I worked with Karen and Thomas to join our Progressive topics together.
- Annie Oakley: Encourage women to take care of themselves
- Spanish Flu: Mass disease control, health regulation
- Gillette Razor: Personal Hygiene, streamlining the razor design
-Intro-
During the Progressive Era masshealth regulations along with recognition of the benefits of a healthier lifestyle lead to a more informed society that was more conscious of their personal hygiene. The innovation of the Gillette Razor helped lead men to create a better standpoint of personal hygiene, while women were looking up to Annie Oakley as a role model for women’s health and respect of their bodies. The Influenza pandemic of 1918 lead to an overhaul of health regulations that would help increase the quality of life of everyday citizens, men or women.
-Conclusion-
Had it not been for the quick thinking and influential figures of the time period like Annie Oakley and King Camp Gillette the importance of personal hygiene would not have been so widely accepted. These steps towards betterment of health made the mass reformation of health regulations, after the “Spanish Flu” pandemic more widely accepted and easier to enforce. Had Progressivism not taken such drastic measures to change the way American’s live, would we still be living in third-world conditions?
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