1926

What facet of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life led to the prominence of the person we know as “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”? Perhaps his prominence is best explained through his work on The Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and his coworkers worked tirelessly to produce a history altering advance in warfare -- known as the atomic bomb, warranting the nickname “The Father of the Atomic Bomb”. Perhaps Oppenheimer’s prominence is a direct reflection of his academic schooling and his intellect.…

Hemingway wrote many successful short fictions works, but also novels, and non-fiction. Hemingway could not wait to join the military and be a part of the war. He incorporates this into some of his stories about war, soldiers, and returning home. In 1926 Hemingway published his first novel and in 1964 after having taken his own life in 1961; manuscripts were found, and Scribner’s published “A Moveable…

In 1926 Zora Neal Hurston published a short story about a married working woman named Delia and her struggles to gain independence and peace through here husbands perspective in the story “Sweat”. This story has become to surpass its simple ideas of marital struggle between two people into a story which vividly fosters discussion about female equality and the struggle woman have face to get there. In “Sweat” the protagonist is not only looking for equality in her own household but she is also…

opened his eyes to what he truly loved to study and that was people, specifically people in the workplace and during his senior year of college is when he officially left the college of engineering and decided to get his B.A in Sociology graduating in 1926. In 1928 he married Charlotte Jane Gibson, and they eventually had two children. He often contributed…

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the 1920s focusing on African-American literature, music, and art. Langston Hughes was an American author, poet and playwright and is known as one of the main literary contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. His main focus in writing was African American culture and he was among the first writers to “use jazz music and dialect to depict the life of urban blacks in his work” (A&E Network). Langston Hughes was born as James Mercer Langston Hughes…

I am more than a number, yet I represent many. My mother was 36 years of age at my birth and her only other child was eighteen years my senior. I wasn’t supposed to be born, yet I am here. The statistics say that a gay, African-American male should be scholastically unable to excel at the highest academic levels, but I am a scholar. I was educated in Detroit Public Schools, which has a reputation as one of the most economical disadvantaged and academically inferior school districts in the nation…

Monroe was a very iconic and some could say important person to society that led a young difficult life, had a famed career, and eventually would die by overdose. Her life as a child was nothing but what we would call terrible. She was born June 1, 1926. Not much later though she would be getting abused. Her mom was not mentally stable and was in and out of mental institutions. Marilyn then was taken care of by a family friend for a few years but when they decided to move they left her there…

As we learned in Lesson One, the first silent films had live musicians in the cinema, who played a score along with the film as it played. There were even sometimes narrators who provided commentary! In 1926, however, Warner Bros. studio changed the face of films - they introduced Vitaphone, which allowed them to add sound effects and musical scores to film. This is what allowed The Jazz Singer to actually containing dialogue! In the below clip, you see…

Approximately two hundred years ago Lord Elgin relocated Marble sculptures from the Parthenon located in Athens. The Marbles are now located in a British Museum, however Lord Elgin was never granted permission to take the marbles from the rightful home in Athens. These important pieces of cultural artifacts should be returned to their country of origin, undoing a wrong done in the past. There is no doubt in my mind that when you evaluate the arguments for returning the marbles to Athens you…

might have been based on the real life bootlegger acquaintance named Max Gerlach. The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The story took place during America’s Roaring 20s in Long Island. The novel was first made into a movie in 1926, only a year after being published. The treatise is about a World War 1 veteran, Nick…