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Michelangelo 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 879.... to tomb but he left Florence for good in 1534 only the Ducal tombs had been designed. Lorenzo (the magnificent) and his brother Giuliano lie disregarded on a cassone or chest, opposite the altar. Michelangelo designed the tombs for Lorenzo de Medici Duke of urbino and Guiliano de Medici Duke of Nermours. The two complex tombs were conceived as representing opposite types: Lorenzo, the contemplative, introspective personality; the Giuliano, the active, extroverted one he put magnificent nude representations of dawn and dusk beneath the seated Lorenzo, day and night beneath G .....
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Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 666.... and challenged anti-Semitism in 1938 by proposing the Evian Conference; a meeting attended by the Allies to determine how to deal with Hitler and the SS (Catledge, 1974). FDR was also a firm believer of the WagnerRogers bill, which if passed by congress would have given twenty- thousand Jewish children freedom into the U.S. However, this bill never found its way to FDR's desk.
Anti-Semitism in America was at an all time high during this time, maybe one reason why the WagnerRogers bill never passed through congress. Individuals like Brechenridge Long of the State De .....
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Terrorism In The US
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1079.... think and
at any given time, usually when it is expected least. The Congressional
Research Service warns that terrorists are not those acting on behalf of
established governments or militant organizations, but are motivated by
religious zeal or greed (Stanglin 1). Kroll and Associates is a New York
based, security consulting firm which is currently debating whether foreign
or domestic terrorism poses the greater threat (Morganthau 1). With the
recent horror stories reflecting the victims of the Unabomber and the
bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, Americans would h .....
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HUME Vs KANT Causality
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1751.... the limits. If an idea could not be traced back to its impression, it was too abstruse. Hume separated the objects of human reason into two categories. First, the relation of ideas, which represented all that is ‘a priori’. Secondly, he created the category of matters of fact. Matters of fact made up the ‘a posteriori’ piece of the spectrum of reason. Matters of fact are contingent, meaning they could be otherwise.
In order to go beyond the objects of human reason, Hume proposed that reasoning was based upon cause and effect. Causal relations help us to know things beyo .....
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The Declaration Of Independence
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 680.... obtained, and wellbeing protected. The early colonials were loyalist whose sole purpose was to obey their king and spread the gospel and the society expressed such ideas. Every aspect of social life if not controlled by the king was determined by the Bible but by comparison to the ideas of government and values are basically the same.
In it states that "all men are created equal," an idea which leads to the concept that all citizens should have the same rights, responsibilities, and influence in the governing of their country. In writing Thomas Jefferson was trying to .....
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The Battle Of Antietam
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1336.... 15, both armies
had established new battlelines west and east of Antietam Creek, near the
town Sharpsburg. When Jackson’s troops reached Sharpsburg on the 16th,
Harpers Ferry having surrendered the day before, Lee consolidated his
position along the low ridge that runs north and south of the town. The
battle opened at dawn on the 17th when Union General Joseph Hooker’s
artillery began a murderous fire on Jackson’s men in the Miller cornfield
north of the town. Hooker’s troops advanced, driving the Confederates
before them, and Jackson reported that his men were “expo .....
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The Indians And Losing Their Homes
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1375.... worshipping. This was a major conflict to what most other people in the United States believed. They did not believe in any Bible or other books to tell them what to do, they lived by the theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to be split into two parts, the spiritual and the physical. The spiritual was concerned with only the essence of things. On the contrary, the physical allowed one to see only things that were evident, avert danger or hunting. Each Indian had these qualities and they were all pure. From birth on, each Indian was a .....
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The Movie Bugsy
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1640.... congruent with the times of the 40’s. The cast was sprinkled with tremendous talent such as Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, and Elliot Gould. As a whole I think the cast did a magnificent job taking the viewers to an era of America, which is not easily forgotten by those who lived through it. A time when the world was being destroyed by the Nazi Germans was over shadowed by America’s self-involvement. A time when Americans were beginning to be proud of their little world power was accented by the world war.
The wardrobe and setting were excellent. The clothes the actor w .....
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