American History

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  • Andy Warhol: The Conundrums Of Abstract Expressionism

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    It is one of the numerous conundrums of Abstract Expressionism that the foundations of the development lie in the metaphorical painting of the 1930s. Most of the artists who might later get to be abstract painters in New York in the 1940s and 1950s were stamped by the experience of the Great Depression, and they came to development whilst painting in styles affected by social authenticity and the Regionalist development. By the late 1940s most had deserted those styles, yet they gained much from

  • Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Compote And Glass

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    What is cubism in general? Many mistakenly defined the term an abstract arrangement of shapes painted in gradient colors piece of paint. Cubism refers to an art movement invented in the early 20th centuries by Picasso Pablo which later George Braque join in, a two-dimensional paint which includes inclusion of geometric angles, lines, shapes usually associated with forms and when formed, it is there to posses an independent geometric shape, as quoted by Marius De Zayas. It is a series of analysis

  • Importance Of A Lesson Plan

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    A lesson plan is a teacher's design for teaching a lesson. Its purpose is to sketch the "programme" for a single lesson. It supports the teacher in both scheduling and implementing the lesson. And it assistances the learners by safeguarding that they acquire a concrete lesson with a start, a middle and an end, that targets to benefit them acquire some precise thing that they didn't identify at the beginning of the lesson. So a lesson plan is the teacher's escort for a particular lesson, and it comprises

  • Informative Speech About Civil War

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    How many of you know about the civil war going on in Syria? The purpose of my speech here is to inform you about what’s happening in Syria right now and what the reasons for this war are. Not very long ago, Syria used to be this beautiful country, where people from all over the world went to visit. Syria used to have this beautiful Islamic Architecture and was one of the countries that combined the modern and old art in one place. My father went to Syria in 2008 and he amazed by the beauty of this

  • Malala Yousafzai Short Story

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    My dearest friends, today morning when I switched on my radio (Just out of bed), I heard the news of an amazing girl Malala Yousafzai, who have been awarded a Nobel prize. I previously heard about this girl risking her life by an attempt to fight for equal education opportunity to children of both Genders. That is not all that amazed me, but the fact that she was just 11-12 years old gave me a series of imagination of what I could have achieved at the present moment of my life. Poor girl’s life was

  • Black Spain Film Analysis

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    Spanish movies are mostly known because of their narrative techniques which means caring about the flowing of the story and also observation on characters in detailed rather than giving visual effects like Hollywood do. Spain cinema has been improved around 40 years after the era of the dictator Francis Franco which briefly called as ‘Black Spain’. During Franco was in power, it was almost impossible for Spain to keep their cinema alive and for talented directors to express themselves freely under

  • I M Your Teacher Not Your Internet-Service Provider Ellen Laird Analysis

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    Algebra, Spanish, World History, Chemistry, English Literature are just some of the myriad of dishes being served on online education buffets. Students are free to pile their plates high with the sciences, the arts, the languages, and countless other subjects due to the growing trend of distance learning courses offered through the Web. Teachers, however, are becoming more dissatisfied with distance learning methods and remain adamant about face to face courses; in response to the competition between

  • Becoming A Teacher Essay

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    Every teacher ,. no doubt devotes his or her life to education for reasons as individual to them as any other part of their identity. Still, it usually isn’t the money, and it isn’t the three-month summer vacation. Reasons for becoming a teacher are more deeper than that, and while they are personal, they are almost all united by the desire to impact peoples’ lives. There is a demand for great teachers in this country, and a person is called to become a teacher in response to that need. So

  • Catherine The Great: Ivan The Great, Ivan The Terrible

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    the first tsar of the Russian Empire, Ivan the Terrible In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great stated in one of private letters that Russian people and other nationalities in the Russian Empire needed one strong leader (Alexander 135). The history proved her right: before, during and after Catherine’s the Great reign, the Russian Empire had always had one iron-handed ruler. For example, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great herself were all despots. Their absolute power

  • Magritte's Juuxtaposition Of Art

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    TEXT AND IMAGES Furthermore, Magritte’s juxtaposition of text and images has influenced designs that are catchy and raise awareness (Pincas & Loiseau, 2008, p.55). Magritte used a variety of techniques of such juxtaposition, the most popular one being in ‘the Treachery of Images – Ceci n’set pas une pipe”. Created in 1929, this oil painting questions “reality and appearances” (Pincas & Loiseau, 2008, p.55). Here he created a unique arrangement that is “difficult to associate with any art –historical