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Was America A Free Society In The 1920s
1,233 wordsWas America really a free society in the 1920 's? Freedom covers many aspects of life: human rights, religious freedom, economic freedom, freedom of expression and political freedom. In America in the 1920 's there was an illusion of freedom - but some people were more free than others and this depended on race, social class and political belief. There was a big divide between rich and poor and this was further exaggerated by the divide between the urban and rural populations. The smaller farmer...
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Queen Elizabeth King George
1,679 wordsA QUEEN ADORED: ENGLAND'S ELIZABETH II Countess of Longford, Elizabeth Pakenham, was born in London England in 1906. She attended Lady Margaret Hall and Oxford University where she studied classical history and philosophy. She later married Oxford professor and politician, the seventh Earl of Longford in 1931, with whom she had eight children. She worked as a tutor from 1930 - 36 in the Worker's Educational Association, and was a member of the Paddington and St. Pomcras Rent Tribunal from 1946 -...
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History Of The Income Tax
1,505 words... eral government would gain the power to tax state and municipal bonds, but New York passed the amendment on its second try. Other eastern states also had movements against the amendment, but they eventually ratified it as well. Wyoming's ratification on February 3, 1913, gave Congress the three-quarters majority it needed to make the amendment part of the U. S. Constitution. Congress now had the ability of the federal government to levy taxes on income. Six other states eventually ratified t...
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Spanish Civil War Gertrude Stein
629 wordsAn American novelist and short-story writer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, one of the great American writers of the 20 th century. The son of a country doctor, Hemingway worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school in 1917. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry and was wounded just before his 19 th birthday. Later, while working in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, he became involved with the expatr...
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Edgar Allan Poe Allan Poe Allen
788 wordsEdgar Allan Poe was a predominate and highly influential figure in world literature. Much of Poe's notability is based on his ingenious and profound short stories, poems, and critical theories. The innovative way that he wrote established a pretense of how the short form in both poetry and fiction should be, which is one reason they regard Poe in literary histories and handbooks as the architect of the modern short story (Quinn 93). It was Poe's particular genius that in his work he gave consumm...
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Analysis Of Legal Case Between Hall And Mills
1,039 words... apple tree in lovers lane while hot-dog and popcorn vender's sprang up to ply their wares among the curious. (Passion in the Parish (9 - 10) The ability of the police officers to control the crime scene was very little. People were passing around the business card, taking pieces of the tree, and over just messing up the crime scene such as squashing the underbrush. It was said that the rector was shot once in the head, but the trajectory from the entrance wound to the exit wound was on a dow...
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Henry Ford Auto Industry
1,026 wordsThe first internal combustion engine was built in 1860 by Etienne Lenoir in France, but it ran on illuminating gas and was quite different from the modern engine. In 1876, Nikolous Otto patented in Germany the four-stroke gasoline engine type used today in most cars. Karl Benz's first automobile had a mid-mounted engine with semi-elliptical leaf-spring suspension in the rear and none in the front. It had a tiller for steering. The engine was a 1. 7 -liter one-cylinder unit that put out 1. 5 hors...
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Nine Teen Twenty Swing Era Music
367 wordsDuring the nine-teen twenty's and thirties the music scene wasa's popular as ever. There was the Jazz Era during the twenties and the Swing Era during the thirties. Merging into the early twenties a type of improvised music, called Dixieland Jazz was being recorded. Famous artists including Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory were very popular tothe people. This music was a hit till nine-teen twenty three. Jazz musical the popular music during this decade. Than during the nine-teen thirties many types o...
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Academy Of Sciences Quantum Mechanics
1,357 wordsPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac Patrick Ennis Mrs. Carter Research Monday, December 9, 1996 Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty. This statement was Dirac's response to the question of his philosophy of physics, posed to him in Moscow in 1955. He wrote it on a blackboard that is still preserved today Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902 - 1984), known as P. A. M. Dirac, was the fifteenth Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrod...
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Deep Sea Fishing Sea Fishing One
544 wordsHemingway, Ernest (Miller) 1899 1961 Writer; born in Oak Park, Ill. Son of a doctor (who would commit suicide), he never attended college but became a journalist for the Kansas City Star (191718). He served with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps in France (191718) and was wounded while accompanying the Italian army into battle. He worked as a journalist, covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Toronto Star (1920). In Chicago, he married (his first of four wives) and went back to Europe to serve as a ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Intend To Be The Greatest
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Frank Lloyd Wright Intend To Be The Greatest
1,120 wordsOne of America s most influential and imaginative architects was Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his 70 year career, Wright has not only designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of living space, landscape, and the relationship between architecture and community. Frank Lloyd Wright left behind a legacy of beautiful houses and buildings, an American style of architecture, and an example of what it means to live life based on the way things should be, not the way they are...
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Museum Of Modern Art Quot Quot
1,507 wordsMark Doty Urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny, OHara would allow a realm of material and associations alien to academic verse to pour into his poems: the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape of social activity in Manhattan, jazz music, telephone calls from friends; anything seemed ready material for inclusion into the particular order that the moment of composition would call for. Dadaist even in his approach to his own wo...
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African American Women Department Of Labor
947 wordsMaureen Honey Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson made her way to Washington, D. C. , where she lived for over fifty years at 1461 S Street NW, site of one of the greatest literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the most famous woman poet of that literary movement, publishing four volumes of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962). Johnsons life illustrates the difficulties faced by African American w...
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Friend Of Lime Lime Martins
967 wordsAuthor Henry Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904 in Berkhamsted in England and was one of six children. At the age of eight he went to the Berkhamsted school. As a teenager he was under so immense pressure that he got psychological problems and suffered a nervous breakdown. In 1922 he was enrolled on the Balliol College, Oxford and in 1926 after graduation he started to work for the London Times as sub-editor and for the Nottingham Journal as journalist, where he met his later wife Vivien D...
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Major League Won Baseball
238 wordsprofessional baseball player, one of the finest right-handed pitchers in the history of the game, frequently considered the greatest master of control. From 1911 to 1930 he won 373 or 374 major league games (authorities differ) and lost 208. In his first season he won 28 games. For three consecutive years (1915 - 17) he won 30 or more games; in 1916, when he achieved 33 victories, 16 were shutouts, a major league record. His career total of 88 or 90 shutouts is second only to Walter Johnsons 110...
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Harry Houdini Five Years
1,527 wordsShehzadHarry Houdini Khan 1 Shehzad Khan 8 Lutes Harry Houdini What comes to mind when one thinks of Harry Houdini? There are many things one could say, magic, escapes, perseverance, hard work, determination, fame, etc. Houdini was a master magician as well as a superb escape artist. (Harry 1) Houdini was one of the most determined men in history. He was so obsessed with achieving his goal that no matter what got in his way he pushed it aside. Even if it were his parents he would ignore them. Ma...
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Robert Graves Modern Poetry
858 wordsHaving admired (Riding) Jacksons " The Quids" published in The Fugitive (1924), Robert Graves began correspondence with her. He subsequently arranged with Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press to publish her first collection of poems, The Close Chapel (1926). Afterwards she apparently was invited to become Graves secretary or to collaborate with him on a book about modern poetry. Their thirteen-year relationship (1926 - 39) was besieged with the intricacies of their personal, poeti...
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Dali Salvador Dali Paranoiac Critical Method Work
465 wordsDali Salvador Dali Salvador Dali Dali s work is permeated by events that shaped his life even before his birth in 1904 in Figures, Spain. His name, Salvador, had first been given to a brother who died a few years earlier at a young age. Perhaps because of that death, his parents lavished upon him an excessive love that fostered his egocentric and flamboyant personality. Furthermore, he saw himself as the phantom of his dead brother, early on becoming familiar with the obsessive idea of death, on...
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Dance Floor West Coast
1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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