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The History Of Ballet

... host, or the dances could be created to threaten the dignitary with a feeling of power and strength. A woman by the name of Catherine de Medici took this art with her from England to France and into her marriage to King Henry II. During this time she ordered the creation of the Ballet Conique de la Reine. It was an epic piece lasting five hours, meant to celebrate the marriage of a friend; this Ballet came to be known as the beginning of . During this period many more epic and influential dances were created. By the seventeenth and eighteent ...

Number of words: 418 | Number of pages: 2

Isolationism

... at the time, to settle the conflict with the British after their assaults on American shipping. This treaty was very long and complex and also gave more to the British then had hoped. JayтАЩs Treaty led to the signing of the Pinckney Treaty (1795), which was a settlement of AmericaтАЩs important conflict with Spain. The Spanish feared a joint Anglo-American challenge to Spanish possessions in America and so were willingly ready to comply with U.S. terms. Under the treaty, Spain was to recognize the right of Americans to navigate the Mi ...

Number of words: 967 | Number of pages: 4

The Declaration Of Independenc

... a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.тАЭ The next important step to the foundation of a new government was to gain peoples ambition by showing how the government would be run if a new party took over. This goal was achieved by stating the rights of man. тАЬWe hold these truths to be self evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.т ...

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Exxon Valdez

... storm had helped to spread the oil as much as three feet thick across 1,400 miles of beaches. A little over ten years have passed since the largest oil spill and the greatest environmental disaster in American history, but the waters and its surroundings are still recovering. At first, many people repeated what was then thought as common knowledge, "oil dissipates, nature heals quickly, all will be well in a year or two." This has not been the case with the . This massive 987-foot tanker has left a lingering, long-term effect on the natur ...

Number of words: 1594 | Number of pages: 6

Hysteria 2

... of time but as Appignanesi asserts many other things that were once believed to be true are proven false later, i.e., the earth is the center of the universe [Copernicus, 1473-1543], God did not create man, instead we evolved from apes [Darwin, 1809-1882] (100). This holds true for the concept of hysteria being strictly a female problem. Hysteria (as we know it today at least) is where specific memories, feelings, perceptions are taken from the conscious to the un/sub-conscious and are тАШunableтАЩ to be recalled voluntarily. Furtherm ...

Number of words: 1629 | Number of pages: 6

Alexander The Great

... 40,000 men into what is now Turkey. He encountered the Persians at the Granicus River. Though the Persians and their Greek mercenaries were in a strong position, Alexander waded across the river with his men, climbed the slippery bank on the far side, defeated the best of the Persian cavalry and destroyed the Greek mercenaries. In two more battles, Issus and Arbela, Alexander defeated the much larger armies of Persian King Darius. He also destroyed the fortified island city of Tyre on the Mediterranean Sea, founded the city of Alex ...

Number of words: 316 | Number of pages: 2

The Causes Of The Holocaust

... embarrassment after losing World War I was one of the major reasons for the cause of the Holocaust. After Germany's defeat in World War I, Germans found it hard to believe they had lost the war. The Treaty of Versailles was a document that officially ended military actions against Germany (Craig 424). Germans did not like this treaty because their government would have to pay other countries for their economic losses (Allen 57). Germany also lost all of its colonies overseas. It had to give back provinces to France, Belgium, ...

Number of words: 1090 | Number of pages: 4

Standard Oil 1911

... be allowed in the U.S. unless used as punishment for a convicted crime. After the Civil War many civil rights laws were passed based on the Thirteenth Amendment but were later repealed. Congress drew the conclusion that racial discrimination did not place blacks in servitude. For years after it was believed that Congress did not have the power under the amendment to deal with racial discrimination. In the Jones v. Mayer case of 1968 helped to bring back the power of a lost Thirteenth civil rights law. The law stated that all citizens ...

Number of words: 515 | Number of pages: 2

The White Man's Abuse On The Lands

... Bull's speech and the passage of Land of the Spotted Eagle, pertain to the fact that we do not respect the land that the Indians live on. Of these three pieces, the first two take place in the 1850's to 1870's. The passage of The Land of the Spotted Eagle takes place at a later time in the 1930's. There is also agreement of the three in the spiritual sense of the land. In Chief Seattle's speech, he talks in more of the spiritual sense of the land. But it is in direct relationship to the abuse that the White Man exerts on the land. He makes m ...

Number of words: 1034 | Number of pages: 4

Cold War

... they were in the last 50 years overshadowed by the cause of ideology. Now, with ideology not on top of the agenda anymore, these causes have regained their importance. After the second World War the world was dominated by two superpowers; the USA and the USSR. The was a result of this division of power and of the important policy of spheres of influence. In the post WWII-era the Americans thought that the Russians were aiming to incorporate Western Europe (the US & British sphere of influence) into their sphere of influence (Eastern E ...

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The Invasion Of Spain

... Accordingly, in the spring of 778, Charles, with a host of crusaders, speaking many tongues, and which numbered among its constituents even a quota of Lombards, moved towards the Pyrenees. His trusted lieutenant, Duke Bernhard. with one division, entered Spain by the coast. Charles himself marched through the mountain passes straight to Pampelona. But the emissary of Abderrahman assassinated Ibn-el-Arabi, who had prematurely brought on his army of Berbers,, and though Pampelona was razed, and Barcelona and other cities fell, Saragossa held ou ...

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Life In Ancient Greece 2

... Waste was dumped in a pit outside the door and then collected for disposal in the countryside. Most families consisted of parents and their children, but generally no other relatives. Fathers were responsible for supporting the family by work or by investments in land and commerce. Mothers were responsible for managing the household's supplies and overseeing the slaves, who fetched water in jugs from public fountains, cooked, cleaned, and looked after babies. Light came from olive oil lamps, heat from smoky charcoal braziers. Furniture was si ...

Number of words: 429 | Number of pages: 2

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