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The History Of Slave Labor
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 976.... than an investor in the "tobacco game." Because white labor inevitably became inadequate due to its transient nature, and the costs of indentured servitude began to rise, planters turned their eyes toward the cheaper and indefinite service of black laborers. Although it may have not been as socially desirable, African s figured into this "problem" in that they represented skilled labor and were a proficient in tropical agriculture. With a high immunity to diseases such as malaria and yellow fever-lethal to Europeans and Indians alike, African Americans were soon seen .....
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Andy Warhol
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1954.... His childhood life may have been full of the torture that children threw at him for being the different person he was. He was able to attend college. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pictorial design from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949, he went to New York City with Philip Pearlstein, who was a fellow student that later became a well-known realist painter. In 1960, Warhol finally began to paint in earnest and to view art seriously as a career. He began his career with commercial drawings of women's shoes. In 1961, an early manifestation wa .....
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Frank Lloyd Wright The Pioneer
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1135.... to nature for the occupents. Wright was undoubtly a romantic and individualist. His feeling toward nature and self integrity can best be shown by comparing them to those shared by Emerson and Thoreau. Wrights deep love of nature and his individualism were formed from the events which influenced him as a child and up until his days working for Louis Sullivan. In order to fully understand the ideas which Wright proposed through his philosophy of Organic Architecture, one must first understand the events and influences which led to their creation.
As a child, Wrights par .....
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Lockie Leonard And Lex And Rory
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1346.... He is classed as a nerd because he studies and takes notice of his future planning. Girls are his problem. He is scared of communication and contact. This is one of his main fears, especially talking. In particular talking to one girl called Dai. Due to this not many people pay attention to him except his one and only true friend Rory. Lex is the type of person who is afraid to make the first move, but having a friend like Rory it starts to become easier.
Lockie doesn’t change himself to make other people feel happy. He likes who he is and believes in himself. Lockie doesn’ .....
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What Dreams May Come
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 871.... paintings, he would still be alive and blames herself again for his death.
When Chris dies and goes to Heaven he meets Albert, his guardian angel, and discovers that Heaven is even more wondrous than anything he could have imagined. His Heaven is the canvas that Annie was currently working on, it was their place. It was where they would retire and live, everything that the both of them loved, the mountains, the water, the fields, the house, and the beautiful colors. It wasn’t done yet but as she added things, he still saw them, they were so in touch with each other that t .....
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The Persian Gulf War
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2153.... Sunni factions, Iraq had a massive
debt to many Arab nations including Kuwait."2 The rulers of these nations
wanted some of their money back but Iraq thought they were ingrates and
were ungrateful for defending the Arab emirs from the Iranian Islamic
fundamentalism. The Arab emirs were afraid that the Islamic fundamentalists
would rise against the government and eventually take over the government
as they had Iran against the Shah. Kuwait was also afraid of this and so
they supported the Iraqi Arabs against the Iranian Persians.
2"Iraq",World Book (New York, World Book, 1 .....
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Pearl Harbor
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 571.... bombarding airfields and
battleships moored at the concrete quays. The U.S. totally taken off guard had
to defend themselves in pajamas. They used anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 AM. The results were devastating; 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200
aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck; the
West Virginia and California were sunk; and the Nevada was heavily damaged.
Approximately 2,400 Americans were killed, 1,300 wounded, and 1,000 missing.
Japa .....
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The 50s Was A Time Of Change
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 443.... the teen crimes in America is blamed on a dysfunctional house hold.
There are many advances today that were not conceivable in the 50’s. Today you can live after suffering from many diseases that would of killed you in the 50’s. We don’t have to worry about polio, the flu, and or pneumonia. Today we all have at least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. In the 50’s opportunities were very scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment.
Imp .....
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