1919

things nobody will forget. Desmond Doss is an unquestionable hero for committing one of the most courageous acts of World War II. This hero lived like a routine American, but one day his life would drastically change. Desmond was born February 7, 1919 in Lynchburg Virginia. Desmond was extremely religious and joyful from the time he was born. He was married to a woman named Dorothy Schuette when World War II arose in 1939. He believed he needed to help his country, however he vowed to never…

that really took a stand in the world of sports. Jackie Robinson was mostly known for breaking the color barrier not only in Professional Baseball, but in all sports. He was one of the only men who took a stand for what he believed in. On January 31, 1919 Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia (Robinson 3) to Mallie and Jerry Robinson ten years after they were married (Robinson 3). Robinsons grandfather was born into slave trade (Robinson 3).When he was six months old Jackie’s father left…

league of professional baseball players, as the amateur clubs drifted from the baseball scene, it became the National League which operates today. Beginning in 1900, baseball entered a dark period known as the, dead ball era. This period lasted until 1919, which was characterized by low scoring, pitcher dominated games that offered little in the way of entertainment for stadium crowds. During the dead ball era, the popularity of baseball was fortified with the construction of new, larger…

Ethel Waters was born on October 31, 1896 in Chester, Pennsylvania. Ethel Waters was an African American blues singer, and gospel vocalist, and actress, who was raised in poverty, she never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. Ethel said she had a difficult childhood, and was never cuddled or liked or understood by my family members. Ethel got married at age 13 years old, but left Her abusive husband, and became a maid in a Philadelphia Hotel. On her 17th birthday, she attended a…

BARBARA MCCLINTOCK BY FRANCESCA MAKUCH Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902. Her death was in 1992. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the third child out of four. McClintock went to college September 1919 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She went two years without looking at a genetic course. Then during her third year, she took a genetic course. Immediately she loved the course. That year her professor asked if next year she could take a more advanced class, she did…

Over the time that I’ve been working on Women’s Suffrage it really has helped me gain lots of information on the 19th Amendment. In my story the main character is Kaitlyn, she basically telling you her story when the 19th Amendment was going on. The reason I picked Kaitlyn was because she is the same person as Alice Paul daughter. Alice Paul is a lady who played a big and important role on Women’s Suffrage. Alice daughter felt the same as Kaitlyn did. Kaitlyn did believe in the American Dream.…

El día que me quieras (The day that you will love me) is a poem that was later turned into a song as well as the title for a 1935 musical film which starred the legendary tango singer Carlos Gardel, Spanish actress Rosita Moreno and another tango singer named Tito Lusiardo. The film was directed by John Reinhardt, produced by Robert R. Snody and written by the tango lyricist Alfredo Le Pera. The film tells the story of Julio Arguelles, the son of a wealthy Buenos Aires businessman, who wants to…

On the other hand, in Egypt, women were active since the Egyptian nationalist uprisings against the British between 1919 and 1922. All women whether lower, middle, or upper class joined veiled while confrontations of British soldiers occurred. Soon after the Egyptian Feminist Union formed in 1924. Their ideology was based on the idea that few male politicians were willing to represent and fight for women’s demands. Over the course of 20 years, there was little improvements in access to education…

from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City’s Shea Stadium. Robinson’s was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the league. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. Growing up, he excelled at sports…

Although the First Amendment states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, speech is heavily regulated; and has been for quite some time. According to Tedford and Herbeck on page 50, in the case of Abrams v. United States in 1919, Jacob Abrams and fellow Russian immigrants who were all living in the U.S. at the time decided to print off “seditious messages during time of war” (Tedford&Herbeck). All men were convicted under the Espionage Act of 1918. They were arrested…