The Great Depression wore raw the nerves of the people, and our true strength was shown. ... The Great Depression had an immense impact on American life. ... His life is a mixture of accomplishment and defeat, and has thereby been dubbed the "greatest successful failure" of American literature. ... Steinbeck eventually won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, although many question whether he truly deserved it or not. ... It was an era of true American spirit, as Jim Casy said, "Maybe all men got one big soul ever"body's a part of," which tells of the Great Depression, people coming to...

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In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. ... After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. ... First the massive stock market crash during 1920, which then lead to the second major event, The Great Depression. ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ...

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Each era in America has brought on change and challenged the traditional way of doing things. ... The extreme example of these types of laws when congress passed the Compstock Act, which prohibited the mailing of obscene literature, this law was used to prevent the distribution of birth control information and contraceptives through the mail. ... During this time a different type of women emerged, the flapper, these women threw out the old ways of the Victorian era. ... During the Great Depression, the United States went in to a period of isolationism. ... To conclude, theses eras have brough...

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Hughes' and Robinson's works qualify as poetry because their writings are an emotion found in all cultures and eras that found words to express themselves and, according to Robert Frost, therefore qualify as poetry. ... Poetry is an advanced form of literature that allows the reader not only to see the experience but also to become involved in that experience through the emotions and words used. ... These works qualify to be poems because they express, in words, this universal emotion of depression that allows the reader to, "experience the experience....

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It is the Great Depression when only the necessities were valuable leaving Elisa's talent worthless. ... The entrapment continues in "To Set Our House in Order" when Grandmother MacLeod is trapped by the Great Depression. ... As you read these two stories be grateful that your mother, grandmother, sister, or daughter do not live in an era like the Great Depression....

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Her parents were two of the most noted freethinkers of the Enlightenment era. ... Mary fell into a deep depression that was barely relieved with the birth of her only surviving child, Percy Florence in 1819. ... They studied classical and European literature, Greek, Latin, Italian, music, art, and ambitious writing. ... After Percy's death, Mary's life was full of hardship and depression as she struggled to take care of herself and her child. ...

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Thomas is a poet known greatly for his indulgence in his love for poetry and literature. ... Dylan's interest in poetry and literature was sparked at an early age, and by high school Dylan was editing for his school newspaper. ... Thomas began to spend much of his time exploring the streets, pubs, and alleys of the depression-ridden seaport town in which he lived. ... Even though other authors of the Romantic era played with ideas of this sort, Thomas proposed them in such a way that he was much more highly regarded for his criticism because it was made more appealing to his readers. ...

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Everyone was in depression because of the war, but this was used to cheer people up. ... The term "African American Literature" is understood by most as Sub-Saharan (East and West) Africa. The primary source of language for this literature is European not Africa, which is also known as radical anomaly. African participants in colonial administrations in Africa began producing written works of literature in European languages. ... This was a big era, in which African Americans celebrated their culture and enjoyed the unique experience of being looked up at. ...

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Shelley received astounding education in science, literature, and philosophy from her father (Discovering Authors 3). ... After the death of her children, Shelley fell into a depression, and mourned them for over a year because they never lived to adulthood. ... All of the deaths in the novel shatter Victor, and leave him in a period of depression and sadness. Other than her family member's deaths, Shelley also considered the new change in her era, comprising of new thoughts in science and technology. ... The concentration of emotion, adventure, and imagination during the Romantic Era l...

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The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was the beginning of a new era of English literature. ... The frown symbolizes Romeo's depression after Rosaline's rejection, and the smile that replaces it when Romeo meets Juliet. ... As the symbol as simple as nature could be analyzed and discovered as it holds the deepest meaning in literature....

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This era is especially interesting because women were still treated as second-class citizens. ... Her husband, "a physician of high standing " (Gilman 55), has diagnosed her as having a "temporary nervous depression " a slight hysterical tendency " (Gilman 55). ...

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In addition to the Homestead Act, there was the realization on the part of informed people that the era of well-watered, free land was drawing to a close. A warning had been given in 1880 by the Director of the Census that the era of free land was closing (Horn 130). ...

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Born during the Romanic Era in literature, Poe managed shock readers of his time and the modern readers, with terrifying, gruesome plots. ... Poe eventually left for Richmond, Virginia where he suffered from bouts of depression and madness. ... "He is important in the history of American literature and culture because he developed short fiction and was influential in making American literature more philosophical. ...

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Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in society. ... Many women characters throughout American literature reflect the same conflicts and attitudes of Nora in Ibsen's play A Doll House. ... Although the women during this era showed no social domination, their attitudes of acceptance promoted this stereotyping of social roles based on gender. ... Her husband has diagnosed her with a nervous condition, and although she does not agree with him she feels that "If a physician of high standing...assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matte...

• Word Count: 1949
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Begg's (1975) research found the following about PTSD during Vietnam era: The diagnosis was not called PTSD during this era it was called Post Vietnam Syndrome. This syndrome usually consisted of combat related nightmares, anxiety, anger, depression, alcohol and/or drug dependence, and poor responsiveness. ... The symptoms could have possibly mirrored those closely of other psychological illness such as depression or anxiety. ...

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He received the National Medal for Literature in 1967. ... Following the passing of Black Monday and at the onset of The Great Depression, many Americans held negative opinions of their government and the many positive aspects that once drew citizens to the United States were becoming increasingly negative. The Great Depression fundamentally changed the relationship between the government and its people. ... Yet after reading between the lines of the written words of the poem, one can grasp a better understanding the thoughts and feelings of the author concerning the political issues of the er...

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The burning of literature at a high a temperature shows how the government is trying to rid the people of having a mind of their own. ... Mildred is a person that is caught up in the televison era, and doesn't realize she is only being censored from real life by watching the "tube-. ... Many problems occur from these things: violence, depression and even suicide. ... The main thing used to show demolition of property is the burning of literature. ...

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"Though Thoreau was born in "the era of good feeling," his family experienced many misfortunes, politically, physically, and financially (Harding 4)." ... The country was in the midst of a deep depression; with a high unemployment rate, Thoreau was fortunate enough to be hired immediately by the Concord School committee to teach in the same one room school he had attended as a child (Concise 350). ... "A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers was one of Henry's most transcendental pieces of literature (Schneider 28)," and most of the reviews were favorable. "Holdem's Dollar Magazi...

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At the height of that era his name was a by word for rugged individualism and romantic adventure, and his private life seemed to be in every major newspaper in the country. ... Jack then began to be interested in the plight of the underprivileged and working classes, and so he joined a group of militant workers, who were going to Washington to protest the wretched working conditions in the country, caused by the Depression of 1894. ...

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This ideal, known at The Cult of True Womanhood, was presented to women of the nineteenth century by women's magazines, annuals, and religious literature (Welter 151). ... This was the era, in which Kate Chopin lived, and wrote The Awakening. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...

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