Free Essays on 1928

  1. Furniture from 1900 to 1999

    Adjustable Table- Eileen Gray 1928 Cesca Chair- Marcel Breuer 1928 Basculant Chair- Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand 1928 Grand Confort- Le Corbusier 1928 Petit Confort- Le Corbusier 1928 Chaise Lounge- Le Corbusier 1928 Table- oval tubular base- Le Corbusier 1928 B301 Sling Back Chair ( Fauteuil...

  2. Woahh

    an assistant superintendent until 1927. Orwell Returned to England in 1928-1929 as a poor beggar working low paying jobs. Orwell tried to get arrested as a drunk to get some knowledge on what it would be like to be in prison. 1928 was the year that George Orwell decided he wanted to become a writer....

  3. Relationship Between Political and Economical S

    beginning to recover from hyper-inflation and the government was showing a sense of direction and sensible policies. The election results in May 1928 also showed improvement as the Social Democrats had a high of 153 votes to the Nazis 12. There were many major reasons for this as Germany had certainly...

  4. The Following Were All Equally Important Reasons Why Stalin Was Able to Hold on to Power in the Soviet Union:

    the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 until his death in 1953. There are several factors which help us to explain how he held on to power for so long. One reason was the purges, commonly connected to the show trials he held. The terror first started in 1928 when Stalin accused a number of engineers...

  5. Psychology

    Titchener, a psychologist heavily credited with bringing the concept of “structuralism” to the United States, touched on the subject of déjà vu in his 1928 book, A Textbook of Psychology. In his book he explained that déjà vu is not a precognition or a psychic prediction but rather a glitch in a memory...

  6. The Bauhaus

    spatial logic. The cabinetmaking workshop was one of the most popular at the Bauhaus. Under the direction of Marcel Breuer (1983.366) from 1924 to 1928, this studio reconceived the very essence of furniture, often seeking to dematerialize conventional forms such as chairs to their minimal existence...

  7. Test

    set up the Disney Brothers Studio (later The Walt Disney Company) with his brother Roy. With Ub Iwerks, Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, Disney became more adventurous...

  8. Journal Entry of a Subordiante Member

    Webb, 2003). This is an example of racially-charged extermination, whereby the suspect’s guilt was never proven through due process. Between 1848 and 1928, at least 597 Mexican Americans and Mexican migrant workers were lynched (Carrington & Webb, 2003). Because Mexican Americans were, and still are, a...

  9. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

    Oxford until 1869, when he was granted a degree in Literae Humaniores, the modern equivalent of the study of Ancient languages and cultures (Bowley, 1928). It is not fully known what Edgeworth studied during the period of 1869-1877, but he must have had some form of professional training as he was called...

  10. Mussolini and Hitler

    over ten million people died of famine. By 1933, livestock production had fallen half of the 1928 figure. Under industrialisation programme, the first five year plan was introduced. The first five year plan (1928 to 1932), all the stress was on the heavy industries such as steel, coal and machinery. A...

  11. America in the 1920's

    legendary Ford Model -T. This was a car for the people. It was cheap; mass production had dropped its price to just $295 in 1928. The same car had cost $1200 in 1909. By 1928, just about 20% of all Americans had cars. The impact of Ford meant that others had to produce their own cheap car to compete...

  12. Literatura

    lo había recibido por su poesía en 1945). También en junio de ese año apareció la novela Cien años de soledad, del colombiano Gabriel García Márquez (1928- ), que en pocos meses se convirtió en un best-seller mundial. Era la cúspide del "Boom" en la novela hispanoamericana, que había comenzado cuatro años...

  13. Why Was Women's Suffrage Not Achieved Until 1918?

    until then. Bibliography Strachey, Ray, The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain, Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1928. Morgan, David, Suffragists and Liberals: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in England, Totowa Rowman and Littlefield, 1975. Castle, Barbara, Sylvia...

  14. Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    the nineteen-twenties and thir╜ ties. From 1928 through 1933, Mr. Livingston won 79 first places, 43 seconds and 15 thirds in 139 races throughout the country, many of them at Cleveland. He won first place and $13,910 in 1928 in a cross-country race from New York to Los Angeles...

  15. Freedom or Death

    movement, in the UK, had turned to a more aggressive and violent means to achieve its end. This woman was Emmeline Pankhurst (15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928), a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement that helped women win the right to vote[1]. This speech, considered...

  16. motorola case analysis

    Studies Goa University Employee Training and Development at Motorola Summary: Motorola was founded in 1928 when the Galvin brothers, Paul and Joseph, set up the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Its first product was a "battery...

  17. Weimar Germany - Extended Response

    had also increased heavily. Even the politics throughout Germany became stable. Hitler’s Nazi’s gained less than three percent of the vote in the 1928 election and supported Weimar democracy was on the increase. Stresemann’s greatest triumph was in foreign policy. In 1926, Germany was accepted into...

  18. Linguistics

    adults use have a more specific meaning. Jean Piaget’s Research on Child Language Development in Semantics The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1928) analyzed the child’s acquisition of semantic knowledge by identifying three stages in the child’s acquisition of kinship terms. In stage one he...

  19. Stock Market Crash of 1929

    everyone wanted to invest in it. Which made prices rise. The market prices would go up and down between 1925-1926, and then become more stable in 1927. By 1928 the stock market was in full bloom. ------------------------------------------------- In early 1929, everyone seemed to want to get involved in...

  20. Puberty

    During this time both parents and teenagers report feeling less-close to one another. (Laursen, Coy, & Collins 1998; Steinberg & Morris, 2001). In 1928 the American Anthropologist Margaret Mead published her controversial finding in coming of age is Samoa. The study was conducted in a village of six...

  21. El Che

    Ernesto Lynch, later known as “Che Guevara” was half Irish but he was born in Argentina in 1928. He is one of the most important history figure heads in Cuba because with his help, Castro was able to overthrow the government at that time. Guevara studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires...

  22. Composer

    Cage took a liking to painting and radio broadcasting, which he started while in Boy Scouts. Cage was the valedictorian of his high school class in 1928. At the time, he was only sixteen years old. After graduation, he enrolled in Pomona College in Claremont, California. Repulsed by the regimentation...

  23. SCI 362 UOP Course Tutorial / Uophelp

    in Central and Eastern For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Briefly outline the economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928 – Do not use more than 1 page on this. What were the main issues among different “schools” or “oppositions” during the “Great Industrialization Debate”...

  24. Bauhaus

    Essay: The Bauhaus : Hannes Meyer Hannes Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1898 and died in 1954. He is noted for being head of the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1930 after taking over the position of Walter Gropius. Meyer’s area of expertise was in architecture and he preferred that all the architectural work...

  25. Women's Suffrage

    In February of 1918 the House of Lords passed the act also. This was the lesson the John Stuart Mill wanted to teach to everyone. In 1928 the Reform Act of 1928 was passed. This set identical voting qualifications for men and women. So women and men of 21 years of age could vote. In 1929 British...

  26. Mangement Sciences

    short-lived. French industrial Production and prices both fell substantially between 1933 and 1936. Germany’s economy Slipped into a downturn early in 1928 and then stabilized before turning down again in the third Quarter of 1929. The decline in german industrial production was roughly equal to that in...

  27. The Main Factor That Allows Stalin to Rise to Power

    even his ally in this struggle, Bukharin, grew nervous, as he realized that Stalin's power in the Party now overshadowed even his own influence. By 1928 Bukharin was sufficiently alarmed over Stalin's growing power to seek a reconciliation with the disgraced "Leftist", Kamenev. His efforts were fruitless...

  28. love

    He chose to become a policeman in India and left England on October 27, 1922. He stayed in India, working and doing a small amount of writing until 1928, when he returned to England and decided to be a writer. He had written almost nothing since he was seventeen and had had nothing published. His time...

  29. Technology information

    Industries, Inc. and changed its name to ITT Corporation in 2006. In the United States, ITT acquired the various companies of the Mackay Companies in 1928 through a specially organized subsidiary corporation, Postal Telegraph & Cable. These companies included the Commercial Cable Company, the Commercial...

  30. The Good Warriors

     THE GOOD WARRIORS 1909-1928 Our third generation which began to appear in 1909 was also the year Teddy Roosevelt left office. This generation continued until 1928, just before the crash of the stock market and the beginning of the Great Depression. This generation was called the Good...

  31. Okok

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  32. Charlie Chaplin

    tour. At the age of 19 he had the lead in a comedy act and became one of the most popular music-hall performers in England. Chaplin’s mother died in 1928 in Hollywood, after being brought by her sons in the US. Unknown to the brothers, they had a half brother through their mother. The boy, Wheeler Dryden...

  33. Mickey Mouse - A Reflection оf Wаlt Disney

    іmаgеѕ оf ѕuреrіоr animation, mаgnіfісеnt thеmе раrkѕ, аn еntеrtаіnmеnt аnd financial еmріrе аnd the little guу whо ѕtаrtеd it аll -Mісkеу Mouse. In 1928, Walt Dіѕnеу hаd run into bad tіmеѕ while working іn Kаnѕаѕ Cіtу. Most of hіѕ hіrеd аnіmаtоrѕ hаd left hіm аnd went to wоrk fоr a соmреtіng ѕtudіо....

  34. Elie Wiesel

    Priscilla Galanos Ms.Carr English 10, per.5 24, January 2014 Born on September 30, 1928, in Sighet, Transylvania (later Romania), Elie Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies before his family was forced to relocate to Nazi death camps during WWII. Wiesel survived, and...

  35. Hershey

    company that is located in The Bahamas that is American is the Western Air. This airline was 1st incorporated in 1925 as Western Air Express, and then in 1928 it was reincorporated as Western Air Express Corp., and renamed Western Air Lines in 1941. The airline was acquired by Delta Air Lines, Inc., in 1987...

  36. Obituary on Albert Einstein

    University in Jerusalem, a university which he had raised funds for on his first visit to the USA, served as a governor of the university from 1925 to 1928 but he had turned down the offer of a post in 1933 as he was very critical of its administration. Einstein was cremated at Trenton, New Jersey at 4...

  37. Reading Log

    imprisonment and rejoined the Nazi party. He formed a protection squad which later was known as the Schutzstaffel or SS. In the elections of May 20 1928 the Nazi party received just 3% of votes. By 1930 they had become the second largest party in Germany. In the elections of 1932 Hindenburg was re-elected...

  38. Photo - Steichen

    Pond—Moonlight, 1904.) WWI • He commanded the photographic division of the American Expeditionary Forces during the frist world war Later career • In 1928, Steichen became the chief photographer for The Conde Nast Publications, taking mostly fashion photographs. During his time with Conde Nast he became...

  39. The Wright Brothers

    interest in the Wright Company and retired three years later. The original * plane that flew at Kitty Hawk was placed in a Science Museum in London in 1928. Twenty years later, the museum sent the plane back to the United States. It can now be seen at the National Air Museum in Washington, D.C....

  40. Generation Y

    that the Generation Y: “They are optimistic, social and have high expectations”. Because in 2008 started the worst and the dipper economic crisis from 1928. This means that the expectations for the future of the generation Y is very reduced compared with the expectations of the baby boomers and X generation...

  41. women in the 1920s

    subject to its jurisdiction.” In 1925 in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman elected as a governor in the United States. In 1928 women compete for the first time in Olympic field events. Fashion changed a lot, Most importantly, the corset was discarded! For the first time...

  42. SCI 362 UOP Course Tutorial / Uophelp

    in Central and Eastern For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Briefly outline the economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928 – Do not use more than 1 page on this. What were the main issues among different “schools” or “oppositions” during the “Great Industrialization Debate”...

  43. DIDi

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  44. Mao Zedong and Communist China

    generals and leaders had to share the hardships of the ordinary men, and that even though the ranks were different the people were treated as equals. By 1928 the Red Army had 12,000 men The army was poorly equipped and relied more on bamboo spikes than on guns, which led the army to develop guerilla...

  45. SCI 362 UOP Course Tutorial / uop help

    For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com Briefly outline the economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928 – Do not use more than 1 page on this. What were the main issues among different “schools” or “oppositions” during the “Great Industrialization Debate”? When Stalin finally...

  46. SCI 362 UOP Tutorial / sci362dotcom

    governments in Central and Eastern For more course tutorials visit www.sci362.com Briefly outline the economic history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928 – Do not use more than 1 page on this. What were the main issues among different “schools” or “oppositions” during the “Great Industrialization Debate”...

  47. Charlie Kingsford

    victories he received his military cross for bravery in action. Charles Kingsford Smith made the first non-stop flight across the Australian Continent in 1928 and the first flight across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. In 1929, he accomplished a round-the-world flight. His flew 16 000 kilometers single handedly...

  48. CJUS440 Phase 4 IP

    not only a precedence for the production of accurate evidence but also emphasizes the repercussions of law for tampering or falsifying evidence. In 1928, Roy Olmstead was convicted for alleged conspiracy to violate the National Prohibition Act, specifically unlawfully possessing, transporting and selling...

  49. Outline

    ~ Teaches at the University of Michigan. * 1923 ~ Selected Poems and New Hampshire are published; the latter is awarded a Pulitzer Prize. * 1928 ~ West-Running Brook is published. * 1930 ~ Collected Poems is published. * 1936 ~ A Further Range is published; teaches at Harvard. * 1938...

  50. business

    into a downturn early in 1928 and then stabilized before turning down again in the third quarter of 1929. The decline in German industrial production was roughly equal to that in the United States. A number of countries in Latin America slipped into depression in late 1928 and early 1929, slightly...

  51. The Main Events of Hitler's Political Career

    The main events in Hitler's political career from 1928 to 1922 was when Hitler was blinded by gas on the 14th October 1918 plenty of events that occurred which meant that Hitler became a key figure in extremist politics. This was an important time for Hitler as it was he first got involved in extremist...

  52. Viruses

    from Latin botulus = "sausage". In 1897, Emile van Ermengem identified the bacterium Clostridium botulinum to be the producer of botulinum toxin. in 1928 Snipe and Hermann Sommer for the first time purified the toxin. In 1949, Burgen's group discovered that botulinium toxin blocks neuromuscular transmission...

  53. Five-Year Plan

    History Essay: Soviet Union What were the effects of the Five Year Plan on Soviet industry in the years 1928-41? The First World War followed immediately by the Civil War had left Russia’s economy in a mess that few thought could be put right in a short-term period. However, Stalin’s main aim...

  54. Totalitarianism in Germany

    Stalin appeal to the citizens more than Trotsky on account of Trotsky missing the funeral. By 1928, Stalin emerged as leader. Trotsky went into exile and was later murdered on the orders of Stalin. In 1928, Stalin ended the NEP and returned to a controlled command economy, in which government planners...

  55. Freemasonry in Tucson - Immersion Project

    Judaism has its own form of mysticism, the Kabbalah, the style and practice is not centered on theurgy but on enlightenment. Having read Manly P. Hall’s (1928) The Secret Tachings of All Ages, I knew FM possessed a repository of information on ancient mystery religions, alchemy, the esoteric, and the occult: ...

  56. Censorship in the Media

    1914. In an effort to eliminate variations of classifications between States, a central censorship board was set up in 1928. A number of movies were banned during the years of 1928 and 1941, by the Classification board. Some of those titles included; All Quiet on the Western Front, Applause and The Ladies...

  57. Life of Ronald Reagan

    his hometown. In 1928 Regan graduated from Dixon High School. Well attending school Reagan was a student body president and also participated in the school plays, football, basketball and track. After high school Ronald went to Eureka College which was a liberal arts school from 1928 to 1932. At college...

  58. Weimar Rublic and The Great Depression

    Unemployment affected nearly every German family just 6 years after the last major economic disaster -hyperinflation - had hit Weimar. September 1928 650,000 unemployed September 1929 1,320,000 unemployed September 1930 3,000,000 unemployed September 1931 4,350,000 unemployed September...

  59. population

    Gordon would pilot the tri-motor Fokker named the "Friendship" with Amelia having the official title of "commander" of the flight. On Sunday, June 3, 1928 after waiting several days for the weather to clear, the Friendship left for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Bad weather conditions again delayed the flight out...

  60. Thomas Edison

    Albert Medal of the British Society of the Arts in 1892, was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1927, U.S. Congress Gold Medal in 1928, he was inducted to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans in 1960, and received the John Fritz Medal of American Engineering Societies in 1908. Thomas...