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Great Gatsby Web Quest

1. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy, his first writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was 13. At his catholic prep school in New Jersey, he met Father Sigourney Fay who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement. 2. The three major innovations that come out of the WWl includes: speakeasies, assembly line methods, and scientific management techniques 2b. Postwar American Attitudes: Disillusionment following World War I, particularly among veterans, artists, and intellectuals (the Lost Generation), fear of Bolshevism, fear of foreigners, and the rise of the nativist Ku Klux Klan. Major Movements of the 1920's: Prohibition (authorized by passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919), Fundamentalism vs. Modernism, Prosperity and Consumerism 3. 19th amendment gave women the right to vote 4. 3 major events that occurred in 1922 are the Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty, signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy; a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States; and Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw 5. 18th Amendment abolish the sale of alcohol and the transport of alcohol, this made intoxicated liquors illegal, forcing people trying to get their fix to obtain their alcohol through illegal methods like speakeasies 6. Speakeasy is a bar where alcohol beverages are sold illegally 6b. Speakeasy popped up across the country because alcohol was abolished by the 18th amendment, making it illegal. People were addicted and wanted to get their fix 7. How he was an travel salesman, his nickname "The Big Bank Roll", he was so slick shat he never convicted of breaking any law during his lifetime except in the end 7b. He stabbed his own brother. It's just shocking that he stabbed his brother and nearly killed him 7c. I was shocked because the bibliography talks about his history but the article is more detailed enough to talk about the terrible things that he did since he was a kid, so no, the fact that he’s been this way since he was just a child makes me think he was already too far gone 8. Some essential elements of being a true flapper are beauty, pallor mortis, poisonously scarlet lips, richly ringed eyes, skin-exposing clothing, and popular bob hairstyle

8b. Louise does fit the "Flapper" profile because she matches the descriptions of a flapper, she has the features of a “Flapper” like the short bob style hair and revealing clothes 8c. Louise does fit the "Flapper" profile because she matches the descriptions of a flapper and it allows for self-expression 9. The car represented prosperity and luxury, which was a key part of the 1920s, as well as granting Americans with more freedom and ways to get around quicker 10.If this music were released nowadays, it’d probably be overshadowed quickly, but to me, the music is fun and upbeat, it has a nice homey and nostalgic feeling to it 11.1)Bee's Knees 2) Berries 3) Gold Digger 4) Cat’s Meow 5) Gams I just chose these because these sounded the most silly to me 12.I’m expecting to see a tale of party, romance, rich and poor town, war 13.I'm expecting to encounter the flappers, men that have their own car, also men who are selling alcohol illegally...