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Miles City Montana City Montana Narrator
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Black And White Oskar Schindler
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14 Th And 15 Trade Routes
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1,226 wordsJames Fenimore Cooper -- The Historian James Fenimore Cooper is, in his own right, a historian. Cooper is responsible for passing on views of early America that will never be available to us again. He helped many Americans view Indians and other ethnic groups as people and not savages. Historical events greatly influenced Coopers writing. Time periods such as the Revolutionary war and the American exploration of the West were often the backgrounds for Coopers most successful novels. Novels such ...
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Ways Of Life Gang Violence
1,375 wordsThe movie Friday is a comedy, but it also depicts many important social issues. The story is set in the city of Los Angeles, California, in what could be called a high-class ghetto in my perspective. The main theme of the movie is about a young black man who looses his job and is influenced by his best friend to smoke marijuana. The movie also shows the relationships of his family and other members of his neighborhood. With a zany cast of characters and a hilarious script this movie touches on e...
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George Eliot Technological Advancement
416 wordsTechnology advances with time. Though, technological advancement is needed to move a civilization forward, it also has its downsides. With more products and services available, it is impossible to live a life of relaxation as people once did long before. In George Eliot's "Adam Bede, " one can see the difference in the purity of "old leisure" and the corruption of modern leisure through Eliot's use of diction, imagery, and personification. The words that George Eliot utilizes in Adam Bede, demon...
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Form Of Communication Upper Egypt
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Arthur Miller And His Distorted Historical Accuracies
1,937 wordsIn 1953, Arthur Miller wrote his famous play The Crucible, in response to a fear of Communism that had developed in the United States during that decade. The Red Scare, as it was later called by historians was led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose paranoia of a communist takeover spread through the nation like a wildfire. Men and women alike fell victim to McCarthys pointed finger and as a result of this hysteria, were mostly deported from the country, their careers and lives ruined. Some argue ...
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Andy Warhol Pop Art
1,159 wordsWhen considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon: for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known homosexual. These attributes all contributed to the interesting and com...
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D H Lawrence Mother And Father
794 wordsMany essential steps must be implemented when taking a written story and turning it into a real life motion picture. D. H Lawrence, author of the short story The Rocking-Horse Winner depicts a common demon we all face; greed, society's need for more possessions and money often drives people to do drastic things. This is true in relation to a young boy named Paul who is growing up large unfriendly lavish house, with a mother and father who are obsessed with money and materialistic things. This re...
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Effect On Society Half Lives
572 wordsThroughout the course of history, materials such as literature have been written about certain time periods. In time, these literary works can be assessed and interpreted to help discover facts about that period of history. One novel that can accomplish this task is How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis, in which Riis describes how reform is needed. Before this novel was published, the United States was going through a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. In the northeastern reg...
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Forced Onto Reserves Successful Playwright David Williamson Australian
1,282 words... with stunning use of effective language. All his plays achieve moments of striking, non-realistic drama, challenging our attitudes to sexuality and life, but are said to be sketchy and undeveloped as drama. In 1968 Thomas Keneally, another renowned novelist wrote Childermas, a symbolic play dealing with the plight of children in Vietnam. This was one of the first plays to confront the topic of Vietnam. The 1960 s also saw a significant Federal Government contribution to the arts. A number of...
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Duke Of Ferrara Fra Pandolf
812 wordsRobert Brownings My Last Duchess begins appropriately with a literary deception. The title suggests that the poem is about the Duke of Ferrara's former wife. However, after second and later readings, it becomes apparent that the subtitle Ferrara truly depicts what the poem is really about, for we learn more about the Duke of Ferrara than we learn about the Duchess. As the Duke talks about the Duchess, he really reveals his own controlling characteristics. This irony is significant, because it se...
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Considered A Painter Feelings Of Terror Chagall
1,106 wordsMarc Chagall &# 65279; Marc Chagall I chose Marc Chagall because I liked the colors that he used in his paintings. I liked the way his painting technique looked on the canvas. His short brush strokes made it appear as if one color was blending into another. There are areas in some of his paintings where there are numerous colors, all made to look as if there was only one color. I also like the way that his pictures seem to tell a story. When I first looked at Chagall s work, I thought he just ra...
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Miles City Montana Girl Narrator
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Fly Buzz When I Died Emily Dickinson
614 wordsMandy Kruvand I heard a Fly buzz- when I died v. s. Because I could not stop for Death I heard a Fly buzz- when I died and Because I could not stop for Death, two poems by Emily Dickinson, are both about dying and what happens in death, but present two different views on those topics. In one poem, death is civil, but disappointing in the other. In Because I could not stop for Death, the mood of the poem is very civilized and polite. Death picks her up in a carriage and as they travel towards ete...
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Tutankhamun Tomb King Tut
1,357 wordsThe ancient Egyptians were noted for many things, one of which would have been their artwork. Egyptians used many medians in their artwork that enhanced the details and beauty of every piece of art. Their artwork is fascinating and mysterious, which pulls in the viewer into wanting to learn more. One of the most important and unique Egyptian artworks belongs to King Tutankhamun, a young pharaoh of Egypt. A brief history of the discovery of King Tut s tomb and the importance and beauty of certain...
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