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teacher professor at the University of Maryland and held a masters degree and a PhD in history ( Elbert B. Smith (1921–2013). He has written other history books on U.S presidents Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and other books about U.S history including “ The Death of Slavery: The United States 1837-1865 and Magnificent Missourian: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Elbert B. Smith (1921–2013). While the book itself did not win any awards, Elbert Smith won the Phi Alph Theta book award for…

Dictatorships never arise out of peaceful countries, the people had to have been suffering to an extent where not only was the government corrupt but also the people could not get food for their families. Such were the case for Pol Pot of Cambodia and Josef Stalin of Russia. The poor economic conditions of these countries assisted the rulers in consolidating and acquiring power. In Russia, Stalin was attempted to steer away from the capitalist New Economic Policy to bring Russia back on the…

Information Washington Naval Arms Conference 1921 Concern about the possibility of another war → heightened by japanese militarism and the ongoing international arms race Conference for negotiations for disarmament between the U.S. and its other competitors (Japan and the UK) in the naval arms race…

Oregon was founded as racist utopia which means they were against people color. This reality has been hidden for generations but didn't hide forever. The reality is that whites in Oregon consider themselves as “pure” human being and not let any other race especially black to live in Oregon until 1922 so the don’t get “Dirty”. Oregon was racist from the very beginning. When it became a state, the 75% of voters were against slavery to happen in Oregon. They saw blacks as a bad element and keep…

Dorothy Hodgkin, also known as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and born as Dorothy Mary Hodgkin was a British Biochemist. She was born on May 12, 1910, and died July 29, 1994. (84 years old) Dorothy was born on May 12, 1910, in Cairo, Egypt to her father, John Winter Crowfoot and her mother Grace Mary Crowfoot. Her parents were both archaeologists which were safe to assume inspired her to what she became. Of the four children that Dorothy’s parents had, Dorothy was the oldest of the bunch. While…

When was the last time you remember going to Mcdonald's? Fast food is a mass-produced food that is made easily and quickly. Fast food mostly consists of hot, freshly prepared and wrapped food items served by a drive through window. Fast food is not good for the society because even though it is tasty and fast to produce , it can be very hazardous to our body causing obesity, having lack of essential nutrients and can also be an impact on the environment. [dal] Fast food has…

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky: Biography Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. He was born in Moscow, the Russian empire on 16 December 1866. He is one of the first artist to create an abstract piece. During his youth (1866-1896), The Metamorphosis: Kandinsky graduated from grekov Odessa art school. Before he focused on art, he was studying law and economics in the University of Moscow, which he later gave up at the age of 30. Kandinsky’s enthusiasm in colour…

accomplishments was the “theory of relativity.” This theory gave people a better understanding of space, time, and gravity. He also published a series of influential. He created the formula E=mc2. This formula presented the equivalence of mass and energy. In 1921 he received the noble prize in physics. One of the biggest things Einstein did was the help in the creation of the atomic bomb. His formula made a great deal to its creation. This bomb is now one of the world’s deadliest weapons. The…

and the Nazi party. In 1943, her and her brother, Hans Scholl, was caught distributing anti-war leaflets and was executed for high treason. Sophie Scholl has become an important symbol of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany. Sophie was born on May 9th, 1921, in Forchtenberg, Germany. She was the fourth out of six children. Her father, Robert Scholl, was the Mayor of Forchtenberg. She was raised as a Lutheran Christian, and her childhood life was good until Hitler took control of Germany. At first,…

The poem, “America” by Claude McKay was written in December of 1921 as part of the Harlem Renaissance. The poem is considered to be one of Claude McKay’s most famous poems outlining both the good and bad aspects of the United States. One of the main bad aspects that the poem mentions, is hate, meaning the hatred and prejudice shown toward African Americans during the period it was written, such as the many restrictions placed on African Americans in an effort to make them feel less important…