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The 1920s And Its Impact
Number of Words: 361 / Number of Pages: 2
... form of maney making in canadas economy.
Canadian soldiers on the other hand who had returned from war were
ecpecting to be employed, but not even for their bravery and fighting for
their country could they get a job. Canadian soldiers were surprised at
how difficult it was to get a job. While they were out fighting in WW1,
people who had business relating to military were striking it rich because
of all the military equipment that was needed for the canadian army, for
canadian soldiers who had fought in the war, unemployment was a reality for
them.
During the twenties another discovery ...
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The Persian Gulf War
Number of Words: 2153 / Number of Pages: 8
... nations
wanted some of their money back but Iraq thought they were ingrates and
were ungrateful for defending the Arab emirs from the Iranian Islamic
fundamentalism. The Arab emirs were afraid that the Islamic fundamentalists
would rise against the government and eventually take over the government
as they had Iran against the Shah. Kuwait was also afraid of this and so
they supported the Iraqi Arabs against the Iranian Persians.
2"Iraq",World Book (New York, World Book, 1990), Vol 10, p. 260
The funds that Gulf countries lent to Iraq were used to buy high tech
weapons, high tech weapons th ...
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Fiddler On The Roof
Number of Words: 1139 / Number of Pages: 5
... lives but to any ethnic group who has ever faced the cruelty of others.
The melodrama is based on the book by Joseph Stein and stories by Shalom Aleichem. The music was written by Bock and the lyrics by Harnick. The play was directed by Jerome Robbins and B. Arthur. Masdel played the main character, Tevya the protagonist. Tevya is a Jew who lives strictly by the Jewish traditions. His two main dilemma's in the play are the pogroms that were taking place against the Jews by the Russians and his five daughters they each in their own way reject the traditions that he loves so much. The play beg ...
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Ancient Egyptain Art
Number of Words: 1305 / Number of Pages: 5
... whatsoever, creating a very vacant, placid stare. The Seated Statue of Gudea and The Female Head from Uruk are just a couple of other statues with the same empty, expressionless stare. However, the rest of the features of the sculpture and the thick neck are more like images from the Third Dynasty. The tops of the ears and the tip of the nose have been broken off either with carelessness or with time, both of which cause the damage of many ancient sculptures. The statue of Senmut with Princess Nefrua is another of the many sculptures that had been broken over time. Although it has not been proven, ...
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Film Marketing In Australia
Number of Words: 386 / Number of Pages: 2
... is reflected in the high box office returns on American product in cinemas everywhere.
Australian filmmakers think that marketing and selling of a picture is a dirty exercise and that someone else should do it. Researching target markets and market testing are foreign and not preferred by Australian filmmakers yet this may be necessary in order to achieve cinema attendance.
Some actors in Australia make it clear from the beginning that they don't do publicity, however some actors say there isn't enough publicity for actors involved in film. This site looks at publicity as a potentially cost effec ...
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LA Confidential And Film Noir
Number of Words: 3251 / Number of Pages: 12
... Maltese Falcon is now viewed as the typical film noir style movie because it contains traits and qualities of filmmaking that were adapted by film noir filmmakers. Film noir started during the mid 1940’s and has been a popular film style ever since, yielding such contemporary movies like The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995), Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998). These films have proved that film noir is not a method dedicated to past decades, but rather an innovative style of film that influences movies today.
LA Confidential, like ...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... of
war.
In the second stanza Owen is describing a gas attack on the soldiers as they are trudging
back to camp. Owen describes the soldiers fumbling to get their mask fastened, all but one, a
lone soldier. He is struggling to get his mask on but doesn’t get it fastened quick enough and
suffers from the full effects of deadly gas:
Gas! Gas! Quick boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowni ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright The Pioneer
Number of Words: 1135 / Number of Pages: 5
... toward nature and self integrity can best be shown by comparing them to those shared by Emerson and Thoreau. Wrights deep love of nature and his individualism were formed from the events which influenced him as a child and up until his days working for Louis Sullivan. In order to fully understand the ideas which Wright proposed through his philosophy of Organic Architecture, one must first understand the events and influences which led to their creation.
As a child, Wrights parents always encouraged him to be a free thinker and individualist. Both of his parents were intelligent and creative people b ...
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Manet Painting
Number of Words: 2849 / Number of Pages: 11
... the particularities found within Manet¹s relationships with women to become apparent, and therefore, in part, aids the understanding of the complex interactionalism found between the characters within his painted scenes.
However, it is the actions of the artists youth which many theorists believe is the key to understanding the ambiguous portrayal of woman within his painting of ³A Bar at the Follies-Bergere². It was during the late 1850¹s when Manet was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, Manet had openly admitted in letters to his friends the exten ...
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Reconstruction In The South
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... group of
the state's citizen totaling 10 percent of the voters in the 1860 presidential
election had signed oaths of loyalty to the Union. Under this plan new
governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas but the Congress
refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick
restoration, for the reason that it would bring Democratic representatives and
senators to Washington, and in 1864 Congress passed the Wade-Davis
Reconstruction Bill. This bill would have delayed the process of rejoining the
Union until 50 percent of the people took an oath of loyalty but Lincoln ...
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