Modernism by Vanessa

Element #1: Admiration for America as a new Eden: a land of beauty, bounty, and unlimited promise.

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-13 23:37:29 UTC

As America as the Eden people had better opportunities because they weren't bad off. This image shows how the people had a house were to live and they weren't struggling like others might be and how they have it all thanks to being able to be in America and how they were happy. This picture also shows how they have opportunities, liberty and other things that they might not have somewhere else.

3 elements

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-15 00:26:38 UTC

Admiration for America as a new Eden, optimism, and importance and ultimate triumph of the individual are the 3 elements of the American Dream.

Element #2: Optimism. A Belief In New Progress.

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-15 00:46:53 UTC

Optimism is an important element to the American Dream because you have to have a good state of mind so that you can progress. Without Optimism everyone would be thinking negatively and that wont help them towards them progressing and that is important because then you won't go anywhere and be stuck in the same spot.

Element #3: Importance and Ultimate Triumph of the Individual

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-15 01:05:19 UTC

Triumph of the Individual is important because you can start to succeed on your own and you won't have to depend on someone else. This image shows how the eagle shows independence of a person and how that way you can succeed on your own.

Modernist point of view towards the American Dream

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Modernists, many of whom fought during WW1 and witnessed its horrors, began to believe that the American Dream was an unreachable goal. To them, the American Dream is broken, false, and if maintained with the same elements as before was just, in fact, a dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's cover of the "The Great Gatsby" is a painting of a woman's eyes, which give a melancholy tone, that hover over a bright and multicolored cityscape. This could show that the woman is only able to see the beauty of the American Dream, but she cannot reach it.

3 Questions that Modernist have pertaining to identity and impact of the traditional American Dream on the individual

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Question 1: Who are we?

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Modernist think this is an essential question to have in mind because the people start to feel lost and start to question who they are and what they should be doing .

Question 2: Where are we going?

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-15 03:59:29 UTC

This is essential to the Modernist view of the American Dream because they think that not everyone is going to triumph and those who don't won't have anything to look forward to and they will be stuck in the same place that they have always been.

Question 3: What values should guide us on the search for our human identity?

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This question is essential because those who believe in the American Dream think that the idea of the dream is their ultimate goal and that could lead them to becoming the dream and that is something that the modernist think you should not do and instead become your own person.

Two Prominent Theories/Movements During the Modernist Movement

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Key Historical Events in Regards to Drinking and Women

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Theory/ Movement #1: Marxism

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Main Belief: social and economical equality. capitalism can only thrive on the exploitation of the working class.

Key Elements: Materialism, Economic system, and capitalist system, no social ladder

Prediction: This theory might have impacted modernist views on life and the American Dream because this theory want social equality and with the American Dream some may be more successful than others and their won't be equality among all of them. (Lenin: Three Sources...)

Theory/ Movement #2: Psychoanalysis

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Main Belief: To treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.

Key Elements: Unconscious, Repression, defence, resistance, censorship, trauma fixation, regression, sublimation, projection, ambivalence, identification, oedipus complex, transference, compulsion to repeat, and defence mechanisms. (What is Psychoanalysis?)

Prediction: This theory might have impacted the modernist views on life and the American Dream because with this theory they explore the human mind and they explore what they do when they are unconscious and they would try and find a way to fix their mental health and modernist needed evidence that they could actually fix their mental statues but they could never have evidence so modernist thought that it was not possible. (Beystehner)

Alcohol Prohibiton

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In 1920, Congress passed the 18th Amendment, which prohibited any manufacturing, transportation, or selling of alcohol. This amendment was hard to enforce, as the bootlegging of alcohol and organized crime had become a very profitable business and the ban became unpopular In 1933, Congress passed the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment.

Connection to Modernism: This amendment showed the divide between modernism and traditionalism, where traditionalists believed alcohol to be an influence for crime and violence but modernists saw it as a way for their moralities to remain the same, something they were against. They wanted to change their morals from the traditonal American ways

The Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance

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The Jazz Age

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- Term "Jazz Age" created by F. Scott Fitzgerald

- Also known as the Roaring Twenties

- Began after WWI and during the introduction of the radio

-African American Jazz music merged with the ideals of white middle class Americans

- American elites did not want Jazz to become extremely popular and preferred classical music

- Young people were influenced by Jazz and began to reject tradition

-African American representation into mainstream culture

"April Showers": http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/music/april_showers1922_happiness_boys.mp3

Work Cited

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-20 19:59:01 UTC

Beystehner, Kristen M. "Psychoanalysis: Freud's Revolutionary Approach to Human Personality." Psychoanalysis: Freud's Revolutionary Approach. N.p., Aug. 1998. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/beystehner.html>.

"Harlem Renaissance | American Literature and Art." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <http://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art>.

"Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism." Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm>.

"What Is Psychoanalysis." What Is Psychoanalysis. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <http://www.freudfile.org/psychoanalysis/definition.html>.

Women's Suffrage

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After about 100 years, women's rights activists had finally had their voices heard, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Connection to Modernism: Because people began to try and fix America's traditional ways, activists for women began to speak out louder than before. The women of that time began to rebel against tradition

The Harlem Renaissance

vanessa1041 — 2016-01-20 20:12:04 UTC

- 1920s to mid-1930s

- Literary, artistic, and intellectual movement for African Americans

This movement was important because it was the first movement that actually embraced the African American culture and their arts and let them express themselves.

http://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art