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Abel Gance

Abel Gance is a French film director. He is best known for his major silent film: the monumental 

Napoléon. It is a gigantic six-hour documentary of Napoleon, outlining his livelihood from his 

schooldays and the Terror, ending in his successful conquest of Italy.  The film stops there because 

it was planned to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the 

other five. The film’s famous standing because of the remarkable range of techniques that Gance 

uses to tell his story. 

Black Thursday - October 24, 1929

1929 - The stock market. 

What made the stock market crash?

Black Thursday - October 24, 1929

On the morning of Thursday, October 24, 1929, stock prices Dropped . Huge numbers of people were trading their stocks. People throughout the country watched the ticker as the numbers it spit out spelled their fate.

During the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to heights points never before seen. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than multiplied in value. Many investors became persuaded that stocks were a sure thing and lent heavily to capitalize more money in the market. 

But in 1929, the bubble rupture and stocks started to melt down. In 1932 and 1933, they hit lowest, down about 80% from their highs in the late 1920s. This had sharp effects on the economy. Demand for goods weakened because people felt poor because of their losses in the stock market. New assets could not be sponsored through the sale of stock, because no one would buy.

But possibly the most significant effect was disorder in the banking system as banks tried to gather on loans. Sadder, many banks had themselves participated depositors' in the stock market. When word blowout that banks' moneys enclosed vast uncollectable loans and almost valueless stock certificates, people ran to withdraw their money.

By 1933, the banking system had mainly stopped to function. Investors had seen $140 billion vanish when their banks failed

Jazz the cultare

Many people around the world listen to jazz, and few of them from my personal experience know about it. Whenever I hear jazz music I remember the state of Louisiana, Chicago city, and New York City. Jazz has been a part of a proud African American tradition for over 100 years, I wasn’t wrong when I said that it remind me of Louisiana state, because it roots goes back to 1910 in New Orleans, and it’s not only a music it’s more like a culture.

 

From the very start, jazz has been about liberty, effort and discrete appearance. Its break from musical tradition and highlighted on improvisation and innovation set it up as the background to cultural changes, and it influences international culture today. Jazz is played, with its own local talent, on every land.

“During Prevention and the economic success of the 1920s, jazz became the soundtrack to parties in underground clubs, called "speakeasies," where pleasure ruled and outlawed liquor was consumed. Because of its roots in African-American culture, and the places, occasions and activities with which it was associated, jazz initially bore the label of "low culture."” (http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/jazz3.htm)