He purchased The Washington Post in 1933 when Graham was just 16 years old. He had no intention at the time of handing it off to her when she grew up, nor did she ever think it to happen (Graham, 1998). As a child, Graham was often left in the care of a governess, her parents often traveling or socializing among the American elite. Graham attended the Madeira School, Vassar and then the University of Chicago. At college, she began to take a strong interest in activist issues, such as labor. Here she developed a sense of right and wrong in the real world—meeting other people from other walks of life, learning their struggles, and understanding the obstacles they faced in daily life. Her first job in journalism came with the San Francisco News (Falcone, 2018), where she worked a year before the paper folded. With this background and these new experiences, at 21 years of age, Graham began working for her father’s paper The Post.
Paul Taylor Since his first dance routine more than half a century ago, Paul Taylor has become one of the world's most popular and respected choreographers. His works are performed by companies throughout the globe. Taylor has created more than 150 dance pieces. His style is unique and he is often seen as a distinctly American artist. critics and audiences all over the world agree that Taylor is a giant among modern
Significant Political, Social, and Economic Changes in America from the 1930s to the 1970s From the 1930s to the 1970s, America modernized. Women gained suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment (The American Yawp, 2018), and America as a country was on the move, having just asserted itself abroad by helping to end WWI. Now with peace restored, America began to metamorphose. It transitioned from being a traditionally-minded country of various
Introduction While Nixon may not represent or symbolize the height of the Cold War, he does represent an era in American history plagued by government corruption and large-scale public dissatisfaction with the government in general. Nixon came to power on the heels of four politically motivated assassinations: JFK in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, and MLK, Jr., and RFK in 1968. Robert Kennedy had been running against Nixon in the 1968
Track II diplomacy takes over when Track I fails. A third great revolution has been described as enveloping the world in modern times (Wriston 1997) and the catalyst has been technological change. Technology, or telecommunications, has astoundingly affected the sovereignty of governments, the world economy, and military strategy. What took a century for the Industrial Revolution to do is nothing like what the combination of computers and telecommunications has been