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Why did the Irish want their own homeland? The Irish Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was the dominant political movement of Irish nationalism from 1870 to the end of World War I. Source #1 Citation: C N Trueman "Home Rule And Ireland" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 25 Mar 2015. 8 Jan 2018. Basic Information: Home Rule was the name given to the process of allowing…

Benjamin Spock’s Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care? How do her views on Dr. Spock change and why? [see page 1886-1887] To June Jordan, Dr. Benjamin Spock was a God. She treated his book, Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care like the bible. Jordan said, “I was ignorant but striving to be good: a good Mother. And so it was there, in that best-seller pocketbook of do’s and don’t’s (1886). Jordan’s views changed when she came upon this guideline, “Do not wear miniskirts or other…

be the literary artist in matters of language, form, and content. The fear of death, a problem with which Tolstoy had long been pre-occupied, lies behind the mystical experiences of the main characters in 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' (finished 1886; published 1886) and 'Master and Man' (finished 1895; published 1895), two of his greatest masterpieces in the genre of the short novel. The public hailed 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', for it was the first substantial artistic work that he had written…

In the twenty-first century, an emphasis has been placed on establishing the importance of women in American history, renewed interest has been generated in preserving the legacy of famous suffragists, such as Alice Paul or Carrie Chapman Catt, and their roles in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which awarded women full and equal voting rights at the national level. However, considerably less attention has been given to ways in which Midwestern women participated in the 19th century…

to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1871 British Columbia joined confederation, but with the promise that a transcontinental railway would be built within 10 years of them joining. On June 28, 1886, the first train left Montreal and arrived at Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4, 1886. By 1891 the CPR had secured a contract with the British government to transport mail from Hong Kong to Great Britain through Canada. It was necessary for Macdonald to use the Metis land because this…

process to obtain his first sample of aluminum in his parents shed. "The process was the electrolysis of aluminum oxide dissolved in a mixture of molten cryolite and aluminum fluoride in a graphite crucible" (Craig). Hall applied for a patent and in 1886 and received it in 1889. Later that year, Hall received money from a man named Alfred E. Hunt and some other business men. Together Hall and these men founded the Pittsburg Reduction Company and Hall began to commercially produce aluminum…

within the war. Therefore, exhibitions were then lead by different artists at the time. Because of the different exhibition leaders, many debates arouse, which lead to the change in the contributions to the exhibitions. The last of the exhibitions, 1886, was the one that showed the ideas of impressionism fading away into a more avant-garde style. Due to the fact that many members were developing new, individualized styles of artwork, few were working in recognizable impressionist manners.…

and countless short stories, poems, articles, and hymns (hbsc). In her lifetime Stowe witnessed the terrors of slavery, she fought against them, and she was able to see slavery outlawed with the 13th Amendment in 1865. In 1886, Calvin Stowe, her husband, died. Stowe died in 1886 in Hartford, Connecticut after a decade of deteriorating health (Wrldrels). H. Conclusion Harriet Beecher Stowe supported the abolition of slavery with works like Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was able to reveal the realities…

fraud and scams. Holmes went to the university of michigan to study medicine. He would steal corpses and he used them to experiment on and to get false insurance claims. He was known to be the first serial killer in the U.S. He moved to Chicago in 1886. The first job that he got there was at a local…

totally different to them. Veterans, scientists, parents, and teachers can be honorable, it all just depends on your personal criteria of honor. Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor and entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, New York on December 9, 1886. Clarence’s parents, Ada Jane Underwood and Clarence Frank Birdseye, had nine kids and he was six of the nine. Clarence attended Amherst College in Massachusetts with interests in becoming a biologist, but only for a short period of time. In 1908…