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The Causes Of The Civil War: Slavery, Economics, Or Constitutional Differences
Number of Words: 721 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Civil War. With
slavery in mind, it brought about ideas of succession to the South.
Because the South was scared of Lincoln abolishing slavery, they thought it
would be a wise decision to secede from the Union. In fact, Lincoln had no
plans of abolishing slavery, but stated that it should not spread to the
territories. The South, basically misunderstood, and decided to secede
anyway. The reason slavery was so important to the South, and lead them to
break apart from the Union was that it tied into their lifestyle and
economy.
The South had wanted a plantation lifestyle, where the owner coul ...
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Art History Entombment And Adoration Of The Shepperds Painti
Number of Words: 1876 / Number of Pages: 7
... and Nicodemus holding a crown of thorns and nails in order to help us understand that this scene takes place directly after they took Christ down from the cross. In the Adoration of the Shepherds, Cigoli probably painted the star above so people would assume it is the star of Bethelham which the shepherds followed to see Christ which is what the scene is about. This style is very appropriate for the time because organizations like the Council of Trent wanted people to understand the subject of the paintings without having to think much about it.
Both artists composed the figures in different sty ...
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Woodstock
Number of Words: 1390 / Number of Pages: 6
... dairy farmer, Max Yasgur, who owned land about 48 miles from .
Early in the week before the festival, it became clear that the event was going to
draw a much larger audience than expected. People from as far away as Michigan and
California came to listen to the 24 rock groups ("Age, 1"). Thousands more people
would have come if police had not blocked off access roads. By the day before the
official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads leading to the area. The
intense traffic on Route 17B towards Bethel, New York that afternoon didn't seem to
bother anyone as peop ...
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Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
Number of Words: 8660 / Number of Pages: 32
... critical flicker
frequency is the minimum rate of interruption of the projected light beam
that will not cause the motion picture to appear to flicker. A frequency
above about 48 interruptions a second will eliminate flicker.
Camera
Like a still camera (see CAMERA), a movie camera shoots each picture
individually. The movie camera, however, must also move the film precisely
and control the shutter, keeping the amount of light reaching the film
nearly constant from frame to frame. The shutter of a movie camera is
essentially a circular plate rotated by an electric motor. An opening in ...
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Die Hard The Movie - Action Film Subtexts
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... maiden name, instead of her married name. Even though they are separated, it looks like Holly wants to try to work things out over the holidays. She asked him if he wanted to stay in their spare room, instead of staying at someone else's place.
Also, John seems to be a macho cop, and doesn't like that his wife has gone off to pursue her career. She is probably making more money than he is, and his pride is offended by this. Her boss has arranged for him to be picked up at the airport in a limo, and he has never ridden in a limo before. When he gets to her office, he is amazed by how fancy it is ...
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Native American Genocide
Number of Words: 1265 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the Holocaust, or the troubles in Bosnia, but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom t ...
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Ancient Japanese Art
Number of Words: 2150 / Number of Pages: 8
... that were showcased on the floor, but this is the one that I found to be a little mysterious.
When I first saw this piece of work I questioned its value and just why it was in the museum because two feet away on either side of it were beautiful inkings and paintings. I looked back in the middle and found this piece of art to be more of a piece of crap. So I looked harder.
The work is painted on part of a horizontally unraveled scroll. The exposed part of the scroll is one foot high and four feet from left to right. To the far right the re-scroll had a few feet rolled up into a tube. To the le ...
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Renaisance Art 2
Number of Words: 708 / Number of Pages: 3
... made him one of the best.
Later in the 1400’s there was a painter by the name of Masaccio. This amazing artist had a special was of creating 3 dimensions in all of his paintings. As time went on, more talented artists, architects, and sculptors had found themselves as part of a special time in Italy.
Masaccio life was short, and because of that he was not able to teach many people his skills. But his talent of light, color, contrast, and perspective didn’t go unnoticed. Artists now used what Masaccio had discovered in all of the paintings and drawings. And now the importance of lines was e ...
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The Declaration Of Independence
Number of Words: 680 / Number of Pages: 3
... their king and spread the gospel and the society expressed such ideas. Every aspect of social life if not controlled by the king was determined by the Bible but by comparison to the ideas of government and values are basically the same.
In it states that "all men are created equal," an idea which leads to the concept that all citizens should have the same rights, responsibilities, and influence in the governing of their country. In writing Thomas Jefferson was trying to break his ties with the harsh and non-democratic rule of the British and begin a new, equal society and government for Americ ...
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Thats Not Art
Number of Words: 464 / Number of Pages: 2
... what I see when looking at this sculpture. When I view the iron, I see it as a meaningless object that does not appear to have any creativity or significance attached to itself.
Other artists from this time such as Duchamp and Picasso were also having a hard time finding an audience for their work because society did not understand the ideas they were trying to communicate, and now Picasso is one of the most famous artists in the world. The genius of these people is finally being recognized, as books and research papers are celebrating their art as a valid expression from their time. They created ...
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