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Frank Lloyd Wright Organic Architecture
1,317 wordsDo you have a living room in your house? A carport? Does your house have an "open" floor plan? If so, then the way you live is being directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's innovations in residential architecture (Copplestone 1). Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in southwestern Wisconsin of talented and dynamic parents; his father a preacher and musician, his mother a teacher. From his father, Wright learned how the order and structure of music had influenced his perception of architectur...
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Speech By Neville Chamberlain
1,421 wordsBritish Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave this speech to the House of Commons on September 1, 1939, just hours after Hitler's troops had invaded Poland. Chamberlain and others had spent years negotiating with Hitler in order to prevent another war in Europe, two decades after the Great War in which an entire generation of young men had been wiped out. Negotiations with Hitler had included surrendering the sovereign rights of Czechoslovakia and standing by as Hitler's troops took Austria. B...
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Members Of The Group Concentration Camps
1,081 wordsThe Franks were an old German- Jewish family. Anne, the youngest daughter, was born on June 12, 1929, in the town of Frankfurt-on-Main in Germany. Anne Frank records her feelings, emotions, and thoughts, as well as the events that happened while forced into hiding, in her diary. Four years later, in the summer of 1933, the Frank family moved to Holland because Hitler had come into power in Germany and had introduced strict laws which discriminated against Jews. In addition, gangs of Nazi thugs w...
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Refuse To Accept Extermination Camps
1,201 wordsDuring the 1930 s, the Nazis built concentration camps to imprison the parts of the population that they desired. At first the camps were located in Germany, but as the Nazi forces spread across Europe, so did the camps. Eventually the camps were created to murder the European Jews. Every day thousands of prisoners were suffocated in the gas chambers, after which their bodies were burned in the crematoriums. In Auschwitz, the most notorious death camp, approximately 1. 5 million Jews were killed...
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Encarta 98 Encyclopedia Back To Jamestown Lucille
1,146 words... in the entertainment world. She even tried using stage names, she encouraged people to call her Montana. No matter what she called herself, Lucille could get no further than auditions. She supported herself by getting part-time jobs selling theatrical cosmetics at Greys drugstore and clerking at Woolworths. Lucille even considered becoming a beautician, but she didnt have the money to take the course required to get a license. During this time she lived with a family in Washington Heights wh...
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Sir Winston Lenard Spencer Churchill
1,114 wordsSir Winston Lenord Spencer Churchill Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy (Bra censored internet). This speech was made October 29, 1941 to the boys at Churchill's old public school to hopefully direct the students in the direction that would help them later on ion their lives. Sir Winston Lenord Spenc...
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Black Middle Class African Americans
1,782 wordsAfrican Americans continue to have high levels of poverty compared to European Americans. What are the causes of these problems, and what are some possible remedies for the future? How are African American women faced with even more discrimination than African American men? There's an old saying that you don't know where you " re going if you don't know where you " ve come from. To explore our options of improving social justice in the future, we must first take a look at our past. There are spe...
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Diary Of Anne Frank
624 wordsThe story Diary of Anne Frank was a very interesting book which showed the ways a group of Jewish people during the 1940 's went about trying to conceal their identity and themselves. This story was a true story taken from a diary of a young girl during the incident. This was made into a play during 1955. This was praised as Frances Goodrich's and her husband Albert Hackett's most famous work as it was performed. The play was started in November of 1945. As Mr. Frank began to read the diary, it ...
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Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize
1,159 wordsCarl Sandburg was an American poet born in 1878 in Galesburg, IL. He was a great poet as his work showed great emotion and feeling. People have been enjoying Sandburg's wonderful poetry for some time now. He has written over 150 poems in his time, and all are considered to be well written (Ronsen, 32). Carl Sandburg was an average man who became an outstanding poet. Carl Sandburg parents were Swedish immigrants who were very hard working. His father was a blacksmith helper for the nearby Chicago...
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British Troops Good Amount
942 wordsField Marshal Erwin Rommel was one of Germany's greatest soldiers. He was a brave and dedicated commander who fought valiantly in World War One and achieved mythic stature among the armies of World War Two, and those who didnt know of him quickly learned of his amazing feats on the battlefield. And much like Yamamotto of Japan he knew Germany was going to lose the war but fought the battles all the same. Sadly though his life would never see peace because he died in 1944 with accusations of cons...
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World War Ii Men And Women
941 wordsHomeward Bound differs from the other works read to this point in that it is a social history. The author, Elaine Tyler May, looks at statistics derived from marriage and family patterns, and then attempts to show how the politics of the Cold War impacted people's decisions about when to marry, how many children to have, and whether to be a one- or two-income family. In May's opinion, the politics of the Cold War determined, to a large extent, how people of childbearing age made decisions regard...
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Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
1,168 wordsThe Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison by far was a great novel to show the impact that white America had on black America. Ralph Ellison explored the depths of racism and discrimination experienced by a black person from the 1920 s through the 1940 s. Before the novel begins you notice the character as he is at the end of it all. For it seems the character gives up because he realizes hes invisible in the eyes of others. Many of the ideas in the novel that were express give hint that the story is a...
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Loman The American Dream
1,202 wordsDuring the 1940 s, American society became increasingly consumerist and more competitive than ever before. Arthur Miller's play 'Death of a Salesman' questions the values upon which this society is based and the way in which these contribute to the destruction of a man such as Willy Loman. He is very critical of a society which he seems to see as being destructive in many ways. The idea of the 'American Dream' made people believe that any man living in America could, with personality and dedicat...
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Lost Their Jobs Mccarthy Hearings
1,250 wordsThe Cold War ushered in a new era in the American society that would change the way in which everyday life was carried on by the public. Men, women and children were convinced to fit the average mold that was promoted through propaganda issued from the American government and media. Events, such as the McCarthy hearings and Hollywood Blacklisting, contributed to the overwhelming fear of nonconformity. The American public was bombarded with images of conformity such as the popular family sitcoms ...
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Middle East North Africa
996 words... ns. Churchill was always very interested in the Middle East, and believed that their resources were worth protecting. Accordingly, he fully supported Wells operations in North Africa. Indeed, Churchill was always will to send reinforcements. He truly believed that he would meet both Germany and Italy in the Middle East. Part of Churchill's plan against Germany was to attack them peripherally, through its weakest link, Italy. Italy was very interested in taking over Libya. Mussolini had 25, 0...
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Allied Forces Western Front
886 wordsDesert Fox Erwin Rommel was born in 1891. As field marshal he was known best for his capture of 9, 000 allied forces during World War I. On the Germans invasion of France in 1940, Rommel commanded the well-known Ghost Division or otherwise known as the German 7 th Panzer Division. Pushing every machine and every man to extreme limits, Rommel s forces moved 350 miles in six weeks. Never had tanks moved so far in such little time. Rommel joined the German army in 1910. He won awards for his braver...
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E J Pratt History E J Poetry
321 wordsHistory E. J. E. J. Pratt E. J. Pratt History E. J. Pratt was born in Western Bay, Newfoundland, February 4 1882. He grew up in a succession of Newfoundland outports. He completed his schooling at the Methodist College in St. Johns. After two years of teaching, in 1904 Edwin became a candidate for the Methodist Ministry. He served a three year probation ship and then he entered Victoria College. There, he studied theology and psychology. He was ordained in 1913. Edwin never served as a regular M...
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Millions Of Years Ozone Layer
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