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One Hundred And Fifty Subject Matter
1,023 wordsTheodore Gericault's greatest legacy as an artist is undoubtedly his Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819. The painting is the comprehensive result of experiments with a variety of forms and styles; it marks the apogee of Gericault's career. Beautiful and horrible, incidental and ubiquitous, monumental without a specific hero, The Raft of the Medusa was to the Salon of 1819 a complete paradox. The painting's first critics were divided in their assessments by their political and artistic ideolog...
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Munitions Factories Land Army Women
620 words"How important was the role of women during world war 1 " The early rush of volunteers and later the conscription of men led to a shortage of manpower on the home front. Women, already working in munitions factories were encouraged to take on jobs normally done by men. This was the start of major social change. Before the war, women had been content to stay at home to bring up the family and do domestic work. It was considered unbecoming for a woman to work. During the war it was considered unpa...
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Merrill Lynch Brokerage Firms
1,651 wordsSchwab introduced Tele Broker, a fully automated telephone system that allowed customers to retrieve real-time stock quotes and place orders. Schwab also leveraged its back-office operations with Schwab Link, a service to provide fee-based financial advisors with back-office custodial services and the capability for RIAs to plug into Schwab's computers to trade. The RIA market became an important source of revenue for Schwab. By 2000, Schwab had 5, 900 affiliated RIAs, who controlled about 30 % ...
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First World War Storm Troopers
1,002 wordsDefinition of Holocaust: The Holocaust is generally considered to be the activity conducted by the German government from 1941 - 1945. The Nazis, the fascist government in power from 1933 - 1945 in Germany, systematically exterminated about 8 million people during these four years. The Nazis had been killing Jews, other minorities, and political enemies since the early 1930 's. It wasn't until an SS conference, chaired by Heinrick Heydrick, convened in 1941. At that conference it was decided tha...
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Van Gogh Organized Religion
882 wordsIn the 1800 's, scientists made many discoveries about light and its spectrum of colors. The Post-Impressionists were among the first artists in history to apply scientific laws of light and color to their art. They used the discoveries of physicists and chemists in choosing which colors to place side by side to create various artistic effects. For centuries, paints were made from things like ground up beetles, burnt bones, and different kinds of metal and even precious stones. Some of the color...
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Moral Principles Objective Standard
1,316 wordsSocrates and Euthyphro had a pretty educating dialogue during very ancient times. The main theme of the dialog was the investigation of the issue of goodness, and how to understand gods views on it. Euthyphro was concerned about the issue that he had to judge his own father for a murder that he committed. Socrates and Euthyphro try to figure out what is actually good and what is not. This theme goes along their whole conversation. Socrates asked his companion to identify the notion of piety and ...
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Young Boy Tennis Court
1,570 wordsThe Tennis World The young boy was an avid tennis game fan and was often badgered by his friends over his enthusiasm to watch all the tennis tournaments on the television. He was baffled one day when he came across one of his favorite players in a bizarre incident during his travel by train. The young boys banal attempts to draw the attention of the player so that he could talk with him were met with a bland response. Finally the young boy approached the player to ask for his autograph and was s...
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Wen Hsiang Su David Henry Hwang Illusions
1,044 wordsM. Butterfly by Hwang. From year to year it is a tendency that peoples thoughts and emotions have been becoming more complicated. These causes contrasts and illusions, modern life is full with. And in his great work M. Butterfly Hwang explores all the illusions of life; not only between a Western man and Oriental woman, but also the illusions of power, illusions between the East and the West, sexual illusions. So vivid and sensitive main points can be presented only by a person with both with ea...
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Secretary Of State Arnold Schwarzenegger
1,134 wordsRecall In order to fully describe the recall procedure and how it works we will elaborate on Governor Gray Davis recall in California. The first step in a recall effort is the circulation of recall petitions. The process begins with the filing of a notice-of-intent-to-recall petition written in the proper legal language and signed by 65 voters. Once that is accomplished, the recall petition can be circulated in earnest. Petitions for the recall of statewide officers must be signed by voters equa...
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First World War Surrealist Movement
1,659 wordsMax Ernst Max Ernst remains a potent and influential figure in the visual arts in the new century. What characterizes Ernst's art, above all, are abrupt changes of direction and a rigorously self-critical attitude. Through a constant reworking of his imagery and technique he expresses the desire to visualize the tumultuous events through which he lived during the first half of the 20 th century. Max Ernst not only influenced a generation of artists that incorporated some of the elements of his s...
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Months Of Age Spoken Language
923 wordsBaby Sings Just try to imagine your baby that has not reached one year yet, telling you that she is sick and needs medication. Alternatively, your toddler throwing fewer tempers tantrums, crying less, and even becoming more "talkative." Hard to do, isnt it? What can ease up the communication process with baby is signing and gesturing with your baby; it can also help bonding parent and child and help to reach higher IQ in along run. Many professors of speech communication confirm that for childre...
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Moral Principles Objective Standard
1,329 wordsSocrates and Euthyphro on the actual meaning of goodness. Socrates and Euthyphro had a pretty educating dialogue during very ancient times. The main theme of the dialog was the investigation of the issue of goodness, and how to understand gods views on it. Euthyphro was concerned about the issue that he had to judge his own father for a murder that he committed. Socrates and Euthyphro try to figure out what is actually good and what is not. This theme goes along their whole conversation. Socrate...
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Mccarthys Blood Meridian Port And Tunner Kid
1,018 wordsExtreme circumstances bring about substantial changes in people. At least that is what Paul Bowles and Cormac McCarthy seem to be saying in the writing of their respective books, The Sheltering Sky and Blood Meridian. Both authors place their characters in difficult locations, dealing with difficult people and expect them to emerge changed, for better or for worse. In The Sheltering Sky, Bowles takes his American trio and places them in the desert lands of the African continent where the wide, d...
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U S Troops Ground Forces
920 wordsMake this field active and press CTRL-V Sending US troops to Bosnia is in my opinion a very questionable activity. While I do see the presidents point, I do not see the need for ground forces. I think that several other options should be explored. Ground troops are not necessary to establish a presents in the region. I feel that airpower is sufficient, after all it was air strikes that brought the Serbs to the to the negotiation table in the first place. It is apparent that the only thing the Se...
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Lady Mac Beths Avenging His Fathers
1,813 wordsThe Tragedies Of Shakespeare Your noble son is mad? ? Mad call I it, for to define true madness, What ist but to be nothing else but mad? (Wells and Taylor, 665) In Act two, scene two of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Polonius uses these words to inform Hamlets parents of their sons insanity. He then continues on, telling Gertrude and Claudius that the cause of this madness is lovesickness over his own daughter Ophelia (665). From the privileged perspective of the audience, we know that Polo...
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Importance Of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
870 wordsLove is perhaps the most actively sought moral objective of ones life. And though marriage is often thought to be the logical consequence of love, it is Oscar Wilde's contention in his satire, The Importance of Being Earnest, that love begets bliss and marriage thwarts this course of bliss. Algernon Moncrieff spends very little time falling in love and the rest of the time striving toward engagement. Wilde demonstrates through him that once one becomes intent upon achieving a goal, the individua...
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Lady Macbeth Kill Banquo
1,528 wordsIs it the influence of the Supernatural Or Macbeth s overriding ambition that Ultimately causes his downfall? Macbeth was originally written for and performed in front of King James I in 1606 The King had an interest in witchcraft and believed that witches and magicians were agents of the devil, and that the devil was permitted by god to work upon men as a punishment to the wicked and a temptation to test the faith of the virtuous. Thus, a man faced with Satan s temptation would be faced with a ...
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Change His Life Love For Lucie
1,841 wordsIt is human nature to carry a beast deep down within oneself. Whether one chooses to control the beast or be controlled by it is an individual choice. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Most repress their inner rage, but some let it loose and lose that which makes them a human being. In the novel A tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Sydney Carton is not the man he initially appears to be. Sydney? s love for Lucie changed him greatly, and allowed him to becom...
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Saturday Evening Post Comedy And Tragedy
1,618 wordsSince the dawn of literature and drama, comedy and tragedy have always been partitioned into separate genres. Certainly most tragedies had comedic moments, and even the zaniest comedies were at times serious. However, even the development of said tragicomedies left the division more or less intact. Integrating a total comedy and a total tragedy into a holistic union that not only preserved both features, but also blended them into a new and harmonious entity remained elusive. That is, until Catc...
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Outlook On Life Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
1,254 wordsDuring the course of the last fifty years, society has changed significantly. In modern society a great emphasis is placed on individualism and diversity within a society. It is rare that an individual would be ridiculed or forced to change simply for not complying with what society views as normal. This has not always been the case though. The nineteen fifties were much different. This was an era of social conformity. The members of society who were intent on maintaining this social state ostra...
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