The majority of the America at the time was sad, and it seemed easy for many to just give up. ... In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. ... After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. ... There was racism and hatred toward African American people. and towards the Native American population. ... For a national book award for fiction, to a Nobel prize in literature (Tuttleton). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... There is also the fact t...

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All in all, Sam was very proud of his American citizenship, discussed politics incessantly and was an avowed New Deal Democratic. ... He left his native Russia in 1904 at the outbreak of Russian Japanese War, not having any desire to fight for a nation that kept its Jewish subjects in a state of second class citizenship. ... Public school opened up the children to new worlds of American and English culture, language, literature and history. ... The sixties were turbulent with great changes and fears for the future of America as we knew it. Civil Rights, riots, Vietnam and the subsequent protes...

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate