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- 221: The Internet Revolution
- The Internet Revolution Now, with the click of a button, consumers are buying just about anything imaginable, and all from the convenience of the internet. People no longer have to leave their homes, work or where ever there ... the internet. However, convergence is the new religion ( The Real 53). Big companies are changing the business world as we see it through the internet. June 1, Merrill Lynch announced it was joining the internet revolution and would begin selling stocks for $29.95 a trade (Cropper 60). A division of the Sabre Holdings Company of Fort Worth, Texas and Preview Travel, an exclusive partner of America Online, announced they were ... merging to form one of the nations largest internet commerce sites with an expected revenue of nearly one billion dollars (Jones C-7). Companies are merging and joining the internet all out of the internet revolution craze. The internet is revolutionizing the way the world is doing business through faster, easier and more direct consumer access to their desired companies. Of course, such direct contact to these companies means that ...
- 222: Animal Farm: Historically And Politically Allegorized As The Russian Revolution
- Animal Farm: Historically And Politically Allegorized As The Russian Revolution George Orwell’s, Animal Farm, is historically and politically allegorized as the Russian revolution. The characters and events are allegorically related to the Russian revolution by which the similarities between them are corresponding. With Mr. Jones as Nicholas II, Old Major as Karl Marx, Boxer as the Proletariats, Napoleon as Stalin, Snowball as Trotsky, The Battle of the Cowshed ...
- 223: Essay And Opinion On The Way O
- ... Buel Jr. : In the Book the Way of Duty, the life and hardships of Mary Fish Silliman is described with remarkable detail and conveys an understanding of this woman, and other women, during the American Revolution. Many lives, not just those of women were immensely disturbed and changed during this period in time. Mary’s experience touches upon several of the issues the people of this time went through in an ... of us unfamiliar with life during these times of struggle can obtain a better understanding. Understanding the past is indispensable in order to understand and assess the present. Though everyone who was exposed to the revolution was greatly impacted, women’s societal roles were impacted the most in my humble opinion. In responding to the Linda K. Kerber statement I agree that the war was a traumatic nightmare for women as ... while their men were away; this meant assuming all duties of the family not just those patterned around the household. Kerber’s condensed statement is a general evaluation of how women were influenced during the revolution overall. And unknowingly it is practically an immediate parallel to Mary Fish’s life at that time as well. Mary’s capability to defeat a long span of severe depression due to being overwhelmed ...
- 224: Animal Farm
- Pig in the Middle (of the Russian Revolution) The content of the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is satirical to the Russian Revolution. The narrative is developed by means of an establishment of events that correlate directly to changes that occurred in Russia [mainly] in the early 1900's. The events and characters in the book are comparative to important figures and affairs in the Russian Revolution. Although Orwell wrote the book to clearly reflect that distinct era, this novel can also be viewed as an allegory on any revolution Through this generalized approach to the presentation of the novel, Orwell ...
- 225: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... stroboscopic disk and projected with a magic lantern to reproduce an image of the horse in motion. Muybridge shot hundreds of such studies and went on to lecture in Europe, where his work intrigued the French scientist E. J. MAREY. Marey devised a means of shooting motion photographs with what he called a photographic gun.^Edison became interested in the possibilities of motion photography after hearing Muybridge lecture in West Orange ... tricks of all: simply by stopping the camera, adding something to the scene or removing something from it, and then starting the camera again, he made things seem to appear and disappear. Early English and French filmmakers such as Cecil Hepworth, James Williamson, and Ferdinand Zecca also discovered how rhythmic movement (the chase) and rhythmic editing could make cinema's treatment of time and space more exciting. American Film in the ... the 1920s relied heavily on the striking visual qualities of the northern landscape. Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom mixed this natural imagery of mountains, sea, and ice with psychological drama and tales of supernatural quests. French cinema, by contrast, brought the methods and assumptions of modern painting to film. Under the influence of SURREALISM and dadaism, filmmakers working in France began to experiment with the possibility of rendering abstract perceptions ...
- 226: Bolshevik Revolution
- Bolshevik revolution The Bolshevik revolution occurred in November of 1917, its aim was to create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided ... a subdivision of the Russian Social Democrat Party, able to impose their will upon the whole of the former Russian Empire by 1923? " Certainly, the Bolsheviks were an obscure and radical political party before the revolution of March 1917, and played little part in the overthrow of the Tsar. They did however see it as a step towards the dictatorship of the proletariat. "The Marxists found themselves in the paradoxical ...
- 227: A Reborn Nation by a New Democracy (Mao Tse-Tung)
- ... altogether, to shift it into an entire reformed nation. He wants the ignorant old culture to be enhanced into innovative China (Tse-Tung, 1). A significant turning point took place in China’s bourgeois-democratic revolution after the wide spread of the first imperialist world war in 1914 and the founding of a socialist state on one-sixth of the globe as a result of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. The Chinese revolution has changed greatly since the Chinese bourgeois-democratic revolution came within the old category of the bourgeois-democratic world revolution. Portions of the proletarian-socialist world revolution are caused by the alignment of the ...
- 228: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- Nicolas Poussin and Roman Influences in France The city and art of Rome had an enormous impact on the French Baroque Classical artist Nicolas Poussin and through him an effect on French art and artists in the following centuries. Poussin was greatly influenced by the classical ideals of Italian art and flourished in the art-loving city of Rome that encouraged a young artist to explore his ... any time in Rome, it has been said that his successful artistic career actually began with his arrival in the city. While there, he served many Roman patrons but was also increasingly sought after by French patrons. Because of this he was able to influence the tastes of French patrons which in turn heavily impacted the future of French art itself. Poussin subsequently influenced diverse French artists, as Anthony Blunt ...
- 229: The Closing of the American Revolution
- The Closing of the American Revolution Upon the closing of the American Revolution, the Americas were deemed an independent nation. Wartime efforts had drawn whites, blacks, Native Americans, noblemen, merchants, men, women, and others together in an attempt to gain freedom from a tyrannical British government. Under a common goal, these different social and ethnic groups worked along side one another to establish victory in achieving a nation of self-rule. As a direct result of the American Revolution, ideals and beliefs about America’s social and political hierarchies were drastically changed forever. When the first gunshot of the revolution was fired on April 19, 1775 in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, ...
- 230: American Revolution 4
- ... as common as the changing of the seasons. Usually, revolutions come a bout from a radical sect of people would disagree with the status quo and rebel, sometimes very violently, against their government. The American Revolution stands apart from these because it was a conservative revolution, one that people rebel against their government for disrupting the status quo. The conservative nature of the American Revolution is evident when the areas of politics, social change, and economics are examined. The colonists' response to British actions in the area of politics definitely illustrates the conservative attitude of the colonies towards most ...
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