Since the United States entered the war late‚ it did not accrue loans‚ and it did not suffer from any physical destruction. During the war‚ the United States provided loans to the allies‚ which the allies then used to buy supplies from America. World War I shifted world economic dominance from Britain to America. While the rest of the world was rebuilding from the devastation of the war‚ the American economy flourished. The 1920s were economically prosperous because of the growth of new industries
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From Embodying Ornament to Functional and Aesthetic Space in Early-20th-Century Architecture. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." Despite the risk of sounding cliché by opening with a Ludwig Wittgenstein quote‚ this is where we shall begin. It is something that relates back to a basic human instinct that is so deeply rooted in our DNA. Why do we yearn so intuitively for ideas that are silly and nonsensical? The answer is balance. Everything in the universe
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allowed equal rights for the blind‚ deaf and women‚ which lead to women being able to vote. Helen Keller contributed her life to educating other that had her condition making life easier for them through teaching sign language‚ giving speeches‚ and she did not discriminate. For instance‚ in Helen Keller early years‚ around 1887; Helen had already developed her own language for the blind and deaf that people could use with their hands to spell out words. For example‚ Helen writes about the first time she
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The Holocaust was a major event that portrayed the cruelest works of Adolf Hitler back in World War II. Under Hitler’s authority‚ Joseph Goebbels was one of the most loyal man who devoted his life to help Hitler strengthened the Nazi party. Goebbels shared the same thoughts with Hitler in which words and images were the most important devices to exploit the power of an empire (Joseph Goebbels 1). Joseph Goebbels contributed to the mass genocide of WWII through the impact of obstacles that he overcame
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Erving Goffman was the most influential sociologist of this century. Erving Goffman was born in Canada on June 11‚ 1922 to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. His family moved to Dauphin‚ Manitoba‚ where his father operated a successful tailoring business. Goffman attended St.Johns Technical Highschool that same year. Later on in 1939 he enrolled at the University of Manitoba where he excelled in chemistry. However‚ Goffman became interested in sociology when he met American Sociologist‚ Dennis Wrong. This
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between countries as the sole cause of the first world war but fail to realize that the main reasons for this conflict were right under their noses. Recurring disputes were credited to the constant fight of countries and their imperialistic goals. Germany’s constant desire to own more colonies‚ specifically France’s‚ aggravated what already was an irate nation. France’s persistent nationalism sparked what would become the most durable conflict during the war due to the seizing of French land by the German
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In a cultural group in the 19th and 20th the western cultures started becoming more modern with technology‚ communication and military(). This modernization had given the western culture more political power and economic success in other cultures(). As the western cultures gained more accomplishments‚ other cultures were more pessimistic about the change and progression(). Non-western cultures were already set in their own ways with their own values. They were not ready to change or modify their
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When people think about who helped the world grow and solve problems‚ most would think about famous scientists or presidents. People aren’t the people that helped abolish one of the main issues in the 1800’s. Slavery. One person‚ that inspired many‚ named Fredrick Douglass‚ that has contributed to the abolishment of slavery‚ powered through many challenges that came his way‚ and inspired many people to join him in his journey. Frederick Douglass was as early as 12 when he was enslaved and separated
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Nelson Mandela‚ the South African activist and ex-president brought an end to apartheid and has been an international supporter of human rights. Mandela was a member of the African National Congress party (later became the president of ANC)‚ he used peaceful protesting and armed resistance against the white’s segregation between the blacks and whites. The racism was very rough‚ the blacks would have to always carry passes‚ they didn’t have the right to vote‚ and even public benches would be separated
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The officers did not have a good idea who the murderers were but they believed that the murders were gang related. A name that kept coming up was Al Capone. They questioned him but he had an air-tight alibi. He was in Miami at the time trying to escape Chicago’s brutal
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