4)The Roaring Twenties: List three changes that ocurred in 1922.
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American actor is murdered.
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5)18th Amendment: What exactly does the 18th Amendment prohibit?
18th amendment It prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
6)Prohibition: What are three major elements of Prohibition? What were the final results of prohibition?
Manufacture,sale,transportation of alcohol for personal consumption.
Prohibition failed dismally, all the arguments put forward by the Temperance League for its positive effects turning out to be entirely false in practice.It was therefore repealed in 1933.
7)What is speakeasy? Based on information you have already collected from previous questions, why do you think Speakeasies opped up across the country?
A speakeasy was an establishment which illegally sold during the period of known as on.
I think that they wanted to drink and they snuck it for a desire of alcohol. They did not care what the government wants.
8) Organize Crime: Who is Arnold Rothstein? What is his primary occupation? What are his side-jobs? How did your impression of the man change from one website to the next?
Was a businessman and who became a famous kingpin of the in New York. Rothstein was widely reputed to have been behind 's , in which the was . His primary occupation was a salesman. His "sidejobs" was gambling. In some pages, they talk more about his dedication as salesman rather than being part of the “Mafia”
9) Flappers: What are the essential elements of being a true flapper? Did Louise Brooks fit this profile?
During the early nineteen hundreds, the flappers represented a change in the American woman in society. They started showing skin with shorter skirts. They started wearing shorter hair and makeup. They skinny boyish figure was stylish at this time as well as unisex fashion. They drank, smoked cursed, danced, participating in petting parties, etc.
In 1926, at the age of 20, she was featured as a flapper in A Social Celebrity , which launched her film and modeling career and introduced the flapper era
10) Automobiles: Why were cars considered the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920´s?
Because quite poor people could afford them for the first time, and on the road everyone is (more or less) treated as equal. Also, mobility itself indicates power and emancipation.
11) Music: Listen to a few samples recording of music from the 1920´s What is your initial reaction to the music?
A lot of use of instruments like guitars, violins etc., without use of any electronic device, the voice lead the song. It has a lot of lyrics with a higher content on poetry. Quality of sound very low.
12) Language: List 5 slang words or phrases and definitions from this site and write them down in your notes. Why did you choose these terms?
Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea
Bump Off - To murder
Big Cheese - The most important or influential person. Same as big shot
Jalopy - Old car
Hoofer – Dancer
We choose these terms, because this are the ones most used in the actual life of young people. In fact in our country we used it in our generation to communicate to one people to another.
13) Poetry: Do you think Ms. Parker approves or disapproves of Flappers? Explain.
Among those who criticized the flapper craze was writer-critic Dorothy Parker, who penned “Flappers: A Hate Song” to poke fun at the fad. The secretary of labor denounced the “flippancy of the cigarette smoking, cocktail-drinking flapper.
14) Drawing Conclusions: Based on the information you have collected from this website, what do you think the plot and setting of The Great Gasby will include? What kind of characters do you expect to encounter in this novel?
Would be located in a place when the music of the time will be, the mafia will exist, the language that it has been used in that time would be rememorized by the characters of the story. In characters I expect to find represent stereotype characters from that time; this means as well as the mafia also flappers during the whole story explaining how they pass in the nights. It would also have the apparition of cars and more people of our age living independently.
