He won an election, and 50 million people died as a result of that election in World War II, including 6 million Jews. So what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.”(Feldmann, 2015) Bernard Sanders was born September 8, 1941 in Brooklyn New York. His Father Eli Sanders, was a Jewish Polish immigrant that…
Russian Revolution and Animal Farm relate. George Orwell was born with the name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India on June 25, 1903. His father was Richard Walmesley Blair, who was a British civil servant, and his mother was Ida Mabel Blair. She took Eric and his older sister, Marjorie, to England when Eric was just a year and a half old. Eric’s father stayed behind in India, because of this Eric and his father never had a strong bond. Blair grew up in a not so…
Powderly William Graham Sumner John P. Altgeld Samuel Gompers What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century? 2) How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy? 3) What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to respond to the new conditions? 4) The…
In his time, there was no way of knowing whether or not Washington was a good president, because there had been no predecessors before him. A historian named Richard Norton Smith said that all George Washington gave us was “our country as we know it today” (Young). He also went on to say, “Washington did not have Thomas Jefferson’s ability to turn an iconic phrase or James Madison’s penchant for coming up with…
Introduction Hudson’s Bay Company is a multinational company head quartered out of Toronto, Ontario. The corporation is governed by a board of directors chaired by Richard Baker. Joining Baker on the board are seven men and two women. Gerald Storch, the Chief Executive Officer, and Todd Zator, the Chief Accounting Officer, both hold important leadership positions in the company. Elizabeth Rodbell works as the president of the HBC Department Store Group. HBC has six subsidiaries, most…
As the 35th president of the United States, John F Kennedy’s story was one that was studied several times over the years. His story began as a privileged young boy who was faced many ailments thrown his way. Growing up he learned to deal with these difficulties, and made the most of the blessings he had been given. His story continued into adulthood where he fought for a position he was passionate about, but was where his life was tragically cut short. The events throughout John F Kennedy’s life…
single detail to the real Macbeth, but it shows a few similar traits you can compare them both to one another. Macbeth was born around 1005 in Alba, Scotland. Fathered by Findlaech Mac Ruairidh and his mother was Donada the second daughter of Malcolm II. Which was the king of Scotland at the time At the age of seven his parents sent him to a Christian monastery camp to learn about his religion. When Macbeth was 15 years old his cousins Malcolm and Gillecomgain killed his father for an outrageous…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by the poet and playwright William Shakespeare(1564-1616), was first published in the Quarto edition in 1600, although it is suggested, that this play was ‘first put on in court in 1595’ (Salgado, 1975: p. 116).Whether this play was made in the early 1580s or later than that, became a controversial matter. Francis Meres’ in his Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury (1598), mentioned A Midsummer Night’s Dream as ‘one of a dozen Shakespeare plays’(Stritmatter, 2006: p.…
orphaned lambs when she was a young child. She was destined to do great things and wanted to help others. As Mary got older, she wanted to be more involved with the war. Overhearing a conversation between her father and an official, she found out that England needed women to help with aircrafts. She enlisted herself without telling her father. Her father trusted her very much and even had her at the meeting where Winston, Hary S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin planned out what would happen after the…
continuously in London, and had 8 862 performances at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The play was based on the short story 'Three Blind Mice', and was produced in 1952 in Nottingham and London. The original company at the Ambassadors Theatre included Richard Attenborough as the detective. Christie's marriage broke up in…