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Oscar Claude Monet

... bright color. Monet had some success in official exhibits. In 1874, Monet and his colleagues decided to organize their own exhibition in public. Monet and his colleagues called them selves, independents, but the press later named them impressionists because their work seemed sketchy and unfinished (like a first impression). One of Monet’s paintings had the title Impression: Sunrise in 1872, in Musee Marmottan, Paris. During the rest of the 1870’s and early 1880’s, Monet used special techniques to paint scenes of different impression ...

Number of words: 363 | Number of pages: 2

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

... of the war for he strongly believed in the preservation of one nation indivisible. (The Civil War, pgs. 14-16) Lincoln's primary concern was for the preservation of the union. , "Honest Abe" came to Washington as a newly elected President early in 1861. In an attempt to allay southern fears that his accession to office signaled a Republican determination to abolish slavery, he quoted from a previous speech he had made: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it ...

Number of words: 1874 | Number of pages: 7

Holocaust Museum

... Aryans from what they considered inferior races that did not deserve to exist. They tried to do this very scientifically by measurements, facial features, eye color comparisons, and other features. 4. In a different part of the exhibit, was the listing of all of the Jewish towns that were totally or partially whipped out because of the Holocaust. The names of the towns were engraved on the glass windows of a corridor there were so many of them that they filled up the entire wall. Personal Response 1. This movie was very informative, for ...

Number of words: 1218 | Number of pages: 5

Banded Iron Formations And The

... Xe and Kr which are inert gases that should be preserved in the atmosphere. This suggests that the earth’s initial atmosphere was lost early on either by boiling away during the magma ocean event or by being carried away by intense solar wind in the early solar system. At the end of the Hadean the present atmosphere and hydrosphere began to develop from volcanic emissions. It was during the proterozoic that a critical change occurred in the atmosphere, when it changed from a trace oxygen content of the Archean atmosphere to above 15% ...

Number of words: 1256 | Number of pages: 5

The Raid Of Dieppe

... losses involved in this raid out weighed the accomplishments. There were many reasons for this raid. A large one was to relieve pressure on Russia by opening another front in Europe. The raid was also provided action for troops, who were bored and frustrated after three years of training in England. This raid also allowed for the military to test the readiness for amphibious attacks. The objective in attacking Dieppe was to capture and remove German invasion barges. Radar equipment and secret papers were to be captured as well. The A ...

Number of words: 918 | Number of pages: 4

Austrailian Aborigines

... land of Australia, and the development of the government, which as change the way of life for these people. Australia is the smallest of the world's seven continents and the only one that is comprised of a single political unit. (See Map) The population of Australia is 1,8031,000 with an area of 2,971,081 square miles, (4,753,730 square kilometers), it ranks as the sixth largest country in the world (Oceania, 1995). Australia is divided into seven territories; New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmani ...

Number of words: 1916 | Number of pages: 7

Radical Reconstruction

... and started worrying about themselves because of the economic crisis. It allowed having traditional white leadership in control. Therefore, another secret society called the redeemers gained power and Southerners passed laws that restricted political rights of the blacks. The laws contained subtle discrimination; it allowed only males to vote who could pass the literacy test or pay poll taxes in order to vote. Furthermore, the grandfather clause stated that a man was still permitted to vote provided that his father or grandfather had been ...

Number of words: 365 | Number of pages: 2

Christianity In The New World

... and its previously unknown inhabitants presented new problems in the Catholic Church in the late 14th and early 15th century. When Spain's rulers and emissaries decided to physically conquer and populate the New World, and not just trade with it, the transplantation of Christian institutions followed. The church established contact with the New World, and made it a goal to establish the Catholic doctrines among the native population there. The Catholic Church and the Spanish monarch, however, looked upon the native population in the New World ...

Number of words: 2745 | Number of pages: 10

Address At March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom

... are still not free from segregation. Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed a promissory to which every American has to follow”. The thing that Americans have to follow is “that all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. What the “bad check” thing means is these people signed papers for all people to be c ...

Number of words: 598 | Number of pages: 3

Boys In The Hood The Begining

... regularly interrupt study time and the sound of police helicopters flying above is a familiar tune, Boyz N the Hood is basically the story of three teenage friends coming of age in black urban America. It is their story of street life where friendship, pain, danger, and love combine to form their harsh reality. Unlike previous films Singleton addresses issues that relate more to the younger generation of that time. Tre, the main character is obviously the one who is on the right track toward adulthood. He has a job, plans to go to colle ...

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Cold War 4

... in its plans of total domination. It had been a combined effort by all the Western powers and a few Eastern powers too. England was devastated, France had been literally burnt to the ground, and many small nation had suffered economic failure. To the East Russia had suffered many losses from the vain siege of the Nazi’s. But they were in better shape then Europe. They still had a military and a running, somewhat , economy. In the late 40’s through early 50’s the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving ...

Number of words: 1092 | Number of pages: 4

The Treaty Of Trianon

... the causes which led to the signing and implementation of the treaty, but there have been varying accounts which occurs sadly so often. Therefore there was, and to a certain extent still is, argument over the causes leading to the actual treaty which was adopted. In light of recently revealed information and increased information transfer, one can fabricate a pretty accurate account of the events and their causes leading up to the signing of and the ramifications which it entailed. There were many problems that were a direct result of thi ...

Number of words: 1909 | Number of pages: 7

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