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United States Enter War!
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 356.... has responded to this by breaking off diplomatic relationship with Germany. Things have gotten even worse, the tension is what has grown the most between these two countries. This is due to a recent cartoon that was included when the American newspaper published the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann. The British had gotten the note and passed it on here, to the Americans. This telegram included Zimmermann proposing a deal with Mexico. It was understood that Zimmermann had propose a deal that stated if Mexico would join Germany in the Great War, Mexico would receive .....
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The Grange
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 780.... stated they would use "all lawful and peaceful
means to free themselves from the tyranny of monopoly". Many of the members
opened stores and other businesses so they could begin to buy and sell to each
other. However most of these were farmers, with families, not businessmen and
many companies didn't survive because of their lack of real business knowledge
and the pressures of the middlemen who wanted them to fail. They worked as a
team to get candidates elected who agreed with the need for governmental control
of the railroads. With the control of the Legislatures .....
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Walt Disney
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 358.... cartoon. Besides Mickey Mouse, Disney created such cartoon characters as Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. In 1937, Disney originated the feature-length cartoon with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Within the next five years, he produced other feature-length cartoons such as Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi. In 1961, Disney was the first to produce a color television series which was called, "Disney's Wonderful World of Color". In the 1950's and 60's , Productions, Ltd., with Disney as executive producer, was one of the major producers of films for motion-picture theater .....
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Duke Ellington
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 795.... the first time Duke was placed as a "performer" for a crowd and had to first get over his stage fright. At the age of fourteen, Duke began sneaking into Frank Holliday's poolroom. His experiences from the poolroom taught him to appreciate the value in mixing with a wide range of people. As Duke's piano lessons faded into the past, Duke began to show a flare for the artistic. Duke attended Armstrong Manual Training School to study commercial art instead of an academically-oriented school. Duke began to seek out and listen to ragtime pianists in Washington and during the summers .....
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Gummo - Movie Critique
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 707.... family still exist, but as a whole individual pursuits and interests still override any pretense of collective purpose. This fact, however, doesn’t truly deviate at all from what is considered normal, true it does take on a much uglier face in Gummo, but individual goals and pursuits are commonplace practically anywhere in the United States and around the globe. On the other hand, it must be realized that in most instances natural disasters do have a history of bringing communities together in times of hardship, something that is not at all seen in the film. In short, the socia .....
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The Immortal Artist
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 434.... the mural and gave each student a representation. He managed to re-create an image of each student through regenerating his or her image from a photograph. The canvas is divided into eighteen individual and distinct sections. Each section is devoted to one student picture or figure, and their mood or feelings in which they wanted to portray.
The designer, Chaplin, gave the work a sense of unity by using all pure hue colors and geometric construction with illustrative organic shapes to create the students. The use of repetition in color and general shapes gives the piece an inti .....
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Todays Hip Hop
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2306.... when
these are only part of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a feeling. You feel it everywhere, you're at a
party and you hear that beat in your head, the tingle in your arm, and that feeling you get
to jump out and say "hey shorty whutz ya name?" thats Hip Hop.
Enough of the poetic disjustice. Hip Hop is not just a black thing. Yes I am black. Yes
blacks created Hip Hop. Yes blacks perfected Hip Hop. Yet the people who lead the way
to hip hop were not racists. And if you believe great men like Martin Luther King Jr., who
fought for equality would want his decendants fighting ov .....
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Native Americans And The American Dream
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1396.... to a good education. Ben was fortunate enough to have ended up in a high school where the teachers actually cared, and took interest in his studies. "Another influential person in my life was an English teacher named Mrs. Miller. She took a personal interest in me in ninth grade English and taught me a lot of extra things after class." (Pg.64 Gifted Hands) Ben also had the option of going to many different schools. If one school did not meet his intellectual needs, he could always transfer to one that did. Ben attended many schools over the course of his education, from the .....
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