Alfred the Great

Bender, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz. Albert M. Bender was an Irish man who moved to America where he settled and lived the rest of his years, especially in San Francisco, California. He was a writer and key to art in the 1920s and 1930s especially Ansel Adams and Diego Rivera…

traditions and dreams. Based on the culture and the dreams of America, many authors have wrote stories, novels, and poems about the definition of America. Through the characters in the stories such as Charles Foster Kane of “Citizen Kane, Gatsby of The Great Gatsby, Dexter Green in “Winter Dream” First, Charles Foster Kane in the story Citizen Kane. Throughout the story, we can see that Kane is a businessman in the newspaper business and he loves his job. He tries to be the best of the…

stealing, o erhearing racing tips, sharing stumps of cigarette ends picked up in the gutter" - Alfred So Rethel, economist The French econom grew very quickly through the 1920s, depending largely on exports. The French Economy wa unaffected by the 1929 U.S. stock market crash. In 1930 the collapse of world trade, howeve , brought trouble. In 1931, France in its turn yielded to the effects of the Great Depression, and the impact was just as severe as anywhere else. In late 1935 Mussolini…

election & he won by a landslide over the incumbent Hoover, who was a symbol of many people of the Great Depression. The Democrats won majorities in the House of Representatives & the Senate. On March 4th, 1933, Roosevelt was inaugurated when the depression had reached desperate levels, with 13 million people unemployed. His 1st inaugural address that was broadcast nationally on radio saying: “This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and prosper…[T]he only thing we have to…

grandfather’s eyes, World War II was the biggest event in human history. This global event significantly impacted even the most looked over families in America. My grandfather’s family was one of them. Alfred Delong Kennedy was born on October 7, 1937 in Mokelumne California to his mother, Irby Delong and father, Alfred Petty-John Kennedy. He had 6 siblings, Francis, John, Ruth, Betty, Dorris, and Hope. He was the second youngest of all his siblings. His family was dirt poor. They lived in a…

Martha Gellhorn was a war correspondent and covered many wars in her lifetime from the Spanish Civil War to the United States Invasion in Panama. Martha began covering wars when she met an aspiring writer of the time, Ernest Hemingway who took Martha with him to cover the Spanish Civil War which sparked a fire in her to cover wars. Although Martha is most known through her war novels, she is also best known for her short stories and other novels as well. Martha a well rounded traveler ventured…

with anger from community leaders of an Uptown area known colloquially as Pigeon Town. The residents of Pigeon Town were pleading for a reopening of the long left vacant Alfred J. Priestley Elementary School Building, which sits on Leonidas St. “In Pigeon Town, residents are wondering if someone will finally breathe new life into Alfred E. Preistley Junior High, long a silent heap moldering in the middle of the weathered neighborhood”(Dreilinger). The elementary school has been long closed since…

When the three little pigs call B.B. Wolf on his lies, he is forced to tell the truth and apologize for what he did. At the end of the story B.B. Wolf makes it up to the three pigs by building them a new house. This picture story book would be a great asset to use in my second grade classroom because it is a book that offers a new point of view, humor, and…

called “Strangers on A Train” that was later directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and “Double Indemnity” (for which he got one of two best original screenplay Oscar nominations), and “The Blue Dahlia” (for which he was nominated for his other best original screenplay Oscar). He also wrote some other screenplays with other people. These screenplays were very influential in the American film noir genre. He decided to take up writing, in 1932, during the Great Depression after losing his job in the oil…

Election of 1928 it all started when Coolidge announced that he will not be running again,so than there was an opening for a new Republican nominee and his name was Herbert Hoover.The Election of 1928 consisted of two major people Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith.Herbert Hoover was nominated on the first…