1879

Nora a 19th Century Heroine In 1879 the year A Doll’s House was published by playwright Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian women had few rights in the societal schematics of the era. The question of whether Nora, the main character in A Doll’s House, is a Norwegian feminist heroine or not, is a widely debated subject. “For over a hundred years, Nora has been under direct siege as exhibiting the most perfidious characteristics of her sex; the original outcry of the 1880s is swollen now to a mighty chorus…

Otto Hahn was a great scientist that did multiple things to advance the scientific field. Otto Hahn was born March 8, 1879 and died on July 28, 1968. In his early years he was debating being an architect but later went on to become a German chemist. Hahn attended the University of Marburg and recieved his doctorate degree in 1901. He served one year in the military. In 1904, he went to London to learn English and ended up working at the University College. At University College, Hahn ended up…

Joseph Stalin was born into a rough childhood in the Russian peasant village of Gori, Georgia on December 18, 1879. Joseph’s parents did not make lots of money as a cobbler and a washerwoman. Joseph was a very frail child so at age 7 when he contracted smallpox, a scar was left on his face. His left arm was slightly deformed after a carriage accident he was involved with. The people in his village made him feel like he was less than everybody else and wasn’t worth anything. When he was nine,…

clear continuation of Impressionism whereby it borrowed many of the techniques from Impressionism but added more formalism and emotion to the works while not being as concerned with the effects of light. I would like to now compare Claude Monet's 1879 painting Vétheuil in the Fog, as an example of Impressionism, and Paul Cézanne's 1904 painting Le Château Noir, as an example of post-Impressionism, to illustrate the differences between these two similar but distinctive styles. The two paintings…

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She described the book as her best work. She published it in1875. This book is preached about in the church. The church is a “healing church” the church is there for the words of Christ, but also the healing of others who claim that they didn’t need doctors to heal their sickness. The church had more than 50,000 testimonies of…

government could not have supported the tremendous cost of construction. Lack of federal and state regulation at this time simultaneously allowed moneyed entrepreneurs to fully pursue their business interests, nearly to the point of perversion. The year 1879 was an auspicious turning point in the career of financier J. Pierpont Morgan. This year saw the end of government operators as the chief investment occupation of Morgan…

Lorraine back. Germany wanted to become a world power, similar to France and Britain. Germans also believed that in order to keep their new country strong they needed alliances. Thus, the Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungry was signed in 1879, and a Triple Alliance was signed by Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy in 1882. To prevent the Triple Alliance from generating too much power, the Triple Entente was signed by Britain, France, and Russia in 1907. This created much tension…

It is the first of numerous books by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), one of the real Australian authors of her time. It was composed while she was as yet a youngster, as a sentiment to divert her companions. Franklin presented the composition to Henry Lawson who contributed a prelude and took it to his own distributers…

During the civil war, John William “Blind” Boone was black and born in Miami, Missouri, May 17, 1864. Because of his brain fever, he was forced to remove his eyes. He was almost blind from birth and that was a way he named as “blind” Boone. Regardless of poverty, disability, and racism, he became a well-known composer and musician. Also, it is worth finding his valuable characteristics and understanding how his musical inspiration affected American popular music. Despite his blindness, he had…

at the time. Instead of using carbonized linen or cotton he used bamboo in his filament that made it last for more than 1200 hours The first real invention was in 1840 and was re-invented many times throughout the years but was truly “Mastered” in 1879 by Thomas Edison. The invention of the light bulb has given Americans the ability to work longer hours than just while the sun was out, and without the risk of using candles or oil lamps. The light bulb was modified over and over many times in…