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Leo Szilard And The Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... and Dr. Leo Szilard would play a critical part in the making of the atomic bomb. April 24, 1939 physicist Paul Harteck and Lord Rutherford wrote to Hitler's war office telling him about the newest development in nuclear physics. Professor Hans Geiger co-inventor of the Geiger counter was shown this letter. In June of that year Geiger's close associates published an article describing a possible way to produce a chain reaction and a "uranium machine". Export of uranium was banned in Germany as a result of this article. Szilard and scientist Wigner figured the Germans knew much more than they were sayi ...
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The History Of Ballet
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... a firm foundation for Ballet had been established. Women began to join in the dance; Ballet Masters began to attempt a form of notation for this dance. In addition, costumes became sleeker in order to adapt to the intricate movement of the foot and the body of the female dancer, who, at this time began to gain dominance in the dance. To this point Ballet had been, mainly, a very restricted dance. Free flowing movement and jumps/lifts were not yet socially acceptable. The only changes that could be made were variations in floor patterns and tempo. So, from here, Ballet continued its combinatio ...
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Film Review (The Money Pit)
Number of Words: 268 / Number of Pages: 1
... and etc.
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young couple just married. They spend most of their time dealing with managing their new house. The performed the unstable love of the couple clearly.
Alexander Godunov plays Mac, the antagonist who interests in Anna and created conflict between the young couple by lying or saying that Anna slept with him when she was drunk.
The plot of the story is not very special, but the actors use funny expressions and skill to deal with the unstable house to make the movie more interesting. Sometimes Tom Hanks is over acting and they exaggerate to m ...
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Causes Of The Great Depression
Number of Words: 3512 / Number of Pages: 13
... billion in 1923 to $89 billion in 1929. However, the rewards of the "Coolidge Prosperity" of the 1920's were not shared evenly among all Americans. According to a study done by the Brookings Institute, in 1929 the top 0.1% of Americans had a combined income equal to the bottom 42%. That same top 0.1% of Americans in 1929 controlled 34% of all savings, while 80% of Americans had no savings at all. Automotive industry mogul Henry Ford provides a striking example of the unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and the middle-class. Henry Ford reported a personal income of $14 million in the sam ...
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Clockwork Orange
Number of Words: 1125 / Number of Pages: 5
... it was shot in London during 1960, much of the culture of that time is shown throughout the movie. As I stated earlier the movie starts out by showing four young men dressed all the same, sitting in a milk bar. The milk bar sounds harmless but the "milk" they sold at this bar was laced with drugs that helped them in what they were planning to do: beat, rape and murder.for what they were planning to do: beat, kill and rape. After they leave the
milk bar, their first victim is a drunk homeless man. This is where Kubrick showed his audience why they were beating people for apparently no reason. ...
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Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... and power lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings.
A road across the fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east
same with the rivers and creeks.
The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the
fault yet there was little damage along towns to the east side of San
Francisco Bay such as Berkely, 25km east of the fault. And the capital of
California Sacramento that was 120km east of the rupture showed no damage.
Scientists found out that the earthquake originated north of
Oregon and south to Los Angeles a total of 1170 Km.
Knowing now that build ...
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The Roosevelt New Deal Program
Number of Words: 573 / Number of Pages: 3
... the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. The Dust Bowl was called that because of a massive drought that hit during the Great Depression years. Winds carried all of the top soil away and blocked roads. Some people were stranded inside their houses for a few hours until the wind carried the sand away from the doors.
Neighbors threw parties to help friends out. The parties were a way to get food and a smile. People waited in huge lines out side of shelters waiting for a table. There was lots of hunger in the depression
A few people profited from the Depression but most were left with little money. Every ...
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Gothic Art
Number of Words: 367 / Number of Pages: 2
... spirit continued to be built, even when such
extraordinary Gothic works as the Amiens cathedral were under
construction (begun 1220). (see also Index: Gothic architecture, music,
history of)
The development of proto-Romanesque in the Ottonian period culminated in
the true Romanesque style represented by five magnificent churches on
the international pilgrimage routes leading from central France to the
reputed tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela in Spain:
Saint-Martin at Tours (a huge once wooden-roofed basilica that was
rebuilt on the new model beginning about 1050), Saint ...
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The Declaration Of Independence
Number of Words: 512 / Number of Pages: 2
... at his desk in the attic of a brick layer's
house where he was staying while in Philadelphia. As a distinguished
writer Jefferson knew just what needed to go into his document, he took the
feelings of the people of the 13 colonies and put them into his words. He
addressed the reasons for our independence, which he listed in a set of
complaints to the King of England, even though Jefferson knew that the king
did not cause some of the problems the people were facing himself but were
caused by Parliament. However Jefferson knew that the common American
Citizen did not understand complex British poli ...
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Slavery And The Underground Railroad
Number of Words: 1501 / Number of Pages: 6
... one reason. Some were
obsessed with being free and living a life where they were not told how to
live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and
family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced
them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even
back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wanted to escape.
They wanted to get away from the situation they were forced into. Those
who were free were the "whites" who were somewhat separated in values. The
North, was a more industrialized area where jobs were filled by newly
i ...
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