Self Expression

I believe the most important points of the 1920’s were Al Capone, the KKK, bible vs. science, young artist, and schools and colleges improving. Each topic can be related by self expression. The definition of self expression is the expression of one’s feelings, thoughts or ideas. Death being a feeling, religion vs. science being a thought, and artist and colleges being an idea. All improving the way life was to how it is now!

Al Capone and the KKK killed many people, in order to protect their definition of what was right which seemed to be illegal alcohol for Capone and believing in different things than others for the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan considered people guilty of irreligion, drunkenness, and sexual promiscuity as a subject of impureness and just another way to beat someone up, while Al Capone decided that having an army of 1,000 gunmen to protect alcohol was right. It was expressed as a feeling of hatred and importance to their social standards. Nowadays freedom of religion and the sale of alcohol is not something to be killed over!

            In the 21st century being a major role in our world is religion, exactly freedom of religion. But back in the 20th century a group of fundamentalists decided to spread around the world that science was outrageous and the bible should be interpreted literally, opposing to Charles Darwin who figured out the evolution theory. The fundamentalist wanted everyone to believe that they were all created by god and not evolved from monkeys. It wasn’t until William Bryan was put on the stand that the modernist achieved the victory that not all religious truths could be interpreted in one way. Expressing their situation as a thought that could not be tied down to one answer. This helps with the approval that any religion can be practiced today.

In the 1920’s schools and colleges were just starting to be viewed as a place of interest, a place that wasn’t only for academics but for going out of the box, and getting into clubs, fraternities, sororities, and even athletics. It had encouraged people to get better jobs and defined themselves more in terms of their peer group than their families. It was a way to express their life with higher expatiations. In today’s world the importance of school and education has not changed, it has just improved. More jobs, more athletics, and a lot more people attending colleges.

100 years ago we would have not been able to express our rights in the way we had wanted to do. Whether it being from death to education to religion vs. science the country that was is very different from now!