1903

country conceded more than 14.5 million foreigners. Worries over mass movement and its effect on the nation started to change Americans' generally open disposition toward migration. Congress reinforced national immigration laws with new personation in 1903 and 1907. In the interim, a Presidential Committal explored the reasons for enormous resettlement out of Southern and Eastern EEC and the Congressional Dillingham Commission contemplated…

The first reinforced concrete high-rise building is the Ingalls Building, built in 1903 in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the key developments in reinforced concrete buildings in that time have contributed in the design and construction of Ingalls Building. Richard W. Steiger defined the Ingalls Building, ‘These developments included heavy monolithic beam-and-slab construction with tension reinforcing, two-way reinforcing systems, and bent bars and stirrups. Also used were hoops and continuous helixes…

The Arthurian Legend is a collection of various stories which revolve around King Arthur, one of the legendary kings of Britain. These stories vary in their versions, interpretations, and spelling of names but their essences remain the same. They regale us with tales of the time prior to King Arthur’s conception to his rise to kinghood, tales of his adventures with his Knights of the Round Table, tales of the adulterous romance that occurred between his queen, Guinevere, and his knight and…

Wilbur Wright was born on April 16th, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. Although Wilburs most known sibling is Orville, he actually had five other brothers and sisters. There names were Katharine, Lorin, Ida, Otis, and Reuchlin. Wilbur also grew up with a mother and father named Susan and Milton Wright. Before Wilbur grew up as a very intelligent child and excelled in school. He was planning on attending Yale University until he injured himself during an ice hockey game. After this, Wilbur became…

Upton Sinclair published his book, “The Jungle”. This story was about Jurgis Rudkus and his family. Immigrants came to America in search of a job and many of these immigrants worked in the meat-packing plants of Chicago. The people working in these industries had to go through difficult working conditions, poverty and hunger, people were taking advantage of them, as well as politicians who passed laws that supported this. This story reflected the reality that some people were facing. After the…

unconstitutional. The act outlawed racial discrimination in juries, schools, transportation and public accommodations; the act was deemed unconstitutional because the Supreme Court said that the constitution did not extend to private businesses. In 1903 the Wright Brothers had their first flight in Kitty Hawk, NC. The Wright brothers flight was the first powered airplane flight that was controllable. In 1914 World War I started in Europe with Germany,…

The Souls of Black People and W.E.B. Dubois The Souls of Black Folk written by W.E.B Dubios in 1903 and The Letter to Birmingham written by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963 are both very prominent pieces of literature. Although they were written in different time periods, they still consist of a lot of similarities and differences. The voice of African-Americans is definitely displayed in their literature. During the first chapter of W.E.B. Dubois he explains that he didn’t realize he was black…

on October 19, 1874. When Prentis was a child, his family decided to move from Illinois to the Winfield-Elsberry area. His family was not active in the community. In 1901, Prentis married Mabel Stonebraker and soon after they had two children. In 1903 they had a baby girl and named her Hazel Pauline Beeman. The next year they had a boy and named him Howard J. Beeman. Some time…

a somewhat harsh upbringing as he had a harsh father. His father did not agree with Adolf’s aspirations of becoming a painter. After the death of his brother, Edmund in 1900, Adolf shut himself down and detached from his family. His father died in 1903, and he decided to drop out of school. He left for Vienna after his mother’s death in 1907, and became a casual laborer and painter. He attempted to join multiple art schools, but all denied him. After the art school fiasco, Hitler, moved to…

The overview of this chapter of the novel Outliers is showing how Jewish people were not able to become lawyers and how they started their own firms and became wealthy. Joe Flom is a lawyer, and a partner of his own law firm. In the first section “The Importance of being Jewish”, Jewish immigrants came to America in the late 1800’s with no money and made a living for themselves. The children of these Jewish immigrants became either lawyers or doctors because of the analytical luck they were…