1903

The partnership between the Sisters and Saint Louis University also brought one of the area’s first Children’s hospitals. The “baby boom” was an increase of children being born after World War II. Many men came home and started families but Saint Louis hospitals were not prepared for this increase of pediatric needs. Many of the facilities had not expanded or updated in almost two decades and they were in desperate need of expansion. A faculty member of SLU School of Medicine and a pediatrician…

Countee Cullen was born in New York City on 1903. There are many experiences that influenced his writing. As evidence Cullen lost his parents and brothers , he have a famous quote “your love to me was like an unread book “ this show that he suffer in a way that he don't know what family love is . Cullen was raised by his paternal grandmother until she die , at the age of 10 years old Cullen were adopted by Carolyn belle and Reverend Frederick A. Cullen who were a Episcopal church in Harlem.…

Born August 5rd 1903, in Cheyenne, Wyoming was Rensis Likert to George and Cornelia Likert. His father was an engineer for Union Pacific Railroads and that is what initially got Likert interested in that line of work. That interest is what leads him to studying civil engineering when he entered the University of Michigan in 1922. It was a few years later when he took a course in Sociology that opened his eyes to what he truly loved to study and that was people, specifically people in the…

Compositions in this time showed intense energy and passion. It also drew inspiration from literature and art. There are a handful of composers who became known in the Romantic Period, from Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) to Rentaro Taki (1879-1903). Although Gramophone, one of the leading music magazines in the world, has featured top 10 romantic composers who showcased the most innovative melodies, harmonies and…

The Early Twentieth Century was a time of transformation in American Politics. After being ruled by the Democratic and Republican Party platforms, a new philosophy named Progressivism began to spread through the minds of the American People. The two Progressive Presidents of the time were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Even though the two presidents shared a progressive mindset, they differed in their foreign policy intentions. Roosevelt was known as an imperialist president while Wilson…

Planned Parenthood, known internationally as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping women stay safe, informed and have access to necessary opportunities. The organization officially formed in 1923, after a long battle, which was still not over. Margaret Sanger, is the first named woman for creating and publicly voicing her opinion on birth control and sex education for women. Margaret Sanger was an influential women rights activist famous for starting Planned Parenthood, the idea and…

The invention of automobiles propelled us into a pivotal time in American’s everyday life. Automobiles were credited with transforming the time period we know now as the roaring twenties. It transitioned Americans from condensed city living to a far more rural means of life. Because of the automobile the American economy and everyday life improved drastically at the turn of the twentieth century. Cars not only granted a new sense of freedom, they soon became a staple in nearly every American…

It was Herbert Spencer a sociologist and philosopher, who was excited about reading Darwin's work. The philosopher, who lived between 1820 and 1903, used the phrase as synonymous with the process of natural selection in his book Principles of Biology in 1864, but what it meant the idea of "survival of the fittest"? For Darwin, did not mean that the most trained or more energetic species were to…

Westerns have come a long way since the silent film days and the original western, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Today, modern technology has allowed westerns to become more thrilling, more daring, and more action packed than ever before, and none of this is more true than for Django Unchained(2012) directed by Quentin Tarantino and the TV show Firefly(2002), created by Joss Whedon. While both embrace new and interesting twists to the genre, both still feature many of the classic themes…

n.d.). Essentially, the money collected from newer victims (investors) of the fraud is paid to earlier victims to provide a veneer of legitimacy (“The math of Ponzi Schemes”, n.d.). Charles Ponzi (Figure 1), born in 1882 emigrated from Italy in 1903 to the United States. In 1918, after being convicted and serving time for a number of petty crimes, Ponzi developed his notorious investment scheme. Basically, investors would be lured into investing in some fictitious security and paid returns…