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The 20th century was the most influential in the shaping of the human race. It brought many new inventions and ways of thinking. Two decades within the 20th century which were a big vocal point of this era was the 1920’s and the 1980’s. The 20’s brought new innovations in automobiles and natural disasters which helped the U.S. plan for future disasters. The 80’s brought new fashion and a completely different way to escape reality through movies. Both of these decades helped shaped a nation, but by how much did they shape a nation? To determine that, they are ranked on the great man continuum. Where something is placed on the continuum is determined by how much of an impact it made on the nation. The three topics which I thought helped influence the nation in the 20’s was the great flood of 1927, Sears Roebuck and co., and the Chrysler building. I chose these topics because they influenced life the most and are all different aspects of life. For the 80’s I chose fashion fads and faux pas, Hollywood movies, and Glasnost and Perestroika. These topics as well were very influential and were all in different categories. The flood of 1927 showed that the U.S. needs to be more prepared for natural disasters, and that nature is very powerful. It was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Sears Roebuck and Co. brought the affordability of many items down to poor people’s levels. People could get what they wanted, it also brought in the catalogue. The construction of the Chrysler building introduced a new way to build, no longer did you need a lot of space for your office, and you now could have all the space in the world, just in the sky, with skyscrapers. Today, the flood of 1927 helped the U.S. be prepared for the next natural disaster, such as Katrina. There will never be a way to completely get rid of the damage from natural disasters, but at least we can be prepared. Sears now is one of the biggest retail stores in the U.S. It was the biggest until Wal-Mart came along. Skyscrapers can be seen all around the world, they are in every city in the world, getting taller and taller as each one is built. The 80’s had some pretty strange fashion, but the fashion is changing every 6 months in the U.S. it is just a phase that comes and goes. The Hollywood movies of the time where bigger and better than ever before, and only got better. Gorbachav was able to keep piece in the Soviet Union, which was needed, but people have been peacekeepers before. Fashion will always be changing, the fashion of the 80’s was strange, but who knows. Maybe it will come back. The movies of the 1980’s were the grounds that movies were built on, the 1980’s was the foundation of technology and many sequels. Gorbachav is remembered today and so are his policies. In the 1920’s all of these topics were extremely influential, unlike the 1980’s. The one I think is the most influential, is the sears roebuck and co. It really industrialized America and let people get what they want. Hands down the topic of the 1980’s that is the best is Hollywood. The rest really did nothing, they just showed how society understands nothing and people cannot survive on their own. But regardless the movies were awesome and everyone loved them, and today people still love movies and no thinks movies are unneeded, they help us escape reality a safe way.

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A quality comparison essay will

•Use the __four__ criteria of Great Man Continuum to analyze the significance of three 1920’s topics and three 1980s topics.

•Analyze of each of the 6 topics with evidence taken from the 1920s and 1980s wikis,

•Develop a thoughtful and thorough conclusions on all 6 topics,

•Rank the three topics for each decade and explain why one topic is more influential than the other two,

•Answer the essay question with a clear, well reasoned argument,

•Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice,

• Organize ideas in extended power paragraphs,

•Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase,

•Cite evidence with internal citations and in a Works Cited. Click links for exemplars.