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- 3331: Joan Of Arc 3
- ... who became a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church because of her great achievements. Joan was a simple peasant girl who rescued France from defeat in one of the darkest periods of the "Hundred years' war" with England. She led the French army to victory against the English and paved the way for the coronation of King Charles VII. Joan has become one of the most admired characters in European history. As France was struggling during the Hundred years' war, a young peasant girl was born in the small town of Domr้my. Joan was born on January 6, 1412, which was a very unstable time for France. The English and Burgundians ruled much of the ... the last of Joan. In 1456 a second trial was held and she was declared innocent of the charges against her. In 1475, King Louis XI signed a treaty with England and the Hundred years' war was finally over. Joan's place in history is assured. She never lived to see the victory she earned; however, as the years went by, Joan became known as France's national heroine and ...
- 3332: What Role Will Poetry Play In
- ... in greeting cards or an entertaining role like in operas and plays. However we must not forget the most diverse sort of poetry, poetry books! Poetry are written on serious subjects like death, love and war or such trivial things as amoebas, teenage spots, old slippers or farmyard animals (are teenage spots really trivial?!). Poetry is extremely accessible. From the moment we are born we are exposed to nursery rhymes like ... expression it gives poets the chance to convey their feelings in a way that prose cannot compete with. It also gives us the chance to experience their feelings. A good example of this is the War poets who changed our thoughts and feelings on war. I can t believe that anyone who has read a poem like Dolce et Decorum est could not feel moved. Because of the different roles of poetry today there are many opportunities for poets ...
- 3333: Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda
- Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience. To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of war. Never, before the career of D.W. Griffith had anyone attempted to bring the subject to film. The result of his efforts, weaknesses aside, mark a change in attitude towards film as a media. Perhaps ... scene where two gentlemen are talking, and as the camera pans down, we see a puppy struggling with a kitten. This is another strong example of symbolism; however, even more importantly it foreshadows the coming war. It is expertly placed to add to the building tension between sides which the audience already knows results in confrontation. Its placement reflects Griffiths desire to advance the complexity and diversity of film beyond ...
- 3334: The Life of Walt Disney
- ... took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross during World War I. Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first ... critics claimed they weren't true to life, many people liked them. Disney was the first person to make nature films and some of them received well deserved Academy Awards.11 A strike and World War II put Disney Studios deeply in debt. Many of Disney's animators went on strike because they felt weren't being payed enough for the long hours they worked.12 During World War II, Disney Studios wasn't the only organization that needed money. Henry Morgenthau asked Disney to make a movies to encourage citizens to their taxes. The movies that Walt Disney made starred Donald Duck. ...
- 3335: Yasir Arafat
- ... that he was born in Cairo, Egypt. His full name is: Mohammad Abdel-Raouf Arafat AL-Qudwa Al-Husseini. He acquired the nickname Yasir which means easygoing as a teenager. He earned a degree in civil engineering at Cario University, in Egypt. In the 1950's Arafat helped organize Arab Guerrilla groups including, AL Faith, now part on the PLO bases. Arafat addressed the UN general Assembly in 1974, and the ... s rights to exist. Bur in 1988, Arafat persuaded the PLO it accept Israel's rights to exist along side an independent Palestinian state in territories in Palestine Israel had occupied after 1967 arab-isreali war. The territories are the Gaza strip and the west bank. the PLO declared the existence of the state and elected Arafat it's president. But Israel continued to occupy and in effect govern the area ...
- 3336: Jomo Kenyatta
- ... Rabin fought with Palmach, a Jewish commando unit, against British authorities in Palestine. Jailed by the British in mid- 1946, he was released in early 1947 and helped lead the defense of Jerusalem in the War of Independence (1947-1949). Rabin then rose through the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces, becoming chief of staff in 1964. After the Six-Day War (1967) he retired from the military and served as ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973. He entered the Knesset (parliament) as a Labor member in January 1974; by May he had succeeded ... the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva, and recognized Israel's right to exist, thus meeting a pivotal U.S. condition for substantive dialogue with the PLO. His support for Iraq during the Persian Gulf War eroded his international standing, especially with most Arab governments in the Gulf. In a startling development, after secret negotiations, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to the signing of a peace accord ...
- 3337: Concentration Camps
- A concentration camp is where prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and political prisoners are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions, or place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions. The first concentration camps were established in 1933 for confinement of opponents of ... the air. They are at Birkenau, the second part of the Auschwitz complex, called by some "the mother of all concentration camps. The manpower to build the camp came from 200,000 Russian prisoners of war who were forced to march from Russia to a camp at Lamsdord without any food. During these early days the Russians received more abuse than the Polish prisoners because they were more feared for their ... 1939--was agreed on as the method of choice. Zyclon was originally brought to Auschwitz as a disinfectant and vermin killer. On September 3, 1941, Fritzsch experimented with Zyclon B. on 600 Russian prisoners of war and 250 tubercular patients. He was amazed at the number of people who could be killed at once. On October 15, 1941, a plan for the future camp of Birkenau, designed by one of ...
- 3338: The Feminine Mystique
- ... to fit a certain role as a little girl, an uneducated and unemployed teenager, and finally as a wife and mother who is to happily clean the kitchen and cook things all day. After World War II, a lot of women's organizations began to appear with the goal of bringing the issues of equal rights into the limelight. The stereotype even came down to the color of a woman's ... lot of strong movements and the Gay Rights Movement was one of the many that came out of this decade. Gaining a lot of momentum from the ideas of acceptance and equality sparked by the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Rights Movement set out to achieve acceptance in the general population. A primary historical event involving homosexuality is the Stonewall Riot which grew out of a police raid in a gay ...
- 3339: Analysis Of Beloved By Toni Mo
- ... America for years. The topic of slavery continues to be a vital part of the American consciousness today, in addition, slavery as an institution was a part of American culture as a whole until the Civil War, and its repercussions on race relations are still being felt today. The genre of the survivor's tale is one way that contemporary authors can depict and discuss this formative American experience. Beloved is the ...
- 3340: Communism
- ... but the majority of industry was made property of the people, which meant the majority of the means of production was controlled by the government. Lenin's government made many achievements. It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Tsarist military system and established institutions in government. During this period, censorship and the subordination of interest groups such as trade unions was imposed to stop dissension and increase ...
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