1890

So, In 1870, only one of Africa was colonial In 1890, the unearned section represented only about a tenth. 15th century Portugal; Angola and Mozambique the Hondurans are on the shores of South Africa they started to settle. From the 16th century, Do not enter Africa from Senegal to Africa's coasts has…

“The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that came with the World’s Fair that took place in 1893 added to the…

life between 1890 and 1912, as Emily S. Rosenberg states, by the willing securitization of global trade and economic prosperity, while also being the emblematic success for international relations, integration and…

van Gogh to the asylum where he began to paint some of his most well-known paintings in 1889. Some of these paintings include “Starry Night” and “Irises”. While in the asylum van Gogh became depressed and began making one painting a day. In July 27, 1890 Vincent van Gogh went to a field and painted another well-known painting called “Wheatfield with crows”. After he finished this painting he took a loaded gun and shot himself in the chest. However this suicide attempt did not take an affected…

isolation and her restrictions in society. Isolation is beneficial to the mind, but not for a prolonged period of time. As a female during the 1890’s, the narrator was immensely restricted due to her role in society. Current research shows how these two treatments have only increased the severity of depression and can lead the mind to psychosis. In the 1890’s, a female who sought medical treatment, for what we know as depression and anxiety today, would be…

Fielding Walden (1855-1890) was born the first child of Delaney and Easter Jackson. As a young child, he learned the skill of field work, by the age of 13, his father had become a property owner, though young his responsibilities were that of an adult. Eventually, he worked as a sharecropper and with his father as a farm laborer. Fielding wed the beautiful Elvira Ellis (1857-1925) a young lady from the Auburn Plantation in Adams County. She was an educated woman, she could read and write.…

genres; they deal with the (300) viewer's nightmares and fears, and the terror of the unknown (Horror Film,1). Some of the first films in the horror genre were depictions of supernatural ideas in short silent films created by Georges Méliés in the late 1890s (Horror Film, 1). In 1910 the first film version of Frankenstein was produced, after the film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was produced in 1908 (Horror Film, 1). The Wikipedia article “Horror Film” stated, “The macabre nature of the…

Enforced after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in action until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former confederate states, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all. This body of law institutionalized…

Unfortunately, the idea of a talking toy was far ahead of the technology needed to execute it. In 1890, sound recording was in its infancy, and the cracklings and hissing on early records were more disturbing when they were supposed to be the voices of sweet-faced dolls. Also consumers complained the dolls were too fragile and broke…

little flower. Mrs. Mallard is fighting oppression through not having the same rights as men in this period of the 1890s. Women didn’t have the right to vote while also having arranged marriages for which they can’t choose their own husbands. An analysis of “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, uses the themes of death, freedom, and irony to show the struggles women faced in the 1890s. The first theme in “The Story of an Hour,” is death. In the beginning of the story, Mrs. Mallard’s husband,…