1919

The author argues that “civilization self-destructs.” The poem is written in 2005, and Ferlinghetti was born in 1919. He served in WWII and saw the ruins of Nagasaki after the atom bomb had been dropped there, which turned him into a lifelong pacifist. In 2005, the U.S was waging two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively, but other than that there was nothing that one could describe as remotely related to civilization destructing itself. One could argue that the event that made him pacifist,…

world war. After WW1, the allied powers came together to create an organization that would create lasting peace between the nations, ironically the League of Nation did the total opposite, it created more chaos and tension between the nations. In 1919 the League of Nations created a treaty known as the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty did anything but promote peace. The Treaty of Versailles after WW1 caused conflict and ongoing tension, it allowed the Allied powers to strip germany of all its…

The Fourteen speech is fourteen different proposals that had fourteen different names that describe different types of settlement for the first World War. Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for making the efforts for making peace. The goals that President Woodrow Wilson had for the fourteen speech was that first war would end with peace and that there would be a peace negotiation after the war, so that there isn’t a…

In November of 1918, World War One finally ended with the signing of an armistice by Germany, Britain, and France. This ended the long and grueling war. The effects of WW1, the armistice, and the following Treaty of Versailles in 1919 were powerful and set the stage for the tumultuous years to come. While there were many lasting and relevant effects of World War One, the Russian Revolution, the idea that Germany was a “losing power”, and the development of new nationalist and racialist groups…

political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the U.S after the Russian revolution. Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. It is usually defined as involving the deliberate creation of fear though threat of violence,…

When world War 1 took place in 1913 through 1919 many people had different perspectives on it whether they were positive or negative. As Woodrow Wilson ran for president during the war his ideals were those of white supremacy, he believed because he had a high education he was smarter than others. Another ideal of his was to solve economic problems and allow the system to run smoother. However Eugene Debs and W.E.B. Dubois leaders of the Socialist party were against Wilsons visions for the…

The German communist party was formed in late December 1918, led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the Communists were unsupportive of the Weimar and didn’t want to associate with other parties who supported them. There were several economic difficulties that Weimar endured throughout their time; for example, the Wall Street Crash of 1928 and The Great Depression of 1930. American banks saw their losses mount and they started calling in their short term loans with which so much of German…

The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar by the German architect Walter Gropius in 1919 with a modern agenda that included the unification of the arts and the elimination of the distinction between artist and craftsperson. In an essay on the Bauhaus written in 1923, Gropius acknowledged the sources that shaped the foundation of the Bauhaus school, sources which included William Morris and John Ruskin in England, Henry Van der Velde in Belgium, as well as Peter Behrens and the Deutsche Werkbund…

Introduction In this essay document I will discuss the use of vernacular imagery and their particular contexts, function, relevance and the artistic intent that gave birth to these examples. According to merriam-webster.com dictionary, the word ‘vernacular’ means to relate to the shared style of a specific time, place, or group (Merriam-webster.com, 2014). 1. Dada Dada was an Artistic and literary movement that started in Zurich in 1916. The Dadaists guided their…

Women today have flourished despite years of continuous setbacks. Women today have the right to be whoever they please, a teacher, a doctor, a CEO of a big company, and even run for presidency. These ideals would have been a crazy notion in the 1870’s where women were considered inferior to men. But women are so much more than that, and they showed that through hard work and dedication they could accomplish what men could, however this process would not be any easy one. Women were fighting for…