1899

On the date of January, 17, 1899 was the birth of an infant named Alfonso Capone. Soon to be this baby would be a notorious bootlegger, pimp and Gangster. Al Capone led the way of organized crime and revolutionizing the meaning of modern day gangsters and bootleggers. Al Capone was born in Brooklyn New York In 1899 he was born to the parents Terasina Capone, and Gabriel Capone. Al Capone was born 4th out of 7 brothers. Al Capone was from Italian descent and was baptized a Roman Catholic. Al…

busy for another two years. In January of 1899, Spain removed the rest of their military forces from Cuba, but it was not until April of 1899 that both countries signed and proclaimed the document. On February 6, 1899, president McKinley signed the treaty, and on March 19th, the Queen of Spain authorized the document. But not until April of 1899 did the United States publicly proclaim the Treaty to be in effect. In the Treaty of Paris, Spain…

was found 42 years earlier in 1899. That is the 3 reasons that we found that support why this book is historical fiction. Overall i found that the book i survived the attack on pearl harbor is actually historical fiction. Laurin tarshish did a good job of explaining what actually happened on that day but did not give an actual story on what happened. the book was off about 3 things, the characters were fake, the german U boat was found but 42 years before in 1899, and they were off about the…

wanted to make it to the Klondike hotspots to mine for gold, but only about 30,000 to 40,000 actually made it. Many other lost their lives on the way. The gold rush formed the uprising for the Klondike gold rush from the summer of 1896 to the summer of 1899. In August 1896, Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie and George Washington Cormack discovered gold on the Klondike River in Yukon bordering Alaska. The group didn’t know that they would start to begin one of the most famous gold rushes of all…

through Africa. He states that the natives he encounters are savages and he compares them to animals in the wilderness. An example of this is the phrase: “They were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation” (Conrad, 1899). This happens when Marlow discovers the death pit and an open grave where natives go and die. This line shows the natives as “shadows” and weak “creatures” instead of dying men. The men are described with no humanizing characteristics to…

In the story, “The Real Right Thing,” by Henry James, (published in 1899) What is the real right thing? The story says that Ashton Doyne dies too early too young. To capitalize on her husband’s name, she asks Mr. Doyne’s subordinate, George Withermore, to write a story about Mr. Doyne's life. The wife kind of in a way seduces the young man into writing this story about Mr. Doyne. Mrs. Doyne thought that her husband never really trusted her, which reading this story makes sense now. Reading…

of hierarchical means, and in the noblest form the patriarch sat at the pedestal that contests the behaviour of the individual. The female individual suited the function of her master and exhibited his wealth through conspicuous consumption (Veblen, 1899, p. 52). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her work Women and Economics (1898), defined the relationship between the wife and husband as the relationship between an employee and an employer (p.171). In respect to this context the wife began to be…

America’s history we have declared war 11 times; some for understandable reasons while other reasons are questionable. This was evident in the wars of 1898 and 1899. In April of 1898 the United States declared war on Spain over the treatment of Cuban citizens. From that war evolved the Filipino-American War that was declared in February of 1899. The Filipino-American War resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people; consisting of American and Filipino combatants and innocent…

possessions as spoils of conquest. For as Thorstein Veblen puts it in his writings about the leisure class, the motivation for acquisition is emulation. Men wanted, because other men possessed. This is Veblen’s theory of pecuniary emulation (Veblen 1899). It is the tendency of those…

The second Boer war took place between 1899 and 1902. It was a conflict involving the British Empire and the Boers, descendant Dutch settlers of the Eastern Cape Frontier. After an initial dispute based on the colonial policy of Joseph Chamberlain and Alfred Milner concerning the issue of independence of the South African Transvaal region, the war campaign was initiated in South Africa in 1899. Since the war, there has been much analysis as to why, what at the time seemed like a small, isolated…