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Introduction and Thesis Statement 9: introduces most of the major issues, very clear thesis Use of Facts 8: used multiple facts to support your thesis, very clear detailed facts: good job mentioning names, dates, historical terms Use of Documents 7: nice use of documents, analyze more deeply about the documents Use of Analysis 8: good job connecting all parts of your essay to your thesis [|AP US DBQ Keunwha Song.doc][|AP US DBQ Keunwha Song.doc] Comment for Keunwha: Good job building up to why entertainment became popular. However, only one document is used (and it is only mentioned). Perhaps you could have integrated the documents and information you know together to write a deeper essay. You could have also mentioned the painter O’Keefe (doc E), and how she was a leading regionalism painter; and that different parts of American was undergoing a vast spread of arts and culture. You could have also mentioned the Harlem Renaissance, Thesis: 8 Fact: 7 Document: 2 Analysis: 6

The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment pp. 648–650, 726–732

How did developments of science, art, and entertainment shape the American identity of 1920s to early 1930s?

Document A
Source: [|Modern Mechanix] Issue: [|Dec, 1934] http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/

Document B
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The Scopes Trial: Homo Neanderthalensis, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925
II The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. They mirror very accurately his congenital hatred of knowledge, his bitter enmity to the man who knows more than he does, and so gets more out of life. Certainly it cannot have gone unnoticed that their membership is recruited, in the overwhelming main, from the lower orders -- that no man of any education or other human dignity belongs to them. What they propose to do, at bottom and in brief, is to make the superior man infamous -- by mere abuse if it is sufficient, and if it is not, then by law. Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average. These super-Chandala often attain to a considerable power, especially in democratic states. Their followers trust them and look up to them; sometimes, when the pack is on the loose, it is necessary to conciliate them. But their puissance cannot conceal their incurable inferiority. They belong to the mob as surely as their dupes, and the thing that animates them is precisely the mob's hatred of superiority. Whatever lies above the level of their comprehension is of the devil. A glass of wine delights civilized men; they themselves, drinking it, would get drunk. Ergo, wine must be prohibited. The hypothesis of evolution is credited by all men of education; they themselves can't understand it. Ergo, its teaching must be put down. This simple fact explains such phenomena as the Tennessee buffoonery. Nothing else can. We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive -- and a few are enough to carry on. III The inferior man's reasons for hating knowledge are not hard to discern. He hates it because it is complex -- because it puts an unbearable burden upon his meager capacity for taking in ideas. Thus his search is always for short cuts. All superstitions are such short cuts. Their aim is to make the unintelligible simple, and even obvious. So on what seem to be higher levels. No man who has not had a long and arduous education can understand even the most elementary concepts of modern pathology. But even a hind at the plow can grasp the theory of chiropractic in two lessons. Hence the vast popularity of chiropractic among the submerged -- and of osteopathy, Christian Science and other such quackeries with it. They are idiotic, but they are simple -- and every man prefers what he can understand to what puzzles and dismays him. The popularity of Fundamentalism among the inferior orders of men is explicable in exactly the same way. The cosmogonies that educated men toy with are all inordinately complex. To comprehend their veriest outlines requires an immense stock of knowledge, and a habit of thought. It would be as vain to try to teach to peasants or to the city proletariat as it would be to try to teach them to streptococci. But the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters. Politics and the fine arts repeat the story. The issues that the former throw up are often so complex that, in the present state of human knowledge, they must remain impenetrable, even to the most enlightened men. How much easier to follow a mountebank with a shibboleth -- a Coolidge, a Wilson or a Roosevelt! The arts, like the sciences, demand special training, often very difficult. But in jazz there are simple rhythms, comprehensible even to savages. IV What all this amounts to is that the human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera -- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all. http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/docs/menckenneander.htm

Document D http://www.incois.gov.in/Tutor/science%2Bsociety/lectures/illustrations/lecture25/scopes2.jpg

Document E [arts/music] Source: Georgia O’Keefe, The Radiator Building at Night (NYC), 1927 (painting)

Document F [arts/music]

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro Life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul—the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Yet the Philadelphia clubwoman… turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations—likewise almost anything else distinctly racial…She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug as near white in smug as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist …to change through the hidden force of his **art** that old whispering “I want to be white,” hidden in the aspirations of his people, to “Why should I want to be white? I am Negro—and beautiful.”

Document G [art/music] ||
 * New form of advertisements; 1920s

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Document H [entertainment] Harlem Night Life, Painting http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/NewWoman/IndexImages/htmlpages/harlempainting.htm

Document I [entertainment] Article about Flappers and Smoking http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/Prohibition/IndexImages/htmpages/flapperdrinking.htm

Document J [entertainment] Baseball in the 20s http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/5830/johnspage.html?200727