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The White Man's Abuse On The Lands
Number of Words: 1034 / Number of Pages: 4
... references towards the Indian
Spiritual being, that he is very different from that of the White Man. He
makes many analogies towards that of the spiritual importance of the burial
grounds and the worshipping grounds towards the after life. "To us the
ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed
ground." And he also says, "Your dead cease to love you and the land of
their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander way
beyond the stars."
In the speech of Sitting Bull, he speaks of the abuse of the land
by the White Man but on a different level then that ...
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The Technique Of Role Playing
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... aloud that they may hear how the words flow together. Then two or more students are chosen to act out the section with some minimal movement. This added blocking creates the idea that the dialogue motivates the actions.
When doing this type of activity it is best to employ a combination of two different teaching philosophies. One of them is Pragmatism and the other is Idealism. Idealists value the mind and concepts over all things. In this exercise, it is important to keep this sort of attitude. Students may not always understand the full meaning of the text. Often their young lives do not c ...
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The Masters Of Puppets
Number of Words: 2927 / Number of Pages: 11
... burnings, they ware just challenges for us,” explained Hetfield (Metallica). Through it all they set the standard for no compromise, straightforward heavy-metal mastery (Metallica).
Metallica rose from garage band to global stadium phenomenon on their own terms. During the 1980’s dedication to a phenomenon known as heavy metal brought together two completely different men who went on to form one of the most famous rock bands in the history of rock ‘n’ roll (Clark 712). “We knew from day one that this was going to be our lives and we were going to make this work no matter what,” expressed Hetfield ...
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Definition Of War: Sherman's Hell
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... had worked
so hard to create. As a result they felt their freedom of unity and
nationhood had been taken away. It is difficult to say who was in the
right, but when all of the negotiations had been exhausted, war was the
result. In this case there was no other option because both sides believed
in their cause.
Gen. William T. Sherman said ³War is Hell², and that quote has
remained famous because even though simple, it is accurate. American men
spent weeks at a time in rat infested trenches with lice all over their
bodies in both World War One and Two. There are countless examples of
horrible war ...
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A History Of The Beatles
Number of Words: 2411 / Number of Pages: 9
... Paul McCartney, George Harrison
and drummer Colin Hanton. By March of 1960, Lennon's art school
classmate Stuart Sutcliffe joined the band on bass and suggested
the name the Beetles, a play on Buddy Holly's group the Crickets.
By that summer they were the Silver Beatles, settling on the
Beatles in August. That month the Beatles left for Hamburg, West
Germany, with their new drummer Pete Best, to try to establish
themselves in Europe. The band became a popular local act,
performing at various clubs until they were expelled from the
country in November because George Harrison was underage.
T ...
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Post World War I
Number of Words: 1164 / Number of Pages: 5
... of equality for both men and women in society.
Americans had a hunger for news in the Twenties. Every day they would flock to the newsstand for the latest information. They would find the information they needed from various newspapers and periodicals. For Example, the New York Times offered top-notch foreign correspondence. In the Twenties the exposure of evil doing in high places became the mark of a good newspaper. Tabloids and magazines such as The Saturday
Evening Post, National Geographic, and the Literary Digest also became very big during the Twenties.
Americans veered away from tradit ...
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Jazz
Number of Words: 1412 / Number of Pages: 6
... tradition in New Orleans jazz.
The first true virtuoso soloist of jazz, Louie Armstrong was a dazzling
improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. Armstrong,
often called the "father of jazz," always spoke with deference,
bordering on awe, of his musical roots, and with especial devotion of
his mentor Joe Oliver. He changed the format of jazz by bringing the
soloist to the forefront, and in his recording groups, the Hot Five and
the Hot seven, demonstrated that jazz improvisation could go far beyond
simply ornamenting the melody. Armstrong was one of the first jazz
mu ...
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Women In Art
Number of Words: 471 / Number of Pages: 2
... to his experiences like why do these women feel it necessary to pose nude for other people? And why do women buy expensive lingerie?
As we look at the past and the present, the questions that Sanders asks can be answered in many different ways. One possibility that women like to show their naked bodies to others goes way back in history and we see that they think it is beautiful and a form of art. The next question he asks about the lingerie coincides with his first question of why women show their bodies. He sort of responds to his own question by making statements like “These flimsy items cost more ...
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Native Americans
Number of Words: 4952 / Number of Pages: 19
... of North and South America since 1500, have been greatly reduced in numbers and largely displaced. In Central and South America a large percentage of the modern population is of mixed Indian and European ancestry, and in the Caribbean and parts of South America a portion of the population is of mixed American Indian and African descent.
belong to the American Indian geographic race. Characteristics include medium skin pigmentation, straight black hair, sparse body hair, and a very low frequency of male pattern balding. In addition to a marked absence of blood type B and the Rh- negative blood type ...
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Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights
Number of Words: 1218 / Number of Pages: 5
... people do not have the same rights that were granted to them by the founding fathers of the United States, and there is no reason for the blacks to be celebrating the nation’s birthday. Frederick Douglass believed that no black man or woman should be satisfied until their whole race was treated like Americans, and not slaves. Until then the Fourth of July was a holiday which is not “theirs.”
Although Douglass’s speech contains the detestable, horrid facts about slavery and other important issues, he saw a silver lining. “There is hope in the thought,” Douglass said, after he explicated how America ...
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