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American History Essays and Term Papers
The Two Last SuppersCompare Leonardo�s Last Supper with that of Tintoretto.
The Last Supper by Leonardo is very different to Tintoretto�s representation of the same incident. The last supper is one of the most important occurrences which took place in the Christian religion such an important event that many have seen ...
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The Actions Of The Puritans Were HypocriticalPlymouth Colony, founded around 1620, was the first of the New England settlements. The Colony was settled by a group of individuals considered to be enemies to the Church of England. These enemies were the Puritans. Under the rule of Queen Elizabeth, the Puritans thought that she did not ...
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A Story About Seeing NOFXOn November 26th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El Hefe (guitar, trumpet, ...
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Aristotle On ArtThe subject of the Poetics is poetry, including epic poetry, tragedy and comedy. Unlike Plato, Aristotle regards poetry as a techne. The practice of poetry is governed by rules; these rules can be formulated and taught. Poetry is rationally comprehensible.
The rules for a genre of poetry can be ...
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Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not??
August 6, 1945, is not a day to be forgotten. It marks the world's
first use of an atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima by the US Military. In total, more than 140,000 people were
estimated to be killed. Three days later, a 10,000 pound bomb, fat boy,
was dropped ...
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Renaisance Art 2I have a real love for Renaissance art. The reason I chose this topic is because I took a class on art a freshman, and really enjoyed it. The book I read was �The Art of the Renaissance.�
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in about the 5th century A.D., Europe remained poor and in ...
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Andy Warhol 2Andy Warhol is the epitome of pop art. Pop art is a movement that occurred near the end of the 1950�s. It was a reaction to the seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. Pop art emphasized contemporary social values, the sprawl of urban life, the vulgar, the superficial, and the flashy. ...
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F.D.R. And The Work Reform ProgramsThe Great Depression was a time of doubt, unemployment, and above all, hopelessness. The people needed someone to save them from starving. So when a strong willed man full of ideas ran for presidency, the people voted for him. This man set up so many programs to help the people that they were ...
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The Battle Of Saratogais known as the �Turning Point� of the American Revolution. It was a major defeat of British forces on American soil. In the war, a series of engagements fought in New York. To split the colonies along the Hudson, the British planned a three-way advance on Albany from Canada, and from New York ...
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The Art Of Italy And Northern Europe From 1300 To 1520The years between 1300 to 1520, commonly known as the Renaissance, was an era of extraordinarily advanced achievements made in the art world. Techniques that began to be utilized at this period of time made the artworks surpass those of any other preceding movement.
"A word of caution is ...
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Use Of Fairy Tales In Germany Pale MotherPerhaps one of the most haunting and compelling parts of Sanders-Brahms� film Germany Pale Mother (1979) is the nearly twenty minute long telling of The Robber Bridegroom. The structual purpose of the sequence is a bridge between the marriage of Lene and Hans, who battles at the war�s front, ...
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Hostile Takeover Of The New WorldHostile Takeover of the New World
The Effects of the United States Government on the Indians "The responsibility of any nation, and the particular responsibility of elected officials of any nation, is not to justify what has passed for legality but to anticipate the conditions and problems of ...
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The History Of The Ku Klux KlanThe Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of America's oldest and most feared groups.
Driven by the dream of a world with only one master race, the KKK often
uses violence and moves above the law to promote their cause. They didn't
start of violent, or to promote white supremacy. They have been in ...
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MonetOscar Claude ou Claude �tait l'inspiration de la movement Impressionism. Il est n� le 14 novembre 1840 � Paris. Beaucoup des autre artistes c�l�bre de le movement Impressionism �taient n�s pendant cette d�cade aussi. Son p�re, Claude Adolf , �tait un �picier. Quand a cinq ans, sa famille a ...
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Smoke Signals - Movie AnalysisThis movie has all the necessary ingredients of a classic road movie, the long trip that turns into as much of a philosophical journey as a physical one, the oddball characters encountered along the way, and the everything-will-be-alright ending. But the foundation of Smoke Signals is the central ...
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The Iran-Contra AffairThe tangled U.S. foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra
affair came to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan said yes
to reports that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran. He said
that the goal was to improve relations with Iran, not to get releases of
U.S. ...
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Guitar HistoryThe guitar is a fretted, stringed instrument, and is a member of the lute family. It originated in Persia and reached Spain during the twelth-century, where it�s versatility as both a solo and accompanying instrument were established. The theory of the guitar was discovered in the early ...
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Painting Nude Figure By Pabblo PicassoPablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. Pablo was the son of a respected art teacher, and due to his father's influence, young Pablo entered the Academy at Barcelona at age 14. This was where he painted his first great work, "Girl with Bare Feet". After two years of schooling, Picasso ...
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The Civil War And Its Ending Of SlaveryThis paper is about the civil war and about how it ended slavery with the
emancipation proclomation. I will also talk abou the physical loses of the war.
The South, overwhelmingly agricultural, produced cash crops such ascotton,
tobacco and sugarcane for export to the North or to Europe, but ...
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Perception And Plato�s TheaetetusPlato discusses theories of knowledge throughout his famous dialogue, the Theaetetus.
He discusses many different ways of learning and attempts to define knowledge. Plato
does this through a conversation between a few characters: Socrates, the famous
philosopher; Theodorus, an aged friend and ...
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The French And Indian Warwas fought on July 9, 1755. This battle took
place at Fort Duquesne, in western Pennsylvania, which was one of the many
French forts in the Ohio Valley. The fight was between the English army, which
was led by General Edward Braddock and the French army, which was led by Captain
Beaujeau. The ...
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Native Americans And The American DreamAmericans have always believed that in a free society people showing individual responsibility and diligence will get ahead. So deeply ingrained is this belief that it is known as the "American" Dream. Dr. Ben Carson epitomizes this American dream. As a poor black male from the Detroit ghetto, ...
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The Boston MassacreThe stress put on the relationship between England and the colonists that was built up over many years was let go of in a small incident that was blown up to huge proportions. An innocent snowball thrown, although not with the best intentions, turned into musket balls flying. A small argument ...
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Analysis Of CasablancaMany feel that Casablanca is Bogart's best film. I disagree - but for
those who don't To Have and Have Not is a must-see film. It's
Casablanca with a different setting, this time we find Bogart playing
Harry Morgan, crewing a ship out for hire. His lovely lady is Lauren
Bacall in her motion ...
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