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Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook By the end of the 1920s, Americans were overwhelmed by the rise of a modern consumer culture. In response, many of the bitter cultural tensions that had divided Americans had begun to subside.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook By the end of the 1920s, Americans were overwhelmed by the rise of a modern consumer culture. In response, many of the bitter cultural tensions that had divided Americans had begun to subside.</div>

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The Great Gatsby and the American debt crisis - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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1920s great gatsby KKK Tom Buchanan

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Contributing to the Klan's growth was a post-war depression in agriculture, the migration of African Americans into Northern cities, and a swelling of religious bigotry and nativism in the years after World War I. Klan members considered themselves defenders of Prohibition, traditional morality, and true Americanism.
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  Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, seems to have a KKK mentality when it comes to "white power" and "true Americanism"
  
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Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook Many of the defining features of modern American culture emerged during the 1920s. The record chart, the book club, the radio, the talking picture, and spectator sports--all became popular forms of mass entertainment.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Back to Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook Many of the defining features of modern American culture emerged during the 1920s. The record chart, the book club, the radio, the talking picture, and spectator sports--all became popular forms of mass entertainment.</div>

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The Demise of the 1920s American Dream in The Great Gatsby - InfoRefuge.com - 0 views

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“Not only did he flourish in the fast-paced, modern urban milieu of skyscrapers, taxicabs, and pleasure-seeking crowds, but he proclaimed himself an expert on the latest crazes in fashion, contemporary lingo, and popular pastimes.”
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  This is a very accurate description of Jay Gatsby.
  
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“conspicuous consumption” which so accurately describes much of what was occurring in The Great Gatsby was trying to convey that the people who had not been raised with money and came into riches and wealth on their on attempted to demand respect and esteem by showing it off through purchases.
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The wealth and power must be put into evidence.”
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growth of a leisure class
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subverted the foundations of the Protestant ethic, replacing the values of hard work and thrifty abstinence with a show of luxury and idleness
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Although he loves her, he undeniably also sees her as a material commodity, much the way he views his home.
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  Do you think this is true? Does Gatsby see Daisy as a trophy or prize to attain and show off? I think this is certainly possible.
  
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Automobiles also played an important role in the culture of the 1920s
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“The cultural obsession with commodities allows an ordinary automobile to transcend its functional purpose to become and embodiment of dreams.” (O’Meara)
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"The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Arts & Literature - 1 views

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  New dances, such as the Charleston, came about in the 1920s.
  
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Erin G on 22 Jul 11

The Roaring Twenties was alternatively known as The Jazz Age. This "movement" in which jazz music grew in popularity by immense standards in the U.S., also influenced other parts of the world. Following World War I, around 500,000 African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Roaring Twenties was alternatively known as The Jazz Age. This "movement" in which jazz music grew in popularity by immense standards in the U.S., also influenced other parts of the world. Following World War I, around 500,000 African Americans in search of better employment opportunities moved to the northern part of the United States.</div>

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Approximately 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Approximately 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper.</div>

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Dumbing Down 'Gatsby' - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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But book blogger Jessica Crispin thinks Ebert is overreacting. She argues that students shouldn't necessarily be deprived of a "universal" storyline just because the prose is over their heads. Besides, she says, this sort of thing has been going on for decades, with little known harm done to aspiring readers. She recalls reading young readers' adaptations of Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities when she was a kid
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  I can see both sides here: I think that great American novels are works of art that should not be "dumbed down" or modified just so that people intimated by the difficult prose can know the story. However, I think for children reading abridged or modified versions of classics get introduced to the themes and stories in a friendly way. As Cripsin later says, this never discouraged her from reading the "real" version later when she was ready.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I can see both sides here: I think that great American novels are works of art that should not be "dumbed down" or modified just so that people intimated by the difficult prose can know the story. However, I think for children reading abridged or modified versions of classics get introduced to the themes and stories in a friendly way. As Cripsin later says, this never discouraged her from reading the "real" version later when she was ready.</div>
  
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young adult novel
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  I like this idea of using a YA novel as a bridge to the canon!
  
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"To Live in the 1920s" - 0 views

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1920s video style automobiles cars dances hair

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YouTube video showing dress, dance, cars, etc. of the American 1920s

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American Masters F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams Part 1 - 0 views

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Another documentary on the life of this author

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great American Dreamer part 1 - 0 views

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A documentary on the life of the author

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The Great Gatsby and the American debt crisis - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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The Demise of the 1920s American Dream in The Great Gatsby - InfoRefuge.com - 0 views

"The Roaring Twenties" - "The 1920's" - Arts & Literature - 1 views

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News:1902-1933, Chicago Historical Society (American... - 0 views

American Writers: Progressive Era and Reaction Timeline - 0 views

Dumbing Down &apos;Gatsby&apos; - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

"To Live in the 1920s" - 0 views

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