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The Italian Renaissance
<view this essay>.... at all. Renaissance art focused on secularism and realism. The art did not contain symbols and was not focused on just religion. The artists focused on the physical expression and body movements of the people in the paintings or sculptures. People in Renaissance paintings were less stiff, and all the same size. Artists were concerned with realism and emotions. Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Botticelli were artists of the Renaissance who focused on these ideas. The Renaissance did not reflect the Middle Ages at all in the art category. Paintings in the Middle Ages focused on religion. People were painted flat, rigid, and all different sizes according to l .....
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The Indians And Losing Their Homes
<view this essay>.... not feel secure in the place they were being sent to. When one’s comfortable “ place “ is taken from them, they have no where else to turn but violence. Violence towards the people who stole away their security while replacing it with fear and apprehension.
The Sioux tribe of Indians were a breed of people entirely different from the white man. They believed in spiritual guidance, but not spiritual worshipping. This was a major conflict to what most other people in the United States believed. They did not believe in any Bible or other books to tell them what to do, they lived by the theory of a higher power and spirits. they believed the Indian mind to b .....
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The U.S. Entering World War II
<view this essay>.... bombers caught the base by surprise due to the Americans' tradition of not working on Sunday's. As the bombs fell, so did all the chances of the United States not joining the Allies in the second world war that was raging in Europe and the western Pacific. Up to that point the U.S. had just been supporting the Allies but they weren't technically at war with the Axis powers.
All throughout the first two years of the war, President Roosevelt focused on making life difficult for the Japanese. One way he did this was by creating various policies that would deter the Axis powers from being able to maintain the needs necessary to wage war on the Alli .....
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Black Students At Central High School In Little Rock, Arkansas
<view this essay>.... the United States. The problem in Little Rock was the fact that the citizens just did not want any kind of desegregation and they felt they had no say in the decision to change their way of life.
On September 4th, 1957, nine black students were sent to Central High School in Little rock, but instead of having troops to protect the first batch of integration, Governor Orvil Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the student from entering the school. The guards were literally lined up, guarding the door while hundreds of angry protesters attacked the students. Students and parents were shouting obscenities, spitting on the black stude .....
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Dead Sea Scrolls
<view this essay>.... ascetic communal agricultural life in that region between the 2nd century B.C. and 2nd century A.D. Parallels between the Qumran scrolls and the New Testament have led some scholars to suggest a tie between the Essenes and the early Christians, including the much-disputed suggestion that Jesus and John the Baptist may have The Dead been Essenes. More recent work by other archaeologists and biblical scholars has questioned the association of the scrolls with the Qumran ruins and the Essenes.
Here are some facts about the the Dea Sea Scrolls:The were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. The area is .....
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The Aztec Indians
<view this essay>.... to a might empire known as they Aztec Empire. People say the empire was partially formed by a deeply believed legend. As the the legend went it said that Aztec people would create a empire on in a swampy place where they would see an eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus which is growing out of a rock in the swamplands. This is what priests claimed they saw while entering the new land.
By the year 1325 Their capital city was finished. They called it Tenochtitlan. In the the capital city aqueducts (piping) were constructed, bridges were built, and chinapas were made. Chinapas were little islands formed by pilled up mud. On these chinapas Azt .....
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Salem Witch Trials
<view this essay>.... and niece, became sick. They had constant fits, twitched, cried, made odd noises, and huddled in corners. The family called in doctors, and they were treated for many illnesses. Nothing helped. Many weeks later after running out of reasons for their strange behavior, all of their symptoms seemed to lead to one belief, "The evil hand is upon them." They were possessed by the Devil. At first the families of the children could not find anyone to accuse for being the witch responsible for possessing the children. Then, late in February of 1692, Parris' neighbor, Mary Sibley recommended that Parris' slaves, Tituba and John Indian, should work a spell to try to .....
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Articles Of Confederation 4
<view this essay>.... the new system of government being of the same mold of their former, a monarchy, or even a dictatorship. There was one group of revolutionaries that supported a monarchy being formed. This faction was a section of the Continental Army called the Society of the Cincinnati. They urged the rise of George Washington, a veteran colonial general, as the country’s new king, but Washington refused. In an effort to subside the uproar of the common folk, and to prevent eventual isolation of sovereignty of national affairs unto one
person, the Articles granted each state exclusive governing powers over it’s own political matters. By doing this, the Articles p .....
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