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    Fashion in the 1920's

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    Women’s Fashion in the 1920’s Fashion became a large influence on women in the 1920’s. This allowed women to become independent and free from the society. Many designers such as‚ Coco Chanel‚ Jeanne Lanvin and Salvatore Ferragamo have made an enormous impact on the evolution of women’s clothing. Styles of clothing have changed overtime‚ especially during the 1920’s era. During this time‚ hemlines became shorter‚ clothing was more revealing‚ women dressed freely and the sophistication and elegance

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    1920’s- Did it truly roar? The roaring twenties were a period of excitement and wealth which also served as a façade that covered all the negatives which are often ignored. These negatives included a growing loss of civil liberties‚ massive amounts of xenophobia and racism‚ crime as a result of religious fundamentalism‚ and the abandonment of progressivism and a movement towards isolationism. The 1920’s were a period of economic boom‚ new culture and emerging technologies. New ideas surfaced

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    When gender roles are swapped‚ whose heart‚ and sanity‚ will still survive? All through Hemingway’s childhood and his life he was described as a man’s man and he was the big tough guy‚ but that’s not the case in his novels. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises‚ Hemingway shows‚ through the characters of Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes‚ that the pre-war gender roles are not entirely true anymore. Even Jennifer Blanch‚ the author of “Gender Identity and the Modern Condition in The

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    beautiful and charming‚ Myrtle is straightforward and fleshy. Aside from physical traits‚ these two antagonists can also be contrasted in terms of social status. Myrtle‚ a middle classed character living in a garage in the valley of ashes‚ is a flapper who is commonly frowned upon by others. Daisy in contrast lives in a Georgian Colonial Mansion situated in the upper-class neighborhood‚ the east egg. Well educated and pretty‚ Daisy‚ who has much free time and money on her hands‚ has not much of

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    WOMEN IN THE 1920S

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    confident and wanted to utilize this new "power" in other areas. Many women gave up controlling aspects of the time. A lot woman went from the long and buttoned up clothes to shortening their dressed and bobbed their hair‚ the called those women “Flappers”. The 1920’s was a new age for women where they could start to enjoy personal freedom. For women at home in the 1920’s‚ they started to live outside the confines of being a just wife and homemaker to women that got jobs outside the home such as

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    This comment shows that Billy can be crabby sometimes‚ a couple of days before this Billy’s Aunt Anne grabbed him by the hair. It was just the beginning of the jazz age when Anne’s friend Libby came over for dinner‚ Libby is what you would call a flapper. When she met Mr.Gilbreth she tells him that he is handsome and gallant. ’"Oh boy‚’ groaned Bill"(167). This passage suggests that Billy can be pettish‚ Billy says this because of all of the other girls at the dance said almost the same thing.

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    but they came right here at the knees.” Wilma Jean Buntin’s description of the basketball uniforms reflected the type of sports clothing wore during the 1920s. These uniforms called gym suits emulated the different ideas of the decade known as the Flapper. The sweater

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    The Emperor of Ice Cream

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    Usually‚ death is considered to be a solemn occurrence. It’s a situation that lends itself to respect‚ repose‚ remembrances‚ and most of all deference for the deceased. These emotions are always variant and dependent on the relation of one to the deceased. In the poem “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens‚ these sentiments that are so common and that are almost adhered to withought thought‚ are thrashed in the face of the reader. The general attitude toward death herewith seems that are of

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    Disobedience Oscar Wilde

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    of women changed significantly. Women rebelled against the "norm." They cut their hair up to their shoulders‚ started to wear dresses up to their knees‚ and smoked and danced in public. How do you think people reacted to this? Not very well. The "flappers" or changed women‚ were viewed as sinners and were many times shunned or ignored. This did didn’t change their mind though‚ for they knew that this change was necessary. Unmistakably‚ this rebellion brought forth great results. Without their rebellion

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    The Great Gatsby Journal 1 Quote: "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool." This quote‚ from chapter 1 is an important quote said by Daisy Buchanan‚ the second cousin of Nick Carraway‚ narrator of the "Great Gatsby". This quote is significant towards the story because it reveals glimpses into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself‚ but due to the times and the extent of her exposure to the social environment‚ she has not

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