1922

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 marriages to dancers, and Balanchine would go on to make a ballet for each of his wives. In 1924, Balanchine, at 21 years old,…

World War I, had been a turbulent time for Russia and it was also an appropriate time for Lenin to return. Lenin had obtained money from the Germans who hoped that he would undermine the Russian war efforts. Lenin was warmly welcomed home and supported by other radical thinkers he led the Bolsheviks in the bloody violent Red October Revolution. Lenin, much to his surprise, effectively ended the Russian Empire relatively easily and assured the Soviet state would soon become a global superpower.…

In the year 1917, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party took over the government. This is called the Bolshevik Revolution (a revolution in Russia in 1917 through 1918, also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power). Lenin established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and he was the leader of the new government, he also was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (the founding and ruling…

Time use limits our occupational performance and participation as occupational beings. However, as occupational beings, we are forced to prioritize our time use, which results in occupational balance or imbalance. Meyer (1922), another large contributor to our community of knowledge, discusses time use in great depth in his work The Philosophy of Occupational Therapy. Meyer argues that the proper use of time in human health and well-being is split between all of the occupations that have meaning…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer whose career lasted 50 years and was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1922. Vonnegut has written many novels, short stories, plays, and even a few works of non-fiction. One of the major influences on his writing, is due to his war experiences during World War II. During the time that he attended Cornell University, he enlisted and left before graduating. In the war, Vonnegut was captured by German forces and sent to Dresden, where he survived bombing…

Voting: a Right or a Requirement? Although only 60% of eligible voters vote, voting should be an option rather than a mandatory task. People have their reasons for voting and not voting, and they should be the ones to decide whether they want to or not, rather than forcing someone who isn’t educated in politics to vote, which could completely change the outcome of an election. Compulsory voting would be a bad idea as it would alter the results negatively by causing people who don’t care about…

her bullets hit his shoulder and the other lodged into his neck. Lenin was almost fatally wounded, but ultimately survived the assassination attempt. The bullet that hit him in the neck remained there for four years until it was eventually removed in 1922.…

Richard Charles and Oscar Hammerstein Richard Charles Rodgers was a composer. Richard wrote over 900 songs and did 43 broadway plays. He was born june 28, 1902 near long island, New York. He died december 30, 1979. His father was successful physician and his mother was a amueture musician. Richard started music when he was six, he played the piano. By the age of fourteen he had written two popular songs. His first song that was published was “any old place with you” in 1919. Richard met…

In 1922, the Fred Walker Company, now commonly known as Kraft hired a young chemist named Dr. Cyril P Callister to develop what we know today as Vegemite. This spreadable delicacy quickly became apart of Australian culture, and now we are trying to integrate it into the Canadian market. Before Vegemite can enter the Canadian market, some changes have to be made in order for it to be successful. The strength of Vegemite’s flavour will need to lessened for the Canadian palate and its appearance…

The Armenians were treated very poorly, killed in many different ways and the Turkification had begun. The Turkish government had declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Armenians were arrested and sent on death marches out into the Mesopotamian desert with no food or water during World War I. The Turkification campaign had begun. They consisted of government squads of the Turkish. Their job was to kidnap Armenian children and convert them into Islam. Once that is complete they gave them to Turkish…