it has a lot to do with how you made it here to be my lovely Darla. The magazines and movies played a very big part of shaping up things for us as ladies. Our clothing developed a closer relationship to art by the end of the First World War (the roaring 20s). We simply would put together elegant designs with fabrics. We would coordinate
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The famed American novels‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Only Yesterday‚ by Frederick Lewis Allen are great representations on how America was in the nineteen-twenties. During this time‚ the very first world war had just come to an end‚ leaving many people with the feeling of disillusionment. The result of this feeling led people into thinking that money was all that mattered at the end of the day. In this era‚ people put business before God‚ resulting in a huge rise of new money for
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had an adverse effect on the US economy‚ because with 13 million people unemployed‚ there was little money to spend on luxuries such as the Ford cars. Even necessities such as wheat and food were no longer selling at the rate they had been in the Roaring 20s‚ and the farmers found themselves with a surplus of food‚ which they could not sell to either an international market or indeed the Americans. Prices were consequently slashed on their food‚ and this meant that they had little money to spend on
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the luscious verdant green of the new land as a paradise. In a similar manner‚ Gatsby watches for the green light at the dock in front of Daisy’s dock. The color green symbolizes the American dream‚ which is corrupted by the failing morality of the roaring 1920s. Gatsby and his dream ultimately die in the pool among the fallen
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suggests that she is attempting to break from the conventional sphere of the woman; no matter how naive her dream‚ it is essentially a working woman’s dream‚ not a housewife’s. Her appearance and her dream harken back to the earlier ’good times’ of the ’Roaring ’20s’‚ when women won the right to vote and began entering the workforce‚ and were able to begin openly acknowledging their sexual desires: yet‚ ten years later‚ this same liberality is used to beat women down and pin them as the cause of Depression
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The Lost Generation in the Roaring Twenties The process of change can often be difficult and tumultuous. This is particularly true of monumental changes in generational trends. In looking at the young people of the 1920 ’s‚ for example‚ we see a “lost” generation‚ which‚ despite breaking free from the strict moral codes of previous generations‚ had yet to find their own course to fulfillment and happiness. Responding to the hypocrisy of their parents‚ and greatly
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Flappers Fashion After World War One‚ a new daring and exciting women was born. The unbelievable‚ fast social changes that struck the United States were illustrated by the new sense of fashion. The flappers altered the style of the twenties by liberating the views of women. "Slim hipped‚ bobbed hair‚ and short skirts"‚ was the new image the flappers brought to the 1920’s.The girls who flaunted this image were named flappers. Some people thought of flappers as being a disgrace to all women. These
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1920 ’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and conservative values on the other. In fact‚ some historians refer to the twenties as the first decade of the twentieth century. What accounts for this observation? How did some people challenge those changes?A major fact that contributes to the twenties being seen as the first decade of the twentieth century is that modern attitudes about labor and consumption began to develop. The system of Fordism‚ or mass production
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The Role of Women in the 1920s The 1920s was a time period full of fun and excitement‚ also known as the Jazz Age. It was a revolution of the basic morals and manners everyone was used to. After returning from World War I ‚ many were affected greatly. This caused people to want to have more fun in their life‚ knowing they may not have a long time left to live. This was specifically an immense decade for women politically‚ and socially. It was also a time period full of many influential women. Women
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“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the prescribed sonnets from “Sonnets from the Portuguese” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning show‚ we can see the changes in perspective from the Victorian Era‚ compared to that of the Post-WWI period‚ the roaring 20’s. A comparison of these texts lets us see a change in society’s view on love‚ the role of women in marriage‚ relationships‚ goals and ambitions (hope) and life’s meaning (morality) and also the impact of gender differences on the perspectives
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