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Conflicts During The 1920s
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 653.... Republican
presidents whose partiality to the strong was displayed by their strong backing
of big business while discouraging the Labor Union movement. Literature was one
medium by which the new intelligencia could express their views on
impracticality and injustice of the social system and government in the 1920's.
Sinclair Lewis was one such author who used his writing to condemn the
stale and outdated ways of thinking that were so widely popular in our nation
during the 1920's. In addition to exposing the poor working conditions of most
factory labor, particularly .....
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Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
Number of pages: 32 | Number of words: 8660.... or in some way remember the impression of
an image after it has been withdrawn from view. The critical flicker
frequency is the minimum rate of interruption of the projected light beam
that will not cause the motion picture to appear to flicker. A frequency
above about 48 interruptions a second will eliminate flicker.
Camera
Like a still camera (see CAMERA), a movie camera shoots each picture
individually. The movie camera, however, must also move the film precisely
and control the shutter, keeping the amount of light reaching the film
nearly constant from .....
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Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1561.... with someone, probably anyone, who understands him, and will accept him. Holden doesn't like to see people hurting. He explains when he says that he would like to be "a catcher in the rye", someone who protects children from the pitfalls of hypocrisy and lies, that Holden seems to think infect the adult world. As a result, Holden is very careful not to use other characters as a means for his own ends. In many ways he is unable to deflect the unexpressed pressures that every teen male feels, to have sex. He is offered the "teenage dream" of sex in a non-responsible situation w .....
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Reasons America Declared War On Germany
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 514.... the American public. President Wilson chose to do nothing violent about them at first; however, after a similar incident took place; Germany’s naval policy instigated him to declare war on Germany.
Propaganda was necessary to declare war on Germany, since a war without the public’s support would not have fared well. Although Americans were certainly upset at Germany’s naval policy, it was not enough to prompt popular support for a declaration of war. Propaganda, such as political cartoons, was used in order to get the public to advocate entrance into the war. Cartoons .....
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The Early Nineteenth Centory
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1217.... land because he needed more money for his fight with Great
Britain. So Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory, and doubled the nation's
size. This purchase was a mastermind move by Jefferson that let the farming
nation trade using the whole Mississippi.
Another achievement of Thomas Jefferson was the exploration of the
Louisiana Territory. He hired Lewis and Clark to explore the uncharted
territory. He told them to search the land for a river passage to the Pacific
Ocean. Jefferson also told them to keep diaries and make maps. This was
Clark's task. In May, 1804, fo .....
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Life The Courage To Change
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 648.... around them. This too in fact portrays the irony of the film. For example, Kathryn believes that if a certain man cannot hold a relationship with her he cannot involve himself with anyone at all. Kathryn sets out to ruin his life and ruin the life of his significant other, getting her to fall in love with her music instructor rather than following her heart. This type of behavior leads the audience to believe that Kathryn uses her ranking and her setting in life to achieve personal happiness. In this film come two morals, first you may not always be set in your ways som .....
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The Whiskey Rebellion
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 497.... the march towards Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. There, they contained the mob hysteria and anger. This event
represented the first use of the Militia Law of 1792 enabling the militia to “
execute the laws of the union, and suppress insurrection” (The Whiskey Rebellion
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1).
It is clear that George Washington was the source of success in the
Whiskey Rebellion. When the militia, with Washington and Hamilton at its lead,
reached western Pennsylvania, it became clear that there would be no armed
resistance. Evidence of Washington's leadership in this rebelli .....
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Immigrants In 17th Century United States
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1696.... apparently "Surplus" people. They were displaced and footloose in their homelands before they felt the tug of the American magnet. Indeed at least as many people moved about within Europe as crossed the Atlantic. America benefited from these people churning changes but did not set then all in motion. Nor was the United States the sole beneficiary of the process : of the nearly 60 million people who abandoned Europe in the century after 1840, about 25 million went somewhere other than the United States. Yet America still beckoned most strongly to the struggling masses of Europe .....
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