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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on
a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once
commented Jean Arp -- a remarkable
twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet
associated with and a forefather of the Dada and
Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was
born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France,
where he studied at the Ecole des Arts et Mtiers.
In 1905, he transferred to the Weimar Academy and
then to Paris at the Academic Julian in 1908, and
subsequent to graduation ...
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Rise And Fall Social And Political
1,416 words
On November 18 th of 1918, Germany, a member of
the Central Powers, surrendered unconditionally to
the allies. World War I had ended with a total of
37 million casualties, including 9 million dead
combatants. German propaganda had not prepared
that nation for defeat, and its suddenness
resulted in a sense of injured German national
pride. Following the defeat of Germany in World
War I and in the midst of a great worldwide
depression, both the social and political climates
were prime for a dictat...
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Black Hundred In Russia
1,179 words
The Black Hundred was an extreme right wing party
which emerged at the turn of the twentieth century
in Russia. Favoring tourism and autocracy instead
of a parliamentary government, the Black Hundred
were the perpetrators of many Jewish pogroms in
Russian cities such as Odessa, Kiev, Y
ekaterinoslav and Bialystok (Horowitz 703). This
group of radicals increased in popularity before
the beginning of the Russian Revolution when
tourism was in decline. The Black hundred believed
that all Jews were ...
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Spread Of Communism Soviet Union
1,198 words
... the President that nuclear weapons may have to
be used just to keep the communist back. The
President dismissed this for fear that it may draw
the Soviet Union and its nuclear weapons further
into the war. After three long years of fighting,
the Americans and North Koreans ended their
fighting with an armistice that created borders
that were almost the same as those at the
beginning of the war. The United States fought its
first limited war to stop the spread of communism,
and it came away w...
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Soviet Union Red Army
1,008 words
Poland In The Second World War Jozef Garlinski The
Macmillan Press LTD, 1985 Poland had gained
independence after the First World War but
unification of Poland, which was apart for such a
long time, created many problems. Weak economy,
disrupted government, and the population being
mostly minorities group. Also the Poland had to
deal with two aggressive countries by her side,
Germany and Russia. Hitler had known the situation
Poland was under. He knew that Poland would not
agree to his demands b...
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O J Simpson Columbine High School
1,644 words
Thesis: The Hindenburg has contributed to the
history of aircraft as well as A. attention getter
and relate it to Hindenburg A. Count von Zeppelins
first rigid airships III. Paul von Hindenburg: The
man that the famous airship was named after. A.
Hindenburg, king of rigid airships and the last of
them. B. aircraft has changed because of it C.
investigations have changed because of it. the
hindenburg's history and investigation A 747, O.
J. Simpson, the Goodyear blimp and the shooting at
Columbin...
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Things They Carried Playing Basketball
1,178 words
William Timothy O'Brien was born on October 1 st,
1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He planned on having a
good career, and to follow in the foot- steps of
his parents. His father, William, was an insurance
agent, and his mother, Tim graduated from high
school, and then went on to college to continue
his education. At the age of twenty-two, he was
drafted into the United States Armed Forces to
fight during the conflict in Vietnam. Tim was less
than thrilled. Being a soldier in the Army was not
somethin...
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Things They Carried Water Buffalo
1,177 words
... about the field that night. Something about
the way Kiowa disappeared into the crud. You were
there... You can tell it. " (The Things They
Carried). Two years after O'Brien received that
letter, Norman Bowker took his own life. He hung
himself with a jump rope inside the locker room at
the YMCA after playing an eight hour long game of
basketball. He left no suicide note, but Tim
O'Brien knew why he did it. In "Notes", O'Brien
talks about why he decided to write about Bowker.
"Now, a decade a...
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Karl Marx Social Classes
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The late 1800 's was a time period where new
ideas, theories, and philosophies ran through the
minds of many young people. Amongst them was a man
be the name of Karl Marx who stood out in the
crowd. Known as a man of great integrity and
intelligence, Marx was thought to be one of the
greatest thinkers of all time. "Philosophy and
Myth in Karl Marx: 2 nd Edition" by Robert C.
Tucker is a book about Marx and his philosophies.
Robert C. Tucker in this book ventures out to
critique and give an inter...
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Years Of His Life Adolf Hitler
1,067 words
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20,
1889. He created a lot of myths around his early
life in order to show that he was destined for
greatness. In fact, there was nothing very
extraordinary about his background. He was the son
of a minor customs official and peasant girl. He
was a poor student, and never completed high
school. He also applied for admission to the
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna but was rejected
for lack of talent. The young Hitler thought of
himself as a misunderstood ar...
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Britain And France North Africa
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The racist and fascist ideals of Nazism have long
claimed to be based on and supported by the
writings of the German philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche. In actuality however, Nietzsche's ideas
could not be more opposed to those of the Nazis.
The blatant racism, oppression, and mass mentality
of the National Socialists in no way fits with
Nietzsche's writings or ideals. Knowing this, it
is difficult to understand how Adolf Hitler
managed to warp Nietzsche's individualistic,
anti-racist, and anti-Ger...
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Communist Manifesto Centralized Government
875 words
Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, a town in
Prussia. His parents were of Jewish descent,
although they were not practitioners of the
religion. In fact, by 1824 his family adopted
Protestantism, and Karl was baptized within the
Christian faith. Later the young writer attended
the Universities of Bonn and Berlin majoring in
history and philosophy, and spending his other
time studying law. Following his graduation from
college Marx became involved with the "Left
Hegelians", an activist group cen...
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League Of Nations Austria Hungary
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... main together and work as one. Why did the
Industrial Revolution begin in England - made
economy involved in countries movements. Was the
start of technology. What problems were there in
factories - women and children were working.
Laissez-Faire - Adam Smith's philosophy, means
that gov't shouldn't mess with the economy.
Socialism - When the gov't and the people own
things both. Charles Darwin - studied the theory
of evolution, biology. Why did immigrants come to
the U. S. A in the 1800 's -...
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United States And Canada Hannibal Lecter
773 words
North American moviegoers were hungry for Hannibal
the Cannibal at the weekend. "Hannibal, " a
thriller starring Sir Anthony Hopkins in a
long-awaited follow-up to the 1991 hit "The
Silence of the Lambs, " grossed a record-breaking
$ 58 million in its first three days of release in
the United States and Canada, according to studio
estimates issued on Sunday. If the numbers hold
when final data are issued on Monday, "Hannibal"
will replace 2000 's "Mission: Impossible II" ($
57. 9 million) as the...
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Mikhail Gorbachev Warsaw Pact
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THE COLD WAR The Cold War was the located tension
between the Soviet Union and the United States of
America. It started in the mid 40 's after WWII
had left Europe in shambles and Russia and the USA
in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash
of these supergiants in political, ideological,
military, and economic values and ideas. Though
military build up was great on both sides neither
one ever directly fought each other. In this essay
I'm going to bring forth the following points:
Rise of...
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W W Ii Years Of His Life
1,358 words
Paul was born in the German town of Hand in 1895,
on December Sixteen. We might assume that
Hindemith felt a pull in the musical direction
from a very early age; Paul's father was a painter
and did not want his son becoming a musician, so
our little composer-to-be ran away at the age of
11, and started his own life. Paul taught himself
the violin and viola, and began earning his living
by playing at Cafes and other such establishments.
Eventually, Hindemith learned the rudiments of all
the instr...
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Academy Of Science Petersburg Academy
571 words
Leonhard Euler, (born April 15, 1707, died Sept.
18, 1783), was the most prolific mathematician in
history. His 866 books and articles represent
about one third of the entire body of research on
mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering
mechanics published between 1726 and 1800. In pure
mathematics, he integrated Leibniz's differential
calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into
mathematical analysis; refined the notion of a
function; made common many mathematical notations,
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Calculating Machine Royal Society
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm
von Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646 in Leipzig.
His father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy and
Vice Chairman of the faculty of philosophy at the
University of Leipzig. His father died when he was
six, so his mother raised him. When he was seven,
Leibniz attended the Nicolai School in Leipzig. At
the school he was taught Latin, but he also taught
himself more advanced Latin and some Greek by the
age of 12. In 1661, when Leibniz was fourteen he
...
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Types Of Memory Four Types
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During the late 1800 s a new science was emerging
in Europe. Psychology's roots can be traced back
to Germany and a man by the name of William Want.
Following Want other psychologists began emerging
in different fields. Of these pioneers Herman
Ebbinghaus was one, and his field of study was
memory. He performed the first experiments in 1885
in Germany and the following is a background on
the man and his field. Herman Ebbinghaus was born
in 1850 in Germany and died there in 1909. He
received his ...
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Crime Scene Fat Man
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Pashazade by Jon Courtenay GrimwoodThe sound of
fountains came in stereo. A deep splash from the
courtyard below and a lighter trickle from the
next room, where open arches cut in a wall that
over-looked the courtyard had marble balustrades
stretched between supporting pillars. It was that
kind of house. Old, historic, near derelict in
places. Ambient temp 81 Fahrenheit, humidity
sixty-two percent The American spoke clearly,
reading the data from the face of his watch, then
glanced through a sma...
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