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    Great Gatsby Analysis

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    this world‚ a beautiful little fool." The quote means to me that it is a man dominated world‚ and there is little hope against it. The world appears to be filled with people not having decent values‚ nor honest actions to allow prosperity. In the 1920s‚ the Great War leaving its scars on Europe‚ America‚ and as always‚ the people. No matter the time period‚ or the location for that matter will change people‚ much less their nature can be changed. My points lie with the truth that the Jazz Age‚ and

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    Coco Chanel

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    her first job in the fashion industry‚ she explained that it took place during WWI in 1909 and her goal was to make a “working costume” for women who took over the jobs of fighting men during the war. In 1912 she opened her first shop but it was the 1920’s when she really started becoming an icon. The roaring twenties were all about becoming “someone” and separating yourself from the old and “making life new.” This was what Coco Chanel was all about. Her styles were ahead of her time. “Fashion passes

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    Great Gatsby Exegesis

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    in the group of these people that was being curiously watched by the bystander below. Fitzgerald portrays this struggle of Nick in a high-class society to express his own views and opinions of the society he lived in. While Fitzgerald lived in the 1920’s‚ a time of an American dream of discovery

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    The 1920s was a very exuberant decade in which America was introduced to many African American writers‚ musicians‚ poets‚ photographers‚ and scholars. This decade is well known as the Harlem Renaissance. It was a movement that involved racial pride and it encouraged African Americans to take a stand and demand civil and political rights. All seemed well in the renaissance until the stock market crashed in 1929. Many seem to argue that the stock market crash was the primary cause of the end of the

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    Football Helmet Safety

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    athletes keep getting bigger‚ faster‚ and stronger. Until a couple years ago the research of concussion and helmet safety have both been on hold. The league has been around for a long time and the safety regulations have improved drastically. In the 1920’s all the way through the 1940’s the game of football was played with forms of leather helmets. These styles of head protectors provided almost zero percent increase in head protection. Finally in the 50’s and 60’s the recognizable plastic helmet was

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    social change it promotes. Disobedience is a beneficial human trait due to the fact that it allows people to be unique from one another. For example‚ Zelda Fitzgerald‚ wife of the writer of “The Great Gatsby”‚ was a very rebellious woman in the 1920s. Zelda was a flapper and frequently consumed alcohol which was frowned upon for women in the 20s. She believed that women should have more freedom to do what they desired and was seen as recalcitrant by most people. By being disobedient‚ Zelda was

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    style and timeless elegance in her evening gowns. Hers was an individual uncompromising style which seemed to have a liquid effect on the drapery and turned fashionable women into living statues. ( "gres"‚ 2004).Elsa Schiaparelli who emerged in the 1920’s continued her popular designs in the 1930’s. Her fashion used art‚ with new materials and her stunning knit wear. Her hats were shaped as lamb chops and shoes. Usually designing items with intense colors such as lime green‚ yellow‚ turquoise or her

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    sectional tensions (1814-1850) Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1870) Unit 6: Gilded Age (1870-1900) Unit 7: New Imperialism‚ Progressivism‚ and WWI (1900-1919) Unit 8: Interwar Period: Roaring Twenties‚ Jazz Age‚ and Great Depression (1920-1939) Unit 9: WWII‚ Start of Cold War‚ 1950’s Conformity (1939-1959) Unit 10: Turbulent 1960’s‚ Cold War continued‚ 1970’s (1960-1979) Unit 11: Reagan Revolution‚ End of Cold War‚ Modern United States (1980-2000) Rubric/Directions for Analysis

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    Swimsuits In The 1800's

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    fashion-led its role in an ordinary dress and the outfits were very modest‚ it almost covered the whole body. Women never even wanted men to see none of their privacy. They were assisted into the sea from a bathing suit. But then the athletics in the 1920’s changes the outfit to more showing of the body than ever before to tanks suits. The liberated long skirts‚ that hugging wool jersey sleeveless tank suit. Later the same century this outfit changed in 1928. The athletic bathing suit started to look

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    The Age of Partying Many people enjoy the occasional weekend parties‚ but in the Jazz Age parties never ended. This time took place during the 1920s and was known to many as the Roaring twenties. Many held these parties daily‚ but no party was as extravagant as Jay Gatsby’s which often last all through the night. Throughout his own life F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ (author of The Great Gatsby) had lived in the partying lifestyle of the roaring twenties. Many of his experiences directly relate to the novel

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