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Candide And His Friends Heavily Damaged Earthquake
1,115 wordsThe earthquake began at 9: 30 on November 1 st, 1755, and was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km WSW of Cape St. Vincent. The total duration of shaking lasted ten minutes and was comprised of three distinct jolts. Effects from the earthquake were far reaching. The worst damage occurred in the south-west of Portugal. Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, was the largest and the most important of the cities damaged. Severe shaking was felt in North Africa and there was heavy loss of life in Fe...
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Hereditary Claim Maori Tattoos
746 wordsWhen looking at Maori art, there is one thing that sticks out amongst everything else with me, and with most likely everyone that sees it for the first time, this is their tattooing skills. They are equipped with many other art skills such as their carvings, weaponry, and townhouses, but the tattoos represent the tribe as a whole and are visible on the people themselves. The art of tattoo was brought to New Zealand by the Polynesians when they migrated to New Zealand. Men of the tribe are more e...
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Miles From Rome 312 B C Appia
826 wordsFirst conceived in 312 B. C. by Appia Claudius the Appian Way was known as the Queen of roads. She was Romes first military highway, in a time when most didnt consider building roads. Let alone one that would last millenniums. The Appian Way or Appia begins at the foot of the colosseum. Not far afterwards is the ruins of the Milliarium Aureum, which was built in 20 B. C. by Augustus. The Milliarium Aureum or the Golden Milestone listed the miles / distance from one place to another along the App...
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Coral Gables Merrick Vision City
984 wordsGeorge Merrick, a son of a Congregational minister, Solomon Merrick, was not even thirty years old when he embarked on the construction of Coral Gables. His family first came here when he was only a child, escaping the raging blizzard happening in New England at the time. They were actually headed for Miami, but, because of a yellow fever quarantine, they decided to settle west in an area known then as "pine land. George had a vision, a vision of a city inspired by the fury and tumult of the Old...
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Vincent Van Starry Night
424 wordsVincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is a marvelous painting in which Van Gogh paints a picture that is colorful and descriptive. This painting can be described as mysterious and intriguing. It can signify a variety of moods, objects, and atmosphere. Van Gogh portrays a small French town located in the countryside. This town is characterized by rolling mountains, big starry sky, small houses, green fields, a large tree, and a church. He uses these details to paint a story full of color and intrigue. ...
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German Economy Budget Deficit
1,250 words... of eastern Europe and the tiger economies of East Asia. If Germany doesn't mend its ways, runs the argument, then the whole economic mansion will collapse. Partly as a result of this nationwide fear - which was heightened by the recession of 1993 - flexible deals were struck which would previously have been unthinkable. Saturday working suddenly became possible. Pay rises were smaller than ever before. Atthe end of last year Germany's biggest union, IG Metall, made a historic concession: it ...
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World War Ii Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
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Person To Person Virtual Communities
802 wordsIn William Mitchells essay, he makes the distinction between virtual communities and site-specific communities. He describes what these cities are about and how they will benefit people. To me what makes these communities different is, virtual communities are communities in the web in which people that dont share the same interests can come together and talk. As of Site-specific communities, these are also communities in which people that share the same interests but more towards a members only ...
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Untill They Built Fall Of 1877 Laura's
828 wordsMost people don't know who Laura Ingalls Wilder is! But if you have heard of the books Little House On the Prarie then you know exactly who I'm talking about. Little House on the Prarie is a series of books about Laura Ingalls Wilders life growing up in the Big Woods. Laura grew up in a big family but it was only her Mother, Father and sister Mary in the family house. They lived by some of their Family considering Laura's aunt and use along with their children. Laura started travel west with her...
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Beata And Tapada Squatter Homes Shawl
790 wordsMuch to my surprise, the Peruvian society consists of a distinct and diverse culture, one, which would not be envisioned for the current twenty-first century. It is a society in which I, as an American, look at as unusual and peculiar. This course has opened my eyes to something way beyond my comprehension of a society living today. In the article I have found describing Peru as A State of Decay, I discovered what the ideal Peruvian family lives like in todays society. Until the 1950 s, most rur...
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Chinese New Year Bad Luck
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College Or University Kappa Alpha
1,446 wordsA fraternity, as defined by the The American Heritage Dictionary is "a chiefly social organization of male college students, usually designated by Greek letters. " (pg. 523) This definition, however, is very limited and leaves plenty of space for short sighted people to believe the stereotype conveyed by the popular media, where fraternity members are depicted as drunks who accomplish nothing either scholastically or socially. Unfortunately, both this definition and media portrayals fail to ment...
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Literary Devices
465 wordsNALYSIS OF COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1802 In Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, by William Wordsworth, the speaker, again, his sister, reflects upon a beautiful view of the city by using such literary devices as rhyme, personification, hyperbole, and imagery. The speaker manages to create a vision in the readers mind that is so vivid, that one can picture oneself on that very bridge. This poem is another example of Wordsworth's desire to create poetry using...
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1,184 wordsNative American Women Essay submitted by Unknown On few subjects has there been such continual misconception as on the position of women among Indians. Because she was active, always busy in the camp, often carried heavy burdens, attended to the household duties, made the clothing and the home, and prepared the family food, the woman has been depicted as the slave of her husband, a patient beast of encumbrance whose labors were never done. The man, on the other hand, was said to be an loaf, who ...
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1,183 wordsThe The Pearl The Pearl The novel that I chose is The Pearl. It is a greatly written book from John Steinbeck. I chose this book because it seemed interesting when the teacher talked about it. Another reason is that it looked small. But boy was I wrong! ! ! The words are small but when I read the book, it seemed pretty long! Even with it being unbelievably long for a book its size, I really liked it. Summary The story is about a poor family that lives in Mexico. They make a living from collectin...
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Protestant Reformation Counter Reformation
783 wordsProtestant Reformation And The Catholic Counter Reformation Protestant Reformation And The Catholic Counter Reformation The period immediately following the Protestant reformation and the Catholic counter reformation, was full of conflict and war. The entire continent of Europe and all of its classes of society were affected by the destruction and flaring tempers of the period. In the Netherlands, the Protestants and the Catholics were at eachother? s throats. In France it was the Guise family v...
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1,066 words? There are starving kids over in Zimbabwe. Eat your vegetables. ? This may sound familiar to most people when they were growing up. As a child, though, it is always assumed that Mom was just making up something so the vegetables would not be left over for the next day? s dinner. When that child grows up, however, his eyes will be opened and will realize that there really are kids starving in Zimbabwe and in every country in the world, even the United States of America. The people of this nation...
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Southern Italy 20 Years
1,887 wordsPythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians, where at least we have some of the books which they wrote, we have nothing of Pythagoras writings. The society which he led, half religious and half scientific, followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious fig...
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Hong Kong Infected Person
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Romeo And Juliet Tragedy Of Romeo
865 wordsRomeo and Juliet Essay The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a play that consisted of many parts. It had rising action, falling action, and climax, along with many other parts crucial to a good play. Woven into the drama of Shakespeare s love story, were the characters of the play. The main characters, Romeo and Juliet, took center stage in almost every act. Romeo was the son of the Montague family and Juliet was the daughter of the Capulet family. Because of the conflict b...
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