Some main changes included the movement of "modern" women, new technologies, and the political threat of communism. ... The modern woman opposed, cutting the skirt's length and adding silk stockings and hats that cover the hair, also introducing high heels to accommodate the new fashion. ... Influenced by the wild American Jazz Age, many dance halls were made. At least one appeared in every town, and detailed dance palaces and ballrooms were appearing in the major cities. The Australian youth gathered at dance halls to socialise and try daring and new dances such as the Charleston and the...

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America in the 1920s was full of prosperity, growth, and was considered a crossroad of the traditional and modern. ... The decade of the 1920s included many changes, inventions, and developments which transformed a traditional American society into a modern American society- a society in which the conflict of traditional v. modern had lasting effects on American society. ... This modern way of thought was brought about from the progression of the 1920s. Culturally, the 20s decade gave way to feminists who actively campaigned for birth control, as well as new dancers called "flappers" who danc...

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The movie not only shows us the disobedience to the older generation but controversial dance moves and music that revolutionizes many of the entertainment industries. ... With the introduction of new inventions to improve modern life, the younger generation makes the 1920's a decade to remember. ... The changes in dance, race mixing, and appearances caused many conflicts with the older generation. ...

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While John Ford danced around darkness, Anthony Mann dwelled in it. ... "In theory, this meant that the songs and dances should serve to advance the narrative, but in practice it produces the unrealistic convention of a character's bursting into a song at the slightest dramatic provocation. ... The band singer becomes a star while the mentor tries to deliberately sabotage apprentices career with violet dances as well as singing. ... However, because many of the actors in the musicals were not stage actors, they were not skilled at singing and dancing. ...

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Additionally, the use of characterisation and stylised costumes make the characters relatable and even comparable to various social movements that have occurred throughout modern history. ... Cutaways are used between this scene and the Kit Kat Klub where the girls and Emcee are performing a dance, which turns into a mockery of the Nazi goosestep march. ...

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Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Modernism is essentially post-Darwinian: it is a search to explain mankind's place in the modern world, where religion, social stability and ethics are all called into question. ... In 1899, Arthur Symons, one of the poetic 'aesthetes' of the 1890s, published his study The Symbolist Movement in Poetry, which would have great influence on modern poets like W.B. ... Modern poetry contains language that is closer ...

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Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. ... Although these protests against war seem typical in our modern society, Cummings" ideas were radical during the early 20th century. To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might seem extreme, and almost blasphemous to some, but his work in "plato told" cleverly uses traditional thought to mark him as a revolutionary thinker against traditional culture before most writers of modern time. ...

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• Grade Level: High School