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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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    The Characters Who Made the 1920’s Roar The roaring twenties‚ a time period of great change in society‚ has become synonymous with desire for great wealth‚ the emergence of new cultures for men‚ women‚ and society‚ in addition to a recreation of the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses his major characters in the novel as a microcosm of high society‚ to represent its complexity. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald uses characterization to offer commentary on high society during the Roaring

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    Before the 1930’s Toward the end of the 1910s and into the 20s‚ women began to dress for comfort over the formal style they had previously worn. This was partially because of the increasing number of women in the workforce due to the large numbers of men who were sent to fight in WWI. Women also become more active consumers as city life boomed. From dresses to make up‚ women were buying much more in both local stores and big department brands. Unfortunately‚ the campaign for women’s rights dwindled

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    The 1920s were a time of great change in the United States. World War I had just ended and everyone was joyous that it was over. New jobs were created and styles changed to fit these new times. It was during this period that the flapper came about. The flapper’s unfamiliar style shocked those of the older generation. Her hair was cut in a bob style ‚ she wore shorter‚ more revealing dresses‚ and walked around with a bold new confidence. The flapper was a symbol of the change that occurred during

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    The Roaring Twenties seem like a dream to many‚ but “The Roaring Twenties were the period of that great american prosperity which was built on shaky foundations “(J. Paul Getty). Even though the twenties were the calm before the storm‚ there are many forms of entertainment that helped shape the future of entertainment. These forms of entertainment include jazz music‚ the silent film industry‚ and the improvement in cartoons. One of the first things to influence this era in American History were

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