Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon

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Simultaneous Contrasts Sun and Moon

• Robert Delaunay
• French Artist

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We are learning about modernism.
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Modernism the Effects

• Americas journey toward cultural melting pot

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Historical Backdrop

• WWI (1914-1918)
• Trench Warfare
• Lost generation of European men
• US entered in 1917 after Americans killed on an
  English ship
• Sense of disillusionment

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Post WW I

• Economy boom
• Auto industry/assembly line
• Movie industry
• Radio and Jazz

• Womens vote (1919)
• Prohibition (1920-1933)
• Bootlegging
• Speakeasies
• Gang warfare
• New Morality
• Short skirts
• Bobbed hair
• Slang

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Great Depression, WWII, Peace

• Stock Market Crash 1929
• By 1932 12 million people are out of work
• Rooseveltpresident in 1932New Deal
• America entered WWII after Pearl Harbor attack in
  1941
• Arrival of Peace and Atomic Age1945

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Literature of the time

• Fragmented omitted exposition, transitions,
  resolutions, explanations
• Themes are implied
• World begins to notice Americans
• TS Eliot (1949) William Faulkner (1949)
  Pulitzer Prize winners
• Stream of consciousnessdevelops psychology
• Simple, journalistic style (esp. Hemingway)
• Lost Generationdisillusioned by WWI move to
  Europe (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, Eliot)

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Modernism Continued

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Homework

• Dont forget your Annotated Bibliography is due
  on Today by 1159pm.
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• reading pages 704-712 in textbook will now be
  done Monday 7/21/11 in class
• Answer questions 1-12 in your packet