Dr. Barnett Exam 4 Vocab

John Dos Passos

United States novelist remembered for his portrayal of life in the United States (1896-1970)

The Big Money

Novel written by John Dos Passos. Argues that the pursuit of the American dream ends in corruption.

Personae

A profile of the primary target audience for a product.

Ezra Pound

Expatriate American poet and critic of the 1920s. (p. 481)

Ernest Hemingway

an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)

The Sun Also Rises

Novel written by Ernest Hemingway about a group of young American and British expatriates as they wander through Europe in the mid-1920s.

A Farewell to Arms

E. Hemingway. A love story which draws heavily on the author's experiences as a young soldier in Italy. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during WWI. Falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley. The Battle of Caporetto. In Switzerland, their child is born dead, and Catherine dies due to hemorrhages.

The Other Side of Paradise

Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. his first Novel after its been rewritten

The Great Gatsby

Tells tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.

Save for Me the Waltz

Zelda, Fitzgerald's wife, writes this book after being institutionalized. she is mad at her husband ad claims he overshadowed her immanent carry as a successful dancer and writer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

a novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. his wife, zelda and he were the "couple" of the decade but hit bottom during the depression. his noval THE GREAT GATSBY is considered a masterpiece about a gangster's pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald's wife, flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's. Sig: Shows how people were challenging traditional values during the 1920's

Sinclair Lewis

American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature.

Main Street

A novel written by Sinclair Lewis. It mattered because it depicted the uniformity that was western community life.

H.L. Mencken

Baltimore writer who criticized the supposedly narrow and hypocritical values of American society

"American Mercury"

H.L. Mencken's monthly magazine that led the literary attack on traditional moral values, the middle class, and "Puritanism"

Gertrude Stein

American writer of experimental novels, poetry, essays, operas, and plays. In Paris during the 1920s she was a central member of a group of American expatriates that included Ernest Hemingway.

Lumiere Brothers

French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinématographe

Thomas Edison

American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.

Kinetoscope

a device used to view a sequence of moving pictures

Nickelodeon

These were early indoor movie theaters that cost a nickel to get in and watch various films on the Kinetoscope.

"the Great Train Robbery"

A 1903 black and white silent western film that was 14 minutes long and the first film to tell a coherent story. Due to its success it is credited for the creating Hollywood and the success of the movie industry.

Cecil B. deMille

Motion picture producer and director, he was famous for Biblical films and epic movies.

"The Ten Commendments" film/ “The King of Kings” film

Film made by Cecil B. de Mille

Harold Lloyd

American film actor and producer, "Safety Last" (1923), famous for his silent comedies. did many of his own dangerous stunts.

Buster Keaton

an American comic actor and filmmaker.He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".

Charlie Chaplin

A "silent comedian," this movie star continued to lengthen the silent film style and offer an alternative to the sound film with his trademark tattered suit, derby hat, and cane, playing the "little tramp" who made audiences laugh with his silent jokes.

Keystone Kops

people (often those in authority) known for clownish incompetence.

Fatty Arbuckle

Comedian suspected of smothering Virginia Rappe. He was charged with manslaughter but acquitted. His career was never the same.

Virginia Rappe

Young actress found dead after a party. Fatty Arbuckle was the suspect

Will B. Good

What Fatty Arbuckle changed his name too

Rudolph Valentino

A popular, attractive actor in silent films. Well known for his role in "The Sheik".

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

The "Johnny Depp" of that age. Played several pirate roles in adventure films

Gloria Swanson

Who helped glamorize the first mass-market nail lacquers in the 1930s by wearing matching colors on her fingers and toes?

"metropolis"

the capital or chief city of a country or region

Fritz Lang

Director of Metropolis

"The Jazz Singer"

1927 - The first movie with sound; this "talkie" was about the life of famous jazz singer; Al Jolson.

Al Jolson

Made the first talking movie in 1927..The "Jazz Singer"

Walt Disney

Film maker, cartoonist, visionary. He developed many famous characters as well as amusement theme parks.

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.

broadcast a musical program as an experiment to see how people would respond. The people demanded more the be broadcasted on a regular, scheduled basis. They also add occasional news reports and baseball scores to the songs.

KDKA

First radio station

Scott Joplin

Maple Leaf Rag

Ragtime

A type of music featuring melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching-band beat; originated among black musicians in the south and midwest in the 1880s

Phonograph

record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound

buying stock on margin

purchasing stocks by borrowing some of the purchase cost from the brokerage firm

Stock Market Crash

Another leading component to the start of the Great Depression. The stock became very popular in the 1920's, then in 1929 in took a steep downturn and many lost their money and hope they had put in to the stock.

FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A federal guarantee of savings bank deposits initially of up to $2500, raised to $5000 in 1934, and frequently thereafter; continues today with a limit of $100,000

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.

Bonus Bill

vetoed by Madison; would of allowed central gvt. to finance internal improvements

Bonus Army (1932)

group of jobless World War I veterans who came to Washington to lobby Congress for immediate payment of money promised them in 1945; Hoover opposed payment, and when he used the U.S. Army to drive the veterans out of the capital, he was portrayed as cruel and cold-hearted.

Douglas MacArthur

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

Hoovervilles

Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress

John Steinbeck

American novelist who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath". (1939) A story of Dustbowl victims who travel to California to look for a better life.

Dust Bowl

A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

John Nance Garner

Was a Democrat who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives who initially ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1932 before joining FDR'S ticket ad his vice president candidate.

New Deal

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd US President - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII/ "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"

Henry David Thoreau

American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.

Emergency Banking Act

A government legislation passed during the depression that dealt with the bank problem. The act allowed a plan which would close down insolvent banks and reorganize and reopen those banks strong enough to survive.

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

relieved household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs

Harry Hopkins

A New York social worker who headed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration. He helped grant over 3 billion dollars to the states wages for work projects, and granted thousands of jobs for jobless Americans.

Alphabet Agencies

Nickname for the New Deal programs that were often referred to by their initials