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Flappers Summary
785 words, approx. 3 pages
In the 1920s a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance...
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Flapper Information
1,577 words, approx. 5 pages
The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new Jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. The flappers were seen as brash...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Colleen Moore, Silent Screen Star Epitomized Flapper Craze; At 85
01/27/1988: 347 words, approx. 1 pages
PASO ROBLES, Calif. - Colleen Moore, a star of the silent screen era who epitomized the flapper craze with her trademark bobbed hair and short skirts, died at her ranch Monday. She was 85. One of the highest-paid movie stars of the silent...
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The Boston Globe
Cowboys, Flappers, And Go-go Dancers - Oh, My!
10/23/2003: 442 words, approx. 2 pages
When the cat ears and vampire cape from 10 Halloweens ago are still haunting the closet, it is time to update your costume party look. As adults, of course, we are all way past our trick-or-treating prime (and for some of us, even...
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AP News
Top French book prize to Gilles Leroy
11/5/2007: 264 words, approx. 1 pages
France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, went to author Gilles Leroy on Monday for his "Alabama Song," a story written in the first person but inspired by the descent into folly of the wife of famed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.Last year, the Goncourt Prize went...
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The New York Observer
At Big Box Bash, LeeLee Sobieski Remembers Her Mortality
11/1/2007: 443 words, approx. 2 pages
Late last night at Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel’s celeb-infested, serially newsworthy Lower East Side cabaret, The Box, the actress Leelee Sobieski wore a top-hat and slinky tank top and carried a mold of her own skull (it had been commissioned for an upcoming...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Flapper Girls
623 words, approx. 2 pages
"Flappers" in the 1920s were young women who disregarded conventional rules of conduct and dress. Sometimes referred to as rebels, flappers changed the status and role of all women because of their drastic modification in their actions and clothing, their self-governing attitudes, their demand for the same equality as men, and their pristine style. Flappers embodied the modern spirit of the Jazz Age and paved the way for women today to live as they please.


 

Flapper

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