1924

A better documented scandal is the Teapot Dome scandal. In this scandal, hundreds of thousands of unsecured loans were given. During the presidency of Warren Hardin in 1920, congress gave the secretary of the Navy the power of leasing government owned oil reserves to private companies. In 1921, this power was taken from the Secretary of the Navy and given to the Department of the Interior. This department was led by a close friend of Harding. The head of the Department of the Interior was Albert…

Peggy Feury, a female actress on Broadway, on television, and in films, was born on June 20, 1924, in Jersey city of New Jersey. Peggy’s real name is Margaret Traylor. Feury’s father’s name is Richard feury and her mother’s names is Margaret Feury. Peggy had only one sibling and that was her younger sister Elinor Feury. As peggy graduated from high school, she went to the Barnard college located in New York city. Soon after she graduated Barnard, Peggy then attended the Yale school of drama.…

How has immigration policy reproduced ideas about gender, race and class? 1917: the U.S. Congress enacted the first widely restrictive immigration law. The 1917 Act implemented a literacy test and increased the tax paid by new immigrants upon arrival and allowed immigration officials to exercise more discretion in making decisions over whom to exclude. The Act excluded from entry anyone born in a geographically defined “Asiatic Barred Zone,” people with physical or mental defects or tuberculosis…

George Gershwin was born on September 26,1898 in Brooklyn,New York. George started focusing more on his music when he turned 10. Gershwin had a natural talent but he needed to get mentors in order to fully flourish in his talent. Charles Hambitzer, was one of his mentors. He was a noted piano teacher. Some of the other mentors he studied under were: Henry Cowell, Wallingford Riegger, Edward Kilenyi and Joseph Schillinger. Gershwin dropped out of school at age 15. Gershwin played in several New…

dependents with access to rights similar to those of nationals. David Fitzgerald analyzes this complex phenomenon of assimilation from the point of view of the sociology of international migration. The author mentions the attempts made by Park and Burgess (1924) and Warner and Srole (1945) when assimilation studies began in the United States. In this way, assimilation is defined as "a process of interpenetration and fusion…

The carrying capacity (K) of the Kaibab Plateau for the dear at the beginning was about 45,000. ‘ Once the population passed K it would not be able to sustain itself. This is due to an imbalance in the ecosystem. An increase in deer population would cause a decrease in the grasses, shrubs, and trees. This would cause the deer to eventually die out because there will not be enough food to sustain the high deer population. The deer population had the highest reproductive growth rate between…

jazz to New York in 1924. Yet it was mainly black bandleaders such as Fletcher “Smack” Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong who popularized jazz in and beyond Harlem.” (Berg 7) The biggest of these had to be trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. Armstrong “ made his impact primarily as a solo artist. As early as 1923, he was noted for his stylish playing as a solo trumpeter in the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, and he played with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924.” (Berg 13). …

The Rise and Soar of Dystopian In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, their central government, the Capitol, holds a game where a leader picks names- one boy and one girl- from each district to “keep the peace.” In the game, the contestants each have weapons and supplies they assemble from the Cornucopia and utilize them to protect themselves as well as use them on the others as they all fight to be the last one standing, but the game-makers offer challenges for them as well. One obstacle…

Atheism has dated back as early as the 16th century and is still around today; However, communism was a political theory derived from a philosopher named Karl Marx in 1848 (www.dictionary.com). The rise of communism and atheism in Russia in the 20th century started off tempestuous (Thesis). Atheism also doesn’t guarantee good behavior any more than religion does, and “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” became a tragically apt phrase in the 20th century (www.dummies.com). Atheism does not come…

In Käthe Kollwitz’s portfolio War, published in 1924, there are many woodcuts showing themes of pacifism, sacrifice, and mourning. Two examples of artworks from her portfolio that show suffering caused by war include The Parents and The Widow II. The Parents show the sorrow of parents who lost a child…