Слайд 7What do you know about Victorian Era?
Why was it so called and
when it ended?
What fashion and music was popular?
What were the usual professions for the most people?
Слайд 10What events have shaped the life of the Lost Generation youth in 1901-1920?
What
people or events do you remember from this period?
What fashion and music was popular?
What were the usual professions for the most people?
Слайд 11
How has each of these events affected the Lost Generation and the ones
after it?
Слайд 121900 - Max Planck develops Quantum Theory
Слайд 13 1900 Eastman Kodak Company starts selling $1 cheap point and click cameras
- Brownies
Слайд 141900 - Sigmund Freud publishes
“The Interpretation of Dreams”
Слайд 151901 - First Nobel Prize was awarded by Nobel’s Fund, 5 years after
his death
Слайд 16December 17, 1903 – first flight of Wright Brothers
Слайд 171903 - First Silent Movie: The Great Train Robbery – created by Edwin
S. Porter (Thomas Edison Co)
Слайд 181903 – Morris Michtom creates Teddy’s Bear – as a political mascot for
Theodore Roosevelt
Слайд 191904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens the first industrial school for colored men
and women - Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute
Слайд 201905 - Freud publishes
“Theory of Sexuality”
Слайд 21Henri Matisse, André Derain and other artists shared their first (of three in
total) exhibition at the 1905 Salon d'Automne, presenting Fauvism as an art style
Слайд 221906 - Einstein proposes his Special Theory of Relativity
Слайд 231906 - Teddy Roosevelt tries to simplify spelling of 300 English words to
make English easier to learn and read
Enuf, tho, fantasy, plow, honor, center, rhyme/rime, blest/blessed
Слайд 241907 - First Electric Washing Machine
Слайд 251907 - Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference,
which regulated:
The sequences of starting and ending the conflict and the rights of those participating
Rights of the prisoners of war
Duties and rights of neutral parties
Prohibited a list of weapons as unnecessarily traumatizing (light land mines).
Слайд 261907 - Typhoid Mary was
tracked down
Слайд 271907 - Leo Baekeland invents plastic
Слайд 281907 Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon gives birth
to Cubism
Слайд 291908 – Ford introduces $850 Model T (average annual income was $500)
Слайд 301911 - Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of atom
Слайд 321913 - The First Crossword Puzzle by Arthur Wynne is published
Слайд 331913 - first Assembly Line for the Ford cars
Production time of 1
car
dropped from 12
hours to 93 minutes
Слайд 341913 – USA introduces Permanent Income Tax
person pays a portion of his income,
depending on the amount of income
Before: Only people making over $600 a year were taxed
Even earlier: Tariffs – taxes on imported goods
Excise taxes – taxes on purchase of specific goods (tobacco, alcohol, gambling) ~regressive tax
Слайд 351914 – Charlie Chaplin first appears in Little Tramp
Слайд 361916 - Tristan Tzara founds Dadaism as an international anti-aesthetical movement, inspired by
the WW-I and its rational cruelty, silently supported by the masses.
Dadaism stands for irrational chaos, cynical attitude to arts and culture, a protest "against this world of mutual destruction”.
Dadaists wanted to create a tabula rasa – erase the modern culture to build the new, humanist one on the top of it
Слайд 39April 30, 1916 – first Daylight Saving Time implemented
Spring forward and Fall back
– easy ways to remember
Слайд 401916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in NYC and
gets jailed
Слайд 411916 – first Self-Service Grocery Store
Слайд 43January 1918 - The first Spanish Flu outbreak starts in Kansas
It lasts
for 2 years, has three waves and kills from 50 to 100 million people, around 5% world population
Its severity is believed to be connected to worldwide Aspirin poisoning.
Which was connected to mass sales of expired Bayer aspirin all over the world (and aspirin was more or less the only drug back then).
Also the routine life during the war took its toll – and third wave started with happy kisses and hugs when soldiers finally got home after war.
Слайд 47He was born in 1835 to the family of Scottish immigrants who settled
in the USA.
Since 13 he worked at a cotton mill, then telegraph and then railroads.
During Civil War of 1861 he kept his railroad and telegraph station run and eventually bought them out
Слайд 48After the Civil War he purchases his first steel plant, then his bridge
company and eventually builds the largest Steel Empire in the world
He was the richest person of his time and inspired the image of Scrooge McDuck
Слайд 49Over his life (but mostly in 20th century) he spent 13 700 000
000 dollars (in modern money) on charity, science funding, opening public libraries, universities and art. It was 90% of his total capital.
His charity funds and philanthropist image has given the face to modern charity and inspired generations of people to follow his example
Слайд 50A Music Hall founded and named by him
Слайд 52Have you ever dreamed to be as rich as Carnegie?
How would you spend
the money if you had so much?
What other (crazy and not) billionaires do you know?
Слайд 53Why do you think the rich people spend money for charity?
What other people
who devoted their life or most of the money to the charity do you know?
Do you think Andrew Carnegie is a binding role model for a successful businessmen?
Слайд 56He was born on a farm in Scotland in 1881
Fought in World War
I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps
Was knighted for his achievement in medicine made back in 1928, which saved billions of lives
Слайд 57There is a popular urban legend that he saved Winston Churchill’s life in
WW-2 (in 1943)
There is another popular urban legend that his father saved the same Winston Churchill and this way won a free education for his son
Слайд 60What did people use before antibiotics to cure the illnesses?
Have you ever tried
any folk medicine recipe or treatment? Did it work?
Do you prefer pills or folk medicine these days, why?
Слайд 61What medications do you use?
Do you ever use penicillin, why?
What other important medical
inventions do you know?
Слайд 64She was born in 1876 to the family of a hat trader in
Netherlands
She dreamed to become a kindergarten teacher and even started to study for it, but never finished
Слайд 65She got married in 1895 through a newspaper ‘Wife needed’ column
Her husband
was a Dutch Army Captain called Rudolf MacLeod from Skye MacLeods.
Слайд 66After divorce she went to work to Paris circus as horse rider and
eventually as an exotic dancer and model for artists
Her stage name (the one you know her by) means “Eye of the Day”
Слайд 67She became a dancing icon by the time when in 1915 she stopped
her career as a dancer and remained a top-class courtesan
She was executed by the French army for being a German spy in 1917
Слайд 68Her body and head separately was embalmed and stored in Museum of Anatomy,
Paris, but both were stolen around 1954.
Слайд 69Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
aka Mata Hari
Слайд 70Have you ever dreamed of becoming a spy?
Is it normal these days to
get acquainted through newspaper column?
Have you ever wanted to run away with the circus? Why?