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era (Milkis and Nelson 229). Roosevelt was the first president to enter office with an agenda. He encouraged leadership that increased the reach of presidential influence and practiced as such (Milkis and Nelson 228). After a four-year hiatus between 1908 and 1912, Roosevelt decided to run for another term resulting in the presidential primaries and the first time…

the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire ruled many ethnic groups, like Austria-Hungary. This created the same problem of the groups rising and revolting because they each wanted their separate states, like the nationalistic movement “young Turks” in 1908. The empire divided as it grew weaker and…

should make its home. After much lobbying, the team declared Harrisonburg, Virginia as the location this new public school would take place. James Madison University was founded as “the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg” in 1908. The first president of the school was Julian Ashby Burruss. He among the others in charge, made it that in order for the students to become adjusted to their new environment, they were given two days for registration and move-in. The school…

businessman Aaron Nusbaum, who brought in his brother-in-law Julius Rosenwald. In 1906, the success of the company and their dream for greater development led Sears and Rosenwald to take the company public, with an incredible $40 million in stock. In 1908 Sears resigned the presidency due to poor health. Rosenwald was named president and chairman of the Sears and had full control of the company. Sears also opened its catalog plant and the Sears Merchandise Building Tower in Chicago in 1906.…

to look like from your hair to your toes. Images of the human body represent what a culture or society values in looks and propaganda. One of the first sculptures of the human body found was the Venus of Wilendorf. It was discovered in Austria in 1908 near the village in lower Austria called Krems. The Venus of Wilendorf is an image of a women, its about 4 inches tall with her main features grotesquely larger. There are two attributes to the Venus of Wilendorf that stuck out, her arms are…

supported organizations that promoted suffrage were seen as radicals. Some housewives were depicted as unsupportive and taking advantage of their husbands. A major stereotype of women casted them as being too delicate to work long hours, such as in the 1908 Muller v. Oregon case (Doc B) that diminished women’s physical ability to work, progress was continuous. This case proved extremely detrimental to the women who advocated for equal rights. Spirits were depleted, but that did not stop the…

alive”. Similarly, the next couple of lines continue to to anthropomorphize the city with phrases like “tall bold slugger” which also reference to the cities early baseball history with the glorious Chicago Cubs who won the world series in 1907 and 1908. Lastly Sandburg ends the stanza with two similes describing Chicago as “Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action”(23) and as “cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness”(23-24). These similes are made to brandish Chicago as fierce,…

and subways contributed to the ease with which workers could travel to their respective workplaces. In 1870, water was being filtered (didn't do much, just took out the big chunks) to make water cleaner. Chlorination was introduced long after that in 1908(it actually prevented disease). Sanitation was addressed by the creation of sanitation departments. However, these departments could not fully cope with the gargantuan task of keeping the cities clean. New York was the first city to have a…

is also true especially since the late 1990’s. Increased production, with substantially lower manufacturing costs and improved quality by Japanese car manufactures allowed them to make significant inroads into the American auto market in the late 1908’s and 1990’s. This put significant financial pressure on American automotive manufactures and their related industries. This in turn led to several large manufacture mergers in the late 1990’s. However this was not a phenomenon restricted to…

(1873) and Minor vs. Happersett (1875) by the US Supreme Court’s narrow interpretation and judges’ sexist attitude, but with progressive reformers’ efforts, the Sec. 1’s equal protection clause strengthened women’s legal rights in Muller vs. Oregon (1908). Muller went far to extend state protection over male laborers with Bunting…