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Age of Anxiety. Culture Between Wars. Albert Einstein. Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over & Over Again & Expecting Different Results. Albert Einstein. German physicist General Theory of Relativity. Run Ins With Nukes. Visited US in 1933 (Hitler Time) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Age of AnxietyCulture Between Wars
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Albert Einstein
Insanity: Doing the Same Thing Over & Over Again & Expecting Different Results
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Albert Einstein• German physicist• General Theory of
Relativity
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Run Ins With Nukes• Visited US in 1933 (Hitler Time)• Alerted FDR to look into Nuclear
Development• Manhattan Project
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Run Ins With Nukes• Denounced Nuclear Weapons
Because of Damage
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Sigmund Freud
“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success”
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Sigmund Freud• Austrian Neurologist
• Father of psychology
6.1 I.B. New scientific
paradigms (ex. Psychology)
transformed human
understanding of the world.
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Escape from Nazi Germany
Burning of Books = no freedom of thought • Escape to Great Britain
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Who Would Be Your “3?”
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Instinct & Drives• Even though we are complex &
sophisticated, we are still animals
• Behavior is governed by drives• Sex is especially important
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ID (Instinctual Drive)• Animal Part– Food, Drink,
Sex• Aggressive
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Superego• Moral • Behavior parents approve of• Guilt
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Ego• YOU• Balance the demands of the
ID & the constraints of the superego
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Unconscious Mind
FearsViolent MotivesIrrational WishesSelfish NeedsShameful ExperiencesTraumatic Experiences
ThoughtsPerceptions
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Pablo Picasso
“The Purpose of Art is Washing the Dust of Daily Life off our Souls.”
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Pablo Picasso• Famous Spanish cubist• Rejected realism• Cubism: Expressionist style that
featured geometric planes and angles; looks like an intricate stack of boxes
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Pablo Picasso
“Nature and art, being two different things, cannot be the same thing, period. Through art, we express our concept of what nature is not.”
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6.1 I.A. New modes of communication and transportation virtually eliminated the problem
of geographic distance.
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6.1 I.A. New modes of communication and transportation virtually eliminated the problem
of geographic distance.
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Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
• 4 trends in American society result from a desire for normalcy:– Renewed isolationism– Resurgence of nativism– Trend toward conservatism (away
from Progressivism)– Threat of communism
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Flappers• Flapper: an independent young woman who
adopts new fashions & progressive attitudes; short hair, boyish clothing, makeup
• Young women begin to assert their independence & demand the same freedoms as men
• Women were having fewer children• The divorce rate doubles in the 1920s
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The Lost GenerationWriters of the 1920s• Most authors criticized the
lifestyle of the 20s; materialism, conformity, etc...
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: reveals negative side of 1920s freedoms and lifestyle
• Ernest Hemingway: criticizes the glorification of war
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Movies
• Silent movies already popular; introduction of sound increases attendance
• “The Jazz Singer”: first movie with sound
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Fad: Pfefferminz
• Edward Haas came up with this new peppermint candy
• 1948: easy, dispenser that we all recognize now to be a regular
• More Pez dispensers are sold than there are kids.
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Fad: Dance Marathons• Height of The
Depression• Record: 5,148 hours
and 28.5 minutes• Prizes ranged
anywhere between $1000 to $5000, but many contestants participated solely for the promise of food and shelter
• Eventually Outlawed
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Fad: Flag Pole Sitting• Alvin Kelly: King of
the Flag Pole• Daniel Baraniuk: a
16-by-24-inch platform on an 8-foot pole for 196 days
• Died out around 1929
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Fad: Miss America Pageant
• originated on September 7, 1921 as a 2 day contest in New Jersey
• Miss America 1922
• Modern Woman: Eat right, exercise etc.
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Fad: Slang
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All That Jazz….
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6.3 I.B. At the beginning of the century in the United States and parts of Europe, governments played a minimal role in their national economies. With the onset of the Great Depression, governments began to take a more active role in economic
life (ex. the New Deal).
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6.3 I.B. At the beginning of the century in the United States and
parts of Europe, governments played a minimal role in their
national economies. With the onset of the Great Depression,
governments began to take a more active role in economic life (ex. the
New Deal).