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The Cleveland Clinic of Cleveland, Ohio was founded in 1921 and has 5.1 million patients per year (Cleveland Clinic, 2015). It’s branches of research and education institutes, which research clinical studies and are among the largest graduate medical education centers in the nation. They employ 3,000 plus doctors and scientists at their research facilities with Lerner College of Medicine enrolling 160 students year-round (Cleveland Clinic, 2014). The Cleveland Clinic founder’s mission was…

mine and claimed the lives of 96 miners. The incident was the result of an explosion. 81 miners were killed in the 1887 gas explosion in the Bulli Mine. The loss of life left 150 children fatherless and around 50 women were suddenly widows. In 1921 a coal dust explosion in the brand new Mount Mulligan Mine caused the death of at least 75 workers. From the time of the accident to the recovery of the 75th body a full five months had passed. An underground explosion at Kianga Mine…

The Elephant Celebes was painted by Max Ernst in 1921. Max Ernst was a surrealist and dadaist artist who often used objects, but changed their elements to accommodate his view. In this picture, the central focus is of a tin elephant who seems to have a soulless face. The elephant’s neck resembles a snake-like coil. The appearance of the elephant gives the impression of being a monster. At the top of the elephant’s body, there are construction objects and a hidden eye, giving off a mysterious…

Herbert Hoover “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity” this was said by president Hoover a man who tried to help America through its darkest times. Herbert Hoover was the 31st who helped other countries during World War I, and helped resolve the Stock Market crash. Hoover’s presidency was the first solution to the problems at that time, and after; he was a complete humanitarian,he tried to find a resolution for the Great Depression, and…

born on January 22, 1904, in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was son of a composer, so he had a well understanding of music from a young age. In 1914, he enrolled at the Mariinsky Theatre's ballet school, also known as The Vagonova Academy. He graduated in 1921 and afterwards attended the Petrograd State Conservatory of Music, leaving the conservatory three years later. In 1922, George Balanchine married a 15-year-old ballet student named Tamara Gevergeyeva. This was the first of four separate…

Aborigines in Australia, divided into about 600 tribes with around 500 members each (Blake, 1981). However, according to Dixon, Ramson & Thomas (1990), their total number of that time lay between one and two million, divided into about 700 tribes. In 1921, the Aboriginal population was at its lowest level so far with around 60,000 people. After that, they started to recover and increase again in number (Prentis, 2008). However, still today they make up less than 3% of the entire Australian…

and a historian of ideas. He was born June 6, 1909 in Riga, Latvia. He was the son of a successful timber merchant and land owner. His family moved to St. Petersburg where he was an eyewitness to the Russian Revolution. His family then emigrated in 1921 to London where the family had business interests. As a young boy, Isaiah was known as Shaya and had his bar mitzah. In his high school years he attended St. Paul’s in London although he wanted to go to Westminster school. He did very well in…

was an all-black town. Her father served several terms as Mayor for this town. Eatonville, Florida is a town in the book that represents innocence and happiness for Janie Crawford. Hurston’s life in Eatonville greatly influenced her writing. In 1921, Howard University published Hurston’s first story in a magazine. In 1925, she became a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance…

Born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Jazz Age short-story writer and novelist) is well known for his turbulent personal life as well for his novel's success in which allowed him to become prominent. Born into a humble family, he was the only son of a noble named Edward Fitzgerald and a provincial, working-class mother, Mollie McQuillan (The daughter of an Irish immigrant who made a fortune in the wholesale grocery business in the years following the Civil War)…

recruits by trained psychological examiners. The transformation from the pre-war individual intelligence scales to the group-administered examinations was made possible by the method of multiple-choice, which was credited to Otis (Samelson, 1987; Yerkes, 1921, pp. 299±300). Group Examination Alpha was designed for the assessment of literate English speakers and Group Examination Beta for the minority of recruits who were illiterate or non-prescient in English. The complementary missions of the…