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In Oklahoma during the Great Depression, drought and dust storms-the Dust Bowl-have ruined farmers' crops and destroyed livelihoods already damaged by the failing economy. Tom Joad is a young man from a farming family who has just been paroled from prison, after serving four years on a homicide charge. As Tom returns home, he meets Jim Casy, an ex-preacher whom Tom knew as a child. Casy no longer preaches of virtue and sin, and instead holds the unity and equality of human spirit as his highest ideal. Together, Tom and Casy travel back to the Joad homestead, but discover that it has been abandoned. Muley Graves, a neighbor who has stayed behind, explains to the two men that the farming families have all been evicted by the landowners and the banks, who have repossessed their land and now use tractors to cultivate it. Muley tells the men that they can find Tom's family at the home of Uncle John, the brother of Tom's father, Pa Joad.

When Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John's, they find the Joads loading up a car in preparation to leave for California. Pa Joad reveals that the family saw fruit-picking jobs advertised on handbills, and they are heading west to take advantage of these opportunities. Once on the road, the Joads befriend a migrant couple, Ivy and Sairy Wilson, and shortly thereafter, the cantankerous Grampa Joad dies of a stroke. The Wilsons travel with the Joads until the California border, where Sairy becomes too ill to continue. Noah, Tom's older brother, abandons the family at this border, choosing instead to subsist on his own.

On their way to California, the Joads receive disheartening reports about a lack of jobs and hostility towards "Okies" in California. Once the family arrives in the state, these rumors prove to be true, and their hardships continue. Granma Joad dies during the family's passage through the Mojave desert. The family is forced to inhabit a Hooverville, a squalid tent city (named after President Herbert Hoover) where migrants live at the whim of unscrupulous contractors and corrupt deputies. At this camp, Connie Rivers-the husband of Tom's pregnant sister, Rose of Sharon-abandons the Joads. When Tom and a friend from the Hooverville try to negotiate better wages from a contractor, they get into a tussle with a deputy. Tom flees and Casy willingly takes the blame for the fight; the preacher is arrested and taken into custody.

The Joads leave the Hooverville and find refuge at a more comfortable, government-run camp. Instead of a police presence, the camp is governed by a committee elected by the migrants themselves. At this camp, the Joads find some comfort and friendship, but only Tom can find work. One day, Tom discovers that the greedy Farmers' Association, working in tandem with corrupt deputies, plans to start a riot at an upcoming dance. This will give the deputies a pretense to destroy the camp, which will weaken the laborers' bargaining power. However, Tom and some other men discreetly pre-empt this attack, and the camp is saved.

The Joads are unable to survive on the income they receive at the camp. They leave to find work elsewhere, and come across a peach-picking compound, where they are brought in to work while other migrants are on strike outside the gates. Tom discovers that Casy is the one responsible for organizing the strike. Just after Tom reunites with Casy, police find them, and one of the officers kills Casy with a pickaxe in front of Tom. In response, Tom kills the officer, and goes into hiding.

The Joads leave to pick cotton and live out of a boxcar, while Tom hides in the wilderness nearby. The family has enough money to eat fairly well, and Tom's younger brother Al has gotten engaged to the daughter of their housemates, the Wainwrights. Suddenly, torrential rains come, and the Joads are forced to stay in the boxcar (as opposed to go to a hospital or find a midwife) while Rose of Sharon gives birth. Rose of Sharon's baby is stillborn, and the family flees to a nearby barn to escape the floods. There, they find a boy and his starving father. Ma Joad realizes that Rose of Sharon is lactating, and she gets the rest of the family to leave while Rose of Sharon breastfeeds the starving man.

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The Four Freedoms

Isn't it amazing how a simple set of rules can expand into something so much more complex? Jewish law began with ten commandments and exploded into volumes of legal treatises. In a similar way, our modern notions of human rights can be traced back not to an encyclopedia of dictates, but to four simple precepts.

On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his State of the Union Address to Congress. At the end of the speech, he outlined what would become known as the Four Freedoms, the four basic elements of freedom that all humans in the world ought to have access to. It may not sound like much, but these freedoms set the basis for a whole new definition of human rights.

Historical Context

To understand FDR's Four Freedoms speech, we need a little historical context. In January of 1941, the world was at war but the United States was still formally non-committed. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the USA expressed its right to remain neutral and isolated from European conflicts. Then, the Nazis conquered France and the Japanese expanded into continental Asia. The United States remained neutral, but became more concerned.

By 1940, Germany was bombing London, and Americans wondered if they could really stay out of this war. President Roosevelt took the first major step towards breaking American neutrality by approving the Lend-Lease program, permitting the USA to send war supplies to England. For the most part, Americans supported England and wanted to show their support, but this action made many people nervous. If America began breaking its neutrality, would it get sucked into this war? FDR sensed the need to reassure the American people as to why greater American involvement was necessary. The 1941 State of the Union Address seemed like the best place to do that.

Content and Analysis

FDR's speech in January of 1941 was meant to convince the American people that the nation needed to increase support to Great Britain. FDR ended strict neutrality, but he wanted it clear as to the reasons why. The USA, which he presented as still unique and different from European empires, would not become involved in an international conflict for territorial gain or conquest. American involvement was based on the defense of freedom against absolute oppression in the form of fascism.

''In the future day, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms,'' Roosevelt said in his speech. He elaborated that these essential freedoms included:

''The freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world''

''The freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world''

''The freedom from want. . . economic understandings, which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world''

''The freedom from fear. . . a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point. . . that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in the world''

Those are Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. This was a big deal. FDR didn't just come out and say that Americans should have these freedoms. Americans already expected these freedoms. What FDR announced was that Americans had a moral and ideological responsibility to protect these freedoms. . . everywhere.

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Isn't it amazing how a simple set of rules can expand into something so much more complex? Jewish law began with ten commandments and exploded into volumes of legal treatises. In a similar way, our modern notions of human rights can be traced back not to an encyclopedia of dictates, but to four simple precepts.

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When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933, he enacted a range of experimental programs to combat the Great Depression.

The New Deal was a set of domestic policies enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that dramatically expanded the federal government's role in the economy in response to the Great Depression.

Historians commonly speak of a First New Deal (1933-1934), with the "alphabet soup" of relief, recovery, and reform agencies it created, and a Second New Deal (1935-1938) that offered further legislative reforms and created the groundwork for today's modern social welfare system.

It was the massive military expenditures of World War II, not the New Deal, that eventually pulled the United States out of the Great Depression.

Origins of the New Deal

The term New Deal derives from Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 speech accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president. At the convention Roosevelt declared, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." Though Roosevelt did not have concrete policy proposals in mind at the time, the phrase "New Deal" came to encompass his many programs designed to lift the United States out of the Great Depression.

The New Deal created a broad range of federal government programs that sought to offer economic relief to the suffering, regulate private industry, and grow the economy. The New Deal is often summed up by the "Three Rs":

Roosevelt's New Deal expanded the size and scope of the federal government considerably, and in doing so fundamentally reshaped American political culture around the principle that the government is responsible for the welfare of its citizens. As one historian has put it: "Before the 1930s, national political debate often revolved around the question of whether the federal government should intervene in the economy. After the New Deal, debate rested on how it should intervene."

The First New Deal (1933-1934)

At the time of Roosevelt's inauguration on March 4, 1933 the nation had been spiraling downward into the worst economic crisis in its history. Industrial output was only half of what it had been three years earlier, the stock market had recovered only slightly from its catastrophic losses, and unemployment stood at a staggering 25 percent.

The First New Deal began in a whirlwind of legislative action called " The First Hundred Days." From March through June 1933, at Roosevelt's behest, Congress passed legislation aimed at addressing the banking crisis, unemployment, and weak industrial performance, among other problems, through an "alphabet soup" of new laws and agencies. Among these, some of the most important were:

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which boosted agricultural prices by offering government subsidies to farmers to reduce output.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which employed young, single men at federally funded jobs on government lands.

The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), which gave federal grants to states that funded salaries for government workers as well as local soup kitchens and other direct-aid to the poor programs.

The National Recovery Act (NRA), which sought to boost businesses' profits and workers' wages by establishing industry-by-industry codes that set prices and wages, as well as guaranteeing workers the right to organize into unions.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which guaranteed individuals that money they deposited in a bank would be repaid to them by the federal government in the event that their bank went out of business.

In 1934, Roosevelt supported the passage of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which brought important federal government oversight and regulation to the stock market.

The Second New Deal (1935-1938)

The second phase of the New Deal focused on increasing worker protections and building long-lasting financial security for Americans. Four of the most notable pieces of legislation included:

The Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed millions of Americans in public works projects, from constructing bridges and roads to painting murals and writing plays.

The Wagner Labor Relations Act, which guaranteed workers the right to form unions and bargain collectively.

The Social Security Act, which required workers and employers to contribute-through a payroll tax-to the Social Security trust fund. That fund, in turn, makes monthly payments to retirees over the age of 65, as well as to the long-term disabled.

The Fair Labor Standards Act, which mandated a 40-hour work week (with time-and-a-half for overtime), set an hourly minimum wage, and restricted child labor.

The legacy of the New Deal

Roosevelt's New Deal sought to reinvigorate the economy by stimulating consumer demand. The New Deal embraced federal deficit spending to promote economic growth, a fiscal approach that came to be associated with the British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes argued that government spending that put money in consumers' hands would allow them to buy products made in the private sector. Then, as employers sold more and more products, they would have the money to hire more and more workers, who could afford to buy more and more products, and so on. In this way, Roosevelt and his supporters theorized, the Great Depression's downward economic spiral could be reversed.

The New Deal was only partially successful, however. The Supreme Court ruled against several New Deal initiatives in 1935, leading a frustrated Roosevelt to suggest expanding the Supreme Court to as many as fifteen Justices (a political misstep that would haunt him for the rest of his career). Despite the New Deal's lofty dreams, the United States only fully recovered from the Great Depression due to massive military spending brought on by the Second World War.

Nevertheless, key elements in the New Deal remain with us today, including federal regulation of wages, hours, child labor, and collective bargaining rights, as well as the social security system.

What do you think?

How was the New Deal's approach to the crisis of the Great Depression different from previous responses to economic slumps in American history?

Which do you think played a larger role in ending the Depression: the New Deal or World War II? Why?

What aspects of the New Deal, if any, do you see in American society today?

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The Great Gatsby at a Glance

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel of triumph and tragedy, noted for the remarkable way Fitzgerald captured a cross-section of American society.

Written by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Type of Work: novel

Genres: social commentary; American fiction; Jazz Age

First Published: 1925

Setting: 1920s in West Egg, Long Island

Main Characters: Nick Carraway; Jay Gatsby; Daisy Buchanan

Major Thematic Topics: decline of the 1920s; social issues; prohibition; displaced spirituality

Motifs: weather; geography; types of money

Major Symbols: eyes; Gatsby's parties

Movie Versions: The Great Gatsby (1974); The Great Gatsby (2000); The Great Gatsby (2013)

The three most important aspects of The Great Gatsby:

Nick Carraway is the narrator, or storyteller, of The Great Gatsby, but he is not the story's protagonist, or main character. Instead, Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of the novel that bears his name. Tom Buchanan is the book's antagonist, opposing Gatsby's attempts to get what he wants: Tom's wife Daisy.

From the gold hat mentioned in the novel's epigram to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, The Great Gatsby is filled with things that are gold and green: the colors of money.

There are two kinds of wealthin The Great Gatsby: the inherited wealth of Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and the newly acquired wealth of Gatsby. The first kind comes with social standing and protects the Buchanans from punishment, as Daisy literally gets away with murder. Gatsby's kind of wealth, though considerable, leaves its owner vulnerable.

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A new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, begins shooting in Australia in the coming weeks. As the US struggles with a sense of its own decline, is this story of thwarted ambition the perfect tale for modern America?

Eighty-six years after being published, The Great Gatsby is undergoing a revival.

Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan are preparing to fill the shoes - brogues and high heels, no doubt - of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, in a new adaptation directed by Baz Luhrmann. Filming is due to start in late August or early September, with a 2012 cinema release.

Key characters

Nick Carraway: Narrator, Gatsby's next-door neighbour in West Egg, bond salesman

Jay Gatsby: Mysterious millionaire obsessed with the girl he fell in love with during WWI

Daisy Buchanan: Shallow cousin of Nick

Tom Buchanan: Unfaithful husband

Jordan Baker: Pro golfer, friend of Daisy

Myrtle Wilson: Tom's ill-fated mistress

George Wilson: Mechanic husband of Myrtle

Gatsby-mania has been going on for months. A new spin-off novel that traces the fortunes of Daisy's daughter Pamela has not long arrived in bookshops. It follows the success of Gatz, a six-hour-long off-Broadway hit at the end of last year.

And there was a musical appreciation provided by the Madison Symphony Orchestra performing The Gatsby Suite in Wisconsin.

As the US's first small steps out of recession appear to falter, with 9% unemployment, the lowest rate of home ownership for decades, a downgrading of its credit rating and a growing Chinese challenge to US global supremacy, this tale of frustrated ambition, lost love and death seems to strike a chord.

Glittering with lyrical prose, F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel tells the story of 1920s high society in Long Island, the golden age of excess before the Depression.

Many guises of Gatsby

Film: Alan Ladd (1949), Robert Redford (1974) and Toby Stephens (2000, above with Mira Sorvino) among those to take the title role

Stage: Experimental play Gatz, New York (2010)

Opera: The Great Gatsby, New York (1999)

Novel: Daisy Buchanan's Daughter (2011)

Gaming: The Great Gatsby (2010)

Narrator Nick Carraway is caught up in the social whirl of parties, afternoon cocktails and fast cars. And in the midst is his neighbour, the mysterious Gatsby, whose efforts to recapture the heart of an old flame, Daisy, end in tragedy.

In one interview, Luhrmann said he wanted to hold up a mirror to his audience, but from another time because they would be more willing to accept it.

So what is the message that modern readers and filmgoers must digest?

"It does speak to contemporary America," says David Dowling, author of a students' guide, The Great Gatsby in the Classroom. "Especially that so-called American Dream, that stereotype that everyone can succeed if you try hard enough.

"That isn't always true and although Gatsby's heart is in the right place, the way he goes about achieving his dream brings about his downfall.

"Trying to buy that love shows the failed thinking of Gatsby and the shallowness of Daisy."

It's a dream of starting over and making things over a second time - who wouldn't want that?
Professor Lee Mitchell, Princeton University

It's interesting to consider the novel in light of the financial crash of recent years, says Mr Dowling, who teaches 16 to 18-year-olds the novel at a school in Portland, Maine.

Gatsby's mansion is the venue for riotous, all-night parties, filled with hedonists getting drunk on the host's money. Yet by the end of the story, the home is - like many foreclosed properties across the US today - empty and neglected.

After the boom comes the bust, says Mr Dowling, and the book asks how much we want money to play a role in our lives and what is really important to us.

"The novel asks that basic question. Hopefully reading it [today] can reshape the American Dream for this century."

It is telling that Nick closes the book by moving back to the Midwest, back to his roots, to a simpler life, says Mr Dowling. He turns his back on stockbroking and returns to his family, to the homespun values of yesteryear.

But Fitzgerald is eager to point out the allure of Gatsby's dream as well as its flaws, says Lee Mitchell, professor of English at Princeton University in New Jersey. For all its faults, he says, the novel still celebrates his impulse.

To me, it is the quintessential American novel because, like those other masterpieces Moby Dick and Huck Finn, it is about illusion and loss.

Gatsby changed his name, became a bootlegger, wore a uniform briefly during the war and decided to re-make himself.

We Americans always think that the world is our personal narrative and that by sheer force of will, we can bring it around to our way of thinking.

Gatsby tried and failed tragically. And this process happens constantly in America - sometimes it becomes visible, like now, that's all. It never stops.

The American Dream is just that - a dream from which the nation will never awake.

This is the meaning, to me, of the narrator who watches Daisy blithely go on her way even after Gatsby has been murdered.

In America, somebody's always got to be seen to 'win'. We invented the happy ending. It's essential to the dream.

"What's wonderful about the novel, about Nick's fiction, is his ability to see not only the limitations of Gatsby's dream but the possibilities of it.

"It's a dream of starting over and making things over a second time. Who wouldn't want that? We don't need the Murdochs telling British Parliament that that's what they want, to realise it's a universal one."

The novel is not really about the end of the American Dream but the opening up of it, says Keith Gandal, a professor at City University of New York.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
In World War I, the US had allowed "ethnic Americans" like Gatsby, who is of German parentage, to become Army officers and this enabled him to climb the social ladder, although he is never accepted.

This equality did not extend to black Americans, but it was a blip in history when the war opened up some opportunities beyond the Wasp elite, says Mr Gandal, before an institutional backlash.

"Gatsby's failure to enter the highest class in social terms and move into that class isn't about money but the Wasp elite pushing back in the 1920s against ethnic Americans."

Not only do they close ranks against outsiders like Gatsby but they destroy him and escape punishment for it, says Mr Gandal, which is a very modern theme.

"Tom and Daisy just skip off and that resonates more than anything else.

"There's a sense [today] that it's the super-rich on Wall Street who made this happen. I'm sure that resonates terrifically with middle-class Americans."

The debate about what the novel really means will continue for decades.

But there are times when society reaches out to that hot summer in New York's Jazz Age, looking for ways to understand the present.

As Fitzgerald's famous last line puts it:

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A new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, begins shooting in Australia in the coming weeks. As the US struggles with a sense of its own decline, is this story of thwarted ambition the perfect tale for modern America? Eighty-six years after being published, The Great Gatsby is undergoing a revival.

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1ST CHAPTER

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The Classics Revisited - The Great Gatsby - Speakuponline.it

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the MYSTERIOUS MAIN CHARACTER

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Classics - The Great Gatsby - Speakuponline.it

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Fitzgerald writer of the Jazz Age

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The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald writer of the Jazz Age

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Novel analsys: plot, characters, themes, symbols

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Novel analsys: plot, characters, themes, symbols

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Video SparkNotes: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby summary

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The Great Gatsby Official Trailer #2 (2012) - Leonardo DiCaprio Movie HD

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Google Presentation

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The USA in the first decades of the 20th century

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The USA in the first decades of the 20th century

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The USA in the early years of the 20th century

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AUDIO TRACK