In the 1920’s‚ many American businesses were doing brilliant. The banks had millions of dollars and people felt they had so much money that no one was poor or homeless. People thought that they could get rich quickly and that America would be able to get rid of poverty. Many people thought that nothing could possibly go wrong. Well‚ in October 1929‚ the Stock Market Crash occurred. Many wonder what it was like before the crash‚ the effects of the crash‚ and what caused the crash. It was a difficult
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The Invention of Jay Gatsby Mckenzie Hart 03.03.05 "It was a testimony to the romantic speculation that he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that is was necessary to whisper about in this world." (48) States the narrator‚ illustrating the attractiveness to attention and gossip of a party host. The quote comments on a conversation of two woman gossiping about the mysterious host named Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby‚ a young
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Many aspects shaped the 1920’s‚ and that includes the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two were tried for killing a paymaster and his bodyguard. They were sentenced to the death penalty for a crime that their involvement in was questionable. Many people protested to their sentence. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s court sentence sparked a large debate through the nation that continues today as to whether it was justifiable or not. Nicola Sacco worked a steady job at a shoe
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Technology created an era of prosperity Technology made the lives of the 1920’s much easier as it was a time of prosperity. Changes in technology in the 1920s influenced American life by creating more entertainment‚ and adding to the ease of life. This includes the automobile‚ entertainment‚ and radios. One of the first major inventions to become a national craze was the automobile. First developed with a combustion engine in 1896 by Henry Ford‚ he later started the Ford Motor Company
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person should consume eight glasses of water a day. For this project‚ we are given the ability to create anything we wanted with the simple request that we highlight the affects it would have. If I could create anything in the world‚ I would pawn the invention of a machine that had the capability to filter and cleanse any scale of water at any given moment immediately. Now many people will say that I should create something beneficial to myself‚ such as a time machine‚ or a teleportation device of some
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Warren G. Hardking became President of the U.S. in the 1920s in a landslide promising a return to pre-war America‚ this was in reference towards some issues that still lingered after World War I. America was still faced with many issues regarding racism‚ women’s rights and even threats from Communist Russia. Riots‚ strikes and anarchy was bellowing. This could have been caused by the staggeringly high unemployment rate. But the “Roaring Twenties” was on its way. The technological advancements that
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Class-Based Discrimination Class relations also had a strong influence on anti-alcohol beliefs. The economic elite tended to be strong supporters of Prohibition. Many believed that alcohol was a force resulting in an unstable and disorderly society‚ including influential tycoons like John D. Rockefeller.21 The elite also saw the variety of economic gains they believed they could achieve from Prohibition‚ with potentially greater efficiency‚ fewer industrial accidents and as such less worker’s compensation
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THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY Before the invention of photography‚ images were painted by artists or were duplicated by using printing plates. An image made by a painter was unique of its kind and copies of it could not be produced. Similarly‚ printing was done by hand and it required a lot of time and skill. The need remained for a process to be invented that could produce images of fine quality as well as to duplicate them. This was achieved in the 19th century with the invention of photography
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Latest Invention: Cell Phone that Can Help Managers Watch Employees’ Every Step KDDI Corporation‚ Japanese telecommunications operator‚ has come up with a technology that can track the movement of a person and transmit the collected information back to the main office. The technology works by evaluating the movement of accelerometers‚ which are‚ by the way‚ found in nearly every cell phone. According to the researchers‚ the technology can identify different types of activities‚ including walking
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In 1438 C.E. the inca could travel all over horses or even inventions like the wheel or water bottles or cup they had to make all of that stuff out of stone kinda like how they had to make tools weapons out of sticks rock vines and stone and even obsidian. The most modern day resource was mortar which was used to make houses schools and temples for priests.The people that built the temples would decorate the temples with gold and silver jewelry for the holy gods like the inti. For food the incas
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