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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...
