Short Group Research Topics
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The history of Gatsby
Military service prior to the 1920s
“New money”
Winning the lottery and its effects on people’s lives
What happens to men after their professional football careers are over?
Child actors
Gatsby’s influence on fashion
What changed morality at the time?
Why did culture emphasize luxury and recreation during the 1920s?
Little Orphan Annie
Music
Major events of the 1920s and social conditions
Post WWI economy
Travel then and now
Immigration in the 1920s
Popular past times: what people did for fun in the 1920s
Luxury – innovations that made life easier
Roles of men and women in advertising
Health
Wealthy lifestyles – how did people like Astor, Vanderbilt, Rockefellers live?
Intellectual and artistic life at the Waldorf
Art deco: Perceptions of the future in the 1920s
Prohibition
Race relations
Social interactions and prejudice
Warning signs of economic disaster
Colonization