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The Chrysler Building, seen in figure 1, was built for Walter Chrysler to be the headquarters for the automobile company, the Chrysler Corporation. It was built on 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, in the United States of America. Put into historical context the construction began on the 19th of September 1928, a few months prior to the stock market crash of 1929. It was the age of ‘flapper girls’, jazz music, prohibition and ‘speak-easies’. “Throughout the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to…

In 1889, Paris hosted the Worlds Fair for the first time. Here many vendors and people presented technological advancements, as the French were in the middle of their own Industrial Revolution (Munro). It was also a place to showcase the world’s best performances or exhibits of art, dance, theatre and music. The Paris Exposition also called the Exposition Universelle, lasted from May 6 thru October 31, 1889. The Fair attracted all kinds of attention throughout the world. The Fair was appealing…

Jerome Robbins' suggested the idea of developing a musical based off of the story of Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (originally proposed title: East Side Story, set in the less privileged areas of New York at the concurrence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a gathering with Arthur Laurents took place where another idea emerged -- two teen-age mobs as the conflicting groups, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled…

many people left their jobs to work in factories. Wealthy businessmen built factories to meet the demands for building materials in developing cities; In order to make money economically, these businessmen gave their workers fair wages, but after some time workers experienced the downsides of working factories. Every working person in the United States had different opportunites to earn money, instead of moving into the city families had the opportunity to move west and begin farming in Indian…

seconds like a ticking time bomb. As he drank the glass of water that was placed on the table beside him, he grimaced at the circumstances that he was in. Will knew that his days were numbered ever since the doctors discovered that he had lung cancer, but why now? He had tried every single treatment there could be to solve his conflict, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and even a thoracotomy at one point. After a minute, he glanced outside the window for possibly the last time, his…

Moments in history tend to stick out the most. Pearl Harbor, D-Day, 9/11, and Independence Day survive so prominently within our history as singular days. What made the twenties so notorious in our history? It was the first time our country saw a massive change in culture, ways of thinking, government policies, and the rise of organized crime. The most well-known piece of legislation that came from the 1920’s was the passage of the 18th Amendment. Ratified on January 16 ,1919 he amendment, also…

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this revolutionary period of time. Alcohol was a main factor of parties, where could a party possibly be without alcohol? Due to the immense consumption of alcohol, a prohibition act was put into place on January 16th, 1920, in order to keep citizens safe and sane. During the Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of the alcoholic beverage were…

OH-Knoe-dler! New York’s oldest art gallery, Knoedler & Company, made $80 million selling fake paintings over the course of fifteen years. The fraud consisted of a huge network of individuals to sell their fakes. A shady art dealer named Glafira Rosales provided Knoedler with forged paintings until she was arrested for tax evasion. She commissioned paintings from a man in New York and flipped them to the gallery as original paintings by famous abstract expressionist artists. The Knoedler Gallery…

the city’s sounds, and to see the city’s beautiful parks and gardens. When people are askeded where they would like to travel, Paris is normally at the top of the list. Long ago in ancient time, there was a Celtic tribe who founded a city named, Lutetia. Lutetia is known as modern day Paris. “In ancient times, a Celtic tribe called the Parisii lived in what is now Paris”. (Academic) Paris was known to been founded over 2,000 or 250 BC years ago. Paris was not alway named Paris. “It was called…