1925

Malcolm Little was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha Nebraska. (1) His parents, Earl Little and Louise Norton, were both activists. Because of their political views, they constantly received threats from white supremacists. They were forced to move several times, before settling in East Lansing, Michigan in 1929. Despite efforts to move away from these troubles, their home was burned down in 1929. In 1931, Earl Little was run over by a street car and killed. The police ruled both of these accidents.…

Aside from his education, another major influence on Huxley’s life and writing was an eye disease contracted in his teenage years that left him almost blind. As a teenager Huxley had dreamed about becoming a doctor, but the degeneration of his eyesight prevented him from pursuing his chosen career. It also severely restricted the activities he could pursue. Because of his near blindness, he depended heavily on his first wife, Maria, to take care of him. Blindness and vision are motifs that…

Hitler had been planning for a war long before he rose to power with a master plan for the domination of Europe outlined in his book Mein Kampf (1925) and Zwietes Buch (1928). His plans were to unite Germans under one empire, conquer Eastern Europe, end the Treaty of Versailles, create a national army, and exclude Jews from society, which were all causes for war. Hitler’s intentions were demonstrated in the Hossbach Memorandum, but some claim, including James Sheehan, that it was a strategy to…

Though the use of chemical weapons was ostensibly banned in the international community by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the research and development of biological and chemical weapons was permissible until the Protocols were amended in 1975. However, a lack of enforceability by any international governing body allowed a nation like South Africa to secretly create its own such program, one that operated unchecked and actively employed its toxins and agents throughout the 1980s. With apartheid as…

Construction of Rough Point started in 1887 and was commissioned by Frederick W. Vanderbilt, the sixth son of William. At the time of its construction, it was the largest house in Newport, RI and occupied a site of approximately 11 acres which overlooked the craggy rocks and cliffs at the end of Aquidneck Island. Built in the English Manorial style, it was furnished to project the mood of an English country house. The grounds and gardens were designed by the firm of F.L. and J.C. Olmsted.…

The neighborhood is quiet, cold, and dangerous. The year is 1928, December. The only light around is coming from the Moon, with apartment buildings covering the better part. Worn out doors for miles and lifeless windows surround the streets as far as the eye can see. This neighborhood is a ghost town. It is not safe to stay out past dark, and no one usually wants to with the kind of dealings that go down. Why does a young adult join a gang? Is it because they are an uneducated, ambitious youth…

In 1924 she published another short story, “Drenched in LIght”, in the journal Opportunity undertaking Zora Neale Hurston’s career. In 1925 she submits her short story “Spunk” and the play Color Spunk winning second place on both and transfers to Barnard College to study anthropology. Hurston visited Harlem and meets young Black artists such as Langston Hughes and she becomes good friends…

Automobiles in the 1920s In the 1920s people lived prosperously in the United States. The people of the 1920s partied, gambled, and built amazing cars. The United States won World War I and was in an economic boom. Most people were wasting money, but some people invested into young industries. One of these was the car industry. Companies such as Ford, Dodge, Rolls Royce, and Duesenberg built new technology for cars and more. Even though cars were being built in the 1890s and early 1900s, it was…

different times nonetheless. The Burma Shave Commercial targeted men and the women in their lives. The Burma Shave Campaign using the wide outdoors and road signs of poetic rhymes with catchy jingles for their music. At the time they were introduced in 1925, there wasn't really the World Wide Web, so for them to really succeed they had to really be creative and figure out how they can reach their targeted male audience. The…

1. Explain how Article III of the U.S. Constitution, '[t]he judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish' was a compromise between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Article III in the U.S. Constitution states that “the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish”…