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American Self-Making and Self-Help self-made - Coggle Diagram

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        F Scott Fitzgerald: American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age
        Quote: The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first sex, then dancing, then music. It is associated with a state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big cities behind lines of a war
        
        Sinclair Lewis: American writer and playwright; Author of Babbitt, a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social pressure toward conformity. Quote: "The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. He sought to regain his lost dignity..."
        
        Dorothy Parker: American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; author of The Waltz. Quote: "And I had to go and tell him that I'd adore to dance with him. I cannot understand why I wasn't struck right down dead. Yes, and being struck dead would look like a day in the country, compared to struggling out a dance with this boy.."
    - - Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader; Wrote a Letter while in Birmingham Jail. Quote: "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience"
      - Malcolm X: American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement.
    - - Betty Friedan: American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
      - Phyllis Schlafly: American attorney, conservative activist, author, and anti-feminist spokesperson for the national conservative movement.
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    - - Family as a Foundation