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Demoiselles D Avignon Les Demoiselles D
733 wordsCarol Duncan's article "Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth Century Vanguard Painting" focuses on female nudity and the artists motive behind this. She believes the female nudes were used in the decade before World War I by a number of European artists with a similar style and content which reflected the sexual appetite of the artist. - Examples Les Van Dongen, Reclining Nude (1904 - 05); Munch, Reclining Nude (1905); Kirchner, Girl Under a Japanese Umbrella (ca. 1909) H. W. Janson's (Sel...
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Paying Job Family Friends
552 wordsEnglish 3 Alan King Resolutions essay 1 / 6 / 00 We have just recently entered a new millennium. The start of a new millenium means to me a new start. I hope to turn my life around and try not to be so defiant, and just get along with everyone. So here are my resolutions for this year, the year 2005, and the end of the decade. My personal resolutions for this year are not too complex. I hope to keep my grades at a study grade somewhere around an A or a B. I shall follow through on this resolutio...
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18 Th Amendment Sale Of Alcohol
1,034 words... Evidence shows a drop in smoking among youths until 1980, when it eventually reached a plateau. For more than ten years the number of teenagers who smoked stayed basically in the same range, however, in the early 90 s the percentage increased by thirty. Regulations restricting the use of alcohol are long existent. Early governments such as those of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans established laws to limit the use of alcohol in order to prevent its abuse. Only a decade after alcohol...
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Richard F Hirsh Utility Managers System
346 wordsIn the late 1990 s Americans for the first time found themselves in the position of being able to choose an electricity provider, as the once staid and monopolistic electric utility industry entered an era of freewheeling competition and deregulation. In this book Richard F. Hirsh explains how and why this radical restructuring has occurred. Hirsh starts by describing the successful campaign by utility managers in the first decade of the century to protect their industry from competition. The re...
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Day Wear Clothing Pre Wwi And 1920 Women
688 wordsThe 1920 s in America were times of great change. Coming out of the horror of the First World War, society exploded in a million different directions. The Twenties saw women voting, the Harlem Renaissance, and an incredible burst of affluence for the middle class. With automobiles and appliances made people's lives easier and gave them more leisure time. The incredible, rapid change that struck the country is clearly illustrated by women's fashions of the decade. Woman in the 1900 s went from co...
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Great Depression Purchasing Power
832 wordsFrom the end of World War I to the end of the 1920 s, the United States experienced a period of time unlike any other. During this time, America went through perhaps the most prosperous, radical, and changing period during the nations brief history. Given this, the decade that followed is perhaps still surprising to many. As fast as Americans saw it begin, the economic boom of the twenties came grinding to a halt on that fateful day in October, Black Tuesday. However, it is obvious that the grea...
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Carl Jung Great Gatsby
1,255 wordsThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds classic story about the shallow aristocracy of the 1920 s American society, is the topic of much interpretation. This paper is a simple proposition that the Roaring Twenties were years dominated by an SP (part of Carl Jung's archetypal psychology that will later be explained in more depth) society and the characters in The Great Gatsby reflect and were deeply affected by this fact. Daisy will be analyzed herein, as well as the effect that an SP society had ...
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Christian Temperance Union 18 Th Amendment
1,340 wordsHerbert Hoover called it a "noble experiment. " Organized crime found it to be the opportunity of a lifetime. Millions of Americans denounced it as an infringement of their rights. For nearly 14 years - from Jan. 29, 1920, until Dec. 5, 1933 -- the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal in the United States. The 18 th, or Prohibition, Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress and submitted to the states in 1917. By Jan. 29, 1919, it had been ratified....
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Chief Of Staff Clinton Administration
1,077 words... Senate Whitewater Committee who also ran a task force under Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. "At the heart of Watergate was a gross abuse of presidential power, whereas Whitewater has its roots in activities that occurred a decade before Clinton became president. " He also points out that it seems likely that Nixon not only was involved in the Watergate cover-up, but also was aware of the 1972 break-in. He bases this on new evidence, including the diaries of the late H. R. Haldema...
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Louis Xiii Du Plessis
1,106 wordsUp until the mid 17 th century, it was evident that France was by no means a major player in the field of European affairs. Spain was still the most powerful state as it held a dominant monopoly over European commerce and economics. However, by 1648, this power would shift, and France would come into its own in terms of political and economic influence. The transfer of power was aided by a weakening of the Spanish Empire, along with the establishment of an increasingly strong French state. This ...
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Sacco And Vanzetti Ethnic Minorities
1,196 wordsThe motto of the United States of America is E Pluribus Unum meaning Out of one, many. It neatly recognises that although America may be a single nation, it is also one originally made up of immigrants who arrived not only from Europe and Asia, but forcibly as slaves from Africa and of Native Americans. Its population is the most racially and culturally diverse in the world and for that reason is often referred to as a Melting Pot. During the 1920 s, racial tensions in American society reached b...
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Bill Gates And The Microsoft Corporation
1,525 wordsBill Gates - you love him, you hate him, maybe you should get to know him. The founder of the Microsoft has a lot of admirers and we can tell that for sure just by looking at his fortune. There are however people who not only despise him, but dedicate entire web-sites to criticizing him and his company; if you are one of those people you can check out web (access will not be granted if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer). Some have even gone as far as throwing pies in his face... Its an irony t...
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Love And Respect Vietnam War
1,148 wordsIt may have been a decade of a myriad of effulgent paintings and intrepid space excursions, but for most people, resplendent canvases dont come near the cranium when someone mentions the 1960 s. So just what do we associate the decade with? The most intriguing part of our prior erudition: hippies, flower power, peace, love, drugs, and Woodstock! All of the preceding are the very essence of the 60 s in America; all of them had a distinct impact on the world. Presumably the most prominent aspect o...
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Men And Women North Face
1,096 wordsThe North Face, Inc. sneaker industry, is a highly sophisticated designer, distributor, and marketer of technically innovative sneaker products. We have built a strong, widely recognized line of products, and have been established as the worlds premier brand for outdoor apparel. Our sneaker line offers state-of-the-art technology that offers comfort, support, and style, backed by a lifetime manufacturers warranty so that our consumers are provided with all of the luxuries that they deserve. 2. 0...
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Reinventing Britney Spears In The Pepsi Ad Campaign
1,470 wordsHistorian Stuart Ewen proposes his idea that history of style in his essay, The Marriage between Art and Commerce, is the crucial turning point of what shapes our culture and every day life. Ewen's concept of style in the 19 th - 20 th century is a combination of modern art and a business device. He describes the uses of symbolic forms of art, as to mainly sustain and promote consumption in the interests of the corporations when he states, styling and style obsolescence come to the forefront as ...
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Temporary Insanity Insanity Defense
1,073 wordsWhatever happened to the old axiom "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time"? The reality, of course, is that it seems to be getting more and more difficult to put criminals behind bars. This leads directly to a growing disregard and disrespect for the law. This should hardly be a surprise. Why think twice about committing a crime if you have little reason to fear the consequences? Today's "prisoner" seems to have little to fear. Many find themselves better off behind bars than they were on ...
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Ku Klux Klan Million Shares
879 wordsThe Coolidge Era that lasted from 1921 - 1929 produced a consumer economy. With the consumer economy came widespread prosperity and wealth. Just being another decade on a timeline does not do it for the 1920 s. From the beginning to the end it was the biggest, the loudest, the brightest. Because of these characteristics it was labeled, The Roaring Twenties. Many people acted unreserved in their pursuits for their own happiness. However there where also those who were conservative and looked for ...
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Side Of Paradise World War 1
1,455 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels and stories for which he is best known examine an entire generation s search for the elusive American Dream of wealth and happiness. Many of his works are derived from his own life and that of his wife and friends. The early gaiety shows only...
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Time Life Books Serial Killers
798 wordsThe nineteen-seventies was an incredible decade. It was a decade of change, one of freedom, a time for great music. It was also an incredible decade for shock, fear and serial killers. John Wayne Gay, an amateur clown, was a pedophilia c homosexual. He tortured and killed thirty three little boys and stored their remains under his house. David Berkowitz, a. k. a. the Son of Sam, stalked New York City from nineteen-sixty-seven to nineteen-seventy-seven. He claimed to have been following a voice f...
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Persistence Of Memory Salvador Dali
999 wordsAs a young man, Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali's talent came with his first one-man show, held in Barcelona in 1925. He recieved international fame when three of his paintings were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928. In a way, this was was his prime starting block. After this, Dali went to Paris the following year, again holding a one-man show, and at this point Dali joined the Paris Surreali...
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