1921

papers in the prestigious German academic journal Annalen Der Physik. In 1912 he moved back to Zurich. Three years later, 1915, he completes the General Theory of Relativity. In May 29, 1919, an eclipse proves the theory of relativity correct. In 1921, he receives his Nobel Prize of Physics. On Apr 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. Albert Einstein was an amazing physicist and is known as the father of the Atom Bomb, which is very ironic. He was a pacifist for most of his life, and then WWII came…

was visiting the United States and learned of this new custom started by Ms. Michael. When she returned to France she made artificial red poppies to raise money for war orphaned children and widowed women. This tradition spread to other countries. In 1921, the Franco-American Children’s League sold poppies nationally to benefit war orphans of France and Belgium. The League disbanded a year later and Madam Guerin approached the VFW for…

influenced with positive images and colors creating very pleasant looking pictures without the distortion found in other movements like Cubism or the next movement Surrealism. During this time period Picasso created works like “Three Woman at the spring" 1921 and…

The Soviet Union was founded by the Bolshevik Party in November 1917. Their leader, Vladimir Lenin, established Communist rule after the end of the Civil War in Russia in 1921. The Communist regime’s central beliefs were based on the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. Marx believed in the creation of a classless society where all citizens were equal. The components of communism affected multiple aspects of the nation. Economically, the Soviet Union achieved little to none economic or industrial…

shot or stabbed to death during a fight over the illegal alcohol. The Volstead Act, passed to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, had an immediate impact on crime. According to a the statistics, the number of crimes increased 24 percent between 1920 and 1921. Along with organized crime came an increase in violence in society. In 1928 Chicago witnessed one the the most gruesome attacks done by the Chicago Outfit. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre was a slaughter of seven rival gang members who…

It was a breezy Sunday in Santa Monica, Hollywood. Lawrence Exeter and his wife were buying clothes for their soon to be son at Goosie Gander Baby Shoppe. “I don’t understand why our son needs to dress like this,” exclaimed Mrs. Exeter as she held up a navy blue button up shirt. “I told you already he needs to follow in my footsteps, the key to success is about how you dress!” replied Lawrence, a very successful businessman. Lawrence grabbed the shirt out of his wife's hands and walked up…

Ernest Hemingway was a very busy and outgoing person as an older man and had huge ambition as a young adult but most of his younger years were spent following after whatever his parents wanted for him. His father was an obstetrician with a great passion for the outdoors, hunting and fishing. His mother was a singer with a voice built for the opera, at the time of her and Mr. Hemingway's marriage she was giving private vocal lessons in Chicago and bringing in a small fortune of $1,000 per month…

It is that time of year again. Incoming freshmen at Northern Illinois University are excited and ready to sign up for housing. Picking where they are going to be living is one of the first choices they make on their road to their new independent college student life. Yet Wait! These new incoming freshmen come upon a roadblock. The mandatory freshman residence policy the school had implemented. First-year students must live in the on-campus residence halls unless they are over twenty-one, married…

zones, increased production accordingly and reaped great profits. However, the war's end allowed the resumption of normal European production, and suddenly, the world faced a huge glut of agricultural products, with no market of buyers. From 1920 to 1921, farm prices fell at a catastrophic rate. The price of wheat, the staple crop of the Great Plains, fell by almost half. The price of cotton, still the lifeblood of the South, fell by three-quarters. Farmers, many of whom had taken out loans…

The 1920s was a great time for America. Everything was on the rise. This is the time when America was taken into the modern age. This was also the age for dramatic social and political change. Everything was going great for the American people. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than farms. Amongst other things, women’s suffrage and innovation was also on the rise. Women’s suffrage was something that did not come fast nor easily. Back in that time, women did not have many…