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Breakdancing
<view this essay>.... and the jitterbug as well as the Afro-Brazilian martial-arts dance Capoeira and the antics of Kung Fu movies.
included "breaking" (flipping, spinning, pivoting on the head and hands), "up-rock" (a mock-combat style, often directed against an opponent), and "webbo" (fast footwork between other dance moves). When spread to Los Angeles, California, dancers added the "electric boogie," automaton-like dance moves that incorporated pantomime. In the beginning, breakdancers adopted a confrontational attitude, as "crews" met each other in fake rumbles that often turned into real fights. Even peaceful displays resembled the competitive toasting of Bronx musici .....
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Effects Of The Great Depression On Canada
<view this essay>.... Canada, the Great Depression created harsh conditions and
it was a struggle until it ended.
The event which triggered the Great Depression was the Stock Market
crash of October 24, 1929 in New York. Another important cause was that:
Later in the 1930's, the wide adoption of the gold exchange in
many countries was widely criticized as a great mistake which
greatly contributed to the severity and length of the Great
Depression. 1
In Canada, wheat, the most important export, was being over-produced
around the world, despite the fact that the 1928 supply of wheat was still
available in 1929.
A good reason for the stock .....
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The Holocaust
<view this essay>.... won,
we're going on." This quote is from the testimony of Fania
Fenelon. The signs and symptoms that are among the Jews
because of the Holocaust definitely characterize abnormality.
These abnormalities include the physical effects, the spiritual
effects, and the second generation.
The physical effects were enormous among the Jews. The
conditions of the camps defy description. The nutrition was
worse than inadequate and the results being the well-known
"musselmen": skeletons covered by skin. After the Jews in
prison camps were freed, their diseases were treated as well as
could be treated. Premature aging was one of the most
pro .....
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Society During The French Revo
<view this essay>.... was the French Revolution. “Recent scholars tends to downplay the social class
struggle and emphasize political, cultural, ideological, and personality factors in
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Indus Civilization
<view this essay>.... remains of the have been found in diverse environmental settings. Its settlements were, however, remarkably similar in layout and material culture.
Because its script remains undeciphered, the is known only from archaeological evidence. Its origins traditionally were viewed as the result of the diffusion of farming and technology from more advanced cultures in Mesopotamia and on the Iranian plateau to Baluchistan and ultimately to the Indus Valley. Today this theory is seen as largely incorrect. Knowledge about early plant and animal domestication in lands east of the Iranian plateau is still obscure, but the results of excavations at the important sit .....
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Caesar 2
<view this essay>.... twice and captured by Roman armies, first in 87 BC by the leaders of the populares, his Uncle Marius and Cinna. Cinna was killed the year that Caesar had married Cinna’s daughter Cornelia. The second attack upon the city was carried out by Marius’ enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on Sulla’s return from the East. The confiscation of property resulted from the massacre of political opponents on each occasion.
At the time of Caesar’s birth, the number of patricians was small, and their status no longer provided political advantage. (Sahlman). Caesar’s family was part of Rome’s original aristocracy, although .....
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Monroe Doctrine
<view this essay>.... to Spain. The Americans had a sense of pride in the former Spanish colonies gaining independence. They felt as if the American Revolution was a model for these new Latin American nations (Faragher 265). After Napoleon went down, the monarchy in Spain regained power ("" 617). The Spanish had felt embarrassed after losing their colonies to independence. In 1815 Tsar Alexander I of Russia and the monarchs of Austria and Prussia formed the Holy Alliance. This alliance was a group set out to maintain autocracy (Migill 594). Spain then demanded the return of its colonies of the New World (Migill 594). With the possibility of help from the Holy Allia .....
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LA Confidential And Film Noir
<view this essay>.... Hanson, 1997). This paper discusses the techniques used in LA Confidential that link the movie with the typical cinematic conventions of the film noir style.
Film noir often tackled subjects that dealt with common underlying themes: corruption, deceit, mystery, etc (Sobchack, 271). One of the most well known and acclaimed pioneers in film noir is the movie The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941). This film was based on a private investigator, Sam Spade, hired to investigate a case. The Maltese Falcon is now viewed as the typical film noir style movie because it contains traits and qualities of filmmaking that were adapted by film noir filmmakers. F .....
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