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Small Chapel Second Story Tempietto
555 wordsThe Tempietto, or "little chapel" in Italian, was designed by Donato Bramante, who is considered to be one of the greatest architects of the Renaissance. The Tempietto itself is located in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome and was built in 1502. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain ruled parts of southern Italy at this time and commissioned Bramante to erect this monument. However, they most likely never realized that it would become a symbol of the Renaissance. The Tempietto...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
1,265 words... needed. When Henry Ford came out with this idea of using mass-production, he had many quotes like; "Good work is hard unless you have good tools and clean surroundings. Employees and employers ought to be treated by the same standard. Are they indifferent?" Or, "Old production methods say that machines must aid man. Our idea is that man should aid the machine. " He also said this, "Hard labor is for machines, not people. " (The Story of Henry Ford). A few months after this assembly line was ...
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San Diego Union Diego Union Tribune
1,602 wordsThe reputation of California as being a place to "jettison assumptions and try different things" appears to have originated from its earliest days. By reflecting on the individual who discovered San Diego, we see stamina, determination, and the desire to "continue on, "find success, " and to maximize opportunities to their fullest. Back in the 1540 s there was a Portuguese explorer and soldier by the name of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (? - 1543). He was known as "a skilled mariner and navigator. " ...
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Political And Economic Economic Situation
732 wordsMaidens Tower: Echo from The Past. Every country has its own places of interest and ancient monuments the symbols of the past. The city of Baku isnt an exception. Walking down wide and beautiful streets of this city, we can come across a lot of monuments, museums and other well-known places. Its not a secret that Baku attracts big numbers of tourists from other countries. It is a big pleasure for foreigners to visit the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, and see with their own eyes such places ...
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Four Men Long Island
879 wordsTrue believers still call Woodstock the capstone of an era devoted to human advancement, said Cynics. Then there are those who said it was a hell of a party. The Woodstock music and art festival of 1969 drew more than 450, 000 people to a field out in Sullivan County for four days (tiber). This field became the site of a counter cultural mini-nation where minds were open, drugs were everything but legal and love was free. The music started late Friday afternoon at about 5: 07 p. m. August 15 and...
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Rose For Emily Norton Anthology
1,126 wordsAn analysis of "A Rose for Emily" by Celia Rodriguez West suggests that modern art grew out of a dissatisfaction with existing belief. He also claims that nineteenth-century romanticism in England and in America, particularly during the latter half of this age, was relatively complacent, but that this complacency became an impossibility following the shock of World War I (West, 92). Artists asked the questions: "Which values of the past are illusory? Which have value for us today? In what terms ...
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City Life First Person
669 wordsBy employing the rhetorical devices of parallelism, paradox, repetition, metaphor, and oxymoron as seen in, fish and crabs and shrimps lay beautifully on white beds of shaved ice, one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past, to the new developments, to the semi-rural supermarkets, the outdoor movies, new houses with wide lawns and stucco schools where children are confirmed in their illiteracy. and The district is still too good to tear down and too o...
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The Myth Of Lost Cause
1,366 wordsFollowing the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero. In order to come to terms with defeat and a look of failure in the eyes of God, Southerners mentally transformed their memories of the antebellum South. It became a superior civilization of great purity which had been cruelly brought down by the materialistic Yankees. At the...
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Miss Emily Grierson Miss Emily House
1,819 wordsA Rose for Emily This is a story that clearly shows how time ticks away and how some people are willing tome on with the changing of times and some people resist. The small town of Jefferson was full of an up and coming generation that wanted change but was still influenced by the old traditions and by the few old timers that just couldnt let it go. As the Civil War came to an end the New South began its birth and the Old South began its death. The story actually begins at the end with the funer...
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Rose For Emily Past And Present
1,595 wordsA Rose for Emily Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes-intangible qualities of the characters, places and events in their work. In the short story, A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses symbolic elements to define and characterize Miss Emily Grierson. William Faulkner's peculiar story, A Rose for Emily, portrays an insane young woman, Emily Grierson, who is isolated and displaced from society because of her father's attitude and restriction as she was growing ...
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Eiffel Tower Four Legs
841 wordsJust imagine you are standing 300 meters that is 984 ft above the ground, looking down at the beautiful city of Paris. The wind is blowing at your face and it is messing up your hair, but you do not care. You are on the top of the highest building in the center of culture, the magnificent Paris and that is all that matters. Yes, you are standing on top of Eiffel Tower. This is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about Paris, the tall, lean tower. But have you ever wonder what ...
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Miss Emily Grierson Fallen Monument
649 wordsFallen Monuments by Katie Myers In A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner, the home of Miss Emily Grierson is described and used as a symbol of the decay and deterioration of her own physical state. The characteristics of Miss Emily s home are parallel to her own physical appearance. Through the description of the home, Faulkner helps to clarify Grierson s character and provide a more detailed image of who Emily Grierson is. Miss Emily Grierson s home, once a big, squarish frame house decorated wi...
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George Washington Carver Tuskegee Alabama
1,438 wordsGeorge Washington Carver It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. George Washington Carver (McMurray, vii) It is rare to find a man of the caliber of George Washington Carver. A man who would decline an invitation to work for a salary of more than $ 100, 000 a year (almost a million today) to continue his research on behalf of his c...
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2500 B C Great Sphinx Egypt
889 wordsThe Great Sphinx of Giza is a monument recognized all over the world. It is a symbol that represented the essence of Egypt for thousands of years. It is the biggest sphinx statue ever found. There are more than one sphinx, for example there is the Sphinx of Greece and The Sphinx of Martian (all that is, is the shape of the sphinx s head on the planet Mars. ) But the Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt is the most famous of all. The Sphinx has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The lion was a ...
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Rose For Emily Miss Emily
1,452 wordsThe year is 1852, Emily Grierson has just been born into the small town of Jefferson. A town she will soon discover has distinct hierarchical differences and social classes that are to be followed by everyone in her community. However this same community and the values which it holds will eventually be a key factor in determining Miss Emily's madness. A Rose for Emily, tells the story of a woman who fails to live up to her high reputation and fitting in a community where almost everyone knows ea...
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Leonardo Da Vinci Battle Of Anghiari
1,268 wordsLeonardo Da Vinci The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci have proved endlessly fascinating for later generations. What most impresses people today, perhaps, is the immense scope of his achievement. In the past, however, he was admired chiefly for his art and art theory. Leonardo's equally impressive contribution to science is a modern rediscovery, having been preserved in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known only in the 20 th centur...
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Rodin Met Camille Gates Of Hell Auguste
718 wordsAuguste Rodin was born November 12, 1840 in Paris and attended the Ecole des Arts Decorative in Paris at age 14. Rodin had a special gift for modeling human figures and faces; therefore sculpting humans is all he did. Decorators and commercial sculptors exploited Rodin at a very young age. It was some 20 years before he could sculpt for himself, under the commercial sculptor Albert Carrier-Belleuse. (Auguste, 19) Rodin sculpted ornamental figures for several major buildings in Brussels, such as ...
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Fire Began Destroyed City
355 wordsOn Sunday, 2 September 1666, the destruction of London began. An area one and a half miles by half a mile was in ashes. About 87 churches and 13, 200 houses were destroyed and amazingly only six people have been known to have died. The fire began in the house and shop of Thomas Farynor, the Kings baker. His assistant was awaken by the house full of smoke and people began to escape. All were successful except for a maid who was scared to go over the roof, she stayed and was the first victim of th...
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Quot Lowell Fixed Stars
2,070 wordsThomas R. Edwards Imagistically the poem is built upon " enclosure" burial by snow, the subways vaults, the truss of the El, the interred Union dead, the sword in the groove foreshadowing the " mausoleum" of the last line. But these images suggest not only constraint and death but ceremony, formal rituals like burial, inauguration, or for that matter battle itself. The city observes the occasion: the subways drum, the girders " charge" as the poet passes them, the s...
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Sun And Moon Taj Mahal
1,450 wordsThe Taj Mahal Love at first sight. Such a sensation does exist as one approaches the purely, white, marble Taj Mahal and is overtaken by its immense size and beauty [Fig. 1 ]. The Taj Mahal can be referred to as a symbol of eternal love since Shah Jahan built it for his princess upon her death in 1631 A. D. Located in Agra, India, and considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World; the Taj Mahal was built by Prince Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal. The funerary compl...
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