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- 11341: Mankind As A Problem
- ... their power and intellect for the wrong reasons throughout history and have gone without punishment for far too long. The human race is the biggest dark spot on this rather beautiful planet, and, hopefully, one day soon will be removed.
- 11342: Civil War 2
- ... course this expansion minimized the escape of gas, which increased its range. The Union could have taken advantage of the machine gun but, again were reluctant to try new weapons. In June of 1861 J.D. Mills showed President Lincoln his machine gun. It was mounted on wheels and had a tray that held cartridges which dropped into the rotating cylinder as one turned a crank. Lincoln called it "a coffee ...
- 11343: Chuck Close
- ... mostly in the hair how it just curls around, down into the face it make you look everywhere. The mood of this piece is very dull the woman looks like she's had a rough day, and is tired. The focal point is the woman's face where it is not blurred. This piece is asymmetrically balanced. This piece is a self-portrait done with oil on canvas; the entire thing ...
- 11344: Underground Railroad
- ... the slaves went up very quickly. Abolition Societies began to form, and along with religious groups became active in helpin gslaves to freedom. The "Railroad" beggan to take shape. A shape that is to this day very hard to describe. Traks were laid to aide the slaves to freedom. People talked in secrecy to make safe paths for the slaves to run on. These were the tracks. Letters were sent that ...
- 11345: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ... total rest drove her close to insanity, she was cured by removing herself physically from her home, husband, and finally her daughter, and by taking part in and writing about the social movements of the day. Later in life she married her first cousin, George Gilman, and again suffered from depression though not as severely as she had suffered throughout her first marriage. Using her life experiences as a female within ...
- 11346: Charles Darwin
- ... combined his thoughts with Wallace's and presented them to a meeting of the Linnaean Society. The following year Darwin published "The Origin of Species." This book was a success; it sold out the first day that it was printed. Along with the book's success came much controversy. It took several years for the scientific community to begin to accept Darwin's ideas. Toward the later years of his life ...
- 11347: Causes Of World War 2
- ... silenced. This caused many things to happen to Italy's social and economic problems. The first of these problems was the lowered living standard of the Italian people. The people lost their eight hour work day protection and their wages were lowered by the government. Mussolini acknowledged that the living standard had gone down, but explained it by saying that the Italian people were not used to eating much anyway, so ...
- 11348: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... election of 1860 was exactly what put many Southern states over the edge. On December 19, 1860, a convention was held at St. Andrew's Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, to vote on secession. One day later on December 20, 1860, the delegates voted by a unanimous 169-0 vote in favor of secession. " The union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States ...
- 11349: Causes And Effects Of World Wa
- ... War might have been avoided if Serbia had excepted Austria- Hungary s harsh ultimatum, however they faithfully refused. Almost at once the war fell into place. Austria declared war on July 28, 1914. The next day Russia mobilized against Austria- Hungary, on August 1st Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later on France. When Germany disregarded Belgium s neutrality, Britain declared war on Germany. Finally war had begun, and ...
- 11350: Cambodia And United Nations
- ... came in and made the two opposing people both prime Ministers so that there would be no conflict. This started on an internationally supervised election in 1993. Cambodia gained its independence on November 1953. This day is it s national holiday. The capital of country capital of Cambodia is Phnom Penh. The national flag has a blue background with a temple in the middle. A picture of it is on the ...
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