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Fruit That Grows Fruit That Grows In Man Arp
535 wordsArt is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb, once commented Jean Arp -- a remarkable twentieth-century sculptor, painter and poet associated with and a forefather of the Dada and Surrealist movements. The avant-garde artist was born on September 16, 1887 in Strasbourg, France, where he studied at the Ecole des Arts et Mtiers. In 1905, he transferred to the Weimar Academy and then to Paris at the Academic Julian in 1908, and subsequent to graduation ...
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Ford Motor Company Henry Ford
1,265 words... needed. When Henry Ford came out with this idea of using mass-production, he had many quotes like; "Good work is hard unless you have good tools and clean surroundings. Employees and employers ought to be treated by the same standard. Are they indifferent?" Or, "Old production methods say that machines must aid man. Our idea is that man should aid the machine. " He also said this, "Hard labor is for machines, not people. " (The Story of Henry Ford). A few months after this assembly line was ...
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Lloyd George Trade Unions
1,974 wordsWar declared Trotsky, is the locomotive of history (Bourne, 1989, p. 191) When considering the attitude of the people towards the change governmental intervention had in their lives, one must consider a number of different aspects. The scene must firstly be set by ascertaining the mood of the people upon the outbreak of war, and this Bourne eloquently describes: The British urban working class was the oldest industrial workforce in the world. Its class-consciousness was very strong. It was well ...
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Cape Cod Susan Glaspell
622 wordsProvincetown town (township), Barnstable county, eastern Massachusetts, U. S. , at the northern tip of Cape Cod. It is located among sand dunes within a fishhook-shaped harbour that was visited by the explorers Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 and Henry Hudson in 1609. Before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth, they landed there. An event that is now commemorated on Nov. 21. It was on board the Mayflower in Provincetown harbour where the first European child in New England (Peregrine White) was born. The ...
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Western Front 000 Men
452 wordsHow did the events at Gallipoli lead to the creation of the Anzac legend? Australia's involvement in World War One can be seen by many as the very essence of Australia's identity, especially the involvement at the Gallipoli peninsular. The battle of Gallipoli was the first major step made by Australians towards nationhood and the development of the Anzac legend. The Gallipoli campaign and the Anzac legend that emerged from it have had a significant impact on ideas about Australia's national iden...
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World War I Ace Manfred Von Richthofen
871 wordsThroughout the course of history, many wars have taken place. Among these wars, World War I particularly stands out for having contained several war aces and heroes. Some of these aces include Captain Ren Food of France, Major Edward Manner of Britain, Manfred von Richthofen of Germany, and Eddie Rickenbacker of America (21: 26). However, the one hero that stands out the most is the famous Red Baron or Manfred von Richthofen. Manfred von Richthofen, a German aviator, was very prominent and well ...
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Dwight D Eisenhower Cold War
423 wordsIn this review I will discuss with you the birth and death of Dwight D. Eisenhower. I will also include his family size, education, marriage, jobs, and accomplishments. The purpose of this review is to give you information about Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is also so that people will know who one of our presidents was and what he did fir our country. This review is on Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dwight David Eisenhower was born on the 14 of October in 1890. He was born in Design, Texas. He is te third bo...
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Sinn Fein British Rule
825 wordsLeaders and Men of the Easter Rising is a compilation of essays that were originally part of the Thomas Davis lecture series broadcasted on Radio Telefis Eirann (Irish Public Radio) in 1965. The lectures have been edited for print by F. X. Martin, who also produced the original radio series. In the editors words, The contributions are intended to cover as many aspects as possible of the events of Easter Week, 1916. Martin considers his compilation the first attempt at a cool appraisal of the Eas...
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Poems Appeared South Seas Brooke
414 wordsRupert Chapter Brooke was born in 1887 in England. The son of the Rugby School's housemaster, Brooke excelled in both academics and athletics. He entered his father's school at the age of fourteen. A lover of verse since the age of nine, he won the school poetry prize in 1905. A year later, he attended King's College, Cambridge, where he was known for his striking good looks, charm, and intellect. While at Cambridge, he developed an interest in acting and was president of the University Fabian S...
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Infant Mortality Soft Drinks
966 wordsThe American Diet Between 1880 and 1930 American diet underwent the most considerable changes. Levenstein claims that it is easy to explain changes in diet and food habits by different material conditions of life and increased availability (or unavailability) of certain foodstuffs (p. Viii). However, there is much more involved: the physiology of taste, religion, class, status, social and political aspects. According to historian Harvey Levenstein in his book Revolution at the Table: The Transfo...
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Bloody Sunday Front Lines
764 wordsTsar Nicholas II began his reign after the death of his father Alexander III in 1894. He reigned until 1917, when he abdicated after a provisional government was formed. It was obvious from the beginning of his reign that the Russians were on the brink of revolution, and that the Russian throne was in danger. But the things that put the people over the edge were Bloody Sunday, opposition to the duma, Rasputin, and hardships caused by World War I. By 1903 Russia had established a sphere of influe...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First Day
610 wordsThe Battles of Ypres, 1914, 1915, 1917 There were in fact three battles fought around the Ypres salient during the War. The first, in 1914 was an attempt by the BEF to halt the rapid advances made by the Germans. The second, in 1915, was notable for the first use of poison gas bythe Germans. However, it is the long-planned offensive of July 31, 1917, that holds the most significance. Here, a combination of over-ambitious aims, appalling weather conditions, and misguided persistence by Haig led t...
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Major League Won Baseball
238 wordsprofessional baseball player, one of the finest right-handed pitchers in the history of the game, frequently considered the greatest master of control. From 1911 to 1930 he won 373 or 374 major league games (authorities differ) and lost 208. In his first season he won 28 games. For three consecutive years (1915 - 17) he won 30 or more games; in 1916, when he achieved 33 victories, 16 were shutouts, a major league record. His career total of 88 or 90 shutouts is second only to Walter Johnsons 110...
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Il Popolo D Il Popolo Socialist
302 wordsBorn My Ass Mussolini Factfile Born in small town of Predappio in the Romagna in 1883 Son of a Catholic Schoolmistress and a blacksmith with revolutionary views Not academic, but had strong character? being noted for his bullying and overpowering nature After leaving school Mousolini had a few teaching jobs in village schools 1902 Mussolini went to Switzerland, where he did odd jobs He did read widely and was soon preaching the need for revolution Returned to Italy in 1904 to become a journalist...
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Womens Suffrage Grolier Multimedia
1,083 wordsNellie McClung 1873 - 1951 When Nellie McClung was born, as Helen Letitia Mooney, in Chatsworth, Ontario, Canada, in 1873, she was not a PERSON under Canadian law (until April 25 th 1940 PERSONS [eligible voters] where defined as A white male person, including an Indian and excluding a person of Mongolian or Chinese race? No women, idiot, lunatic or criminal shall vote. ). Nor was any other women. Women were denied certain rights that men had, including the right to vote. In law, we were economi...
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Blue Riband X Blue Riband Ship
436 wordsThe Sinking of the Lusitania In the early part of the twentieth century there was one and only main way to travel through the Atlantic Ocean. The Lusitania was built to challenge some german vessels that had the |blue riband X. At this time the passengers of these vessels were not only looking for fast means of travels but stylish means of traveling. They were looking for luxury, from the food to the sleeping accomodations. The Lusitania weighed 31, 550 tons and was 785 feet long. In only its se...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
1,009 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn? t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn? t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affe...
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Nobel Prize Immune System
997 wordsI. A World To Change Everyone on this earth has to be grateful to Paul Ehrlich because he made so many advances in medical research. Our life expectancy rate would still be around forty years if Ehrlich hadn t been interested in chemistry and biology as a young boy. If Ehrlich hadn t combined so many different chemicals, he would have never combined the chemical known as number 606. Ehrlich helped Emil von Behring find an antitoxin for diphtheria. Diphtheria is a disease that particularly affect...
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Pointless Like Owen Tragic But Not Pointless War
964 wordsRupert Brooke was one of the early poets in the war. He felt privileged like many to fight for their country. He died of illness in 1915 before having seen any action. He wrote in a romantic style of optimists towards war. He is remembered as a war poet who inspired patriotism in the early months of the Great War. He was good at poetry but had not seen the fear of the war. He would have been shocked to see what became of the war. His view towards war would have changed if he had. The Soldier If ...
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Florence Nightingale String Quartet
1,831 wordsRereadings: Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey Essay, Rereadings: Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey A string quartet in four movements In 1912, Lytton Strachey, who was living on his occasional journalism (chiefly for his cousin St Loe Strachey's Spectator), and amusing himself and his Bloomsbury friends by writing plays and verse, got the idea for the book that would become Eminent Victorians. He had decided, finally, to leave Hampstead (which though part of London, was inconveniently di...
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