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Patrick Pearse 1. Who was this leader (relevant biographical information)? Patrick Pearse was a key leader in the Easter Rising (Irish rebellion against British rule). He was an Irish man living in the late 1800s to early 1900s (1879-1916). (Green, http://www.ireland-information.com/articles/padraigpearse.htm) He was a nationalist and firmly believed that Ireland should be its own country. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (a group that wanted to use force to break the link…

Characters in plays come in many ways with several traits that make he or she unique. With literary devices such as irony and symbolism, authors can help readers analyze the character even closer. Blanche Dubois is a wealthy, up-scaled class woman, at least, that is what she wants people to believe, who goes to visit her sister in New Orleans. Blanche is a character in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire” who has gone through many tough trails in life. Not always making the best…

He economically strained the nation as can be seen in Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, 1879 ; this document states that the wealthy class A.K.A. the robber barons only became more wealthy, as the laboring class became more dependent on the upper class. Rockefeller contributed to this by his method of horizontal integration, where he would…

Which was a “stationary gasoline engine developed by Carl Benz, a one-cylinder two-stroke unit which ran for the first time on New Year’s Eve 1879.”(8). In 1913 “A man by the name of Henry Ford developed the assembly line. Improving productivity in the workplace and ensuring that more goods would be produced.”(14) by 1921 the American people owned 8 Million vehicles. With at least 30 different…

Psychology is the study of human mental functions and behavior in an attempt to learn from observation in addition to the ability to predict behavior. The study of psychology can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of the Greece, Chinese, and the Egyptians. Psychology was named during a historical period of Greece. The word was evolved from "psyche", which can be taken to have the same meaning as life. Psyche can be translated many ways however each translation continues to link it to…

time and thus as a young boy, William wanted to learn and play just like any other boys but everyone told him that he couldn’t play. Instead, he grew up working on his father’s farm and went to the Ohio School for the Deaf in 1872 and graduated in 1879. There he was taught the trade of a cobbler. At first, the town citizens…

On the year 1879, the Royal Theatre of Copenhagen, Denmark first premiered Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Dollhouse.” The play was received as one with a strong feminist acclaim for its cast of female characters who all displayed a form of women’s sacrifice, all challenged by social norms of the time and the men most notably, Torvald Helmer. Helmer was a contrast to the protagonist Nora from the very start without being overt. Helmer is a man who presents himself in public as the perfect married…

Crawford, Michael Ch. 15: This chapter opens up discussing the era that took place after the Civil War. During the Civil War the southern States, also known as the Confederate States of America, attempted to break away from the northern states, better known as the Union, to form their own government. The Confederate states consisted of; Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina. President Lincoln was able to lead the Union to a victory over the Confederate…

is one of the most commonly used methods for determining the amount of fat in food products. The method for the procedure is fairly straight forward and most commonly used for the fat content to be recognised. The soxhlet extractor was invented in 1879, by Franz Van Soxhlet. The experiment was typically designed to measure the fat in foods that are soluble in a solvent. .(Meullemiestre, A. Breil, C; Abert-Vlan, M. Chemat, F 2015). And today that is most commonly what it is used for, however…

gave him a pocket watch, which he would take apart and put back together again and again to see how it operated and over the years he would begin to fix watches for friends and neighbors giving him a reputation of a watch repairman in his town. In 1879, Ford left his family farm to work as an apprentice machinist in Detroit, first working with James F. Flowers and Bros and with Detroit Dry Dock Co. Once he was done working for these companies, he returned to work on his family farm where he…