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- 2211: Betsy Ross
- ... Spencer). Betsy also wanted the flag to be a rectangle instead of a square. Betsy went to work on the flag. It was presented to and accepted by Congress on June 14, 1777. Just one short day before she was to marry her second husband. A short time before she met her soon-to-be second husband, Joseph Ashburn, the first mate of the Brigantine Patty and was wed to him on June 15, 1777 (3. Compton's Encyclopedia). Joseph and Betsy ...
- 2212: Bauhaus
- ... their appearance and behavior. The fact that women were aloud in the school and the classes were not segregated was a very modern step for the school. This influenced the women to wear their hair short and dress modern. They were being viewed as being too radical for Weiner. They were becoming more and more isolated from the community. (Boedie). In April 1925, the Thuringer government withdrew its economic support for ... been devastated with environmental problems from the industry. The school is looking for new solutions to deal with these problems and redevelop the housing in the decaying city (Huovio). Although this period of art was short lived, because of the political turmoil of Europe, new media and technologies emerged from the Bauhaus that changed advanced art. The most lasting influence is in applied design in industry. "Everyone sitting on a chair ...
- 2213: Back In My Day
- ... about it, violence that extreme has existed throughout the ages, whether it was as early as the Iliad and the Odyssey during the Greek era, the Aeneid in the Roman era, or even in Christian stories in the Bible. The first example of historic extreme violence is back in the time of the Iliad and the Odyssey during the Greek era, which happened during the eighth or ninth centuries BCE. These ... their writings and entertainment seems to have stayed the same. The final case in point that shows that brutal violence has not erupted in just the past twenty or thirty years is even in Biblical stories. The most widely known and spoken about would be the torture and crucifixion of Christ. It begins where Christ was first beaten and forced to carry his cross to where he was to be crucified ...
- 2214: Apollo
- ... s last involvement with the Apollo project was his trip to Cape Canaveral to view what he fought so hard for the first stage of the giant Saturn V. rocket. It was only a few short months later when America would mourn the death of one of the greatest presidents; it was on November 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was shot down in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. The ... to ride the transfer van to the pad in the early morning light. The three were strapped snuggly in the Columbia Command Module with Commander Neil Armstrong settled in the left couch. In just a short while Lunar Pilot Buzz Aldrin eased in the center couch, and last but not least Mike Collins was strapped in the right couch, and the hatch was sealed. All three astronauts were ready to go ...
- 2215: Ancient Greek Theatre Architec
- ... and song, because the words were sung by the chorus and the actors line conformed to poetic meters. The tragic poets of Athens took advantage of the traditional celebrations handed down to them to construct stories that confronted fundamental problems of human life. Three great poets worked this remarkable transformation of the ancient wine songs: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. (Brockett 2ed 12-15) In the sixth century BCE, accompanied by singers ... its infancy through its growing stages, and into its adulthood it has never let us forget whence theatre came from. Over the years, it was transformed and given life to help the playwrights tell the stories of their day. It provided that visual actuality that imposed an emotional response. If we sit back and say that it is nothing more than just a building, then we are guilty of having no ...
- 2216: Ancient Egypt 2
- ... the museum visitor does not get an objective view of the culture of a country. The Field Museum's approach to Ancient Egyptian culture attempts to cover all bases of the culture, but falls seriously short of doing just this. The Museum focuses too much on the Ancient Egyptian approach to death and the afterlife in a serious, informative aspect. This is done by the sheer location of the exhibit, providing ... were "typical" of ancient Egyptian culture. This exhibit pales in comparison to the pyramid exhibit of ancient Egyptian life. In an attempt to give a complete view of ancient Egyptian culture, the Field Museum falls short. The impression that the museum gives to an uninformed visitor is that Ancient Egyptians spent most of their life preparing themselves for death and the afterlife. This is due to the set up of the ...
- 2217: America The Great
- ... and Iraq were soon beaten into submission. America, though, has not always been so brave and powerful. While JFK was in office he involved our country in a war with Cuba. This war, however, was short lived. The Bay of Pigs, as it was named, was a single battle, when JFK pulled out of the war. It is believed that if we had continued with the war, Fidel Castro would have ... troubles in Israel and Palestine. He has seen attacks on our country from its own citizens and other countries including Iran and Libya. He retaliated only after an attack from Libya, but the retaliation was short-lived. Mr. Clinton's threats to Iraq have been brushed of as worthless. He has to spend more time preparing for trial than he can on riding the world of terrorists. President Clinton and other ...
- 2218: Automation
- ... of the nineteenth century must have seemed just as esoteric to the leading financiers and industrialists of the day, who were doing fine bankrolling the traditional industries they knew so well. Yet, within a few short years, Ford and others would shape consumer products out of the new technologies that would set in motion an awesome economic transformation. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. Nor did he invent mass production ... s was already the worlds most successful automobile company, but their great reputation would soon decline. Fords $5/day plan for all employees signified the overwhelming success of the company. Many believed this success was short-lived with the new policies dealing with the workers which soon followed. With the need to increase production and lower costs, in the mid 30 s Ford cut all Ford worker s wages in half ...
- 2219: Analysing War Poetry
- ... conditions, sludge being used first and then trudge, as if the ground is so soft that their feet are sinking in and they cannot move well. The next stanza changes pace dramatically with a few short sentences, and also there is onomatopoeia throughout the stanza, used on every line but one to good effect. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; But someone ... the war, and also how they affected him. Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us Alliteration is used here to create a cold, icy effect with the s , and the short words broken up give a twitchy effect. The poem actually makes no reference to killing, just the burying of fallen soldiers at the end. I don t think Exposure was written to shock anyone, but ...
- 2220: Grapes Of Wrath 8
- ... lost. These two scenes are probably the most important in some ways, like the symbolism that they show. John Steinbeck added kind of a side road to his book. This was in the form of short chapters that really didn t have anything directly to do with the plot of the story, but were very important in their own way. These were the turtle chapters and all the others that showed ... book. However, the themes of survival and reaching out to one s fellow man were not developed nearly as much in the novel. One of the reasons this is true is that the movie stopped short of the final scene of Rose of Sharon feeding the starving man. This was a very strong scene, and it seemed to show the ultimate sacrifice of a person in order to help another person ...
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