Jan 3, 2010

The Great Gatsby | Compare and Contrast

1920s: The Ku Klux Klan stages a parade in Washington, D.C. with 40,000 marchers in white hoods.
Today: The neo-Nazi and white “skinhead” supremist movements have taken hold in parts of the U.S. A bombing suspect in the Oklahoma City federal building explosion, which killed over 160 people, expresses his anger at the FBI's mishandling of a standoff with a separatist group at Waco, Texas, in which the compound burned and many people were killed.
1920s: Prohibition is passed, prohibiting the manufacture and...