**1920's**

The 1920's was a decade full of changes, changes that involved art and literature all the way to the way women dressed, acted, and rebelled. Two big art movements began life during the 1920's: surrealism and artdeco. Surrealism specifically started around the time of World War I. The point of this type of art was to show the element of surprise showing many juxtapositions, contradictions.
Surrealism: a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surrealism

Along with art changes came the changes in music and dancing. Jazz arrived thanks to the African Americans at the time, adults may have disliked this movement, but the young people of the time liked it and danced the way they wanted to in clubs. A great example for showing this lifestyle of the young people in the 1920's is the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby". With the novel came the movie which revealed many more things about the 1920's, like how women were more promiscuous and the contact of the body in dances. Another not so noticable innuendo were the secrets that men and women alike bared within themselves. Knowlege of a colleague having a wife and a mistress, not letting anyone know who, or what is really going on with the man beneath the mask.

Something that people may not really have discovered is that around this era was booming in the developement of medicine and research done to the human body:

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Laureates 1920 - 1930


1930 Karl Landsteiner - "for discovery of human blood types"

1929 Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins - "for discovery of various vitamins"

1928 Charles Nicolle - "for work on typhus"

1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg - "for healing general paralysis by infection with malaria"

1926 Johannes Fibiger - "for elucidating Spiroptera carcinoma and artificially inducing cancer in an animal."

1925 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1924 Willem Einthoven - "for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"

1923 Frederick G. Banting, John Macleod - "for the discovery of insulin"

1922 Archibald V. Hill, Otto Meyerhof - "for research on muscles, especially their generation of heat and the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism "

1921 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1920 August Krogh - "for showing that the gas exchange in the lungs is ordinary diffusion"
-http://www.1920-30.com/medicine/
I personally am thankful for Mr. Alexander Fleming for rediscovering penicillin because without it many people would have died sooner.Without his rediscovery of penicillin, then the team of researchers at Oxford University wouldnt have made the significant progress in showing penicillin's amazing ability to kill infectious bacteria which would eventually have led to commercial production of penicillin. 

http://www.1920-30.com/