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and getting unhealthy abortions should not be one of them. So, she made it her goal to find a solution. Margaret Sanger was an early feminist who created the term “birth control” and fought for its cause. Margaret Sanger was born on September 14, 1879 to a Roman Catholic working class Irish American family (“Margaret Sanger”). She attended school Claverack College and Hudson River institute. She also studied nursing for four years at White Plains Hospital. As a nurse Margaret treated many women…

Brontosaurus Othniel Charles Marsh discovered and named the Brontosaurus (Greek “thunder lizard”), a four-legged dinosaur in 1879. With at least three known species, this dinosaur lived in the Morrison Formation of present day Western US, during the late Jurassic Period and became extinct by the end of the period. Perhaps one of the most controversially classified dinosaurs, paleontologists have reclassified the Brontosaurus several times since its discovery to an extent that some quarters…

Mathew Evans built their lamps with different shapes and sizes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filed with nitrogen. Being unsuccessful in their attempt to commercialize their lamp, they eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879. All of these inventions fell through…

House” there is one particular character named Torvald that stands out. In this play Torvald is the husband of Nora, a fluttering wife whom insists of dreaming instead of managing the balances within her reality. Henrik Ibsen wrote this play back in 1879 when life was much more difficult. Life was not bad, but in those particular times women did not amount to anything, only their husbands would. The husbands managed the finances, took out loans, worked credible jobs, and made the decisions that…

Hooper placed the piece on loan at Boston’s museum of the arts, until 1879. Where, educated museum folk saw the moral lesson of turner’s interpretation of the slave trade. The museum placed the painting on an easel in the main gallery along side Ruskin’s famous description, printed for all to see. Which would shift people’s…

Bond would not receive a fair trail because of his race and the prospective jury makes the court condemn the intentional misrepresentation of judicial rights in order to convince a suspect in a criminal case to confess. In the cases of Ringo v. State (1879) they referenced the quote, “The critical injury is whether the defendant’s statements were…

Chapter 13 and Chapter 14. Which takes place around the time period of around 1879-1889. The characters introduced in these chapters include Mary Cassatt, John Sargent,Gustave Eiffel ,and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Chapter 13 begins with Mary Cassatt a thirty four year old who’s life was centered around her family. Until she became an impressionist painter who made her debut during the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris of 1879. The Impressionist Exhibition open on April 10 where eleven of…

Americans as the United States continued to expand westward and more and more tribes as well as members were introduced to the new land. Since the early government officials of America declined to trade off on the privileges of Native Americans, a 1879 court case conveyed the contention to its zenith, bringing about the administration's acknowledgment of Native Americans as a person, with every one of the privileges of any…

The advantages of the railroad were due to the demand for faster and more convenient transportation. They created more direct routes, greater speed and safety, dependable schedules, year-round service, and more space to travel. They connected many cities together and went about 50 miles an hour, which would take a whole day on horseback or stagecoach. It carried cattle, fruit, and goods it had never previously been carried. The Railroad Empire grew at the end of the Civil War. It expanded from…

story factual. Despite no physical proof, Edison confirmed the papers’ stories (Miller 204). Hollywood blew the story further out of proportion and the tale was just accepted as fact. Even to this day, power companies still commemorate October 21, 1879 as a day that the impossible was made possible (Flatow 23). A less believable fable also surfaced when Edison was being celebrated as a hero for his discovery. A man wrote in a newspaper as a joke, “What everyone thinks is the evening star is…