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The house of Gucci, better known as simply which called Gucci, is an Italian French-owned iconic fashion and leather goods label (Gucci History, n.d.). Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in Florence in 1921 (“Gucci Official Site – Founded In Florence, Italy in 1921,” 2016). Guccio Gucci had opened a leather products company and a small luggage store in Florence (Gucci History, n.d.). As he spent numerous years by working in London’s Savoy Hotel, he absorbed the English nobility aesthetic and…

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Kim Jong-il are all famous dictators known for their callousness, cruelty, and lack of sympathy for their people. However, there is one dictator who is less well known and just as bad or worse. Mao Tse-tung, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1976, was ruthless not only towards his enemies, but towards his friends, family, and the citizens of China. Two of his more infamous policies are the Great Leap…

Throughout the last century of the United States, there have been different periods in which our country passed legislation for tax cuts. By lowering tax rates, tax revenue that the government collects increases and the economy will grow. The common misconception of cutting taxes is that by cutting them, the United States is cutting the revenue gained for the government. However, there are many times in history where this misconception was proven wrong. The 1920’s, 60’s, and 80’s were all…

movies, television, and music. This enemy status created through stereotypes has been explored in academia such as Edward Said’s Orientalism, written in 1979. Beginning with Said’s Orientalism and continuing with the stereotyping present in The Sheik (1921) and various modern music, the making of an enemy by the USA through stereotypes is clear. Said’s Orientalism was one of the first works to truly articulate the concept of stereotyping by the West towards the East as…

gases which are lighter than air. They were widely used in the first half of the 20th century, for a variety of purposes. During this period the airships were employed for military applications by the US Army performing search and patrol operations. In 1921 the US Army acquired the Italian semi-rigid airship “Roma”, the largest semi-rigid airship in the world. After its crash in 1922, the US started to use helium instead of hydrogen as the lifting gas. Another important Italian airship in the…

so the company moved away from sheep to increase their cattle production. So began a process of selling southern estates and moving north, purchasing Headingly Station at Urandangie in Queensland in 1916 and Avon Downs in the Northern Territory in 1921. At the end of the Second World War, the company became a specialised cattle enterprise and in the 1950’s Santa Gertrudis cattle were introduced to upgrade the Shorthorn herds. In the 1980’s, Braham cattle were introduced to the company’s new…

With an industrialized nation, a growing population, and increasingly active government, Congress centralized the budget-making process through the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. Through the passage of the act, the president, assisted by the Bureau of the Budget, is now responsible for preparing and submitting the Budget of the United States Government for the next fiscal year to Congress each January. The budget would tell Congress what the president recommends for overall federal fiscal…

The Communist party is the one party in control currently, created in 1921 the communist party of china finally accepted the people’s republic of china in 1949 after years of armed struggle. The Party's 85-million membership makes it the largest political party on earth. Every important choice affecting China is first debated and permitted by a handful of men who sit on the party's Political Bureau or Politburo which is the nexus of all rule in this land of 1.3 billion. The 25-member Politburo…

Over the last year the economy has risen by over 2.9% due to some of the President's policies that he has pushed for since taking office. The most recent tax reform that the president pushed for and got past has already seen an increase in the economy. With people being able to save money on taxes it allows them to spend more which puts more money into the economy. Some companies have issued bonuses to their employees which is allowing them to in return spend it in the economy. When people…

My national park was Mount Rainier National Park, Mount Rainier is one of the oldest national parks in the United States, Mount Rainier itself is at about 1 million years old. Mount Rainier is also Washington’s tallest peak, and it has the 17th highest summit in the United States, its summit is about 14,410 feet; Mount Rainier National Park itself was founded in 1885. Mount Rainier is actually an active volcano, but the snow covers up the lava underpinnings. Mount Rainier also use to have life…