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Development Of Art
Number of Words: 598 / Number of Pages: 3
... art which would follow it.
The next important era was the time of Greek art. Their work was greatly influenced by the Egyptians. Their early art was very geometric in shape and glorified Gods and people in their works. Eventually as time progressed, they began to soften their edges and lines and concentrate on the human form, which they considered the most beautiful of all creation.
Christian art was the next big leap for art. This art was more colorful and displayed vivid images and scenes. The introduction of the mosaic was probably the greatest contribution of the period. In the fifteenth ...
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The United States' Involvement In World War 2
Number of Words: 3441 / Number of Pages: 13
... with the war, began aiding the allied attack by passing a law making it illegal to send material assistance to belligerent countries. Poland was crushed in three weeks. Germany was on the move. (Renouvin 177)
The movement continued as Germany seeked to conquer Norway and Denmark. Norway held much of Germany’s valuable shipments of iron, which was crucial to warfare. Hitler feared that the allies would attempt to cut this supply off to Germany. These countries also served as vitally tactical submarine ports. So, in April 1940 Germany took both Norway and Denmark. British attempted to stop the Ger ...
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Leon The Movie Review Essay
Number of Words: 3472 / Number of Pages: 13
... the time of the attack, but she returns to see the blood of her father pouring out over the floor. As Leon watches, interested but uninvolved, he sees her walking down the hallway, laden with groceries.
Creeping under the gaze of a particularly twitchy villain, Mathilda knocks on his door and silently pleads for sanctuary. As a dedicated hit-man Leon has no wish to compromise his position yet, after several long seconds, he inwardly relents and grants Mathilda safety from the men who have wiped out her family. Leon certainly doesn't want this change, and neither does Tony, but Mathilda manages to co ...
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Liberal Arts
Number of Words: 391 / Number of Pages: 2
... expand and build on what others have learned rather than wasting time on what has already been discovered.
In order to illustrate, I'll use the example of the telephone. The telephone was an ingenious invention that was combined with the innovation of a free thinker, Alexander Graham Bell. Bell created the first working telephone and the impact of the telephone on society, over the past 100 years, is immeasurable. The result of the telephone revolutionized communication, advancing society to another level. Inventions that advance society, such as this, demonstrate the value of a education. In years p ...
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The Reformation
Number of Words: 1389 / Number of Pages: 6
... for decieving the people. Eventually, he became angry enough, and he
nailed a complaint, called the 95 theses to a Church door. The 95 theses
complained about the sale of induldgences and other corruptions in the
Church. Luther also created new ideas against the Church. He rejected the
authority of the Pope and said that priests had no more authority than
laymen did. He said that vows taken by monks and nuns should be abolished
and said that clergy should be able to marry. He rejected the celibacy of
the clergy. Luther only kept two of the seven sacraments, baptism and the
Lord's Supper.
Pop ...
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The War Of 1812
Number of Words: 527 / Number of Pages: 2
... Orleans.
affected not only the United States, but Canada and Great Britain as well. In Great Britain, the war did not have a strong effect on the country. Although the United States was declared to be the winners of many of the wars which took place during , the Royal Navy was quite successful in maintaining it's blockade of the American Coast as well as practically neutralizing the American Navy. Great Britain never thought of the War as being highly important, in fact it was just seen as a small added burden. To them, they saw the United States attempting to have revenge on them by depriving the ...
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The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
Number of Words: 2819 / Number of Pages: 11
... regardless of population, would have the same number of representatives. In the other house (the House of Representatives) each member would represent the same number of people. ‘Quite appropriately this came to be called the Great Compromise. Other major compromises came on slavery and on the control of commerce. The southern states, where the slaves were really treated as property, still wanted the slaves counted as people for the purposes of representation in the New House of Representatives. Some delegates argued that if one kind of property was counted for representation, other kinds should be t ...
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Michelangelo
Number of Words: 1582 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the active and contemplative life- representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating delays and revised schemes. had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to complete the work done in the previous century under Sixtus IV. The overall organization consists of four large triangles at the corner; a series of eight ...
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The Manhattan Project
Number of Words: 1608 / 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 (Badash 238). 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 scienti ...
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The Black Panther Party
Number of Words: 1526 / Number of Pages: 6
... black communities, as defined by the
constitution of the United States." And their tenth point was, "We want
land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our
major political objective, and United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be
held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects
will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of
black people as to their national destiny." With these ten points as their
fuel the Black Panther Party was ready to take on the nation.
In the mid sixties Newton and Seale's organization took shape. ...
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