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Young Man Young Son
1,288 wordsYears ago a hardworking man took his family from New York State to Australia to take advantage of a work opportunity there. Part of this man's family was a handsome young son who had aspirations of joining the circus as a trapeze artist or an actor. This young fellow, biding his time until a circus job or even one as a stagehand came along, worked at the local shipyards which bordered on the worse section of town. Walking home from work one evening this young man was thugs who wanted to rob him....
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Meaning Of Love Stephen Blackpool
1,401 wordsIn Hard Times there is a teacher called Mr Gradgrind, Mr Gradgrind set up a school As a charity. Although this makes him sound like a kind man he is quite the opposite. He is very harsh and cruel man. I know this because of how he treats one of the members of his school. Her name is Sissy June. One day Mr Gradgrind said girl number 20, who is that girl. Sissy stood up and said me sir. Mr Gradgrind asked her name, when she replied he said sissy is not a name and your father should not call you it...
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Animal Abuse World Book
991 wordsLadies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up and witness the amazing feats presented before your very eyes! Grab a bag of peanuts, a stick of cotton candy and find your seats, because youre going to need them. Since animals do not usually stand on their heads, ride unicycles, or wear glitzy bow-ties, circus workers take it upon themselves to force the animals into submission by utilizing inhumane methods. Circus animals are made to live in substandard conditions where they have litt...
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One Less Venue Letter To Mayor Animals
1,050 words... include, abuses or bullhook's, whips, rope, electrical shock, sticks, muzzles, metal pipes, baseball bats, chains, axe handles and firearms. Trainers justify the use of these by saying the animals wont perform if they dont learn whos boss. Once the animal has been beaten into submission, it will do what it is told to do for fear of being severely punished. The worst tool is arguably the ankus or bullock. The bullock is a stick with a sharp staff-like hook at its end. Trainers have been known...
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Roman Architecture Roman Empire
1,611 words... mes and public works are to Roman architecture, the true beauty and amazing feats of the culture lie in several masterpieces of the Roman people. These structures, of immense importance to the Romans, have stood for two thousand years as symbols of the greatness and legend of the Roman Empire. The masterpieces are not only of immense proportion, but also of great beauty and sophistication. They are our closest link to the Roman people and their lifestyle. The first, and maybe most magnificen...
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Animal Cruelty Queen Victoria
2,262 wordsAnimal Cruelty All of us, each of us, are interested in living in the world without violence and cruelty, to not be afraid to test them on ourselves. And whether you know, that annually millions experimental animals suffer and die in research laboratories? They are burnt, scalded, poisoned and starved, they are subject to torture by electric discharges and addicted to drugs; they are subject to impact of the low temperatures close to a freezing point, they contained since birth in full darkness ...
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James Joyce Short Stories
1,376 wordsAraby " Anyone still capable of wondering aloud whether the last word on Joyce has not already been published demonstrates an ignorance of the scope of the problem comparable to assuming that the Model T Ford is the last word in locomotive possibilities" (Benstock 1). This quote of Bernard Benstock serves as evidence to the complexity and the brilliance of James Joyce's works. In fact, some would say that his works were too brilliant and complex, as it took ten years for his collection...
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20 Th Century 18 Th Century
1,055 wordsClown a performer, usually in a circus, who plays the fool, performs practical jokes, and does tricks to make people laugh. Other names for clowns are buffoon, jester, fool, conjurer, mirth maker, tumbler, gleeman, mime, actor, harlequin, merry counselor, comic, and puppeteer. Even though there are many types of clowns, each clown develops a face, meaning a personality. A clown s face, once created, becomes the clown s unique personal property. Whiteface The oldest type of clown is the whiteface...
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Circus Drawings Wire Sculptures Calder
850 wordsAbove all, I feel art should be happy and not lugubrious, Alexander Calder. Alexander Calder, born in 1898, is most well known for his mobile and stabile sculptures. However, Calder s first real interest in the world of art, and becoming an artist, started with drafting, sketching and drawing. It is in these early works by Calder that we are able to see him develop and evolve into the accomplished artist he became. In other words, Calder s early drawings reveal his infamous sense of humor, movem...
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German Immigrants Urban Areas
1,165 wordsEntertainment in Milwaukee and its Effect on Urban Areas Summerfest. German Fest. The Great Circus Parade. Not just these, but, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Pearl Jam and many others. These are just a few of the exciting entertainment events that one can enjoy in the great city of Milwaukee. Milwaukee is a city that is known for its great festivals and its variety of entertainment spectacles. Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin. Its population is 628, 088 and has a population density of...
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Twentieth Century Interpretations Jersey Prentice Hall
1,762 wordsTimes That Truly Were Hard When we think of hard times in todays world, our thoughts might consist of the number of days before we get paid, an argument with our spouse, or simply that our car is not operating so great these days. Most people today can not begin to imagine what hard times were like during the Industrial Revolution. In nineteenth century England, hard times to the factory workers may have consisted of watching ones nine-year-old child tied to a machine in the mill for fourteen ho...
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Isolated From Society York Simon 038 Schuster
3,513 wordsNothing is more apparent in the genre of satire than the ridicule of the vices and immoralities of society. This focussing on the defects of society as a whole doubles as a function of this genre of literature and a framework within the plot or theme of the novel or story. The satirist emphasizes the ugly ramifications of society, but to do so the satirist needs a vehicle for the observation of society s actions and effects as a whole. This society is often represented as a microcosm or series o...
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Katherine Anne Porter Leaning Tower
1,041 wordsRejection in Life Katherine Anne Porter is regarded as one of the leading modern writers of short stories. Born on May 5, 1890 in Indian Creek, Texas as the great-great-great- granddaughter of the famous American frontiersman Daniel Boone, Porter was educated at various schools. In the 1920 s and 1930 s, she contributed articles to several newspapers while living in New York City, Louisiana, California, and Washington D. C. , as well as Mexico and Western Europe. Miss Porters first collection of...
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Art New York Demoiselles D Avignon
3,050 wordsPablo Picasso Pablo Picasso A Brief Biography Pablo Ruiz Y Picasso was the most famous artist of the 20 th century. He was born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain. Picasso showed great talent at an early age. He loved to paint pictures of city life and was fascinated by the circus. He also enjoyed painting pictures of the day-to-day life of poor people in his neighbourhood and was also very poor himself. His father, Jose Ruiz Black, was a Castilian art teacher in Malaga and his mother, Maria P...
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Pop Art Soviet Union
2,073 wordsConstructivism This Poster Movements Poster Movements Constructivism This art form appeared in the early 20 th century as a result of the Russian Revolution and grew a tremendous amount during the 1920 s and 1930 s. Founded in 1917 in Russia by sculptor Antoine Pevsner and his younger brother Naum Pevsner Gabo, they believed that art should be functional and include materials and technology that are new to the market. All the people who eventually succeeded in this art form, where either forced ...
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Circus Rehearsal Eventually Lose Time
513 wordsIn E. B. White s The Ring of Time, the author gives a narrative account of his trip to a circus rehearsal where he describes a fascinating scene of a young girl practicing a horse act for an upcoming show. As a writer, he feels it is his obligation to record the events he is witnessing, and convey this to his readers without leaving anything out. However difficult this may be, the beautiful and fleeting moment is something he wishes to ultimately capture. When he arrives on the scene, White sens...
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Las Vegas Slot Machines
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