1920s Power Point

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Breaking the Silence of

Morality: The Consequences of

New Morality on Peoples Lives

in the 1920s

By: Neisa


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Some people like to be heard in the world,

but others see the world differently and

choose to be voiceless and silent

throughout their life. A different aspect or

way of seeing it is that people keep to

themselves and dont like to share their

problems with their peers.


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This is the Valley of Ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes

grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque

gardens, where ashes take the form of houses and

chimneys and risking smoke and finally, with atranscendent effort, of men who move dimly and already

crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of

grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a

ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-

grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an

impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure

operations from your sight ( Fitzgerald 27).


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It is a multifaceted condition. It has many dimensions,

among which are poor access to public services and

infrastructure, unsanitary environmental surrounding,illiteracy and ignorance, poor health, insecurity,

voicelessness and social exclusion as well as low levels

of household income and food insecurity. All these

aspects of poverty are life-shortening, involve greatsuffering and pain (from disease and hunger) and the

undermine an essential dignity and decency to life.


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In the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it shows how

people in the 1920s lived different lifestyles. The plot of

this book takes place in Long Island in two places called

West Egg and East Egg. There is also another placecalled the Valley of Ashes. The people who live in the

Valley of Ashes have less money than West Egg and

East Egg, but they keep to themselves about it. The

people there do not complain that they do not have all

the leisure things that the other people have. Althoughthey do not have as much money as the people in West

and East Egg, they are very content and they are fine

with the way they live.


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Many Americans and people around the

world feel as though their voice is notbeing heard. They believe that if they

rebel against the rules and laws, their

opinion will be taken into consideration.


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I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second

time was that afternoon, so everything that happened

has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eightoclock the apartment was full of cheerful sun. Sitting on

Toms lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the

telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out

to buy some at the drug store on the corner. (Fitzgerald

33-34).


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Economic models of rebellion usually treat it as a form ofcrime or banditry. However, the analogy is not developed.

This article treats rebellion as a distinctive form of

organized crime that differs from other crime in its

objective, which is the predation of the rents on naturalresource exports. Because such rents can be defended by

government forces, rebel forces must be sufficiently large

to defend themselves. This introduces a survival constraint

that affects whether a rebellion s financially viable and how

it reacts to increases on government forces, and introducesan entry threshold. This threshold gives rise to a problem

for a rebellion of attracting sufficient start-up finance. The

predictions of the model are shown to be consistent with

four stylized factors.


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In the 1920s, many people rebelled

against the rules and laws that the

government created. One of the biggest

ones was prohibition. Prohibition was the

law that no one was allowed to consume,

sell, or buy alcoholic substances. Many

Americans were not a fan of this and didnot obey the law.


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Todays world is filled with many different

people. Many of these people like to be

heard and like to say what is on their

mind, but a good amount of people do not.Americans are faced with different

challenges everyday and every person

has a different way of dealing with thesestruggles.


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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like

moths among the whisperings and the champagne and

the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched hisguests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun

on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor boats

slit the water of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over

cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce

became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city,between nine in the morning and long past midnight,

while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow

bug to meet all trains. (Fitzgerald 43).


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The motion that there are times of moral

silence is not without its puzzle, and those

who would insist that morality is never

silent--that all choices are subject topractical reasoning that requires a

balancing of factors of normative

significance--may locate the gaps ofmorality not in silences, but in face-offs.


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The Great Gatsby shows how many

people do not like sharing their personal

thoughts with the people who surround

them when Gatsby does not talk toanyone at his own party. This is

significant because it represents how

different people respond to differentenvironments and surroundings.


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Sources

Michael Rustin

Reflections on the present: a conjunctural analysis of the current global financial crisis.

Soundings

Winter 2009

December 14, 2009

Pg 18

In contrast to all this, the present crisis has plainly not been brought about by manifest

social conflicts of a class-based or any other kind. If the neoliberal system has now

encountered a crisis in its growth and development, it is not because it has been shaken

by the opposition orresistance of the social forces it set out to defeat. Indeed, as

contributors to Soundings have frequently pointed out, one of the greatest successes of

the neoconservative counter-revolution has been the demobilisation of class resistances to

capital, and the successful co-option of the political parties originally set up to represent

working-class interests to the task of co-managing the marketised social and economic

model. Not only was the financial meltdown not preceded by political or economic

demands from below, but no sense of heightened political consciousness has so far

emerged in response to the crisis itself. The dominant political mood, in Britain at least, is

one of widespread disenchantment with the system of governance in its entirety.


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Heidi M. Hurd

Paternalism on pain of punishment

Criminal Justice Ethics

May 2009

December 11, 2009

Pg 49

The notion that there are times of moral silence is not without its puzzles, (46) and those

who would insist that morality is never silent--that all choices are subject to practical

reasoning that requires a balancing of factors of normative significance--may locate the

"gaps" of morality not in silences, but in "face-offs." Consequentialists confront the

prospect of moral face-offs when the consequences that must be weighed in a choice

situation are "tied"--that is, when they would yield the same net balance of good and bad.In such "moral ties," it is plausible to think that one is at moral liberty to choose because no

choice is better or worse than its alternatives.


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Helen Barkby

Parents with learning disabilities: perceived incidence and needs.(PROFESSIONAL)

(Report).

Community Practitioner

November 2009

December 14, 2009 Pg 34

Historically, legislation tended to focus on the risks to children and even questioned the

morality of people with learning disabilities becoming parents. (4) However, there has

recently been increased recognition of the human rights of people with learning disabilities

to start a family. (5) In 2009, the UK government released its three-year strategy for adults

with learning disabilities (Valuing people now), which stresses the importance of

recognising and supporting the needs of these parents. (6) The Department of Health's2006 Good practice guidance on working with parents with a learning disability

emphasises the importance of services working together to protect the rights of both

parents and children, and places specific responsibilities on adult services to identify and

meet parents' needs. (7)


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Sources

Bolatito Lanre-Abass

Poverty and maternal mortality in Nigeria: towards a more viable ethics of modern medical

practice.(Commentary).

International Journal for Equity in Health

April 30, 2009

December 14, 2009

Pg11

Poverty can be defined as the situation of people whose "resources (material, social and

cultural) are so limited as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life in the

countries in which they live"[5]. It is a multifaceted condition. It has many dimensions,

among which are poor access to public services and infrastructure, unsanitaryenvironmental surrounding, illiteracy and ignorance, poor health, insecurity,

voicelessness and social exclusion, as well as low levels of household income and food

insecurity [6]. All these aspects of poverty are life-shortening, involve great suffering and

pain (from disease and hunger) and they undermine an essential dignity and decency to

life [7].


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Malachi Haim Hacohen

"The strange fact that the state of Israel exists": the cold war liberals between cosmopolitanism

and nationalism.

Jewish Social Studies

Winter 2009

December 14, 2009

Pg 37 Still, significant tensions between his liberalism and Zionism remained. In the 1970s, he

reformulated his theory on the origins of nationalism as the "bent-twig theory." (48) Nationalism

arose as a response to previous oppression and humiliation: it was the rebellion of the slaves.

Throughout the history of nationalism, from nineteenth-century Germany to the contemporary

Third World, foreign rule triggered a dangerous response among its subjects. In their liberation

struggle, the subjects claimed national superiority to their oppressors and, having won their

independence, instituted illiberal measures to guard their exclusivity and superiority. Berlin's own

account of Zionism--"Jewish Slavery and Emancipation"--fit this theory of nationalism rather than

Herder's. Moreover, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Zionism was all about the State of Israel,

the guarantor against genocide, and not about Herder's cultural community. Diaspora Zionism

could make peace with liberalism, but Israeli policies, which conformed to Berlin's outlook for

nationalism, could not. He was a gentle critic, apprehensive about post-1967 Israeli policies in the

occupied territories but willing to forgive much and always ready to defend the Zionist

achievement--an achievement he formulated as liberation according to the bent-twig theory.

Berlin's ambivalence about nationalism continued to the end. (49)

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