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Washington D C Art New York City
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Picasso, Pablo Ruiz y (1881 - 1973), Spanish
painter and sculptor, is considered one of the
greatest artist of the 20 th century. He was a
inventor of forms, innovator of styles and
techniques, a master of various media, and one of
the most prolific artists in history. He created
more than 20, 000 works. Picasso was Born in
Malaga on October 25, 1881, he was the son of Jos
Ruiz Black, an art teacher, and Mara Picasso y
Lopez. Until 1898 he always used his father's
name, Ruiz, and his mother's ma...
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Paris In 1921 Australian Photographer Man
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(1890 - 1976), Man Ray was born in Philadelphia,
American photographer, and leading figure in the
artistic avant-garde in Paris of the 1920 s. He
studied at the National Academy of Design in New
York City, and held his first one-man show of
paintings in 1912. With his friend, the French
painter Marcel Duchamp, he helped to found the New
York City Dada group in 1917. Under Duchamp's
influence, he began to work with new materials and
techniques, for example, painting with an airbrush
on glass and ...
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President Of The United States Theodore Roosevelt
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Teddy Roosevelt who was the 26 th President of the
United States of America was a great man. He
fought for what he saw as the publics interest.
Teddy was the youngest president ever. He was just
42 years old. He was not the youngest elected
president that honor falls to John F. Kennedy. He
took office in 1901 when William McKinley was
assassinated. He would become one of Americas
strongest and most memorable presidents. I will
divide his life into three segments to tell his
story: before he was ...
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Italian Immigrants Southern Italy
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Italians immigrated in large numbers in the early
1900 's. It is estimated that nearly three million
immigrants came to the United States between 1900
and 1914. They immigrated to America to better
themselves. Most of them lived in poverty and
desperately needed an alternative. America was
their alternative for a new way of life, a new
horizon. I will discuss the arrival and
acculturation experiences of Italian immigrants in
New York City and Chicago. To understand these
immigrants, one must fir...
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African Americans York City
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An Old Fashion Dog Fight in the Big Apple: The
1998 U. S. Senate race in New York is one of the
most heated and competitive political battles in
the country. New York has traditionally been a
place where only the strong willed, and tough at
heart could compete; a place where crafty tactics,
extensive connections, and stocks of cash are
essential aspects of political competition. This
years combat field of a campaign has been no
exception. The two primary candidates, 60 year
old, incumbent, repub...
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Eleanor Roosevelt Women Workers
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The Contributions of Eleanor Roosevelt Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on
October 11, 1884. She was one of America's great
reforming leaders who had a sustained impact on
national policy toward youth, blacks, women, the
poor, and the United Nations. As the wife of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was one of
the most active First Ladies as well as an
important public personality in her own right.
When Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to New York City a
week after her husband's fune...
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Days A Week Place To Live
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Being the biggest continent in the world, Asia
contains about 60 % of the worlds population and
growing each year. Though China, and India are two
of the most populated countries in the world,
having about 30 % of the worlds population, there
are about two-fifths of the countries that have
less than five million habitant's. Though
forty-two different countries make up this great
continent, much of the similarities are family
values. Customs and traditions might be different,
however, western ide...
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La Cosa Nostra Don Corleone
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The Accuracy of Drugs as portrayed in the
Godfather by Mario Puzo, as opposed to reality
Throughout history Writers have been writing
fictional novels based on real historical events.
The Godfather by Mario Puzo is such a book in
which Puzo portrays Mafia life and business
starting at the late 40 's. The Corleone crime
Family in this novel is shown having troubles with
the other organized crime syndicates concerning
drugs. Many of the other families are pushing the
idea of joining the narcotics ...
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Blacks And Hispanics State And Local
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... rse discrimination cases, acrimony over quotas
and affirmative action, and the proliferation of
racially exclusive professional organizations.
Every good-sized police department in the country
has a black officers' association devoted to
explicit, racially competitive objectives. In
large cities, there are associations for Asian,
Hispanic, and even white officers. Many government
agencies and private companies hire professional
"diversity managers" to help handle mixed work
forces. This is a...
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Second Continental Congress King George Iii
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On May 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress
met in Philadelphia. The Congress dealt with the
military crisis the colonies were in with England.
It organized forces around Boston into the
Continental Army and appointed George Washington
to commander-in-chief. The Battle of Bunker Hill
was the first major battle fought in the war. The
colonists had made a fort on Bunker and Breeds
Hills to fire on English ships approaching Boston.
Thomas Gage ordered his British troops to attack
the hills. He...
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Commander In Chief House Of Burgesses
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Washington, George (1732 - 99), commander in chief
of the Continental army during the American
Revolution, and later the first president of the
United States. He symbolized qualities of
discipline, aristocratic duty, military orthodoxy,
and persistence in adversity that his
contemporaries particularly valued as marks of
mature political leadership. Washington was born
on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County,
Virginia, the eldest son of Augustine Washington,
a Virginia planter, and Mary Ball...
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Museum Of Art Freedom Of Expression
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What is art? Can it be defined in any single
painting, or sculpture? Is it even something that
can be seen, or does it have to be experienced?
The term "art" is so vague that it can be applied
to almost anything, really. Mostly, however, art
should be that which frees our imagination. It
connects our conscious with our subconscious,
putting into a visual form what we feel and think.
It allows us to explore our inner self and fill
that urge to understand our minds and our
universe. Art helps us t...
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Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway,
who was once Gatsby's neighbor. Nick Carraway grew
up in the Midwestern United States and went to
school at Yale University. After this, he was
stationed in France during World War I. Returning
home after traveling a great deal, he is unhappy
and decides to move to the East at the beginning
of the summer of 1922, renting a broken down house
in Long Island's West Egg section. He begins
working in nearby New York City as a bondsman and
it is here ...
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Historical Significance Of Grand Central Station
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When the words railroad station, are mentioned,
the first thing that appears in most peoples minds
is Grand Central Terminal in New York City. It has
become known as the crossroads of the world. In
the 1830 s it was becoming apparent that there was
the need for an alternative to water travel
because of the geographical expansion of the
country. This lead to railroads, which could be
extended easily, unlike canals that had to be
dredged. From 1850 to the end of the nineteenth
century, American ra...
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Yale University York City
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Gifford Pinchot was one of America's leading
advocates of environmental conservation at the
turn of the twentieth century. Born into wealth
and endowed with imagination and a love of nature,
he shared his money, possessions and intellect to
further the causes of the common good. It was at
Grey Grey Towers that James Pinchot first
encouraged his son to explore the profession of
forestry. But such training did not yet exist in
the United States, so, after graduating from Yale
University in 1889, G...
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Jane Addams Twentieth Century
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... the urban poor. His brutal documentation of
sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and
overcrowded schools stirred up public indignation
and helped effect significant reform in housing,
education, and child-labor laws. Riis lived in
poverty in New York City for some time before he
found a job with a news bureau in 1873. He became
a police reporter for the New York Tribune and the
Associated Press in 1877. Horrified by immigrant
life, he began a series of exposes on slum
conditions on New York...
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Died At The Age Huckleberry Finn
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1835 - 1910 Samuel Clemens was born on November
30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven
children. At the age of four, Sam and his family
moved to the small frontier town of Hannibal,
Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Missouri, at the time, was a fairly new state (it
had gained statehood in 1820) and comprised part
of the country's western border. It was also a
slave state. Sam's father owned one slave and his
uncle owned several. In fact, it was on his
uncle's farm that S...
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E Cummings Life And Work
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e e cummings e e cummings (no, this is not a
typographical error, take note to the way he
writes his name) was an unusual, yet highly
acclaimed writer of the 20 th century. His style
of writing was much different than that of any
other contemporary or even 18 th and 19 th century
writers. Although difficult to understand at
times, e e cummings is a very profound and
inventive writer. e e cummings was born Edward
Estlin Cummings on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge
Massachusetts. His parents were Edw...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Popular Culture
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End of Days The Millennium has had a wide variety
of effects on our popular culture, which is
evident by how the ideas about the millennium are
encoded, perpetuated, and disseminated to a mass
audience. A large protein of ideas about the
millennium are circulated to the population
through the use of movies and film. To this end,
one movie, entitled The End of Days, which was
released in December 1999, is an excelent portal
of the American reaction to the Millennium in
general. The End of Days il...
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Won The Election Electoral Votes
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Cleveland was the son of Richard Fall Cleveland,
an itinerant Presbyterian minister, and Ann Neal.
The death of Grover Cleveland's father in 1853
forced him to abandon school in order to support
his mother and sisters. After clerking in a law
firm in Buffalo, New York, he was admitted to the
bar in 1859 and soon entered politics as a member
of the Democratic Party. During the Civil War he
was drafted but hired a substitute so that he
could care for his mother altogether legal
procedure but one t...
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