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Essay Instructions: This is a rather unusual assignment request, but here are the instructions: This assignment is a Progress Report and Annotated Bibliograpghy for a documentary script (paper assignment) on a historical topic dealing with the The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. Let me explain a little more about the documentary, because I know that this sounds kind of confusing: It is another paper assignment designed to get you thinking about a) how you might interpret a specific historical period, event, person and/or movement, and b) how you might persuade others to accept your point of view as being the most historically valid. The best example that I can give is that it is basically like if you were writing a script for a documentary for the History Channel. But to clarify things further, this is not what I want the writer to actually do with this assignment, I was simply trying to explain what the documentary actually is to help the writer understand what they'll be doing with this. In the report, please explain the topic (The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition), point of view, and how you might organize the documentary script (the other paper assignment) if you were actually writing it. Also, include a brief discussion of the types of sources you would intend to use. Not just internet sources, but scholarly articles and books as well. Bibliographies should be annotated, which means that in addition to citing basic bibliographic information, you should include a brief paragraph that describes the source and analyzes its usefulness.

Essay Instructions: Watch the following films
1. Amendments 18 and 21 - Prohibition and Repeal
2. The Roaring Twenties

****I watched the films - there is nothing in them that is not common knowledge found elsewhere****

Answer the following questions in detail reflecting careful thought and application to our current
course material. Your answers should be about 2 double spaced pages (1 inch margins all
around, 12 pt font, Times Roman).

Questions:
1. According to the films, how did prohibition come about, what was it trying to
accomplish and why?

2. How did social conditions described in the film correspond with material discussed in
the Chicago School (chapter 4)? What do all these events mean for the development of certain
law enforcement activities or certain crime policies in the U. S. at this time?

***I will upload Chp 4 info regarding the Chicago School***

3. What features of this period of time do you think parallel events in the country today?
Why?
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Essay Instructions: Citizen Kane vs. Roaring Twenties
Compare and contrast the basic film making techniques and themes that Orson Welles and Raoul Walsh utilized in telling essentially the same story: that of the rise and fall of an American hero. please use the terminology discussed in class and the text. Please use specific examples and cite all other sources used in writing this paper.

if you want to use any of the terminology from class. the text used is: The basics: film studies by Amy Villarejo.
Chapters 1-2.

Essay Instructions: Master Project

A Title

The effect of the Flappers on today?s women


B Summary

The 1920?s in the US and UK can be described as a period of great change, both socially and economically. During this period the image of the women completely changed and a ?new women? emerged which might have impacted generations. The new symbol of the women was the Flapper. The Flapper was a new type of young woman that was rebellious, fun, bold and outspoken. This research paper explains the rise and fall of the Flapper in the 1920?s, explores its historical and current impact on women in terms of culture, work, gender and social behavior and reflects on its long-term impact of the position of today?s women.

C Aim

This research paper has the following objectives:

1. To explain the rise and fall of the Flappers in the 1920?s
2. To explore the historical and current impact of the Flappers on women in terms of
a. Culture (fashion, music, theater, film etc.)
b. Work (career etc.)
c. Gender (position of the women versus men in society etc.)
d. Social behaviour (public appearance etc.)
3. To reflect on the long-term impact of the Flappers on the position of today?s women

D Conduct research by applying the following methods
- to do a literature search and critical analyses of online - and offline sources about the rise and fall of the Flappers in the 1920?s (desk-research)
- to compare and contrast pieces of historical and contemporary sources (books, articles, magazines, research papers etc.) to explore the impact of the Flappers on today?s women in terms of culture, work, gender and social behaviour
- to evaluate the results of above research and analyses and coming to conclusions


E Literature (optional)

Gourley, Kathleen. Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). 2007

Graves, Robert, and Alan Hodge. The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.

Hall, Lesley A.. Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880. New York: St Martin's Press, 2000.

Heering, Fiona. Fabulous Flappers, Een ode aan de roaring twenties. www.vogue.nl. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

Hix, Lisa. 'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong. www.collectorsweekly.com. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

Mackrell, Judith. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2013.

NYU Wikis, 2007. The Flapper. The Heroine or Antagonist of the 1920s. The Heroine or Antagonist of the 1920s. Retrieved 2013-09-25.

Reinsch, Ole. Flapper Girls ? Feminism and Consumer Society in the 1920s. In: Gender Forum, Issue 40/ 2013. University of Cologne, Cologne, 2013.

Rosenberg, Jennifer. "Flappers in the Roaring Twenties". About.com. Retrieved 2013-09-10.

Zeitz, Joshua. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who
Made American Modern. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.