1919

Last I visit Hotel Congress. I had never stop by and visit Hotel Congress inside before, even though I always pass by every day to go to college. The Hotel Congress was built in 1919 where tap rooms opens, and where it use to provide rooms to legendary bank robber John Dillinger, who was a famous American gangster. This hotel celebrates his capture each third weekend of the month of January with different entertainments. In 1934 of January 22, the hotel catches on fire causing, it started in the…

French write Paul Valery expresses his concerns and mood of disillusionment felt after the war. This feeling is illustrated in two different forms, one written by Valery in 1919 and as a speech from 1922, which were both later published in Variety, a collection of some of Valery works. We first look at his writing from 1919 to uncover the underline message behind it. This excerpt stresses his concern for the future of the European nations. He reflects back into the past to ancient civilizations…

natural disasters that most specifically include flooding and tornadoes, and more recently an increased crime rate within the city itself. Even though these problems are some of the issues Mason City, Iowa faces today, back in the time period of 1917-1919 and during World War I, economic, cultural, social, emotional, and political problems not only faced Mason City but many other midsize and large cities around the United States. World War I was not just a time of catastrophe, and triumph, a…

were also a couple of well-known hotels in Ocean Beach. The first is Hotel Plunge. “William Dougherty built the hotel in 1919 on the legendary site of the 1800’s shack of OB’s first…

The Irish War of Independence lasted for about three years from 1919 to 1921.It all began shortly after the 1916 Easter Rising, when nearly 1,300 Irish Volunteers and 219 members of the Irish Citizen Army took control of several buildings in Dublin. One group of men captured the General Post Office, where James Connolly, founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Society, was announced the head of the army and Patrick Pearse, a long-time Irish Nationalist, read the declaration of independence.…

The 1920s earned their moniker—the "Roaring '20s"—through the decade's real and sustained prosperity, dizzying technological advancements, and lively culture. The decade marked the flourishing of the modern mass-production, mass-consumption economy, which delivered fantastic profits to investors while also raising the living standard of the urban middle and working-class. But for the large minority of Americans who made their livelihoods in agriculture, the decade roared only with the agony…

the following World War Two (Keynes, 1920; Schuker, 1992; Taylor, 1991). The cardinal objective of the essay is to discuss and examine to what extent that the Treaty, which was designed to restore the global peace and normality (Treaty of Versailles, 1919), has attained its goal. Although the outbreak of World War Two indicated the attempt to eliminate…

coming into power was a great opportunity for Germans to feel empowered and for Germany to rebuild itself. There were many causes that led Hitler and the Nazi’s into power. The main reasons were: the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the political instability of Weimar Germany in 1919, the beer hall putsch in Munich in 1923 and lastly, the Great Depression that began in 1929. Furthermore, there were consequences of Adolf Hitler coming to power such as the Nazi Racial Policies, the territorial…

On January 18, 1918, the allied countries started the Paris Peace Conference to come up with ideas relating to the defeated powers of World War I. On June 28, 1919, over a year later the Treaty of Versailles was signed. In the Treaty, Germany was to follow a set of terms and conditions following their unconditional surrender. With the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was made to follow a set of conditions following their unconditional surrender. With the treaty being signed the…

ideas concerning the uncanny and explore what it means to us as Fine Art practitioners, keeping in mind ontological ambiguity? Freud described the uncanny as the class of frightening things that leads us back to what is known and familiar (Freud, 1919). Previously Jentsch concluded that the uncanny was a fear of the familiar based on intellectual uncertainty (Jentsch, 1906). The uncanny can be described as a semantic field of the opposing German words Heimlich and Unheimlich, addressing both…