Many of the places and people in Lolita are pure caricatures of American “types.” The novel makes fun of everything which was quintessentially “American” in the late 1940s and 1950s, good and bad: Hollywood movies, middle-class consumerism, motels, Freudian psychology, slang, racial ...
This episode's title “The Milk and Honey Route” is apparently a phrase from hobo slang, dating perhaps from the teens, 1920s and ‘30s. According to the internet, “Often hobos speak of a railroad as a ‘milk and honey route’. . . Any railroad running through a valley of plenty ...
1940s schnozz ( n ) Nose. Ferlin has trouble kissing because his schnozz gets in the way. 1940s schnozzola ( n ) Nose. Marvin would be handsome if he had less of a schnozzola. 1940s school ( v ) To teach someone a lesson. Man, give me that ball, I'm going to school yo...
The 20th Century American Musical essaysOriginally a distraction from the horrors of war during the 1940s and 1950s, the American Musical grew in popularity throughout the 20th century. The musical combines acting, dancing, and singing to form cohesive p
very different than it is today. People did not go about things the same way we do. Values in the 1940s was all about segregation‚ women in factories‚ and slang. Segregation was a big part ofculturein the 1940s. There was segregation in both sports and war. Jackie Robinson was ...
(French slang for the sons and daughters of Algerian, and also Moroccan and Tunisian, immigrants) fans celebrating these ambassadors of normality from the oft troubled country of their parents or grandparents. I suspect that the audience, like some of thechaabiold timers, included a certain ...
Rap is similar to the “call and response of the black church, the joy and pain of the blues, the jive talk and slang of the hipsters and jazz musicians, the boasting of street talk, the sidesplitting humor of comedians, and the articulateness of black activists.” All of these African...
Try not to use slang (colloquial language). The mechanics of your writing should be checked for errors. Always give your best effort. Lesson 10(*) Vocabulary* *Take Vocabulary Quiz #1. Grade it by using the answer key. Record your grade out of 25, not 26. This gives you a potential ...
(1) Poor Richard’s Almanac (2) Autobiography 3. contribution (1) He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society. (2) He was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire (electricity in this case) from heaven”. ...
The title of the painting includes the name Margarita, perhaps referring to a slang term for sex workers in Valencia at the time. The name also suggests a literary connection to Goethe’s tragic play Faust (1829), in which Margaret (also called Gretchen) commits infanticide after being deceive...