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Chronological/Timeline: Winston Churchill (Kenny) When people are asked about me, they will usually say “well, he was the prime minister of Great Britain.” Actually, I didn't much more in my long lifetime. I was born November 30, 1874, in Oxfordshire, England. I was born in the Blenheim Palace, and my religion was Anglican. My father was Lord Randolph Churchill, and my mother was Jeanette Jerome. I grew up in Dublin, Ireland. My real name is Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill. When I started…

Conference sending a clear message that WMD counter-proliferation efforts are no longer a priority. [1] To understand why the NPT Conference failed one must first delve into the historical significance of WMD regulatory statutes, treaties, and sanctions. In 1899, the first Hague Peace Conference was held in an effort, “to outlaw weapons and methods of…

C. Wright Mills coined the concept social imagination in his book published in 1959. In the publication, Mills defines social imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society." In order to have social imagination, a person needs to exhibit the abstract capacity to see things from different points of view (Crossman). In other words, Mills explain sociological imagination as the capacity to see problems and society with a different approach with…

In 1899, Stalin was expelled for missing exams. After leaving school, Stalin became an underground political agitator. He then adopted the name Koba, after that he joined the militant wing of the Marxist Social Democratic movement. This was lead by Vladimir…

War is a very present and significant part of our history. Whether it was the Civil War, or the Revolutionary War, all of these wars have affected our country in both negative and positive ways. In 1899, America decided to go to war with Spain after a history of multiple incidents. Although many people believe that this was the right decision made, there are many reasons why it wasn’t as well. America’s decision to go to war with Spain was the wrong one due to the fact that America was still…

way his artwork. Hopper was introduced to art early in his life by his parents. They were both suppurative of his ‘artistic inclinations’ (The Art Story). As a teen, he would draw and build small, wooden boots. After his high school graduation in 1899, his parents talked him into studying illustration instead of fine art. He only spent a year at New York School of Illustration before he transferred to New York School of Art to continuing his dream. After graduating in 1905,…

Scott Joplin, the genius of Ragtime, is best known in the music history and “in 1899 he composed his best-known tune “Maple Leaf Rag”, named after a social club” (pg. 335). Jazz and blues were huge at the end of the 1800’s and the beginning of the 1900’s. The music was composed of instruments, hymns, and the experience of black people…

Frierson house was originally supposed to be a home Francis Cherry, a noble political person around the year 1875-1899. However, the architect for this townhouse is unknown. Since it is a home of greater value, it is obvious that the person who lived there had a copious amount of wealth. Frierson house stands out more than any other house on its street, just like…

the textbook colonization is “the more or less organized system of occupation and exploitation of foreign territories through settlement and conquest” (Eller 8). One negative impact of colonization occurred from the Aborigines Protection Act. “In 1899 the Japanese parliament enacted the Hokkaido Former Aborigines Protection Act, a law designed to achieve the assimilation of the Ainu population of…

Samuel Milton Jones immigrated to the United States with his parents at age three from Ty Mawr, Wales, with little money, and grew up in New York. At 18, after very little schooling, he went to work in the oilfields of Titusville, Pa. Jones rose from field hand to oil producer; his invention of an improved oil-pumping mechanism in 1891 earned him a fortune. He opened a factory in Toledo to manufacture his invention and introduce a host of employee benefits. His cause was to help workers gain…