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Lysistrata
<view this essay>.... the female lead character
of the play. It portrays Athenian Lysistrata and the women of Athens
teaming up with the women of Sparta to force their husbands to end the
Peloponnesian War.
To make the men agree to a peace treaty, the women seized the
Acropolis, where Athens' financial reserves are kept, and prevented the
men from squandering them further on the war. They then beat back an
attack on their position by the old men who have remained in Athens
while the younger men are out on campaign. When their husbands return
from battle, the women refuse to have sex with them. This sex strike,
which is portrayed in a series of (badly) exaggerated and bla .....
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Of 1911
<view this essay>.... human being didn’t mean anything. The hours were from 7:30 in the morning to 6:30 at night when it wasn’t busy. When the season was on, we worked until 9 o’clock. No overtime pay, not even supper money. There was a bakery in the garment center that produced little apple pies the size of an ashtray and that was what we got for our overtime instead of money.” That paragraph just blew me away when I first read it. I can’t imagine little, innocent, eight, nine, ten year olds working long hours in a very big, tough, factory. I find it to be very sad to see business tycoons putting little children to work. Another sad fact, “And when the inspectors came aroun .....
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The Constitution
<view this essay>.... line of the Preamble states, We the People of the United States... ." This implies that the new government that was being formed derived its sovereignty from the people, which would serve to prevent it from becoming corrupt and disinterested in the people, as the framers believed Britain's government had become. If the Bill of Rights is considered, more supporting ideas become evident. The First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom could have been influenced by the colonial tradition of relative religious freedom. This tradition was clear even in the early colonies, like Plymouth, which was formed by Puritan dissenters from England seeking religious f .....
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Art 4
<view this essay>.... criticized or revised by anyone other than ourselves. The arts play a valued role in creating cultures and developing and documenting civilizations. The arts teach us how to communicate through creative expression. Show us how to understand human experiences, past and present. Prepare us to adapt to and respect the ways others think, work, and express themselves. Music, singing, dancing, poetry, and sketching are just a few of the different forms of art that I use to express myself in a way that I enjoy. Because each art discipline appeals to different senses and expresses itself through different media, each adds a special richness to the learning environ .....
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The Hindenburg
<view this essay>.... Never had the sights and sounds of a disaster in progress been so graphically documented. Within a day, newspaper readers and theater audiences were confronted by fiery images of . Radio listeners heard the emotional words of newsman Herb Morrison, sobbing into his recorder, "It's burning, bursting into flames, and it's falling on the mooring mast and all the folks. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the world. . . . Oh, the humanity and all the passengers!(Marben 58)" When this floating cathedral, called , burst into a geyser of flaming hydrogen there was a tremendous impact on the public, although two thirds of the people on board survived. Two .....
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Reconstruction
<view this essay>.... Sharecropping was when a land owner gave a freedmen or poor white land and all the supplies for growing a crop. The land owner borrowed money from a carpetbagger, a greedy money lender, hoping he would earn enough money to pay back the carpetbagger(this is how he got all the supplies needed). Then the sharecropper plowed the land and performed all nessessary operations to make the land crop-worthy. He planted the seeds, harvested the crop, and gave land-owner part of the harvest. Therefore sharecropping replaced slavery, and most freedmen and poor whites went to this act, and remained under control of landowners.
Last but not least, carpetbaggers, from the .....
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Latin Literature In History
<view this essay>.... alongside Greek Literature, had a profound influence on the future History of Europe.
One important early innovator is Quintus Ennius. Called the father of Latin poetry, he wrote a number of comedies in Latin as well. In addition, Ennius adapted Greek dramas to the Roman stage, and published a historical epic on Rome from its beginnings to the present (=around 200 BC). His most notable successors, Pacuvius and Accius, would write tragedies that built on previously used Greek themes, but individualized them enough to call the works their own.
More is understood of early Roman comedy than of its drama, due to the amount of its existing copies. Two playwright .....
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Cooperative Pursuit
<view this essay>.... distinct electric convenience that you could enjoy
if you decide to form an electric co-op. Hot water not only allows simple
routines such as bathing to be more comfortable it is used to sanitize
your home as well as your articles of clothing. Thanks to the
modernization of preheated water, it is no longer necessary that water be
heated manually through backbreaking labor. All thanks to the arrival of a
hot water heater controlled by electricity.
Electrical lighting has unquestionably altered the average
household and will increase your farm productivity. With electricity it is
possible to make use of the entire day not just the daylight hours.
thereby increa .....
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