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American History · 321 words
- If I lived in the 1880s and had the choice of either being a miner, cowboy, or farmer. I think the choice is easy to be a farmer, cowboys make little money for their hard, hard, hard work. If I recall they make $25 - 40 dollars a month. As a farmer, I would make more money growing and selling...
American History · 1,168 words
- Directions: Complete the following questions using resources from the links listed below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUILIqRNdo&t=52s (The Presidents series video)
http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy (History.com)
To begin this assignment, watch the Presidents series...
American History · 323 words
- After the Civil War the United States was a new nation, because It was now free. Millions of enslaved African Americans had won their freedom. But that did not stop the white people from being racist and seeing them as human beings. Their was many brutal incidents that happened after the Civil War....
American History · 721 words
- Skeet
Starting in about 1420, small Portuguese ships known as caravels zipped along the African coast, carrying spices, gold, slaves and other goods from Asia and Africa to Europe
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with...
American History · 178 words
- There are many reasons why pilgrims came to the British American colonies. Mainly because of freedom, economic gain, enslavement, and avoiding Debtors prison. Settlement primary took place around the 16 hundred. The Northern colonies were frequently settled by people escaping religious persecution...
American History · 225 words
- SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR
Some short-term effects took place once the Civil War was resolved. The union solidified under President Lincoln's rule, the North victory led to the development of the Emancipation Proclamation, created by Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves...
American History · 1,248 words
- Outline
I The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824)
A On to Canada over Land and Lakes
a On the eve of the war of 1812, the regular army was ill-trained, ill-disciplined, and widely scattered
b The militia was even more poorly trained
c The offensive strategy...
American History · 256 words
- was a movement when we found problems in society caused by immigration, urbanization, and industrialization and we tried to solve them. caused many problems and answers to problems. Womens suffrage was a solved problem, while child labor was a caused problem.
Starting...
American History · 301 words
- Mid-Term Review
Dawes Act:
Forced Native Americans to conform as Americans
They would only be considered a citizens if they weren't part of a tribe
It's forcing them to assimilate.
They were forced to own land
Had to follow all American laws
William Jennings Bryan and Bimetallism
Nominated...
American History · 303 words
- The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States and ended in the annihilation of the cities and people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended World War II. The question is, was this the right...
American History · 259 words
- The most important leader in my opinion is The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through World War II until his death in April 1945, just a few months before the war ended. Together with Winston Churchill and Roosevelt played a decisive role in holding together the Allied that ultimately...
American History · 603 words
- How much change was there in opportunities for women in the USA in the years 1919-1941?
Sources:
* Class Powerpoint
* Ben Walsh GCSE Modern World History Text Book
* http://www.slideshare.net/KateSimon/women-in-the-1920s-10247493
*...
American History · 264 words
- Nick Bradley
U.S History
April 25, 2014
Mr. Depew
Preston Brooks beat Charles so mercilessly because Brooks thought Sumner went way too far. Southerners in the nineteenth century were raised to live by an unwritten code of honor. Defending the reputation of one's family was at the...
American History · 791 words
- LA IMPORTANCIA DEL DISCURSO TRANSMITIDO POR LA MADRE EN LA VIDA ANIMICA DEL SUJETO
Es acerca de una profesora de piano llamada Erika Kohut quien tiene 40 a?os, vive con su madre y su padre muere. La madre es controladora y no deja que su hija compre ropa por si sola y cuando erika hace algo con lo...
American History · 342 words
- Ellis Lopez
4/8/14
Chapter 28 Section 2
1. The theme of the early days of LBJ's presidency was summarized by his quote saying 'Let us continue' referring to the work JFK had started and didn't finish.
2. The reaction of Congress towards Johnson's ideas were widely accepted and...
American History · 344 words
- Goldsteins Pantheon of American Greatness
Try to imagine a world without Disney movies, Disneyland and most importantly . How would our childhood be like? Walter Elias Disney also known as was born on December 5[th], in 1901 was the founder of the famous ...
American History · 162 words
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What was happening in this event: They were placing taxes on lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea, and provided legal ways to help collect taxes. In addition the Writs of Assistance which allowed officials the right to search anywhere for suspected smuggled good.
The...
American History · 225 words
- The origins of the Great Society reflects that of the New Deal in various ways. One common origin of these two programs is their basis in Progressive ideas. Although the period after World War I was very conservative, many Progressive reforms were brought to the table and, through the New Deal,...
American History · 419 words
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The forced migration of African slave's is a huge part of history. My family was forced. It is interesting that the suffering of the Sudanese people exist today. At least 70,000 people have died in Darfur during the Darfur conflict. My ancestors are from this region...
American History · 286 words
- THE GETTYSBERG ADDRESS
His greatest contribution was the Gettysburg address. It is one of the most famous and most quoted speeches in United States history. In only about two minutes, he gave his speech and most of the people there didn't even notice he had spoken, but nobody knew that those...
American History · 690 words
- Period: 5
2/20/14
Chapter 12 Section 4
One American's Story
-Nicholas Biddle was it will be well educated, elite person from a powerful Philadelphia family.
-He was the president of the second national Bank of the United States and Jackson believed that it was a monster corruption. Jackson...
American History · 516 words
- provided social justice for Americans in many different ways. Social justice is a society based on the principles of equality and solidarity, and that's exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with his New Deal for America. America was in troubled times when FDR came into office, so...
American History · 922 words
- Valley Forge: A Tragedy
Facts to know:
' General Washington and his men seek shelter at Valley Forge after Battle of White Marsh
' Battle of White Marsh, last major battle of 1777
' Washington wanted to find permanent winter encampment
' He chose Valley Forge, 22 miles North West of...
American History · 391 words
- .
During the colonial period of early America, Virginia was the first to
introduce a representative assembly. This first glimpse of democracy
influenced the shape of America today. It eventually caused the colonies
to drift away from monarchial England, and to establish a democratic
government....
American History · 329 words
- The Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after several[3] Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America . The states that remained were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had...
American History · 435 words
- Throughout the history of the world humans have been intrigued by a condition referred to as immortality. Immortality is the state in which one defies death, thus conquering the realm of being a mortal. Scientists have searched for ways to create this phenomenon. With there over thought out and...
American History · 949 words
- In the play ' ' by Wakako Yamauchi two of the main
characters are in engaged in a dialogue which is common for a mother and a daughter to
have. In act two, scene four, Chizuko and Aki seem to express frustration to each other
after Aki coming home late after a music lesson with Kaoru.
Chizuko...
American History · 378 words
- There were many causes to the American Revolution. The Indian French war effects were the main cause of the decline of England influence toward the colonists and a start for independence. Unpopular regulations played key factors from the stamp and townshead acts causing dramatic affects. The next...
American History · 1,155 words
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become." - W.H. Auden. This quote best explains the complex art of music. Music is an elaborate art form that will always remain ever changing. Music developed drastically from it's beginning in the...
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- After the first world war the U.S. government put prohibition into effect. It was the 18th amendment of the constitution. It made selling or buying alcohol illegal. Although the idea was to reduce crime and violence in the cities it ended up causing it. Many gangs became involved in the illegal...
American History · 233 words
- Alyssa Peters
Mr. Giltzow
Acc. US History
DBQ Introductory Paragraph
11/6/12
The French and Indian War
One might think that the First World War was centered in Europe and lasted from 28[th] of July, 1914 to the 11[th] of November, 1918, but they would be wrong. The real First World War was...
American History · 314 words
- The dominating feature od Chinese life is a conservatism that has followed
certain habits and traditions for 40 centuries. Altthough there was some
culture in China five thousand years ago, we shall begin our study with the
Chou Dynasty (1125-255 B.C.), during which time China reached its...
American History · 419 words
- The compromise proposed by Henry Clay is a complete and utter failure in that it does not meet the needs of anyone. A good compromise between two parties should satisfy the needs of both parties adequately and leave neither side feeling cheated. This compromise between the North and the South...
American History · 1,040 words
- Chapter 24: The early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851
1. Introduction
a. The steamship
b. Use of steam power to bombard China
c. The dramatic innovations of the industrial revolution were linked
d. The effects of the industrial revolution were uneven
2. Causes of the industrial...
American History · 461 words
- Candeau, French for gift is not exactly what one thinks about when hearing the word. Candeau is a free-standing sculpture composed of an ordinary, manufactured iron made from black cast iron, the kind that could have been purchased in any store selling housewares in the early part of this century....
American History · 588 words
- Every country has one or more folk dances. Each one is performed differently than the other, although they might have originated from similar backgrounds. One dance that particularly captures my attention is the Capoeira. The Capoeira is a Brazilian folk dance that started out as a fierce form of...
American History · 349 words
- is a document that was the first centralized constitution of what was the early part of America. The articles were drafted on June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Second Continental Congress...
American History · 851 words
- The Matrix has been doing remarkably well in sales since its release in the cinema last summer and its recent video releases. This is largely due to stylish advertising techniques and word of mouth. The Matrix has been approved by critics who enjoy the film and also the ones who dislike the theme....
American History · 750 words
- The Timken Museum of Art has its roots in the coincidental San Diego Relationship between two sisters, the Misses Anne R. and Amy Putnam, members of the Timken family of the Timken roller bearing treasure, and a local attorney, Walter Ames. The affluent Putnam sisters arrived in San Diego in the...
American History · 485 words
- Ian Sanders
Mr. Khuen
EH-35
11/26/11
* George Washington: Washington was a 22-year-old soldier in the French and Indian war, on the side of the English. He was a surveyor and a great mathematician and he surveyed many lands in Virginia. Washington was sent on many missions including, warning the...
American History · 546 words
- The Man Who Shot ' is both optimistic and pessimistic. It is unsatisfactory to call the film plain optimistic, which it was in the middle of the movie, as the beginning but more so the end was pessimistic. The middle of the film was optimistic because it showed the joyous personalities of the...
American History · 1,109 words
- Ensayo Historia
?Hasta qu? punto la crisis del 1930 produjo una dependencia industrial en el pa's?
RESUMEN:
* Dentro del ?mbito econ?mico exist?a en Argentina el Modelo Agro-exportador (MAE), el cual depend?a de exportaciones y capital extranjero. Eran 'stas las que generaban los principales...
American History · 1,778 words
- was produced by the Elna M. Smith Foundation and performed in Eureka Springs, Arkansas in September of 1998. The beautiful scenery of the Ozark Mountains was the setting for this outdoor production.
The play opens with an introduction of Jesus by scripture. "In the beginning was the word, and...
American History · 1,188 words
- "We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth' it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood'we bid farewell to it and all...
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- The American Revolution contributed to the way we live by helping us develop a world with sense. Today we are up to date with things and really do not have to rely on trade over seas. We today can grow our own crops, produce clothes, and even afford to go shopping and the mall and grocery store. I...
American History · 1,069 words
- (KKK) is one of America's oldest and most feared groups.
Driven by the dream of a world with only one master race, the KKK often
uses violence and moves above the law to promote their cause. They didn't
start of violent, or to promote white supremacy. They have been in the
shadows for over 130...
American History · 1,509 words
- Politics are considered by many to be corrupt. Many believe this
out of cynicism but other more trusting observers will only believe this if
they have proof. Many of these trusting observers finally received the
proof they needed to be convinced that politics are corrupt. On June 17,
1972 during...
American History · 618 words
- INFLUENTIAL Americans Of History
In this booklet, you will find information on some of the most influential Americans in history. They persevered through many challenges in life. They overcame great obstacles in life
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was born July 30, 1863. He was the oldest of William...
American History · 1,170 words
- It was during the 19th century that differences on the issue of slavery built to it's peak level in United States history. The people in the northern states who were opposed to slavery had a valid argument in that slavery went against the American sentiment that all men are created equal. There...
American History · 862 words
- During the 1930's, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and
free enterprise system as the US fell into the worst depression in history. The
economic depression that beset the United States and other countries was unique
in its severity and its consequences. At the depth of the...
American History · 150 words
- My Cahuilla Book
The Cahuilla Indians have inhabited the area from Borrego to Riverside for more than 2000 years, an area of about 2,400 square miles.
They are generally referred to as Mountain, Desert and Pass Cahuillas. There are 10 reservations in Southern Ca. Those who settled in what is now...
American History · 3,058 words
- The Movie Industry is one of the most exciting and informative business in the world, a business where the revenue of a single feature film can approach or exceed $1 billion. In 1994, U.S. consumers spent over $6 billion on movie tickets and another $34 billion on cable TV and video purchases and...
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- The movie, , was an excellent example of the severe discrimination many people with Aids are exposed to. In this instance the main character, Andy ,was also gay. Unfortunately, in our society, he was faced with a double whammy. The gay iss is controversial enough, but to compound that in the work...
American History · 293 words
- [A 3] was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government...
American History · 1,243 words
- The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and
triumphant journey. The United States set out on the development because
of fear-fear that the Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which
would then use it against the U.S. In fact, the Germans had a head start
because the underlying...
American History · 473 words
- Jamestown was considered by many scholars as the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607 by a group of settlers led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company. In looking at the first fifty years of the colony's existence,...
American History · 228 words
- John F. Kennedy was born into a rich, politically connected Boston family of Irish-Catholics. He and his eight siblings enjoyed a privileged childhood of elite private schools, sailboats, servants, and summer homes. During his childhood and youth, "Jack" Kennedy suffered frequent serious illnesses....
American History · 5,814 words
- (Part 1 - The first Ricky White News Story)
NOV. 22, 1963: ANOTHER STORY BLURS THE FACTS
Author: Andrew Likakis
In another bizarre twist to a mystery that has haunted Americans for
more than a quarter century, the son of a former Dallas police officer
plans to tell the world that his father...
American History · 288 words
- The King of England and Parliament were the direct causes of the
American Revolution, because of their demands on colonists and harsh reactions
after the colonists failure to meet their ridiculous expectations. These demands
were far greater than any loyal American was able to provide.
The...
American History · 142 words
- * were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between old and new AND in what ways was the tension manifested?
The 1920s have long been remembered as the "Roaring Twenties," an era...
American History · 1,643 words
- During the time period including the close of the nineteenth century, with the climax of the industrial revolution, the United States had become an industrialized and more sophisticated nation. The United States now had the resources, technology, and political organization to hold the status of a...
American History · 553 words
- The film was written by Robert Bolt and was produced in 1986. Fernando Ghia produced it. The movie was about a man who was trying to start a mission in the new world when he meets a former mercenary who is willing to renounce his former ways and become a priest. The Spanish try to take the land...
American History · 143 words
- Morgan Greene
3/19/12
Period 7
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were one of the most horrific things that happened in World War II. They killed between one hundred-fifty thousand and two hundred-forty-six people. Many think that President Truman was justified and not justified in...
American History · 694 words
- During the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have excited fans with the greatest home run race in the history of the game. By mid-September, both players surpassed Roger Maris's single season record of sixty-one homers, set back in 1961. Sosa and McGwire are both great players....
American History · 495 words
- Gold is a precious metal that people sometimes will go crazy over.
When there is a case in which there is a great amount of gold even the most
responsible people might just leave their homes, and business.They will
run and crawl just to put their fingertips in the all mighty rock.
In 1839...
American History · 889 words
- The play opens with a little word play between Flavius, Marullus, and a few workers. The workers are on their way to see who has recently returned from his victorious battle against Pompey. The reader immediately sees the dislike the tribunes have towards Caesar. However, the commoners seem to...
American History · 949 words
- As the fourteenth century ushered out the Middle
Ages in Italy, a new period of cultural flowering began,
known as the Renaissance. This period in history was
famous for its revival of classical themes and the merging
of these themes with the Catholic Church. These themes of
humanism,...
American History · 369 words
- I believe that the Radical Republican's Reconstruction was unsuccessful. First of all, under the Reconstruction, the South was divided into 5 military territories, which was placed under a general to oversee the new constitutions. Since the South was occupied by the military, the unionists, the...
American History · 3,873 words
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The Women's Rights Movement was and continues to be one of the most
incredible and inspirational series of events to occur in United States
history. One of the more credible aspects of these events happens to be
the bold, intelligent pioneers that paved the...
American History · 373 words
- The cultures of Native American tribes varied greatly from geographical
region to region. The tribes in the Pacific Northwest had plenty of time to be
involved in intricate forms of art. Great Plains tribes believed in magic
buffalos and were nomadic. Easten Woodlands tribes made some pottery....
American History · 469 words
- To see a scorned, beaten, and crucified man, lying dead in the arms of his mother is an image, which can inspire overwhelming emotions within the heart of an observer. Yet, for the longest time I've had such difficulty looking at Michelangelo's art in this way. To me, art has never been about...
American History · 582 words
- A speech such as the one Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to the 200,000 people in Washington D.C., was designed to serve a specific purpose. He wrote the speech to deliver his ideas on a different society in which all races of people can live together in harmony. All of these people were...
American History · 2,128 words
- In assessment of the origins and nature of pantomime in ancient Rome, one will clearly see that the latter two factors are wide and varied. This is due to the collaborative nature of the art as a whole. With a close examination of archaeological, textual and representational evidence one will gain...
American History · 977 words
- Among the influential composers of baroque music, there have been few who have contributed so much in talent, creativity, and style as Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a German organist and composer of the baroque era. Bach was born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia and died July 28,1750. ...
American History · 751 words
- Michelangelo Buonarroti was a natural born artist. As an artist he was capable of different mediums of expressing his artistic talent. However he much preferred sculpting out of them all, it made him most satisfied. When Pope Julius II experienced Michelangelo's painting he insisted that...
American History · 2,836 words
- During the late 1800's, two great revolutions occurred, the American
Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened
at the same time, but had a great number differences and very little
similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent
and...
American History · 2,612 words
- Governor Berkeley, the man in charge of running Virginia in the
representation of the interests of the Virginia Company had total control
of this colony since he was there and the Virginia company was in England.
Due to Having this power for more than thirty years was able to dominate
all of the...
American History · 5,081 words
- AP Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman
Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition):
Ch 29-37
Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
Progressivism:
The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to
- use...
American History · 597 words
- "So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition"(King). This statement used by King is a perfect example of a powerful speaker. King's opening statement in I Have A Dream is meant to open the eyes of injustice through out America at that time. To do so in a powerful way King must...
American History · 1,018 words
- During the late seventeen hundreds, many violent events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During the Seven Years' War England was not only...
American History · 337 words
- On paper the North was far stronger than the South. It had two and a
half times as many people, and it possessed far more ships, miles of
railroad, and manufacturing enterprises. Southerners, however, had the
advantage of fighting on home ground with better military leadership. But
Union...
American History · 2,649 words
- Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, LeRoi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter...
American History · 258 words
- John Locke and Thomas Hobbes were both social contract theorists, and both natural law theorists but there the resemblance ends. All other natural law theorists assumed that man was by nature a social animal. Hobbes assumed otherwise, thus his conclusions are outstandingly different from those of...
American History · 531 words
- The film Amadeus, directed by Milos Forman, written by Peter Schaffer, and under the musical direction of Neville Marriner, stars F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri, Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart.
Amadeus begins as two servants find Salieri...
American History · 3,210 words
- It was May 25th 1978, Terry Marker was on his usual patrol on campus at
the University of Illinois. This earmark package, addressed to an engineering
professor at Rensselaer from a material science professor at Northwestern, was
found in a parking lot. What seemed like an insignificant misplaced...
American History · 1,204 words
- Slavery played an important role in the development of the American
colonies. It was introduced to the colonies in 1619, and spanned until the
Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The trading of slaves in America in the
seventeenth century was a large industry. Slaves were captured from their...
American History · 712 words
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the great men produced during a time when the color of a man skin dictated his status in society. Kings firm beliefs that Birmingham was the most segregated city in America drew his attention and due to his involvement in the demonstration at Birmingham he was...
American History · 792 words
- On Tuesday, the 20th of April, 1999, two students of Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colorado moved through the hallways and classrooms of
their school shooting other teachers and students at random. The two high
school-seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students, one
teacher and...
American History · 1,338 words
- Thesis
Life in the 1900's was depressing and was an era filled with extremely hard and
strenous work that didn't offer any future for the average canadian in doing
better. If you were an average wage earner you would be virtually stuck in the
same job for the rest of your life, while rich...
American History · 1,786 words
- The Self-Portraits of Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
It is no wonder that Picasso, with his revolutionary style of painting, would be attracted to Gertrude Stein's crowded Rue de Fleurus apartment on Saturday evenings for intellectual discussions on art and literature. From the barefoot dances...
American History · 501 words
- is very unique and interesting. It is based on life all around them, nature.
In Hsuan-ho hua pu classifies paintings in ten groups:
'h Taoist and Buddhist (tao shih)
'h Human affairs (jen wu)
'h Places and other buildings (kung shih)
'h Foreign tribes (fan tsu)
'h Dragons and fishes (lung yu)
'h...
American History · 475 words
- The Colony of Roanoke was one of the first English colonies to be established; but was not a successful one. Most likely due to the lack of needed resource, location of the colony, or Indian inhabitants. was attempted several times. The time period between John White's return to the...
American History · 381 words
- It seems Australia's film success is not determined by its quality but by its box office returns. The national identity of Australia has become nothing but a market strategy. The future of the Australian film industry seems doubtful, as it cannot command the crowds necessary to sustain high enough...
American History · 1,103 words
- Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920's and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were...
American History · 843 words
- ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR
The American Stance
* US emerged as from WW2 as the most powerful nation and it sought to use it power to achieve a world order that could sustain American aims
* American policymakers followed Woodrow Wilsons footsteps,
+ hoped to spread the values -- liberty,...
American History · 2,572 words
- was the impetus for the change in United States
foreign policy, from isolationist to internationalists; thus we were drawn
into two wars of containment and into world affairs.
led to a major change in U.S. foreign policy from its inception - aid to
Turkey and Greece - to its indirect influence in...
American History · 1,254 words
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus - Salvador Dali
The painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus was created in 1937 by oil on canvas by Salvador Dali. This painting uses a lot of images to say what it means, for example, a person, a hand, water, a starving dog, a chess board, a canyon or cliff, and people. This...
American History · 1,127 words
- During both and civil war reconstruction time periods,
there were many changes going on in the Union.' The Emancipation Proclamation,
as well as legislation such as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, was causing a new awakening of democracy; while the renouncing of
secession by...
American History · 538 words
- The , are they a group employed by the government to cover up knowledge of extra terrestrials, aliens themselves, or merely a modern urban legend started by the mentally unstable. We are unable to answer this, but we will do our best to give you the proper information to have your own opinion.
The...
American History · 162 words
- Elbert 'Big Man' Howard, Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale, Reggie Forte, Little Bobby Hutton. All of these men were the original members of one of most powerful movements for social change since the Revolution of 1776 and The Civil War, called The Black Panther Party, but what I asked...
American History · 467 words
- On a damp November afternoon in 1863, Abraham Lincoln -then president of the United States of three years- gave a speech to dedicate a battlefield of the Civil Wars as a memorial for the soldiers killed there in July of 1863. It was basic, routine US President stuff. Little did anyone attending...
American History · 2,286 words
- The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South...
American History · 113 words
- Medgar Evers was a World War Two veteran and a very important martyr in the Civil Rights movement. He was the first field secretary and a chairman of the NAACP in Mississippi. Medgar traveled around the state to recruit members, organize voter-registration and boycotts. Just hours after President...
American History · 723 words
- An architect designs and sometimes supervises the construction of buildings. Anything from tunnels that run far beneath the ground, to skyscrapers that tower above it, architects have always had a hand in building these great structures. Yes, you too can be an architect! But how, you ask? Just...
American History · 1,569 words
- was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000
places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More
than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it.
It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the...
American History · 1,330 words
- On August 6th, 1945, 70, 000 lives were ended in a matter of seconds. The United States had dropped a bomb on Hiroshima. Looking back on Truman's decision. Today, it is not thought of as such a good idea. It introduced a weapon of mass destruction that could eventually be used against us, it...
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- During the Salem witch trials, many violations of today's Universal
Declaration of Human Rights occurred. Inclusively, some are still being
done today. Upon having a victim under an acusation, many articles were not
respected. This is shown in the manner in which past time juries treated
the...
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- I. The Great American Desert
a. Used to describe the Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains.
i. The term desert describes treeless and uninhabited land, not necessarily arid.
II. Frontier
a. A term referring to areas near or beyond a border.
i. In these terms, the American Frontier, land gained...
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- The guitar is a fretted, stringed instrument, and is a member of the lute family. It originated in Persia and reached Spain during the twelth-century, where it's versatility as both a solo and accompanying instrument were established. The theory of the guitar was discovered in the early...
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- Most of the New England towns were self sufficient. Early towns
were built along a narrow road. Each family had a house with a small
garden on the road.
A meeting house stood in the center of the town. The meeting house
was used for worship. They were also, used for town meetings. During...
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- Chancellorsville is considered to be General Robert E. Lee's
greatest victory; his cunning military tactics brought a loss to the North,
defeating General Joseph Hooker's army which was almost twice the size of
his. Dividing his army up several times, he drove the Federal army from the
battlefield...
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- From 1763, Americans had only to be convinced that an arbitrary ruler-
whether Parliament or King-was violating their inherent rights, to feel
that rebellion was justified. This conviction was bred in them by the
series of events that occurred between 1763 and 1776. The language used to
protest the...
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- The began with a bang,
literally. This ensemble has been around for twenty-three
years and it is considered to be 'the raising standard' in
contemporary chamber music. On Thursday afternoon, I saw
the ensemble perform three pieces: Trio, Nutturno, and
Marxville Songbook. These three possess...
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- The Post Revolutionary Period from 1776 to the 1830's in American history, was an important time in the development of the political ideas of the new United States of America. It was a time when great leaders rose to the occasion of establishing a framework for government in America. Underneath,...
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- Lockie Leonard and the film Lex and Rory promote the same issues as each other, especially concerning male/female relationships. The issues are showed differently. The woman is the one who is pressured into having a sexual relationship. In this case it is the male who is pressured into having a...
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- For thousands of years before the Europeans arrived in Southeastern North America, about 400,000 of the ancestors of built towns and villages across the area. After 1510, when Spaniards began to explore and settle in their territory, disease killed many of , separated many of the towns, and...
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- When we think of history we don't often think of art. We don't realize how the history of art can help us learn more about the people, the cultures, and the belief systems of those who lived hundreds and thousands of years before us. Art has developed, influenced, and contributed starting from...
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- Conditions of the Slaves As They Were Brought to America and Why Slavery
Discuss the conditions under which slaves were brought to America. Why
does this institution thrive more in the south than in the other colonies?
Slavery existed in all of the English colonies in America. For
land owners,...
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- The musical, "Kiss of the Spider Woman", was very enjoyable to see. The characters in the musical were played very well. The main characters in the musical were Molina and Valentin. These characters went together rather humerously and made the musical worth seeing. Even though it was very well...
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- was a rock music festival that took place near , New York in a town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The original plan for was an outdoor rock festival, "three days of peace and music" in the Catskill village of . The festival was expected to...
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- "Roosevelt was indeed a liberal because he created numerous government agencies to alleviate the problems of the Depression. Hoover was indeed a conservative because he initiated no new policies that would increase government's role in alleviating the people's suffering." (These 2 sentences are...
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- In the movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre, two down and out American ex-patriots in Tampico, Mexico, team up with an old prospector to look for gold. Throughout the movie, these three men are faced with various challenges. They must fight off bandits, try to survive in the wilderness and learn to...
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- Andy Warhol is the epitome of pop art. Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950's. It was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. ...
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- One of the techniques used most often by theatre high school teachers is role-playing. The reasons that this technique is often used are numerous. When students read a text silently some of the nuance contained in the meaning can be lost. This is particularly true when dealing with a play, or...
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- The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756, the war erupted into the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years' War and thus came to be regarded as the North American theater of that war. In...
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- Jazz Open Listening Report "Don't worry, be happy" Don't worry, be happy was by Played by Bobby Mcferrin in the seventies . The in this piece the texture changes a lot as the work progresses. Every time the music would take a slower beat the texture would become thicker and the dynamic or the...
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- What would you guess were the main causes of the Civil War?
-I would think the main causes of the civil war had to be about money, power, how nationalism had to change to sectionalism, and economic and social differences.
What arguments of the abolitionists do you find convincing?
- I actually...
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- One economic historian describes the situation in South Carolina in this way: "Rice and indigo transformed the Carolina Low Country in much the same way that sugar had led to basic changes in the West Indies. White workers would not willingly endure the hard and disagreeable labor involved in the...
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- I have always enjoyed finding information about the Civil War, especially the Confederacy. To go along with that, I enjoy books about the Navy and military. I found my opportunity for a good and fun paper by combining these two into one subject. This subject is the Naval innovations, and events...
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- As members of the Futurist of America Association, we have been assigned
to look specifically at the cause of the American Civil #War. There are five
aspects that could of led to the Civil War and they are Westward Movement,
Social Change, Froeign Policy Development, Government/Politics...
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- The film Gummo is intended to be a symbolic movie in which fantasy and reality intertwine. Initially, the film opens in a small town in Ohio after a tornado has swept through and destroyed it. Economically the small region is wrecked. Like the buildings around them, the social fabric that is...
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- The enormous amount of unsecured consumer debt created by this speculation left the stock market essentially off-balance. Many investors, caught up in the race to make a killing, invested their life savings, mortgaged their homes, and cashed in safer investments such as treasury bonds and bank...
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- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War; testing whether this
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long...
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- Renaissance Martyr or Tragic Hero
died a death that few could bear to imagine, much less experience. After knowing for many years when exactly he would die, he reached the stroke of the hour of his destiny in a cowardly, horrid demeanor. Finally, when the devils appeared at the stroke of...
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- Since the foundation of the American Federation of Labor(AFL) in 1886, most
unions in the United States have displayed a pragmatic out look, largely
compatible with that of business. The general purpose of unions has been
to protect and advance the well being of workers, while that of business
has...
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- The period of time between the Spanish-American War and World War I is known as the Progressive Era. It was a period marked by idealism, reform, and significant economic growth. Progressivism was a movement designed to correct the abuses which reformers felt had crept into American society and...
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- Hume's ultimate goal in his philosophic endeavors was to undermine abstruse Philosophy. By focusing on the aspect of reason, Hume shows there are limitations to philosophy. Since he did not know the limits, he proposed to use reason to the best of his ability, but when he came to a boundary, that...
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- Neither a book nor a work, but an energy
Theater is the most remarkable art of life. It is a collaborate art combining different people into one solid group in which they work together harmoniously in order to portray a certain idea, concept, or piece of art. Theater deals with various forms of...
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- In the year 1958 the hunt for gold was strong and people didn't realize how hard it was to pan for gold. The first sign of gold was in the Ralson Creek area with around one hundred men panning for gold. Many of these miners only made twenty-five cents a day. Most of these people didn't strike it...
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- Name of Piece: Rain at Auvers
From the piece of artwork 'Rain at the Auvers'. I can see roofs of houses that are tucked into a valley, trees hiding the town, black birds, clouds upon the horizon, hills, vegetation, a dark stormy sky and rain.
The artistic style is brush stroke?
Aesthetic is the...
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- Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
The arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern
civilizations developed in the area (now Iraq) between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th
century BC. Their art reflects both their love and fear of
natural forces, as well as their...
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- The Mexican War was a war that lasted from 1846 to 1848. The two major issues behind the war were the inability of the Mexican government to establish political and economic control over its vast northern frontier, including the Mexican state of Tejas y Coahuila, and the westward movement and...
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- The seasonal songs popular in western music, especially in conjunction with the Christmas season, known as carols, have a rich and complex history full of tradition and controversy in the realms of both sacred and secular music.
The concept of singing carols to celebrate holidays developed during...
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- In today's business world, information about the customer is a necessity for a businesses trying to maximize its profits. A new, and important, tool in gaining this knowledge is . is a set of automated procedures used to find previously unknown patterns and relationships in data. These patterns...
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- In Oakland California in October 1966 Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton they started the Black Panther for self-defense. were initially formed to protect local communities from police brutality and racism. This group also ran against medical clinics and provided free food to school...
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- The use of for procedures such as collecting fingerprint evidence is also gaining wide acceptance. operate much like traditional cameras except that instead of images being transferred to film, they are stored on the camera's hard drive. Up to 48 images can be stored and then downloaded from the...
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- There are many different types of musicians. Mainly, musicians are people who play musical instruments for the enjoyment of others. In addition to playing music, many of them write their own. Some musicians sing or conduct groups. They can also play alone or as part of a group. Musicians often...
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- The nineteenth century was an era of great technological change that extremely changed the scope of tactics and strategy, the alteration was seen in what has been called "the first total war, the U.S. Civil." The consistent aid of war industry became crucial. The new tactical firepower created...
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- The 1920s may have begun on a note favoring the consumption of wine, but it also opened on a threat to liberty and capital punishment for political syndicalism. In the spring of 1920, a typesetter and anarchist named Andrea Salsedo was arrested in New York City and held without counsel for eight...
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- Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding is a novel that is identical to a soap opera. This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. He writes about a man and woman's love for one another and that nothing can stand in their way. Class separates them and they will not let that stop them. ...
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- Charles Marlow and Captain Willard have many characteristics that would make them alike and different. Marlow, from the novel Heart of Darkness, was a man who was on a mission through Cambodia to find Kurtz. Captain Willard, from the movie 'Apocalypse Now', was a man on a mission to exterminate a...
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- Running Head: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Critical Analysis of Silence of the Lambs
Introduction to Psychology
Critical Analysis of Silence of the Lambs
In the book 'Silence of the Lambs' (Harris, 1988) the whole plot is based around three main characters. Clarice Starling is a...
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- The is a 29,670 square mile region that makes up present day southern Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico. The territory was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden. As the railroad age progressed, business-oriented Southerners saw that a railroad...
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- In 1860, arguably the world's greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North (Union) and South (Confederate). The war lasted five years and by 1865 the Confederate forced were truly beaten. Out of this horrendous war though, where some 600,000 men died...
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- Jane Addams was primarily the founder of the Hull House settlement home in the West Side slums of Chicago. She was a reformist and feminist that sought to better the country. Jane Addams was a woman who obtained a college education and wanted to dedicate her life to community service and social...
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- I know you're wondering, what railroad? Well the simple fact is that everybody has heard of the , but not everyone knows just what it was. Firstly, it wasn't underground, and it wasn't even a railroad. The term "" actually comes from a runaway slave, who while being chased swam across a creek and...
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- Movies have evolved a great deal since the days when a couple fighting scenes and a small love story satisfied audiences. Today movie plots are much more complicated and have much more action, thanks to modern day technologies. Although these new technologies seem to make movies increasingly...
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- Although some historians feel that the Civil War was a result of
political blunders and that the issue of slavery did not cause the conflict,
they ignore the two main causes. The expansion of slavery, and its entrance
into the political scene.
The North didn't care about slavery as long as it...
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- "I don't give a fuck what you know or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's so amusing for me to torture a cop. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you aint gonna get." Mr. Blonde in , 1992
This guy was the most twisted and sickly...
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- Romanticism began in the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century. It was limited to Europe and America although different compatriots donated to its birth and popularity. Romanticism as a movement declined in the late 19th century and early 20th century with the growing...
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- The reconstruction period was a time of recovery for the country as a whole. To heal the deep wounds of the civil war. The loss of cities, towns, homes, and family members. Whole cities were burned level, and widows were left scattered all over the country with a small pile of smoking rubble left...
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- Before the portrayal of the human body can be critiqued, you must understand the artist's culture. As man evolved over centuries, his views of the body also transformed. Our tour definitely showed the drastic changes in different cultures' art. Each culture and era presents very distinct...
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- All through time, the history of man has been decided by the evolution of technology. Beginning when early man discovered fire to the creation of the Internet, advances in technology has made the lives of men better for all. These advances in technology have made our nation what it is. Advances...
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- Throughout time, there have been many conflicts in opinion regarding how the country was going to be run. They were both members of Washington's cabinet, and the two had different opinions on almost everything. At the core of their arguments was what was best for the country in the future. This...
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- The was the first of the three galleries attended. At the time, the museum had a touring 'Rock and Roll' exhibit, which had its focus on the influence of the Rock 'and-Roll culture on art. The pieces were arranged in a chronological order and started with the Pop Art of the early 1960's. ...
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- A primary cause of was the rise of Tecumseh, believed to be backed by the British, caused an urgency for the Americans to expel the British from Canada. The War Hawks, the congress at the time of Madison's presidency, were pushing for the invasion of Canada, and an attack upon the savages who had...
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- What is hype? Hype is defined as promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind. It is used to lure the consumer to a certain product or an event of some kind. The competition for the consumer's attention is intense and even desperate at times. Throughout the 1970's, there was a vast...
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- A constitution is the legal structure of our political system, establishing
governmental bodies , determining how their members are selected , and
prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions .
The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer
of 1787 to write ...
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- Music has been with us for a very long while. In fact, part of being human is an appreciation of the finer arts. However, music's role has remained anything but constant throughout history. Music has gone from a mathematical science to a synthesis of melody and harmony. Many wonderful pieces have...
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- One of the most devastating events in American history was the
Salem Witchcraft Trials. Due to a few hysterical girls' accusations and
the fear of a village, twenty people were executed and hundreds were put in
jail. Now the question still asked today is "Were the people accused
really witches...
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- The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American
politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of
its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went
by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably.
Crops such as...
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- The definition of Manifest Destiny reads as: "The belief in the 1840's
in the inevitable territorial expansion of the United States, especially as
advocated by southern slaveholders who wished to extend slavery into new
territories." This explanation was transcribed from the World...
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- Getting There
On the way to Gettysburg was tough. It was a long hard and tough journey
getting there because there was no other way to get there for the army besides
walking. It was so hard that some people died, and some got sick. The trip there
was very long. Only about half all the people going...
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- Alvin Ailey's Revelations and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake are two different styles of dance from very different points in history. Revelations is a contemporary dance and Swan Lake is a classical dance. Each dance has certain points that have made it critically acclaimed. They both incorporate...
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- My country tiss of thee, sweat land of liberty....' These words
begin a patriotic song taught to many Americans at an early age. They are
also a good beginning for this essay. To define my country in its entirety
would take a life time, which would be an impossibility in this essay. But
it is...
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- By the end of the Victorian period hardly a people remained on the
face of the earth whose social structure, culture, and basic way of
life had not been more or less violently disrupted.'
-Cell, 'Imperial Conscience'
When the first explorers reported that they had reached the Pacific coast,...
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- Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures, which
are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time
and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion.
Each image of a moving object is...
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- Of Androids and Fossils: (Re)Producing Sexual Identity in
With the shift from industrial to postindustrial capitalism, our culture has become increasingly concerned with the problem of how to represent subjects in a technologized world. Traditionally, dominant conceptions of the subject have...
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- The war between Mexico and America has been labeled 'an unprovoked and unjustifiable war of aggression and territorial aggrandizement.' The actions of the United States toward Mexico were of no such consequence. They were deliberately aimed at national security, and aiding Texas in its...
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- Like many Indian arts, Indian dance also has its root in religion. Without the religious and cultural background of India, the growth and beauty of Indian dance is not possible. In 'Natya Shastra', there is a small story about the origin of Indian dance. According to Hindu mythology, dance first...
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- The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in early 1863 by Robert
Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family.
Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second
Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth...
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- is one of the western films that can move you by its existentialist themes, where an individual's values are above the societal norms and where the authenticity of being is existence. This is the story of a man who creates his own choices and stands up for the right reason when he is confronting...
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- Noticed in the early days of the twentieth century was the poor
living standards of tenant farmers of the south. Over the years much
research has been done to find what areas of life made up for this low
standard. The focus of this compilation of research will be disease and
poor...
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- The contrast between the new and changing attitudes and traditional
values was unmistakably present during the 1920's. This clash between the old
and the new had many roots and was inevitable. A new sense of awareness washed
over minorities in our nation, especially blacks who began to realize...
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- American history has few subjects as interesting as witchcraft, because
it confronts us with many Ideas about women. It confronts us with fears about
women, the place of women in society, and with women themselves. Also, it
confronts us with violence against women and how the problems of society...
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- was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. Monet spent most of his childhood in Le Havre, France. In Le Havre, Monet studied drawing and painted seascapes with a French painter Eugene Louis Boudin in his teens. By 1859 Monet committed himself a career to be an artist. Monet spent a lot of...
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- As members of the Futurist of America Association, we have been assigned to look specifically at the cause of the American Civil #War. There are five aspects that could of led to the Civil War and they are Westward Movement, Social Change, Froeign Policy Development, Government/Politics...
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- Most of the time, when thinking back to the sixties, people remember
hearing about things such as sex, drugs, and racism. However, what they
often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era.
This does not just refer to the freedoms already possessed by every
American of the...
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- Henri 'mile Beno't Matisse was a French artist, leader of the Fauve group, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th-century art, and a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression. Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambr'sis in northern France on December 31, 1869....
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- Ensayo:
Conflicto que se desarrollo el los a'os 1939-1945, en los diferentes lugares tanto en Europa, Asia, Am'rica. Tubo como diferentes consecuencias los impactos que se dieron como el demogr'fico, econ'mico, y moral. Hubo p'rdidas humanas ...
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- The reason behind Franklin's Albany Plan of Union is the French and
Indian War. The French and Indian War started because British colonists
were said to be moving in on territory that the French had claimed for
themselves. Then, in 1753, the French started constructing a chain of
forts connecting...
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- In the play Macbeth, a symbol of blood is portrayed often (and with different meanings), and it is a symbol that is developed until it is the commanding theme of the play towards its end. The word "blood," or different forms of it, is mentioned forty-two times, with several other passages dealing...
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- In April of 1939 the New York World's Fair opened just east of the metropolis. The theme of the fair was, 'Building The World of Tomorrow.' 'The World of Tomorrow was a search for a usable Future (with a capital 'F'), and while it added fuel to the fire of the American cultures of consumption and...
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- Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana purchase was a major impact leading to a greater sense of independence and nationhood. Obtaining the Louisiana Purchase basically connected the nation by waterway which made it easier for things such as transportation to get done. By being connected to the rest of...
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- On July 13, 1848, five women met for tea in Seneca Falls, New York. The pioneer of this woman's rights movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton poured out her discontent with women's legal and social situation in such passionate terms that her friend's were stirred to call a public meeting to...
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- The original Klan was organized in Tennessee in 1865 by former Confederate army officer Jonathan B Frost, he gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos. The Klan attempted to destroy the reconstructed governments that came into power in the southern states in 1867. The Klan was...
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- is about a white middle class dysfunctional family that suffers from natural and supernatural stresses in an isolated Rocky mountain hotel. .The father, a former teacher turned writer, is portrayed as a habitual drinker, wife- and child-abuser, with a kind of evil streak The mother is shown as...
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- Cities emerged during the Industrial Revolution period; this was a time where technology was advancing. Within the cities ghettos were born. A ghetto is section of a city where members of a minority group are segregated. Mainly lower class social economic status, and welfare receipts dwell in this...
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- To understand the that exists today, one must understand the history of the island, and of its people. American involvement began long before the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet it seems that American opinion about Cuba is shaped by these two events. A better understanding of the...
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- The largest rock concert ever was comeing to town. Threedays not hours of music. Threedays not hours of music. Campingout under the stas. This was going to be a serious party.Woodstock was the greatest rock concert ever to take place in the United States.
Four very different very young people...
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- Ludwig van Beethoven has been called one of the greatest composers to ever live. His emotionally charged creations of poetry in music are world renown for their ability to spark feeling into the hearts of those listening. It is often wondered what emotional tragedy in Beethoven's life provoked...
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- On February 12, thirteen hundred African-American sanitation workers in Memphis went on strike. Though there had been a long history of grievances, the strike was begun as a response to a January 31 incident in which 22 black sanitation workers were sent home without pay during bad weather while...
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- are bowed stringed instruments. They are the highest pitched member of the violin family. Other members of the violin family include the viola, cello, and double bass. The bow is a narrow, slightly incurved stick of Pernambuco about 75 cm (about 30 in) long, with a band of horsehair stretched from...
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- One of the greatest revolutions of all time was , a
conflict between Catholics and Protestants during the 16th and 17th century.
was a turning point during the Renaissance, a transition
from old to modern times.
Although most people during the Renaissance disagreed with Medieval
ways and...
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- A foil is a means by which an author or playwright reveals one character in contrast with another character. In 'Hamlet', a play by William Shakespeare, the use of a foil is evident among the characters Hamlet and Laertes. Although adversaries, Laertes and Hamlet share several characteristics which...
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- Cubism was one of the strongest art movements in the 20th century that gave birth to many other movements such as futurism and suprematism. The Forefathers of this revolutionary way of painting were Pablo Picasso and George Braque. Although it may have seemed to be abstract and geometrical to an...
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- Romantics often emphasized the beauty, strangeness, and mystery of nature. Romantic writers expressed their intuition of nature that came from within. The key to this inner world was the imagination of the writer; this frequently reflected their expressions of their inner essence and their...
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- The summer of 1871 had been an unusually dry one in Chicago. Between
July and October, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-seven
fires in the first week of October, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze broke
out in a planning mill on the West Side and destroyed almost every...
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- In June of 1776 a man by the name of Thomas Jefferson drafted a
document to alleviate our great nation from the oppression of Great Britain.
At the age of 33 Jefferson was one of the youngest members of the Second
Continental Congress, but still he held a great responsibility, to break
the bonds...
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- In 1692, nineteen villagers were put to death in Salem, Massachusetts.
The reason for conviction was the torment of teenaged girls by supernatural
means: witchcraft. These teenagers had experienced "pricking" and
"pinching" sensations, and some contorted into strange bodily positions,
reaching...
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- When one thinks of rock and roll there is a whole list of adjectives to describe a band. The groups can go from laid back to an in your face, ultra loud show of shows. There are many differences in rock bands and none is greater than the deviation between Oasis and Dave Matthews Band. From...
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- The struggle of the Vietnam War was that North Vietnam wanted ownership of South Vietnam so that they would be a unified communist nation. The U.S. however wanted to prevent the domino effect of the further spread of communism, so the U.S. held true to the Truman Doctrine and aided the South...
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- A popular misconception is that President John F. Kennedy's assassination was an isolated event perpetrated by one man. This could not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal...
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- Upon , the Americas were deemed an independent nation. Wartime efforts had drawn whites, blacks, Native Americans, noblemen, merchants, men, women, and others together in an attempt to gain freedom from a tyrannical British government. Under a common goal, these different social and ethnic groups...
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- On April 19, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln declared a blockade of the Southern coast. To enforce this, was promoted to Flag Officer and sent aboard the USS Hartford to command the West Gulf Blockade Squad in early 1862. Charged with eliminating Confederate commerce, Farragut...
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- is a universal education that provides a strong foundation of knowledge in many subjects. can observe the capabilities as well as the limitations of each field of study. This allows students to find connections between different fields of study, to explore them, and to discover new theories and/or...
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- George Creel, was correct when he said World War I "welded the people together into one white-hot mass instinct of fraternity, devotion, courage, and distribution of wealth between the classes, harmony, and tolerance, launching the nation into a decade of peace, equality, and greater justice for...
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- The music genre of Rock, thought by some to be the devil's music, to me is an inspiration and it helps me deal with situations going on in my life. If you listen to Rock you know what I'm saying, but by most people who do not, they are so put in there ways of believing that anybody even listening...
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- I would like to show that the view of human nature that is shown in The
Declaration of Independence is taken more from the Bible and that that view is
in disagreement with two of the three esays given in class. The Biblical
perspective of man is that he was created by a divine Creator with a...
American History · 440 words
- It would have been very difficult to run an effective government under
the . Many of the great minds politically active after
the American Revolution realized this; thus arrived the birth of one of the
greatest political documents of all time: The Constitution. With the implement
of the...
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- was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1,
1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all "slaves within any State, or
designated part of a State... then... in rebellion,... shall be then,
thenceforward, and forever free." The states affected were enumerated in the
proclamation; specifically...
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- The American Civil War was a grave turning point in the history of North
America. It was a conflict that pitted the Northern states of the American union
against the Southern states. The war raged for four years, from 1861 to 1865,
and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns in modern...
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- The film '' is a film about redemption. The film is
directed by Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon plays a Nun called Sister Helen
Prejean. She is asked by a convicted murderer to get him a lawyer, and then
later is asked to be his spiritual advisor. The convicted killer is named
Matthew Poncelet,...
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2. Compare and contrast the role of religion in the development of a colonial society in both the Chesapeake and the New England Regions. Limit your answer up to 1690.
The early settlements of the Massachusetts colony of New England and Virginia colony of Chesapeake were...
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- Henry Polk was President of the U.S.A. from 1845, and was an
imperialist. He wanted his country to expand by seizing Mexico's land. His
goal was to try to make the States stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Polk first offered 30,000,000 dollars to Mexico for California and New
Mexico, but...
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- My report is about the attack on . In this report I will
explain what happened and why it happened. So you know, is located
on Oahu island, Hawaii.
was the operating base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The
Japanese pulled a surprise attack on the U.S. on December 7, 1941 at 7:50...
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- On November 22, 1963 at 12:31 in Dallas Texas President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. Only one man, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested in the hours following the assassination. Was Oswald the lone assassin, or a just a patsy as he claimed. Oswald was set up from the day the plot was...
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- took place from 1930-1939 and was being felt around the world. During this time the prices of stock fell 40%. 9,000 banks went out of business and 9 million savings accounts were wiped out. 86,00 businesses failed, and wages were decreased by an average of 60%. The unemployment rate went...
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- The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one that spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the...
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- The role of the American expeditionary force during world war one was critical in bringing the war to a close. Through out the beginning of the war the axis powers had the upper hand. Now this was not a very significant upper hand because they were fighting 'trench warfare', and thus was very slow...
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- As you have learned, Greek drama evolved from the ritualistic
performances of a chorus at the Dionysian festivals. After the actor Thespis
stepped out of the chorus and began a dialogue with it, other characters soon
followed, and the chorus's role gradually diminished in size (from fifty...
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- The New England and Southern Colonies were both settled largely by the
English. By 1700, the regions had evolved into two distinct societies.
The southern colonies have characteristics that are the antithesis of
the New England colonies attributes. New England was colonized for Freedom
of Worship...
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- George Herman "Babe" Ruth was perhaps the most recognized player in Major League Baseball history. Born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ruth attended St. Mary's Industrial School. At St. Mary's, Ruth became a star baseball prospect. But these accomplishments were a mere shadow of what...
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- It can be argued that the vanguard of development has always been reflected in the arts of a culture. It is the poets, the dreamers and artists who are the architects of the future; the ones who 'build the world they want to live in, the ones who dream out loud'1. Music is an elaborate art form,...
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- When on -June 6, 1944-Allied armies landed in Normandy on the northwestern coast of France, possibly the one most critical event of World War II unfolded; for upon the outcome of the invasion hung the fate of Europe. If the invasion failed, the United States might turn its full attention to the...
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- Founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn., by former Confederate Army officers, the was one of the most powerful groups to emerge in the Reconstruction era in an effort to prevent newly enfranchised black Southerners from putting Republicans in power in the Southern states. Led by former Confederate...
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- A freelance photographer, writer and a teacher, Eugene Richards is a storyteller of the common people. Twice named U.S. magazine photographer of the year, he is often considered one of the world's best documentary photographers for his hard hitting explorations of our society. Richards currently...
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- The American cinema is rich with powerful and insightful filmmakers whose bodies of work add to the legacy of American filmmaking. But a few filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, two of the most enlightening and illuminating directors to ever grace the silver screen, not only add to but...
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- As Blacks were seeking civil rights in America, nearly 75% of the Jewish population in Europe were systematically exterminated. Six million Jews were murdered during WW II. Another seven million Gypsies, Polish, and assorted Europeans were also executed by Hilter's Nazi regime. Millions more lost...
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- The story of William Wallace was one that could
bring a tear to even the most cold-hearted man and
women on earth. His story not only showed the struggle
of how Scotland got it's freedom but also about how
he struggled in his personal life with the many foolish
and unnecessary rules that the...
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- NEIL SIMON: UTILIZING CHARACTER EXAGGERATION
"Neil ("Doc") Simon stands alone as by far the most successful American playwright of this century and most probably in the history of the American theater" (Litz 573). He has entertained audiences for over thirty years with many Broadway productions,...
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- The Sixth Sense, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, follows the troubled life of eight-year-old Cole Sear, played by Haley Joel Osment, who is haunted by his supernatural abilities to see and communicate with the dead. Being sought after by the disturbed spirits of his hometown of...
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- Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the
issues being confronted today. The '60s was a decade of social and
political upheaval caused by student and anti-war protest movements,
political assassinations, and ghetto riots. The decade began under the
shadow of the Cold War...
American History · 550 words
- The was a major change for both the English and
the French. For the English, they wanted to assimilate the French. This was
necessary for two reasons.
One, the British had, after all, conquered them, and wished to create a
full British Empire. They thought that the only way to do this was...
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- Anyone can stand by you when you are right...
but a real friend stands by you when you're wrong.
A simple friend identifies himself when he calls...
a real friend dosen't have to.
A simple friend opens a conversation with a
full news bulletin on his life...
a real friend says "Whats new with...
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- After the cannon fell silent and peace descended upon the battlefields of the War Between the States, there came an infamous chapter of American History called 'The Reconstruction.' From this era, this abyss of human misery and despair, there arose like the morning sun the . The Klan was one of...
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- To a person not conversant with this art, Jujitsu may be considered as a foul or derogatory term in Japanese. However, Jujitsu us one of the most effective and deadly forms of martial arts taught today. Unique among other forms of combat, Jujitsu holds the position of a 'parent art', of from...
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- Gothic and Romanesque Style Arch.
Represented primarily through cathedrals, Romanesque and
Gothic styles of architecture were some of the few symbols of
civilization in the poverty stricken and often depressing Middle
Ages. These cathedrals represented faith, dedication, and
cooperation; a sane...
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- The revolution in Cuba was not a result of economic deprivation, nor
because of high expectations in the economy, it was the political factors
and expectations which evoked the civilians to revolt. The Cuban economy
was moving forward at the time before the rebellion but the dominant
influence of...
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- The United States of America was founded on the basis of compromise, but
what does compromise really mean? According to the Webster's New World
Dictionary compromise means "an adjustment of opposing principles". Political
systems use compromises in daily life. that
occurred early in this...
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- The Hendrix Experience released its first album in early 1967. Popular music had been leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years already and Are You Experienced? came out at about the same time as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far exceeded the...
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- Fort Sumter Attacked
April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard
open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Civil War begins.
April 14, 1861. - Fort Sumter after its capture, showing damage from the
Rebel bombardment of over 3000...
