1918 births

In 1918 The Spanish Influenza took the world by storm. Worldwide the pandemic killed at least 21 million people by the lowest conservative estimates and while this pandemic affected much of the globe, Philadelphia was struck particularly with a vengeance. At the time of the epidemic, Philadelphia had a population of about 2 million. Over the course of the crisis, Philadelphia would see nearly 13,000 deaths, mostly in October of 1918 with many thousands being infected with the disease. This paper…

and deadly diseases during the 1918. Throughout history the human race has faced many diseases but one of the most devastating was the Spanish Flu. The flu pandemic of 1918 was one of the deadliest in modern history. It occurred during World War 1, when the United States of America joined the war. At the time there was no drugs or vaccines for this deadly virus. The Spanish Flu was infectious and deadly diseases during the World War 1. The influenza or flu of 1918 origins came from an army camp…

Rough Draft The year of 1918 played a crucial role in shaping the future of the whole world with the actions of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the influenza pandemic, the case of Hammer v. Dagenhart case, the propaganda used in World War I, and the fashion. January 8, 1918, many months after the United States entered World War I along with the allies which included Britain, Russia, France, and Italy, President Woodrow Wilson delivered the Fourteen Points to the United States congress. In it,…

pivotal public health achievements in today’s history. Did you know that between 1800 and 1900, family size declined from 7 to 3.5 children with the help of education and contraceptives? Previous to birth control movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well…

Margaret Sanger, of America opened the first birth control clinic. A clinic meant to educate women on birth control, especially in the lower classes. Tired of seeing women have no control over when they got pregnant, getting STD 's, and back alley abortions, Margaret Sanger got involved. The powers that be at the time believed that Margaret was a public nuisance and she was arrested many times for her beliefs. In 1918, a judge woke up and allowed condoms to be advertised. This was…

overlooked factor of the family dynamic – birth order. Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychiatrist, first investigated the importance of birth order in 1918 (Ansbacher & Ansbacher, 1056). In his research, Adler implicitly distinguished between actual birth order and psychological birth order. In a study conducted by Shulman and Mosak (1977), these types of birth orders were defined. Actual, or ordinal,…

Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Upon its release in 1915, the filmed created disputes due the way that it portrayed African Americans. The film caused race riots and uproars from African American communities who were enraged by their community’s portrayal. For the first time in film history, a motion picture was screened at the White House, where President Woodrow Wilson said, “It is like writing history with lightning.” (Everett Carter, Three) Because of its controversial background, Birth of a…

“Dear Mr. Laughlin, It has been suggested by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale that I write you concerning a suggestion which I made to him that sometime during the International Birth Control Conference there be a round-table discussion between the Eugenics group and the friends of Birth Control… “ Margaret Sanger, Sanger Letter (E-1-1), Truman State Special Collections, March 13, 1925. The connection between American first wave feminism and the eugenics movement, at first glance seems unusual.…

encouraging, as the number of elephant calves has halved. In 1994 the South African government haltered the killing of elephants and by 2008 the number of elephants in the Kruger National Park doubled. Immunocontraception is a non-hormonal form of birth control. The organization argues that this form of contraception is cost effective at R1200 per elephant. Other organizations argue that it is not the right approach and it is not feasible in large scale parks such a The Kruger National…

A player in both abolitionist movements and the feminist movement was Englishwoman Francis Wright. She used the utopian ideas of Charles Fourier and Mary Wollstonecraft’s equality thoughts towards anti-slavery. “Wright published A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, a pamphlet in which she proposed that the U.S government create Owenite slave plantations where profits would go to the purchase of the slaves’ freedom”…