1902

‘The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality”-Elizabeth Cady Stanton.I am Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I was born on November 12, 1815. I passed away on October 26, 1902. I graduated from Johnstown Academy. The college I graduated form was from Emma Willard School in 1832..I have a husband named Henry Brewster Stanton. We got married on May 1, 1840. We have 7 children. Daniel Cady Stanton, Henry Brewster Stanton, Gerrit Smith Stanton, Theodore Weld Stanton, Margaret…

With the trend of globalization, more and more local companies expand their businesses to overseas markets. As for Target, a U.S. company launched in 1902, aimed at providing higher quality shopping experience in supermarkets with lower price, just like its brand says: “Expect More. Pay Less.” As supermarket chains, Target has large share of merchandise market in the U.S., and becomes the second-largest retailer of merchandise in 2013. In 2011, Target launched Canada and purchased around 220…

Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers founded neon in 1898, by experimenting on liquid air. Prior to discovering neon they had recently found krypton, then later on they would go to discover xenon. “ Ramsay knew that sometimes one element could stay hidden behind another element (Stewart www.chemicool.com/elements/neon.html).” Neon was actually named by Ramsay’s son and was named neon after greek words neos (which means new). After Ramsay and Travers were able to keep finding neon it opened…

“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris…[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.” -Orville Wright One thing that I found interesting about this quote is the fact that it came in 1909, which was about 6 years after the Wright Brothers’ original flights, which were considered very successful at that time. I think Orville Wright said this because he falsely assumed that airplanes would never go faster than they did at that time. Of…

Audiences have been entrapped by the spectacle of film ever since the late 19th century when moving pictures were introduced. People were amazed by scenes of everyday life, such as a train passing by or a horse galloping on a dirt path. Film never lost its popularity; film kept developing. It started with the simple scenes that were less than a minute and moved on to stories, and then non-fiction stories. Next there was sound and color, and then parallel storylines and camera movement. With each…

Minimum Wage and The Worldwide History behind it Worldwide Minimum Wage Laws New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom are several of the first countries in the world to pass minimum wage acts. Continuing from them, most countries all around the world have implemented minimum wage laws in some ways or another. The World’s First Minimum Wage Way back in the year 1894, New Zealand enforced the world’s first national minimum wage laws. All businesses and all industries across the entire…

Born on the 27th of February, 1902 was John Steinbeck in Salinas, California. He was the third child of Olive Hamilton and John Ernst Steinbeck. His mother worked as a school teacher, while his father a manager at a flour mill. He has two older sisters and a younger sister. Their names were Esther, Beth, and Mary. Throughout his childhood until he went to Stanford in 1919, he experienced a normal and what could be considered a comfortable childhood with setbacks just as every family has. He had…

Jackie Robinson reminds us how far we’ve progressed in the world of sports. Given the frequency with which we see African-American superstars like NBA player LeBron James or NFLer Adrian Peterson light up the sports highlight reels, it's easy to forget that they wouldn't have been given the same opportunities a lifetime ago without Robinson, even though Jackie was not the first african american on a professional team. Who do you think was the very first african american to play on a professional…

Mr. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His parent’s names were James Hughes and Carrie Langston would soon separated after his birth. Primarily his grandmother Mary raised Langston until her death when Langston was sent to live with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio. During this time was when Hughes took his first hand in writing poetry. Hughes was a major contributor to his high school’s literary magazine. Langston graduated high school and moved to…

from June 17, 1882 to April 6, 1971 (88 when died) in Oranienbaum. He was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He was known as one of the most important and influential composers in the 20th century. His father, Fyodor Stravinsky (1843-1902) was a well known bass player and his mother Anna (1854-1939) was a native Kiev. Stravinsky had two wives. The first one was his first cousin. They have known each other since their early childhood. Her name was Yekaterina Gabrielovna Nossenko.…