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Columbus discovered what is now modern day Caribbeans, which he named Hispaniola. During his voyage, Columbus overcame many challenges. He is given credit for his discovery on October 10th by annually celebrating Columbus Day. Charles Lindbergh, born in 1902 was an all American aviator, author, inventor, military officer, explorer, and social activist who changed America’s view on aviation forever. Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh are well-known for their famous expeditions. However,…

Erik Erikson, previously known as Erik Homberger, was born in Frankfurt, Germany and lived from June 15, 1902 to 1994. As Erikson’s dad abandoned Erik and his mother, Karla Abrahamsen, before Erik was even born there is not any information known about the biological father other than he was Danish. After raising Erik by herself for three years, Karla married Erik’s pediatrician Dr. Theodor Homberger. After they got married the family moved to Karlsruhe in southern Germany where Erikson got his…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He is considered to be “the father of American literature", while “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” He was born two months prematurely on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He remained in poor health until the age of seven. According to Mark Twain’s official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine his mother, Jane Clemens was “an outspoken, keen-witted, charitable woman” with “a…

Energy is the fundamental component for the economic growth and welfare of a nation. Today, the world is facing energy crisis at an alarming rate due to rapid population growth and urbanisation which impediments the socio-economic development in the future. The increase in energy consumption particularly in the past several decades has led to the gradual exhaustion of non - renewable energy resources such as coal, crude oil and natural gas. It has also caused severe adverse environmental…

It was a cold wintery day in the midst of November in 1997. The excitement, the chaos, and the nervousness all because of me happened about eighteen years ago when my parents, Katie and Karl Margarida, brought me home to welcome me to a new household and new environment in a small town called Jasper, Indiana. Many things happened on November 17, 1997, including my birthday, 70 people died in an attack at the Egyptian Temple, and women and African Americans were freed in Iran. My parent’s names…

Although children were servants throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. The Conditions children worked in were horrific and violated human rights, these practices needed to come to an end. Nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers sought to restrict child labor and improve working conditions but, it took a huge effort to sway public opinion. Forms of child labor such as indentured servitude and child slavery have existed all…

of art throughout her long career. Though she was relatively obscure as an artist during her life, she and her works would later gain recognition and notoriety after her death in 1943. This paper will analyze one of these works, La Fortune created 1902-1905. Through the analysis of this artwork, an understanding of Camille Claudel, her life, her art style, and the time that it was created will be established. La Fortune is a bronze sculpture with black platina which stands at 48cm (roughly 19…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. At the age of ten Franklin stopped his formal schooling and began work at a candle and soap shop owned by his father. It was only two years later that he was apprenticed for one of his brother’s print shop. It was not until many decades had passed that people began to see the entrepreneurship of Benjamin when he invented the Franklin stove, which provided people with the opportunity to heat more of a building by using less…

From the 1900s to the 1920s, womens fashion has developed throughout time. In the 1900s women that were fashionable at this time were to be expected to wear long dresses and take two annual trips to Paris. As time passed and the roaring twenties came to place, women started to show their true colors. Womens style of dressing as well as their hair became known as the flappers. Many designers became known, and are still being used up to this day, for instance, Coco Chanel. During this time, it was…

Bainbridge, Hopkins, Lawrence, and Truxtan Class. The United States went through an experimental period beginning to try to prefect the most effective destroyer class trying out multiple private builders and weapon configurations. It was not until 1902 when they decided to adopt USS Bainbridge (DD 1) to become the first destroyer commissioned into the U.S. Navy that displaced was 250 feet, 420 tons, and a speed of 29…