Vulgar
07-06-2015, 09:19 PM
Intro
This week we will focus on specific time periods for topics. Each battle will be assigned an era or time period for a topic. Please check your battles if you haven't already. Remember that these topics are just stepping stones for your ideas. Read the quick bios provided for some background if your not familiar. You are free to write what you want as long as it pertains some how to the era. it could be an event in history you remember, or a popular book from that era. what ever comes to mind. These are just example of what you could write about. Enjoy.
Vietnam
The Vietnam War marked some of the most turbulent times in America. Many felt that America had jumped into the war unjustly and that American citizens were being drafted and sent to die in a foreign country. The war was violent and bloody and remains one of America's longest conflicts.
"I had prayed to God that this thing was fiction."
- Colonel William Wilson
Present Day (Modern Era)
America present day represents the lengths of technology. We voice our opinions more so on social media than in voting booths. The country is marred by political extremism that only harms the people in the middle. Somehow, Iphones, TV dramas, and apathy define the present times.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Roaring Twenties
Also referred to as the Golden twenties. Jazz blossomed, culture blossomed, and times were good for most. This Era is marked by the Harlem renaissance, Women's suffrage, prohibition, and mobsters.
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
Gilded Age
"Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. In the popular view, the late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of rapacious Robber Barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal-plagued politics, and vulgar display.
It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. But it is more useful to think of this as modern America's formative period, when an agrarian society of small producers were transformed into an urban society dominated by industrial corporations."
"In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. " - Walt Whitman
The 2nd Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution marked many technological advances and cultural changes. Steam power and cotton Mills. Industry and technology. Though there was gleaming order and progress in this Era it is Silhouetted by the tragedy of the Civil War, the birth of the KKK, and the rebellious nature of Western expansion.
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. "- Irving Babbitt
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War in America was Birthed by the idealism of Liberty. Thomas Paines Common Sense, " Give me Liberty or give me death", "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" This Era symbolizes American hope.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine
Civil Rights
The civil rights Era saw racial tensions flair. Several influential leaders including President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,and Malcolm X. Disparity, uncertainty, and turbulence are synonymous with this Era.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Great Depression
The Great Depression marked arguably the darkest Era in American history. Many starved, many more rambled from place to place aiming to work for food and shelter. Greed and corruption amidst bankers victimized the masses in this time period.
"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'" - John Steinbeck (The grapes of wrath)
This week we will focus on specific time periods for topics. Each battle will be assigned an era or time period for a topic. Please check your battles if you haven't already. Remember that these topics are just stepping stones for your ideas. Read the quick bios provided for some background if your not familiar. You are free to write what you want as long as it pertains some how to the era. it could be an event in history you remember, or a popular book from that era. what ever comes to mind. These are just example of what you could write about. Enjoy.
Vietnam
The Vietnam War marked some of the most turbulent times in America. Many felt that America had jumped into the war unjustly and that American citizens were being drafted and sent to die in a foreign country. The war was violent and bloody and remains one of America's longest conflicts.
"I had prayed to God that this thing was fiction."
- Colonel William Wilson
Present Day (Modern Era)
America present day represents the lengths of technology. We voice our opinions more so on social media than in voting booths. The country is marred by political extremism that only harms the people in the middle. Somehow, Iphones, TV dramas, and apathy define the present times.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Roaring Twenties
Also referred to as the Golden twenties. Jazz blossomed, culture blossomed, and times were good for most. This Era is marked by the Harlem renaissance, Women's suffrage, prohibition, and mobsters.
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
Gilded Age
"Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. In the popular view, the late 19th century was a period of greed and guile: of rapacious Robber Barons, unscrupulous speculators, and corporate buccaneers, of shady business practices, scandal-plagued politics, and vulgar display.
It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism. But it is more useful to think of this as modern America's formative period, when an agrarian society of small producers were transformed into an urban society dominated by industrial corporations."
"In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. " - Walt Whitman
The 2nd Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution marked many technological advances and cultural changes. Steam power and cotton Mills. Industry and technology. Though there was gleaming order and progress in this Era it is Silhouetted by the tragedy of the Civil War, the birth of the KKK, and the rebellious nature of Western expansion.
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. "- Irving Babbitt
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War in America was Birthed by the idealism of Liberty. Thomas Paines Common Sense, " Give me Liberty or give me death", "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" This Era symbolizes American hope.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." - Thomas Paine
Civil Rights
The civil rights Era saw racial tensions flair. Several influential leaders including President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,and Malcolm X. Disparity, uncertainty, and turbulence are synonymous with this Era.
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Great Depression
The Great Depression marked arguably the darkest Era in American history. Many starved, many more rambled from place to place aiming to work for food and shelter. Greed and corruption amidst bankers victimized the masses in this time period.
"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'" - John Steinbeck (The grapes of wrath)