1911

introduced several reforms for the prison system. I also introduced the first minimum wage, and helped set up labor exchanges for the unemployed. I helped in the passing of the People's budget, which introduced new taxes on the wealthy. In January 1911, I made a controversial visit to the police siege in London. While serving as the first lord of Admiralty, I helped modernize the British navy. I ordered that ships be built off of oil-fired engines, as opposed to coal-fired engines. From 1919 to…

“This period from 1876-1911, was characterized by strong-armed politics, sharp-eyed reforms, rampant corruption, massive extraction of wealth by foreign capitalists, endemic rural poverty, and other ills” (page 226). However, despite the negatives, this became one of the first…

“Uprising” is about three girls living in early 20th century New York City. Bella, was an Italian immigrant working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, while her whole family dies in Italy; Yetta, a Russian immigrant who also works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was brought over by her sister Rahel; and Jane, the daughter of a rich factory owner, who runs away from home and gets a job as the governess of the daughters of Mr Blanck, the owner of Triangle. All of these are caught in the midst…

which is positively charged, and negatively charged particles as electrons. He also revised the model, he predicted that electrons are attached to a ball of positive charges. Still, he was proven wrong by his own student, Ernest Rutherford in 1911. According to his experiments, his team shot a positively charged beam at a gold foil, if Thomson’s model was correct, the ball of positive charges won’t be able to repel the beam (Like charge repel each other). Some were deflected strongly, so…

Reagan even served as a student body president when he was in school? He had it in him since he was a child. He not only did that, he also was involved in many extracurricular activities. Ronald Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911. After Graduating his interest career was entertainment, he even appeared in fifty films in Hollywood. Ronald later went on to serve two terms as governor of California. During his first term, Ronald froze government hiring and approved tax…

radiation in more forms than the average person realizes. With new technology these developments form new ways of living. Agriculture is not recognized as a big part in nuclear science. George de Hevesy was the first to practically use an isotope in 1911. We can thank him for the new advancements in fields of nuclear technology. The food you eat probably was altered using a form of neutron or gamma irradiation. Radioisotopes have changed the way we live, through all fertilizers, food…

During an era when women were not known to attend college, let alone, play a major influential role in science, Marie Curie did just that. Born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie is best known for discovering the elements radium and polonium, and her study of radioactivity, which led to advances in the treatment of cancer and the development of nuclear power; both of which are still used today. Her work on radioactivity led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and…

Kroeber and Waterman invited Ishi to travel back with them to San Francisco. As a result, the University of California anthropology museum would become his new home for the next five years. September 1911 to March 1916, Ishi lived a simple life, enjoying his quarters, in a small room above the university’s anthropology museum. Ishi earn wages by doing janitorial work around the campus, although his main focus was helping professor Waterman and Kroeber with research regarding his tribal…

Natural selection is a concept that has long since interested me, I consider it to mean “survival of the fittest”. Thus, looking upon this title, I deduced that the metaphor, which is used for comparison, implies the following principles of natural selection apply to knowledge development: there is variation in knowledge, the ‘fittest’ knowledge is most suitably adapted to the environment, and superseded knowledge is not fit to survive. Questions and doubts thereby arise: What is meant by the…

The Mexican Revolution was a time period that lasted from 1910 to 1920 and called for social, political, and economic change. This powerful rebellion is considered as the first major revolution of the 20th century that began the expression of nationalism. One of the revolutionary leaders during this era of revolt was Francisco “Pancho” Villa. Social justice can be defined as the fight against unfair and uneven opportunities in order to achieve equality among the lower masses and the wealthy…