was the most progressive president because he attacked big business’s‚ signed the act to create the national park service and supported for workers. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the United States‚ serving two terms from 1913-1919. As president of Princeton University and later as governor of New Jersey‚
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Composition with red‚ yellow and blue was created in was Surrealism. * After returning to Holland in 1914‚ Mondrian was fascinated by abstract paintings. * With the war outbreak in Holland‚ Mondrian was forced to stay in Holland‚ where in 1916-1917‚ he helped form the Neo-Plasticism movement. Neo-plasticism impacted and brought out the best in a number of people‚ where it broke down the forms of nature‚ reducing the form to a pure‚ abstract design. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ART WORLD: *
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British Depth Study 1890-1918 Liberal Reforms What were the living and social conditions like in the 1890s? Living conditions: * Towns became overcrowded. * People lived in slums‚ often whole families lived in one room. * No internal water supplies. * Shared outside toilets. * Limited electricity‚ wealthy families were starting to get it. * Larger families but higher infant mortality. * Very limited birth control‚ moral distaste. * Church taught contraception
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credited with the discovery and identification of the electron; and‚ in a broader sense‚ with the discovery of the first subatomic particle. Thomson is also credited with finding the first evidence for isotopes of a stable (non-radioactive) element in 1913‚ as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays (positive ions). He invented the mass spectrometer. J.J. Thomson discovered the electron. He found that the electron was a very small‚ negatively charged particles that are part of the
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Governor-General of Pakistan In office August 15‚ 1947 – September 11‚ 1948 Monarch George VI Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan Preceded by The Earl Mountbatten of Burma (as Viceroy of India) Succeeded by Khwaja Nazimuddin 1st Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan In office August 11‚ 1947 – September 11‚ 1948 Preceded by None Succeeded by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan Born December 25‚ 1876 Karachi‚ Bombay Presidency‚ British India Died September 11‚ 1948 (aged 71) Karachi‚ Dominion of Pakistan Ethnicity
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Love‚ Loss‚ Literature Pablo Neruda and William Butler Yeats were two famous poets during their time – two people from two different times‚ different geographies‚ different cultures‚ different languages‚ same style. Their writing are structured around experience and arriving at the personal truth – the more personal they wrote‚ the more people they reached. They both discovered their identity through writing about love and loss. Pablo Neruda was born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral in
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Author: The author of this manuscript is W.M. Hughes Prime Minister of Australia. He said these things Date: The speeches were read and/or documented on the 18th of September‚ 1916. Audience: The audiences of these speeches were to the whole of Australia. They were public speeches anyone could listen to. Message: It was to try and get people to vote in favour of conscription. Agenda: It was created to sway people over to conscription and to tell people about the referendum Nature: It is a manuscript
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became lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden near Reading 1911-1913 – teaching Bible classes and leading prayer meetings – as well as visiting parishioners and helping in other ways. From 1913 to 1915 he worked as a language tutor in France. By 1915‚ he became increasingly interested in World War I and enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles group. After training in England‚ Owen was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He spent the last day of 1916 in a tent in France joining the Second Manchesters. He was
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Humanities Time Line The following is a selective listing of some major figures and works of the Humanities (right column) and their relation to important events in History (Center Column) c = approximately First Column: Century Second Column: Events in History Third Column: Humanities Giants (write your entries here) Before the Common Era (BCE) = Before Christ (BC) c. BC 15‚000 - 10‚000 Old Stone Age Cave art at Lascaux and Altamira c. BC 7000 Native Americans may have migrated from northern
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reforms - like changes in married women’s property laws‚ temperance‚ changes to education and employment laws - but women were still denied the vote and the political power that went with it. Now‚ what do you think about that? Sonia Leathes‚ speaking in 1913 to the National Council of Women‚ put the challenge clearly: "It is on this account that women today say to the governments of the world: you have usurped what used to be our authority‚ what used to be our responsibility. It is you
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