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It seems that most changes in the 1920s are very similar to the 1980s; they are both towards Great Persons. In the 1920s, most of the influences were technological advances, for example aviation that was really just a form of technological advance, and how person just took the advantage and put it to good use creating air mail, and transportation, etc. In the 1980s, there were stronger influences such as hip hop, that would have also just come up in the future, but the style and personality it spread was very much of an event making hero. In between the 1920s and 1980s there is definitely a variation of Great Persons and Civil Society, but much closer to Great Persons. Talking Movies had begun in the 1920s and this is a perfect example of technological evolution and its influence on people as well as Star Wars, ET and other films that used the new advanced technology of special effects in the 1980s. Talking Movies was extremely widespread, I mean, it’s lasted until today, movies evolved, and the importance to the performances of its actors such as Al Jolsen, were very important classifying this as an event making hero (Blaine F. and Brian M.). Star Wars and ET were other great examples of technological advancements and its wide range influence using special effects that has lasted incredibly in films today such as Hugo and how it changed cinema forever classifying it as another Event Making Hero (Brooks M). Talking movies were a way to connect their audiences more to the film and its impact on daily life is pretty moderate. Special effects gave me people a more detail form of understanding a storyline and also getting the attention needed and enhancing the imagination of the human being. These two topics are examples of technology which advanced and how we take its advantage and expand it into a more artistic form. The National Negro Baseball League in the 1920s as well as the 1980s MTV, Madonna, and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s were both strong already existing things that influenced people greatly. Baseball had already existed, in fact it was the only real sport available to African Americans in the 20s but when Rube Foster continued it **professionally,** it meant a lot to blacks (Mitch N.). MTV, Madonna and Bruce Springsteen were people and groups that started many different styles and shifting of personality (Becca J.). Baseball has had a very wide ranged influence, and it’s an often played sport today classifying it in between Event Making Heroes and Great Men. Madonna and MTV are very wide ranged influences and like Baseball leaving a legacy that have lasted incredibly until today giving people the inspiration to create music, music videos, and shifting personality to become like these influential persons classifying them as Event Making Heroes. Many already existing factors of daily had evolved into more important things giving people more interest in watching shows and listening to music, and play sports as well, something very valued today. These last two examples of influential persons are Charles Lindenbergh and his non-stop flight from New York to Paris in the 1920s and the Hip Hop age of the 1980s. Aviation was an ongoing technological advance that was yet to evolve into air-mail, then transportation (Ben C.). Hip Hop, like MTV, also created a different language of music and style of dressing and daily speaking. Aviation was just as said before, a technological advancement taken advantage of connecting people from other countries, bringing together cultures and faith, extremely widespread and classified as an Event Making Hero (Corbin D). Hip hop created “slang” and another division of society both in personality and “thug life” clothing style. These have all been Event Making Heroes with the exception of a Great Man, and this helps identify that our society today has been greatly affected by these changes. Event Making Heroes have affected our lifestyles today incredibly though not because there was one man or group who created it but how technology evolved and how we take advantage of it and inspire new ideas and creations from the common day human being. Before the 1920s many of the topics discussed had already started and before that, they may have been Great Men, but throughout the decades, really everything was bound to occur. These evolutions still exist today, varying from styles of music, to styles of singing, and from complex technologies, to simpler devices and so on. In conclusion to answering the question, “Who was more influential in the 1920s and 1980s--Great Persons or Civil Society?” the answer would have to be Great Persons.

Work Cited ====Ben Clark. " Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop from New York to Paris . " 2011. //Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //. Web. 30 Mar 2012. ====

==== Corbin Dennis. " Hip Hop Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five. " 2012. //Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //. Web. 30 Mar 2012. ====

==== Brooks Mason. " Star Wars, ET, Indiana Jones, George Lucas. " 2012. //Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //. Web. 30 Mar 2012. ====

Brian Moser, Blaine Furey<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">. " Louis B. Mayer and the American Film Industry,Al Jolson and Talking Movies<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 17px;">. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">" 2011. //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">. Web. 30 Mar 2012.

Mitch Nini<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">. " National Negro Baseball League (1920-1930)<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 17px;">. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">" 2011. //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //. Web. 30 Mar 2012.

Becca Jaskot<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">. " MTV, Madonna, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 17px;">. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">" 2012. //<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Buchholtz Sidor American Studies //. Web. 30 Mar 2012. RUBRIC

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. Sweeping claims made without analyzing the criteria

•Analyze of each of the 6 topics with evidence taken from the 1920s and 1980s wikis, Topics are listed and generally discussed

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

•Rank the three topics for each decade and explain why one topic is more influential than the other two, this was not done

•Answer the essay question with a clear, well reasoned argument, summary made--but conclusions are unsupported

•Explain why the __second__ choice fell short compared to the __first__ choice but is more just than the __third__ choice, not done

•Organize ideas in extended power paragraphs, inconsistently done

•Identify the source and establish its credibility with an appositive phrase, not done

•Cite evidence with internal citations and in a Works Cited. Click links for exemplars. IC are mostly correct; alphabetize WC