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    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-      <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Roaring Twenties was a period of creativity, and works of several notable authors appeared during the period. D.H Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was a scandal at the time because it talks about sex. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-         =====

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- During the 1920's more books were written by Black authors than any previous decade in American history. =====

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">    **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Winners of Nobel Prize for Literature **        =====
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1920 Knut Hamsun, Norway
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1921 Anatole France, France
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1922 Jacinto Benavente, Spain
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1923 William Butler Yeats
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1924 Wladyslaw Reymont, Poland
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1925 George Bernard Shaw, Ireland
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1926 Grazia Deledda, Italy
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1927 Henri Bergson, France
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1928 Sigrid Undset, Norway
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1929 Thomas Mann, Germany
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1930 Sinclair Lewis, United States

<span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> ** Books That Define the Period ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">
 * The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot - The ultimate indictment of the modern world's loss of personal, moral, and spiritual values.
 * The New Negro by Alain Locke - A hopeful look at the negro in America
 * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - The American dream that anyone can achieve anything
 * Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill - A look at 30 years in the life of a modern woman
 * The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway - The lost generation of expatriates
 * Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - A satirical look at small town life
 * The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - Details the moral decay of the Old South
 * Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - Black life in a Black community

<span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- July 1925, Adolf Hitler published his autobiography. The book was called Mein Kampf or My Struggle (in english), was followed by a second volume in 1926. The book was written when Adolf H. was in prison during his early career and reflected his hatred of Jews, and promoted his belief that Germans were a superior race. <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">

** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Surrealism Movement : ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(1924-1955) Began in post-World War I. Many early Surrealists were associated with the earlier Dada movement. The Surrealists developed techniques such as automatic drawing (developed by André Masson), automatic painting, decalcomania, frottage, fumage, grattage and parsemage that became significant parts of Surrealist practice. <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: #181616; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Precisionism :** (1920 - 1945) Precisionism originated in the 1920’s and focused on painting scenes and objects, normally of industrial or mechanical subjects. These subjects were typically abstracted by simplifying them to basic geometric patterns and showing them in clear light. The Precisionist movement had roots in Italian Futurism, a movement that also respected the beauty and power of machinery. The movement emerged after World War I and was mainly popular in the United States. Artists working in this genre believed that the 20th century was dependant on technology and the machine. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">**<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kinetic Art :** (1925 - 1965) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Magic Realism received its name in the 1925s by German art critic, Franz Roh. Artists working in this style attempt to depict reality in a different way—works possessed a resemblance to reality while also retaining a dream-like or fantastical quality. The style was popular in Europe and the United States from the 1920’s to the 1940’s and retained several practitioners during the 1950’s  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #1e0101; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> **Cubism:** is a movement from the 1920's led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Was inspired in music and literature, there were 2 branches the Analytic cubism and Synthetic Cubism. The objects in cubist artworks are broken up.


 * ARCHITECTURE **: art deco was the name for architecture during the 1920's,Their designs were geometric with clean unfussy lines. In the united States the art deco was embraced by Raymond Hood,who designed 3 of the most importants buildings in New York City: The Radio City Music Hall auditorium, the building at Rockefeller Center and the New York Daily News building.


 * The Empire State Building**: Is a art deco skyscraper ubicated in New York City. Was designed by Gregory Johnson.



-http://www.1920-30.com/literature/ -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building -Cultural History of the United States ." The 1920's" by Erica Hanson. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art
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= =  <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> ** Important scientific inventions and discoveries: (1920-1930) **        <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  In 1921, two researchers Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best made an incredible discovery insulin. This hormone is very important because it regulates blood sugar levels in the human body. People suffering from diabetes are unable to maintain safe levels and are at risk of comas and death. After the discovery of insulin it was found that injections of the hormone and a well-controlled diet could help people to lead a regular lifestyle. || <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Albert Einstein is awarded the nobel peace prize in physics in 1921 for his theory of relitivity In 1922, Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and K.S. Bishop discovered vitamin E. This discovery was an important one. Vitamin E serves as an antioxidant and is found in foods such as margarine, peanut oil, sunflower seeds, walnuts, and several others. It protects body tissue and polyunsaturated fats from oxidation. On November 4, 1922 Howard Carter and Egyptologist George Herbert found the long-sought tomb of Tutankhamen. The body of the 18-year old king and his treasure were uncovered after more than 3000 years. Herbert Austin creator of the first Wolseley motor car and the Austin Motor Company. In 1922, Austin introduced the Austin Seven in Great Britain. The "Baby Austin," featured four cylinders, a three-speed gearbox, and seated four. In 1922, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) was created for the public. Diphtheria, became better controlled in 1923 by newly introduced immunization. Within a year, Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin would create Bacillus Calmette Guerin, a vaccine against TB. In 1925, Clarence Birdseye a naturalist, developed a way of freezing food while maintaining its flavor and nutritional benefits. In 1925, a Tennessee biology teacher named John Thomas Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution. In the previous two years, Tennessee had been among several states in the U.S. to propose laws to make teaching evolution illegal. The American Civil Liberties Union, with Clarence Seward Darrow as its lawyer decided to defend Scopes. On the opposing side, William Jennings Bryan fought for Tennessee and against evolution in the classroom. Despite the fact that Scopes eventually lost a trial that he never testified at and was charged $100.00. In 1926, John Logie Baird invented the first working system of television. While developing his invention, the founder of the Television Development Company became a pioneer when he transmitted the image of a boy in action. In 1926, Baird displayed his breakthrough creation in London at the Royal Institution. Within two years, he would also become the first person to transmit images to and from London and New York. These were not the Jonh’s only contributions he also created the stereoscopic television, electrical recordings, and the color television. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Prohibition began on January 16, 1920 when the 18th amendment went ****<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">into effect. **  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif">  During Prohibition transportation, import, export, manufacture, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes for support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead all that alcohol became more dangerous to consume; crime went out of control; courts and prisons system became overloaded; police and public officials occurred. Many people didn't want this law or had any respect for it. Many gansters started taking over the cities. The most famouse was chicago with Al capone. He was very good at convincing others to buy illagal alcohol from Torrio. Torrio decided to leave the crazy world after almost getting killed and handed over to Capone his "business.' Al capone became very rich in just two years. Finally in 1935, 21th amendement changed everything for Capone. He was charged with tax evasion for 11 years in jail. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #6e172d"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: #36b734; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> media type="custom" key="641827" Social changes: