1923

On April 10,1922 was when the teapot dome scandal began. The teapot dome scandal was a scandal dealing with the oil companies and the white house. It was also where the oil companies found a lot of oil(history.com). They used the oil as vast fuel. The scandal was important because the oil companies bought the white house. The corruption was so bad that the oil companies bought the white house. The scandal was hard for fitzgerald because he was living through corruption. During the war the…

policy of obstruction and inaction towards reparations. In this context, many German citizens started withholding their tax payments as they viewed the reparations as being too punitive. In addition, the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 following the German default on its reparations only stunted Germany’s ability and willingness to pay down the debt, as German workers (supported by the government in Berlin) started a go-slow job action and passive resistance towards the…

The blues originated from African-Americans on Southern plantations in the nineteenth century. Slaves, ex-slaves, and families of slaves were the main creators of blues music (Kopp, AllAboutJazz.com). Bessie Smith is known as the most popular female blues singer in the 1920s. Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on the fifteenth of April of 1894. Growing up, Smith did not really have her parents in her life due to them both dying while she was young, around eight or nine years-old (Editors…

Minorities were always outnumbered and insignificant in the government's eyes, but nothing was like the 1920s. During this disastrous era, First Nations people were brutally beaten by the law and rules, but the government never relented; in fact, they only went on harder. First, and foremost, in 1920 it became compulsory for every Indian child to attend a residential school. In addition to this form of destruction of culture, in 1925 dancing was outlawed entirely, for only Aboriginal individuals…

Sigmund Freud believed that we have 3 personalities id, ego, superego. The ego is the mediator between the two id and superego, the ego uses reason and realistic thoughts more than irrational. The superego is the part of the mind that tells from what's wrong and what's right. The id is the one that seeks pleasure and impulses of satisfaction. He believed everyone has one of these personalities that you can't really control. The story lord of the flies ties in with freud's belief in the three…

When did the Mahjong invent? Some people said that Mahjong was original in Spring and Autumn Period, others said that was original in Ming Dynasty. Where did the Mahjong birth? Ningbo and Min-Hakka are the place which most people said. There's a wide spectrum of opinions on these problem. Only one thing is sure that “Classic of Mahjong” is the earliest book which recorded information about Mahjong made in Song dynasty. There is a story about the invention of Mahjong. During Treasure voyages…

The Walt Disney Company has been constantly expanding since its founding in 1923, and thanks to a recent acquisition of Lucas Film Ltd from George Lucas, future prospects for Disney look very good. Disney now plans on releasing a new trilogy of Star Wars films that will be produced every three to four years starting with “Episode 7” December 2015. These movies will likely spark a new flame in the interests and demands for Star Wars related products, which is already a very large market.…

teams would fill casinos dance halls and other faculties that would host them. This was a great entertainment for many African Americans (Robertson 3). One of the most popular teams out of the “negro league” was the Harlem Renaissance (Thomas 2). “In 1923, a New York messenger and porter named Bob Douglas, who had been managing and promoting basketball for fifteen years, formed a new professional all-African American basketball team Called the Renaissance” (Henderson 626-627). This team out of…

At a time when Germany was suffering from the loss and humiliation of World War 1, Adolf Hitler rose up to save the motherland from the Weimar Republic. Through the Beer Hall Putsch and the creation of the Nazi party, Adolf took a stand by an attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government, as well as promote nationalistic ideas throughout the state of Germany. Despite Hitler’s failed coup d’état, Hitler continued to pursue his goal to, in fact, rise to power. Although he was convicted of treason…

The Weimar Republic, born in January 1919, was Germany’s first-ever democratic government. From the dawn of the new government until its end in January 1933, Germany faced numerous challenging problems that some argue could not have been overcome without the new republic taking action. The creation of a democracy was a huge step for German society, which had been a monarchy for hundreds of years. Some welcomed the new rights and freedoms but others were against change; nationalist parties and…