Monsanto which is located in 6 continents and 68 countries is the biggest seed company of the 21st century. Monsanto was founded in 1901, St. Louis, Missouri, United States by John Francis Queeny. Likewise, Monsanto Headquarters are currently located in St. Louis, Missouri where founded. Monsanto had about 20,600 workers in 2011. Hugh Grant, the current CEO of Monsanto, has been in this position since 2010. He has a salary of about f $1,391,356 per year excluding his additional profits. The three
Every city has a history to it. Some are very old; some are very new. Some are interesting; some are not so interesting. The city of St. Louis has an old and interesting past. Many events were held in St. Louis that many people don’t realize. Two of the biggest events in the world have been held in St. Louis, Missouri. Also, these events were held in the same year. The first event was the 1904 World’s Fair, but that same year, visitors could attend the Summer Olympic Games as well. What is a World’s
Just about everyone in St. Louis has heard about the Lemp Mansion Haunting and the tragedies that befell the family. But what very few realize is that wasn’t the beginning of the sad Lemp Family saga, it was the end. What we know today as the Lemp Mansion wasn’t built by Lemp Family; it was actually built by another prominent St. Louis Family, the Feickerts. The Feickert Family started building the future Lemp Mansion in 1868. At the time, this was located in what would become one of the most
city itself. St. Louis falls into this category because cities were once the focal point of the national agenda and presidents sought to increase the importance and services of the city. This was done in St. Louis with programs being created, unions and the attention that the World’s Fair brought to make St. Louis one of the best cities in the early 20th century. However, as suburbanization was happening the focus of the nation was to the growing middle class and suburbs. St. Louis was afurcted by
Saint Louis 1904 - Festival Hall In 1901 Cass Gilbert (1859-1934) designed the elaborate hall for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in Saint Louis in 1904. This short-lived structure deserves attention, as it was a main focus of the fair and an important benchmark in its designer's career. Born in Ohio, Cass Gilbert studied at MIT and in Europe he subsequently set up practice in St. Paul with a former classmate, James Knox Taylor. After a ten-year partnership they split and Gilbert
The play that will be analyzed in this essay is "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams. "The glass menagerie is about a family living in St. Louis, Missouri, inside a apartment complex described a "Stacked like beehive"(752). Everyone wants to come out of this struggle situation they feel trapped in. All the characters escape to different worlds after things do not go as planned or just reminisce about ways life was better in the past. These disparate "Worlds" prevent the family from fully
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an american architect largely active during the industrial revolution. He is often considered the father of skyscrapers and the father of modernism. His art style was largely influenced by the industrial revolution and by Michelangelo’s belief in the spirit of creation. He coined the term “form ever follows function” which became the term form follows function. It is the belief that the form of a building must follow the original
Football Is The True American Pastime In today’s world of big time professional sports there are the two major players and they are football represented by the National Football League (NFL) and baseball represented by Major League Baseball (MLB). Now there are other sports that the American public enjoys watching, however the argument generally boils down to which sport is the true favorite of the American people: baseball or football. In this paper I will attempt to examine both sports from
Robin Williams was a man who created his American Dream out of comedy and drama. He was an actor and comedian known for his spontaneity performances and films such as Mrs.Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting. He always seemed to warm the hearts of fans and have such a witty personality that stuck with people. Physical: He had an addiction problem in his younger years while filming the sitcom Mork and Mindy, in which he had the problems for more than two decades. Despite all of that, he still continued
Única Oconitrillo was a teacher and “she was let go when the shortage of professionals was over” (37). After being fired, Única’s life went into a downward spiral and she found herself living in the dump. The dump was a place in Río Azul where trash was disposed and people lived. The dump can be described as “an ant hill of women, men, and children of indecipherable age, rats and mice, dogs, and buzzards, and hundreds of thousands of insects” (24). When Única arrived in the dump “several founders
Often art is lost or destroyed through out the many dangers of time. Art is sometimes used to convey thoughts or ideas of a time or people. If works are lost or destroyed we may lose important information from this time or the people who created the art. This matter is shown best in the movie titled The Rape of Europa. The movie begins by giving us a brief history of a painting. The painting they refer to is the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. It was still in its creative process at the time being
Scott Joplin Treemonisha Scott Joplin, also known as The King of ragtime, was an African music composer and pianist of the twentieth century. He focused a lot on the perfection of ragtime. Although he was successful, he did struggle during his career because of the time period in which he lived in. Joplin composes many ragtime music, but what is more unique is his opera that he composed, Treemonisha in 1911. Treemonisha was the only opera in existence about the Reconstruction Era of the African-American
Outline pros and cons of metal cleats and rubber cleats by using plastic cleats it prevents less injuries because metal cleats are much harder and they will hurt a lot more than plastic or rubber cleats would hurt . a lot of baseball players use metal cleats and they don't really use plastic cleats because they are much cheaper and they fall apart much easier people found this article on the nike site .people do not agree that baseball players should have to wear plastic cleats people do not think
The St. Louis Art Museum is one of the United States most renowned art museums that is located in our very own St. Louis. It has over 30,000 pieces of exquisite art that I had the privilege to witness. While there, I mainly examined the art pieces that were modern art, since that is of what I have a good working knowledge. There is a wide range of art that I also got to witness including the sculptures and the museum itself. In the past year, they have recently installed a new sector of their establishment
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams III, in 1911, in the state of Mississippi. His parents Cornelius and Edwina Williams also were the parents of Rose and Dakin. He began writing as a way to cope with his illness. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes, a Tony Award for best play and three New York Drama Critics’ Circle awards for his works. Williams had not always had the best of life. Dealing with many aspects, his family life and social life have not always been in the driver’s seat
The Glass Menagerie takes place in the 1940s, but the play is a flashback of the narrator’s, Tom, life in the 1930s. Tom Wingfield lives with his mother, Amanda Wingfield, and old-fashioned older sister Laura Wingfield in a small depressing apartment. Tom’s father left when Tom and his sister were young children and has not returned since then. With his father gone, Tom is now the man of his house and provides the main income for his family. Not only is Tom forced to work, but he also has to deal
Would you think that St. Louis would be a magnificent place or a horrible terrifying place to be or go? There are some positive and also some negative reasons why St. Louis is a horrible place or a magnificent place. St. Louis is a violent place sometimes but it can also be a beautiful place. Even though St. Louis has a high crime rating it is still a nice city. St. Louis is a well- liked city because of all its attractions and things to do. It would be a nice place to go if you want to go on a vacation
property of the Peter Blow family. In 1804 The United States took possesion of Missouri and after many debates on whether or not it would be a slavery state, a resolution known as the Missouri Compromise came along. This made a balance in the number of free and slave states, the problem was that Missouri was located right in the middle of what was the freedom and slavery. In 1830, the Blow family moved to St. Louis and then ran into some financial problems, which made them sell Dred Scott to
two parties, representing Astor's Pacific Fur Company, set out to establish the first trading post on the Columbia River. One party sailed from New York aboard the Tonquin, under the command of Captain Jonathan Thorn. The other party set out from St. Louis on an overland expedition to the mouth of the Columbia. That party was under the leadership of Wilson Price Hunt, one of the partners of the Pacific Fur Company. Both the overland and the overseas parties expected to arrive at the Pacific Coast about
Ferguson students attend, ranked at the very bottom of all Missouri schools for performance. As relayed by Hannah-Jones (2014), the Normandy school district is “among the poorest and most segregated in Missouri” (p. 2). The August 2014 shooting death of a young African-American, Michael Brown, by a white police officer, spurred riots not only in St. Louis, but also in other cities nationwide. Black and white children in the St. Louis region remain educationally divided, and the state Board of