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The French And Indian War
... Mississippi River valley regions which led to conflict over who should get control over it. The wars going on in Europe also fueled because there was a big rivalry between France and Great Britain there as well. There were also British and French clashes at Fort Duquesne, one of the prominent Ohio River valley forts. Whoever had control over fort Duquesne had a quite a strong hold over the Ohio River Valley.
The British had many strategic advantages over the French and Indians. They had a strong militia in their colonies that could fight at any given time. They also had many more people, about one million. They also had a very strong navy and control of the ...
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
... pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban military bases were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Ba¤os and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed 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 Coun ...
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The Causes Of The American Revolution
... mainly because of the geographic distance between England and the American Colonies. This made the power of the British government seem far away so the Colonists started to develop strong traditions of self-government and self-sufficiency; therefore, the American independence began with the first English settlements in the early 1600s. When the Colonists first settled in the “New World” they were both scared and excited to have this new place to explore. This new excitement opened up many doors for the Colonists because they were in a completely free territory with delayed communication from England. When the Colonists were given a taste of the free world th ...
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The 60’s: Decade Of Challenge And Change
... without a comb. Many copied the style of the Beatles “mop- top”. By the late 1960s, men wore their hair long. Young black men and women wore full Afro cuts. Hair for the women of the early sixties was supposed to be full. They would spend many hours with hair lacquer, combs and curlers to help reach its desired height and body. Girls used to use false hair or even wigs to make their hair look with more volume. The popular styles for women were the “Beehive” and “Bouffant”.
The clothes of the 60s had so much influence in the clothes today. In the 1960 the girls started to use a dress called “chemisier”, with straight skirts or “evasees”. In 1963 the girls shocked th ...
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Painting Nude Figure By Pabblo Picasso
... affected him, in his works at the time. "Longchamp" and "The Blue Room" are good examples of this change in Picasso's style. Soon after this, Picasso began to develop his own methods. Illness struck Picasso in 1898 and he temporarily retired from the city and rested in the country.
Upon his return, Picasso was distressed with modern art and proceeded to use mother's maiden name. Picasso underwent a distressing part of his life for the next 4 years (1901-1904) and demonstrated the life of the poor. The next two years following those last four were rather bright and vigorous. Perhaps this was because he realized how his life differed so much
from the poor on the ...
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The River Rouge Manufacturing Complex
... of the interior of the Rouge
plant. This picture is one of many conveyer belts in the plant. This belt
is moving engine parts from the engine assembly to the final assembly.
Henry Ford was a pioneer in the use of the assembly line in the automobile
industry, and the Rouge plant was the ultimate in that use of the assembly
line. This photo shows the depth of the plant, being able to manufacture
all components of the cars without having to ship parts to or from other
locations in the country.
The next collection of photographs is of the exterior of the Rouge plant.
These photos were obtained from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
These pictures ar ...
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Film Review-rainbow Trout
... fish-farm gets crowded with urban visitors, it becomes a claustrophobic space filled with a
suffocating atmosphere. The fish-farm changes into a nightmarish
stage where every character reveals repressed desires and a demonic
nature. Initially, 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 ...
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The Musician
... music only scratches the surface of the music enjoyment experience. There lies another layer or ‘dimension’ if you will underneath. This dimension is reserved for the one who receives ‘the spirit thought to inspires poets’. creates as well as listens. He will ponder the music with a deeper appreciation, more feeling, and all done for the love of it.
Musicians are born just like anyone, but somewhere they notice something happening in their heads, like an inner orchestra that begins to play. It begins with one or more instruments, ringing distinctly and clearly inside their ‘third ears’. With time, this develops into a need to express that what is being played in t ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci (!)
... and the great “Last Supper”, painted on the wall of the dining hall in the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. These paintings alone would have assured him enduring fame as an artist, but they should not obscure the fact that he was also a sculptor, an architect, and the man of science.
More than 300 years before flying machines were perfected, Leonardo devised plans for prototypes of an airplane and a helicopter. His extensive studies of human anatomy were portrayed in drawing, which were among the most significant drawings in Renaissance science. Leonardo’s remarkable illustrations of the human body elevated the most significant drawings ...
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Buffalo Soldiers
... the 54th
Massachusetts, trained by its white commander, Col. Robert G. Shaw, suffered
heavy casualties in a heroic, though unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Wagner
at Charleston (S.C.) harbor in July 1863. In all, about 209,000 ex-slaves and
free blacks served in the Union Army, and more than 68,000 of them died in
battle or from wounds or disease. After the Civil War, Congress authorized two
cavalry regiments and four infantry regiments of black troops, who were led by
white officers. The 9th and 10th cavalry regiments were formed in 1866 and were
used to control "hostile" Indian tribes in the West for the next 25 years.
Despite prejudicial treatment by some ...
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