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PERIOD NAME AND DATE:

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Period Characteristics

Realism
1850-1900

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).

PERIOD NAMES: Authors and works

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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

PERIOD NAME: Fact 1

econlan7 — 2024-02-02 08:23:16 UTC

It was a dominant current in French art between 1850 and 1880. In the early 1830s the painters of the Barbizon school espoused realism in their faithful reproduction of the landscape near their village.

PERIOD NAME: Fact 2

econlan7 — 2024-02-02 08:23:38 UTC

In favor of depictions of 'real' life, the Realist painters used common laborers, and ordinary people in ordinary surroundings engaged in real activities as subjects for their works.

Direction note: any special facts

econlan7 — 2024-02-02 08:24:07 UTC

As such, realism in its broad sense has comprised many artistic currents in different

Present day

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PERIOD NAME AND DATE:

econlan7 — 2024-04-15 08:28:12 UTC

Modernism
1900-1950

PERIOD NAMES:

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World War I
1914-1918

The Great Depression
1929-1939

World War II
1939-1945

PERIOD NAME fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-04-15 08:28:35 UTC

The causes of the Great Depression included slowing consumer demand, mounting consumer debt, decreased industrial production and the rapid and reckless expansion of the U.S. stock market.

PERIOD NAME fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-04-15 08:28:49 UTC

Some scholars argue that the "start" of WWII was in 1937 when Japan invaded China instead of when Germany invaded Poland.

PERIOD CHARACTERISTICS:

econlan7 — 2024-04-15 08:29:37 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).

Famous Authors and Works

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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

The American Dream in the 1920s

econlan7 — 2024-04-22 07:30:04 UTC

The 1920s in America marked a period of economic prosperity and cultural change. This era is often referred to as the "Roaring Twenties", and it was seen as a flourishing economy, technological advancements, and significant shifts in societal norms. And this concept of the American Dream during this time was heavily influenced by notions of success, individualism, and materialism.

Fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-04-22 07:31:49 UTC

The Great Gatsby, that was published in 1925, encapulated the essence of the American Dream during this period. And these aspects and contraditionns of the American Dream during the 1920s had shaped the cultural landscape of the time, leaving a lasting impact on American society and perceptions of success.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-04-22 07:33:17 UTC

While some indivudal acheived unprecendented succces, many other had faced economic hardship, espeically farmers and workers in traditional industries.

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The American Dream during the 1950s

econlan7 — 2024-05-14 08:00:53 UTC

The 1950s were the atomic age of science and technology.

Fact 1

econlan7 — 2024-05-14 08:03:04 UTC

The space race began in the 1950s, fueled by the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve milestones in space exploration. The launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviets in 1957 marked the beginning of the space age.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-05-14 08:04:51 UTC

The 1950s witnessed the emergence of rock 'n' roll music, with artists like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard breaking new ground and capturing the imaginations of young people around the world.

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Period name and dates

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Harlem Renaissance
"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"

1920–1940

Period special dates

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"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Prohibition
1920-1933

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

Famous Authors and Works

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:02:03 UTC

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

Fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:03:32 UTC

The 1920s was the first decade to have the a nicknames"Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age". It was a decade of propserity and dissipation, and of jazz bands,bootleggeers, raccoon coats, bathtub gin, flappers, and many more.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:05:28 UTC

1920 will be remembered as the year when the League of Nations was created, the 19th Amendment was passed in America, giving women the right to vote, and a flight from London to South Africa took 45 days.

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Period Name

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The 60s and 70s

Fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:11:11 UTC

The 1960s and early 1970s represented a period of large-scale portent in United States history. Recognizable movements during the period included the anti-Vietnam War campaign, the civil rights movement, and last but not least, the counterculture.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:15:25 UTC

One enduring image of the counterculture movement is that of hippies, who were mostly white, middle-class, young Americans. Many felt alienated from their own lifestyles, which they viewed as too focused on material goods. and comsumerism.

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Period Name:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 07:58:24 UTC

The 80s

Fact 1:

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During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled and new computer technologies emerged.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 08:04:57 UTC

980 United States presidential election: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly one year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.

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Period Name

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 08:50:28 UTC

The 90s

Fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 08:52:34 UTC

The 90s saw the rise of the Internet, with the World Wide Web becoming widely accessible. Personal computers became common in households, with Windows 95 and the launch of Internet Explorer in 1995 being significant milestones.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-06-03 08:53:20 UTC

Movies and TV: Blockbuster films like "Titanic" (1997), "Jurassic Park" (1993), and "The Matrix" (1999) defined the era. Television saw the rise of popular shows like "Friends" (1994-2004), "The X-Files" (1993-2002), and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996).

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Period Name

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:36:29 UTC

Contemporary "Postmodernism"
1950–present

Periods and Special Dates

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:36:54 UTC

Korean War
1950-1953

Vietnam War
1954-1975

Period Characteristics

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:37:10 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.

Famous Authors and Works

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:37:32 UTC

Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

Fact 1:

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:39:20 UTC

Many postmodernists hold more one or more of the follwing views.

1: There is no objective reality.

2: There is no scientific or historical truth.

3: Science and technology are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instrument of established power.

Fact 2:

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:41:39 UTC

The armed conflict in Korea, which began in 1950, lasted three years and claimed the lives of millions of Korean soldiers and civilians on both sides, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers, and more than 36,000 U.S. soldiers.

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Literature written 10 years of today

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"The Help"

The Help

econlan7 — 2024-06-12 06:46:47 UTC

The novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, during the time of Jim Crow segregation. In summary, The Help concerns two black maids working in white households who build a relationship with a young woman and come to explore the radical divisions of time.

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