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The Italian Renaissance
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... the Middle Ages at all in the art category. Paintings in the Middle Ages focused on religion. People were painted flat, rigid, and all different sizes according to levels of importance. The paintings were symbolic from corner to corner. Artists of the Middle Ages almost never signed their names, because that was not what was important. In the Renaissance, every painting and sculpture was signed. The Art from the Renaissance was not at all extended from the Middle Ages.
Woman in Renaissance society had total different objectives than the woman from the Middle Ages. As most would think that the ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Number of Words: 1058 / Number of Pages: 4
... she was cured by removing herself physically from her home, husband, and finally her daughter, and by taking part in and writing about the social movements of the day. Later in life she married her first cousin, George Gilman, and again suffered from depression though not as severely as she had suffered throughout her first marriage.
Using her life experiences as a female within a male dominated society, Gilman wanted to redefine womanhood. She declared that women were equal to men in all aspects of life. This new woman she described was to be an intelligent, well-informed and well-educated th ...
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Descartes Knowledge
Number of Words: 1096 / Number of Pages: 4
... are not thinking.
We can try to persuade ourselves that there are times when we are not thinking but in doing so we see that we do
exist. For it is impossible to persuade nothing of something, so our existence is solely dependent on the fact that
we are things, thinking things that can be persuaded. Even though the fact that we are thinking things doesn’t
necessarily prove that we are human beings, it does prove that we are beings. At this point Descartes would say
that we don’t know what we are just that we are. A thinking thing really has a very vague description a ...
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Ku Klux Klan
Number of Words: 1156 / Number of Pages: 5
... their horses. The was going to ride for the first time. In the beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people. However, the people were more frightened than they were cheered up. They soon realized what they could do with these fear tactics. The South had turned into a place that was no longer theirs. The slaves were now free (many of these men were slave owners) and carpetbaggers were coming from the North to take advantage of the southern people. They saw the opportunity to set back the South to what it had been. The KKK soon began to ride through political rallies of the ...
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John L Lewis
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... he was not elected and all the Lewises left Iowa and moved to southern mining town in Illinois. There the men in the family soon established themselves among the large labor force as hard workers. In 1910 John was elected president of the local mining union 1475, one of the largest in the state. Shortly before leaving Iowa, he had married Myrta Edith Bell, the daughter of a local physician. She provided a stable home life but she did not care for her husband's politics. They kept their personal life and his political life very separated. John's leadership in southern Illinois led to advancement in ...
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How Many Arguments Does Berkel
Number of Words: 1914 / Number of Pages: 7
... out a clear path to the arguments that Berkeley has given us. The arguments' names for the remainder of the essay will be the Continuity argument and the Independence argument (Bennett calls this argument the passivity argument, but for purely aesthetic reasons alone, I prefer to call it the independence argument). First of all, the continuity argument may be found, albeit in controversy, in §48 presented by Berkeley:
For though we hold indeed the objects of sense to be nothing else but ideas which cannot exist unperceived; yet we may not hence conclude they have no existence except only while they a ...
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Granada, Spain
Number of Words: 418 / Number of Pages: 2
... left many strong imprints both genetically and culturally. The
"granadainos" don't have a particularly good reputation and they are renown
for their "mala follar" which means "bad humour". The granadinos are less
friendly and lighthearted than the average Spaniard.
Granada has the Alhambra which is considered by some to be one of
the 10 wonders of the world. The Alhambra is a massive castle constructed
over many centuries. It consists of gardens, fortifications and sumptuous
palaces. It was the home of many of the Arabic Sultans who ruled the whole
province. It receives 8000 visitors per ...
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Black Panthers
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... Panther’s rhetoric of violence alarmed the government. In March of 1968, the
Panther newspaper printed this warning to police, “Halt in the name of humanity! You shall make
no more war on unarmed people. You will not kill another black person and walk on the streets
of the black community to gloat about it and sneer at the defenseless relatives of your victims.
From now on, when you murder a black person in this Babylon or Babylons, you may as well give
it up because we will get your ass and God can’t hide you.”1 This gave the government cause for
alarm, and they stepped up their “effor ...
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The Scientific Revolution In The 17th Century
Number of Words: 978 / Number of Pages: 4
... assembled notable philosophers and tried to convince them of his discovery of the moons around Jupiter. These eminent practitioners were allowed to view the heavens through Galileo’s telescope. The telescope, being invented by Galileo, proved to be a wonderful tool to view land based objects and no one disagreed with that. But, when pointed at the sacred heavens, many of the notaries said it “failed” or “deceived” in the celestial realm. The thinking of the people at this time was justifiable, because the telescope had not been proven yet, or granted the same “reliability” of some of th ...
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The Suez Crisis Of 1956: The War From Differing Viewpoints
Number of Words: 3197 / Number of Pages: 12
... not have the goal of examining these specific
events in relation to the war, nor will it try to determine which factors were
most significant. My aim will be to gain a more complete understanding of the
effect of the crisis by reviewing key events of the war from two different
perspectives: the Israeli and the Arab points of view, plus the experiences of
the European powers as well. Through a brief comparison of both the coverage of
the War by the differing authors and the varying interpretations seen throughout
my study, I will be best able to make an informed evaluation on how the event
was, and i ...
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