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Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22nd, 1908 in Chanteloup, France. Cartier-Bresson had five siblings, Cartier-Bresson being the oldest. His family were privileged growing up due to his father was a textile manufacturer. His whole life he was interested in the arts and was inspired by his uncle who was a painter (Oden). Many members of his family were also interested in art. He went to school in Paris where he developed an interest in literature and art. In 1927 Cartier-Bresson studied…

In the 1920s Americans were in the decade of prosperity and confidence. Towards the end of the 20’s was the start of the great depression that greatly affected everyone. That included business,government,economics,and many more. The groups that were changed drastically from the 1920s to the 1930s was the economy, women and african americans due to the great depression. The 1920s were the golden ages for the economy ,but after in the 1930s the economy faced a difficult struggle and government…

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí; was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist of Catalan ethnicity born in Figueres . Personal life Dali married Russian Elena Dimakunova, known as Gala. Gala came to France alone in 1913 and she was only 19 years old. In 1929 she met Natalie, who was about ten years younger. Jala's apparent influence on Dali and his works of art was keen to prevent his…

Recently I watched the movie” Miss Evers Boys,” and I felt sad at that moment. In the movie, Nurse Evers played a main character in the movie. From 1932 through 1972, Miss Evers was part of the Macon County Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. The United States Government hid the medical experiment from the black patients to study the results of untreated syphilis. Miss Evers cooperated with the U.S Public Health Department to do this research. After having watched the movie, I believe Nurse Evers is…

August Vollmer was the “father of American police professionalism” (Walker & Katz, 2012, p. 36). He served as chief of police in Berkeley, California from 1905 – 1932, and served as a consultant for police departments around the country. He influenced many more reforms in policing than any other person, and his reforms continue to reform policing today (Walker & Katz, 2012, p. 36). Vollmer believed that there needed to be a reform of policing due to perceived corrupt police agencies and the…

focused on the production and acquisition of consumer goods , Typical of a modern industrial economy, without knowing that in 1929, the stock market of New York would fall and the country would be plunged into a great crisis and depression. Already in 1932, the Great Depression reached the figure of 30 million…

Lewis was a writer and was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, United Kingdom. He died January 14, 1898 in Guilford, United Kingdom. Some poems that Lewis wrote are Jabberwocky,The Hunting of the Snark, and The Walrus and the Carpenter. Some people that influenced Lewis Carroll are Alice Liddell and Hans Christian Andersen. Lewis wrote¨ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland¨ and ¨Through the Looking-Glass.¨ He went to school at Christ Church (Oxford) Rugby School, Richmond School, Yorkshire. At…

fear of their dissatisfaction with the government getting them killed. This story, along with others such as Divergent and The Purge shocks the audience, but while its popularity is rising in today’s culture, it most certainly isn’t a new idea. In 1932, Huxley portrayed the problems that arise with the idealistic naivety that comes with the pursuit for utopia, and gave perspective to the frighteningly possible future during Nazi Germany, thus making readers wonder if…

The agreement of Versailles was phenomenally striking to Germany since the German economy crackled by the crisis of the Wall Street Crash in the United States. The American economy was doing extremely well which caused more buyers than sellers at the beginning. It was easy to become rich, anyone could buy shares, and have to increase their values because of their success and continue doing so. By 1929 there was twenty million out of the population of one hundred twenty million were shareowners.…

The Holodomor (1932-33) is Ukraine’s most devastating point in history. The name itself breaks down into two words meaning holod- hunger, starvation, famine and moryty- to induce suffering, to kill. This famine was used by the Soviet Union to kill off the Ukrainian people. Many do not know of this horrific period in history and of what the Ukrainian people had to endeavour. As historians have studied this two year event, they have been able to determine that the leading factor of Stalin’s plan…