“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” -Albert Einstein. He was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. As a young child Albert revealed a talent for understanding extraordinary science. Einstein took music lessons, playing both the violin and piano, a passion that followed him into adulthood. First moving to Italy then to Switzerland, he graduated from high school in 1896.

In 1915, Einstein completed his General Theory of Relativity and in 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. His name soon became a well-known genius all over the world. Einstein immigrated to the United States in the fall of 1933 and started living in Princeton, New Jersey. At first he just went to visit the United States, but then Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, and he decided to stay, because he was helping with the atomic bomb and also Albert was jewish and Hitler was taking over and so he escaped. Albert became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945. Einstein and a couple other scientist sent a letter to Roosevelt saying that he should invest in the research of the atomic bomb, Albert knew that FDR loved history, so he persuaded him through that. Continue reading →

“Bullying can start with one incident, and if you nip it right in the bud straight away, it will not grow into a problem.” -Liz Carney, director of charity bullying, UK. Bullying is a bold and broad subject. 42% of kids have been bullied, but sometimes people fail to tell the difference between a normal fall-out between two people and something that is truly bullying. As a result most children get in trouble for a little word they said.

Bullying is when a person has an external conflict with another person.Types of bullying include; cyber bullying, one on one bullying, and at times there could be many people against one person. Bullying is not when someone says something petty, little. There is no point in getting worked up for something so small and simple. It’s alright if you get called a serious name and you want to tell the teacher, but if it’s something small, fall back and let them get themselves in trouble.

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They take away my family
They tear us apart
I try to erase the memories
But can’t erase the marks

They cut me open
And sadly leave me with scars
They left me with the bandages
But took away my soul and heart

My heart is hidden from happiness and pride
But in reality I’m dying inside
Slowly my soul starts getting sicker and sicker
My emotions start to flicker

Feeling agony, pain, and sorrow
Hoping for a better day tomorrow
The words I speak just come to me
Anyone around me disregards my words

My dreams
The only place I can express myself
With no one to judge me
The only place I can be myself
Without hearing my problems

Many young adults and teenagers were out of work and were living on the streets. There was a solution to that, The Youth Administration Act. It was in progress from June,26 1935 to 1939. The act was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was a part of the New Deal. This would give high school and college students $6 to $40 for work study. It made jobs and education rates go up. Most importantly it gave these young Americans hope.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a brave strong women. She had a rough childhood, but pushed through it with help of her dad. She went to school in London and married FDR. Eleanor also got involved with politics and became very good at what she did. She would always lend a hand to someone in need. Roosevelt inspired a lot of people and left her place in history.

Eleanor was born on October 11,1884 in New York City, NY. She had an unhappy childhood. Her parents were Elliot Bulloch Roosevelt and Anna Rebecca Hall. Eleanor’s uncle was Theodore Roosevelt. Her mother would call her “granny” because of her seriousness, and other children at school would tease her about her looks. One positive thing was that she lived in a wealthy and privileged family. However, she had many deaths in her family; her mother died of diphtheria on December 7, 1892 and also her brother died of the same disease in the following May. Eleanor’s father jumped out of a window, which he survived but then later died of a seizure. Her childhood losses left her with depression throughout her life. Her only supporter was her father. He was in alcoholic but that didn’t stop him from inspiring Eleanor to be herself and not to believe anything anyone says. He wrote letters and sent cards from his rehab center. After all the deaths she was sent to live with her grandmother.

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The Harlem Renaissance affected America greatly. This was a period in time when the African American community grew, brewing a ton of work in a short amount of time. Many African Americans saw this as their chance for a better life. So they migrated from the south to the north to look for work and to be treated fairly. This period of time was called the Great Migration. Without the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance wouldn’t have brought us art, literature, and a new image for African Americans

Another name for the Harlem Renaissance was the “Jazz Age.” Cities like New York and Chicago were cultural centers for jazz, and especially for African American artists. Some famous black artists of the time were Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Jazz music and dancing was becoming very popular. Jazz music originated mainly in New Orleans, and is/was a fusion of African and European music. The traditional jazz band was composed primarily of brass instruments and was considered a symbol of the south, but the piano was considered an instrument of the wealthy. Its popularity soon spread throughout the country and was consequently at an all-time high. During this period, the musical style of blacks was becoming more and more attractive to whites. Composers started using poems written by African Americans in their songs. African Americans were becoming more and more popular by the minute. The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood and then in the Theater District. The club was a whites only business even though it featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of the era.

African Americans put their own unique twists on art and writing. During the 1920s African American art and literature gained recognition for becoming a part of U.S culture. Upper Manhattan had become a magnet for creative African Americans, and the 1920s and ’30s they saw a great flowering of artistic work there. A couple famous artist were Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, and Charles Alston. Some famous writers were Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Zora Neale Hurtson. As a group they began writing with a bold new voice. Zora Neale Hurston wrote about the burden of being a African American women in her novel, Their Eyes were Watching God. 

Slowly African Americans were getting accepted into American culture. The legacy of the Harlem Renaissance redefined how America, and the world, viewed African Americans. At first white people thought African Americans were known as slaves and farmers. Now they are known as writers, artists, and musicians. Due to the Harlem Renaissance many organizations were created including; the National Urban League. This was founded in 1911, and accepted members of all races and promoted integration. The organization offered counseling to those uprooted from the South on obtaining jobs, securing housing, and staying healthy.

The Harlem Renaissance gave people joy and hope. But after everyone was joyful and thinking everything would get better, the Great Depression came rolling in. This caused people to become impoverished. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. In many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until after the end of World War II. It ended the Harlem Renaissance because everyone was out of money, and most importantly out of hope. They had their chance to be happy; now they had a big war ahead of them.