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How The 60's Changed Our Lives
Number of Words: 1285 / Number of Pages: 5
... openness, love, honesty, freedom, and
the innocence and purity of their childhood values. To themselves, they
were the dawn of a new society in America. A psychedelic society, almost
utopian, in which love would be everywhere and people would help each other.
(O'Neill 127)
Drugs were very quickly associated with the hippies. You could
often see people smoking marijuana on sidewalks, in parked cars, in
doughnut shops, or relaxing on the grass of a public park, anywhere
(O'Neill 125). LSD was also very prevalent. Both were to make the user more
aware of reality, and to expand their minds. In an interv ...
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The Immortal Artist
Number of Words: 434 / Number of Pages: 2
... regenerating his or her image from a photograph. The canvas is divided into eighteen individual and distinct sections. Each section is devoted to one student picture or figure, and their mood or feelings in which they wanted to portray.
The designer, Chaplin, gave the work a sense of unity by using all pure hue colors and geometric construction with illustrative organic shapes to create the students. The use of repetition in color and general shapes gives the piece an intimate since of unity that also pulls the students together in a metaphoric sense.
The work is residing in the student commons. ...
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The Salem Witch Trials
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Sarah Osborne. These women were the first three to be accused. Tituba confessed to practicing witchcraft and to seeing the devil. She claimed the devil would appear to her "sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog". She also testified that there was a conspiracy of witches at work in Salem. This marked the beginning of the Salem witch-hunt that would plague Salem residences for most of that year.
A pattern started to emerge which reflected the communities division within Salem village. The village was divided between supporters of the Porter and Putnam families. The people b ...
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The Sedition Act Of 1798
Number of Words: 2337 / Number of Pages: 9
... to British excesses and thought to be "the mortal
diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished." James
Madison wrote in Federalist Papers #10, "By a faction, I understand a
number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the
whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of
interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and
aggregate interests of the community." He went on to explain that faction
is part of human nature; "that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and
that relief is only to be sought i ...
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Objectism
Number of Words: 413 / Number of Pages: 2
... is man, every man, is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuits of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Politics is the perfect society. Each and every man helps and does things for each other for mutual benefit. The government only exists to protect the rights of everyone and only uses physical violence in self-protection. No person exists as another’s slave or master everyone is equal. In the perfe ...
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Native American Experiences During King Philip's War
Number of Words: 1400 / Number of Pages: 6
... had saved New England and had punished the Indian transgressors.”
The most interesting and ironic evidence that Mary Rolandson’s narrative provides about the Native American experience during the King Phillip’s War can best be described in a quote in the article “Come Along With US”. “ The Lasting legacy of Mary Rolandson’s dramatic, eloquent, and fantastically popular narrative of captivity and redemption is the nearly complete veil it has unwittingly placed over the experiences of bondage endured by Algonquin Indians during the King Phillips War.” In Mary Rolandson’s account we only read of al ...
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Depression Of The 1930s
Number of Words: 1252 / Number of Pages: 5
... and in real estate, along with the expansion in credit
(created, in part, by low-paid workers buying on credit) and high profits
for a few industries, concealed basic problems. Thus the U. S. stock market
crash that occurred in October 1929, with huge losses, was not the
fundamental cause of the Great Depression, although the crash sparked, and
certainly marked the beginning of, the most traumatic economic period of
modern times.
By 1930, the slump was apparent, but few people expected it to continue;
previous financial PANICS and depressions had reversed in a year or two.
The usual forces of econo ...
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Dali
Number of Words: 273 / Number of Pages: 1
... floors, architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the museum as a six-story, circular, glass-domed structure with a spiral ramp surrounding a hollow core. This means art viewers can take the elevator to the top of the building and walk down the ramp to the bottom. There are no stairs to climb, no masses of rooms to get lost in, and no chance of missing a single piece of art.
The Guggenheim -- designed in 1943, but not completed until 1960 -- was one of the last major projects in Wright's remarkable architectural career.
Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, and studied engineering at the Unive ...
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The American Civil War
Number of Words: 2418 / Number of Pages: 9
... of The Confederate States of America. All of
this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end
of a tragedy.
II. CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army
cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so
briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its
famous "march to the sea". The march covered a distance of 400 miles and
was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North.
He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on
what e ...
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Art
Number of Words: 579 / Number of Pages: 3
... with all Egyptian coffins. One might overlook
that the whole coffin is engulfed in hiractic writing,
soundly designating it as "Egyptian". Some lines of hiratic
writing read, "Beginning of the instructions"(Coffin), which
is the traditional opening formula for "didactic
writings"(Coffin), reflecting its relationship in appearing
Egyptian.
The purpose of the coffin is no secret. The
Egyptians believed in the "Ka". The objective of the coffin
was to provide a body for the deceased. Many beliefs are
represented in her coffin. As stated above, Egyptians
believed in the afterlife. Man ...
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