My swanky wall by Tyler Attebury Ely https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny Made with ♥ en-us 2019-03-08 17:37:38 UTC 2024-03-20 05:49:07 UTC hello@padlet.com The Harlem Renaissance 823129 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339404423 The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910's through the mid-1930's, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art. ]]> 2019-03-08 17:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339404423 Tea Pot Dome Scandal 823129 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339404820 The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920's shocked Americans by revealing an unprecedented level of greed and corruption within the federal government. The scandal involved oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful of bribery cash delivered sneakily. In the end, the scandal would empower the Senate to conduct rigorous investigations into government corruption. It also marked the first time a U.S. cabinet official served jail time for a felony committed while in office.
Before the Water Gate Scandal, the Teapot Dome Scandal was regarded as the most sensational example of high-level corruption in the history of U.S. politics.
Albert Fall, a former Secretary of the Interior, was charged with accepting bribes from oil companies in exchange for exclusive rights to drill for oil on federal land. The sites included land near a teapot-shaped outcrop in Wyoming known as Teapot Dome, and two other government-owned sites in California named Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills.

]]> 2019-03-08 17:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339404820 Langston Hughes 823129 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405040 James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He attended Columbia University from 1921-1922 but left. Hughes' experience of racial exclusion was doubled, by his sexual orientation which made him feel even more separate from society. His homosexuality remained hidden throughout his life, and referred to in his writing only through coded references  He moved to New York City as a young man, where he made his career. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. He was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920's that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood. ]]> 2019-03-08 17:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405040 F. Scott Fitzgerald 823129 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405227 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 to a salesman father and an Irish-Catholic mother who was the heir to a successful Minnesota grocery store. Scott, as family and friends knew him, had his first story published when he was 13 - a detective story printed in the school newspaper. After his expulsion for lack of academic effort, he boarded at Newman School, a Catholic school in New Jersey. After graduation in 1913, he attended Princeton University, where he wrote articles for the college humor magazine, stories for the literary magazine, and scripts for the musicals of the Triangle Club. Fitzgerald was an american fiction author, whose works embodied the flamboyance and glamour of the jazz age. He did receive success, fame and fortune. Unfortunately, he didn't receive as much popularity until after his death. He is most famously known for his book, the Great Gatsby, a 1925 novel that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.]]> 2019-03-08 17:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405227 The Lost Generation 823129 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405551 The Lost Generation was the generation that came of age during World War I. Lost in this definition means disoriented, wandering, directionless, a recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's survivors in the early post-war years. When the men from war came home, they seen the world differently, and lost the charisma they had entered the Great War with.  They were considered to be “lost” due to their tendency to act recklessly often focusing on the pursuit of personal wealth.]]> 2019-03-08 17:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/s7apcp9u38ny/wish/339405551