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    at a school cafeteria so that she may be able to provide for us at home after school hours as she was limited in her ability to find employment with a technical cooking degree that would still accommodate the family life. Our financial limitations were exacerbated by the diagnoses from the demands of surgery as the only recourse for our diagnoses. Fortunately‚ my mother’s decision to work at a school cafeteria to ensure that we had adequate health insurance enabled us to afford the costly hospital

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    Were the 1920s an Era of Social and Cultural Rebellion? ​Gilman M. Ostrander believes that the 1920s were in fact an era of rebellion. He bases one of his opinions on the flapper‚ which was a “new” kind of woman in the 1920s. These women’s skirts went from going all the way down to the ankles to now at the knee. The women also began to be more involved in jazz music and acting in a more sexual way than before. Ostrander states‚ “In sex as in other matters the girls were determined to demolish the

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    with the word. Among these associations were a bird trying to fly‚ the German Backfisch‚ tomboyishness‚ and pigtails‚ which were the common hairstyle for young girls. But almost everyone connected the word with energy‚ jazz‚ and the Charleston‚ ignoring that the word had actually been‚ in fact‚ slang for a 19th

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    by the suffrage movement and political equality; does not provide a comprehensive view of feminism in the 1920s. In order to correctly analyse the evolution of birth control in relation to the waves metaphor I am therefore encouraged to start with the first ‘wave’ and recognise the emergence of bodily autonomy against a political equality background which is so often associated with this period of feminism. For more than half a century of her life‚ Margaret Sanger dedicated herself to the liberation

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    If someone is Christian‚ some of the things they do to praise the Lord most likely started with Aimee Semple McPherson in the 1920s. McPherson was the first woman preacher in history. She toured the west coast preaching the Gospel to many people‚ gaining a great deal of followers. When she settled in Los Angeles to start her ministry her fame increased along with her profits. While her success was booming‚ she disappeared very unexpectedly and no one knows what really happened. After this incident

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    the United States during the 1920s. At the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance‚ there was the great migration. The great migration was a migration of African Americans from southern states to Harlem. It all began “In the early 1900s‚ a few middle-class black families from another neighborhood known as Black Bohemia moved to Harlem‚ and other black families followed.” (History.com) then it preceded to a full-on movement of over three hundred thousand by the 1920s. The lifestyles of these newly

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    Americans from the South were migrating to the major cities of the North in search of opportunity. In the 1920s‚ the first wave of migration largely bypassed the city of Los Angeles. But starting in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering segregation was that Blacks and Hispanics were still not allowed to

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    During the 1920s America established an extravagant way of living that involved buying and spending to show wealth. We‚ as Americans‚ have taken this upon our everyday lives. So much of our lives in America revolve around a social ladder that we fight to climb to the highest rung. Every man‚ woman‚ and child for themselves. Our rude manor has been brought out of this nation’s mask. Often we‚ as Americans‚ betray our own life long friends and family to reach this idea of the ´top´. Music‚ movies

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    Times in the 1920`s were not always the easiest‚ there were times when people had to walk to places‚ farmers used horses to transport goods‚ which could take hours or even days to get to the destination. All this was the life of people in the 1920`s until a man by the name of Henry Ford made an affordable option an automobile. This helped everyone in the world from farmers to the workers in industries‚ everyone benefited from this and the world became a different place with this invention. Automobiles

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    The decade of the 1920s was a period of American prosperity‚ new technology‚ and a new role for women. As World War I came to an end‚ society began bursting into many different things. 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

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