1901

recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.” - A part of speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 31, 1910. Thus president Theodore Roosevelt became a conservationist. After becoming president in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands by creating the United States Forest Service (USFS) and enabling the American Antiquities Act of 1906. During his presidency, Roosevelt established five national parks…

initial baseball team in America was the Knickerbocker Club of New York in 1837. In consideration of how prosperous this club was prosperous, the National League was formed in 1876 then the American League proceeded from it and was established in 1901 (Feuer). As old as baseball is, recorded music still hasn’t been around as long as it. Although…

My Brilliant Career is a novel written by Stella Maria Miles Franklin. The text focuses around ideas of marriage, social inequities involving class and gender in Australian society and myths of Australian bush landscape during the 1890s. Using various narrative conventions such as characterization, symbolism and point of view, these ideas have been presented as elements of the Australian identity in the course of the era. My Brilliant Career is a testament of the courage and conviction of…

university theater students as the actors. Our Town consisted of three acts; the first was a simple introductory scene with the stage manager informing the audience on the history and the daily life of residents in the small town Grover’s Corners in 1901, the second act consisted of the transition of the town with three years passing and a wedding is taking place between two well-known people in town, the final act takes place nine years later in the town and a funeral has just occurred for the…

The poem is about a conversation between two women who have not seen each other in quite some time. Amelia is one of the women and they called her Melia for short the other woman is nameless throughout the whole poem. In the first stanza of the poem the nameless woman is astonished to see Melia back in town and dressed in lovely clothes that portray her prosperity. The nameless women last encounter with Melia was when she was a farm girl like herself. Amelia begins to tell her how she came upon…

Throughout history, women have been denied equal social rights as men and lacked significant individual freedom. Specifically, the Victorian Era (1837 to 1901), witnessed polarized gender roles between males and females. Men were depicted as the leaders of society; they had a voice, important roles, and possessed independence. Contrastingly, women were figuratively trapped at the bottom of the gender patriarchy and their identity and liberty ceased to exist upon marriage. Louise Mallard, the…

ANZAC Day is a special day to all Australians as it is a time where we can all honour and commemorate the Anzac soldiers who have fought and died for our country. My name is Jessica Bell, a social historian, and I will be discussing the various aspects that make up the Anzac legend. The legend has played a crucial part in shaping the ways Australians interpret both the past and look into the future. It is a chance for each and every one of us to reflect on this everlasting spirit. The Anzac…

William McKinley was a successful president; he did great things up until his assassination. He was most known for leading the United States of America through war with Spain even though it was controversial. His foreign policies were difficult and I feel like most of his choices were. McKinley was open to question with most historians but, I believe he opened the mind of the public and forced them to think a different way. William McKinley was born January 19, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. He married…

The final time period is the Modern or Contemporary Era, which to some began right after Queen Victoria died in 1901, right before the start of the First World War, but Most view the beginning of Modernism as the start of World War I. A major characteristic of the Modern Era is revolution and chaos. Key players of the Modern Era are W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Earnest Hemingway. Love in the Modern Era was expressed through history and mythology much like…

family moved to America to seek better economic opportunities. He started out working in a cotton factory as a boy and then rose up the latter of command through time. By his early thirties he was already well off and realized he wanted change. In 1901 he sold his company to J.P. Morgan for $480 million dollars and devoted himself to philanthropy. His most renowned work is The Gospel of wealth in which he chose to live his day to day life by. His great work, The Gospel of Wealth, raised many…