1923

World War I. Why did the U.S. get involved in World War I? Why was it a controversial war in America? Explain Wilson 's goals after the war. How successful was he? The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. The United States maintained the status of neutrality, and President Woodrow Wilson attempted to be an intermediary between the warring parties. The countries of the Entente conducted mass purchases of the American raw materials for military industry, food and weapons, thus…

Moreover, Aghet is an influential documentary, portraying the annihilation of Armenians from 1915-1923 and the effects of the Turkish government's international campaign of genocide denial. The film highlights the Turkish authorities’ current policy of these crimes. It also delves into the ongoing campaign of denial that the Turkish government has mounted since these events occurred in World War I. Aghet includes a meticulous historical narrative of the events leading up to the genocide,…

trade. One of the biggest reasons immigration increased was when the Canadian pacific railway was under construction. In eighteen eighty five a head tax was put on Chinese Canadian immigrants they were the only ethnic group that had such a tax. In 1923, the federal Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie…

EVA JEAN COOK was born on the 26th of November 1923 in Surrey Hills, Victoria and was the second addition to the Cook family living at 7 Junction Road. Though she was named after her mother, she was always called by her middle name – Jean – instead. Between April and July 1927, the Cook family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, where Jean’s father took up employment at the Garden Island Naval Store De-pot. They resided at 1 ‘Meroo’ Gregory Street, Roseville until 1934, when Jean’s father was…

Is the war on drugs a complete failure of a policy that has not deterred drug use, has some racists roots, hurt innocents, ruined lives and is a waste of money? The policy has been in place for over forty years and we are no closer to ending it than we were forty years ago. Has the policy that has cost the United States over a trillion dollars yielded any results? According to an opt-ed by Buchanan, Julian “the war on drug is nothing but a war on drug users.” Even though it was in reference to…

”The Sniper” was published during the Irish civil war (January 1923) by the republican Liam O’Flaherty. It takes place as night falls in Dublin. Shots eccho. A young Republican sniper lies on a rooftop. He lights a cigarette; risks revealing himself. Instantantly, a bullet hits the parapet, behind which he hides. A car approaches and halts down the street. A woman appears from a side-street. She speaks with the driver and points to the sniper. Without thinking, he shoots the driver, and the…

Canada was not all as you see it be now. Behind the freedom, there was a time Canada had to face and fight to become the nation it is today. A nation that was part of the British Empire, it was only expected of Canada to be involved with whatever Britain was involved in. It was only expected of Canada to have almost every treaty or agreement with another country, approved by a Britain official. It was only expected of Canada to follow the laws and conduct that Britain had laid out for them.…

long after the Civil War. Both were farmers that had to live off of the land. The Everglades was remote and not many people lived there until Barron G. Collier. He made the Everglades the headquarters for the Tamiami Trail road building company in 1923. Barron Collier built a railroad, and it was the town’s first transportation link to the outside world. It was fourteen miles from Deep Lake in the north. Somewhere…

Cummings started writing poetry at a young age, his first self published work was an autobiography. The Enormous Room was published in 1922 and contained Cummings’ experiences in jail during WWI. His next work, Tulips and Chimneys,was published in 1923 and contained numerous short poems. Cummings published more poems at around that time. (Biography.com). Cummings’ next work was the play Him, which was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1927. Then, he wrote Eimi in 1933, which was “432…

Today we might know an atom being the smallest piece of an element that represent an element, but you might not know the whole story. It all being in 1803, when a curious guy, known as John Dalton, who proposed an “atomic theory” with spherical solid atoms based upon measurable properties of mass. Later on Dalton introduced his belief that atoms of different elements could be universally distinguished based on their varying atomic weights. John Dalton's research not only changed the face of…