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- 6501: Biography of Andy Warhol
- ... Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker and did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York." Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In these early years, he ...
- 6502: Voodoo Research Paper
- ... ancestreal lines of faith, both aspects being of primary concerns in African religions. These services were effective in blending the rites and practices of many religions into one combination religion. This adaption effectively created a new religion, Voodoo, which translates to "spirit" in several African languages. This new religion gave the slaves a since of alliance with their nieghboring slaves and, with that alliance, a since of community. This new found unity was viewed as a threat to the French and Brittish plantation owners of the newly settled colonies. As a means to quell the religious unity, the plantation owners forbid the practice of ...
- 6503: Privatisation Of Telstra
- ... connection and service times. Recent changes to the charging regime for community calls will impact on costs, particularly for small business, in rural and regional areas. (One in three rural customers were denied connections to new services ~ SMH 5/2/99) Rural and regional customers also suffered the biggest fall in standards for repairing faults. The Telstra Communications Network is also set to suffer shutdowns along the lines of the power ... suboptimal" in a business sense ie: Telstra's activities exceed what it would have undertaken in a free market. This has given it one of the worst staff to phone line ratios in the advanced world. After 15 months of negotiations with the Communications Electrical and Plumbers Union (CEPU), the standardisation of ordinary hours for full time employees, introduction of 3 main work streams and the extension of shift arrangements to ... driving the deepening assault on workers' conditions, which will only accelerate as time goes on. Unlike the subjects of privatisation in the past, Telstra operates as a monopoly with extensive community service obligations. Under a new board of directors who favour privatisation, some of these obligations have also been neglected. To date, ACCC (The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) has issued 4 notices against Telstra in respect of the "commercial ...
- 6504: Endangered Species In Canada
- ... wild habitat is kept intact so that the creatures living on it will remain undisturbed. Today there are more that 400 National Wildlife Refuges in Canada and 3,500 wildlife parks and refuges around the world (pg 16, Silverstein). The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) was a giant step toward helping endangered animals (defined as animals that are in danger of becoming extinct) as well as threatened animals (those that may become endangered if they are not protected)in Canada and around the world. It established a program that brings together the federal government, the states, conservation groups, individuals, business and industry, and foreign governments in a cooperative effort to save endangered wildlife. The ESA restricts the killing, collection ... like this help make re- introduction programs successful. Scientists are quick to remind us that endangered animals may be a valuable resource in the future. When wildlife species are threatened or wiped out, the whole world loses. People in Canada and many other countries are concerned not only about their own endangered animals but also about those in developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Many species that share ...
- 6505: Racism Related To The Novel Ja
- ... The novel relayed the issue of racism to its beginnings and to how it is today. Although, at that time black males regaurded jazz as the essence of the Harlem Renaissance, the age of the New Negro, for many black women it represented the disenchantment of urban life. The age that emphasized reacial pride and equality but often overshadowed black women s equality. In the novel, examples from Joe and Violet ... racism can be compared to Toni Morrison s dealings, how and when racism got its start, and how it is today. In Jazz, Joe and violet were intially dazzeled by the prospect of life in New York, the center of the age of the New Negro. They were people enthalled, the decived in Jazz, by the music. The images of the music were encompased in the young girl Dorcss, whom Joe fell in love with despite his attachement to ...
- 6506: Survival (on The Book Night)
- The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive ... time, during an air raid, when two half-full cauldrons of soup were left unguarded in a path. Despite their hunger, the prisoners were too frightened for their lives to even touch the cauldrons. One brave man dragged himself to the cauldrons intending to drink some of the forbidden soup. Before he could so much as take a small taste of the soup, he was shot, and he fell to ...
- 6507: Two Inventions That Changed European History
- Two Inventions That Changed European History Over the course of world history, there have been many factors that have changed the course of Western European history. Two of those main factors were the inventions of the chest harness for the horse and the three-field system ... the use of the power and speed of the horse. This change came about in the early 900s. An invention was made that allowed the harness to be placed around the horses chest. This new invention prevented horses from being strangled, which allowed for faster plowing and greater food production. Around the same time as the chest harness invention, medieval villagers were organizing their land into a two field system ... the production of food because only half of the field was being used. This system of agriculture needed some minor adjustments to increase the production of food without destroying the soil in the process. This new system came about around the year 800. Farmers began to use a new system, the three-field system, to farm their crops. The three field system used one large field like its earlier ...
- 6508: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French Revolution . He went back and forth between Paris and Ajaccio, working for the Republic. Napoleon rose quickly through the ranks and became a captain in 1792. In ... great deal, but it can do nothing for you. Your patience and courage do you honor, but give you neither worldly goods nor glory. I shall lead you into the most fertile plains in the world where you will find big cities and wealthy provinces. You will win honor, fame and riches. Soldiers of the Army of Italy! Could courage and constancy possibly fail you?" Once Napoleon took over it didn ... Britannica Junior Encyclopedia #11 N-O). On March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine and two days later left to command the army that was fighting the Austrians in Italy. On April 10 he started a new campaign, and with a series of clever movements he split the opposing Austrian army into three separate groups. Napoleon then defeated each one of them. This was first example of his rules of war, " ...
- 6509: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... could collapse into severe depression, lose hope, and lose meaning. He can build a morbid outlook on life. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered these things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a new nation just beginning. Just about eight years later, his father would no longer be with him, as William Emerson died in 1811. The Emerson family was left to a life marked by poverty. Ralph' ...
- 6510: Nothing
- ... the University of Mississippi. Although Estelle loved Faulkner, she gave in to her parents' wishes. Estelle's marriage affected Faulkner deeply. He decided to join the Army in 1917, just as the United States entered World War I. But the Army rejected him because he was too short. Pretending to be British- that's why he put the "u" back in the family name- Faulkner talked his way into the Royal ... poems were about Estelle, who by now had children and lived in the Far East. Encouraged by a friend, Faulkner sent his poems to magazines, and they began to be published. He lived briefly in New York, where he worked in a bookstore. But the city he liked best was New Orleans. He spent time there, getting to know other writers and artists, and wrote Soldiers' Pay, his first novel, there. During the 1920s, many American writers went to live in Paris, where they could ...
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