Table of contents Calling all Gibson Girls! ...hello? Where have all the Gibson Girls Gone? Kayla Lockwood
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Evolution or Religion? Should evolution be taught in schools? What’s the deal with the scopes trial? Allison Schepanski 4 New Trends Is Women's fashion a threat to America? Kaelyn Triggs
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Our Advancing Country Are the Cultural values of cities good for America? Makala Hajek
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Calling all Gibson Girls! … Hello? Where have all the Gibson Girls gone? By: Kayla Lockwood
The 1920s are quickly becoming a time
Dieting was popular among young women,
period of change. With the passage of
calorie counters were displayed in magizines
the 19th Amendment, the well known
all over. For Gibson Girls in their diets they
“Gibson Girl” is slowly becoming a
had to slowly and completely chew
new figure.
everything they ate, even milk and soup. One
You know those models with the
oranges, melba toast, green vegetables, and
hour-glass body, long unswept hair,
hard boiled eggs.
floor-length skirt, and high collared blouse. Well that’s what we call a Gibson Girl. Gibson Girls represented the model of american beauty. In order
of the diets was to only eat grapefruit,
Now the big question, where HAVE they gone? Overtime the Gibson Girls got replaced by flappers, and womens fashion dramatically changed. After women started
to form a Gibson Girl body there was a
dieting the “hourglass” bodies turned into a
lot of dieting involved.
more women looking, well, women.
Next up we have a lovely Flapper. These slender, tublar shaped, flat chested, slim hipped women were the most diseriable women of the 1920s. They were nicknamed the “Garconne” after the french term, for “young boy”.
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Evolution or Religion? Should evolution be taught in schools? What’s the Deal with the Scopes Trial? By: Allison Schepanski High School teacher John Scopes has just been arrested! He was brought in for teaching evolution. Evolution is a very debated topic in Dayton Tennessee and people are very passionate about whether or not it should be taught. William J Bryan was one of these people. He thought the bible should be interpreted literally and he wanted to banish evolution from classrooms. John Scopes was another one of these people. He thought evolution should be taught in schools. When he was only
The trial itself was held in Dayton, Tennessee. The town had lots of feeralists. They had the idea that the bible should be interpereted literally and that’s what should be taught in schools. Dayton had other residents who believed in Darwin’s theory of evolution. They thought that this should be taught. The meaning of the trial was overall a conflict of social and intelectual values, and didn’t really have anything to do with the people.
24, he decided to be the test to see if he would get arrested for teaching it. The trial was mostly about challenging a new Tennessee law, and not so much about Scopes. Overall it was about the authority of the bible versus the soundness of Darwin’s theory of evolution, After the trial evolution wasn’t taught until the 1960s.
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New Trends
Is Women’s Fashion A Threat to America?
Article by Kaelyn Triggs
Keep up with the latest fashion: Long floral dresses are out, knee length skirts and fitted sleeves are in! The modern babe is carefree and rebelious! Acheive this lifestyle by smoking, drinking, and showing your lover affection in public! Women are made finer than men, so show off your sophisticated style. You can either be in the past or the present. We want movement, Dare to be different! The modern woman has a short, bobbed haircut, wears simple sweaters, maintains a slim figure, and sports knee length skirts. Times are changing along with fashion standards, that’s for sure.
With the new electric sewing technology, afternoon dresses are the latest fashion. Wear these to tea parties with friends, lunch dates, and day time dances. These dresses feature loose fitting skirts and tighter sleeves and come in every color of the rainbow to fit your desired situaton! Don’t be afraid to show a little skin, time is moving forward! Have you attended a petting party? Guests typically show love by loving on one another, but relationships are exclusive to only the party. Wear scandelous attire to make that boy drool! Keep up with the latest volume of Then and Now to know what’s beautiful!
Exclusive tip from Clara Bow: Try dieting to maintain your boyish figure!
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Our Advancing Country
Are the cultural values of cities good for America? By: Makala Hajek
Bright lights! Running water! Electricity! Jazz Clubs! Are you packing your bags yet? If not, it’s time to start exploring a move to the cities. Cities are the place to be and their cultural values are good for all Americans. More people were moving to the cities because they have more jobs and different ways of thinking. Now people could go on dates or hangout with friends without being judged as much. They finally excepted people hanging out together. Wages rose 37 percent. This is because the assembly line was so effective products were being made quickly. With the wages going up and so many people needed jobs, new factories and office buildings we being constructed. This allowed for more wrok opturnities. Also, Immigrants were moving into the cities, getting new jobs helped the cities grow rapidly. Cities had alot to offer. With more people and new jobs technology began to rise. moving pictures were short films seating thousands. Radios changed how all americans enjoyed sports. Now they had play, by play descriptions of what was happening. Americans could also listen to political speeches and serial stories.
Cities had alot to offer. With more people and new jobs technology began to rise. moving pictures were short films seating thousands. Radios changed how all americans enjoyed sports. Now they had play, by play descriptions of what was happening. Americans could also listen to political speeches and serial stories. Before technology and moving pictures people did different things for their leasure. Instead of being able to go to moving pictures or listen to the radio, they enjoyed time with friends or family. Technology changed how americans spend their time. I believe that the cultural values were good for the cities of america. I believe this because so many advancments were talking place. Without that change in the 1920’s nothing would have been the same today. We would not have movies or mabey even radios.
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Group Editorial
How have tradition and modernism clashed in the 1920s? As modernism is becoming more
Women’s fashion is a cut throat
popular, traditionalism is fading away.
topic. To be in the past or the present is
In the early 1920’s people started
a hard decision. Ladies this generation
developing a more picture perfect way
are showing a little more skin! Older
of life.
women might turn up their nose, but it
A womens diseriable body figure has gone through many changes in the 1920s. Having an hour-glass body, long hair, and a long skirt is good and all, or was. Now standards have changed and having a tublar shaped body, and flat chest is the new perfect. Shorter hair signifies freedom now and bob cuts are becoming more popular. Tradition and modernism have clashed in many ways, one of them being religion. Everyone had different views on religion. All the older people thought it should be spread and taught everywhere, and that God created everything. That used to be the view and that was what everyone thought until Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now everyone believes in this. It makes sense that everyone believes in the
isn’t 1880 anmore. Change is now whether you like it or not. Conserviatae clothing has become a steryotype for women, but girls this generation are strethcing the limits of society. Men aren’t the only ones allowed to be carefree! Technology is advancing faster then ever before. This is not a bad thing. Technology is making life easier for all Americans. It is also making new ways on how americans spend their free time. Movng pitures gave americans relaxing time to go see a movie. Technology has some downfalls though. It makes people stay inside, people don’t know how to work it, and its alot of money. There are all goods and bads to technology. When the 1920’s started people
theory of evolution because it’s
became more modern and we saw less
something new, and all the young
traditionalism. These are just some of
people were going to be growing up
the ways moderism is taking over
with knwoing this idea.
traditionalism.
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Bibliography Kayla’s Bibliography
Makala’s Bibliography
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Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower. History Alive!: Pursuing American Ideals. Teachers Curriculum Institute, 2008.
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