Biographic Report Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore on 20th September, 1878. His father was an alcoholic and they to New York City in 1888. His family was very poor so he spent periods of time living with his grandparents who were wealthy. Later on he argued that witnessing these extreme things turned him into a socialist. He was a very religious boy, who loved literature.
For most the 1950s was a prosperous, comfortable decade where Americans enjoyed the benefits of a booming economy, middle class Americans had an affluent wealthy lifestyle and suburbia became popular they lived the American Dream, there was almost full employment and a huge increase in car and TV ownership, teens used this new wealth to rebel against their parents with rock and roll culture, their own fashion and living risky lifestyles by following the example of new ‘bad boy’ celebrities like James Dean. However black Americans and immigrants did not benefit and the country still feared the Cold war and the threat of nuclear war was very real, McCarthyism fuelled widespread panic and fear of Communism and it showed the extent of fear and paranoia in
He rented out the House of Blues in Atlanta for another production of “I Know I've Been Changed”. Soon Perry was selling out crowds and the musical was moved to a larger theater, after so many years of hard work, he finally earned critical acclaim as well as commercial success. Tyler's mother urged him to abandon the thoughts of a career instead look for steady employment,but he stayed certain that this was his passion and calling. For Perry’s next idea, he worked on an adaptation of evangelist T. D. Jakes's book “Woman, Thou Art Loosed”. Jake had proposed the script to Perry, he told Jake he would do so,but only if he was allowed to have complete control and freedom to rewrite the script.“Woman, Thou Art Loosed” opened in 1999, it grossed $5 million in the five-month run.
Louis Brandies: He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents who raised him in a secular mode. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the college’s history. He settled in Boston where he became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes. He later published a book entitled Other People's Money And How the Bankers Use It, suggesting ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt were detrimental to American values and culture. W.E.B DuBois: An American sociologist, historian, civil
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan has great importance to Jay Gatsby one of the novel's main character. Jay Gatsby is a young thirty year old man who became wealthy through organized crime. Daisy and Gatsby met in Louisville. Gatsby was a military officer who was about to leave for the first World War. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy almost immediately after meeting her.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24th, 1896. He was raised in different areas of New York in the early years of his life. Due to some failures in Fitzgerald fathers businesses, at the age of twelve, his family settled down in St. Paul to live off his mother’s inheritance. As a young boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a smart student in school. He began writing when he was 13 years old but it was not until he was 15 when he really begin honing his writing skills.
He is an example of old money, and because he is so wealthy he decides that he can break all the rules and do whatever he pleases, like cheating on his wife. “‘Why -' she said hesitantly, ‘Tom's got some woman in New York. '” (19). Materialism has gotten to Tom's head and he believes just because he has so much wealth he can buy happiness with anything that he pleases. The last character, Gatsby, shows both materialism and spirituality.
On the outside, The Great Gatsby seems to be a story about a twisted love affair and nothing else. In reality, though, Fitzgerald is subliminally showing the many changes happening during the 1920s socially, and how it affected the idea of the “American Dream.” In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the strives for wealth and status, which defined the American Dream during the roaring 20s, and which continues to be defined as a desire for wealth, success, and status today. The Great Gatsby was written soon after World War II. After World War II, there was a great economic boom which left many people suddenly rich, people referred to as “new money.” There quickly came to be a distinct difference between the “new money” group of people and people who were previously wealthy. What used to be “the pursuit of happiness” turned into a pursuit of money and greed.
And how did such an advanced society allow itself to be seduced and then destroyed by its own capacity for senseless barbarity? The Germans in the thirties were seduced by the glittering success of Hitler in creating jobs, generating a vibrant economy and restoring Germany's military might. William Shirer, who was on the scene in Germany during these critical years, candidly sums up the mood of the country at this juncture: "Not many Germans lost sleep over the arrests of a few thousand pastors and priests or over the quarreling of the various Protestant sects .." It was this apathy and moral indifference in Germany that empowered Hitler and fueled his military juggernaut that was poised to roll inexorably over Europe. Why did Hitler hate the Jews? Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist.
The most prominent characters are Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy, handsome man who lives in a large mansion located on the West Egg. In contrast with him is Myrtle Wilson. She was a poor, average looking woman who lives in a town called Valley of Ashes located between New York and West Eggs. Both Gatsby and Myrtle have the same American Dream of striving to be a wealthy, old money like the people on the East Eggs.