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using the issues discussed in this lesson, can you compare life in the 1920s to life today? are the same things happening today as those that occurred during the 1920s? is history repeating itself? explain your answer.

No, they are not the same Roles of women in society
Now there is the same number of women and men at universities and colleges. Both have the same rights in education.
Music
Alcohol usage and legality
Immigration to the United States
Music. 
Roles of women in society
Movies
Today's movies are characterized by having great special effects. Science-fiction movies have a lot of them, and today's computes allow to make perfect images.
Alcohol usage and legality
Nowadays, in the United States, everyone can consume alcohol. This law only restricts the consume of alcohol for people under the age of 21 years old.
In other countries, as Spain is at the age of 18 years old.
There was a rising number of women who studied at colleges, at who got degrees.
Women then could work as nurses, teachers, librarians, and social workers. But there were only a few doctors, lawyers, or architects 
Women started to express their freedom. They were known as flappers, and they had short haircuts and dresses. But for half of their society, this was still scandalous.

Many criminals got rich by introducing illegal alcohol into the country. Gangsters created a huge business with this product.
The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, transportation, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
In resume, even some part of the population stopped drinking the consumption of alcohol was still high. And the country had become dangerous because of the contraband.
During World War I many African Americans left the South to take jobs in northern factories. This movement, the Great Migration, continued during the 1920s. Sadly, they didn't escape racism.
During this decade racial tensions continued and the Ku Klux Klan took importance. This racist group harassed Catholics, Jews, and immigrants, as well as African Americans.
Lots of people from Europe kept arriving at this new growing country, filling up all the cities.
Movies
The Jazz was the most important style. It was developed in New Orleans. African American mixed spirituals, European music, and African rhythms. When they moved to the North, they expanded the Jazz
Jazz!!!
Most old people didn't like Jazz, but young Americans loved the music. But over this, they loved the dances that went along with it. The most popular dances were the Charleston, the Toddle, and the Shimmy. 
One of the most famous Jazz musicians was Louis Armstrong. He was known for his solo numbers of trumpet. His method, which consisted on stepping out from the band to perform a solo, was an innovation.
Movies became the new passion. They had no sound, but a cinema was something new and exciting. People closed theaters to see Westerns, romances, and stories about gangsters. One of the most famous movies was the 1927 movie "The Jazz Singer".
As expected, the movies quickly became big business. By the end of the decade, Americans were buying 95 million movie tickets each week, a huge number considering that the United States population was 123 million. Young people that were fans of movie stars, copied their hair and clothing.
Some of the most popular actos at the time were Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, or Mary Pickford. This last one, was also a smart businesswoman. She was one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood and a founder of United Artists, who became one of film companies with more success.


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