Mizuno,Ken_ENGL300e_Timeline by Ken Mizuno (Student)

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kmizuno1 — 2023-09-07 07:48:59 UTC

PresentDay

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-07 07:50:59 UTC

Native Americans 2200BC - 1600AD: Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-07 07:54:45 UTC

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.

Native Americans: Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-10 13:58:39 UTC

Native Americans: Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-10 14:07:01 UTC

Native Americans spoke more than 300 languages.

source: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-tribes-facts

Native Americans: Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-10 14:07:38 UTC

Native Americans cultivated many of the world's most important crops. it is estimated that 60 percent of the global food supply was based on crops that originated in North America.

source: https://www.history.com/news/native-american-tribes-facts

2200 BC—Tower of Babel

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-10 14:09:03 UTC

2200 BC, (Genesis 11:1-9)

1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-10 14:09:32 UTC

1607

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 08:59:13 UTC

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.

1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:05:24 UTC

1507

1692: Salem Witch Trials

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:05:46 UTC

1692

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:06:03 UTC

1741

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:06:59 UTC

William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards
-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:07:54 UTC

The original settlers of Jamestown were all men.

source: https://www.history.com/news/jamestown-colony-settlement-facts

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-17 13:08:26 UTC

The birth of American democracy began in Jamestown.

source: https://www.history.com/news/jamestown-colony-settlement-facts

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-23 11:23:59 UTC

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

1607: Early Settlement—Jamestown

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-23 11:24:46 UTC

1607

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-23 11:25:09 UTC

1775

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

kmizuno1 — 2023-09-23 11:25:54 UTC

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

Rationalism: "The Age of Reason", "The Enlightenment": Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:21:40 UTC

The Enlightenment was especially prominent in France, where its leaders were known as the philosophes. They published the multivolume Encyclopédie which eventually totaled 35 volumes by 1780.

source: https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts#:~:text=The%20Enlightenment%2C%20also%20known%20as,and%20improve%20their%20own%20condition.

Rationalism: "The Age of Reason", "The Enlightenment": Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:21:49 UTC

Three of the chief sources for Enlightenment thought were the ideas of the ancient Greek philosophers, the Renaissance, and the scientific revolution of the late Middle Ages.

source: https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts#:~:text=The%20Enlightenment%2C%20also%20known%20as,and%20improve%20their%20own%20condition.

Rationalism: "The Age of Reason", "The Enlightenment": Fact #3

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:33:16 UTC

Immanuel Kant, defined enlightenment this way: “Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority. Minority is the incapacity of using one’s understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is self-caused when its source lies not in a lack of understanding but in a lack of determination to use it without the assistance of another.”

source: https://www.allabouthistory.org/age-of-reason.htm

Rationalism: "The Age of Reason", "The Enlightenment": Fact #4

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:33:28 UTC

The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789 and emphasized the rights of common men as opposed to the exclusive rights of the elites.

source: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/the-age-of-enlightenment/#:~:text=Impact,modern%2C%20rational%2C%20democratic%20societies.

Transcendentalism: "The American Renaissance": Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:34:35 UTC

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

1840-1860 Transcendentalism

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:35:29 UTC

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism: "The American Renaissance": Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:36:16 UTC

Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

Transcendentalism: "The American Renaissance": Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:39:03 UTC

Brook Farms was a short-lived utopian experiment in communal living. It was to combine the thinker and the worker, to guarantee the greatest mental freedom, and to prepare a society of liberal, cultivated persons, whose relations with each other would permit a more wholesome and simpler life than could be led amid the pressure of competitive institutions.

source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brook-Farm

Transcendentalism: "The American Renaissance": Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2023-10-16 00:39:20 UTC

Abolitionism was a movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery.

source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/abolitionism-European-and-American-social-movement

Romanticism - Industrialization: Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 01:30:45 UTC

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)

1800-1860: industrialization

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 01:31:51 UTC

industrialization

1812-1815: The War of 1812

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 01:33:00 UTC

The War of 1812

1848–1855: California Gold Rush

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 01:34:48 UTC

California Gold Rush

Romanticism- Industrialization: Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 01:35:53 UTC

Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Romanticism- Industrialization: Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 04:47:51 UTC

The French Romantic Eugène Delacroix was a leading artist of the 19th century. His bold color usage and free brushwork would become his signature style, inspiring artists of the future, including the impressionists.

source: https://www.thecollector.com/5-things-you-should-know-about-eugene-delacroix/

Romanticism - Industrialization: Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-16 05:04:26 UTC

The Romantic Period saw more successful women writers, a precursor to their popularity in the Victorian era. The most significant female writer during this period was Jane Austen. Some of her famous novels include Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and others. Her literary style highlights the everyday lives of average people, making a turn toward social realism.

source: https://www.easternct.edu/speichera/understanding-literary-history-all/the-romantic-period.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-29 00:29:41 UTC

Hawthorne changed his last name in part to hide his family’s dark past. The novelist’s great-great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was a leading judge of the Salem witch trials, and his ancestor’s shameful past haunted Hawthorne, so he added a 'w' in part to disassociate himself.

source: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nathaniel-hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2023-11-29 01:28:54 UTC

Shortly after Hawthorne completed writing Tanglewood Tales in 1853, the Senate approved his nomination by the newly inaugurated Pierce to be a United States consul in Liverpool, England, among the most lucrative of diplomatic positions.

source: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-nathaniel-hawthorne

McCarthyism: Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 04:38:29 UTC

FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was quick to equate any kind of protest with communist subversion, including the civil rights demonstrations led by Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover labeled King a communist and covertly worked to intimidate and discredit the civil rights leader.

source: 
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare

McCarthyism: Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:17:32 UTC

McCarthy’s reign of terror continued until his colleagues formally denounced his tactics in 1954 during the Army-McCarthy hearings, when army lawyer Joseph Welch famously asked McCarthy, “Have you no decency?”

source: 
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare

Walt Whitman: Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:21:05 UTC

Whitman set up the Long-Islander, his own newspaper venture, when he was just nineteen years old. It is still maintained today.

source: https://interestingliterature.com/2023/04/walt-whitman-facts/#

Walt Whitman: Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:23:31 UTC

Whitman left formal schooling when he was eleven, in order to find work to help support his parents and siblings.

The young Whitman worked as an office boy for two lawyers and was then apprentice and ‘printer’s devil’ for the weekly Long Island newspaper, the Patriot. It was while working for the Patriot that Whitman learned about typesetting and printing: skills which would prove invaluable when he came to prepare his own unusual poetry for print years later.

source:
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/04/walt-whitman-facts/#

Walt Whitman: Fact#3

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:30:33 UTC

Whitman’s free verse was greatly inspired by the Old Testament psalms: unrhymed, rhythmically irregular, and varying between long and short in length according to the movement and mood of the poem. It was like nothing else American readers had seen before.

To accommodate this, he designed a special size of paper with a wider page enabling his longer lines to be typeset more easily so they didn’t run onto a new line.

source: 
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/04/walt-whitman-facts/#

Anne Bradstreet: Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:37:11 UTC

Anne Bradstreet was the first published poet in America – male or female.

Although it would not appear in print in America until 1678, six years after her death, Bradstreet’s poetry collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America was published in London in 1650, making her the first poet living in the New World to have a book of poems published.

source: 
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/01/facts-about-anne-bradstreet/

Anne Bradstreet: Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 05:42:03 UTC

Annes's husband was married to two women named Anne (Bradstreet).

After Anne died in 1672, her widower, Simon Bradstreet, married another woman, also named Anne. She was Anne Gardiner, but took her husband’s name when she married him, so she became, as it were, ‘the second Mrs. Anne Bradstreet’.

source: 
https://interestingliterature.com/2023/01/facts-about-anne-bradstreet/

Anne Bradstreet: Fact#3

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-18 14:59:23 UTC

Both Anne’s father and her husband were instrumental in the founding of Harvard University in 1636, and two of the poet’s sons would later be graduates, of the college: Samuel (1653) and Simon (1660). Anne lived with her husband in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the time that Harvard was founded.

source: https://interestingliterature.com/2023/01/facts-about-anne-bradstreet/

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss): Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-19 01:01:03 UTC

His debut book ("And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street") was rejected 27 times before it finally went to the printing press. The story is about a boy named Marco who wants to tell his father an interesting story about what he saw that day on his walk home from school — but the only thing Marco has seen (other than his own feet) is a boring old horse and wagon on Mulberry Street.

source:
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145471724/how-dr-seuss-got-his-start-on-mulberry-street

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss): Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-19 01:04:36 UTC

Seuss is credited with inventing the word "nerd." It first appeared in "If I Ran the Zoo" in 1950.

source: 
https://www.cbc.ca/books/63-facts-about-the-world-of-dr-seuss-1.4557340

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss): Fact#3

kmizuno1 — 2024-01-19 01:09:13 UTC

Seuss was banned from The Jack-O-Lantern (Dartmouth College's humor magazine) after being caught with alcohol during Prohibition. To subvert this, he submitted cartoons under the names T. Seuss and Seuss. That's how he first came to use his famous pen name.

source: 
https://www.drseussart.com/biodartmouth/

Realism 1850-1900: Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-14 04:39:04 UTC

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).

1861-1865: Civil War

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-14 04:39:38 UTC

1865-1877: Reconstruction Era

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-14 04:39:55 UTC

Realism: Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-14 04:40:32 UTC

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

Realism: Fact#1

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-28 02:35:42 UTC

One-third of the soldiers who fought for the Union Army during the Civil War were immigrants, and nearly one in 10 was African American.

source: https://www.history.com/news/10-surprising-civil-war-facts

Realism: Fact#2

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-28 02:35:55 UTC

Sixteen African Americans served in Congress during the Reconstruction era, including two U.S. Senators: Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Rhodes Revels.

source: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Reconstruction-Key-Facts

Author Study: Jack Finney

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-28 02:38:17 UTC

Fact #1: Jack Finney was given the name John Finney at birth, but was legally renamed Walter Braden Finney at the age of three. (The renaming was to commemorate Finney's father, also named Walter, who died in 1914.)

Fact #2: Despite the multiple names, Finney was known as Jack from birth, and continued to be called Jack by all who knew him throughout his life.

Fact #3: Mr. Finney specialized in thrillers and works of science fiction. Two of his novels, "The Body Snatchers" and "Good Neighbor Sam" became the basis of popular films, but it was "Time and Again" (1970) that won him a devoted following.

sources: 
https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/finney-obit.html

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278277/bio/

Author Study 2: Susan Glaspell

kmizuno1 — 2024-02-28 02:41:01 UTC

Fact #1: As a child Susan had a natural affinity for animals, often rescuing strays. Her grandmother regaled her with real-life pioneer adventure stories that sparked her imagination.

Fact #2: Always eager to flex her intellectual muscles, at age twenty-one, Glaspell entered Drake University. It was the 1890s and this was both unusual and controversial, as societal belief held that college education made a woman unfit for marriage.

Fact #3: Glaspell and her husband George Cram Cook founded the Provincetown Players, considered the first modern American theater company.

source: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-biography/susan-glaspell/

Modernism 1900-1950: Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:20:40 UTC

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).

1914-1918: World War I

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:21:01 UTC

1929-1939: The Great Depression

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:21:36 UTC

1939-1945: World War II

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:24:39 UTC

Modernism: Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:25:42 UTC

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

20's: Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:38:49 UTC

For the average American family, and even for racial minorities, aggressive economic growth after World War I meant that previous luxuries were now more affordable, redefining the American Dream into consumerism and materialism.

source: 
https://ciceroinstitute.org/the-evolution-of-the-american-dream/

20's Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:50:55 UTC

Vacations were another new trend, making cruises and ocean liners very popular. These ships began to incorporate all types of entertainment for the American family on vacation, including onboard swimming pools and movie theaters.

source: 
https://ciceroinstitute.org/the-evolution-of-the-american-dream/

Modernism: Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 02:54:14 UTC

Along with humans, many animals had joined the first war as well.

Horses, donkeys, mules, and camels carried food, water, ammunition, and medical supplies to men at the front, and dogs and pigeons carried messages. Cats and dogs were trained to hunt rats in the trenches.

Many animals were kept as pets and mascots to raise morale and provide comfort amidst the hardships of war.

source: 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/15-animals-that-went-to-war#:~:text=Horses%2C%20donkeys%2C%20mules%20and%20camels,hunt%20rats%20in%20the%20trenches.

Modernism: Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-03-11 03:04:59 UTC

The fact that a board game called Monopoly originated and became popular during the Great Depression is ironic in itself. The game was a huge success among Great Depression families because it was a relatively cheap form of entertainment that they could use over and over.

source: https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-entertainment-monopoly-movies-radio

30's/40's Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-14 06:36:32 UTC

The American Dream of the 1930s had been focused on working hard, men providing for their families, and hope to rise above the Depression. By the 1940s, post-WWII, consumerism, and first-wave feminism started to play a role in the American Dream.

source: https://www.ultraswank.net/kitsch/american-dream-1940s-1950s/

30's/40's Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-14 06:36:59 UTC

The American Dream in the 1940s was about establishing stability after a tough couple of decades, which generally included a house in the suburbs, a steady job and a solid family unit. It was the decade in which standard of living rose dramatically and the culture of consumption began to gain traction.

source: https://www.lovemoney.com/galleries/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born#:~:text=The%20American%20Dream%20in%20the,consumption%20began%20to%20gain%20traction.

50's Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:09:13 UTC

The American Dream during the 1950s included the comforts of home ownership and the opportunity to start a family. Although the housing boom began shortly after World War II, it wasn’t until 16 million veterans actually returned from the war that America went on a full-fledged housing spree. The baby boom was well on its way. By 1954, more than four million babies were being born each year, peaking at 4.3 million in 1957.

source: https://www.achrnews.com/articles/87033-the-1950s-pursuing-the-american-dream

50's Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:18:02 UTC

The post-war economy boomed, kicking off a golden age of American Capitalism that saw the doubling of America’s gross national product from 1946 to 1960, flooding a burgeoning middle class with consumer goods and revolutionary home appliances like never before. Fueled by low-cost mortgages backed by the G.I. Bill, young couples flocked to new tract suburbs built by developers such as William Levitt, collectively earning the nicknames “Fertility Valley” and the “Rabbit Hutch” in light of the ongoing Baby Boom.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx_Rk2v_JGw

Harlem Renaissance 1920–1940 "The Jazz Age" "The Roaring 20s": Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:19:04 UTC

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

"The New Negro Movement"

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:21:34 UTC

1919-1925

Prohibition

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:21:43 UTC

1920-1933

Harlem Renaissance: Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:22:36 UTC

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

60s/70s Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:24:10 UTC

Between 1950 and 1970, the American cultural narrative had become increasingly woven with the capitalist freedoms enjoyed by the upper crust of society and the notion that financial success was only possible because of the value of a protected democracy. In other words, the general anti-Soviet attitude resulted in the hardening of a new definition of the American Dream: freedom from communist rule. The variation of “a freedom from” (as opposed to “a freedom to”) had been brewing for years, as evidenced by the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Thus, the American Dream was now encoded with freedom from communism, freedom from fascism, and freedom from a lack of upward mobility.

source: https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-evolution/

60s/70s Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:24:27 UTC

Martin Luther King Jr., the beloved civil rights activist, delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. Struggles for social justice, inscribed in the Declaration of Independence but painfully withheld in practice, came into full focus as protests and marches spread across the nation. Political cynicism contributed to the cultural change, with struggles increasing over civil rights and environmentalism.

source: https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-evolution/

Harlem Renaissance: Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:24:51 UTC

The music that percolated in and then boomed out of Harlem in the 1920s was jazz, often played at speakeasies offering illegal liquor. Jazz became a great draw for not only Harlem residents but outside white audiences also.

source: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance

Harlem Renaissance: Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-04-15 07:25:12 UTC

With the groundbreaking new music came vibrant nightlife. The Savoy opened in 1927, an integrated ballroom with two bandstands that featured continuous jazz and dancing well past midnight, sometimes in the form of battling bands helmed by Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford and King Oliver.

source: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance

80s Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:14:55 UTC

The 1980's were a hard time for many Americans because the economy was in a recession. Farmers were especially unfortunate because crop prices declined, as did exports. So, during this time Americans dreamed of being carefree, having fun, and make money.

source: https://theamericandream5.weebly.com/1980s.html

80s Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:15:11 UTC

For many people, the embodiment of the 80s was the young, urban professional, or “yuppie,” a baby boomer with a college education, a good-paying job and expensive taste. Many people derided yuppies for being self-centered and materialistic, and surveys of young urban professionals across the country showed that they were, indeed, more concerned with making money and buying consumer goods than their parents and grandparents had been.

source: https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/1980s

90s/early 2000s Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:15:57 UTC

Extending itself further from the American Dream of a virtuous society, the 1990s began to recognize the contributions of women and minorities in the civic arena. The last decade of the century also saw a shift in presidential trends, straying from the historically veteran-based profile defining their main appeal to voters.

source: https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-evolution/

90s/early 2000s Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:16:09 UTC

Technology started to influence all parts of life in the United States, introducing a new rush for accessories and opening a floodgate of new status–boosting products. Having a home was no longer enough: cell phones, televisions, video games, and personal computers were addictively enticing purchase options.

source: https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-evolution/

Contemporary "Postmodernism" 1950–present: Period Characteristics

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:19:26 UTC

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.

Korean War

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:20:18 UTC

1950-1953

Vietnam War

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:20:33 UTC

1954-1975

Contemporary "Postmodernism": Famous Authors and Works

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:21:29 UTC

Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

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Contemporary "Postmodernism": Fact #1

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:21:57 UTC

Today, postmodernism envelops pop art, “conceptual art, neo-expressionism, feminist art, and the Young British Artists of the 1990s,” among others. It’s important to note, though, that not all contemporary art falls under postmodernism, but all postmodern art is generally considered “contemporary.”

source: https://www.artpublikamag.com/post/is-this-real-life-is-this-just-fantasy-three-little-known-facts-about-postmodernism

Contemporary "Postmodernism": Fact #2

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-12 23:22:03 UTC

Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), was a prominent French psychoanalyst and theorist. His ideas had a huge impact on critical theory in the twentieth century and were particularly influential on post-structuralist philosophy and the development of postmodernism.

source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism

To The Test Of Time: 'Borne' Jeff Vandermeer (2017)

kmizuno1 — 2024-05-13 00:42:22 UTC

In this dystopian sci-fi, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous, littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. The novel explores themes of nature vs. technology and identity.

source: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374115241/borne