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- 1731: All Quiet On The Western Front
- All quiet on the western front, by erich maria remarque, shows some very powerful views toward the Great War. The main character , Paul Baumer, goes through an incredible metamorphsis from an innocent dreamer to a hardened and somewhat cynical veteran. Paul's views started out as being slightly against the war, but not ... seem to mind staying at base camp and hanging out iwth his friends very much. However, after some time fighting the war, he comes to realize that most pre-war society doesn't understand the Great War for what it was. They don't understand the suffering and misery that went witgh wars, and especially trench warfare like that in the Great War. paul disassociates himself from his parents, old school firends, and even religions because they remind him of his pre-enlistmentdays, when he was one of the innocents who iddn't realize what the ...
- 1732: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
- Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis In this report I compare two great historical figures: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, steered the Union to victory in the American Civil War and abolished slavery, and the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. Abraham ... is praised for his excellence in leading the troops to fight for the independence of slaves. The Civil War marked the end of slavery forever. Lincoln ranked first of 31 presidents: best of the 5 "great" presidents, he ranked above George Washington(DeGregorio 232-240). No man in American history had to face heavier odds and greater discouragement's than Jefferson Davis. He had been called the man who symbolized the ... stronger presidents with all the difficulties he ran into. The decisions were very critical and were thought out with extreme care. By Lincoln serving as president, we prospered in many ways. His actions brought about great challenges that he, and the following fathers of our country would go through. The combining of both races and more freedoms would stir troubles for many years to come. Although his actions stopped slavery, ...
- 1733: The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
- ... be used as an important military centre for the Allied lines and all troops left for the front line through the Menin Gate. In 1917, the area of Flanders to the east of Ypres had great strategic importance because it was dominated by a German occupied ridge from the East to the South of Ypres. This was the only high ground in a flat, featureless plain and, if the British could ... ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge from the enemy. The German position in Belgium would be outflanked and their industrial heartland in the Ruhr would be under threat. U-boats were operating out of Zeebrugge with great success and the Admiralty was increasingly gloomy about what would happen in the English Channel if the Belgium ports were not closed to the enemy. Pressure had consequently been put on Field Marshal Haig to ... at Messines and the blade sweeping round Ypres with Passchendaele at the tip and this ridge dominated the battle area. The Steenbeeck was one of a number of insignificant little streams that were to achieve great importance, after shelling and rain transformed them into an insurmountable barrier across the axis of the attack, because of the bog created by the shelling. Although Haig had been warned about this, he hoped ...
- 1734: Roberto Baggio
- ... in May of 1985 Vicenza sold Roberto to Fiorentina of the serie A. The world famous ponytail was first seen on the pitch in 1987. The following year Roberto really got noticed. With such a great year, he was called up in November 1988 for his first international match. At the end of the season Roberto married Andreina, his long time girlfriend, in their hometown of Caldogno. At the end of ... a then record fee of 17 million dollars. Before Roberto made his first appearance for Juve, he was called to play for the Italian national team in world cup '90 in Italy. Roberto had a great first year in Juventus where he played in 33 matches in the 1990- 91 serie. In that same year his wife gave birth to their first child, Valentina, on December 2 1990. 1992-93 was Roberto's best year. He also lead Juventus to the UEFA Cup in that year. It was Roberto's first major trophy. He continued his great play the next season, 1993-94, when he got his one hundredth serie A goal vs Genoa in October. Roberto was awarded the Golden Ball trophy as Europe's best player, and the sports ...
- 1735: Egypt 3
- ... in 1922 of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings and its exquisite treasures will be offered. The Old Kingdom, from about 4000 to 2280 B.C., was the age of the great pyramids such as Cheops (wonder of the ancient world), Chefren, and Mycerinus. Also on the Giza plateau is the largest freestanding statue in Egypt, the Sphinx. The Sphinx was a sculpture of a lion’s ... like all the changes that were taking place. Throughout all three kingdoms there were a total of 330 monarch, starting with Menes and ending with Cleopatra. These monarchs were referred to as pharaohs which means "Great House." Pharaohs came from a dynasty, where successive Pharaohs came from one family (incest was common.) A Pharaoh was the political leader and a living Egyptian god. They were believed to have command over nature ... the most important pharaohs were the following: Narmer because he politically and economically united upper and lower Egypt. Cheops because he ordered and financed construction of the world’s largest pyramid. Then there was the great warrior, Ramesses II, who built colossal statues at Abu Simbel, temple of Thebes. He had eight wives, 100 concubines, and fathered 82 to 162 children. Next, there was Amenhotep III. He constructed the temple ...
- 1736: Lorraine Hansberry
- ... Robeson and Langston Hughes. They were her "shining light" so to speak. Especially when it came time for her to find her own place in the New York literary world (Cheney 36). Paul Robeson provided great inspiration for Lorraine’s writings. On the other hand, Langston Hughes gave her a social consciousness of her poetic possibilities of her own race. He also gave her an appreciation of the black American culture ... in Sidney Brustein’s Window." This play never matched the success of her first play "A Raisin in the Sun." This play did use a realistic format that was drawn from her own life (Magill, Great Women…201). Lorraine wrote at least five plays. All of which revealed the depth of her concern for the black race and for all of the downtrodden races in America and abroad (Cheney 52). Lorraine ... used a realistic style and had a stress on the possibilities for heroism. This stress for heroism within each of her characteristics had everything to do with the purpose that she saw in drama (Magill, Great Women…200) The majority of Lorraine’s works were about the black family of her time. She showed many important characteristics in each piece. Some of which were the importance of African roots, the ...
- 1737: WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS EXPAND
- ... beckoning. Despite the presence of hundreds of Indian nations with rich and distinct cultures, who had populated the land for thousands of years-from the desert of the Southwest and the grassy prairies of the Great Plains to the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains and the salty beaches of the Pacific Coast-Americans considered the west to be an empty wilderness. And in less than fifty years, from the 1803 ... the north along with the south and the east with the west. "Geographically, they (the states) lay on the line of natural routes between the Atlantic on the one side, and the Ohio and the Great Lakes on the other"(Turner 10). Compared to New England, this section was rapidly growing region. By 1830, New York had already equaled the total population of entire New England combined. Eventually, New York and ... undertaking: "As a bond of union between the Atlantic and western states, it may prevent the dismemberment of the American Empire. As an organ of communication between the Hudson, the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, the great lakes of the north and west, and their tributary rivers, it will create the greatest inland trade ever witnessed"(Turner 32-33). By 1825, the great canal system opened. With the decrease in transportation ...
- 1738: Rick Pitino
- Success is a Choice By Rick Pitino w/ Bill Reynolds The book that I read is about a great coach, and an unbelievable motivator, Rick Pitino. Pitino is most remembered for his incredible years as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. In 1996 he led them to a national championship and in 1997 he ... to Pitino, that is easily changed. All you need to do is remember that you control your mood, even If the team you have isn't the best team in the world, anybody can be great if they are just motivated correctly. The next idea that he has changed of mine is the idea of role models. I have always been the one to choose a great superstar as a role model, but they are not the people that I plan to mimic my life after. I need to find somebody that is doing something at the level that I want ...
- 1739: Act Of Courage (jim Abbott)
- ... and I set up our starters and the whistle blew. After the first half we were up 2-1, I had a goal and an assist. Justin had played about half the game with no great plays so far. The coach moved me back to defense for the second half in hope that I would protect our lead. For the next 30 minutes, the game was about even; each team was ... Profiles in Courage. John F. Kennedy expounded that courage is a diamond with many facets. (Kennedy 7) Kennedy exemplifies courage with intelligence, far-sightedness, and reason. In his foreword, Allen Nevins says, Moral courage is great and admirable in itself; but it must be pointed out that it almost never appears except as part of that greater entity called character. A man without character may give fitful exhibitions of courage But ... with the other traits, which make up character: honesty, deep seriousness, a firm sense of principal, candor, and resolution. (Nevins XVII) Jim Abbott personifies a man possessing both physical and moral courage. His character portrays great determination as well as integrity. Jim Abbott never lets his disability get the best of him. He stays positive and sees it as a challenge to overcome instead of a wall to thwart him ...
- 1740: Buddhist Art--two Periods Of B
- ... distinctly different styles of sculpture. While Mathuran art developed from local Indian artistic traditions, Gandharan sculptures were heavily influenced by the artistic traditions of the Hellenistic world, most probably as a result of Alexander the Great's colony in Bactria (western Afghanistan). Mathura school sculptures often share iconographic features with their Kusana-period counterparts in the northwest. But for the most part, they reveal a purely Indic stylistic heritage that must ... made from the material schist. According to the book The Materials of Sculpture, Schist is a metamorphic rock of foliate character and dark silvery gray color, sometimes tending to blue or green. Used for the great school of Buddhist sculpture in Gandhara (Penny 310). The hard schist material allowed the sculptors of Gandhara to carve the folds of the garments and details of features and jewelry much more crisply and with ... gold sparkles across the image. This sculpture obviously has foreign influence when we observe the long wavy thick hair, the heavy robe and sandals. This seemed to be some of the influences via Alexander the Great s conquering pathways of trade. The princely bearing of the figure is emphasized by the powerful, fleshy torso, the rounded breasts and abdomen, and the long, wavy hair. The strong, round chin, straight nose, ...
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