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The Civil War
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 769.... Confederates “crossed over.”
The South had superior officer personnel. For twenty years before Lincoln’s inauguration, southern officers had dominated the US Army. Another source of southern confidence was cotton. Secession leaders expected to exchange that staple for the foreign manufactured goods they needed.
The South’s most important advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to attack a broad front. The Confederacy also had no need to divert fighting men to tasks such as ga .....
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Assyrian Art
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1112.... "…instill in the beholder a sense of awe and reverence for the king…." (Art History Anthology 28). Moreover, the reliefs overwhelm the viewer by depicting the king's power and god-like divinity through propagandistic iconography and stylization.
To portray the king's god-like divinity, the reliefs represent the deities and Assurnasirpal in a similar manner. First of all, hierarchic scale is almost absent since all the figures are closely related in size, with Assurnasirpal being only slightly shorter than the deities. In historical context, this shows that Assyrian kings .....
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The Writing Of The Constitution
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 539.... directly elected by the people of the states based on the population ,
and an upper house elected by the lower house.The congress was to have
broad legislative power ,with veto over laws passed by state legislatures .
The President and cabinet would be elected by legislature. The national
judiciary would be elected by legislature , and their would be a "Council
of Revision" with power to veto laws of Congress.
Delegates from New Jersey , New York and Delaware did not agree to the
Virginia Plan due to the great power delegated to the national government .
William Paterson .....
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The Beatles
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 557.... a record
store in Liverpool as well as an x British Army soldier.
The Beatles first two song were "Love Me Do" and
"Please, Please Me." The Beatles starred in two movies, "A
Hard Days Night," and "Help." They also had their own full
length cartoon called "Yellow Submarine." The movie "A Hard
Days Night" earned 1.3 million dollars in its first week.
The Beatles early music was influenced by singers Chuck
Berry and Elvis Presley.
In November of 1963 the Beatles performed in front of
the Queen of England. This was an incredible honor. By the
end of 1963 the Beatles were .....
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The Presidents' Decisions During The Civil War
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1417.... at the entrance of the Harbor of Charleston in South Carolina. In 1860 when South Carolina seceded, Major Anderson of the United States Military established his headquarters at Fort Sumter. The fort itself was militarily unimportant to either side, yet it later became a significant symbol to both the North and the South. In the controversy that surrounded Fort Sumter, both Presidents attempted to act in the best interest of their nations. While Abraham Lincoln's decision superficially seems to be the wiser as the North won the war, Jefferson Davis's decisions truly .....
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The Roaring 20s
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 782.... is nothing to compaire with the
voiced movies we have today. The actors had to show alot of facial and
bady expressions to get the veiwers to understand what was happening in the
film. The most talented actor's in the twenties were Charlie Chaplai who
was known for his "tramp" look, Keaton with his stone facial expressions
(because he showed no emotion) and the famous romatic Radolph Valintino.
These three and many more entertained Canadians through the twenties.
In 1926 the voice era was coming in effect by Warner Brothers by the
Vitaphone. In 1927 Warner Brothers fin .....
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Native Americans
Number of pages: 19 | Number of words: 4952.... (Spanish for Indians) because he thought he had reached India.
Because of European colonization of North and South America since 1500, have been greatly reduced in numbers and largely displaced. In Central and South America a large percentage of the modern population is of mixed Indian and European ancestry, and in the Caribbean and parts of South America a portion of the population is of mixed American Indian and African descent.
belong to the American Indian geographic race. Characteristics include medium skin pigmentation, straight black hair, sparse body hair, and a .....
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Ancient Japanese Art
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2150.... by a man named Shen Zhou who was born in China in 1947 and died in 1509. I liked some of the pieces that were showcased on the floor, but this is the one that I found to be a little mysterious.
When I first saw this piece of work I questioned its value and just why it was in the museum because two feet away on either side of it were beautiful inkings and paintings. I looked back in the middle and found this piece of art to be more of a piece of crap. So I looked harder.
The work is painted on part of a horizontally unraveled scroll. The exposed part of the scroll is one .....
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