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26 6 Metres 26 6 Pantheon
328 wordsThe Pantheon is the best preserved and one of the most impressive of all Roman buildings. It was constructed in AD 118 - 128 during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. The Pantheon was a temple to all the Olympic Gods, and the word pantheon is Greek for of all the gods. The Pantheon today is a remake of the original one, which was built by M. Vispanius Agrippa in 27 BC. A fire probably destroyed it. In AD 609, Pope Boniface VIII received the temple as a gift from the emperor of Byzantium. He converted...
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Golden Gate Twenty Nine
1,516 wordsAlthough Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, only a little over a mile from the city, the island seemed as distant as if it were a thousand miles out to sea. The island seems uninviting and because of its un appeal, it played an important role in the history of California. The island had a number of uses. Alcatraz was the site of a powerful fortress, a military prison and a federal prison. The island is surrounded by treacherous cross currents and five-knot tides with a deadly unde...
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Armed Men Gladiatorial Games
1,089 wordsDuring my recent travels through Rome, I decided to take in some of the Roman entertainment. I figured a gladiatorial show was the perfect place to do this since public slaughter is an important part of Roman culture. I heard about these gruesome shows the people put on in the Colosseum, which was originally Flavian Amphitheater. I had ideas about gladiators and the shows they put on, but I never, ever imagined the details of that life After talking to some of the locals, I was able to broaden m...
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Barbed Wire Death Camps
1,780 wordsAs a person looks at the last thousand years of history, many events come to mind. To be more specific, many world-changing events have occurred. Many of them have good explanations, or just reason as to why they happened. There were also a handful of events that had no rhyme or reason. These are the events the world may never understand. In the writer's mind, these are the events that changed the world the most. There is one particular event that seems to stand out when considering only the eve...
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H G Wells Back In Time
1,414 wordsthe novel The Time Machine, H. G. Wells shows the reader a pessimistic glimpse of what he perceives to be the future of the industrial world. The way the writer tells the story, he tries to get the reader to believe what he believes in the fourth dimension, the time machine, and his pessimistic future. For the writer of fantastic stories to help the reader play the game properly, he must help him in every possible unobtrusive way to domesticate the impossible hypothesis. He must trick him into a...
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Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow Laws
789 wordsAlthough it was socially acceptable for the Blues musicians to write, compose and produce their music, it was frowned upon, until the late 1950 's, that the teenage generation be exposed to black Blues musicians. However, white Blues musicians were another story. The distribution of Blues music was eased into the public by using white covers of black artists (Covers and Dances). Ironically enough, the white covers of these black artists music never climbed as high on the top-seller list as the o...
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Walter Lee Family Room
781 wordsThe play Raisin in the Sun deals with an urban family and their pursuit of their dreams. The family has to work to overcome the poverty that they live in before they can pursue those dreams. This poverty is shown through the worn appearance of their apartment. Rose and Mama try to make their poor apartment appear to be a home in where there is still hope. Even so, the setup of the apartment and the closeness ensure that conflicts about individuals dreams are inevitable. The entire set, along wit...
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Sit Up And Take Notice Energizer Bunny Batteries
829 wordsEnergizer batteries have been equated with long-lasting energy in your Walkman or other battery-operated appliance. "That damned Energizer bunny" is the cause; he's so aggravating. It seems like that pink bunny rabbit is running across the television screen every other second, it's so annoying. The advertising campaign has been so effective that not only did the company (finally) surpass Duracell in sales, but the advertising company was awarded an Obie (the advertising equivalent of the "Oscar"...
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Feelings And Emotions Therapy Sessions
647 wordsIn most cases, play therapy is used to observe the acts of a child. Doctor Axline used play therapy with Dibs to help him feel more comfortable. In the room she could have observed him and how he interacted with the items. If she were in her office, she might not have had any luck in helping him. The environment of a play therapy room must be familiar to the patient. The room would have to contain materials for the child to play with. The room described in the book had a sandbox, dollhouse, pain...
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Act 1 Scene 3 Act 1 Scene 1
877 wordsShakespeare's play Othello is based on tragedy of Othello's jealousy, which ironically leads Othello to kill Desdemona, his beloved (wife). Evil Iago is above all Shakespeare's villains. Iago is a person with evil emotions, and as a result he deceives everybody, he also is exceptionally influential character who has taken in everyone, above all his own wife Emilia. His public face of bravery and honesty conceals a satanic delight in manipulation and destruction, and he will stop at nothing. Iago...
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Forms Of Energy Potential Energy
703 wordsPhysics Essay: The Conservation of Energy Since the beginning of time, energy has pervaded our earth. These days we rely on it to advance in our technological developments. We also need energy for a variety of other things such as: to keep our bodies alive and healthy, to run our machines and other technical devices, we also rely on energy to keep warm in winter and cool in summer. Energy is the ability to do work. People and other things can run out of energy (e. g. a marathon runner) in which ...
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Dance Floor Top Floor
632 wordsComing Out I stood there gazing at my reflection in the mirror, anxiously awaiting his arrival. Everything had to be perfect. I had spent weeks preparing for tonight. This was the night that Gary and I decided to reveal our true feelings for one another. We had kept our homosexuality a secret from everyone and decided that the Senior Prom would be the best time to come out of the closet. The sound of the doorbell caused my forehead to bead with sweat. I opened the door; Gary stood there wearing ...
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Read And Write Learned To Read
1,653 wordsFrederick Douglass, an American Slave Many prominent figures have been directly linked to the issue of slavery, each contributing to it in one form or another. One name that stands out is Frederick Douglass, who became a very innovated leader for his people. Douglass was a leader to his people and knew the importance of freedom and the impact of an education, which can break all limits. Frederick Douglass was a fortunate individual who learned how to read which allowed him to become an inspiring...
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Shook His Head Acid Rain
2,933 wordsThe Hopeful Encounter Hopeful Encounter The sun was setting. Far to the east, threatening black clouds arose from the fumes of pollution from the several smokestacks towering over the city. The streets were pocks marked and dented with the recent shower of acid rain. Hot boiling steam from the sewers made the temperature of day much hotter than it really was. Just outside the borders of the city is a lake covered with muck and crude oil spills. Death and despair floated aimlessly on the surface ...
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Heard A Sickening Checked All Of The Doors One
876 wordsOne Hunted Mansion Hunted Mansion One day I was walking along side a road that not to many people travel on. All of a sudden it started storming really bad. I didnt want to get sick so I decided to run into an old abandoned house for cover. No one lived there, I was sure of that. As I got in, I looked around and noticed what a spooky house it was. It seemed really spooky. I saw a large room that was the foyer. The room had a checkered tile floor. It was lit a dark blue color. There were two ligh...
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Place To Live Private Property
728 wordsLiving in Utopia Private property is abolished in Utopia, and society is communally organized in such a way that there is no shortage and that everyone has work, food, a home and opportunities for cultural expression. Sounds great, eh? Would you like to live there, and if not, why? Your answer should take account of Mores context (why he wrote Utopia? ) and should be supported by reference to the text. In Thomas Mores Utopia life is very structured there is no crime or prejudices. The people liv...
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Decided To Make Correctional Facility
2,351 wordsLost in the dark I tried everything I knew possible so that my friends would think I was cool. I was popular, but I never did anything that considered breaking the rules, or the law. I was always home on curfew, and never had gotten into trouble with the law. So one day I decided I would. We were all just sitting around Bobby's house with nothing to do. Bobby is dating my best friend Erin. His house is the only spot where we can actually hang out and not be pestered by parental figures. Bobby's ...
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Middle Finger Wasn T
1,514 wordsMeeting the People of What? The People of What, where can I begin? Out of all of my strange experiences, this adventure was one of the most puzzling and frustrating. It all began when I decided to be the head surgeon on another boat. I was thinking, Hmm all the other times I ve been on a boat, I ve experienced some things that made me seem crazy to others, wrecked my life, made my wife leave me for some dirtball doctor, and made me virtually insignificant to my son, it probably won t happen agai...
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Santa Maria Roman Architecture
686 wordsPantheon, temple dedicated to all the gods. The Pantheon of Rome is the best-preserved major edifice of ancient Rome and one of the most significant buildings in architectural history. In shape it is an immense cylinder concealing eight piers, topped with a dome and fronted by a rectangular colonnaded porch. The great vaulted dome is 43. 2 m (142 ft) in diameter, and the entire structure is lighted through one aperture, called an oculus, in the center of the dome. The Pantheon was erected by the...
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Don Acute T Twenty Three
883 wordsThe E Type´ Jaguar. My feelings were a mixture of sadness and excitement to be looking round Uncle Jim´ s farm so soon after his death. The main body of our family were in the house sorting out legal matters, and I went to search through the outbuildings. The farm was more run down than any place I had ever seen. Mum called it Picturesque´ . There were roof slates missing from almost every elevation, broken windows, and green slime running down walls where a drainpipe should ha...
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