As the pace goes faster , Ford made more and more cars, and on June 4, 1924, the 10-millionth Model T came off the Highland Park assembly line. Though the Model T did not last much longer–by the middle of the 1920s, customers wanted to have a car that was inexpensive and had all the bells and whistles that the Model T scorned–it had ushered in the era of the automobile for everyone. Edsel Ford died in 1943, and Henry Ford returned to the presidency of Ford…
Inspired by a combination of nationalistic fervor and glorified expectations of a short war, thousands of soldiers from multiple countries enlisted to fight in the devastating conflict known as World War I. These men were quickly met with disillusionment when they discovered the truly nightmarish conditions of this war characterized by attrition. Much of the war’s combat took place in trenches where soldiers fought in filth and watched helplessly as comrades were massacred by bombshells, machine…
better. Due to how easily cars worked hundreds of companies used them to transport goods as they could be more maneuverable than trains, and unloading them on ships was unnecessary as they could just drive the cars or trucks on to the ships.(Model T: The Car for the Masses,2001)(Ford Motor…
Tom Holmes (b 1979) is an American artist based in Cannon County, Tennessee.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Education 2 Exhibitions 3 Art Work 4 Honors 5 Publications/Press 6 References 7 External links Education[edit source | edit] Holmes received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999, the student of Peter Saul and Linda Montano.[1] They received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles in 2002 where they studied with John Baldessari, Mary…
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, a man begins to reflect upon the decisions in life that he put off; realizing that he’s simply out of time to fulfill his wishes to find a wife and create a family along with many other wants and dreams. In the poem, Eliot uses a series of imagery and metaphors to vividly portray the character and to keep the story interesting and flowing. The poem of Mr. Prufrock is a simple yet vastly complicated poem. It begins telling the story of him as…
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” Eliot details and laments about the meaninglessness pitiful existence of men, whom he describes as hollow, and the overall decline of contemporary society. The characterization of the hollow men perfectly fits many of the characters who exist in the world of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Indeed, both authors explore the innate emptiness of human life and the ignorance of humanity to its emptiness throughout their literary pieces. Such ignorance causes…
T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917) is a poem that uncovers a man, named Alfred Prufrock, who not only has an unproductive and bleak life, but also has a lack of willpower and boldness to change that life. The poem is not entirely about love, it is a collection of the fragmented thoughts of a man with very low self-esteem and his inability to express his love to the woman the poem is addressed to. The poem is basically about this older man, Prufrock, who is distressed by…
vocational training and economic self-reliance (Johnson,NP)”. The technique Washington used worked because he lived his life prioritizing education, leading to future influential people, basing or contradicting their beliefs off of his, and finally . Booker T. Washington’s civil rights policy that blacks should work their way up to undeniable equality…
T.S Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” theme is centered around a man who died an unfulfilled life. “And will it have been worth it, after all?” This statement poses the dilemma for the man in the poem, will the choices he made as a preadolescent up to being an old man have been worth it. From passing women to cheap one night hotels, “And will it have been worth it, after all?” T.S Eliot uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in order to write “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”…
Phineas Taylor Barnum was Born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut and was a natural salesman, peddling lottery tickets and Cherry rum to Soldiers as a young boy around the age of 12. As a young man Barnum moved to New York City and got into a variety of businesses including newspaper publishing and running a boarding house and much more.. Barnum hated working with his hands so instead he made his fortune using his mind and using the gullibility of the public in his favor by almost tricking…