialistic views in and around the Jazz era. The question at hand is to consider the character and role of Tom Buchanan in the story. How is the reader meant to respond to this character. To answer the question Tom must be broken down and investigated in an in-depth manner. The era the action takes place in is known as the Jazz era. It is well known as a very superficial time period. Tom is known as a very superficial character. Although Tom is well known as a wealthy man who seems ...
- 88: How Does Arthur Miller Expect
- ... Like getting him his beer, cigar etc). He s jealous, but doesn t show it. Rodolfo soon gets talking to Catherine about music, she s intrigued that Rodolfo can sing jazz, she s never known anyone who can sing jazz. Rodolfo stands and starts singing, as the song s words pour out of his mouth, the register with Eddie, even though they don t know each other very well yet ...
- 89: Foreshadowing Destiny(great Ga
- ... who never knew each other's names. . . The party has begun." The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masked the innate corruption within the heart of the Roaring Twenties. Jazz-Age society was a bankrupt world, devoid of morality, and plagued by a crisis of character. Jay Gatsby is a misfit in this world. He tries, ironically, to fit into ... was to Fitzgerald none other than New York. By magnifying the tragic fate of dreamers, conveying that twenties America lacked the substance to fulfill dreams and exposing the blindness in Jazz-Age Americans, Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, foreshadows the destruction of his own generation. Since America has always held its entrepreneurs in the highest regard, brandishing them with praise and ...
- 90: American Dream And Gatsby
- ... As a consequence, the society shows a decline in spiritual life of its inhabitants, and their lives become lacking in meaning and ideal. And this is often identified as the Jazz Age , during which the overwhelming atmosphere of careless gaiety and wild celebration is prevalent. This becomes almost evident when Gatsby throws an enormous number of lavish parties where its wild ... Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next 30 years?" (P.113). After all, this period is characterized by some kinds of new culture, for example the emergence of jazz music, the Charleston dance, movies and the automobile. Accompanying the degradation of spiritual life and purpose is the corruption of values. In order to bring their dreams closer to reality ...
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