of many people. These women were pioneers in their times. They either helped to found, or lent their voices to, various social movements, policies, and causes that evolved during their lifetimes and proved successful in helping many oppressed people. Jane Addams is most famous for her work in two major movements, the first of which is the Settlement House movement of the 1800s. Settlement houses, which first originated in England. These facilities were created in response to problems arising
greatest teachers in the quality control movement. “As with any specialty, the TQM field is populated by hundreds of experts, self-proclaimed and otherwise, whose publicists refer to them as "internationally known consultants." For the bluffer 's purposes, however, there are only five names worth committing to memory: Deming, Juran, Feigenbaum, Philip B. Crosby and Kaoru Ishikawa.” Zemke, R. (1993) W. Edwards Deming an icon of the "quality" movement, an American statistician, educator, and consultant
Photomontage is a defining characteristic of Berlin Dada; a vital interwar period movement, which primarily took place between 1915 and 1924. Although photomontage is associated with the interwar period, it undoubtedly had a monumental influence on the fine arts well after it’s initial collective disbanded, which included figures such as John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, and Raoul Hausmann. In fact, even celebrated post-war and contemporary artists, such as David Hockney
artwork to surpass their neighbors. Following inspiration from their Italian neighbors, and the International Gothic style, they looked forward and redefined painting as a style, while also changing arts meaning. Making the characters true to life in artwork was a new feat never before seen until the High Renaissance in Italy. Jan Van Eyck took the Netherlands by storm by renovating the International Gothic style, and creating a more naturalistic style that spawned dozens of copiers, and inspired
significant milestones that pertain to nationalization, globalization and equality up to this very day. The Declaration of Independence states that every citizen is granted the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, it marks the groundbreaking turning point in American history where the United States gained its independence from the British Government. Since then, the Declaration of Independence argues on the people’s behalf for civil protection, and to a certain extent, negates government
only at the surface, until it is closely examined. This definition does apply to Détente because it only reduced tension on the surface, but behind the scenes the arms race did not change and the many agreements limiting the use of nuclear arms were shallow in the types and amounts of arms they limited. In truth, détente did bring some temporary stability to Europe but that was never built to last as the two systems were too different to be able to cooperate successfully. On the the biggest issues
France and Germany independently developed a robust studio system that made popular and innovative motion pictures. The United States imported a sizeable amount of foreign films to satisfy demand for novel entertainment. During the silent era, international distribution of films presented less of a problem than it would after the advent of sound; the use of intertitles meant that translation of a film to a foreign market involved only changing a few frames of text. Three factors contributed greatly
technology—considered it low class, even—and students instead focused on cultivating a sense of moral righteousness. Yet, the Confucian-centered examination system was beginning to prove ineffective in a world where modern militaries predominated in international relations. China learned this painful lesson during a succession of lost wars, eventually entering a long period of introspection, quite notably, by first looking outward. Foreign education systems were of particular interest to this nation in
In the year of 1918 the Great War had ended, leaving mostly Western Europe scathed by conflict between nations. With groundbreaking technology the conflict proved to be one of the most devastating in world history, especially with the immense amount of casualties of over 38 million. Picking itself up from the ground that was stained with blood, Europe at the time did not have any idea of the conflict that would soon follow approximately twenty years after; another world war. It is the end of the
began to grow, he expanded the Company to Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. In 1984, a Mississippi businessman named Joseph Biedenharn bottled 12 servings and sent them to Candler. Candler was not intrigued by this idea. Five years later he still did not realize the opportunity that bottling the soda would make it portable even after two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, secured rights to bottle and sell it. In 1923, Robert Woodruff purchased the company from Candler