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Essays on American History |
Art Essay
... (youth) were produced in large numbers, all being virtually the same in outline. Their general names emphasised the need for the statues to remain unidentified and the lack of personal character. Some were placed on graves only to be viewed as representations of the deceased in the broadest sense (completely impersonal). And some were used as offerings, for example: for a favoured person like the victor in an athletic competition.The strange lack of differentiation seems to be part of the character of these figures. They are neither gods nor men, but rather somewhere in between, a symbol of physical perfection, an ideal shared by not only humans but also immorta ...
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Portraits Of Ingres And Reynolds
... The background of the painting is basically one solid brown. Bertin occupies the whole bottom section of the painting, with nothing of his body going above three-fourths of the canvas. He is the ground, below even the earth tones of the background.
He has on a black suit, brown vest, and white shirt, as well. These colors working together allow you to make certain assumptions about him. He looks like a working man, which he was. “Louis-Francois Bertin (1766-1841), was one of the great leaders of the French upper middle class, a businessman and a journalist” (Rosenblum, 134). This would explain the one striking color in the piece, the red.
Bertin is sitt ...
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The Watergate Complex
... of June 17, 1972 five men were
arrested at the Watergate Complex. The police seized a walkie talkie, 40
rolls of unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pensized
teargas guns, and bugging devices. (Gold, 75)
These five men and two co-plotters were indicated in September 1972 on
charges of burglary, conspiracy and wire tapping. Four months later they
were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J.
Sercia was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during
the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. As it
became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely
to ...
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The Battle Of Midway
... Harbor, Oahu. The entire atoll is barely six miles in diameter and consists of Sand and Eastern islands surrounded by a coral reef enclosing a shallow lagoon. Midway was discovered in 1859 and annexed by the United States in August 1867. Between 1903 and 1940, it served both as a cable station on the Honolulu-Guam-Manila underwater telegraph line and as an airport for Pan American Airways China Clipper. In March 1940, after a report on U.S. Navy Pacific Bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in importance, construction of a formal naval air station began.
Midway naval Air Station was placed in commission in August 1941. By that time Midway's facilit ...
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Art Values
... They loved to look at themselves, especially if they were male. They male gender was perceived as perfection in that time period, and as such it should be portrayed in all of its glory, hence the no clothing policy. They sculpted, painted and created in what they believed to be perfection. They created all buildings in perfect rectangles, since they believed that rectangles were the epitome of perfection, the “golden section” if you will. Greek art was a portrayal of their ideals, which is why most people call this period the idealistic stage in Art history.
The Romans were very much like their Greek counter parts. Romans, as a whole, loved Greek art. ...
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HUME Vs KANT Causality
... of a memory. From this distinction, Hume decreed that all ideas had origin within impressions.
From the distinction of perceptions, Hume created his ‘microscope’ in order to trace all ideas back to impressions. He did this to search for 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. ...
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Letter From Birmingham Jail
... in Birmingham demonstrating. His reasons and explanations were so logical and precise that people found it very difficult to dispute them.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was known as one of the leaders of the American civil right movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent resistance to racial oppression. As a Baptist minister King knew better then to use violence to fight against the oppression. But this did not mean he would stop from voicing his opinion about the problems that were present. One example of the problems that Dr. King tried to bring to the peoples attention in an attempt to fix it was the “law” that all the African Americans could sit only at the ...
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Mesopotamian Art And Arquitecture
... The art of Mesopotamia includes a mix from people
who differed ethnicly and linguistically. Each of these
groups made its own contribution to art until the Persian
conquest of the 6th century BC. The first dominant people
to control the region and shape its art were the non-Semitic
Sumerians, followed by the Semitic Akkadians,
Babylonians, and Assyrians.
The earliest architectural and artistic remains known
to date come from northern Mesopotamia from the
proto-Neolithic site of Qermez Dere in the foothills of the
Jebel Sinjar. Levels dating to the 9th millennium BC have
revealed round sunken huts outfitted with one or two
plastered pillars with ...
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Amistad 3
... way of life to the arrival of an
even more savage life and ideas of the civilization from Africa, a story of greater historical significance. The characters are not extensively developed; instead, they are simply presented, even understated at a point. Spielberg’s intent is to draw vivid characterizations and to create objects and characters as symbols with larger meanings.
Power and authority is the first symbol presented in the story. Who had
it in the beginning and who ended up with it in the end. The superior attitude
of the ‘La Amistad’s’ crew and the harsh and cruel treatment of the passengers,
implies how primitive and unrefined society was. ...
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The Salem Witch Trials
... they concluded they were being influenced by the devil.
In late February prayer services and community fasting were being conducted by Reverend Samuel Parris to get rid of the evil forces that were plaguing them. Pressured to identify the witches, the girls named three women. On Feb 29 warrants were issued for Tibuba, an Indian Slave, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne. These women were the first three to be accused. Tituba confessed to practicing witchcraft and to seeing the devil. She claimed the devil would appear to her "sometimes like a hog and sometimes like a great dog". She also testified that there was a conspiracy of witches at work in Salem. This mar ...
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