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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Of 1911
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... in a very big, tough, factory. I find it to be very sad to see business tycoons putting little children to work. Another sad fact, �And when the inspectors came around, do you know what happened? The supervisors made all the children climb into one of those crates that they ship material in, and they covered us over with finished shirtwaists until the inspector had left, because of course we were too young to be working in the factory legally.� This little hiding �game� that the owner makes the little children do when the inspector comes by is just plain out pathetic, on the owners part. I still ...
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Boston Massacre
Number of Words: 1866 / Number of Pages: 7
... and were walking about the town, carried large clubs, for the purpose of assaulting the people.
Many would say that the colonists had every right to be mad and irritated. But what about the soldiers. They were just taking commands from the country that they are defending and fighting for. To them they were just doing the right thing. But we all know that they went to extremes by the frequent wounding of persons by their bayonets and cutlasses, and the numerous instances of bad behavior in the soldiery. This also led the colonists to figure out the England did not send those troops over fo ...
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The U.S. Entering World War II
Number of Words: 1258 / Number of Pages: 5
... One way he did this was by creating various policies that would deter the Axis powers from being able to maintain the needs necessary to wage war on the Allies. One of these policies was the American financial and economic embargo, which supported China in its fight against Japan. It also, somewhat, forced neutral countries to side with the U.S. because it threatened that if any country would aid one of the Axis countries then that country would no longer be given aid packages from the United States. A second policy imposed by Roosevelt was the "moral embargo" of July 1938. This banne ...
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A Brief History Of The Blues
Number of Words: 2459 / Number of Pages: 9
... and the blues, "notable among all human works of art for their profound despair . . . They gave voice to the mood of alienation and anomie that prevailed in the construction camps of the South," for it was in the Mississippi Delta that blacks were often forcibly conscripted to work on the levee and land-clearing crews, where they were often abused and then tossed aside or worked to death. (Lomax 233)
Alan Lomax states that the blues tradition was considered to be a masculine discipline (although some of the first blues songs heard by whites were sung by 'lady' blues singers like Mamie Smith and Be ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Number of Words: 344 / Number of Pages: 2
... the federal government
would compenste slave owners who freed their slaves. All slaves in the District
of Columbia were freed in this way on April 16, 1862 . On June 19, 1862,
Congress enacted a measure prohibiting slavery in United States territories,
thus defying the supreme court decision in the Dred Scott case, which ruled that
Congress was powerless to regulate slavery in the territories.
Finaly, after the union victory in the battle of antietam, Lincoln
issued a preliminary proclamation on September 22, declaring his intention of
promulgating another proclamathion in 100 days, freeing ...
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Dave Mathews Band
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... and pushes the limits of the imagination.
To give the reader a taste if what Dave Mathews� poetry is like I�m going to give some examples over the next paragraph. The examples that precede derive from several of his albums so as to give the full spectrum of his talents. The first exert is Proudest Monkey from the album Crash, it is a song about a person who lived a very simple life but decides to make a change:
Oh I am bounce around so well
Branch to branch,
limb to limb you see
All in a day's dream
I'm stuck
Like the other monkeys here
I am a humble monkey
Sitting up in here again
But then cam ...
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American Exceptionalism
Number of Words: 2655 / Number of Pages: 10
... American exceptionalism is as ill defined as the
philosophy itself, stemming from centuries of writings that convey more of
an overtone than a tangible explication. Yet, Lipset has no trouble
asserting that American exceptionalism takes the form of "liberty,
egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire," all
characteristics of Americans, from the revolutionary period to modern times.
Thomas Massaro, a -reviewer of Lipset's obviously controversial book
American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, paraphrases Lipset simply:
"The United States is different from other countries because ...
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He Got Game - Cinematography And Film Techniques
Number of Words: 2608 / Number of Pages: 10
... through the use of a wide-angle lens. Jake is seen here in the foreground with Jesus and Booger in the background. All three men keep a healthy distance apart. When Jake approaches Booger to give him love, Booger backs away, reacting to the violation of the space that the director has created between these characters. This distance between Jake and Jesus is kept throughout the scene as they walk parallel paths across the court to the fence.
As the film progresses and as Jesus begins to accept his father more and more, the distance between the actors decreases. For example, when they are walkin ...
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Led Zeppelin
Number of Words: 903 / Number of Pages: 4
... Records in 1969. Shortly after the record was released it was number eight and stayed in the top twenty for six weeks. When the II was released, it was Atlantic Records� fastest selling album at 100,000 copies a week. They broke their own record in 1975 when �Physical Graffiti� that sold 500 copies an hour. All of their albums have gone platinum.
They were the first group to heavily tour the United States and sporadically tour the rest of the world. This occurred because there was a lack of interest in them Britain. Their success was due to their manager Peter Grant. Peter was able to keep the ...
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Jazz 2
Number of Words: 496 / Number of Pages: 2
... with a very slow tempo. It is like walking in a desert without water. The tempo keeps on dragging you to a faster and more dynamic sound. When that happens it is like taking the first taste of water after a long walk in the desert. The violin plays as the main instrument when it comes to the faster tempo and dynamic part. The clarinet on the other hand takes the slower mood in the piece. The volume would get louder as the tempo picks up. What I liked about this particular piece is the way it changed its tempo from vary slow to vary fast. What I did not like is that their are not enough instruments in ...
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