Flapper

lifestyle, and his obsession with Daisy a wealthy debutant. It is set in Long Island and grants readers the historical and social context of America during this time period. The twenties were characterized by idealism, economic prosperity, and the flapper counter culture. The novel follows Gatsby’s journey as a secret moonshiner and bootlegger to achieving high wealth status. Gatsby is notorious for throwing wild and lavish parties all in the hopes of getting back the woman he lost. With…

Civil Liberties are privileges designed to protect citizens from the government. These liberties are accompanied by the Bill of Rights and were aimed to prevent the government from becoming too powerful. Whereas, Civil Rights are targeted towards minorities and protect individuals who continue being discriminated from other individuals. Both Civil Liberties and Civil Rights have been a struggle to achieve, these two are constantly evolving. Civil liberties have evolved since the existence of…

Analyse how The Great Gatsby and Browning’s poetry imaginatively portray individuals who challenge the established values of their time. The Great Gatsby through narrative text style, and Barrett Browning’s poetry through Petrarchan sonnet form, both portray individuals who not only challenge accepted values of their time but may also adhere to certain values. Despite the immensely dissimilar contexts the texts are derived from, we are able to compare challenged or accepted values…

The 1920s was 10 years of energizing social changes and significant social clashes. For some Americans, the development of urban areas, the rise of a consuming, the increase of mass entertainment, and the alleged "transformation in ethics and behavior" spoke to liberation from the limitations of the nation's Victorian past. Gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed significantly during the 1920s. Be that as it may for some others, the United States appeared to be changing in undesirable…

The decade of the 1920s, also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, emerged after the end of the Great War, signifying the developing changes and growth of the United States. America became a booming society as more people began living in big cities as opposed to rural areas, new entertainment and pastimes were established, such as sports and movies, as a result of the increased leisure time, and the roles and views of women in society began to shift as women appeared more…

For many years, there has been growing controversy on whether or not the drinking age in the United States should be lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old. Underage drinking has been a major problem in our country for many years now, and alcohol is the most widely used substance among America’s youth. According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “ 8.7 million Americans between ages 12-20 report current alcohol consumption; which represents 23% of this age group for whom…

By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it…

equality. Also, starting in the 1920s, groups of women called Flappers were popping up in major cities. These women were described as, “brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms” (wiki). Young women rebelled against conservative norms by dressing in clothing that publicly expressed their sexuality. Society, “thought flappers were risky and inappropriate but they gave the world our…

In The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker is one of the main characters, she plays a pivotal point within the book. Jordan is the go-between for Nick or the lower class to the rich and their lavish lifestyle everyone wishes to achieve. She is the young women who embodies the American Dream, she is beautiful, rich, successful, and high in the social class. F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, utilizes the motif of the valley of ashes in order to show Jordan’s lack of contact with the Valley to convey…

Lindsey McMahon Mrs. McMahon ELA III Period 9 12 February 2016 Fitzgerald’s vs. Buchanan’s In the book “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about a wealthy couple, the Buchanan’s, who reflect his own marriage. Tom Buchanan is from a widely wealthy family, a “sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth…a cruel body.” Like Zelda Fitzgerald, Daisy was a beautiful girl who was spoiled, fun, and wild spirited. (Bloom 11) The Buchanan 's relate and differ in many ways to…