This was achieved by adding the styling features once only available to the very wealthy, by creating them as carbon copies and thus making the styling available at a reasonable price to the mass middle class. ... At long last, the hallowed promise of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage " was on the verge of actuality for much of the middle class. ...

• Word Count: 7127
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the high amounts of production did not mean farmers would become wealthy. ... Money was distributed between the rich and the middle-class, between industry and agriculture within the United States, and between the U.S. and Europe. ... The excessive speculation in the late 1920's kept the stock market artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. ... The large and growing disparity of wealth between the rich and the middle-income citizens made the U.S. economy unstable. ... Mussolini's political views as a young a young gentlemen were almost completely oppo...

• Word Count: 2710
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42

Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

After his birth in 1894, Cummings grew up as an intellectual and at age seventeen attended Harvard, where his father was a professor. At a young age, Cummings graduated with his masters and traveled the world, and began to observe the world in a way that would later profoundly impact his writing. ... Most importantly, the poem foreshadows his later poems, which put love on a pedestal, high above the power of conflict, or anything else on earth. ...

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

Hitler shot his pistol in the middle of Kahr's speech and shouted, "The national revolution has begun." ... Hitler was sentenced for high treason for 5 years. ... This would make him familiar to racism at an early age. ...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School