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Tash asked this question.

okay……….What major trend in the 1920s does this person represent? Explain why(150 words)
Hint: think about mass production, mass media, organised crime, new movies, new dance, and celebrity.
im refering to the last question on the assignment.
i dont understand/ know what mass media and all those topics you have mentioned mean soo if you could kindly tell me or point me to the answers on this site thingy it would be really apreciated =]
the only thing i have left is this last question and its driving me crazy trying to figure it out =/

and here is my answer.

Mass media means that suddenly radio and newspapers went out to really large numbers of people. A lot of this change was to do with technology improvements in the first world war. The short version is that radio meant that the same people would be heard singing or playing sports all over the country for the first time. Media was suddenly able to react a mass of people.

Likewise mass production. Instead of a few people making a product slowly in a workshop production lines in factories were able to churn identical products out in greater numbers and for cheaper prices. This applied to cars, radios, books, newspapers, copies of films and bootleg liquor. And of course much more besides.

Organised crime – think crime meets the factory mentality and organisation. This was new too in the 1920s.

Celebrity. Mass media (especially film, radio and newspaper) meant that people all over knew who you were and suddenly you could be famous and valuable around the country and around the globe. This just wasn’t the case much before this. Prior to this period only kings, queens and heads of countries were really famous. But all of a suddenly this mass media meant that singers, sportsman, movie stars and gangsters could be and would be known all over the shop.

So these are some of the trends. I was you to explain how your chosen person demonstrates one or some of these trends in the 1920s.

Hopefully this helps.

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Though called “ash,” volcanic ash is not the product of combustion, like the soft fluffy material created by burning wood, leaves, or paper. Volcanic ash is hard, does not dissolve in water, is extremely abrasive and mildly corrosive, and conducts electricity when wet.

Volcanic ash is formed during explosive volcanic eruptions. Explosive eruptions occur when gases dissolved in molten rock (magma) expand and escape violently into the air, and also when water is heated by magma and abruptly flashes into steam. The force of the escaping gas violently shatters solid rocks. Expanding gas also shreds magma and blasts it into the air, where it solidifies into fragments of volcanic rock and glass.

High temperatures and pressures are normal inside the earth.
This happens because of the natural decay of radioactive elements.
This makes the rock so hot it becomes fluid and gas. This is called magma.

The structure of the earth

The earth is not the same all the way down.
The earth is made of many layers.
Starting at the outside they are
Crust (where we live) 0-35km
Upper mantle 35-60km
Mantle 60 – 2890km
A fluid outer core – 2890 – 5150km
A hard inner core – 5150 – 6350km

The crust and the upper mantle are the lithosphere.

More information

The study of volcanoes is called vulcanology.
More than 80% of the earth’s surface has come from volcanoes.
The name Volcano originates from Vulcan, a god of fire in Roman mythology.

Activity
In a group of three or four people come up with a definition of what a volcano is.

Understand natural factors that create volcanic and other environments.
Understand how these natural factors interact.
Understand the geographic features of volcanic environments.
Demonstrate our spatial skills.

Useful spatial skills

Mapping skills, especially topography.
Topography (heights) is expressed using contour lines or different heights for different colours.
Understanding of region.
Understanding of movement.

We started our assignments today and most people seem to be working well. Here is the template is you want it to work with.
1920s Assignment

Australia experienced many of the same trends as America.

Politics: Changes for Women

Women in the workforce under pressure to go back to the home once the war was over.
1920: Mrs Mary Rodgers becomes Australia’s first female councillor.
1921: Edith Cowan elected to West Australian House of Representatives.
Pushed through legislation to allow women to work in the legal profession.
1922: Melbourne: The Industrial Court of Appeal rejects concept of equal pay for women

Popular sports in Australia

Football
Cricket
Boxing
Horse racing
Running
Cycling
Wrestling

Attending sport was not expensive.

Flight in Australia

Record-setting pilots were heroes.
Ross and Keith Smith
Bert Hinkler
Charles Kingsford Smith
QANTAS begins passenger service in 1922.
The Flying Doctor started in 1928.

Money in Australia

Weekly wages in 1929
Bricklayer $12.50
Shop assistant $9.00, women $5.80
Nurse $4.80

Prices in 1929
Butter 24c for 500 grams
Petrol 4.1 cents per litre.
Rent for a four bedroom house $2.00

Cars in Australia

Cars became more popular
75 thousand cars in 1920
230 thousand cars in 1925
540 thousand cars in 1929

Local production
Ford started making cars in Geelong in 1925.
General Motors started in Australia in 1926.
Cars were still expensive.
The smallest car, the Austin 7, cost more than the average wage for a whole year.

Politics in Australia

1927: Federal Parliament sits for the first time in Canberra, the nation’s capital.
Parliament opened by the Duke of York (later King George VI)
There were 15,000 invited guests.
Canberra has just 6,000 residents in 1927.
Nationalist PM Stanley Bruce 1923 to 1929.

Yet another category of people who became celebrities were sportsman. Technology, especially radio and newspapers, meant that people all over could follow the careers and achievements and these people came sporting heroes. As you well know this trend has continued until this very day.

“Big Five” sporting icons of the Roaring Twenties

Babe Ruth (baseball)
Jack Dempsey (boxing)
Red Grange (college football)
Bill Tilden (tennis)
Bobby Jones (golf)

Films popular in Australia

Fears that family life was being eroded.
Most films silent, the first talky, The Jazz Singer, shown in Australia in 1929.
Influx of American films in the 1920 effectively killed Australian cinema industry.

The radio was very popular in Australia.

The Wireless was very popular.
First regular broadcasts in 1923.
Listeners paid a licence to listen.
290,000 issued by 1929.
Broadcasting licences managed by the Postmaster-General’s Department.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation created in 1932.

Mass production and improvements in technology meant that more movies were made and more people saw them. This meant that films starts became nationally and internationally famous.

Movie actors were very famous, adored and well paid.

Famous actors included

Rudolph Valentino
Fatty Arbuckle
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Lon Chaney

If you search for any of these names in Google or YouTube you’ll see them and their work.

Weekly wages in 1929
Bricklayer $12.50
Shop assistant $9.00, women $5.80
Nurse $4.80
Prices in 1929
Butter 24c for 500 grams
Petrol 4.1 cents per litre.
Rent for a four bedroom house $2.00

Find the 2008 dollar amounts of the following things and post them to the forum.
The weekly wages for a bricklayer
500 grams of butter
1 litre of petrol
Weekly rent for a four bedroom house.

Today we talked about ways that we can learn about volcanoes in an interesting way.

There is what 10.4 came up with.

Make a volcano
Make posters
Watch a movie
Visit the You Yangs
Go on an excursion
Case studies
Internet research
Get some bald guy to sing a song about volcanoes.

This geography homework is due in one week on Monday 5th May.

Find one volcano and and one time it erupted.

Find four pieces of information about the impact on humans of this eruption.

Post your answer to the forum.

Many people were very fashion conscious in the 1920s and many young women dressed and behaved in a particular way. They were known as flappers and many of the flappers fashions are still popular today.

Flapper behaviour.

The archetypal flapper;
A young women
Dances in clubs at night.
Smoked cigarettes.
Rode bicycles and drove cars.
Drank alcohol openly.
Cut her hair “boyishly” and dyed it black.

Flappers fashion

The “bob” haircut was popular.
Didn’t wear corsets or pantaloons.
Dresses were straight and loose.
Arms were bare.
Waistline dropped to the hips.
Rayon stockings were held up with garter belts.
Skirt lines were sometimes almost up to the knee.
A round hat called a cloche.
Wore make up, previously worn only by actresses and prostitutes.

Click here to see the images on Flickr you see when you search for “flapper”. Some are of real birds but many are of flappers from the twenties.

The 1920s were known as the jazz age and people listened to a lot of jazz both on mass produced records and live in clubs. When they went to listen to jazz they would also dance. This time saw lots of new dances become popular and the most famous of them was the Charleston. It was –

Popular in jazz clubs.
Vigorous and sexual
Believed to have originated with African Americans.

You can watch people dance the Charleston in this video on YouTube.