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  • Hindu History

    Hindu History

    Hinduism claims no identifiable human founder, nor a specific origin in history. It is so old that its past recedes into pre-history. Furthermore, the tradition itself claims to be eternal. Hinduism is extremely diverse, and only recently conceived of as a single, distinct religion. Hindus did not feel compelled to unify their many traditions, or define the common ground that distinguished them from "other faiths" — not, at least, until these "others" threatened to impose

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    Essay Length: 543 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The History of Computers

    The History of Computers

    Abstract The purpose of this paper is to highlight the history of the personal computer. The research in this paper shows that personal computers were not met with a warm reception when they were first introduced. Personal computers or PC’s have impacted the culture and the way that people live their ordinary lives. At first, computers were huge mainframe computers that had to be built on site and were only used for business. The invention

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    Essay Length: 2,311 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • History of Chld Maltreatment

    History of Chld Maltreatment

    History of Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment has a vast historical background. What society today considers as child maltreatment is seen as being horrible. Before laws ruling against certain treatments towards children were established, the way children were treated was extremely terrible and would be unthinkable in society today. Before the end of the 19th century, many areas of the Western world looked at infant and child mortality as a normal occurrence. As many as 15-20

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    Essay Length: 2,298 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Janna
  • African History

    African History

    African History The pre-colonial African past is a subject that everyone should know about. Africa is where we originated from, and that is why I think it is very important to know about this subject. In order to know what happened in this time period the work of historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists is critical. I think historians are very important in the study of the pre-colonial African past. If historians didn't do their job than

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    Essay Length: 1,068 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Compare and Contrast the Social, Political, and Economical Histories

    Compare and Contrast the Social, Political, and Economical Histories

    For centuries the African-American has been thought to be inferior due in part to the color of their skin. In fact “Environmentalists, attributing black skin to the effects of the tropical sun, assumed each race was peculiarly to its geography and climate.” (Rogoff, 1997) Most of the issues that African-Americans were faced with in southern states were that they not only considered inferior but also considered a piece of property that a white man would

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    Essay Length: 537 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • Art at the National Gallery

    Art at the National Gallery

    Ill Matched Lovers, Massys- You can see how people have gotten away from religion, there is gambling, drunkenness, and prostitution. If you look close enough you are able to see a man stealing from the gentlemen with the lady on his lap. It is easy to see how it can be applied today. People pickpocket others all the time. People are greedy and do not care anymore. Death of a Miser, Bosch- It was created

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Max
  • Art Spiegelman - Rebellious Writer

    Art Spiegelman - Rebellious Writer

    Art Spiegelman: Rebellious Writer A vintage style passenger train, rolling down a snow-speckled mountainside opens the sequence on page 258. The full width of the page is used, and from the caption we learn that this is the (surprisingly posh) train that Vladek took from Dachau to Switzerland, when he was released from the camp. The angle of the train tracks mimics the angle of the road in the next frame; by using similar perspectives,

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • Voices of a People’s History of the Us Essay Chapter 15

    Voices of a People’s History of the Us Essay Chapter 15

    Voices Essay Chapter 15: entries 7 and 8 Catherine Jones D Block The two Langston Hughes poems “Ballad of Roosevelt” and “Ballad of Landlord” embody the outcry from the downtrodden African-American community during the Great Depression. “Ballad of Roosevelt” shows how poor the majority could be, and the basic needs that they were forced to go without while awaiting public aid that never seemed to come. In “Ballad of Landlord” the narrator opens by

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • History

    History

    Gothicism:'Gothic' came to signify those things medieval, including architecture, art, and literature. The barbaric connotations remained; Gothic became synonymous with uncivilized, uncultivated, and chaotic, the antithesis of classical. Gothic stood for the old-fashioned, the crude, the archaic, and the pagan values which were not accepted and tabooed in English society at that time. Atlantica: Olaf Rudbeck wrote it about Gothic mentality: it includes the idea that the lost city of Atlantis was located off the

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Art of Making Dances

    The Art of Making Dances

    The Art of Making Dances In Doris Humphrey, “The Art of Making Dances”, she elaborates on her thoughts of movement in dance. She first explains how dance has expanded over time. She expresses her feelings on the kinds of individuals that should be granted the opportunity to be choreographers. She feels that choreographers need to know their body, have and opened mind, observant, sensitive. They need to consume traits of inspiring nature, imaginative, dramatic ability,

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • The History of Accounting

    The History of Accounting

    The history of accounting is as old as civilization and is among the most important professions in economic and cultural development. Much of what we know about the daily lives of ancient people comes from accounting records, such as inventories and sales records, found at archeological sites. People in all civilizations have maintained various types of records of business activities and the earliest known records kept are the clay tablet records for the payment of

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Pop Art

    American Pop Art

    Examine the mass media’s influence on both the formal and iconographic features of American Pop Art. Centre your discussion on one or two examples each of the work of the following artists: Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from mass culture such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted

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    Essay Length: 2,657 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Anna
  • Art Blakey

    Art Blakey

    Art Blakey was born to a poor family in the heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1919. He was working in the steel and coal mills when he was only fourteen. There were no child labor laws in those times. He had to work to help support his family and put food on the table. Blakey turned to music as a way of escaping the exhausting day-to-day labor of the mills. Blakey taught himself how to

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    Essay Length: 1,456 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • History "coca-Cola Enterprises

    History "coca-Cola Enterprises

    Coca-Cola History "Coca-Cola enterprises Incorporated, employees 66,199 operates, 444 facilities, 47,235 vehicles, 1.9 million pieces of cold drink equipment and sold 3.8billion unit cases in 46 states in the united states, all 10 provinces of Canada and portions of Europe including Belgium, France, Great Britain, Luxembourg and the Netherlands" (Coca-Cola facts 99). An, Atlanta Pharmacist Dr. John Slyth Pemberton founded Coca-Cola on May 8, 1886. The caramel colored ingredients, Coca leaves and kola nuts. Later

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • History of the Mol Space Station

    History of the Mol Space Station

    “The United States has been in space from the very beginning; its intentions are not sinister or evil. The United States is there to help preserve its security and to defend itself and it will use the tools and techniques that make strategic, tactical, and economic sense to achieve defense and security. If that proves to include military man in space, then it will acquire the systems to do that.” On May 1, 1960 the

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • Art

    Art

    On every second Wednesday of every month in downtown Sanford, Florida there is a local photography exhibit. Every month has a different theme and this past Wednesday the theme was solitude, the theme is mailed out ever month giving each artist time to focus on what he or she wants to shoot. I have been taking part in this exhibit for almost a year now, it helps keep me balanced. Although I have missed participating

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Does Art Imitate Life or Does Life Imitate Art?

    Does Art Imitate Life or Does Life Imitate Art?

    Two of the greatest philosophers disagreed on a debate that still in going on today. Does art influence life or does life influence art. Plato believed art imitated life; and Aristotle believed that life imitated art. For Plato, life is spent in balance and if that balance is interrupted life wouldn’t be perfect. Reason helps keep a person in balance, therefore he stated that if emotions took over reason would be deleted and an imbalance

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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • 3 Majors Eras in Labor History

    3 Majors Eras in Labor History

    There have been many years throughout American labor history that have changed the ways that the affected communities live. Many movements have shifted styles of working, changed the nature of the working-class life, and have brought about such things as unions that we still possess today. In particular there are three major eras that have brought about such changes and one that is of the most importance. The progressive era brought us many changes in

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    Essay Length: 1,137 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Sonic History

    Sonic History

    Sonic Corporation operates and franchises a chain of drive-in restaurants in the United States . As of 2002, the Company had 2,432 restaurants in operation, consisting of 511 Company-owned restaurants and 1,921 franchised restaurants, principally in the southern two-thirds of the United States . At a typical Sonic restaurant, a customer drives into one of 24 to 36 covered drive-in spaces, orders through an intercom speaker system, and has the food delivered by a carhop

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    Essay Length: 636 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Anna
  • American History X

    American History X

    American History X The setting takes place in Venice, a little beach town in the Southern California. Derek, the leader of the neighborhood skinhead gang gets arrested and put to jail for killing two members of a Crip gang that tried to steal his car. His little fourteen year old brother has seen everything and testified for Derek, for only that reason he did not get life sentence, and just three years in a prison.

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jon
  • Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?

    With new discussions and debates about the changes needed to the curriculum of the United States Education System, especially in the area of history which scholars say that the curriculum leans toward an euro-centric model of teaching with information about European Countries and the Anglo-Saxon move to the United States. I wanted to look at American History and analyze it to see how much information is in books about African Americans and the details

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • Brief Look at Jewish History

    Brief Look at Jewish History

    Brief Look at Jewish History The Jews are a people with a multitude of dilemmas. From the Israelite tribes to the prosperous modern day Israel , bigotry towards the Jews has been greatly evident. The Jewish race has acted as Escape Goat for many crisis throughout history including the black plaque which swept across Europe in the 14th century. The establishment of Israel was a great incident was something the Jewish people were striving to

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Steve
  • Has Technologies Birth to Film and Photography Played a Vital Role in the Destruction of Art in Its Traditional Sense, or Has Art Naturally Adapted into Other Criteria as a Liberal Movement?

    Has Technologies Birth to Film and Photography Played a Vital Role in the Destruction of Art in Its Traditional Sense, or Has Art Naturally Adapted into Other Criteria as a Liberal Movement?

    The definition of art is a creative production that can vary on its materials, this is a highly generalised definition as there are other things to consider which define art, but these materials in particular would be my focus and whether such modern formats as photography and film are one. Many would consider sculpture and theatre forms or styles of art to a degree. This is most likely for the reason that they inflict some

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Naturalism in Russia and the Creation of the Moscow Art Theatre

    Naturalism in Russia and the Creation of the Moscow Art Theatre

    The earliest of the modern theatre movement was naturalism. Russia lagged behind the rest of Europe, as far as theatre was concerned. That point was proven when the Meiningen Players performed in Russia. The Meiningen Players created not only a set, but also an environment in which they are a part of (Gascoigne 265). Russian producers saw, first hand, how far behind they were. The Imperial Theatre system spent most of its resources on opera

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    Essay Length: 1,274 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Art Censorship

    Art Censorship

    Ethical issue: Is sexuality in art ethical? Furthermore, where do we draw the line? Why should someone pay attention to revealing art as an ethical issue? Sexuality in artwork has a reputation for being quite a controversial theme amongst societies all throughout time. The theme of sexuality itself is nevertheless quite common amongst artists despite the on-going quarrels. The core of the debate lies between whether it’s presence in art is ethical, and furthermore where

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    Essay Length: 473 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Monika

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