The phrase “American dream” was often used by Progressive-era reformers of the 1900s. Rather than exalting the pursuit of wealth, they sought to tame monopoly capitalism and protect workers and communities from robber barons.7This concept was popularized by writer and historian James Truslow Adam...
In the 1900s in America, kids traveled to school in different ways. Many walked. Others rode in farm trucks or on bikes. Some rode in school buses called “kid hacks.” Kid hacks were wooden horse-drawn carriages. It had two long bench seats with little space in the middle for people...
The idea of the flexibility of one's class and social standing provided much hope for those living in America in the 20th Century and those willing to immigrate to America for these very reasons. However, corruption of the American Dream was prominent throughout the 1900s, especially in the ...
The cowboy’s job is clear from the word cowboy. Cowboy were men who took care of cows and other cattle. The cattle were in the West and in Texas. People in the cities of the East wanted beef these cattle. Trains could take the cattle east. But first the cattle had to get to t...
Explore the theme of the American Dream in "Of Mice and Men". Read significant quotes and an analysis of the impossibility of the American Dream in...
in America. Puritanism pursues the real freedom and fights against any restrictions. The Puritanism builds the American nation’s characters of advancing in a pioneering spirit and the respects to those self-made men, which later evolved into the American Dream that people through the efforts of ...
“American dream”of yesterday.What the early settlers found was a continent with great forest, rivers, and fertile farmland in abundance.Large areas of land are uninhabited and anyone who wantstoown the land can occupy iteasilyand take investment and reclamation in the land.By the time of ...
In the early 1900s, there were more electric cars on the road than there were petrol (汽油) cars. At that time, petrol was 56. expensive compared with other fuels (燃料). 57. When petrol prices dropped and new technologies were developed, electric cars went out of fashion (过时). ...
1.___: Charles Richard Drew was an African American doctor. He lived during the first half of the 1900s. This was a very 16 time for black people. Few colleges wanted black people at that time. 2.___: In high school, Drew was good at sports. He also studied hard and was at th...
All of these horny weirdos have been cast out from their families, all of them are looking for surrogate relatives, and all of them have followed the American Dream to the same ridiculous place. Sure, there’s a world of darkness waiting for them when they get there, but that’s just ...