Topic: ugh.
thatonegirl05's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:30 PM
i really hate essay writing.. so, heres a quick question -
the 'roaring twenties' what can people tell me about things like..

womens rights, and prohibition - bootlegging, rum running, and the winnipeg general strike, in canada.

if you can't it's alright, i'm just like, killing myself over this, i've never hated school until this stupid ****ing teacher started ruining my life.

pennywise's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:38 PM
i know that feeling i gradurated in may '07
essays suc so bad, good luc thoe

thatonegirl05's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:38 PM
Pennywise, solid band.

blissy11's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:41 PM
i know that is when jazz music became popular. go to google and you can a lot of info

anemail's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:43 PM
the great gatsby is a piece of fiction that covers the era reasonably


yourewelcome's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:44 PM
when i wrote essays in high school i would just search the topic on 5 different servers and fit the info together... yeah its not right but it was certainly easy, and i always got an a ;)

one time i did it before school in about ten minutes... copy and pasted 2 pages of info... didn't even bother to read it or try to make it coherent, but somehow i got the highest grade in the class. i duno... bad idea i think lol.

no photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:44 PM
i just had an idea! ..look it up on the computer..laugh <---this guy is smart

blissy11's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:45 PM
haha sounds like something you would do your senior year when you are totally over school!

wouldee's photo
Tue 10/30/07 09:45 PM
Look up the history of the Kennedy's father... there's ample to tell about his escapades in running illegal whisky during prohibition.

made him a rich man... especially because it wasn't taxed

ooooooo... i'm in trouble now!!!

you could even sedgeway into what the hell he was doing in England after he sold all his stocks just before the crash in 29 ...

you could even talk about his public support of Hitler while in England and how he ran back here with his tail between his legs when Hitler proved to Europe that he was taking all the booty he could get his hands on...

But, you might get an F.. if you don't cite credible resources...in which case you ma still get an F and audited, and followed, and your phone tapped, and your house bugged, and your car wired...devil devil devil glasses smokin drinker bigsmile

ajhagena's photo
Tue 10/30/07 10:12 PM
The twenties were generally a time of great optimism and forward thinking.

This optimism was, at least in the US, directly a result of economic prosperity, which itself gave way to the Great Depression.

The best thing about the Depression? Robert Johnson came into his own, thus bringing about a whole era of blues guitar playing. Fast forward forty-five years or so, and Duane Allman plays the most magical and divine guitar the world has ever heard.

So my point is this: The roaring twenties were instrumental in bringing about the greatest music ever to exist. I suggest you make this the thesis of your essay.

What's also worth noting is that in Britain, Aldous Huxley was beginning his career as the most important humanist of the twentieth century.

ajhagena's photo
Tue 10/30/07 10:20 PM
Also, I just realized that the only reason I'm here at all right now is because I'm procrastinating from doing my own history essay.

So in some cosmic sense, I think, we're all connected by the whims of history (or history professors).