Jealousy

Everyone has most likely been jealous at one time in their life. Jealousy is an emotion that refers to being negative, feeling insecure and having anxiety. These feelings happen when you lose something that you value such as a relationship or a friend. Some people belive that you are envious when jealous but you are not, you actually have feelings of anger, sadness or disgust. Many feel jealous during human experiences. People as young as five months old experience jealousy.

Jealousy has been featured in novels, movies and poems.Physoclogists, biologists and scientists have all studied jealousy and have came up with many conclusions. Some believe that it has to do with cultural beliefs and thats what triggers jealousy. No matter where it comes from jealousy has all played a role in our lives from one time to another.

Mafia/Gangsters

In the 1920's the act of Prohibition was taking place in the US. This was defined as the banning of alcohol. Although some people were happy with prohibition, many others were very displeased. They needed their alcohol to function properly and live their lives. Therefore there was a lot of organized crimes beginning to happen to get these people their alcohol.

This is what led to gangs such as the mofia and the mob. The mafia contented itself with the many profits to be gained from the controlling of the bootleg liquor industry. They usually sold all their liquor obtained in speakeasies. Mafia families looked at the prohibition as a weakness that could make money. They would either brew their own liquor or would buy from other families to supply speakeasies for the people who couldn't live without alcohol.

Many mafia members such as Al Capone became very rich because of all the money made from his liquor profits. However, when prohibition was banned in 1933, the mafia shifted their sales from liquor to illegal drugs and they continued their illegal acts.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald is an american author who wrote The Great Gatsby. He was born on September 24, 1896 in St.Paul Minnesota. He was born into an upper middle class family and was the only son. He was raised by his father Edward Fitzgerald and his mother Mary McQuillan. In 1898 his family moved to Buffalo, New York and he got a job as a salesman. However he lost his job in 1908 and moved back to St.Paul. He enrolled into St.Paul Academy and eventually went to Princeton. This is where he began to write scripts for musicals. He developed a love for theatre and writing. After leaving Princeton he joined the army in 1917. He met Zelda Sayre who he engaged but after a few months Zelda left him.
Fitzgerald then moved to New York City after discharging from the army. He began to work on his first novel called The Romantic Egoist. It was first rejected but three revisions later it was published as The Side of Paradise in 1920. He then finally married Zelda in 1920 and had a daughter. Zelda began to become a flapper changing her clothing, drinking and smoking cigarrettes. Fitzgerald's greatest success came from his novel The Great Gatsby. However him and his wife were having relationship problems and eventually his wife moved back to live with her mother in Montgomery, Alabama. Fitzgerald then had two heart attacks in a span of two months. F. Scott Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 due to a second heart attack.

1920's

This decade in time was known as the Roaring Twenties for the speedy social change it brought to the United States. Some of the main types of people that were affected was women. After decades of long struggle, women could finally vote. This resulted in women being elected to state and local offices. Women also saw changes in their workplace roles during the Roaring Twenties. During the economic boom of the 1920's women joined the workforce in large numbers. They filled a greater range of jobs than ever before. Americans also began attending college more than ever. Many of these new students were women from middle and upper class families.

During this time period, fashion, especially amongst women, dramatically changed. Groups such as the flappers wore more revealing clothes that showed their legs and arms and overall a lot more skin than they ever did.

In general, the Roaring Twenties was a very different yet fun decade in our United States history. The unique styles and lifestyles dramatically changed the way the average American lived their life.

Flappers

Originated in the 1920's, the term Flappers began to be used to describe the women of "The Roaring Twenties". In 1920 the 19th Amendment was passed which granted Women Suffrage. Women began to change there wordrobes and started wearing more make-up. There hair was shorter and they even smoked. Every piece of clothing they wore was now shorter and more revealing. They listened to Jazz Music which they enjoyed alot because they were able to dance freely and reveal themselves more. Skirts began to fall just above the knee and they also wore stockings on their legs. The waists of flappers clothes fell to the hipline and there body was being more revealed. Lipstick, eye-liner and other products began to gain popularity among flappers as they wore alot of make-up.

Not only did fashion change but so did the attitude of Flapper's. They took more risks and engaged in sexual behavior. A new sexual activity called Petting became popular among Flappers and they even through petting parties. Flappers also drank alchohol when at the time it was banned in the United States. Flappers symbolized a change in Women all across the United States.

Prohibition

Prohibition was put in place in the 1920's. It was defined by the banning of the manufacturing, selling, transporting, and drinking of alchohol in any way. The banning of alchohol was due to the fact that many women had believed that it was the cause of crime, hatred and violence in the cities. They believed that if alchohol was banned, street crimes and things like abusive husbands would come to an end. Therefore this law was put in place and eventually became the 18th Ammendment to our United States Constitution.
However, this plan backfired and was an epic failure. Instead of decreasing the crime rate, the banning of alchohol greatly increased it. This was because many people loved alchohol and to get a hold of it, they would have to find a place that would sell it to them illegally. This led to the creation of "speakeasies." Speakeasies were somewhat like night clubs in which people could illegally go and drink all the alchohol they want and have fun. These speakeasies were to be kept in total secrecy and had to be hidden from authority figures. Police caught wind of the speakeasies eventually and sought to eliminate them. This was way too hard due to the secrecy of them and the fact that there had come to be so many of them in America. Because of this, the 18th Ammendment was appealed and prohibition in the U.S. came to an end in 1933.