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    1920s America: Good Times

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    1920’s America was a time of jazz‚ dance‚ illegal alcohol consumption and generally having a good time- this is clearly the reason that it was known as the ‘roaring 20’s’. Women had more freedom‚ young people wanted to have a good time after WW1 and scandalise their parents and people had more money and more time to spend on leisure. As a result of this‚ the entertainment industry boomed in areas such as sport‚ music‚ movies and radio. As workers had more leisure and money they played more sport

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    Mercy Brimpong Ms. McEachern American Literature 29 March 2013 The Roaring Twenties The 1920s were an outburst of Black artistic and literary originality. America began to make progress as a society. The Harlem Renaissance was significant because it was an era in the 1920s when African-Americans made incredible improvements in literary works and art. This was a time for Blacks to show their talents to the world. The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to portray their culture

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    took control with their rebellious fashion sense and thoughts of equality. “Flappers drank‚ smoked‚ drove cars‚ cut their hair short while fraternizing with men and took full advantage of the advances in cosmetics technology at the time.” The roaring twenties fashion icons such as Joan Crawford and Clara Bow began to wear bold makeup and cut their hair short in order to disport the glamorous party girl look. The beauty industry took off with famed Hollywood designers such as Coco Chanel and makeup

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    America’s landscape. The twenties were a time when people laughed more often than cried‚ partied more often than worked‚ and dreamed more often than faced reality. Athletes were looked up to as heroes‚ authors helped people escape into a different life‚ and women dressed as flappers and started voting. The Harlem Renaissance‚ the model T‚ prohibition‚ sports heroes‚ the role of women‚ and new technologies all helped influence the social changes in the "Roaring Twenties". Henry Ford and Charles

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    The roaring twenties and threatening thirties What were the causes and consequences of the great crash of 1929 and how did this link to New Zealand? By Daniel Guest Introduction In the first half of the 1920s‚ the economy in the United States was in a good position. Companies were exporting to Europe‚ Unemployment was low‚ and vehicles were becoming more popular as they were seen on the roads more often across the country. However‚ an event occurred In the United States in late 1920s that

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    Fashion in the 1920s

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    "Fashion is one of the greatest forces in present-day life. It pervades every field and reaches every class.… It has always been a factor in human life but never more forceful‚ never more influential and never wider in scope than in the last decade‚ and it gives every indication of growing still more important." So with everything in mind‚ we can really agree with him when he said that it was more than an expression of individual taste; it was instead a statement of group membership‚ of involvement

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    "The disintegration of American values was reflected in manners and morals that shook American society to the depths." (Leuchtenburg) The 1920’s was an era in which the Americans showed their independence through actions; learning not to live the same ways that those preceded them had. The ’20s was a cultural and socialistic rebellious attitude‚ decomposing past American ethics and beliefs. The most obvious rebellion is shown by the feminine movements during this time. The 1920’s led to a new role

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    Logan Moyer 1B Ochoa 15 December 2014 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald: “The Great Gatsby” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24‚ 1896 and raised in St. Paul‚ Minnesota (Fitzgerald 1) Though an intelligent child‚ he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there‚ he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college‚ and he never graduated‚ instead enlisting

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    The “Roaring Twenties” marked a period of rapid economic growth and drastic cultural reform in the United States. Mass consumerism dictated an American’s everyday life with the emergence of buying goods‚ such as the Model T and radio‚ on credit. The once modest maidens now proclaimed their new freedom as "flappers" in bobbed hair and provocative clothing. Jazz became the soundtrack to the young artists and writers of the Lost Generation. One of the oddities of this time of progressive reform‚ however

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    In The Great Gatsby‚ an American classic depicting what has become known as “the roaring 20’s‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald uses several literary elements and plot details to show the depreciation of the American Dream through the narrator’s opinion of the state of the American dream‚ the lives of those who pursue it‚ and the result of their pursuit. Fitzgerald defines the state of the American dream through comparisons of what it had been to what he currently sees it to be in the high class society of New

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