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One Sees Long Time
1,321 wordsArt, according to Websters Dictionary, is a human skill of expression of other objects by painting, drawing, and sculpture. People have used art as a form of expression for a long time. From the Mesopotamian era to the Classical Greeks and the present. Art is expressed in many different ways and styles, and is rapidly changing, one style replacing another. Impressionism and Cubism broke away from the traditional style of painting. They were both looking for a new way to express everyday life. Ti...
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Prison Camp Third Reich
1,006 wordsTowards the end of WWII, Theodore Roosevelt was having a meeting on how he could end the war. Director of the Office of Strategic Services (William Donovan) was summing up the war in 3 sentences. First, each and every day the war continued in Europe, 27, 000 men, women & children would die. Second, a group of German officers were ready to assume leadership of the Third Reich if an opportunity would arise, and would instantly surrender. Finally, it had been confirmed that General Eisenhower's rep...
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Secretary Of War Confederate Troops
1,133 wordsOn May 8, 1861, William Tecumseh Sherman wrote to the Secretary of War, offering his services not for three months, but for three years. He did not want to become a political general and on June 20, 1861 accepted the grade of Colonel in the Thirteenth Regular Infantry. He assumed command of a brigade in the First Division of McDowell's army under the command of Brigadier-General Daniel Tyler. His brigade, stationed at a stone bridge during the battle of First Manassas (Bull Run), was routed by d...
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Civil War Began January 1 1863
1,201 wordsIt was a war to surpass all wars. It began as a disagreement; who had the right to succeed, and whose power was more effective. The Civil War began as a test of states rights versus federal rights, and augmented into the bloodiest battle to ever be fought on American soil. When it began, both sides were certain that the war would be quick, ninety days at most, and God would see to it that the one in the right was victorious. As the days progressed, and the ninety days passed, the fate of the war...
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German Army Soviet Union
968 wordsAfter losses and failure of Operation Barbarossa, Hitler now had new objectives in the war. He planned to drive Soviet forces out of the Southern Steppes and the Caucasus region and taking over the abundant supply of natural mineral wealth, especially oil, which was a key ingredient for Germany's war machine. Another reason was that Axis forces could have direct access to the Middle East and be able to have the military capability for a final annihilating sweep Northward through Soviet forces in...
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Civil War Nineteenth Century
1,007 wordsThere were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote about the war. Some used the war to express their ideas concerning society, religion, and mans place in the world. While others aspired to capture the effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers and their families. Few of the poets trying to capture the wars effects approached realism because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was typical for their era. There were so many different feelings express in the poetry about the Civil War. I p...
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San Carlos White Men
922 wordsFor generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apache were threatened by the incursions of white fortune-seekers. In an incident at a mining camp, Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreo Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting ...
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Work Of Art Jerry Uelsmanns Photography
398 wordsJerry Uelsmanns was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 11, 1934. He began his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He continued on to Indiana University in 1960 and received his Masters degree. Uelsmann's first job was at the University of Florida in Gainesville teaching photography and in 1974 he became the graduate research professor of art at UF. He continues to work at the University while perfecting his metamorphosis ideas in ph...
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Photographer Must Adjust Outer Circle Photo
550 wordsTo optimize the quality of ones portrait photos, a photographer must combine a series of camera techniques. A photo is a piece of art used to capture a moment in time. For a photographer to beautify the appearance of the photos he takes, he must know how his camera works. The photographer must adjust his aperture to suit the type of film he has and know how to load the film. Stillness is a key factor in taking a quality photo. If the camera is shaken during the time that the shutter is opening a...
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Emancipation Proclamation Hughes Wrote
946 words1. How does the title affect your reading of and response to the poem? I could only understand the meaning of the title of the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers after I gave my first opinion about it to my English professor. The poem has a simple, yet carefully chosen use of language, but the intricate ideas and the message the poem sends to the readers surprised me. My first impression about the title and the poem itself was that the author wrote about the memoirs of a captured slave. The surpris...
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Power Rangers Violent Television
1,742 wordsIn my experiment I will study the behavior of children before, during and after viewing a violent television program, specifically "The Power Rangers. " I will use the theories of Charles Horton Cooley, George Herbert Mead and Harold Wilensky to analyze the results according to their theories. Cooley's theory is that people shape the aspects of their identity so that it would fit what others would want. Therefore we would become the kind of person we believe others think we should be. Harold Wil...
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Action Pursuit Games Show That Paintball Players
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Quantum Mechanics Truth Value
1,498 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The debate between realism and anti-realism is, at least, a century old. Does Science describe the real world or are its theories true only within a certain conceptual framework? Is science only instrumental or empirically adequate or is there more to it than that? Jose Ortega y Glasses said (in an unrelated exchange) that all ideas stem from pre-rational beliefs. William James concurr...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Eyeball To
1,161 wordster> Eyeball to Eyeball: America, Cuba and The Soviet Union America and The Soviets again using other countries for their own warfare Excitement was high for Cuba, when Fidel Castro overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in January 1959. With a heady mixture of nationalism and left wing ideologies US became very cautious for its southern comrades Central and Southern America and perhaps herself. When Castro took over Cuba, the US lost valuable investments in the sugar and toba...
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Meaning Of Love Benjamin Franklin
803 wordsThe famous Benjamin Franklin once said, "If you would be loved, love and be lovable. " But what is love, it can be defined by the Webster's dictionary as a "profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. " Even with that just being said countless poets, philosophers, and authors have fallen short of truly capturing the full meaning of love. The reason could lie in the differences of love and its ability to change throughout our lives. When a baby is born and placed into the hands of...
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The Winged Human Headed Bull
275 wordsThe one piece of Mesopotamian art that struck me the most was the Winged Human Headed Bull, also called Lamassu. This high relief struck me because of its power. It is able to command attention through its size, position, and strangeness. Its scale is massive at almost fourteen feet tall. It is placed at the entrance of the Citadel of Sargon II, demanding attention and setting the mood. It carries a strangeness with its five legs, bull body, human head, and bird wings. When I first saw this piec...
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Hannibal Crosses The Alps
1,256 wordsThe march of Hannibal across the Alps onto Italy is thought to be legendary. Having read this book, that mere sentence is reiterated to its full extent. He had to fight his way through a Roman army, cross the Pyrenees (themselves a difficult range of mountains), then fight his way across southern France, for this area was under Roman control, then cross the formidable Alps. The scope of this accomplishment is often overlooked for Hannibal did much more than cross the formidable Alps. Hannibal Cr...
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End Of The Movie Jane Austen
1,523 wordsComparison of Mansfield Park and Metropolitan Whit Stillman's attempt to capture Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park on film in Metropolitan is a fair adaptation but it is unable to give the viewer the same insights. Stillman manages to have most of Mansfield Parks characters represented in some way or another, however the time needed to develop those characters is simply not there in a two hour movie. It is this development that makes Jane Austen's books so interesting. She spends an enormous am...
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Snow Geese Snow Goose Fiennes
827 wordsStairway to heaven The Snow Geese William Fiennes 256 pp, Picador At the age of 25, William Fiennes suffered severe illness in the middle of his postgraduate studies. During a long period of convalescence, he had time to reflect on this trauma, and why it had triggered in him such a deep yearning for the soothing familiarity and reassurance of his parents family home in the English Midlands. Fiennes also sought to fill the vacuum created by his enforced leisure with an old neglected interest in ...
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Venus Fly Trap Plasmolysis And Turgor Cells
667 wordsOsmosis, Plasmolysis, and Turgor Each cell has constantly to cope with osmotic phenomenons. Cells without walls that live in aqueous solutions are usually hypertonic. They are subject to a continuous influx of water that results in a pressure on the inside of the membrane. Some ciliates (like Paramecium) and flagellates (Euglena) have a special organ, a pulsating vacuole, that pumps the water out again and has to be supplied with energy. Red blood cells (erythrocytes) occur normally in isotonic ...
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