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Afro Cuban Catholic Saints Yoruba
801 wordsThe Yoruba, one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most populous groups, sixteen million strong, live in the Republic of Nigeria. They are heirs to an ancient culture exceptional for its urban density, refinement and complexity. When forced migration took Yoruba peoples to the plantations of Cuba, Brazil and Haiti, they recombined their deities into a new pantheon and incorporated Catholic saints whose powers and histories seemed parallel. For example, some representations of the Virgin Mary were equated w...
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Computer Animation Computer Games
1,004 wordsWe live in the world of computers. Tasks that were impossible to perform some ten years ago now can be easily accomplished with the help of computer. For such a short time, some things have changed so significantly that new kinds of art have emerged due to the development of new software programs, which became commonly used in the entertainment industry that became inevitable part in our daily lives. Today, probably everyone has played some computer games; saw a computer animated cartoon, or a m...
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Lighthouse At Two Lights Child With A Book Color
652 wordsVincent van Gogh's Sower is well-known for the authors use of line in the painting. Peter Paul Rubens Kermis perfectly depicts extensive use of light and color, while Chuck Closes Stanley is famous for its space. All three works exhibit extensive use of line, space and color. Authors of these works used different techniques to create impression of space, which sets up the mood of a composition. I have decided to discuss use of line, color and light in Sonia Delaunay's Electric Prism, Edward Hopp...
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Committed Suicide East Prussia
1,346 wordsHe said it was German men who had suppressed the subject. For them the worst humiliation was that their wives had been raped and they simply could not talk about it, they forbade their wives from talking about it and it became a taboo. Beevor says the story of the rapes, while important, has attracted more attention than he would have hoped. Nearly 80, 000 Russian soldiers died and more than a quarter of a million were wounded in the fight for Berlin. He said it was vital to understand the suffe...
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Historical Figures February 5
782 wordsHitler and Jesus (1) In this paper, we will compare and contrast Hitler and Jesus, as historical figures that were able to excite crowds; they used to preach, to such an extent, that many people referred to them as semi-gods. Both Jesus and Hitler and Jesus were born at 6. 30 in the morning on the same geographical latitude. Throughout their childhood, they both suffered from being called bastards. The mothers of both historical figures had a name Maria. Hitler was born in Austria, which was a s...
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One Of The Reasons Edgar Degas
1,127 wordsUniversity: Lecturer: Course: Date: Edgar Degas Outline of contents Content Page Abstract 2 Introduction 2 Life and works 2 Social depiction 3 Old age 4 Works cited 6 Abstract This paper trails the lifetime achievements of Edgar Degas, one of the most gifted artists to ever live in France. It mainly focuses on the social environment which influenced his paintings and drawings, and which became clearly depicted in them. It also portrays the artist as a unique stand-alone in his era, for his many ...
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Joint Venture Marketing Plan
647 wordsMARKETING PLAN A Marketing Plan should contain various strategies, aimed at individual or multi product line which is put to use in planning one or more Strategic Business Units (SBU). However, here, we deal with a plan focused on a single product-Straw Hats! Dan and Sam being long time good friends and fairly well placed in society as successful entrepreneurs, decided to get into business where they plan to sell straw hats as joint venture. So, they started this drive through convenience store ...
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Security Personnel April 2009
734 wordsRunning head: New CSO Guideline Name: University: Lecturer: Date: Critique of the New CSO Guideline The new version of the CSO guideline, released on June 2008, looks much better than the previous versions. The presentation of the information is much easier to follow, and there is a more logical flow of ideas from the beginning. It also looks more authoritative, with its broader coverage of all issues related to the CSO position. The amount of details provided are also awesome, considering that ...
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Fair Value Five Years
475 wordsCollege: Lecturer: Course: Date: Summary and response Outline of contents Contents Page Abstract 3 Stimulus Bill Bites Losing Companies Summary 3 Response 4 FASB Adds Fair-Value Fix to 2009 Agenda Summary 4 Response 5 Abstract This paper is a summary of two articles posted on the internet in these sites respectively: 1. web? f = archives 2. web? f = archives 1. Stimulus Bill Bites Losing Companies Summary Under the title Stimulus bill bites losing companies, Marie Leone describes how a recent pr...
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S P 500 Return On Assets
1,944 words... wrong products (tennis balls that wouldn't bounce in high-altitude Mexico City, for example, and 110 -volt appliances in Argentina, where 220 -volt is the norm) and even bollixed up entire efforts (it pulled out of a loss-plagued Indonesian venture last year). In a joking reference to those cultural gaffes, John Menzer, Wal-Mart's head of international sales, says: "My goal is not to wear my underwear around my neck anywhere I go. " (Barlett, 1996). To that end, Wal-Mart has recently altered...
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Establishment Clause Religious Belief
964 wordsEdwards v Aguillard was a 1987 Supreme Court case centering on the constitutionality of a Louisiana statue requiring that creation science be taught along side of evolution in the public schools. Evolution remains so controversial primarily because it is part of a larger debate over nature and the meaning of life. The study of how life began almost inevitably raises questions of why: Why did life begin? Why are humans rational? Why is there order in the universe? Men and women have debated these...
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World War Ii Adolph Hitler
1,967 wordsHolocaust Germany suffered the defeat in the First World War. After that, social democrats together with Liberal parties formed the new government, and Germany became the democratic state. The economic crisis of 20 th years and the monstrous economic losses suffered during the war, have led to landslide inflation. The number of the unemployed by the end of the twentieth years has made 30 percent of able-bodied population of Germany. The unemployed, who are standing in a queue for casual earnings...
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Supply Side Economics Marginal Tax Rates
1,454 wordsReaganomics and Supply-Side Economics In the 1980 s, the ideas of supply-side economics quickly went from a campaign slogan to an actual economic policy. Ronald Reagan s 1980 presidential campaign was largely geared toward this theory. Supply-side economics were based upon the ideas that lower taxes would increase spending by consumers and also by producers for capital. Consequently, this tax cut would also increase tax revenues. The theory behind this was that if taxes were increased or left at...
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Richard Son Of Nigel Comings And Out Goings Exchequer
1,026 wordsHow Well Did the English Exchequer Function in the Twelfth Century? The English exchequer was the central board responsible for all in comings and out goings into the royal treasury. It arrived with the Normans and was the first system of centralized revenue extraction to appear that although crude was a direct predecessor to the modern one. The information on how the Exchequer functioned as a method of institutionalised revenue extraction is from the 'The course of the Exchequer written by Rich...
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Work Of Art Herman Melville
290 wordsIn chapter 110 Herman Melville? s Moby Dick Queequeg is getting very sick and is near death so he orders the ships carpenter to make him a coffin with a lid, in the shape of a canoe. Once the coffin/ canoe is finished Queequeg decides to live and turn the canoe/ coffin (because it is both) into a sea chest. During the next few weeks Queequeg carves little figures and symbols in the coffin/ canoe/ sea chest thus turning it in to a coffin/ canoe/ sea chest/ work of art. In the epilogue Ishmael flo...
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Work Of Art Resting Place
282 wordsQueequeg is getting very sick and is near death so he orders the ships carpenter to make him a coffin with a lid, in the shape of a canoe. Once the coffin/ canoe is finished Queequeg decides to live and turn the canoe/ coffin (because it is both) into a sea chest. During the next few weeks Queequeg carves little figures and symbols in the coffin/ canoe/ sea chest thus turning it in to a coffin/ canoe/ sea chest/ work of art. In the epilogue Ishmael floats in this coffin/ canoe/ sea chest/ work o...
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Woman Red Hair
839 wordsEduard Munch and His Works Eduard Munch (1863 - 1944) was a Norwegian painter, engraver, and printer. He is often reputed to have been a loner and a misogynist. Many of his works revolve around a motif concerning women and their obscene vulgarity. The two works that will be described here are Vampire (1893) and Jealousy (1896). These two depict women as creatures of temptation, petty provokers of pain, and selfish enslaver's of vulnerable men. To just marginally understand Munch? s hatred of wom...
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Rock N Roll Rhythm And Blues
1,426 wordsRock music emerged during the mid- 1950 s to become the major popular musical form of young audiences in the United States and Western Europe. Its stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition; the only feature common to all rock music is a heavy emphasis on the beat. Rock n Roll, 1950 - 62 The primary source of rock n roll was rhythm and blues, an idiom popular among black audiences that combined elements of urban blues (in the structure, vocal style, and use of amplif...
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Rebel Without A Cause Alice Munro
773 wordsThe issue of authority and respect has been and will be an ongoing issue between youngsters and their elderly. In the story Red Dress by Alice Munro and the movie Rebel without a Cause by Nicholas Ray the issue of authority and respect comes up many times through the character actions. Authority and respect is directly linked to one another. It is very hard to obey supremacy if you have no respect for authority. In both the works we have studied, all the characters have trouble dealing with the ...
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Gender Roles Quot Line
1,326 wordsDeborah Pope The fearful, gloomy woman waiting inside her darkening room for the emotional and meteorological devastation to hit could be Aunt Jennifer, who is similarly passive and terrified, overwhelmed by events that eclipsed her small strength. " Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" is, however, an even clearer statement of conflict in women, specifically between the impulse to freedom and imagination (her tapestry of prancing tigers) and the " massive weight" of gender roles and expe...
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