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Art And Technology Schwartz Moffat
1,576 words... ist. Photography is always a wonderful challenge... Of course now with computer manipulations the possibilities make you exhausted even thinking about it. (Tracey Moffat, quoted in Hentschel 1998: 23) American artist Lillian Schwartz made many experiments with computer art during her long career. Computers are being used by recent artists as tools with which to analyse and create works of art. Schwartz was one of the first artists to experiment with computer images and computer effects on ar...
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Changing The American Language
975 wordsMy brother and i are alike in that we both often have very strange dreams. A couple of months back, he dreamed that he was driving in Mexico with his best friend Jacob, when he got pulled over by the Mexican police. When asked if he was drunk, he replied with, "Of course not, sir. I dislike drunk drivers. I disapprove of drunk drivers. I disc ringe drunk drivers. " Hearing this, the police simply let him go. As he was driving away, however, Jacob turned to him and said, "Dude... disc ringe?" Aft...
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French Revolution French Government
1,088 wordsThe French Revolution was a major transformation of the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799. During the course of the Revolution, France was changed from an absolute monarchy, to a republic of supposedly equal and free citizens. The effects of the French Revolution were widespread, both inside and outside of France, and impacted all of Europe. At times the outcome of revolt led to social change and at times it just led to unnecessary bloodshed. Was this revolution i...
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The Scarlet Letter Use Of Hester
1,175 wordsIn The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne makes Hester Prynne the central figure in the story much like Susanna Rowson does with Charlotte in Charlotte Temple. The plots of the books are centered on these women; the storylines occasionally move elsewhere to inform the reader of the happenings of other characters, but always returns to their respective female protagonist. The authors use of their leading ladies differs when providing a theme, however. Susanna Rowson uses Charlotte Temple as an e...
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Act 1 Scene 3 Second In Command
610 wordsOne of the most intriguing characters in the tragic play "Othello, " by William Shakespeare, is Othello's "friend" Iago. At first glance, Iago seems to have no motive for the destruction he is causing. However, despite Iago's unquestionable malignancy, the motivation behind his actions lie more in Iago's quest for personal gain, as opposed to just being evil for evil's sake. In order to achieve his personal gain Iago manipulates Rodrigo, Cassio and, most importantly, Othello. Iago's main interes...
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Themes Of Bob Dylan Music
1,187 wordsBob Dylan was recognized by his poetry and song writing. He usually wrote songs about protesting and religious themes. Although the theme of Bob Dylan's work is depressing, it is necessary to consider how the events in his life affected his music. Also Bob Dylan had other musicians that influenced him in his early years. Bob Dylan was born in Duluth Minnesota on the date of May 24 th 1941. By the time he was ten years old he was writing poems and had taught himself to play guitar. He later chang...
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Third World Countries Afford To Buy
643 wordsMillions of people all over the planet suffer from poverty and starvation. One very interesting but experimental solution to the problem of world hunger is genetically engineered food. The process involves the crossbreeding of crops in a laboratory with species that are not plant like. Say for example, that a scientist crossed a fish and a potato. The diversity of this gene mixture is supposed to give this hybrid crop special characteristics like resistance to disease, the ability to deal with e...
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Cold War Foreign Policy
1,106 wordsIntroduction Their [Russias and Americas] starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe, Alexis de Torqueville, late 19 th century. De Torqueville's prophecy came true by the 1940 s when the two super powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union, had come head to head, swaying the destinies of half the globe and more. (de Torqueville, chapter 18) The United States had recen...
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League Of Nations Treaty Of Versailles
711 wordster> What were the League of Nations and the peace Treaty of World War I? The League of Nations was an alliance created to unite all indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere into one confederation. It was Woodrow Wilsons attempt at unity, peace and prosperity in Europe. It lasted from the 1920 s to 1946. The League of Nations pushed for peace without victory. Woodrow wanted to redraw the map of Europe so that each nationality had its own country. He also wanted freedom of the sea a...
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Knights Of Labor Labor And Capital
1,172 wordsThe successes and failures of the Knights of Labor, have generated many controversial issues that have helped shape the North American labor movement. The Knights of Labor were originally part of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada when it was organized in 1886 but were expelled after the Berlin Convention in 1902. It was during these years that the Knights of Labor enjoyed their peak success, and also contributed to their disappearance before World War I. Unquestionably the Knights of Labor...
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Shakespeare Tragic Hero In Macbeth And Hamlet
899 wordsIn Shakespeare's tragedies, one element is consistent- the tragic hero. Each tragic hero shares certain traits that contribute to his tragedy. They possess a fault that will eventually lead to their demise. Shakespeare's tragic hero is a man of noble birth who falls from a position of honor and respect due to a flaw in his character. Hamlet and Macbeth are portrayed as tragic heroes through their nobility, tragic flaws, and errors in judgment. During the first scenes of Shakespeare's plays Hamle...
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Aid Academy Award
1,412 words... an Academy Award for its animated short film, Tin Toy. The film was created completely with 3 D computer graphics using Pixar's Renderman, a technique that uses 'shaders' or small pieces of programming code to describe surfaces, lighting effects and atmospheric effects. Surface shaders are small programs that algorithmically generate textures of objects based on mathematical formulas. These computer generated textures produce better looking objects, thus creating newer and better special eff...
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Receive A Proper Burial Book Of The Dead
1,477 wordsBurial Practices Of The Ancient Egyptian And Burial Practices Of The Ancient Egyptian And Greco-Roman Cultures Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman practices of preparing the dead for the next cradle of humanity are very intriguing. These two cultures differ in a multitude of ways yet similarities can be noted in the domain of funerary services. In the realm of Egyptian afterlife, The Book of the Dead can provide one with vital information concerning ritual entombment practices and myths of the afte...
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Cuban Missile Crisis Warsaw Pact
1,007 wordsWhat Was the Cold War? The Cold War was the time period from 1945 to 1990 where there was constant tension and struggle between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. Actual military conflict never occurred, but there were great amounts of hostility and rivalry between the two sides, as well as intense clashes of economic and diplomatic policies. After almost a century of peace, feelings of uneasiness and distrust settled between the two countries after the Bolshev...
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Kennedy Parkland Hospital
830 wordsThe Death of the Nation The fall of 1963 seemed to be a productive and prosperous time for the Kennedy Administration. Although the Republican Opposition was trying to give Kennedy a challenge for re-election in 1964, it seemed that they had failed. The 35 th president went on about business and even attended Houston, Texas in order to settle the feud between the Democrats. Liberals and Conservatives of the Democratic Party were at constant battle. Just before Thanksgiving the President went to ...
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Declaration Of Independence Thomas Jefferson
1,405 wordsTHE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE On July 4, 1776, the members of the Continental Congress assembled at the State House in Philadelphia to take up a matter of vital importance. Two days earlier the Congress had voted to declare the colonies to be free and independent states. Now they were considering how to announce that fact to the world. By the end of the day, the final wording had been determined and the Congress voted unanimously to adopt one of history's greatest documents the Declaration of ...
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Spotted Elks Spotted Elk Americans
341 wordsMy older brother, Steve went to school out in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Just recently my family and myself made a trip out to visit him and his surroundings. Some of my favorite places were the pueblos. We took many tours and learned a plethora about the Native Americans. After all of the changes and reform our country has been through, I often wonder how can our society still not treat the Native Americans as equal? In one of my classes, we read an article by Clara Spotted Elk speaking out on this ...
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One By One Accept In Order Story
1,096 wordsTo accurately discern what does and does not happen in fictional stories, one must develop a kind of story competence, which Livingston describes in Whats the Story? Story competence relies on making judgements based on reasoning about characters motives and authors intentions. Only the latter is of concern here, which Livingston refers to as the intentional heuristic: a moderate form of internationalism. The intentional heuristic is an aid used to determine which beliefs an author intended his ...
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Communications Decency Act Act Of 1996
866 wordsSince the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Burners-Lee, many different debates have arisen over various aspects of the Internet. That is expected since there are so many different types of information available on the Web ranging from poetry to games to news to even pornography. Some argue that not all kinds of data should be accessible to all; that is where censorship comes in. Internet censorship includes restriction of access or publication of any material not thought to be a...
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Iran Contra Affair Reagan Administration
441 wordsTHE IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR The Iran-Contra Affair concerns a secret arrangement to provide $ 30 million to the Nicaraguan right-wing contra guerrillas from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. Aid to the contras had been strictly prohibited by Congress, as had the sale of arms to a government deemed hostile to the US. Discovery of the arrangement in 1985 - 1986 shook President Ronald Reagan's administration. Most directly involved were Adm. John M. Poindexter and Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, bot...
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