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16 Th And 17 Art And Architecture
5,151 words... mi sphere set on the larger circle is intersected by vertical planes rising from the sides of the square, forming four arches. A horizontal plane is then passed through the hemisphere at the tops of these arches, providing a ring on which is built the dome, which has a diameter equal to the circle inscribed within the square. The pendentive's are spherical triangles, the remaining portions of the first, or outer, hemisphere. At Hagia Sophia, two opposing arches on the central square open int...
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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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12 Th Century Flying Buttresses
2,259 words... rd, thus collapsing them. A building's vertical supporting walls thus had to be made extremely thick and heavy in order to contain the barrels vaults outward thrust. Medieval masons solved this difficult problem about 1120 with a number of brilliant innovations First and foremost they developed a ribbed vault, in which arching and intersecting stone ribs support a vaulted ceiling surface that is composed of mere thin stone panels. This greatly reduced the weight (and thus the outward thrust)...
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Percent Of The Population Racial Minorities
804 wordsIt seems to be that amar's major complaint Is that the college was made for and favors white southerners and that the EC diminishes the value of one-man one vote. Yet all his problems seem to be just statements with nothing to back it up. He fails to mention that there were other reasons that the Electoral College was made. Such as our fathers did not want a president dependent on the legislature, so they rejected a parliamentary model in which legislators would pick the prez. Second citizens ba...
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Day By Day Ethnic Cleansing
2,121 wordsI. Introduction The bombing of Kosovo by NATO forces may finally come to an end. While the excuses for bombing the troubled region have been challenged, for the most part the world concurs that the atrocities gong on in that nation warranted international action. In any event, the bombing did start and it continues, despite the accidental hits on pedestrian villages and buildings which were not targets in the first place. They have been explained away as unavoidable during such a mission. Casual...
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Tyler Durden Fight Club
3,341 words... me old magazines in the house, which use clever words to personify body parts such as I am Jill's colon. Jack takes to describing his anger at Marla and Tyler's relationship through the use of these clever analogies (page 59): I am Joes raging bile duct. I am Joes grinding teeth. I am Joes inflamed, flaring nostrils. I am Joes white knuckles. I am Joes Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection. Jack takes to speaking about his feelings as if he is observing someone else, making them less personal...
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Full Length Young People
1,916 wordsIt's Wednesday night at Chicago's most venerable coffeehouse, the No Exit. An improv group called Bang Bang has been playing here late on Wednesdays. They " re supposed to be hot. They " re supposed to be good. They " re supposed to have an interesting approach. The Chicago Tribune ran a friendly piece about them in the Sunday arts section. Which makes what I'm seeing now that much more puzzling. There may be times when these Bang Bang people really are all the things they " re supposed to be, b...
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Effects Of Global Warming Kyoto Protocol
999 wordsGlobal Warming Introduction The alarming rate at which global warming has already begun to change the average temperatures of our air, oceans and environment as a whole in the last few decades have already begun to sound alarm bells about the disastrous effect it can have on us and our future generations. The rainfall patterns have also begun to change and weather extremes have increased with more frequency and intensity, these are causing the effects of water scarcity, risks to coast line areas...
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Make Him Feel War In Vietnam
2,077 wordsBorn on the Fourth of July Patriotism, bravery, freedom, are all words to help describe the qualities of the United States. As Americans, we all have a sense of loyalty and respect toward our county. What happens when one comes to the realization that our country stands for one thing, but in all reality means something different? This is the trap that Ron Kovic was sucked into during his experience in the Vietnam War. Kovic started out like most Americans. He had great pride and love for his cou...
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Rise To Power Ability To Read
2,215 wordsCharlemagne, or Charles the Great, King of the Franks (742 - 814), was a strong leader who unified Western Europe through military power and the blessing of the Church. His belief in the need for education among the Frankish people was to bring about religious, political, and educational reforms that would change the history of Europe. Charlemagne was born in 742 at Aachen, the son of Pepin (or Pippin) the Short and grandson of Charles Martel. His grandfather, Charles, had begun the process of u...
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State And Local Legalized Gambling
1,807 wordsMany factors have influenced the rising crime rate, some being, increasing use of drugs, increasing population, and decreasing morals. America must find ways to decrease the crime rate legally. One question often going hand in hand with decreasing crime rate is would legalized gambling decrease the crime rate? During the late 1980 s and early 1990 s slow economic growth, cuts in federal funding, and growing public needs forced state and local governments to seek additional sources of revenue. Mo...
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Alternatives To Animal Lethal Dose
2,077 wordsCruelty of Animal Testing- Rabbits immobilized in wooden stocks with ulcers in their eyes; baby seals being clubbed over the head, and the infamous shock treatment. Broach the subject with an individual and odds are that they have witnessed footage of one or all of the aforementioned practices and are appalled by the cruelty. Appalled yes, willing to stand up and voice their thoughts not often. There is one significant reason for this unwillingness by some to stand up for the rights of our fello...
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Fell In Love Blacking Factory
1,639 wordscharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk in the Naval Pay Office. He had a poor head for finances, and in 1824 found himself imprisoned for debt. His wife and children, with the exception of Charles, who was put to work at Warrens Blacking Factory, joined him in the Marshalsea Prison. When the family finances were put at least partly to rights and his father was released, the twelve-year-old Dickens, already scarred psychologic...
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Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
1,732 wordsBIOGRAPHY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. When he was left by his father he was adopted by a family in Richmond. He got his family name as Allan from this family. When he became a young man he entered the university of Virginia. However, he could not continue because Mr. John Allan did not pay his school fee. Than Edgar Allan Poe was enlisted to the army with the name of Edgar A. Perry but he could not work for the army because he had grade interest in literature. ...
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Privately Owned Electric Utility
2,252 wordsThe roots of modern day regulation can be traced all the way back to the late 1800 s and found in the form of antitrust. By the beginning of the 20 th century, the U. S. government had formed the interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the railroad industry, and shortly thereafter, many other regulatory commissions were founded in the transportation, communication, and securities fields. The main goal of these regulatory commissions was to create a reasonable rate structure that would be appe...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
1,633 wordsHarriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick th...
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Jack Kerouac Beat Generation
1,393 wordsBorn: Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac Born: March 12, 1922 Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts Died: October 21, 1969 Place of Death: St. Petersburg, Florida Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kerouac, a French-Canadian child in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Ti Jean spoke a local dialect of French called journal before he learned English. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. Ti Jean was an intense and seriou...
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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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Human Nature G K
614 wordsIn this short essay, G. K. Chesterton is able to display his absolute understanding of human nature. He explains this nature through humor and wit in this particular essay, On Lying in Bed. According to this essay, Chesterton has developed three parts to human nature. The first part is that items that are desired by humans can often be found in unusually normal places. The second part is that humans have begun to aggrandize trivial morals and to debase major morals. The final part to his outlook...
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Los Angeles Diesel Engines
1,737 wordsPolitics of Air Tri-Met, Influence in Portland Air pollution isn t really something that the residents of Portland really think about; everyone seems to think that air pollution is something that only affects cities such as Los Angeles and New York something that won t affect Portland. But the truth is that if Portland doesn t continue to improve is transit systems, and monitor the air quality, Portland could turn into another LA. The figure below indicates the huge changes which have been made ...
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