1888

Every four years we go to the polls to vote for our nations chief executive, the president. During campaign season we hear a lot of talk about electoral college. What is electoral college? Well Its not a college at all, but a process. Its how americans elect a president and vice president every four years. Who came up with this process, none other than our founding fathers, the framers of the constitution. Under this system americans do not actually vote directly for a president and vice…

ARABESQUE no. 1 Title & opus/catalogue no.: Arabesque No.1. Andantino con moto Composer background: Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Him, along with Maurice Ravel were the most outstanding people related to Impressionist music. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music is noted for its sensory and sonic content and the use of nontraditional tonalities. The French literary technique of his period was known as Symbolism. This…

Was Jack the Ripper really Jack the Ripper? Or was it someone else? Ripper was a serial killer and mutilated at least five prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 and because no one arrested or tried for murders, crime buffs are still fascinated with Jack the Ripper case more than 115 years later. To criminally profile the man named Jack the Ripper, there is evidence of his types of victims, what he did to his victims and the possible suspects to his true identity. The women experts really…

The Sheltering Arms Program has a long history of consistency and has increase learning in the children that have passed through this program since, 1888. It has also provided ample opportunities for the families of the children to become involved in the program, through providing learning opportunities about life skills, communication pathways between staff and parents, and also by inviting them to…

to the United States where he was hired as chief engineer for the construction of the Statue of Liberty. When their family returned to the United States, Stone attended Columbia Grammar School in New York City for three years and between 1886 and 1888 was an undergraduate at the Columbia University…

wear more makeup, etc. In Big, all Joshua wants is to be older. He’s tired of being treated as a child by his family and the kids at school. The obsession with independence and growing up fast has been a recurring theme in the lives of teenagers in 1888 and now. One cultural difference is in Big, Joshua acted like the thirteen year old he was at heart and in turn, won the praise of the CEO of the company he worked…

Race in colonial Latin America was different from race in the United States of America. In colonial Latin America “race” was measured in terms of appearance, rather than in terms of “ancestry”; whereas it was the opposite in the U.S.A. Peter Winn states, “Andean people have straight hair, so to avoid being ‘Indian’ with straight hair, they would go to a beauty parlor to get a perm.” In Bolivia almost everyone had some kind of Indian ancestry, but they wanted to ignore this and so they did…

San Juan Bosco was born August 16, 1815 and Died january 31, 1888, He was buried at Basilica of Our lady Help of Christians Turin His childhood was hard after losing his father, he had to work without rest to carry out the family farm. San Juan Bosco learned to read in 4 weeks because he wanted to study to be a priest, so he had to walk every day about 10 kilometers and sometimes barefoot, for not wearing shoes to go study the Lyceum of Chier. In order to pay for his studies he worked in all…

“The weatherman explained that we will have a blizzard on wednesday, and then we’ll have a hurricane next thursday” the lady said to her friend as she rushed to the grocery store. She realized that she will have to buy a lot of food because they will be stuck inside for both of the storms. Both blizzards and hurricanes are a type of storm but they have some things that are different from each other. There are some differences in these two storms, but there are also some similarities. Both…

the union. May 24, 1858:Henry H. Sibley becomes Minnesota's first governor. 1868: Minnesota voters ratify constitutional amendment giving blacks the right to vote. 39,493 voted in favor of the amendment, while 30,121 voted no. August 22, 1888: Minnesota Farm…