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H102 Lecture 15: The Politics of Prosperity: The 1920s - 0 views

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      Some good critical thinking questions for students studying the 1920s/Great Gatsby
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Toby Stephens - "The Great Gatsby" (2000) - Part 3 - 0 views

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    Here are some of the same scenes as the link below, but from the 2000 film version. How do the two film versions compare? Toby Stephens - Jay Gatsby Mira Sorvino - Daisy Buchanan Paul Rudd - Nick Carraway Martin Donovan - Tom Buchanan Francie Swift - Jordan Baker Heather Goldenhersh - Myrtle Wilson The Great Gatsby (2000) Filming Locations: Montréal, Québec, Canada Director: Robert Markowitz
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"The Great Gatsby- Party at Gatsby's" - 0 views

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    A video clip of the first party Nick attends at Gatsby's mansion
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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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The Fillmore: A Jewish Neighborhood in the 1920s - FoundSF - 0 views

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    A look into a Jewish neighborhood in the 1920s
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The Great Gatsby's Relation to and Importance as a Work of Art - Student Pulse - 0 views

  • artist, Howard Chandler Christy, specialized in presenting a type of a beautiful girl, the dream of any soldier, which seems to float before Gatsby (as Daisy, of course), as he must have imagined her while he was in the war (Reed 28). “Christy’s girl” seems to dream, revealing nothing of her persona but her extraordinary beauty-and thus her seemingly shallowness becomes crowned by a mysterious aura
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      This is very interesting! I would like to see this paintings of "Christy's girl"....
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Digital History - 0 views

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

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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.
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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 - 0 views

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    From Several Divisions of the Library of Congress The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
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Prohibition: The Noble Experiment - 0 views

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    Because the temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, it insisted that school books never mention the contradictory fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes. 7 Temperance Leader Lucius Manlius Sargent tried to get secondarty schools, colleges and universities to eleminate all references to alcoholic beverages in ancient Greek and Latin texts.
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1925 - 0 views

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    1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 Former German chancellor Gustav Stresemann initiates a move toward rapprochement with a note written February 9 and makes arrangements to meet with French and British foreign ministers at the Swiss city of Locarno.
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American Writers: Progressive Era and Reaction Timeline - 0 views

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    Video Archives Portrait Gallery Classroom Cable Affiliates Home
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The Jazz Age - 0 views

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    The Great Gatsby takes place during the summer of 1922. Fitzgerald coined the phrase, "the Jazz Age" that same year to describe the flamboyant-"anything goes"-era that emerged in America after World War I. Find out more about the popular culture and historical events that shaped and defined the 1920s.
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60second Recap® - 0 views

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    Sound like a genius ... in 60 seconds.™
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The 1920's - 0 views

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    Since the 1920s was a time of celebration, there were many fads. People loved to dance, especially the Charleston, Fox-trot, and the shimmy. Dance marathons were something everyone went to every weekend. The longest dance record ever recorded was a record of 3 weeks of dancing. Another fad of the 1920's was the radio.
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Digital History - 0 views

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

  • “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.
  • “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.
  • The wealth and power must be put into evidence.”
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  • growth of a leisure class
  • subverted the foundations of the Protestant ethic, replacing the values of hard work and thrifty abstinence with a show of luxury and idleness
  • 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.
  • Automobiles also played an important role in the culture of the 1920s
  • “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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Baron Hats - The Gatsby Collection - 0 views

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  • THE CLASSIC “OLD SPORT”*
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      Haha! "Old sport" cap
  • Baron Hats recently created “Gatsby” style hats for the wonderfully talented “TGIF” actor/comic GEORGE LOPEZ. He wanted only the best, made of the finest cashmere
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      LOL! George Lopez wears Baron's Gatsby hats! How funny!
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File:The Drunkard's Progress - Color.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    1920s chart with pictures showing the progressive decline of a drunkard
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1920's Art - 0 views

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    1920's Art plus information on Artists and Illustrators
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