1920s essay prompts

Whitman's book (published over a decade before the poetry that would make him famous) is a so-called Temperance novel, a piece of writing designed to convert people to shunning alcohol -- and Whitman was writing nearly eighty years before Prohibition would become a reality.

The 1920's are commonly referred to as the 'Roaring Twenties', an appropriate title for a decade that did indeed roar out of the Victorian Era. Gone were the corsets and up went the skirt hems as flapper girls bared their legs and speakeasies with bathtub gin dominated the nightlife.

As society changes, reflections of that change cannot help but be seen clearly throughout society -- in the ways we live, the ways we communicate, the ways we travel, eat, socialize and dress.… Berger, A. (1998). The Postmodern Presence: Readings on Postmodernism in American Culture.

Era (1890s-1920s) coincided with the epublican government that followed the defeat of William Jennings Bryan and the gold standard and culminated in the establishment of the Federal eserve and the Great Depression.