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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
Number of Words: 343 / Number of Pages: 2
... last and only piece of proof reflecting his wicked soul --- the picture. The result was that Dorian the man and his picture exchanged appearances, the man aged suddenly then died foul and wrinkled while the canvas regained its initial exquisite elegance.
To me the tale of Dorian Gray is about love, friendship and evil, it is a book written of fascinating style, describing timeless issues as art, beauty and morality. Its controversial perspective only made it more worth while. The only matter I oppose to in this book is its degrading view upon the female sex, which perhaps was caused by the homos ...
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How To Make A Movie
Number of Words: 3999 / Number of Pages: 15
... sound for film in the 1920s. Suddenly, actors needed something to say. Writers flocked to Hollywood in droves from Broadway and from the worlds of literature and journalism. For a brief time in the 1930s, some of the world's most famous writers wrote Hollywood scripts: William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bertolt, and Thomas Mann.
In 1932, William Faulkner earned $6,000 in salary and rights for a story, a substantial of money at the time. Just five years later, F. Scott Fitzgerald earned $1,250 per week, more money than he had ever earned in his life (Brady, 1981, 26) , and enough to get him out of ...
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Quest For Fire
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... to the small island where their tribe is. The people of their tribe are very excited about their return and they are even more exciting when they learn that they can make fire by themselves. From now on, human¡¦s life is no more depends on God¡¦s favor. They can manage their own life.
In spite of causing me nearly to vomit, this movie has some good aspects. It uses excellent sound effects and perfect makeup technique to make this movie very realistic. There is no dialogue throughout the whole movie, but the body language and gestures of men well explain the story. This movie makes you think a lot ...
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Government Lies From Vietnam
Number of Words: 2129 / Number of Pages: 8
... going to support a war that not only needlessly harmed citizens, but also put a damper on there own fight for justice. Just a few years before the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the CIA had failed miserably with their attempted invasion of the Bay of Pigs.
The government’s need to lie can be summed up by Victor Zorza in his Washington Post Article of November 1965: “In psychological warfare… the intelligence agencies of the democratic countries suffer from the grave disadvantage that in attempting to damage the adversary they must also deceive their own public.” Shortly before sending General Paul D. Hark ...
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The Journey Of Lewis And Clark
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... astronomer for the expedition, and kept a
valuable diary.
Clark went on to serve as governor of Missouri Territory from 1813
to1820, and as federal superintendent of Indian affairs. He laid out the
site of Paducah, Kentucky, in 1828. William Clark died in 1838.
The Expedition
The expedition started May 14 1804, sent by President Thomas
Jefferson to examine the resources of the far Northwest. The 8,000 mile
journey was led by Louise and Clark. The expedition gave valuable
information about the geography, climate, natural products, and plant and
animal life in the area, and about customs, dress, ...
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The Manhattan Project
Number of Words: 1621 / Number of Pages: 6
... War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately named for the
Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because much
of the early research was done in New York City. Sparked by refugee
physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized after
nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938, and many US
scientists expressed the fear that Hitler would attempt to build a fission
bomb. Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce an atomic bomb
first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein, a famous
scientist during that ...
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Life Of Raphael Sanzio
Number of Words: 1001 / Number of Pages: 4
... Mary Magdalene were thought to be Raphael’s until the church of San Gimingniano proved that they were in fact Perugino’s. "Raphael was only 14. It is undoubtedly a Perugino calmly emotional, and pious rather than passionate. Unlike the other great painters of this time, such as Michelangelo and Da Vinci, Raphael was born with a great understanding of art and required little instruction if any. Because of Raphael’s great understanding of the arts, he quickly surpassed his teacher and ventured out on his own to the great city of Florence in 1504.
At the same time Raphael arrived in Florence, the o ...
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Reasons America Declared War On Germany
Number of Words: 514 / Number of Pages: 2
... after a similar incident took place; Germany’s naval policy instigated him to declare war on Germany.
Propaganda was necessary to declare war on Germany, since a war without the public’s support would not have fared well. Although Americans were certainly upset at Germany’s naval policy, it was not enough to prompt popular support for a declaration of war. Propaganda, such as political cartoons, was used in order to get the public to advocate entrance into the war. Cartoons were used widely, giving Americans the impression that Germany was horrid, thereby giving them more of a reason to wish to g ...
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The Manhattan Project
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... whether only the lighter and more rare isotope of uranium (U-
235) or the common isotope (U-238) could be used. They learned that each
fission releases a few neutrons. A chain reaction, therefore, was
theoretically possible, if not too many neutrons escaped from the mass or
were captured by impurities.
In 1942 General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he
immediately purchased a site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for facilities to
separate the necessary uranium-235 from the much more common uranium-238.
He also appointed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as director
of the weapons ...
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The Invention Of The Airplane
Number of Words: 2077 / Number of Pages: 8
... bird wings were separate and distinct, and could be imitated by different systems on a fixed-wing craft. Lilienthal began his work on heavier-than-air craft not by developing a complete airplane, but instead by focusing his efforts on a fixed-wing glider.
Lilienthal brought a much-needed respectability to the enterprise of inventing an airplane. Up to that point, efforts to invent airplanes were considered to be the province of crackpots and wild-eyed dreamers. But when a hard-headed German engineer entered the game, other respectable people were soon to follow.
In addition to the respectability he b ...
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