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Day 81 Education, Popular Culture. Homework: 446-457. Schools. From 1916-1926 Enrollment in high school went from 1 to 4 million High Schools change from college bound to vocational and industrial training Challenge: Immigrant population. News and Radio.
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Day 81 Education, Popular Culture • Homework: 446-457
Schools • From 1916-1926 Enrollment in high school went from 1 to 4 million • High Schools change from college bound to vocational and industrial training • Challenge: Immigrant population
News and Radio • Mass Circulation/ small newspapers collapse • Readers digest, Life and Times • Radio brings news as it happens
1920’s Film • Film Stars include: Rudolph Valnintino, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary pickford • Jazz Singer first major film with Sound
New Heroes • Charles Lindbergh flies over the Atlantic. Receives Congressional Medal of Honor. • George Gershwin (use of Jazz) • Georgia O'Keefe- Captured the grandeur of New York ay beauty
Literature of the lost Generation • F. Scott Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby and This side of Paradise) - Wealthy living hopelessly empty lives • Ernest Hemingway (The Sun also rises) • - Major critic of the glorification of War • Edna St. Vincent Millay (Poet) • Sinclair Lewis- used characters in Babbitt to mock American materialism
Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!
Sun also Rises- Earnest Hemmingway • "It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."
Sinclair Lewis- Babbitt "Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue."
Sports • Jack Dempsey v. Tunney “The Fight of the Century” • Babe Ruth “The Sultan of Swat”- hits 60 home runs • Red Grange (Chicago Bears) • Gertrude Ederle- swims the English Channel
Summary Questions • Who produced intensely colored paintings that included the grandeur of New York? • Who’s career ended with his defeat by Gene Tunney? • Who made the first non stop solo flight across the Atlantic? • Composer who merged traditional music with Jazz? • Who’s poems celebrated youth and life? • Who wrote the Great Gatsby and this side of Paradise? • Which writer criticized war through books like the Sun Also Rises • Who mocked American materialism in his book Babbitt?