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Man And A Woman Van Eyck
1,413 wordsAn essay written by a renowned art historian, Erwin Panofsky, discusses the controversy over a famous painting. The disputation was over the identification of the two people portrayed in the painting. The painting was a portrait thought to be Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, and the artist was Jan van Eyck. Panofsky wrote this essay to prove that this painting found in 1815, which he refers to as the London portrait, is identical to a picture which was once acquired by Queen Mary of Hungary, amo...
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German Irish African And Native Are All American
1,286 wordsPaula Christine Poling Poling 1 Myths, Memories and Realities of the War Between the States Dr. Mary Ellen Rowe and Dr. Larry Open German, Irish, African and Native are all American For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union army were a De Kalb regiment of German American Clerks, the Garibaldi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a Polish Legion, and hundreds of Irish American youths from Bost...
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The French Presence In North America
1,085 wordsThe French presence in North America was spearheaded by the exploration of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the great river leading inland by Jaques Cartier in the 1530 s. The English immediately contested the French claims on the grounds that they conflicted with prior English claims dating from John Cabot's landings on the east coast of North America in 1497, thus setting off a struggle which was to dominate the history of the region until the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The first French settlements ...
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Child Labor In The British Industrial Revolution
1,191 wordsIndustrial Revolution Daniel Gaines Everyone agrees that in the 100 years between 1750 and 1850 there took place in Great Britain profound economic changes. This was the age of the Industrial Revolution, complete with a cascade of technical innovations, a vast increase in industrial production, a renaissance of world trade, and rapid growth of urban populations. Where historians and other observers clash is in the interpretation of these great changes. Were they "good" or "bad"? Did they represe...
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Brilliantly Illuminated Louis Xiv History
1,594 wordsVoltaire: A history that never moved By Boy Kampmark Why should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie About) (1694 - 1778) wrote in his works History of Charles XII, History of Louis XIV and his Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations against its usefulness. This is largely because Voltaire, through his desire to write a history freed from a chronology,...
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World War Ii University Of Wisconsin
1,295 wordsI. Authors Background Stephen Ambrose was born in 1936 and grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin, a small town where his father was the M. D. At the University of Wisconsin, he started as a pre-med, but inspired by a great professor he changed his major to History. After getting his M. A. degree at Louisiana State University, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to complete a Ph. D. Ambrose began teaching at the University of New Orleans. He started as a Civil War historian but changed to polit...
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782 wordsHerodotus (484 - 424 BC? ) a Greek historian, known as the father of history, who was the first historian to apply critical evaluation to his material, while also recording divergent opinions. He made his prose style resemble the finest poetry by its persuasiveness, its charm, and its utterly delightful effect. Although his writings have been praised, their trustworthiness has been questioned both in ancient and modern times. After four years in Athens, he traveled widely in Egypt, Asia and the ...
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Ultimate Goal Historical Facts
1,293 wordsThe issues that are raised in this source by Marc Trachtenberg are is whether or not objectivity is still a relevant idea, and if it is not then is history in fact dying. Keith Jenkins What is History? , Carl Becker's What are Historical Facts? and Richard Evans In Defence of History will be used to discuss and examine these issues. Marc Trachtenberg is questioning if objectivity is possible and desirable in todays society, and this is a question that many historians have pondered. Keith Jenkins...
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The Causes Of Cold War Post Revisionist
1,521 wordsThis is from AP history and bear with me because some of the stuff got a little screwed up in transit. : -) Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signified, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold but not clothed. There was never a war that this idea can be more correct applied to than the Cold War. According to noted author and Cold War historian Walter Lippman, the Cold War can be defined...
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Social Expectations And Motivations Vested Motivations Vested In Hitler Kershaw's
681 wordsThe historian and Hitler biographer Allan Bullock once wrote of his subject, "the more I learn about Hitler, the less I can explain it. " To say the least, Hitler presents a challenge for any biographer. According to one of those who famously accepted the challenge, Joachim Fest, Hitler was an "unperson, " whose demonic energy and sheer force of will nearly destroyed an entire civilization. In contrast to the darkly romantic overtones of Fest's interpretation, Bullock viewed Hitler as merely a c...
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Confronting Colonialism Historical Approach
2,418 wordsConfronting Colonialism: Historical Approach Confronting Colonialism, Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan written by Irfan Habib was a very interesting book to read. The most interesting information that I took from this book was the historical issues concerning the development of India. This was interesting because India has one of the most controversial historical development process and many interesting events happened during the times of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan. ...
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Divine Comedy Rhetorical Question
1,638 wordsDante Dante Dantes Canto XXVIII Dante begins Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader: Who, even with untrammeled words and many attempts at telling, ever could recount in full the blood and wounds that I now saw? (Lines 1 - 3) The rhetorical question draws the reader into the passage ...
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Divine Comedy Rhetorical Question
1,634 wordsDante begins the opening of Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader: Who, even with untrammeled words and many attempts at telling, ever could recount in full the blood and wounds that I now saw? (Line The rhetorical question draws the reader into the passage because we know by this p...
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Works Of Art Common Language
1,009 wordsMeyer Schapiro, Style in Aesthetics Today, ed. Morris Philips on (Chicago, 1953). Schapiro's essay, Style, deals with the much broader relationship between style and its cultural history. His overall claim seems to be that the content of art functions as part of a dominant set of beliefs, ideas, and interests [that are] supported by institutions and the forms of everyday life, and that these in turn shape what we know as the common style. However, he also mentions many specialized theories disse...
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History Of The United States Blacks And Whites
2,130 wordsA review and summary of the first three chapters of Howard Zinn's A Peoples History The Zen of Zinn: A look at the first 3 chapters of A Peoples History of the US Dr. Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States might better titled A Proletarian s History of the United States. In the first three chapters Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, and leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led. Like any American History book covering the ...
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Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
785 wordsThe character of Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson: The Man, The Myth, and The Morality Thomas Jefferson was a man of the greatest moral character who has been excoriated routinely over the last 30 years by historical revisionists and present ists. His commitment to America and his vast contributions to the framing of society as it is today are overlooked in favor of base analysis of his character that, while not flawless, is that of a morally upright person who has deeply held convictions and l...
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518 wordsThe Patton Papers are invaluable for two reasons. They tell the story of one of our countrys most effective warriors. The Patton Papers stand along with Douglas Southall Freeman or Lee and Chandler on Napoleon as a thorough treatment of a soldiers life and thought processes, written by an accomplished combat historian. In addition, The Patton Papers exceed either Freemans or Chandlers work in terms of being a complete, assembled, documented compilation of primary source material that can be read...
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16 Th Century Greek And Roman
1,423 wordsWhat a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 Modern art critics regard renaissance art as graphic narratives of political and social events that occurred in the 14 th through 16 th century Europe. Scholars believe that the renaissance expressed a cultural revival of classical antiquity....
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Point Of View Atom Bomb
2,095 wordsThe three essays, Thank God For The Atom Bomb by Paul Fuel, Democracy by Carl Becker, and Chief Seattle: Letter to President Pierce, 1855 are three different rhetorical modes of writing that exports theoretical, personal reasoning on the realities of certain controversial historical topics. The main focus of the essays are in proving a steadfast view of an ambiguous subject through sarcastic criticism of opposing ideas and by applying clever use of irony; the authors? sentiments vary from imperi...
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977 wordsObserver Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo P? rez-Reverte In search of lost treasure The Nautical Chart Arturo P&execute; rez-Reverte Picador? 16. 99, pp 465 Towards the end of The Nautical Chart, the central character, Coy, finds a turtle caught in a net. He dives into the sea to free her, slashing away at a thousand feet of fishing mesh that trap her until, finally, she swims off, exhausted, trailing blood that turns the water pink, and without ...
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