Comparsion Between Fitzgerald and Babe Ruth
Essay title: Comparsion Between Fitzgerald and Babe Ruth
An impact is “the force of impression of one thing on another” (Webster 485). Two men of great influence for people of today and yesterday were George Herman Ruth Jr. and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Both had a great impact upon the lifestyles of everyday citizens and although they accomplished this through different means of communication, they both were successful in bettering the lives of the common man during the time period of the “Roaring Twenties”.
The “Roaring Twenties” was a decent time period for many people living in the United States. After World War I, the United States entered a peacetime economy and it eventually became the richest nation on Earth during this period of time (
Politics during the 1920’s was very different than any other time. People were very uptight and afraid of the communists of the Soviet Union. During the beginning of the 1920s, Warren G. Harding, the current president at that time, declared a “return to normalcy,” which signaled isolationism, and a laissez-faire attitude, or laid back attitude (Smith 84). After Harding’s death in 1923, Calvin Coolidge replaced his as president from 1923-1929, and he was fairly similar to Harding. President Coolidge refused to use Federal economic power to check the growing economy (
George Herman Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland (Berke 18). His parents were Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth and they both worked in a bar (Berke 18). George didn’t have a happy childhood because he would watch himself most of the time (Berke 18). Ruth was unsuccessful in public school and often played hooky, so George Sr. decided to take George Jr. to St.