In "The Great Gatsby", what era is the story set in? A. Medieval times B. 1920s C. 18th century D. 1950s 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 B。本题考查《了不起的盖茨比》的故事背景年代。故事设定在 20 世纪 20 年代。中世纪、18 世纪和 20 世纪 50 年代都不符合该作品的背景设定。反馈 ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated byEncyclopaedia Britannica. Louis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong, 1953.(more) jazz music Written by Gunther Schuller Jazz historian, composer, and musicologist. Author ofThe Compleat Conductor, The Swing Era, The History...
What are the Four Olds described in the Cultural Revolution? What were the opposers of the Cultural Revolution called? What is a cultural revolution? What was the Cultural Revolution? What was revolutionary about the Cultural Revolution? What is an example of a Cultural Revolution? What caused ...
What era was the feminist movement a part of? Where did feminism come from? What milestone in the feminist movement occurred in 1920? What happened during the first wave of feminism? What political standing is the feminist movement? What was the black feminist movement?
Key: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)was the greatest playwright in the 20th-century England and ever won the NobelPrize in 1925. Shaw expressed his views on a variety of subjects with greatfrankness and wit, producing a tremendous body of work, like Mrs. Warren’sProfession, Major Barbara,...
A modern day speakeasy is generally either a bar that has been around since the 1920s and so is selling history, or a bar that resembles what is was like in the 1920s and so is selling nostalgia. Why is it called Speakeasy? It is called a speakeasy because one was supposed to speak...
Peloponnesian War and the Second World War were very different, and both were unique. But the historiancalls them both wars, and only the pedant will protest. When Gibbon wrote of both the establishment of Christianity by Constantine and the rise of Islam as revolutions, he was generalizing ...
In short, old-time piano is inclusive of Piano Rags, and broadens to include similar forms of music, primarily popular song, that are from the Ragtime era. The focus of this page is on the playing of instrumental Piano Ragtime music forms. However, most of what is below can easily be ...
An economic depression and then another world war stemmed the tide of materialism and its close companions, hedonism and epicureanism. But with the aid of the new technology called television, the entertainment and advertising industries regained the upper hand for the materialists. “An unfortunate...
Focus on Westend and Bahnhofsviertel After much war damage had been repaired towards the end of the 1950s and most of the open spaces within the actual city center had disappeared, the question of developing expansion areas for the city arose. AsFrankfurt’scity center was oriented more to ...