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World Art
<view this essay>.... distinct ages: The Old Stone Age, The New Stone Age, The Bronze Age, and The Iron Age. These four Great Ages is the complete history of art from the beginning to the present day. Each age is named characteristically for the type of material used for that time. Stone was used in the Old and New Stone age, bronze in the Bronze Age, and iron in the Iron Age.
The Great Ages began with The Old Stone Age starting at 100,000 BCE. The people lived in tribes and clans and often moved from place to place, hunting and gathering to live. They believed all life was sacred and all beings were divine, including animals. The tribal teachings taught that man and nature .....
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American Revolution 3
<view this essay>.... to protest the British Acts was legal, and political. But the primary cause of the Revolution was economics.
In theory, the colonists accepted the principle that natural laws rather than royal decrees should govern the economy. In practice only the southern colonies were bound to England by the tobacco trade. The New England and Middle Colonies, unable to find markets in Britain, found prosperity by trading outside the empire. Any attempt to stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequently ensued. The idea of mercantilism where the channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. Th .....
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Vietnam War - Summary Of Vietnam
<view this essay>.... amount of soldiers in Vietnam, The North Vietnamese mounted a surprise attack during the Vietnamese new year, and this strike was called the Tet Offensive. It made America more aware of what they were up against, that the communists were capable of fierce, guerrilla warfare, unlike anything Americans had ever fought before. Images of the terror and disarray reached back home, and the U.S. began to wonder how effective their involvement in Vietnam really was.
As we got further and further into the Vietnam War, few lives were untouched by grief, anger and fear. The Vietnamese suffered the worst hardship; children lay dead in the street, villages remained noth .....
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The National Anthem
<view this essay>.... it was brought to my attention that the words were written on September 13, 1814 during a battle with Britain at Fort McHenry (United).
Key was on a very small boat when this battle was taking place. His boat tossed back and forth because of the bombs that was being discharged. The smoke from the discharge of the bombs made it very difficult to see anything in the night sky, but him and the people that accompanied him at Fort McHenry knew that if they could still see the flag that the United States still was holding their ground. This gave Key some ideas for , because at times in the battle he could not see the American flag through the mist, and drizzle, even .....
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Vietnam
<view this essay>.... system. Since the start of the cold war, the United States has undertaken the policy that if you are not a democracy than you are not truly free. *~The government wants use to think that a democracy is pure and good where as a communist society is corrupt and harmful. The fact remains both a forms governments to control the inhabitants and to lead them so that their life might become better.~* The United States gives its citizens the right to periodicly elect their leaders. When the United States entered after the French lost the war in 1954, why did it feel, it was necessary to choose to fight the Ho Chi Men lead communists, without even allowing the ese peop .....
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The Women's Civil Rights Movement
<view this essay>.... could not
keep ownership of property when they married. Women could be beaten
legally by their "overlords"- their husbands.
Women joined and fought by picketing, protesting, parading,
campaigning - demanding that women be given the same rights as men.
Some of the women involved in this movement were Elizabeth Cady
St5anton, who was called the "Mother of the Women's Suffrage Movement". She
organized the Woman's Rights Covention of 1747. She was a leader in the
fight for women's rights to own property and for divorce laws more
favorable to women.
Lucy Sten, who was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a
college degree.
Susan B. Anthony. She devoted .....
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American Revolution - Causes
<view this essay>.... they will be pleased to relieve us....". This is a very strong dictum, that in 1764, the colonists were of a submissive nature, and were weakly pleading for self-autonomy. This small fire of anger will become a huge conflagration as the rights are slowly rescinded.
On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain. .....
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Michelangelo 3
<view this essay>.... Battle
of the Centaurs and the Madonna on the Stairs, both of which were completed
between 1489 and 1492.
Michelangelo had several successes in his life of painting, architecture,
and sculpting. His first large-scale sculpture was Bacchus. Around the same
year of 1498, Michelangelo did the marble Pieta, which he finished before the
age of twenty-five and is the only work he ever signed. This sculpture shows a
youthful Mary with her dying son Jesus laying across her lap. Mary’s expression
is one of resignation rather then grief. Another of his greatest works in the large
marble sculpture David, which he produced between 1501 and 1504. The
exp .....
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