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Pop Art 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 884

.... emergence of a new attitude. According to Jahn, "happenings directly challenged viewers' perceptions of social patterns and of conformity to conventions" (66). Pop, like so many other styles of art, raised questions of meaning: Was it art? What was the message? Was it the celebration or parody of the mass-consumer world? Happenings and Pop Art evoked strong emotional response during this era. Artworks in this style challenged social conventions and offered models for new ways to relate to our culture and to one another (Gablic, 20), thus making an important social contribution .....


Jay's Treaty
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 691

.... Washington himself did not write the treaty he deserves all the credit for initiating it in the first place. The times had become rough with the British, and according to Hamilton the British were a vital part of our economy. He said " …the tax on imports furnished much of the money for paying off our foreign, domestic, and state debts." 2 Along with the British's impressment of American seamen and their role in our economy Washington knew something had to be done. Washington knew that the tension between America and England had to be thinned out so he decided to s .....


Vincent Van Gogh The Successful Failure
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1069

.... regret in leaving the parsonage was that he would miss the company of his beloved brother, Theo. At age twenty, Vincent fell in love with the big city of London. He moved to London where he continued his career as an art dealer at Goupil's London branch. Coincidentally, Vincent van Gogh also fell in love with a French girl named Ursula. At the age of twenty-one, after much deliberation, he confessed his love to her. He was coldly rejected. This was heartbreaking to Vincent, and his family worried about him frantically. Vincent had a growing hate toward his parents. T .....


Picasso At The Lapin Agile - Dramatic Criticism
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 750

.... will have on the future. Perhaps one of the most attractive aspects of the script is its ability to ask the same questions of the audience that it does from one character to another. For example, the owner of the “Lapin Agile”, Freddy attempts to stump Albert Einstein with a mathematical problem that the audience couldn’t have enough time to equate. This style of fast paced dialogue and action fills the entire script from the opening line, adding humor and wit which is only emphasized by the close attention to details. In the set design, we first see the use of layering, wi .....


Streetcar Named Desire
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 803

.... reminder of the price she is paying. Reason for her action is not proven in the play, but it is definite that Stella was in similar position as Blanche was in when she ran away from her tradition, and searched for her desire. "She tries to conceal from herself her true needs through hiding and drugging herself in a sex relationship." (Pg. 305 Kazan) No matter how Stanley treats her, Stella is so dependent on him that she gives up so much of herself. Stella is relatively very slow on reading people's mind and she gives in, accepts, let things slide. Nevertheless, Stella i .....


The Effectiveness Of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956
Number of pages: 18 | Number of words: 4856

.... becoming an unpopular war of attrition in which thousands of lives had already been lost. During the Eisenhower administration, the president would be confronted with a plethora of events both domestic and international. Shortly after Eisenhower's inauguration, Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Premičre) died of a stroke on March 5, 1953, leaving the United States questioning who would rise to power in Russia and continue the Cold War against the US. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created on March 12, 1953. On December 8, 19 .....


Violations Of The Declaration Of Human Rights During The Salem Witch Trials
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 673

.... jail sentence and not the death-penalty by being hanged or crushed. Another article that had been clearly violated during the Salem witch trials was article five, which states that "everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law". Many thought of the women accused of practicing witchcraft to be diabolic and inhuman ; in fact, they were thought of human figures of the devil. This would clearly interfere with the judge´s veredict and it would be almost impossible for the victimis to save themselves from being condemned to death. If th .....


The Disadvantages And Advantages Of The War Of Independence
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 460

.... and poorly trained. They had no funding or support from an organized government. They had no supplies only the ones they owned or stole from the British. Not everybody was on their side there were people in the colonies that were loyal to the British they were called the “Tories”. The Americans had a lot of setbacks and it seemed the British had every thing going for them. The British had the undoubtedly larger opportunity. They had large numbers of weapons. Many soldiers not to mention the “Tories” that were already here. They had an organized army. They also had funding fro .....



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