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Indus Valley Civilization
Number of Words: 923 / Number of Pages: 4
... layouts composed of distinct and physically separated citadel and
residential quarters.
At Harappa, exposed an impressive defensive wall, some 9 meters (30
feet) high and 14 meters (46 feet) wide at the base. The great walls of the
citadel emerged for the first time in their majesty as picks cut through
the blocking debris, The historical character of the Indus civilization
was changing and developing.
At Mohenjo-daro - better preserved than Harappa - the buildings of
the citadel were erected on a massive mud brick platform 6 meters (20
feet) high that covered 8 hectares (20 acres). The structures ...
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Adorno And Horkhiemers Dialect
Number of Words: 3211 / Number of Pages: 12
... and from his own inner nature. They follow the appearance of the subject as it is objectified alongside nature, and is dominated with it. The subject becomes an object and his intellect becomes instrumental, and all instinct and sensory experience that fails to be productive in the pursuit of domination is repressed, man becomes mechanized. They also assert that class domination is a direct and inevitable consequence of the attempt to dominate nature, and is therefore inescapable.
Background to the text.
Adorno and Horkheimer, members of the Frankfurt school in Germany, wrote DoE (which was comple ...
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Anne Frank
Number of Words: 1388 / Number of Pages: 6
... told the family of the "Secret Annex" he had been preparing for over a year. In addition to his wife Edith, Margot, and Anne, he also told me; Miep Gies. I was astounded by this plan, for it consisted of absolute seclusion from the outside world, and complete silence during business hours. I knew Anne and Margot would have to miss a great deal of school, social gatherings, and the normal events that teenaged girls attend. I knew Anne in particular would not be happy about the move, because of her love for movie stars, boys, and friends which she would not be able to indulge while living in closed q ...
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Louis Sullivan An American Arc
Number of Words: 648 / Number of Pages: 3
... of plants. At the age of sixteen, he was admitted two years early to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sullivan’s first employment came as a draftsman for the architectural firm Furness and Hewitt in Philadelphia, which he felt was best suited to his tastes. The economic panic of 1837 forced resulted in his layoff from the firm and his relocation to Chicago. It was here that he went to work for Major William LeBaron Jenney. It was not long before Louis had aquatinted himself with numerous other architects in the city, the most important of whom would turn out to be John Edelman.
The summ ...
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Capatilism
Number of Words: 1250 / Number of Pages: 5
... slaves or serfs but not first class citizens. It must be remembered that the institution of private property, in the full, legal meaning of the term, was brought into existence only by capitalism. In the pre-capitalist eras, private property existed de facto but not de jure, i.e. by custom and sufferance, not by right or by law. In law and in principle all land belonged to the head of the tribe, the king, and was held only by permission, which could be revoked at any time. CAPITALISM, a term used to donate the economic systems that has been dominate in the western world since the breakup of feudalism ...
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Colonial Women
Number of Words: 916 / Number of Pages: 4
... her without respect and abused or neglected her. Although women had the legal privilege to divorce a bad husband, she did not have any legal rights under the law. As soon as she married her husband, she lost all legal existence. For a woman to have any place in the legal system it was better to remain single. Single women, or Feme Sole had more legal rights than a married woman. She could own property, retain control of her earnings, and sign contracts. Feme Sole was a better legal status, but it was a socially unacceptable status. Unmarried women were looked down upon as being infertile. Women co ...
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Freedom In America
Number of Words: 2280 / Number of Pages: 9
... he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear. I think Langston Hughes captures the essence of the American immigrants' quest for freedom in his poem, "Freedom's Plow." He accurately describes American's as arriving with nothing but dreams and building America with the hopes of finding greater freedom or freedom for the first time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: fre ...
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Stalin
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... New
American Library, 1988).
Since the death of Stalin in 1953, it is ironic that perhaps no political issue has been of greater importance to the countries of the
former Soviet Union than dealing with Stalin and the system he created. As the great Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote in
1962:
Mute stood the soldiers on guard
bronzed by the breeze
Thin smoke curled above the coffin.
And breath seeped through the chinks
as they bore him out of the mausoleum doors.
Slowly the coffin floated,
grazing the fixed bayonets
Grimly clen ...
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Dickinson; A Biography
Number of Words: 311 / Number of Pages: 2
... she had become a total recluse, dressing in all white, and withdrawn from contacts beyond the family.
Emily Dickinson led a simple life. She was devoted to her parents, her sister Lavinia, and to her brother Austin whom she helped through an unhappy marriage. She was likewise in love with and devoted to Judge Otis Lord, a widowed friend of her father. Her pieces range from feeling of wonder to alienation. This was much to do with her struggle with her femininity and love for Judge Lord.
Emily Dickinson chose not to publish many of her poems for fear she would be misunderstood. During her final ye ...
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The Nuremberg Trials
Number of Words: 830 / Number of Pages: 4
... On August 8 the Four Power nation signed the London Agreement. They later named it the International Military Tribunal (IMT), it had 8 judges, one judge and one alternate. This was made so that they would try to stop the Nazi crimes (Rice Jr. 81). They had supplementary Nuremberg hearings that were broken down into twelve trials. In connection with these trials, the U.S. military tribunals had thirty-five defendants and released nineteen of them because they could find anything to get them on (Rice Jr. 76). They made Nuremberg Laws because of Hitler’s concentration camps and his other inhuman ...
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