1911

Was Laurier an Imperialist or a French Canadian Nationalist? What was his legacy? Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911, lawyer, journalists, and politician. Laurier was the first French Canadian Prime Minister of Canada, but he did not just support the French, he also supported the English. He Believed in equality and compromise for all. He was viewed as a French Canadian Nationalist because he did not want stronger ties with Great Britain and created the Naval…

Fire! Now you may be wondering, what do you mean “Fire!” Fire! As in the Triangle Factory Fire. All these dangers, all these unfortunate girls. Couldn’t they have survived? Welcome to my essay on The Triangle Factory Fire. First of all, what caused this terrible disaster? Many different factors played into this. Was it just a spontaneous fire? It is said in Flesh and Blood so Cheap that the fire was most likely caused by a still lit cigarette thrown into a waste basket. They also say “We…

Edgar. The two brothers had promised each other that they would would take turns paying for the others education, while the other attended college. However, Edgar never got the chance to keep up his side of the deal due to the fact that in the year of 1911, Dwight earned a full scholarship to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Just like in high school, Eisenhower became a football star. Dwight later graduated from the military academy in 1915 and became a second…

From 1900 to 1910 nine million immigrants left their homes and settled in America (“Biggest Population Boom Ever” 2). Of these nine million people, the majority suffered under poor work conditions and deplorable housing arrangements. Because of these hardships, immigrants faced struggles in their American destinations, whether it was through finding a job in the area or having reasonable means of living. Within this vast subject, connections from the living and working conditions of immigrants…

FDA announces trans fats to be phased out of American food supply The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a major step this week toward eliminating a major health risk present in the American diet. The FDA announced that artificial fats that are present in many processed foods and fast foods, will be phased out of the U.S. Food supply over the next three years. The three year phase out allows food manufacturers to find alternative ingredients to replace trans fats and reformulate…

people despised him for all the things he had done on the innocent lives. Mengele was a terrifying person known to have killed many people with his brutal human experiments and scarred some of his survivors for life. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911, in Gunzburg of Germany. He was the oldest son of Karl and Walburga Mengele. Mengele had a passion for science and anthropology. Later on as he grew older, he majored in philosophy at the University of Munich and medicine at the University of…

decided which prisoners would be gassed and which prisoners would die by forced labor) and being the physician for the camp. He experimented on prisoners as if they were lifeless human beings, with no remorse. Josef Mengele was born March 16th, 1911 in Günzburg, Germany. In 1935 he earned his Ph.D. in physical anthropology at the University of Munich. In January 1937, Mengele became the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer, at the Institute for Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. In the…

Boris Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-born, later American, Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre. Thomashefsky was born in a town near Kiev, Ukraine, he moved to the United States in 1881, at the age of 12. A year later, barely a teenager, he was mostly responsible for the first performance of Yiddish theatre in New York City, in what was to become the Yiddish Theater District, and has been credited as the pioneer of Beet soup Belt entertainment.…

Before the 1900s, in the late 19th century Populism was ruling America but starting in the 20th century, the Progressive movement would make the reigns and start a new era, an era of reforms. While American society experienced change in the form of the identity of women, the power of Political Machines, and the control held by trusts, some aspects would remain the same. The identity of American society, especially that of women was going through constant changes. In the very early years of the…

Executive Order 9066 A possibility opens to the scene from a rumor amongst many people. Japanese immigrants sailed to the United States due to a rumor of new possibilities and a better lifestyle than the one from their home land. A better life for the people who were treated like dirt in their home can now hope for the better in their lives and their children’s. This all seemed fine but the immigrants sailing over possibly did or did not know of Japan’s future attack on Pearl Harbor; a military…