Ida Tarbell Ida Tarbell was born in 1857, only two years before the birth of the oil industry; key event that would later have a major impact in Ida’s label of Muckraker. At the age of three; her father, Franklin Tarbell, moved his family to a small oil town in Rouseville. There, Ida spent her childhood attending Mrs. Rice’s home school and playing amongst the oil derricks. In the article "Pioneer Women of the Oil Industry," written in 1934, Ida speaks of the problems her mother and many other women had civilizing the oil towns. Around the year 1870 the Tarbells moved to Titusville; where a church and school were already established.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY Lecture Outline 23 October 2007 Simon Baatz FOR THE THRILL OF IT: LEOPOLD, LOEB, AND THE MURDER THAT SHOCKED CHICAGO A. The Accused • Nathan Leopold: high school: Harvard School; two brothers; graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of Chicago in 1923 at 18 years; studying law at Chicago; has published articles on ornithology: father is millionaire businessman; • Richard Loeb: high school: University High School; three brothers; graduated University of Michigan in 1923 at 17 years; graduate student in history at University of Chicago; father is millionaire & vice-president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. • Leopold & Loeb: first meet at age 15 B. The Confessions • 29
Cisneros found an outlet in writing. In high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor. She earned a BA in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976. However, it wasn't until working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in the late 1970's that she says she found her way, as a working-class, Mexican-American woman. The experience of recognizing her difference from other students at Iowa eventually led to the writing of The House on Mango Street, which was published by Arte Publico Press of Houston in 1984 and won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985.
The New Deal v Primary Sources v Franklin D. Roosevelt was governor of New York, when the Wall Street Crash in October 1929, created the worst depression in American history. Roosevelt made strenuous attempts to help those without work. He set up the New York State Emergency Relief Commission and appointed the respected Harry Hopkins to run the agency. Another popular figure with a good record for helping the disadvantaged, Frances Perkins, was recruited to the team as state industrial commissioner. With the help of Hopkins and Perkins, Roosevelt introduced help for the unemployed and those too old to work.
Gabriel Farley Dattoli English 2 honors 14 October 2013 Commitment Kills The name of the book is "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. When reading its realized that, Jay Gatsby a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an poor childhood in rural North Dakota to become wealthy, however, he aheieved this goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities, Nick Carraway a young man from Minnesota, who travels to New York in 1922 to learn the bond business, and Daisy Buchanan a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and the object of Gatsby’s love, are all viewed as main characters. Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are ready to display thier wealth.
His mother worked as a cook and as washerwomen for many years to support the family and to save enough to move her family to Chicago. There he attended an all black high school. After graduating, Johnson worked for Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company. After some time he was in charge of finding news about Blacks and group them with news of Supreme Life employee activities for an in-house publication. Johnson, while doing this task came up with the idea of collecting articles and publishing a monthly magazine, called the Negro Digest.
AP Literature : Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Date of Original Publication: 1937 Genre: Storytelling, Fiction Historical information about the period of the novel’s setting: Biographical information about the author: Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1981 in Notasulga, Alabama. Her father was a preacher, farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a former schoolteacher. Before ZNH was one year old, the family moved to Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black town in the United States. ZNH‟s mother died in 1904. She attended high school in Baltimore before graduating in 1918.
Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, an Interior Salish woman who collected tribal stories among Northern Plateau peoples in the early twentieth century. She described centuries-old traditions with the authority of first-hand knowledge, and also wrote a novel based on her experiences. Like her African-American contemporary Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Mourning Dove’s reputation as a female ethnographer and writer has grown steadily over the past few decades. Her novel, Cogewea, is the first known published novel by a Native American woman. Growing up at Kettle Falls One day between 1884 and 1888, according to family lore, a woman of Lakes and Colville ancestry named Lucy Stukin (d. 1902) was canoeing across the Kootenai River in north Idaho when she went into labor.
Chutes and Ladders: The Movement Through Social classes In “The Great Gatsby” (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald acquaints the reader with a developing love story that occurred in the early to mid 1920’s, in the nation’s busiest city, New York City, at a time or industrial and social reform. In “Their Eyes Were watching God” (1937) Zora Neale Hurston chronicles the life story of a poor African American girl in the late 30’s throughout a variety of regions; a small town where she and her Grandmother grew up and lived with her first husband, a town where her husband becomes mayor, and the everglades where she and her third husband live. Both these novels are predominantly love stories, with some social class backdrops. The fact that characters dramatically move up and down the social ladder, only
Al Capone The most notorious gangster of all time, known as Al Capone, was the most powerful mob leader of his era. From the 1920’s until around 1931 Capone was the kingpin of almost all organized crime throughout Chicago. Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York to a pair of Italian immigrants. In his early 20’s, he moved himself to Chicago to reap the benefits of smuggling illegal alcohol into this city. This was done at the time when prohibition was at its highest.