1921

According to the Nobel Prize Website the guy who invented insulin was Frederick Bantings. He was born in 1891 the 14th of November in Alliston - Canada. Frederick Bantings sadly died in 1941 the 21st of February. Frederick Banting was a physician so in 1921 he and his friend Charles Best, they were the first ones to take out the insulin from the pancreas. What is Insulin? Insulin is a hormone that is located in the B-Cells in the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. Insulin reduces high blood…

post-war decline. The loss of munitions markets in Europe, new technologies, and alternate fuel sources all contributed to this decline. Surplus coal sat idle in rail yards: “…the surplus coal cars on March 23 alone [total] 230,394” (CTJ, 1921). Coal operators…

Masculinity became a central value in all political subcultures. The civil war fighting of 1919-1921 cannot be understood merely as the result of a widespread brutalisation as a result of the experience of WWI. Too simplistic to see a traumatisation of the bourgeoisie through military defeat, revolution and inflation as the primary cause behind the…

important to Russia’s future. I am going to look at how the Soviet Union succeeded and the Tsarist regime did not. By looking at how they coped with the citizens, and how they handled important events. First I will discuss the events between the years 1917-1921 and how it unfolded. In February of 1917 Russia was in a total crisis, they were in the middle of the Great War with…

Subsequently in 1919, Hoover was named Chief of the General Intelligence Division, the General Intelligence Division would later become a part of the Bureau of Investigation, and in 1921, Hoover would be promoted Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investigation (Early Years With The Department Of Justice.) In 1924, Attorney General promoted Hoover to Director of the Bureau of Investigation. Hoover accepted to be Director on the conditions that the Bureau must be divorced from politics, and…

The 18th Amendment, which launched the Prohibition in January 1920, banned the making, selling, and transportation of alcoholic drinks. By 1930, ten million women were working for a paid job. These two changes in American life caused some people, specifically men for the latter change due to a fear of job competition, to wish to return to the good old days. 3. What group stood for 100% "Americanism" during the 1920's? The Ku Klux Klan stood for "100 percent Americanism" during the 1920s. 4.…

One main reason Eleanor Roosevelt became interested in helping the handicapped, was when her husband Franklin became ill with polio in 1921.It was the hardest time of life from that moment on (1921-1945). Talking about Eleanor and her work with the handicapped cannot be done without mentioning and extraordinary man who has done astonishing things throughout his life. One man in particular comes to mind and his name is Henry Viscardi. Henry Viscardi was a man born with underdeveloped leg…

On the first of June 1921, a tragic and horrific event took place on Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This event is commonly known as the Tulsa race riot, Black holocaust in America, or the Tulsa Lynching. It was conducted by the KKK along with government officials. As a result, these racists killed, arrested, invaded, and destroyed numerous African Americans’ lives. Greenwood Avenue was also known as Negro Wall Street of America because it was the golden door for the black community.…

Woodrow Wilson was known as one of the best presidents that we have had and I would have to agree with that! Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president who served in office from 1913 to 1921. Wilson led America though World War 1 (1914-1918); he was an advocate for democracy and world peace. Wilson was a college professor, university president, and a democratic governor of New Jersey before becoming the president of the United States. He even received the Noble Prize for his peacemaking efforts.…

he returned in Montreal in 1919, and became an Instructor in Architecture in Mcgill University for a year. After gaining more knowledge and skills in his field, he finally decided to practise and commit his talent in Architecture. So, from 1919 to 1921, Cormier was associated with Jean Omer Marchand, a Quebecer architect, but their partnership did not last long. Although, they collided their skills together, and built the high-rise Dubrule office building and the “École des beaux-arts”,…