The 1920s Was A Very Transitional Period For Our Country. After Many

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Term Paper Title	The 1920s Was A Very Transitional Period For Our Country. After Many
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     The 1920s was a very transitional period for our country.  After many
many years of  ignorant obedience, a considerable portion of our culture
began to question the strict Victorian standards under which they were
raised.  Many young people rejected the mores of established society and
lead wild lives.   They dressed in a way that was considered
inappropriate at that time and they listened to jazz: the music of the
devil.  I think that it may actually have been during this decade that our
nation had it’s  first real taste of counterculture.  Never before in the
history of the United States was there such a noticeable division between
the youth and the preceding generations.  Major players in this
revolutionary era were: writers like Ernest Hemingway, Jazz musicians
like Duke Ellington, gangsters like Al Capone and, of course, the
flappers.

     Although the things that flappers did may seem banal to us now, in
this day and age, we must consider all of the aspects.  Things were very
different back then.  You and I live in a loose and accepting world,
where as in the teens and twenties, society was much more rigid and
formal.  We have grown accustomed to the laid-back relaxed civilization
in which we live and often take for granted it’s less prejudicial
broadmindedness, but we have people like the flappers to thank; they
helped to make the world what it is today.

     A flapper, as defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary, was a young
woman of the 1920s who showed freedom from conventions (as in
conduct).  The flappers arose from a time when women were expected to
be mild, unopinionated and pure.  They were supposed to wear their hair
long and hide their bodies beneath corsets, bustles, and long-sleeved,
full-skirted dresses.  The flappers, in contrast, were wild and racy...they
wore their hair bobbed and wore baggy sleeveless dresses that only came
down to their knees.  They danced the Charleston and were openly
sexually suggestive.  Flappers listened to jazz, sported cloche hats and
wore dark makeup ... ...

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