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Stanely Kubrick

... is unmistakably theirs. Their unique visions become a part of film's history, and their trailblazing efforts help to create new possibilities for the institution of cinema. While Kubrick and Lynch share the distinction of being trailblazing auteurs who broaden the scope of cinema, their bodies of work, style, and world views are vastly different. Kubrick, whose body of work centers around the dehumanization of man, is separated from Lynch whose body of work centers around a character's discovery of self in an amoral world. Thus, i ...

Number of words: 2481 | Number of pages: 10

Economic Policies Of Lenin And

... was in civil war and war communism was a policy designed to get food to the soldiers fighting the Whites (anti-Bolshevik soldiers) and then next in line for food were the workers who supplied the soldiers. One must keep in mind that Russia's economy was in a bad state even before the institution of War Communism. In economic terms War Communism was an abysmal failure. The state was forced to pay wages in kind to workers because money was simply worthless. With the ban on private trade there was a break down of the currency system and r ...

Number of words: 1603 | Number of pages: 6

The National Anthem

... on who composed the music for was not available, but it was brought to my attention that the words were written on September 13, 1814 during a battle with Britain at Fort McHenry (United). Key was on a very small boat when this battle was taking place. His boat tossed back and forth because of the bombs that was being discharged. The smoke from the discharge of the bombs made it very difficult to see anything in the night sky, but him and the people that accompanied him at Fort McHenry knew that if they could still see the flag that the Uni ...

Number of words: 563 | Number of pages: 3

Naval Battles

... ocean and began making some major modifications. Confederate engineers cut the hull down to the water line and built a slanted top on it. Then, they bolted four layers of iron sheets, each two inches thick, to the entire structure. Also added was a huge battering ram to the bow of the ship to be used in ramming maneuvers. The ship was then fitted with ten twelve-pound cannons. There were four guns placed on the starboard and port sides, and one on the bow and stern sides. Due to its massive nature the ship's draft was enormous, it stretched ...

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Cold War Propaganda

... The Cold War lasted a very long time and it was fought through battles such as the Korean War and Vietnam. Each battle split the country and the U.S would take a side and The Soviet Union would take a side and they would use the country as a battle ground. This was the only actual fighting that occurred. The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile instalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these mi ...

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English And French Relations I

... of the Metis, many francophones were suspicious and even fearful of the looming English majority. As the turn of the century took place, Quebec's premier, Honore Mercier, was already fighting for greater provincial powers. The Boer War was a reminder that Canada was very much a client of Britain, a war that francophones had no interest in contributing to. The Laurier Boom largely excluded Quebec because America and English Canada shared so much language and culture that Quebec was left behind by comparison. In 1905, while Laurier tri ...

Number of words: 895 | Number of pages: 4

The Self Portraits Of Gertrude Stein And Pablo Picaso

... of aversion and praise that filled the halls of the Steins’ extravagant home. Picasso proved to be rather opinionated, spending the greater part of his visits to the Steins’ residence sulking in the corner. He found difficulty in explaining his far-fetched opinions and positions, especially in French; in fact, he felt they needed no explanation. Frequent explication of his views, mixed with Matisse’s inspired advocation of his own way of painting, failed to entertain Picasso, and thus most viewed him as a rather disagreeable charac ...

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Mummification

... came out and went down the table being collected into a bowl. During the old and Middle Kingdoms, the brain was left in the head, in which it just dried up over time. When these mummies are moved you can hear the hardened pieces of the brain rolling around in the mummies head. Then in the New Kingdom, the embalmers started removing the brain. They would break open the bone that separates the nasal cavity from the brain cavity. They did this by shoving a sharp instrument up the nose. After they broke the bone, the embalmers used a hook ...

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I, Tituba Black Witch Of Salem

... the other black slaves were looking at her in somewhat of disgust. The slaves thought that Tituba should be working, out with them, because of the color of her skin. They didn't look at what she had been through or even did they know what she had been through, just the color of her skin. In addition, Tituba felt racism from her people in another way. When she didn't know how to party and didn't know how black people were "supposed" to act she felt resentment and animosity from the blacks present. They felt as if she didn't know how to be ...

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Movie Analysis - Sand Pebbles

... the Opium to the Chinese. Finally war erupted because of this. The European nations were victorious in a series of Opium Wars against China. From these Opium Wars many treaties in the favor of the west were signed which gave those European nations greater access to China. After the European nations, got their peace of China so did the United States. Soon after the United States defeated the Spanish in the Spanish American War, the United States received the Philippines from the Spanish. With that the United States declared the Open Door Po ...

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The Civil War

... a broken Union. The first of these "forces", was the expansion of democracy. As early as 1862, Lincoln was taking a major step in that direction. On September 22, Lincoln announced the freeing of all slaves in areas not in Union control. Although the proclamation did not free all slaves everywhere, it was the action that would push Congress to pass the thirteenth amendment in 1865. The amendment, ratified later in 1865, stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States, or any place subjec ...

Number of words: 1043 | Number of pages: 4

The Seminoles

... 1957, it is necessary to put them in the perspective of the 487 years of Seminole memory, all of the years since the entry of Europeans in North America. The people whose ancestors had already been a part of that land for thousands of years were the ancestors of . The ancestors of fought with words, weapons, and with their own blood to protect their world as they knew and understood it. In the end of the American Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States in 1784, white settlers moved south into the Spanish and English coloni ...

Number of words: 494 | Number of pages: 2

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