... segments of society. Among the prominent concerns and trends of the period include the public embrace of technological developments (typically seen as progress)-cars, air travel and the telephone-as well as new trends in social behavior, the arts, and culture (Wikipedia, 2006, Jazz Age). The decade following World War I was also one day called as "the Roaring Twenties," and it was a time of unprecedented prosperity. Between 1920 and 1929, the nation's total wealth nearly doubled, manufactures rose by 60 percent, for the first time most people lived in urban areas - and in homes lit by electricity; "they made more money than they ever had before and, spurred on by the giant new advertising industry, spent it faster, too - on washing machines and refrigerators and vacuum cleaners, 12 million radios, 30 million automobiles" (Ward, Burns, n.d.) The Gross National Product of the nation rose from $74 billion at the ...

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