1948

The origin of the world trade organization goes way back to 1947 as the original intention was to create a third another institution that could handle the trade side of international economic cooperation. 50 countries were in participation to create the International Trade Organization (ITO) which would be an specialized agency of the unaired nations. The main purpose was to create the ITO at a UN conference on trade and employment in Havana, Cuba in 1947. However 15 countries were in talks on…

The Jewish Nation The Jewish nation is in every single place you go. The Jewish nation has not had their own country in a long time, so they have had a trouble settling. Since they never had their own nation, they have been bullied and moved so much yet they develop more and more everyday. The Jewish nation is heavily cultured and has a strong, rich history of tribulation and success and it can be traced to its origins and the development of the nation to see what an excellent nation it has…

flying in supplies for 2 million people for nearly a year. (Document B, Map #5 and #2) The Soviet Union was against capitalism so in order to stop America from aiding European countries the Soviet put up blockades all around West Berlin on June 27, 1948, but soon after the Soviet Union removed the blockades on May 12, 1949. Other ways the United States used containment was the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was applied in 1947, by President Truman, its purpose was so the United States…

In this chapter, he focuses on important concepts and one of them is self-fulfilling prophecy. As Myers (2014) said, “When our ideas lead us to act in ways that produce their apparent confirmation, they have become what sociologist Robert Merton (1948) termed self-fulfilling prophecies” (p.109). So basically he talks about beliefs that may lead people to their own fulfillment either in a positive or a negative way. Furthermore, I chose an article called “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” written by…

Cinderella and Geronimo Stilton, we solve problems, learn social skills, and develop schemas for life by being immersed in fictional worlds. Why not, then, learn psychological concepts in college through reading for pleasure? B. F. Skinner's Walden Two (1948) is an example of illustrating complex psychological concepts through the exploration of a fictional world. Costantino (1994) found that students for whom English was a second language improved their ability to read academic texts after…

minutes, both towers collapsed with massive of smokes and fire. Thousands of people rather jumped out of the building than getting burned. Berry Berenson was one of the 2,996 people were killed during the attack. Berry Berenson was born on April 14, 1948 and died on September 11, 2001. She was an actress, an American photographer,…

Martha was inspired by St. Denis performance at the Mason Opera House and enrolled in an arts oriented junior college and later at the Denishawn School, which was founded by Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn to teach techniques world dance. She worked a period of time with Ted Shawn and Martha improved her dancing skills. She is recognized for her first role of an attacked Aztec maiden, “Xochital” and a dance made for her by Shawn. By 1923, eight years after entering Denishawn, she found…

acres (10 sq mi) with over 1,000 Jersey cattle. In 1907, the farm moved to Pine Plains in New York's Dutchess County, and it was purchased by New York banker Oakleigh Thorne in 1918, who developed it into an Angus cattle farm. After Thorne's death in 1948, the farm changed…

Syngman Rhee Syngman Rhee was South Korea’s first president. He was raised in Pyongsan County, North Korea. As a young boy, he had completed known everything about Confucian education and was enrolled in a Methodist school. In the school, he became a nationalist. In 1896, he and his other friends formed a club that would force Japan to give Korean independence. When someone closed down his club, he was arrested and imprisoned until 1904. After, he left the hail he decided to go the U.S. in…

are many significant changes of gender norms in our society today, one of these changes is the employment situation for women. Over the past few decades, women’s labor force participation rate has been increased. Specifically, the rate was 32.7% in 1948 and was 56.7% in 2015. (US Department of Labor, 2016) There are various factors that attributed to the increase. For example, having a higher education degree is one of the most essential factors of increasing women’s labor force participation…