1906

This earthquake could have been way worse but this is what we got from the aftermath ,Emma Burke and Moon shadow from Dragons wings written by Laurence yep experienced this disaster in their own time experiencing different disasters and people who made different choices. Emma burke states ¨The matron had just been removed unconscious from a heap of brick, mortar, and general debris. The attendants were making frantic efforts to get the ambulance out¨Emma burke states that people were really…

in piloting programs. Just as Mary Curie, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony are appreciated names that define an era, there are also underrated historical figures such as Jacqueline Cochran that should be acknowledged. Cochran, born on May 11th, 1906, was the youngest of five children of Ira Pittman and Mary Grant in Muscogee, Florida. She began working at cotton mills to support her family for fourteen years. In Between that time, she had moved to Georgia, married Robert Cochran; yet after…

Serial killers and those that kill in mass numbers are one of the most fascinating topics not only for scholars, law enforcement, psychologist, and sociologist, but also to the average, everyday person such as myself. All of us have in common the fascination with the topic because of the disbelief an individual such as this resides among us. We are fascinated not only because of their minds but because they feed into our fears about danger, death and what lurks in the night, around the corner,…

“What contribution did your leader make to the revolutionary situation?” Tsar Nicholas II was the last Autocratic monarch of Russia under the Romanov rule. His reign, 1864 to 1917, was plagued with misfortune and disaster. It is undeniable that some of the events were entirely out his hands, however majority of Tsar Nicholas II actions led to the Revolutionary Situation in 1917. The decision of fighting in the Russo - Japanese War, the 1905 Revolution, Bloody Sunday, the October Manifesto and…

Although uncommonly known today, human zoos were an abnormal phenomenon that unexpectedly got popular. They were swept under the rug by businessmen who flooded the headlines with other things to overshadow and hide the outbreak of hate against human zoos. People forgot about them and soon they were an unknown form of entertainment, especially after racial equality campaigns began to have some precedent. However, even before it became an equal rights problem, it was still controversial for its…

Robert Temple, currently head of FDA's Office of Medical Policy..The FOod and Drug Acts was 1906 was the first of a series protection laws enacted by the Federal Government For food and drugs. . Food and Drug Act started to require drug companies to submit safety data to FDA officials for evaluation prior to marketing.THe law used to be that…

owners. The majority of Presidents during that time mediated strikes such as the Coal Miner one by sending forces to tame frustrated laborers. The Jungle novel in 1906 by Upton Sinclair exploited the atrocities of the meat packing industry. Socialism formed as a distant but intense portion of progressivism. It assisted the passage of the 1906 Food and Drug Act which provided safety for the consumer and their family. W.E.B. DuBois was still agitated that “in the hateful upturning and mixing of…

socialistic reforms he had hoped to inspire, but his book helped to present the details of the grim lives of poor American workers in an unforgettable way. It also managed to cause the passage of the Pure Food and Drug and the Meat Inspection Acts of 1906 which had been stuck in Congress before the publication of the novel (Kraft.) It was rumored that president Teddy Roosevelt became sickened by reading Sinclair’s account of the conditions in the meatpacking plants…

Pertussis also known as Whooping cough, is a contagious respiratory disease caused by a bacteria called Bordetella pertussis (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2015).Outbreaks of pertussis were first documented in the 16th century, and the disease was first isolated in 1906. The tall tell sign of having this disease is by severe hacking and intake of breath, sounding like a “whoop”. Once becoming infected with whooping cough, it can take up to ten full days for it to become active. Not all symptoms become…

treatment of civilians, prisoners of war and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat or incapable of fighting. The first Geneva Convention was in 1864 that was when it first got started. After, there were revisions of the Convention in 1906, 1929, and 1949. The case I want to look at that violated the Geneva Convention is when theUnited States violated the Convention in 2002. On January 11, 2002, the United States announced that it was going to refuse to abide with the 1949 Geneva…