George Hearst

Two time nominee William Jennings Bryant has been defeated in both the 1896 and 1900 election and does not appeal to the party. The biggest opponent to Parker’s nomination at the time was publisher William Randolph Hearst. July 9, 1904 brought the nomination of Parker as the candidate for presidency against Republican Theodore Roosevelt. One of Parker’s strongest held beliefs was in the gold-standard (value of currency is defined in terms of gold). He was even willing

Four: In the Beginning, it was a Legal Requirement to Grow It. As England began to colonize America, a law was sanctioned that each colony must grow a specified, mandatory amount of cannabis plants to meet crop requirements for hemp trade. In fact, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson each maintained their own hemp farms, from which the Declaration of Independence was drafted on paper

difference in time periods between the Hearst Castle and the Topakapi Palace leads to the differentiation in materiality and function, but the similarities of both the structures come together with the grandiosity of the project and the lasting effect of the architecture. While the Hearst Castle was initially built just to accommodate the Hearst family, the Topakapi palace was built for Mehmed II and his dynasty. After a long line of collaboration with the Hearst family, Julia Morgan was assigned to

years. That ‘s how long it took William Randolph Hearst to build Hearst Castle. Construction began in 1919 and did not end till 1947. Hearst Castle is a museum like no other. It is a 70,000 sq ft home that looks over the village of San Simeon, California. William Hearst called the estate “La Cuesta Encantado” which means The Enchanted Hill in Spanish.The incredible work done to this castle portrays the amazing talents people have. William Randolph Hearst had a thought, and idea when he decided to build

Marijuana is one of the oldest, most versatile, most historically significant plants in the history of man. Commonly referred to as hemp, it was the fiber used to create the sails of the conquistadors until steam power ruled the ocean blue. Hemp was universally known and clothed a lot the known world, even before cotton and wool. Its versatility was a virtue and was envied as one of the most valuable plants for any farmer, on any continent. Legislators in many different states across America

“Leading medical researchers are coming to the conclusion marijuana, pot, grass, or whatever you want to call it is probably the most dangerous drug in the United States…”(President Ronald Reagan, 1980 Campaign Rally Speech) "We may be able to make some progress on the decriminalization side. At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalizing, then Congress may then reschedule marijuana." (President Barak Obama, 2015 Vice Magazine Interview) In less than forty years the most important

At the time when the event of the Patty Hearst trial happened, the United States had a period of change in the nation. At 1960s, The war between United Sates and Vietnam was the essential task for the whole country. Moreover, African Americans were protesting and fighting for equal rights, feminists formed feminism groups and dedicated in getting their suffrage. The goal for the society suddenly changed to a totally different direction after the 60s when the Vietnam war was ended and African Americans

The Radical Case of Patty Hearst Patricia Hearst was abducted from her apartment in Berkley, California, when she was just 19 years old (Orth). Her abductors were a radical terrorist group, and their ultimate goal was to take somebody of status and hold them hostage as leverage for what they wanted. Patty was the daughter of William Randolph Hearst and Catherine Campbell, both of whom were wealthy and had a large image in the newspaper industry (Patty Hearst Outlaws). Patty would be held for nearly

Randolph Hearst purchased Cosmopolitan magazine in 1905, and the magazine changed forever. Hearst seeked to use the magazine as a “purveyor of exposé journalism to aid his personal political pursuits”, but when he abandoned his political ambitions he returned Cosmopolitan back to a fiction periodical in the 1920s (Landers). Well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and William Somerset Maugham contributed to the magazine, only increasing the editorial’s popularity. Hearst’ approach

kill them many times during those 131 hours. Gaining the name thanks to Nils Bejerot, a criminologist and psychiatrist, after he analyzed the victims’ brains. A year later in 1974 came another case of the syndrome; Patty Hearst, the granddaughter and heiress of William Randolph Hearst, was held captive by the Symbionese Liberation Army and brainwashed into accepting their ideas. In April she was caught robbing a bank in San Francisco via CCTV and was sentenced to 7 years of prison in