The 20s are characterized as a time of “volatile contradictions.” choose one contradiction of the era and explain it

Modernism : After the carnage of the Great War destroyed Americans’ belief in the progress of Western civilization. During the 1920s, in a movement known as modernism, young artists and intellectuals reflected this disillusionment. For modernists, the world could no longer be simply observed through reason, common sense, and logic; instead, the reality was something to be created and expressed through new artistic and literary forms, like an abstract painting, atonal music, free verse in poetry, and stream-of-conscious narrative and interior monologues in stories and novels.

very positive impact on our industries in the west, sine they promoted settlement and increased the ways in which goods could be transported to market.  

you can talk about what you learned about them. and you can talk about what happened on you're journeys with them. and then you can put all of the thing you learned about them in you're diary.