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Philippe Auguste Paul Cezanne Art
1,052 wordsAfter fifty years of the most radical change in art from images to free abstraction, Czanne's painting, which looks old-fashioned today in its attachment to nature, maintains itself fresh and stimulating to young painters of our time. He has produced no school, but he has given an impulse directly or indirectly to almost every new movement since he died. His power to excite artists of different tendency and temperament is due, I think, to the fact that he realized with equal fullness so many dif...
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Declaration Of Independence Legislative Branch
1,170 wordsThe American Revolution was fought for a plethora of reasons, notably because of a series of actions by the British stemming from around 1763 to the beginning of the war in 1776. In other words, there were three imperial crises that eventually led up toe the Declaration of Independence in July 1776. The first period began with the Proclamation of 1763, which created a border between white settlers and indians and ended with the 1765 Stamp Act. Enraged, the colonists rioted, boycotted, and formed...
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Federal Troops Labor Force
1,042 wordsEverything seemed so perfect. Pullman, Illinois was a company town on the outskirts of Chicago, founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman advertised his town as a model community that included everything from parks to libraries and was filled with satisfied, well paid workers. Each resident worked for the Pullman company, which manufactured railroad cars, and by 1894 it operated "first class" sleeping cars on almost every one of the nation's major...
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Detroit Automobile Company Joined The Detroit Henry
323 wordsHenry was born in July 30, 1863 and was the oldest of 6 siblings. Henry grew up on a family farm in Michigan. Henry enjoyed attending school and doing farm chores. But when Henry grew older his interest in doing farm chores disappeared when he was introduced into the world of mechanics. When Henry turned 16 in 1879 he left the farm which he was most ashamed of and left for Detroit and joined the Detroit Edison company. In Detroit Henry worked their as a assistant mechanic. But Henry often visite...
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Women And Children Florence Nightingale
836 wordsOn January 23, 1849, a young woman walked across the stage of the Presbyterian Church in Geneva, NY. She was given a degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Geneva Medical College. And she happened to be the very first woman to earn the degree. Her name was Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England on February 3, 1821. She received her childhood education by private tutor. In 1832, her father, Samuel Blackwell, moved her family to the United States. They lived first in New York ...
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Martin Luther King Jr Civil Rights Movement
1,328 words... ogs and pinned against buildings by torrents of water from fire hoses were shown in newspapers and on televisions around the world. During the demonstrations, King was arrested and sent to jail. He wrote a letter from his jail cell to local clergymen who had criticized him for creating disorder in the city. His Letter from Birmingham City Jail, which argued that individuals had the moral right and responsibility to disobey unjust laws, was widely read at the time and added to Kings standing ...
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Saudi Arabia Persian Gulf
1,155 wordsIn the beginning of August 1990, Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq, had built up troops on the southeastern border of his country. Everyone knew he was going to order an invasion into the small country of Kuwait, lying just on the other side of the crowded imaginary line. Sure enough, on August 2, troops poured into Kuwait, terrorizing and killing many people (Bratman 5). Hussein's main objective seemed to be to get another ten percent of the worlds oil supply that was flowing beneath the teeny ...
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Adolf Hitler Racial Hatred
594 wordsHow did Adolf Hitler become such a powerful dictator? His power to convince the Germans that the Jews were the cause of all their problems, was so great. He was a powerful speaker. He organized meeting after meeting. All he did was spread his racial hatred and contempt for democracy. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He was a poor student, he never completed high school. He was rejected from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna due to his lack of talent. Hitler r...
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Waffen Ss Three Days
1,272 wordsThe summer of 1944 saw the beginning of long awaited battles begin. The Allied landings in France, and the Soviet offensive against Army Group Middle. From now till the end of the war the Waffen SS would be in constant action and its strength would dwindle accordingly. Replacements and refits were few and far between, and always inadequate. At the time of the Normandy landings the four Waffen SS divison's in the West were widely scattered. LAH was in Belgium, Hitlerjugend [HJ] west of Paris, Get...
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Unification Of Italy And Germany
559 wordsBy 1871 both the kingdom of Italy and the empire of Germany were united. Even though both countries used popular trends to that time, both liberalism and nationalism, the process unifying these two countries was very different. The end result was Germany emerging as a strong nation and Italy appropriately, the weaker. Italy's problems started with the fact that it didnt have one main ruler, but two people and a concept, resulting in a different approach to the unification. Gulseppe Mazzini had a...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn Ode To A Nightingale
963 wordsThis is one of the most discussed of Keats's odes because of the ambiguity of the closing lines. To determine their meaning, however, one must consider the whole poem. The poet begins by addressing the urn, a large sculpted vessels that is unlike any real urn. Keats made up the figure on the urn from a variety of sources among Greek works of art. STANZA 1. The poet speaks of two qualities of the urn. As an "un ravished bride" it is a perfect object, unmarked by the passage of time. As a "sylvan ...
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Human Beings Rhetorical Question
1,747 wordsWe human beings may not be the most admirable species on the planet, or the most likely to survive for another millennium, but we are without any doubt at all the most intelligent. We are also the only species with language. What is the relation between these two obvious facts? Before going on to consider that question, I must pause briefly to defend my second premise. Don't whales and dolphins, vervet monkeys and honey bees (the list goes on) have languages of sorts? Haven't chimpanzees in labo...
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Means Of Production Karl Marx
978 wordsMarxism in the XX Century Socialism granted a powerful language for the working-class to express their interests. Many workers, who were enfranchised in the latter portion of the century joined political parties espousing this doctrine. Socialism existed before Karl Marx presented himself to the scene. In fact, Marx drew from the theories of the foremost prophets of socialism: Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier in France, and Robert Owen in Great Britain. However, he gave these theories hi...
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Should The Us Be Optimistic About Russia Future
1,287 wordsShould The US be optimistic about Russia's Future Should We Be Guardedly Optimistic About Russias Economic and Political Future? It remains to be seen whether Russia will be successful in converting to a capitalistic and democratic society. Since 1989, Russia has slowly deteriorated into a country in great crises. The GDP has decreased at about a 9 % per year since 1990 and more and more Russians are going into poverty every year. This is a big problem, Russia is still a nuclear power, and we do...
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Gaius Julius Caesar B C Caesar
1,078 wordsJULIUS CAESAR In the last century of Rome, a great general and politician rose to become the sole ruler of the republic. That ruler was Julius Caesar. Born Gaius Julius Caesar on July 13, 100 B. C. , he was the son of a patri- cian family. His father was also named Gaius Julius Caesar. His mother was Aurelia, who was part of the Aurelii family, an important Roman family. Julius Caesar was raised to be in the military, because his father was a general and gave Julius the desire to follow in his f...
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Major League Baseball Jackie Robinson
1,039 wordsJackie Robinson: Breaking the Color Barrier April 15, 1946 was an important event in not only baseball history but also in the history of America. Thousands of baseball fans crowded into Ebbits Field to see one man, the first black ever to play in Major League Baseball, and one man who would eventually put an end to segregation in baseball. That one man s name is Jack Roosevelt Robinson, otherwise known as Jackie Robinson. His struggle to break the color barrier helped set the standards for futu...
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Compact Disc Cd Rom
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One Hundred Years North America
535 wordsThe Jesuit community was founded in the year 1540. Jesuit, or the Society of Jesus, played an important role in the renewal of the Catholic Church. Most of the early Jesuits were scholars, teachers, and also trained as missionaries. Some were also preachers who devoted all of their time to helping the sick, imprisoned, and wounded soldiers. In the year 1556, there were about a thousand Jesuits. One hundred years later, there were nearly fifteen thousand. After the next one hundred years, the num...
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John D Rockefeller Standard Oil
1,391 wordsIn New Millionaires New Millionaires In 1865, America was a young country trying to repair damages from a war it had fought with itself. Badly damaged and unaware of what to do, the promise of our once thriving country was not looking good. The economy was bad as states struggled to replace crops they had destroyed and find jobs for the men who had fought in the war. Many were hurt and unable to work, and others were mentally scarred from fighting their own countrymen, sometimes their own family...
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Chang And Eng Conjoined Twins Circus
323 wordsThe etymology of term siamese twins can be attributed to Chang and Eng Bunker, the famous conjoined twins from Siam who earned their living in the U. S. as a circus attraction in the Barnum and Baily Circus. They we reborn on May 11, 1811 in Siam and eventually made their way to the United States where they earned a living first as circus attractions and then as farmers. Scientists of the day argued over whether the brothers could be successfully separated, since the twins joined at the chest by...
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