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Mccarthyism
Number of Words: 2246 / Number of Pages: 9
... on Communism, to the Army-McCarthy hearings, to his sudden death, Senator McCarthy has been a controversial figure. Even today, Senator McCarthy remains at the heart of a long-lasting argument about morality and politics. Some people feel that he was a counter-productive demagogue who aimlessly attacked innocent people. Others felt that he was bringing to the attention of America the eminent threat of Communism. He was a cold-hearted man who was a disgrace to the United States, whose anti-Communist fervor was not based upon ideology but upon his need for a headline gaining cause.
Joseph Raymond ...
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The Grotesque In Flannery O’Connor
Number of Words: 906 / Number of Pages: 4
... of right and wrong, good vs. evil. O’Connor’s characters struggle in their daily lives to overcome their violent inner conflicts. In “Good Country People,” O’Connor begins with the grotesque description of Joy, also known as Hulga, and her missing leg. Her leg was shot off in an unfortunate hunting accident when she was only ten. For more than twenty years, she has been limping with one leg. Hulga has never experienced those things valued by others growing up; she never danced, never knew what it was like to experience “normal good times” (O’Connor 173). Joy/Hulga’s missing leg becomes the focu ...
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Michelangelo
Number of Words: 731 / Number of Pages: 3
... della Signoria in front of the
Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine town hall.
With this statue, Michelangelo proved to his contemporaries that he
not only surpassed all modern artists, but also the Greeks and Romans, by
infusing formal beauty with powerful expressiveness and meaning.
Michelangelo’s David does not make me feel a certain way. It is
simply a magnificent statue. This statue does not have a certain mood.
David is a statue of David in the nude looking off into the distance. The
color is white, so it does not show any mood through its color. This work of
art is a ...
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Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Number of Words: 776 / Number of Pages: 3
... violating the Gastein Convention. At this time he also submitted a plan for German unification to the German Diet. This plan excluded Austria (klein-deutsch). As a result of this, Austria and other German states declared war on Prussia, beginning what is now known as the Seven Weeks War. Austria and its allies were quickly defeated, and Bismarck incorporated Schleswig-Holstein, Hannover, and some other territories into Prussia. However, Austria was treated kindly in the peace settlement. In 1866, the old German Confederation was then dissolved and replaced by the North German Confederation, whi ...
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James Cameron
Number of Words: 2107 / Number of Pages: 8
... were fast and cheap productions, and none of the people working there were professionals so Cameron fit right in. He quickly moved up the ranks in the studio, jumping from one movie to another.
Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron got his first shot at directing. It was an Italian producer named Assonitis who was to make a sequel to the movie Pirahna. It was going to be called Piranha 2: The Spawning. Assonitis wanted a debut director because ...
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Death Of Pol Pot
Number of Words: 1206 / Number of Pages: 5
... Bachelor degree. They married in 1956. Sr student friends included Khieu Samphan, Leng Sary, and Son Sen. Each person in the group adopted a peseudonym. Sar choice of “ Khmer Da’em,” whice mean “ Original Cmbodian.” stood out. Sar later change his name to Pol Pot.
A movement for independence from France was gaining strength, and Pol joined the Cambodian and Vietnamese Communists who were fighting in the French in a common cause. The Vietnamese taught Pot how to organize peasants for resistance. But Pol felt this was a patronizing slight for someone rasied in the palace, and this, combined with his fai ...
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Number of Words: 263 / Number of Pages: 1
... at Arnstadt.
Subsequent appointments included positions at the courts of Weimar and
Anhalt-Kother, and finally in 1723, that of musical director at St Thomas's
choir school in Leipzig, where, apart from his brief visit to the court of
Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1747, he remained there until his death.
Bach married twice and had 21 children, ten of whom died in infancy. His
second wife, Anna Magdalena Wulkens, was a soprano singer; she also acted
as his amanuensis, when in later years his sight failed.
Bach was a master of contrapuntal technique, and his music marks the
culmination of th ...
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Cleopatra
Number of Words: 1890 / Number of Pages: 7
... rug so that she wouldn’t get killed while entering Egypt. If she hadn’t hidden herself she would have been killed. When she unrolled herself in front of Caesar he fell in love with her right away.Caesar had to choose which of the Egyptian rulers to help keep the throne. Of course he chose . He then became ’s lover. In 47 BC Ptolemy Xlll drowned in the Nile while trying to escape, and Caesar then restored to her throne.
After her older brother Ptolemy Xlll was died, was then forced by custom to marry her youngest brother Ptolemy XlV, which was about eleven at the time. After and Ptolemy XlV were set ...
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Anne Moody
Number of Words: 916 / Number of Pages: 4
... boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at a white woman in Mississippi.” Although her mother refused to give an explanation of the organization, Moody learned about the NAACP from one of her teachers soon after the incident. It was at age fifteen that Moody really began to hate people. Not only did she hate the whites that committed the murders, but she also hated the blacks for allowing the horrid actions to occur. When there were rumors about black men having sexual relat ...
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