American History

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  • How Did Jackson Pollock Contribute To The Art World

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    His early art was influenced by Picasso, surrealism and Native American sand drawings, which involved approaching the art from all four sides while it was flat, something that Pollock would later utilize to make his paintings. He was a pioneer in the frontier of American abstract art. He made composition, gesture, line, and texture, the subject of each of his paintings. Robert Goodnough described Pollock's process

  • Essay On Serial Slavery

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    Indentured Servants into Racial Slavery The beginning of the consequential series of events that eventually lead to one of the worst treatments one man can inflict on another man, was chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was when a man or woman’s dignity was completely taken from them. This was done by the taking of their original name and given a new extremely literal one like “Slave” or “Property”. They were legally owned. They could be purchased, sold, and even inherited. Forced to leave families

  • Political Theory In The Past

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    political leaders of modernity advocated reason as a source of progress in the social change. Believing that with reason they can establish a fairly and justly social order in the form of the government that they encounter. Their beliefs also led to the American and French democratic revolution, the first and second world wars and the thinking of many philosophers and theorists in the contemporary world. The major themes in the modernity are democracy, fighting for the freedom and the individual. Modernity

  • Negative Influence Of Social Media

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    Internet is a form of new age media, it has changed our lives since the 1990s. With the appearance of internet, old print media is adapting to this new fashion technology. I can gather instant information from that massive resource database; it has made the world a smaller place. Young generations are tend to spend more time to explore on the internet, however internet intends to spread information from nowhere to everywhere, actually no specific groups are aimed at when massive messages are passing

  • Liberal Arts Degree Essay

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    Therefore, students will obtain a degree in literature, such as American or British Literature, if they want to become a teacher. A liberal arts degree will teach students about music, sculpture, fine arts and performing arts. Still, the unique field of philosophy is a liberal arts degree that students will pursue if they wish to work in higher educational organizations. Social sciences are a major liberal arts academic area. They include history, sociology, geography and political science. Finally, religion

  • Annotated Bibliography Essay

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    Appendix C Annotated Bibliography Abrami, P. C., Bernard, R. M., Bures, E. M., Borokhovski, E., & Tamim, R. (2010, July). Interaction in distance education and online learning: Using evidence and theory to improve practice. The Evolution from Distance Education to Distributed Learning. Symposium conducted at Memorial Union Biddle Hotel, Bloomington, IN. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12528-011-9043-x In a continuation of a meta-analysis of distance and online education, the authors explored “interactions:

  • Persuasive Essay On Mandatory Military Service

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    Mandatory Military Service (MMS) Many of the opinions of the present day admit not to resort to compulsory military service because this idea is not important and that it is far from human rights democracy, but mandatory military service has been present since ancient times. Each country has a strategy to turn civilian citizens into soldiers who are used at times War and fight for state protection. In ancient times, specifically in 221 BC, the Chinese Empire resorted to forced conscription and set

  • Women In Venus Of Urbino

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    Female nudes in domestic spaces are traditional subjects depicted throughout art history. Titian’s Venus of Urbino, painted during the Venetian Renaissance, features a nude in a home-like setting, engaging the viewer with a confident gaze and seductive gesture. Nude Figure by Firelight by Guy Rose, painted during the American Impressionist movement, depicts a red-haired woman in front of the fireplace, half of her body covered in blankets with her face turned away. Reclining Nude, an oil painting

  • 1920's Inventions

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    ranged from ones to give pleasure, such as the Jungle gym, to ones which kept people healthy, such as the electric ventilator and bandaids to ones which made life easier, such as the Hoover Machine. The inventions of the 1920’s revolutionized the American way of life. Maybe the most ‘fun’ invention in the early 1920’s prevailed as the jungle gym, introduced in 1920 to an elementary school in Winnetka, Illinois. Sebastian Hinton, the maker of the jungle gym, went to dinner with Carleton Washburne,

  • Slavery In Colonial America

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    The slave trade begins with Portuguese and some Spanish traders taking African slaves to the American colonies then taking the slaves through the middle passage across the Atlantic to sell them in the west indies and North America. In the early 15th century European traders started to sell slaves. They charged into towns to capture Africans. Some