1926

Niels Bohr was born on October 7, 1885 and died November 18, 1962. Bohr was one of the four outstanding scientist who helped construct the atom. Niels contributed to the atomic structure and quantum theory. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his work. Bohr was a physicist, philosopher, and a promoter of scientific research. Bohr’s proposal stated that the electron revolve in a stable orbit around the nucleus and that the energy levels in which the electrons are on are discrete.…

The majority of accidents that take place on a construction site are often the result of unsafe acts and conditions which are preventable. The identification and elimination of hazards in the workplace is a direct way to reduce accidents and prevent fatalities from occurring. A construction company can achieve this with a well written and implemented a safety plan. It is important for a construction company to implement a widespread safety program because it gives the employees the skills needed…

The reason I chose this topic is because it was more interesting than the other options that we had to research. Another reason I picked this topic is because I like to play sports and also watch sports. The reason I want to learn about this topic is because I want to know how sports started and what types of sports they had back then. I also wanted to learn about this topic because I want to see how games have changed since back then such as rules and clothing type they used to wear. Sports…

Introduction/ Thesis: The years following The Great War, the U.S experienced a time categorized by ‘The Roaring 20’s’, the “roaring” aspect coming from the economic prosperity, mass consumption, and fueling consumerism. Yet the U.S prosperity reached further grasp with the help of internationalism. The United States’ rejection of the League of Nations following the end of WWI made it seem as if America had isolationist goals. Indeed, many government decisions made during the 1920’s focused…

Steinbeck attended Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., intermittently between 1920 and 1926 but did not take a degree. Before his books attained success, he spent considerable time supporting himself as a manual laborer while writing, and his experiences lent authenticity to his depictions of the lives of the workers in his stories. He spent much of his life in Monterey county, Calif., which later was the setting of some of his fiction. Steinbeck’s reputation rests mostly on the naturalistic…

Nutrition’s existence in food was becoming way for apparent in the 20’s. Nutritionists started putting more emphasis on them too. It wasn’t just that but, the automobile industry faced a tremendous amount of growth in the Roaring 20’s. Because of that the pricing for them went down and average American citizens were now capable of buying them. Social Values ended up changing along with everything else. It became difficult to really understand what was socially acceptable and not. Since…

On March 2, 1904 a man named Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) was born (Pascal). Theodor Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts (Pascal). Dr. Seuss grew up in Massachusetts and Germany. Dr. Seuss’ parents names were Henrietta and Theodor Geisel (Koehler). Dr. Seuss’ have two sister Margaretha and Henrietta Geisel, but sadly Henrietta died before birth (Pascal). In 1927 Dr. Seuss got married to a woman named Helen Palmer then in 1967 Helen Palmer died of depression (Pascal). After that Dr.…

In the late 19th century, the United States had no strong labor legislation that could intervene and solve the continuous unrest between workers and their employers. This led to several strikes by workers who had no means of pushing for their collective bargains except through strikes and go-slows. The strikes would often put pressure on employers and result in agreements between the two groups. However, at times it would also lead to many workers being laid off for their participation or…

Mortensen. Her childhood wasn’t the best. She eventually became an actress. She died of a barbiturates overdose. She had a very difficult childhood but she didn’t let that get in the way of her success. Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was a film cutter at RKO studios who, widowed and mentally ill abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost suffocated to death at 2, nearly raped at the age of 6. At 9 the orphan home paid her…

Hughes’s piece “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) which rejects artistic, systematic, and societal conventions and promotes the beauty of blackness and the importance of existing as an artist within the scope of being black, was published not only as a response to George Schuyler’s dismissal of the…