The movie not only shows us the disobedience to the older generation but controversial dance moves and music that revolutionizes many of the entertainment industries. ... With the introduction of new inventions to improve modern life, the younger generation makes the 1920's a decade to remember. ... The changes in dance, race mixing, and appearances caused many conflicts with the older generation. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The part of the brain that is suppressed by the mundane tasks of modern society. ... The killing of a pig slowly begins to take over the boys life, and they begin to go about this in a ritualistic way, dancing around the dead animal and chanting. ... Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. ...

• Word Count: 1092
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another modernist quality in Owen's poem is his inclusion of the theme of technology, or rather his inference that Mankind seems unable to control modern machinery. ... Although Exposure' contains particularly modern elements, it would be remiss to deny the fact that the poem also has a Romantic flavor. ...

• Word Count: 2437
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. ... Although these protests against war seem typical in our modern society, Cummings" ideas were radical during the early 20th century. To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might seem extreme, and almost blasphemous to some, but his work in "plato told" cleverly uses traditional thought to mark him as a revolutionary thinker against traditional culture before most writers of modern time. ...

• Word Count: 4790
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School