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Michaelangelo
Number of Words: 1622 / Number of Pages: 6
... representing Victory and bond slaves. The second level was to have statues of
Moses and Saint Paul as well as symbolic figures of the active and contemplative life-
representative of the human striving for, and reception of, knowledge. The third level, it
is assumed, was to have an effigy of the deceased pope. The tomb of Pope Julius II was
never finished. What was finished of the tomb represents a twenty-year span of frustrating
delays and revised schemes. Michelangelo had hardly begun work on the pope’s tomb
when Julius commanded him to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to com ...
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NATO Airstrikes In Kosovo
Number of Words: 2047 / Number of Pages: 8
... unstable
and some republics wanted to be independent. By 1992 the Federation had
collapsed and nationalism dominated the Balkans again. Conflicts between
different nations broke out sporadically.
Now let's look at the sequence of the Kosovo crisis. In 1989 Serbian
leader Slobodan Milosevic cancelled Kosovo's autonomy for Albanians who
constituted the majority population in Kosovo wanted to independent. The
Kosovo assembly approved this measure and street violence began to break
out. In Feb. 1990 in order to put down the more and more serious violent
clashes in Kosovo, Yugoslavia sent troops, ...
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Colombus Case Extrapolated To
Number of Words: 538 / Number of Pages: 2
... therefore, the power to convince becomes a reality to the decision takers. Columbus convinced the Spanish sovereigns through an elaborate plan to win much more than they could lose and also negotiated with them to get a tenth of the profits and be named Viceroy of the new lands. Organization leaders should take advantage of risk taking in fields, which are unexplored by competitors. The Negotiation factor also becomes an interesting matter for managers in risk taking, that has to be considered carefully in order to succeed.
"Columbus was an inspired purveyor of ideas as well as a splendid seaman ...
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Cathedrals
Number of Words: 720 / Number of Pages: 3
... as pilgrimage destinations for the faithful, which would help lead into increased traffic and feed into the community's economy and culture.
Early Gothic was the first, primary core of what was to later evolve and develop into a more sophisticated idealized Gothic structure, and was a stage of much experimentation of what did and didn't work. (However, Gothic builders continued to experiment throughout later styles and as a result, numerous collapsed and had to be rebuilt).
Another aspect of Early Gothic architecture was the development of barrel vaulting into arched ribbed vaulting. Unlike the ba ...
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FDR And The Great Depression
Number of Words: 395 / Number of Pages: 2
... also helped the economy, the people and the lending institutions in the long-run. The FHA was incorporated into the new Deapartment of Housing and Urban Development also known as HUD. The Office continued its role as mortgage guarantor and widened it area of responsibilty to include mortgages lent to the owners of multifamily dwellings and to public housing authorities as well as individual homeowners.
Focusing now on another program called the SSA also called the Social Security Administration. This program is the most known program from the New Deal program today. And we know that is was without q ...
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Art
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... of a Roman city to further enhance his love for the classical world. He sought for permanent in the momentary and the universal in the individual. Many ists of the time turned to classical Greece and Rome for their ideas. Another prime example is the East Façade of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. KING LOUIS XIV originally commissioned this piece of work to Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1665. The king's finance minister felt " it left the king housed no better than before." so his plan was rejected and a French architect named Claude Perrault was appointed to finish the job. This palace had to grand en ...
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Objections To And Advantages O
Number of Words: 2397 / Number of Pages: 9
... Russia is looking for a new role: keeping the status quo or returning to a system of 'spheres of influence'.
Germany, after unification, plays an important role in Central and Eastern Europe. Germany's foreign policy towards these countries ('Ostpolitik') is discussed in chapter 5.
In the end, I will give a personal conclusion on the next thesis, which will be the guideline to this essay.
Yes, NATO should allow Central and Eastern European states to become NATO-members.
Contents
Ch. Title page Source
0. Introduction
1. Practical Objections to admission
East ...
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America At The Turn Of The Cen
Number of Words: 1248 / Number of Pages: 5
... country fall.
President Clinton is a perfect example for the political scandals of our country. In January of 1997 it was announced to the country that President Clinton allegedly had an affair with one of the interns at the White House. Over the period of the next few months President Clinton not only denied the whole thing, then made another statement that he actually did have an affair with the intern Monica Lewinsky. America is the only country that would prosecute this kind of thing. Most of the other countries laughed at us, while no politician was laughing. In fact when all these pe ...
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The Renaissance Period
Number of Words: 992 / Number of Pages: 4
... to venture out and enroll in schools and colleges became more and more common.
The Renaissance was started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence and Venice. Because these cities were very wealthy, many merchants started to spend money on many different things, such as paintings, learning, new banking techniques, and new systems of government. These things gave rise to a new type of scholar, the humanist. Humanist is mainly concerned with humankind and culture. They studied various things such as Latin, Greek, and Literature and Philosophy. Music and Mathematics were also studied as ...
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The Watergate Scandal
Number of Words: 1993 / Number of Pages: 8
... But when the burglars went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced from office.
Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were found to have spied on and harassed political opponents, planned contributions to the campaign, and tried to cover-up their illegal acts. These crimes that they did were called , named after the building that it happened.
For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and th ...
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