The Roaring 20s refers to the "golden" decade of growth between 1920 - 1930 in post-war America. ... Culturally, the 20s brought forth many changes- progression which contributed to the "golden age" of the 1920s... A booming market, expanding production, rising national income, and a higher standard of living brought forth a golden age of American culture. ...
The Golden Rule painted in 1961 sums up all of Norman Rockwell's paintings with an encouraging subject matter into one. Illustrating a mixture of people off all different ages, races, religions, and cultures Rockwell paints a picture of an ideal setting while making a point by writing the actual Golden Rule on the center of the picture. ... Norman Rockwell died at the age of 84 due to failed health. ...
In this "golden age" of the family, happily married men and women lived in suburban homes raising families. ... People married at a younger age as prosperity and government aid allowed them to establish themselves more easily. ... The atomic age fostered in a real fear of the outside world. ... With the Cold War and atomic age in full force, the family provided stability in unstable world. ...
By 1935, Roosevelt's programs were provoking strong opposition. Many conservatives regarded his programs as infringements on the rights of the individual, while a growing number of critics argued that they did not go far enough. Two figures stepped forward to challenge Roosevelt: Huey Long, a Loui...
Among the reforms initiated by the Fundamental Code of Education was a mandate that required every boy and girl to attend school for at least four years, starting at age four.7 Perhaps even more important than compulsory education was the de-emphasis on Confucian morality in favor of more "Western" subjects such as practical sciences and the "development of the individual.... Buddhist monks ran most other schools in their monasteries, called wats. 14During the 1960s, Cambodia enjoyed a brief golden age of prosperity. ... During the Khmer Rouge's spectacularly brutal reign, ...
1. Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. The most famous line ever uttered by President Ronald Reagan was "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General...
It was the style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s that became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 which was marked by Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), described as the "last" film of the classic film noir era. ...
The Korean peninsula was first established around the fourth century when the Chinese colonies were replaced by three kingdoms. These three kingdoms were very competitive and maintained very close ties to China hoping to gain an advantage over each other. The three kingdoms unified at around 660 a...
The "white waves" and the "desert" look tempting, to swim and cool down in or to walk along golden sands and warmth, but they are actually perilous. ... Ideally no one should be superior or inferior in any way; whether it is in age, job status or appearance. ...
Since the 1920's, the film industry has been constantly progressing through uses of different shots, lighting, and cameras. Through America's past time, we are able to understand how certain events through decades have influenced the way film is made. From the roaring twenties, through the great depression to World Wars, film has always attempted to embody the mood and feelings that the entire country was facing at the time. After World War II however, "Hollywood between 1950 and 1969 can be understood as a response to anticommunist hysteria and the blacklist on the one hand and to...
The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...
Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...
