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    a mother‚ a wife‚ and most of all an icon of the 1920s. She was known for being a beautiful model by day and a party girl by night. She married young to a successful author and together they had one child. She didn’t care what people thought and was determined to separate from her southern upbringing and to make a name for herself. She inspired many young women to be independent and show who they are. Zelda Fitzgerald shaped history in the 1920s. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born on July 24‚ 1900

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    Starting in the 1920s‚ a rebellion against religion‚ the church and old sexual mores begun. This movement was called Modernism and this paper will address and explain one of the main factors of the movement: Psychology. The psychological ideas were new and embraced by especially the youth‚ and adults too‚ all sick of the strict norms and rules. Sigmund Freud was the symbol of psychology‚ and so he has been for decades now. Sigmund Freud and psychology in the 1920’s‚ like money and materialism‚ replaced

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    The Roaring Twenties‚ The Jazz Age‚ The Lost Generation. Never has a decade spurred as many different nicknames as the 1920’s has. The ‘20’s were a decade subject to lots of change‚ and therefore lots of social and cultural rebellion. Not only were Women’s Rights addressed‚ but the consumer industry and mass culture was born. Many new attitudes and morals were also adopted. However‚ while I believe this period to be the epitome of social and cultural rebellion‚ others may argue that any changes were

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    The 1920’s were a time of great cultural change in America. Traditionalists found the new values of the Jazz Age to be utterly sinful and immoral. The youth of the twenties rebelled against the constraints of their elders in several ways. One of the most provocative changes was the "new look" for young women. The Flapper Era entered America with a bang. Ladies did the unthinkable in cutting their long tresses to chin length bobs‚ smoking‚ wearing shorter dresses and even engaging

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    Challenging Gender Stereotypes in the 1920’s Marital arguments are one of the main reasons for divorce in this day in age. However‚ some couples have really good relationships because one partner does not force the other to do anything unwillingly‚ but will still argue over things they disagree on. Hemingway expresses this type of relationship in his short story‚ “Hills Like White elephants.” Set in a time where the inequality between men and women was very evident‚ Hemingway tells the story of an

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    THE 1920’s: MODERNISM Main writers from this period Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats Henry James Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H.G. Wells Modernism first came to England at the end of 19th century in the work of Oscar Wilde‚ the early W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad and later‚ Henry James. But in the first decade and a half of the century there is a reaction against the avant-garde movement and there is a return to a more realistic and traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett

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    Around the year of 1920s‚ there were two types of schools in Americas education system. Generally‚ it consists of Public Schools and Private Schools. The Oregon School System does play a crucial role in their countrys education system‚ started from the year of 1922. A group of people which is also known as Ku Klux Klan and the Scottish Rite Masons had also involved in the formulation of educational system for the sake of the society in that time. They set the requirements of education for their young

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    In the 1920’s before sound was introduced into film we had silent films. Stories were told through expression and even music. Pianists‚ complete orchestras‚ organists‚ and even some actors and narrators were invited by theaters to accompany the films being shown (Silent Films). On the Info Please website‚ the author of Movies and Films writes "by the 1920s‚ silent film writing‚ acting‚ photography‚ and music had reached an aesthetic pinnacle: very subtle emotional and plot nuances could be conveyed

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    ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form | | 1.aneuploidy: a chromosomal aberration in which one or more chromosomes are present in extra copies or are deficient in number. 2.barr body: a dense object lying along the inside of the nuclear envelope in female mammalian cells‚ representing an inactivated X chromosome. 3.chromosome theory of inheritance: generalization that genes are located on chromosomes and that the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis and fertilization

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    Prohibition 1. Prohibition was a way to reduce the use and manufacturing of alcohol in order to reduce people taking advantage of the usage. 2. The United States supported this movement because they were concerned with the drinking habits of people in the U.S. 3. The goal of the 18th Amendment was to reduce the use of alcohol. 4. In order to drink beer during prohibition you had to go to a saloon. 5. The Real McCoy referred to the real thing. 6. I would be making liquor or beer with tarantula

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