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The Effects Of The Industrial
<view this essay>.... the people of Europe, nearly everyone was forced to begin a new career within a factory. These are just some of the hardships that many loyal, hardworking citizens were faced with. The reverberations of these new inventions caused a dramatic plummet of the life expectancy of an average citizen to an alarming 15 years of age. Women and children were expected to work up to 16 hours a day and doing labor that could cause serious injury, like carrying extremely heavy loads. For their work, they were paid ridiculous wages, women around 5 shillings per week, and children about 1. One can easily recognize the negative aspects of such a dramatic event. However, if .....
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Indian Imperialism
<view this essay>.... of weaker nations. Britian's powerful nations have in the past exploited less fortunate ones for resources, capital, and knowledge. Yet in return, India has gained the technology and capital that, over a period of time and development, improved its quality of life.
Indian economy was transferred into a colonial economy whose nature and structure was determined by the needs of the British economy. High revenue demands and rigid manners of collection forced peasants into the clutches of the moneylenders. Expanding population put greater pressure on land as there was no corresponding development of industry. India "inherited" from Britian a cheap and easy syste .....
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The Age Of Exploration: Europe
<view this essay>.... Haiti, Cuba) when the two
months of supplies ran out. Their voyage began on August 3, 1492, from
Palos, Spain and ended on October 12 when land was sighted at the Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian that represented the Medici Bank in
Spain, chartered the coastline of Central America and described this as the
"Mundus Novus", meaning "New World". In 1507, a German cartographer
labeled the continent America named after Amerigo Vespucci. He also
explored the coastline of Central America.
Juan Ponce de Le¢n set out to find the Fountain of Youth. He never
did find the fountain, but he discovered the land that he named "Florida".
Vasci de .....
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Blackness
<view this essay>.... 1862,
casualties for both sides exceeded 20,000. The Battle of Shiloh was a
message to both the North and South that the Civil War was for real. General
Grant was anxious to maintain the momentum of his victory at Fort Donelson.
His army had moved up to a port on the Tennessee River called Pittsburg
Landing in preparation for an attack on Corinth, Mississippi, where the
Confederate troops were located. General Halleck, Western U.S. Army
commander, had ordered Grant to stay put and wait for reinforcements.
Gran .....
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Colonial Woman
<view this essay>.... chose to come to the American Colonies had a 100 percent chance of finding a husband. Women outnumbered men almost six to one. Any woman could be choosy when finding a husband, for countless men tried to woo her into marriage. Because women could choose their husbands, they could marry those men who would give her the most benefits. A woman did not have to marry a man who would treat her poorly. In most New England colonies, a woman could sue her husband for a divorce if her treated her without respect and abused or neglected her. Although women had the legal privilege to divorce a bad husband, she did not have any legal rights under the law. As soon as she .....
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Method Acting
<view this essay>.... watching him on stage and listening to him, I have gained new insight to my own future in acting. I realized what a sloppy actor I am, and how much refinement I desparately needed.
I still believe that you cannot teach someone to act. However, I do know that someone's inherent acting abilities can be refined. Now, the kicker here is how? There has to be some sort of common language among actors and directors that can be used in maturing theatre techinique. By developing the system of , Konstantin Stanislavski did just that. He created continuity in the refinement of technique, and thus allowed communication to occur within the acting realm. *
For y .....
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Comparison Of Two Paintings
<view this essay>.... and new technology invention such as, rocket, helicopter. In Golconda, the apparels that all the men wear suggest to me that this took place at a time before the Somnambulist Mall Walking. From the style of the outfit the men wear, they seem ancient but half-modernized. The men wear those bucket hats that remind me of Charlie Chaplin's time.
The main similarity that I find in these two paintings is the floating bodies in the sky. Both give a disturbing feeling when I look at them. Perhaps because floating bodies remind me of ghosts and spirits. However, in Somnambulist Mall Walking, there are women and men, whereas in Golconda only men are involved in t .....
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Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... and used all his free time to learn about physics. He had learned so much that his career had already taken off without him even realizing it yet.
He became a substitute teacher and an actor until 1902 when he secured a position as an examiner in a Swiss patent office. Not long after he married Mileva Maric and had two sons.
1905 was the biggest year for Einstein. It is called his "Miracle Year". He published a paper on the Brownian Motion and the seminal papers on his theory of relativity. He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation of molecules. He published three very important papers to twentieth century .....
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