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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
1,316 wordsThe Tet offensive was certainly the decisive campaign of the war, but lost in these set of battles was the real underlying reason why the grossly underestimated NLF and North Vietnamese army could actually succeed in this undermanned set of attacks. I think the real success of this campaign was not the effectiveness and the planning of the NLF and NV army, but the lack of preparation of the US forces. The NLF and NV army have received too much credit on this suicide mission. The credit should ac...
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King Writes Takes Place
1,058 wordsIn the short story, Suffer the little Children, Stephan King tells the tale of an old school teacher who faces an unusual problem. The teacher, Miss Sidley, is forced to deal with a group of children unlike any she had faced in her life; these children were different, very different. The children in the story are not human. The discovery of this causes Miss Sidley to act in ways she never thought capable, eventually leading to murder. King conveys the theme: what you dont know and dont understan...
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Birth Of Venus Feel Comfortable
849 wordsThe Birth of Venus is a beautiful Renaissance canvas masterpiece created by Sandro Botticelli. The picture illustrates the birth of Venus in a very mystical way. Venus has emerged from sea on a shell which is being driven to shore by flying wind-gods. She is surrounded by beautiful roses which are painted in a truly remarkable color. As she is about to step to land, one of the Hours hands her a purple cloak. The back drop includes the sea and a forest. The overall effect of this painting are alm...
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William Burroughs The Pusher And Pimp
350 wordsYaka Of 4 / 17 / 2000 Professor Julie Lewis English 1 William Burroughs: The Pusher and The Pimp Picture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled neighborhood. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his employees parading around. On the other corner stands a Junk dealer selling his product. Both men frown upon each other for the others occupation. Little do they know they are doing basically the same thing; both men make a living off of degrading people, only difference is one doe...
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Side Of The Road Taco Bell
1,900 wordsBy Ray Kelly Sept. 20, 1998 I was truly beginning to enjoy the wonderful fruits of life. Sports were at a peak in my life. I loved my baseball and ice hockey. School was winding down to the point where everyone knows that junior year grades are the most important out of all of your four years, and I had to finish strong. Yet there was something about the changing of the seasons, perhaps the increasingly diminishing supply of threads that the girls were covering their bodies with was a tell tale ...
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H R Diagram Main Sequence Stars Absolute
527 wordsThe Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram or, the H-R Diagram for short, is a graph which plots stars according to their temperature and absolute magnitude. This graph reveals a pattern, which in fact is quite interesting. The H-R Diagram is named for the two astronomers, Ear Hertzsprung and Henry Russell, who discovered this pattern of stars. These two astronomers independently discovered that comparing magnitudes and spectral class (color) of stars yielded a lot of information about them. One key purpos...
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Back And Forth Business Man
1,114 wordsThrough the steam of my coffee I could see a miniature set of shiny red shoes swinging back and forth underneath the counter at the diner. A little girl had been sitting atop the red stool since I had arrived, just sitting watching the cook flip pancakes all morning long with a mature sense of fascination. Up and down, and up and down, over and over again, the batter always formed into delicious solid creations, some with blueberries, some with chocolate, some just plain and simple. The cook spo...
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Black Holes 000 Years
576 wordsDo you think? When was the last time you really sat down and thought about something? Was it a few minutes ago or a few months ago? Our society is so reliant on someone else thinking for them that we have become a co-dependent culture. Did you watch the news today? Was some guy on a killing spree? A serial killer. Did you ever wonder if they felt any mercy for the person as they killed them, each one of them? Or maybe they were merciless and they felt nothing. Or maybe, just maybe, they are a fi...
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Caught His Head Head On The Side Bike
1,330 wordsThese are some of my memories that I can remember clearly. Some are from a very long time ago and some are quite resent. I have three, some parts of them are bad memories and other parts are that good that Ill never forget them. One of my earliest memories was when I was about 3 or 4 and lived in a small house in Warrington. It was a hot sunny day and I was out in the garden playing football with my friend Joe. My Mum, and Joe's Mum, were both in the house having dinner together because they had...
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To Kill A Mockingbird Style
615 wordsThe stylistic elements that an author chooses are instrumental in ensuring that the theme or tone that he or she wishes to convey is in fact conveyed to the reader. Harper Lee obviously realizes this, for in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, [New York: Warner, 1982 ] 278) she wisely selects a distinctive style to relate the moving story of a young child discovering harsh truths regarding human nature The predominant stylistic element Miss Lee uses is her diction...
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Rusty Brick House Willow And Hill Streets One
941 wordsOn a tall slender post two signs peacefully announce that this is the inter- section of Willow and Hill streets. Actually Willow stops here, although some think' it continues down the driveway of the rusty brick house, straight ahead Late one summer, the pretty college sophomore who lived in that house with her brother and divorced mother, stopped using the driveway. The fraternity to which the boy belonged with whom she was riding was suspended after the accident. After that, one could occasion...
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Police Officer Long Ago
1,216 wordsCharlotte Johnson, a kind and loving mother of two, looked at the old barn and realized it would soon fall down. It was in a terrible state of repair. Its wooden foundation had long since rotted away, and the building now leaned unsteadily to one side. The boards, many of them sun-bleached, were loose and old. Several of them hung by only a single nail. Occasionally one of the dangling boards would mutter in protest, and then clatter noisily against its neighbors as it was set in motion by the w...
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Marcel Duchamp Salvador Dali
1,680 wordsMarcel Duchamp Nude Descending Staircase 1912 Marcel Duchamp, born 1887 and died in 1968, was a modernist artist. His painting, Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 was painted in 1912 using oil on canvas with a dimension of 58 x 35 inches in size. It was first exhibited at the New York Armory Show in 1913, where it aroused great controversy, and is now kept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the Louise and Walter Arsenberg collection. Duchamp was influenced by the increasing trend of artists disco...
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Statue Of Liberty Central Park
1,159 wordsNew York City New York is the city of contrasts. People often call it the city that never sleeps. New York is one of the most attractive cities of our planet. It is the city of dreams, the city of mysteries, the city of majestic sky-scrapers and boutiques. New York is the city where ancient Dutch buildings and cobblestone pavements are mixed together with mirror-like sparkling towers of business-centers and apartments, palaces in Greenwich Village and thoroughfares of Chinese ward. New York is t...
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Graphic Design Internet Site
963 wordsDavid Carson, as a graphic designer started by creating visuals for Transworld Skateboarding magazine, later his art could be seen in Transworld Snowboarding, Beach Culture, Surfer and finally Ray Gun that revealed Carson's vivid graphical language; he was able to connect to the audience using his unique code of color and shape, making print medium alive and fresh. Its his work in Ray Gun that made him renown; his works were highly praised in mainstream periodicals including New York and Newswee...
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People Of The Town Story The Reader
914 wordsThe Lottery, a short story written by Shirley Jackson, is a tale of disturbing evilness. The setting is a small village consisting of about 300 residents. On June 27 th of every year the members of the community hold a village-wide lottery in which everyone is expected to participate. Throughout the story the reader gets an odd feeling regarding the residents. Although they are gathering for a lottery drawing there is an air of nervousness about the event. From start to finish there is an overwh...
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Small Country Town Hear The Sounds Road
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Mercutio And Benvolio Romeo
1,114 wordsThis assignment is on a scene of Romeo and Juliet I have split the scene into thirteen different sections. These sections include what the music and sound affects will be and what the lighting will be and even what sought of characters I am going to have to play the part. In section one I am having a medium shot that is at eye level to show Benvolio and Mercutio? s conversation and to also see the expressions on their faces. The only music or sound affects I am having are the background sounds o...
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Pope Julius Ii Sistine Chapel
1,414 wordsMichelangelo Buonarroti, born in the sixteenth century, was perhaps one of the greatest artisans of all time. He was an accomplished artist, sculptor, architect, and poet who demonstrated his great skill with the creation of many astounding works. Michelangelo's artwork consisted of paintings and sculptures that showed humanity in its natural state. He is remembered today as the man who had sculpted the David and the Pieta, which are two of the most stunning sculptures to come out of the Renaiss...
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Pope Julius Ii Tomb Of Pope Julius
1,643 wordsMichelangelo was an optimist in his artwork and his sculptures. Michelangelo? s artwork consisted of paintings that showed humanity in its natural state. Michelangelo? s showed optimism in every figure he sculpted. Michelangelo? s sculpture brought out his true feelings of the world and how he viewed it. Michelangelo was optimistic in completing? The Tomb of Pope Julius II? and persevered it through its many revisions trying to complete his vision. Sculpting was Michelangelo? s main goal and the...
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