1897

During the 18th century, the women’s role in society was restricted to the house and to her family, therefore limiting their job options to domestic related chores, as teachers and in department store. However, women attained certain rights such as the right to own property, right to wages and a right to an education. This wasn’t enough for many educated and middle class women, who wanted to tackle issues of social equality, equal wages and the most of all, more active involvement in their…

employs much irony to catechize the values of the American South. William Faulkner’s short-story “A Rose for Emily” is an exceptional example of this style of writing. Faulkner, the American short-story writer and novelist, was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi. From an early age, Faulkner new he wanted to be a writer just like his great-grandfather, William C. Falkner. Faulkner’s family moved to Oxford, Mississippi,…

generation Baťa family shoemakers. They had 10 full-time employees with fixed work schedules and regular weekly wages, a rarity during that time. In 1895, T. & A. Baťa Shoe Company popularized the canvas shoe and grew their business to 50 employees. In 1897, they released the Batovka, one of the first mass-produced shoes. Baťa began the period of rapid modernization in 1899 with the first steam driven machines and in 1904 introduced mechanized production techniques making Baťa one of the…

The colours used by artists in these two eras differed greatly. Art nouveau artists tended to use earthy and natural colours such as mustard yellow, shades of green, orange and brown. Pop artists used much bolder colours, in particular bright yellows, blues and reds. Ben day dots were also popular in pop art. Ben day dots (named after the printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr) are a method of using dots to add colour or shade to a picture and was developed in 1879. These became a trademark of the…

most demanded resulting in him having up to 250 students per lecture giving rise to the Universities popularity. Due to the overwhelming response to, Wundt's laboratory had to be expanded several times until he was finally given an entire building in 1897. During this time, he had supervised 186 doctoral dissertations, 70 in Philosophy and 116 in Psychology. For the rest of the…

In New Mexico Gerogia O’Keeffe (1886-1897) became a born-again artist. Filled with inspiration from her time there, she would continue to return for the next twenty years. Summers there would produce O’Keeffe’s finest works, which had become the amalgamation, and perfection of her earliest flora, and landscape works. Of these, Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock-Hills of 1935 serves as a remarkable example of O’Keeffe’s use of symbolism and her emergence from a period of separation from her work.…

General Facts: • Aspirin is an acetyl derivative of salicylic acid. It works by reducing substances in the body that cause pain. • Its scientific name for Aspirin is Acetylsalicylic Acid. • Another common name for Aspirin is ASA. • Its chemical formula is C9H8O4 . • It has a melting point of 136 degrees Celsius and a boiling point of 140 degrees Celsius. • It's odorless, colorless and can be white powder. Historic background: • The origin of aspirin has evolved for the past centuries going…

Antowine hall Since the dawn of time expansion has existed and has always pose as a threat. The United States have been had a challenge when it came down to expansion and how to achieve it. As people started to move to the U.S., the U.S. started to get bigger land had gotten bigger. People were able to move westward because the government made decisions to buy and win land out of bids. But as time went on stuff started to change from how they use to be. During the early 1900's America expanded…

Vision is an important sense, and is even more vital for artists who rely on it for their livelihood. One such artist that suffered from visual impairments was Claude Monet. In 1912, he was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts (Marmor & Ravin 1997, p. 170). Cataracts cloud several aspects of vision like form and color, and can affect the development of artistic style (Goldstein 2007, p. 553). To test such a link with the scientific method would require an experiment within groups of participating…

birth)-specific immigrant suicide rates during 2001–2006 in Australia and in their homelands. Differences in suicide rates of northern and southern Europe and between neighboring countries in Scandinavia have remained stable during the last century (Durkheim 1897;Sainsbury 1986;Retterstol 1992).Studies of suicide rates in the first generation of immigrants have tend to prevail after settlement in Sweden (Ferrada-Noli 1997; Johansson,Sundquist,Johansson,et al.1997). Increasing number of children…