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Artistic Innovations Of Renaissance Florentine Painters
1,722 wordsArtistic Innovations of Renaissance Florentine Painters During the Renaissance, many new, different styles of painting were developed. Many of these techniques were perfected by Florentine painters. Some of these styles techniques include perspective, life-like human forms, realistic looking objects and chiaroscuro. These developments began to form in the early Quattrocento and were slowly perfected by a long flow of artists. Their influences included new scientific discoveries as well as new ou...
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Cambridge Harvard Opium War
1,219 words... eir well, equipped ammunition smuggling boats, they would take the delivery of opium chests from the foreigners' receiving ships around the coasts of China. Gradually, the number of illicit smuggling increased in Chinese waters, particular in the north of Canton (Fairbank, Reischauer, Craig 452). As a consequence, opium addiction and illegal smuggling soared corrupting the government and China spiraled into what some call the worst drug case in human history. So what was proposed to resolve ...
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Greek And Roman Cambridge Harvard
1,855 words... meaning. After all, Thomas Carlyle once said that a man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Just as a rudder guides a ship, these ideals guided the Greeks. These rituals, prayers, offerings and sacrifices, as well as the prospect of a better afterlife provided the Greeks with hope and stability. The belief in a greater afterlife allowed them to live a fuller life without the fear of death. The Greeks also esteemed numerous festivals, athletic games and the arts that were a par...
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Anthropological Perspectives Social Organization
2,978 wordsJason Howard The purpose of this essay is to show embedded ness of prestige system into subsystems of the cultures. We will discuss four cultures which represent four different types of social organizations; ! Kung San represents band organization, Mundurucu represents village type, Polynesia Chiefdom, and Andalusia represents state type of social organization. In all of these cultures prestige system, which is the gender system, is imbedded into other subsystems. Three of these cultures: Mundur...
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Emily Dickinson Harlem Renaissance
2,531 wordsSince Lesbian Poetry Lesbian Poetry Since the beginning of time writers have expressed their deepest thoughts and desires through poetry. In poetry, writers have found that they can express a thought, a memory, a person, a landscape, etc. More often authors write about love, both physical and mental. Found in this genre of love is intimate imagery, suggestive language, and exotic fancies. Most published love poems express love relationships between men and women but what most anthologies and col...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,844 wordsRobert Lowell (1964) [Lowells review was important for Berryman: it appeared in the New York Review of Books and at the height of Lowells own achievement For the Union Dead had just been published. Lowell was at times baffled, irritated and dismayed by the poems, and when he offered support, it was remarkably tentative... His descriptions would set the tone for other reviewers. When eulogizing Berryman in 1972, Lowell blurted out: " 77 Dream Songs are harder than most hard modern poetry, th...
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Tennis Court Oath Quot Quot
3,375 wordsAlan Williamson (1984) How many movies have we all seen on the subject of runaway children who cross paths with a murderer a subject whose appeal, surely, is to our own anxiety about the relation between normal venturesomeness and the completely out of bounds? And hiding from darkness in barns They can be grownups now And the murderers ash tray is more easily The lake a lilac cube. When the children " can be grownups, " the evidence of evil is at once " more easily" and I thi...
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Chiang Kai Shek Mao Tse Tung
4,785 wordsMao, Maoism and the Evolution of The Chinese Communist Party: An Historical Commentary Isolated from its neighbours by the vast windswept deserts of central Asia and the mighty Tibetan plateaus to the west, by the Jungles of the south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the east, China developed a civilization and cultural tradition independent from the rest of the world, even though it accepted many inventions and ideas created elsewhere. Because of this isolated evolution, the social institutions wit...
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