1899

After the United States occupied many nations, a league was founded in 1899. Some even went against the American rule, which resulted in a 3-year war. Most went along with it and supported it, however, some were not pleased with the decision. They were against the ruling because they resisted expansion. They believed imperialism violated the first principles. The text states, reaffirm that all men, of whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The…

“Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.” (Document 3). These were the words from President Woodrow Wilson to Congress requesting a declaration of war against Germany. During the beginning of World War I, German submarine warfare sunk the ships of any nation, neutral or not, killing numerous amounts of people. Among these people were one hundred and twenty-eight Americans who were, up until this point, neutral to the war. I believe that American…

General Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, in the Kōjimachi district on December 30, 1884. He was the eldest son of a samurai descent. In 1899, Tojo entered a military school to follow his father’s footsteps of a Japanese military man. In 1909, he married a woman, Katsuko Ito. Together they had three sons and four daughters. Tojo graduated in 1915 with honors, then he went to Europe and studied there for three years. In 1922, when Tojo had returned, he became an instructor at a war college for…

With The Awakening being published in the year 1899, it can be deemed as an early work of feminism several years prior to the successes of the first wave feminist movement which granted women the right to vote in 1920. Chopin’s work could potentially have been inspired by the first wave feminist movement which proposed legislation in 1878. I think Chopin is finding inspiration from the first wave feminist movements and she is reflecting her progressive views onto the main character Edna. Edna…

PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Ocean. It is the smallest of the Greater Antilles Islands, which include Cuba (the largest), Haiti and the República Dominicana (sharing an island), and Jamaica. Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide. It is 1000 miles from Miami. The island of Puerto Rico is a very popular tourist destination because of its location, rich history and warm atmostphere.. Before the Spaniards discovered Puerto Rico, it was populated by Taíno…

On American Institutional Economics During the emergence in the late 18th century, America was a country which was considered to be one of the most adaptive when it comes to technological changes. Due to this, they seldom experience the trouble caused by scarce resource because they had the power to produce everything in a faster and modern way. America was believed to have a competitive market system. Technology indeed helped their country to be in a healthy state. But, on the contrary,…

The musical piece Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude from opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan written by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1899 based on the poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. It comes as the prelude to Act III, where a prince rescues a swan which is attacked by a bumble bee. The composer professionally used instruments of the orchestra to create pictures from the story. The musical piece is a programmatic music in ternary form that is representing the sound of a bumblebee.…

The 1920’is an interesting time period for America. It was post WWI and it was time to change. The government wanted adjustments and the people wanted change. The American way of life was altered for many reasons in the 1920’s. These reasons were prohibition, the changing of women roles, and the Harlem Renaissance. This was an age of many beginnings and change for America. Prohibition was a major shift in America. Prohibition is the banning of alcohol to be sold and consumed. The eighteenth…

these nine African American students enrolled in an all-white public school, not only making a cultural landmark in Arkansas, but also a landmark in the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation unconstitutional. Arkansas State Capitol On 1899, architects George R. Mann and Cass Gilbert worked on renovating the Capitol for future governor George W. Donaghey. In the process, since the building was being rebuilt on the site of the state penitentiary, prisoners helped with much of the…

The Awakening. St. Louis: Herbert S. Stone and Co. 1899 womanhood is seen in the life of Edna, Edna is battling against the societal and common structures of parenthood that constrain her to be characterized by her title as spouse of Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and Etienne Pontellier, rather than…