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Due To The Fact Negative Feelings
1,748 wordsAs I sit in my apartment, waiting for my friend Heather to pick me up, I begin to feel very frustrated. It is neither the first nor the second time, for that matter, that she has been late. In fact, she has been late so many times that I have lost count. She used to make external attributions for her constant inability to be punctual, such as telling me that her alarm clock broke or that her mother called her just as she was about to leave. Once she even externally attributed her tardiness on a ...
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Los Angeles California Ray Bradbury
571 wordsRay Bradbury was a great writer on many levels. He could write novels, short stories, essays, plays, screenplays, and poetry. An active imagination and a fascination with outer space combine in many of Ray Bradbury's stories. Ray Bradbury surpassed an unstable childhood to become a world renowned science fiction author. Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He was the third child of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie Modern Bradbury. In the fall of 1926, the B...
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Sanitary Commission Regular Army
1,469 words... West were spared battlefield relief scandals by the fact that major battles were fought on the banks of rivers, whence wounded arid sick could be evacuated by river boats to Mound City, Illinois, St. Louis, and other cities with general hospitals in the safety and secure supply of the North. After the relatively prompt fall of Memphis, that city became the site of several general hospitals. The evacuating boats, however, might I be maintained by individual states or by the United States Sani...
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Strong Minded Union Army
1,508 words... d vehicle. The staff, aside from the medical officers and hospital stewards, was mostly made up of the convalescents. They were frequently weak and weary, often snappish and irritable. They did not like the dirty work they performed. They wanted to go home. The surgeon-in-charge, as the hospital commander was titled, was often in a dilemma. If he returned the patient to his regiment too soon, the man might relapse or die on the road to his unit. If he tried to hold on to the man too long, he...
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Life In China One Of The First Ricci
1,140 wordsJonathan D. Spence occupies a peculiar position of celebrity among historians. He probably may be considered to be one of the greatest Western scholars of China. More over, his historical writings are the most reliable amongst those of these days. His prose is usually described with the help of such words as graceful and impeccable. The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci is one of his masterpieces. One of the first Christian missionaries Matteo Ricci went to China in the late sixteenth century. Spenc...
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Oudry Painted Menagerie The Getty Museum
1,259 wordsOudry's Painted Menagerie; The Getty Museum Introduction The exhibition Oudry's Painted Menagerie (May 1 - September 2, 2007) at the Getty Center is the mutual project of curators, conservators and art historians. Oudry's Painted Menagerie features twelve paintings. Originally, the project was initiated in 2001 (Schwerin, Germany) in result of the reemergence of two Oudry's canvases, one depicting a rhinoceros and the other a lion. The paintings were not available to the public for more than 150...
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Rio De Janeiro World War Ii
2,224 words20 Century Architectural and Urban Theories Th definition of what constitutes a city chang's from tim to tim and plac to plac, but it is most usual to x plain th trm as a matter of dmo graphics. Th United Nations has rcommndd that countries read all plac's with mor than 20, 000 inhabitants living clos together as urban; but, in fact, nations compile the statistics on th basis of many different standards. Th United Stats, for instant, uss urban plac to man any locality whr more than 2, 500 people...
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One Of The Most Important Zen Buddhism
2,509 wordsThe Japanese Gardens Japanese Gardens The role of gardens play a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside i...
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Fa Ade Thomas Jefferson
1,998 wordsVilla Emo In 1539 Leonardo Emo di Advice inherited a portion of the family property in Fanzolo in Northern Italy from his uncle, a Venetian patrician. The land was acquired as part of an extensive effort by the Venetian nobility to develop the terra firma for agricultural use. Leonardo was seven years old at the time so it was not until around 1559 that he engaged Andrea Palladio to design a new residential complex for the estate. Villa Emo was built on a plain and was surrounded by cultivated f...
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Due To The Fact Apartment
1,785 wordsA Day in my Life: An Analysis of Social Psychology As I sit in my apartment, waiting for my friend Heather to pick me up, I begin to feel very frustrated. It is neither the first nor the second time, for that matter, that she has been late. In fact, she has been late so many times that I have lost count. She used to make external attributions for her constant inability to be punctual, such as telling me that her alarm clock broke or that her mother called her just as she was about to leave. Once...
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