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Direction Note: 1607—Early settlement at Jamestown 

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Direction Note: 1607—Early settlement at Jamestown 

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Direction Note: 1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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Direction Note: 1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

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The Native Americans lived in America for at least 15,000 years.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/when-and-how-did-the-first-americans-arrive--its-complicated-

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They have been called "Indians" until recently likely because Columbus thought the America was India.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tribal-Nomenclature-American-Indian-Native-American-and-First-Nation-1386025

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Period Characteristics

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Period Characteristics

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1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.
2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.
3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.
4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.
5. Used a plain style of writing.

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Direction Note: 1692: Salem Witch Trials

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Direction Note: 1692: Salem Witch Trials

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During 1500 and 1660, around 80,000 people were accused of being witches and put to death in Europe alone.

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches

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Germany is known to have executed with trials the most in the world. Catholic princes/bishops in the south-west Germany are known to have executed many.

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches

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Direction Note: 1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 

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Direction Note: 1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800 Famous Authors and Works: 

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800 Famous Authors and Works: 

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William Bradford-"Of Plymouth Plantation", Anne Bradstreet (poetry), John Edwards-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", Edward Taylor-"Huswifery"

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #1

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #1

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The ship that puritans rode is the famous Mayflower.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mayflower-ship

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #2

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 1600-1800: Fact #2

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It was the Puritans that founded Harvard in 1636. They believed in the importance of education.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/harvard-alma-mater-contest.html

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" : Period Characteristics

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment" : Period Characteristics

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment": Authors and Works

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason" "The Enlightenment": Authors and Works

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Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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John Locke is a famous philosopher and political theorist that represents the age of Enlightenment.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is also a famous political philosopher at the time. He is known for his idea about direct democracy.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/

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The French Revolution and American revolution are the practical implications of some of the ideas that were developed during the Enlightenment.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-age-of-enlightenment/

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Descartes approach to logic is foundational to current Algebra and Geometry as well.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-method/

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Period Name and Date: Period Characteristics

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Period Name and Date: Period Characteristics

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1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

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Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance": Authors and Works

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Transcendentalism "The American Renaissance": Authors and Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

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They believed that people are pure by nature but that society corrupted the people.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Transcendentalism-American-movement

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They focused on the independence very much. This concept of independence affected many Americans.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Transcendentalism-American-movement

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements

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President Zelensky took a stand by resisting Russia. He could have escaped the country, but he decided to stay in the country and fight as a president.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/europe/ukraine-zelensky-evacuation-intl/index.html

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After the news of the death of George Floyd, many people went out and protested for the rights of black people.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Lives-Matter

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Direction Note: 1507: California Gold Rush(1848–1855)

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Direction Note: 1507: California Gold Rush(1848–1855)

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

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Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

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Romanticism, Industrialization - Charlotte Bronte: Fact #1

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Romanticism, Industrialization - Charlotte Bronte: Fact #1

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Charlotte Bronte is one of the most famous authors that represents Romanticism. In her famous work, Jane Eyre, she used elements of romanticism very effectively along with other elements like the gothic literature.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte

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Industrialization started in the Great Britain. Due to this, more people moved into cities and created opportunity for a new class. It caused lots of new problems such as child labor as well.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/12-Facts-on-the-Industrial-Revolution

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He added w in his last name because he was ashamed of his ancestor that sentenced a Quaker woman to public whipping.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne

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He hung out with people who had philosophy of Transcendentalism, many intellectuals and artists, but he wasn't inspired that much from them. For example, one of his friends was Franklin Pierce who later to became the president of the United States.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Hawthorne

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He has French, Dutch, Spanish, English, and Jewish ancestry.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

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He had many jobs: medical doctor, poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

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His one of the most famous works is Imagination.

https://poets.org/poet/william-carlos-williams

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Her father was a Senator in US. She was rather wealthy.

https://www.emilydickinson.net/emily-dickinson-facts.jsp

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Only ten of her poems were published during her lifetime.

https://www.emilydickinson.net/emily-dickinson-facts.jsp

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Her family were Calvinists and rather conservative.

https://www.emilydickinson.net/emily-dickinson-facts.jsp

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His real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel.

https://indoorplaysandiego.com/blog/5-little-known-facts-about-dr-seuss/

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He wrote a lot of children's books, but he never had kids himself.
https://indoorplaysandiego.com/blog/5-little-known-facts-about-dr-seuss/

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He was not a doctor.

https://indoorplaysandiego.com/blog/5-little-known-facts-about-dr-seuss/

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Civil War
1861-1865

Reconstruction Era
1865-1877

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1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

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Unlike some other artistic movements,  sculpture or architecture movements didn't happen as much.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/realism.php

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Realism started in France as many other reforms took place there.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/realism.php

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Mark Twain dropped out of school and he loved to self-educate.

He worked as a miner, too.

His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was his penname.

https://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/twain/aa_twain_name_1.html
https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/united-states/top-10-facts-about-mark-twain/

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Alice Walker's one eye is blinded.

The Color Purple is her most famous work.

She is a feminist, and she writes about women often.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Walker
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/635875/alice-walker-facts

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Direction Note: The Great Depression 1929-1939	

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Direction Note: The Great Depression 1929-1939	

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

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Modernist artists question and rejects many of the "old" values or traditions.

https://www.thecollector.com/modernism-definition/

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Le Corbusier is a modern architect that first implemented concrete on a new level.

https://www.webuildvalue.com/en/reportage/reinforced-concrete-lecorbusier.html#:~:text=In%20the%201920s%2C%20Le%20Corbusier,a%20UNESCO%20World%20Heritage%20Site

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Le Corbusier explained his theory for a new model of construction in his art and architecture magazine "L'Esprit Nouveau" in the early 1920s. The magazine, co-founded by the architect with the painter Amédée Ozefant and the poet Paul Dermée, published an essay collection titled "Towards a new architecture." In the text, Le Corbusier explains his vision for the future of architecture, with the house as a "machine", and new materials-reinforced concrete among them-serving as functional tools for both domestic and infrastructural needs.

Le Corbusier's idea was to use cement to meet urban development needs of large cities. In " Ville Contemporaine," a never-fully-realized planned utopia that would house three million residents, the architect imagined how the construction of large reinforced concrete buildings could meet the housing needs of a considerably growing population.

Perhaps the best known example of this theory in action is the " Unité d'Habitation ", the large concrete building the architect designed to respond to the lack of housing in Marseille after the end of World War II. The building faced harsh criticism at the time for its massive structure and concrete cube shape, yet history proved Le Corbusier right. The building officially became a historical monument in 1995 and an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016.

More generally, the idea of a new architectural style revolving around reinforced concrete was a product of that particular moment in history. The initial decades of the 20th century brought about an industrial boom, the birth of a working class and urban development linked to new production systems. Indeed, it was after the advent of the industrial revolution that Le Corbusier understood the ways this new material could be used strategically. It would become essential as a rapid and effective response to people's needs.

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Reinforced concrete in the architecture of Le Corbusier - We Build Value

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Le Corbusier explained his theory for a new model of construction in his art and architecture magazine "L'Esprit Nouveau" in the early 1920s. The magazine, co-founded by the architect with the painter Amédée Ozefant and the poet Paul Dermée, published an essay collection titled "Towards a new architecture."

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Famous novels that represent American Dream include the Great Gatsby, the Invisible Man, Revolutionary Road, etc.

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/9-novels-about-the-american-dream/

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The American Dream is based on the American spirits such as democracy, equality, rights, opportunity, and liberty.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/american-dream-history-examples.html#:~:text=It%20is%20heavily%20rooted%20in,rights%2C%20opportunity%2C%20and%20liberty.

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The New Deal began on 1933, and it gave hope for many Americans.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1930-timeline.php

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Although the ww2 was a dim period, it gave a lot of opportunities for Americans in one sense as they benefitted from selling weapons to countries in the war.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1930-timeline.php

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A war hero, Eisenhower got elected as a president in 1950s.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1950-timeline.php

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The DNA's double helix structure was discovered in 1950s.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1950-timeline.php

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Fact #1

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Fact #1

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It was very unique among for artistic movements as it was accompanied by civil rights movements at the same time.

https://www.britannica.com/summary/Harlem-Renaissance-Key-Facts

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Fact #2

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Harlem Renaissance "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Fact #2

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The impact that WW1 had on these periods was enormous.

https://www.britannica.com/summary/Harlem-Renaissance-Key-Facts

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Direction Note: "The New Negro Movement" 1919-1925	

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Direction Note: "The New Negro Movement" 1919-1925	

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Harlem Renaissance" The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Period Characteristics

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Harlem Renaissance" The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Period Characteristics

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1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

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Harlem Renaissance" The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Authors and Works

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Harlem Renaissance" The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Authors and Works

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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

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Kennedy was murdered during this time period.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1960-timeline.php

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Apollo 11 landed on moon. It was the first time that man stepped a foot on the moon.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1960-timeline.php

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"The computer" was chosen as the man of the year in Times magazine. Companies like Microsoft opened a new market around this time period.

https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980s.html

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The Berlin Wall was torn down at 1989. It was a sign of the the possible end of the Cold War.

https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980s.html

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The USSR broke up in the 1990s. It was a clear stoppage and a sense of victory in the Cold War especially for Americans.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1990-timeline.php

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Hong Kong got returned to China. China has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world, leading to a potential new rival for America.

https://www.sechistorical.org/museum/timeline/1990-timeline.php

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1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present: Authors and Works

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present: Authors and Works

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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present	: Fact #1

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present	: Fact #1

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Postmodernist art is very different from arts from other time periods such as realism. It has a goal of describing something that a camera can't describe and includes the elements of Criticism, skepticism, and irony.

https://www.thecollector.com/postmodern-art/

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Postmodernism replaced modernism and lead the way to contemporary art . Postmodern art came up in the middle of the 20th century and lasted until the end of the same century. As with every period in art history, it is not easy to give a very clear definition of postmodernism. However, some attributes characterize this phase in art.

Two authors have been instrumental in establishing the term 'postmodernism'. One was Charles Jencks with his essay The Rise of Postmodern Architecture (1975). And secondly Jean-Fraçois Lyotard with his text La Condition Postmodernism (1979). Even if these writings have coined the term postmodernism, it must be emphasized again at this point that postmodern art cannot be limited to a single style or theory. Rather, many art forms are considered postmodern. These include , Conceptual Art , Neo-Expressionism , or the art of the Young British Artists around 1990. Feminist Art,

Postmodernism: Criticism, Skepticism, Irony

Jean-François Lyotard and other theorists defined the following characteristics for postmodernism: First of all, the art movement is considered to be a movement that rejected 's unshakable belief in progress, which was brought into disrepute by the totalitarian politics in the 20th century. The second important characteristic is the doubt about the existence of an objectively comprehensible reality. Therefore, a key concept of postmodernism is called "plurality." According to postmodern ideas, all knowledge and all perception are subject to relativity. This was expressed in art through criticism, skepticism and irony. For many artists, the writings of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan built an important philosophical foundation.

This is now followed by 8 works of postmodern art.

1. Andy Warhol - Marilyn Diptych (1962)

The work Marilyn Diptych from 1962 is a silkscreen of the Pop Art artist Andy Warhol . The diptych consists of a left and a right panel, showing once in color and once in black and white the portrait of the artist Marilyn Monroe. The portrait of Marilyn Monroe is a press photograph from the 1950s, which Warhol used here some ten years later for his art.

The artwork Marilyn Diptych (1962) can be described as postmodern art for various reasons. Andy Warhol here plays with an aesthetic that is typical for the advertising industry and that got typical for Warhol's art, too. The artwork and Warhol's technique also remind us of newspaper printing. Using all that in his diptych, the artist challenged the classical form of representation that was known from modern art.

Furthermore, the repetition of the portrait within the diptych can be read as an ironic commentary on the increasing mass production as well as on authenticity in art. Andy Warhol's often questioned the traditional idea of high art in his prints and paintings. His works of art can be seen as a playful answer to this question.

Roy Lichtenstein 's is a large-format painting consisting of two parts. In its form, the painting is reminiscent of a comic strip, as both the motifs and the speech bubbles and onomatopoeia in the picture derived from the aesthetics of a comic strip. Admittedly, this aesthetic is fundamentally different from the artwork by Andy Warhol presented above.

Nevertheless, Lichtenstein's work of art can also be considered postmodern as it dissolves the boundaries between high culture and pop culture. Unlike Warhol, Lichtenstein here confronts the classical method of painting with motifs that did not exist before in modern art.

The composition of the work comes from a panel created by the comic artist Irv Novick. This is part of the comic All-American Men of War (1962). In postmodern art, there was also a recurring discussion of the two world wars that people had to experience in the 20th century. Roy Lichtenstein's piece is not a clear confrontation with the Second World War. However, the choice of motif and the presentation of it in pop aesthetics can be interpreted as an ironic commentary on the glorification of war.

3. Joseph Kosuth - One And Three Chairs (1965)

Joseph Kosuth is a famous conceptual artist. His work One And Three Chairs dates from 1965 and is something like a prime example of conceptual art. The work is a form of artistic examination of Plato's philosophy and a reflection of Plato's allegory of the cave . In this allegory the idea of an object represents the highest of all realities.

With his work One And Three Chairs , Joseph Kosuth also reacted to the assumption of modern artists that an artwork must always be an object. For Kosuth, the idea stands above the work of art as an object. In this sense, One And Three Chairs can also be read as a critical commentary on the idea of a universal truth.

With performances as a new art form, many artists in the 1950s and 1960s challenged the relationship between artwork and viewer. Performance artist Carolee Schneemann did this in a radical way. In her performance Interior Scroll , the artist undressed in front of an audience. She then read naked from her book Cézanne, She Was A Great Painter (1967). Then Snowman painted her body and after a while she slowly pulled a strip of paper out of her vagina. She then read aloud the text that was written on the paper strip.

Obviously, Carolee Schneemann's performance is directed here against all classical ideas of art and high culture, which still existed in the middle of the 20th century. The performance is an act of feminism that questions the meaning and classical (re-)presentation of the female body. With the performance of Schneemann's book about the artist Cézanne, Carolee Schneemann also openly gives a side blow to modernism here, as Paul Cézanne was an important figure in modern painting.

5. Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still #21 (1978)

This black and white photograph is part of Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series, which the artist created between 1977 and 1980. What we see here is a female film heroine, a young career woman, in a costume and with a hat. In her Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman has portrayed a number of stereotypical female characters: the vamp, the victim, the lover, the career woman, etc.

The photography series appears in this list of postmodern artworks for a reason: Sherman's photographs deal with fragmented, post-modern identity. Cindy Sherman represents this fragmented identity as she herself is always photographer and subject of photography at the same time. The motifs of the photographs can also be read as a critical commentary on the female film reels of the 1950s.

This work by the artist couple Gilbert & George is an example of a postmodern art which is particularly characterized by its irony. In this short film, initially reminiscent of a commercial, Gilbert & George are seen doing nothing more than drinking the "best gin" of the 1970s (like Gordon's Gin was famous at this time). The expressionlessness of the artists in the video as well as the strict and tension-free plot and the repeated statement "Gordon's makes us very drunk" creates an absurd film piece. In their work, Gilbert & George obviously make fun of the advertising industry but also of traditional notions of identity and elitist behavior.

7. Guerilla Girls - Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met. Museum? (1989)

The second wave of feminism also falls into the era of postmodernism. Many female artists and also artist groups such as the Guerilla Girls have incorporated their political views and the fight for more women's rights in works of postmodern art. With their graphic work Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met. Museum? (1989), the Guerilla Girls clearly criticized art institutions. They obviously drew attention to the fact that women as (naked) motifs are a welcome fixture in large and renowned museums, but as artists, they find it difficult to enter these houses with their own works.

8. Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living (1991)

Damien Hirst 's The Physical Impossibilities of Death In The Mind of Someone Living (1991) is also known as The reason for this is the content of this work of art, which is a tiger shark in formaldehyde. The artist Damien Hirst was part of the so-called Young British Artists , who became known for their provocative and also shocking works of art. In this artwork, Damien Hirst confronts the viewers of his artwork with their own death, which is manifested in the tiger shark.

This selection of postmodern artwork should make you understand what the term postmodernism means. The selection, however, also shows that postmodern art is an elusive term. Postmodern art can have infinite variations, as the deviation from the norm became something like the 'program' of this art at that time.

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present	: Fact #2

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Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present	: Fact #2

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While modernism was based on idealism and reason, postmodernism is based on skepticism and a suspicion of reason. Many postmodernists are relativists therefore.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism#:~:text=While%20modernism%20was%20based%20on,are%20universal%20certainties%20or%20truths.

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recent literature - The Hunger Game series

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recent literature - The Hunger Game series

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The Hunger Game series is a story of a girl named Everdeen who joins the Hunger Game. She survives in the game by breaking the rule that only 1 person can survive. Later, she joins the game again and joins a political movement of overthrowing the government.

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/reading-zone/a2-graded-reading/hunger-games-book-review-a2#:~:text=The%20story%20is%20about%20Katniss,is%20a%20boy%20named%20Peeta.

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Looking back at the timeline, I could see how long I have been doing this timeline Tuesday. It was a great opportunity to learn about different things that happened in history and the literature affecting and being affected by history. Literature wasn't just a product of historical values. It impacted values, formulated values, and called people to act upon those values.