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The Battle Of Salerno
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 472.... One week later the American Fifth Army was to land on the west coast of Italy at Salerno. Salerno is 30 miles southeast of Naples and 180 miles north of Montgomery's landing place.
One German division was sent to defend against the Allied landing at Salerno. Other Germans were to be deployed once their need became evident. The Germans had great military skills and were efficient.
Fighting along the beaches near Salerno was bitter and desperate. Americans held off the German counterattacks with assistance of nearby Allied warships and fighter planes based in Sicily. On .....
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Discuss How Art Can Be Used To Promote, Reflect Or Challenge
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1113.... either side of him are devils and angles blowing their trumpets. The weighing of souls is depicted throughout the artwork and next to each scale, are angles and devils competing for each soul. Below Christ are the dead rising, one being "plucked" from the earth by giant hands. Here humanity’s pitiful weakness in revealed in these terror stricken people as the angles summon them to judgement. The devils have legs which end in sharp claws and lean from hell as they drag souls in and are accompanied by howling and roaring demons. Gislebertus’ sculpture was affective in influencin .....
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Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 968.... to fear that Nazi Germany might construct such weapons. Einstein, reacting to the danger from Hitler's aggression, had already abandoned his strict pacifism. He now signed a letter that was delivered to President F.D. Roosevelt, warning him to take action. This, and a second Einstein-Szilard letter of March 1940, joined efforts by other scientists to prod the United States government into preparing for nuclear warfare. Einstein played no other role in the nuclear bomb project, but during the war he performed useful service as a consultant for the United States Navy's Bureau .....
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The Transcontinental Railroad And Westward Expansion
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2619.... West of the Appalachian
mountains, and by the mid-1850's Chicago, St. Louis, and Memphis were connected
to the East. Still other lines were stretching Westward, beyond the Mississippi.
An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one
crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River.
During the 1850's, North and South routes were developed both East and West of
the Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War, however, that a permanent
railroad bridge was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War, the
p .....
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The Art Of Theater
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 409.... what will happen at the end of the play, yet the art of it is to keep them focused and interested until the very end. Furthermore, unlike other modes of communication, in theater one cannot go back and see a certain scene. A theatrical act takes place in the present, has an ending, and becomes part of our past.
Theater is a challenge to our mind, for it makes us think and allows us to use our imagination. During a theatrical act, we are projected into a world of fantasy and imagination, a world that only lasts for a certain period of time. A period of time in which one fe .....
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Woman In Theater
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 331.... to change or justify how it was in the past.
I think the most amazing thing about theatre, is that over time despite how the concept of theatre was in the past the whole spectrum of theatre has changed. We now cast lead roles in theatre with woman. We are able to study the past, and examine the anti-woman roles and learn from them, and it helps us to learn about that society more. Theatre has been a mirror of the society that takes place at that time. So over these centuries the societies have changes and so have the individuals in them. Now we look at theatre and it is a di .....
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
Number of pages: 16 | Number of words: 4278.... at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other sites on the island.
Two of the B-26s left Cuba and flew to Miami, apparently to defect to the United States. The Cuban Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released a statement saying that the bombings in Cuba were ". . . carried out by 'Cubans inside Cuba' who were 'in contact with' the top command of the Revolutionary Council . . . ." The New York Times reporter covering the story alluded to something being wrong with the whole situation when he wondered how the council knew th .....
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Film Review-rainbow Trout
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1138.... the characters are: cultured and reasonable, the Min-su couple and Sae-wha; calculating but friendly, the Byung-kwan
couple; considerate and disinterested, Chang-yun;innocent-looking,
Tae-ju; and crude but well-meaning, the hunters. However, all turn out to be selfish and cowardly people concerned only about themselves. In the midst of this nightmarish stage, the characters observe the trout and find when the trout are stressed out, they have an unsettling way of hitting their heads against the wall until they die. The correlation between theoverwhelmed trout and characte .....
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