1886

Would you give up a life of another being for money? “Choice is what enables us to tell the world who we are” – Anonymous. A White Heron is one of the best stories written by Sarah Orne Jewett published in 1886. The main theme in the story is choices. It’s all about the hard choice the little girl has to take between nature and money. Sarah Orne Jewett, the author, was born at 1849, in South Berwick, Maine, USA. The main character, Sylvia, is a quiet, thoughtful child. She enjoys the…

The roller coaster traces its origins to Russia, where wood-framed ice slides sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes as early as the 16th century. These Russian Mountains also became popular summertime attractions when wheeled carts rolled riders down large, undulating wooden ramps. What is considered the first successful commercial roller coaster made its debut in 1884 at New York's famous Coney Island. LaMarcus A. Thompson constructed the first roller coaster, the primitive Gravity Switchback…

day. Now coke sells about 19,400 beverages every second all around the world. Although coke is the most popular soft drink in the world, this was not always the case. Coke always had good advertising strategies from day one. Since coke started out in 1886 they started using coupons for free drinks to raise interest in the product. In 1892 coke was sold to Asa Candler. He had an advertising budget of $11,000. Candler used products such as calendars, soda fountain urns, painted wall signs,…

were denied access to higher education that was important for inventing. Looking at the social aspect in earlier history it was thought to be unladylike for women to invent things. In the late 1800’s ideas for making money was important to women. In 1886 women stated fighting for equal right on a social aspect and this is where some patents by women came into…

Emily Dickinson was a female author of poetry from Amherst, Massachusetts in born in 1830 and died in 1886. Only a handful of her hundreds of poems were published before her death in 1886. Furthermore, Dickinson has since joined Walt Whitman in the literary canon as one of the two most significant American poets of the nineteenth century. (Bluemle, S. R., 2008) I will discuss about her illness she had in her life, the language of her poetry that reflects on her life of how her works was…

The artist I picked was Diego Rivera. Rivera was born on December 8th, 1886 and died on November 24th, 1957. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico and deceased in Mexico city at the age of 71. Rivera was a Mexican Artist that made beautiful and inspiring murals. In his youth, he went to Paris for art school. He met many popular artists from his time there. He was very accomplished in making so many famous murals. Some of the murals he made were on public buildings and were made for the poor. A lot of…

Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. She was famous for painting. Some of her most famous paintings were, still life with parrot and fruit, thinking about death, and many many more. Diego rivera was born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Mexico. She was also a famous muralist. Some of Diego's famous murals were, Man at the crossroads, The flower carrier, the history of Mexico, and much, much more Frida and Diego were married December 8, 1940. Their marriage…

Esteban Borja Pena Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Emily was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. She attended the university of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Some of her quotes are “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”, “Forever is composed of nows.”, “Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” Throughout most of her life, she seemed to have had very few visitors and sporadically left her house. The people who…

Coca-Cola history began in 1886 when the enthusiasm of an Atlanta medicate authority, Dr. John S. Pemberton, drove him to make an unmistakable tasting pop that could be sold at pop wellsprings. He made a prepared syrup, took it to his neighborhood tranquilize store, where it was mixed with carbonated water and considered "heavenly" by the people who analyzed it. Dr. Pemberton's accessory and assistant, Prospective M. Robinson, is credited with naming the drink "Coca‑Cola" and furthermore…

Georges Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859 in Paris, France. Seurat was the son of Antoine-Chrysostome and Marie-Berthe Seurat and was one of three children. It is known that in his early life, he showed a great interest in drawing. The first art lessons that he attended were with his uncle, but eventually he began working with some more advanced artists such as Justin Lequien and Henri Lehmann. In 1878, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. However, just one year after entering Paris’…